Master Niche Research for Profitable T-Shirt Ideas In 2024

About this video

The creator explains his niche research process for t-shirt design, saying it works for any print-on-demand platform including a seller’s own website, Etsy, Redbubble and Amazon Merch. He starts in Merch Informer’s Product Research / Movers and Shakers, which he says refreshes daily with shirts currently selling on Amazon without the clutter of Amazon itself, and he browses it for unexpected ideas — citing examples spotted there such as a pickle shirt, Potato King, darts, 100 days of school, Mardi Gras and St. Patrick’s Day. He then walks through five niches, checking each design’s all-time BSR chart for consistent sales and the search-result count for its long-tail phrase. They are: an IT service desk ‘wheel of answers’ design (124 results); the sarcastic text design ‘Am I perfect? No. But am I trying to do better? Also no’ (about 209k BSR, which he says sold consistently through 2023); a funny algebra shirt, ‘How to do calculus: write down the problem and cry,’ which he says has been a top seller since its first sale in 2018 (175 results), suggesting ChatGPT for more funny algebra sayings; ‘It’s a left-handed thing, you wouldn’t understand’ (227 results), a passionate niche with a simple text design; and ‘Prepared for diaper duty’ for funny new dads, with a gas-mask graphic (332 results). He also discusses Amazon Merch’s new human male-only mockups, which he says are controversial in his Facebook group because women’s designs appear on male models, and notes that the beginning of a product title usually carries the most algorithmic weight.

Key takeaways

• Browse Merch Informer’s Movers and Shakers daily to see what is selling now and find niche ideas you would not think of alone
• Validate a niche by checking the all-time BSR chart for consistent sales and the result count for its exact long-tail phrase
• Simple sarcastic text designs — like the ‘Am I perfect? No’ shirt — can sell consistently, and funny lines can come from memes, comments and everyday sayings
• Passionate identity niches such as left-handed people and new dads can have low result counts with real demand
• Use ChatGPT to brainstorm variations within a niche, e.g. funny algebra sayings, and put the main keyword near the start of the title

Episode details: published February 4, 2024 · 12:57 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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