How To Get Out Of The Lower Tiers | Merch By Amazon

About this video

The creator gives his strategy for escaping Merch by Amazon’s lower tiers. His central rule: at tier 500 and below, do not focus on profit — focus on sales volume. He recommends pricing shirts at cost, $12.87, because in his testing lower prices consistently produce more sales in the last seven days than higher prices. Targets are double the tier in sales — 20 sales at tier 10, 200 at tier 100, 1,000 at tier 500 — combined with filling about 80% of upload slots (e.g. 8 uploads and over 10 sales at tier 10). The fastest method he teaches is seeding sales: design for an upcoming trend such as Valentine’s Day or St. Patrick’s Day, upload the designs, and buy several yourself or have family/friends buy different designs — he suggests about $60 for five shirts — so each listing gets a sales rank/BSR and ranks for its keyword, increasing the chance of organic sales as the holiday nears. Other routes are shirts for friends and family, birthdays, family reunions, city shirts posted in local Facebook groups, and fulfilling local requests found in those groups. Earnings anecdotes, including people he coached making over six figures and his own claimed $900+ profit from a Valentine’s listing, are presented as the creator’s claims.

Key takeaways

• At tier 500 and below, ignore profit and maximize sales volume to tier up
• Price at $12.87 (at cost) in the lower tiers — creator says low prices reliably drive more sales in his testing
• Aim for double your tier in sales (20 at tier 10, 200 at tier 100) and fill about 80% of upload slots
• Seed rankings by buying your own trending-holiday shirts or having family/friends buy different designs, giving each listing a BSR
• Find early sales via custom shirts for birthdays, reunions, cities, and requests in local Facebook groups

Episode details: published January 6, 2019 · 12:49 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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