How to Use AI for Print on Demand Research and Design Ideas 🤖💡

About this video

A freestyle walkthrough of the creator’s print-on-demand research process, which he says he re-recorded after losing the first take to an unplugged microphone. He starts in Merch Informer’s Movers and Shakers to spot selling designs, citing examples such as city-and-state souvenir shirts (e.g. Boulder, Colorado, of the kind sold in local gift shops for vacationers), back-to-school math-teacher shirts, and a black cat with sunflowers design (4.5 out of 5, 14 ratings) whose all-time BSR chart he reads as a consistent seller. He explains that a dropping sales rank means a sale occurred, so BSR movement proves demand. He then leverages two AI tools: Ideogram, where he uploads a reference design, uses its describe/magic-prompt features to generate his own cat-and-sunflower illustrations, and ChatGPT, where he uploads a text-based shirt and asks for five different sayings like it, then asks for five more and to pick the best. Throughout he stresses trademark checking with TMhunt, the Merch Informer trademark check, and the USPTO, including split search on long-tail phrases and checking goods/services for t-shirts. He notes he has done print on demand for about eight years, pitches his Top Research Design Vault (240+ niches, updated weekly, $10 a month in the transcript) and a 20 percent off Merch Informer coupon, and finishes by upscaling designs in Ideogram and removing backgrounds in tools like Canva, Photopea, or Photoshop, warning not to copy designs.

Key takeaways

• Use Merch Informer Movers and Shakers and all-time BSR charts to find designs that sell consistently before creating anything
• Upload a proven design to Ideogram to describe it and generate original illustrations, and to ChatGPT to brainstorm five-plus new text sayings at a time
• Trademark-check every phrase with TMhunt, the Merch Informer trademark check, and the USPTO, using split search and checking the t-shirts goods/services category
• Focus research on current and special events (Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas/Q4, back to school) alongside evergreen niches
• Split the work: one day for research, another for design, then upscale and remove backgrounds before uploading to any marketplace

Episode details: published August 11, 2024 · 18:45 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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