How To Do A Perfect Amazon Merch Listing Tips 2023 FAST With Chat GPT

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Martinez demonstrates building two Merch by Amazon listings fast using ChatGPT, working from two custom rabbit-and-dragon illustrations for the Year of the Rabbit — one with a rabbit holding up a dragon, one with a rabbit riding a dragon. He first explains Merch approval can take, in his account, anywhere from two weeks to three months to a year; he says his own approval took about three months. Rather than letting ChatGPT guess, he researches how customers actually search: typing phrases on Amazon.com and Google and studying the long-tail titles other sellers use, such as variants combining Chinese New Year, Lunar New Year, zodiac and 2023. He checks competition by watching result counts — he shows examples returning about 5,000 and about 70,000 results, then uses a merch research filter to narrow a ‘Happy Chinese Lunar New Year’ phrase to 404 t-shirt results, arguing the longer the long-tail and the lower the result count, the easier it is to rank on the first page once you make a sale. With a target title built around ‘Chinese New Year Rabbit Dragon 2023 Zodiac Lunar Chinese New Year,’ he prompts ChatGPT to draft two bullet points and then a product description optimized to rank for that title, regenerating and iterating when outputs repeat or miss. He emphasizes the AI does the heavy lifting but a human must edit: he takes bits and pieces, rewrites in his own words, and adapts the copy for the second design by changing ‘holding’ to ‘riding’ the dragon. He also warns to strip out words Merch does not allow in the back end — he specifically flags ‘gift’ and ‘perfect for’ as terms his tool flagged and that the rules say cannot be used — and to stay current with Merch’s changing rules before publishing.

Key takeaways

• Research first on Amazon and Google: study the long-tail phrases in competing titles and pick a phrase with low result counts so a first sale can put you on page one.
• Use ChatGPT (free, as he notes) to draft bullet points and a description from your researched title, regenerating and iterating rather than accepting the first output.
• Always edit AI output yourself — combine bits and pieces and rewrite in your own words so the copy matches exactly what the design shows.
• Reuse a proven listing structure for a design variant by changing only the detail that differs, such as a rabbit holding a dragon versus riding one.
• Remove prohibited words before publishing — he flags ‘gift’ and ‘perfect for’ as not allowed in Merch listings — and keep up with Merch’s updated rules.

Episode details: published January 12, 2023 · 13:45 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are RJ Martinez’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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