How To Get Your First Sale On Merch By Amazon? | Merch By Amazon For Beginners-print on demand

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RJ Martinez explains how to get a first Merch by Amazon sale, saying it can take six hours to a year depending on whether customers are searching for and want the product then. He claims he has sold over $200,000 in royalties and over 70,000 products, presented as his own results. Research comes first: use MerchResearch/Show All Merch, DS Amazon Quick View and Merch Informer’s Movers and Shakers to find designs with a Best Sellers Rank and demand but low result counts — he cites examples around 216-258 results — because fewer results make front-page ranking easier. He mines Google and Amazon autocomplete (AMZ Suggestion Expander) for funny sayings and long-tail variants, favors evergreen niches for consistent non-holiday sales, and warns that dated designs (e.g. putting a year on a shirt) stop selling. He shows simple text-based designs can be consistent sellers, then stresses trademark/copyright checking via Merch Informer’s USPTO tool and Amazon’s back-end content policy and best-practices resources, noting rules change (e.g. on the word ‘gift’). He also covers tiering up — needing sales above your tier and roughly 80%+ of slots filled, e.g. buying your own shirts — outsourced/simple design tools like GoDaddy Studio, and pricing: he says he now lists standard tees at $19.99 for about a $5 royalty, while describing the older low-price-to-rank strategy.

Key takeaways

• Validate demand and low competition before designing: look for front-page sellers with a BSR but only a few hundred results for the phrase
• Use Amazon autocomplete, Google sayings searches and Merch Informer Movers and Shakers to find long-tail and evergreen niche ideas
• Simple text-based designs can sell consistently; you do not need to be an illustrator, and design work can be outsourced
• Check every phrase for trademarks/copyright with a USPTO-linked tool and learn Amazon’s content policy — a live trademark means rejection risk
• To tier up, exceed your tier’s sales threshold with about 80% of upload slots filled; pricing low can build velocity, though the creator says he now starts at $19.99

Episode details: published October 19, 2021 · 22:05 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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