I Found SECRET Amazon Merch T-Shirt Designs at Goodwill (You Won't Believe!)

About this video

Martinez describes spending an hour going through Goodwill t-shirt racks looking for design ideas and shirts he recognizes from Amazon Merch, arguing donated shirts show what people actually bought. He claims his research approach has helped him generate over $350,000 all-time and sell over 100,000 products on Merch by Amazon, and promotes his Top Research Design Vault. Finds he discusses include: a sign-language hands shirt; ‘Floss Like a Boss’ combining the floss dance trend with baseball, an American flag, and sunglasses; a Threadless astronaut-with-jellyfish design, where he suggests swapping the jellyfish for a basketball, baseball, or volleyball and notes he has top sellers in the astronaut niche; a Day of the Dead floral skull, which he recreates in a similar-but-different form by photographing it and prompting ChatGPT, then regenerating; simple text sayings such as a ‘Finally legal…’ birthday-style line and ‘I know I’m awesome, let’s not make a big deal about it’; ‘Proud dad of a freaking awesome daughter,’ extendable to grandpa/grandson and other family pairings; ‘She’s my sweet potato’ as a matching couples idea to raise order value; the 2020 Bernie-in-a-chair meme on a Bella+Canvas premium shirt; a ‘Funcle’ pronunciation/definition shirt, with a warning to check its trademark status; ‘Leveling up to husband’ with a Nintendo-style controller, with a warning about brand infringement, on a Port and Company shirt — the Amazon standard brand he says he also found there; an Earth Day/climate-change shirt in green; a Bigfoot ‘Believe’ silhouette; a ‘Catfather’ cat in sunglasses, flagged by his Facebook group for caution; ‘Teaching is a work of heart’ and the consistently profitable teacher niche; costume-style Halloween/Christmas shirts; a ‘How to play disc golf: throw, swear, look for disc, repeat’ shirt extendable to other sports; and a ‘Do you have tickets to the gun show?’ tank top, noting tank tops work well in summer.

Key takeaways

• Thrift-store racks are offline research: donated shirts are evidence of what people previously bought or were gifted
• Swap one element of a proven concept — sport, family relation, or object — to create a new design instead of copying
• He demonstrates photographing a found design and using ChatGPT to generate a similar but different version in seconds
• Simple funny text sayings and matching couples/family versions can sell and raise order value
• Check trademark and brand risk before using ideas like ‘Funcle’ or a Nintendo-style controller, even if the shirt was once a top seller

Episode details: published July 13, 2024 · 21:47 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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