Merch By Amazon Niche Research

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A Facebook group live on Merch by Amazon niche research during the coronavirus period. The creator states repeatedly that you cannot design for coronavirus on Merch by Amazon or Amazon in general: it is against the rules as a human tragedy topic, designs were being taken down within hours, and trying to work around it risks account suspension. He says he personally also avoids related gray-area topics such as toilet paper. He gives his own background as, in his words, over $120,000 in royalties and 43,000 products sold all time, at tier 50k, after five to six years on Amazon. His core method, used since he was at tier 100, is MerchResearch.com: run a blank search, switch to New Arrivals, and find niches with proven demand or brand-new products that sold quickly — he shows an example listed March 21, 2020 that made a sale by March 22. He stresses research first, then design, then keywords; long-tail keywords are ’the moneymakers,’ and learning how Amazon’s algorithm rewards products customers search for and buy helps on any platform. Newer products have less competition because many sellers are lazy about uploading to them. He notes sales had dropped 50 to 60 percent at the time. For KDP questions, he advises verifying search volume with tools such as Helium 10, making the best, most detailed book in a niche rather than just low-content copies, studying reviews and communities, and illustrates live searching with ‘voicemail logbook’ / ‘phone call log book,’ which returned 335 search results. On flooding a niche versus quality, he favors being the best design with solid keywords.

Key takeaways

• Do not design for coronavirus or human tragedy topics on Amazon — the creator says designs were removed quickly and accounts risk being suspended or put on Amazon’s radar
• Use MerchResearch.com New Arrivals with a blank search to spot new niches and products with real demand, rinsing and repeating rather than expecting the first search to succeed
• Long-tail keywords are presented as the moneymakers: rank for a specific low-competition phrase first, then expand toward broader terms as sales build
• Enter newer products and underserved formats in a proven niche, and make a unique, different design instead of copying the seller that revealed the demand
• For KDP, verify demand with research tools such as Helium 10, learn the niche from reviews and its groups/communities, and aim to be the best book in the niche rather than flooding it

Episode details: published March 24, 2020 · 59:17 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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