Merch By Amazon Publish Button Greyed Out - (Won't Let Me Publish)

About this video

RJ Martinez explains why new Merch by Amazon accounts get a grayed-out publish button: they have selected too many products and/or too many marketplaces for their daily submission limit. Each product type (t-shirt, hoodie, sweatshirt, PopSocket, etc.) and each country counts as a separate submission, so a beginner should uncheck everything, publish one product — he recommends the standard t-shirt — to one marketplace (the US in his example), and the publish button will activate. He then explains tiering up: you must fill at least 80% of your tier’s slots and exceed that tier’s sales number (e.g., at tier 10, eight live products and over 10 sales). His strategy advice is to price low at first to build sales volume rather than chase profit, though he says he now prices standard tees at $19.99. Showing his own account, he claims he is at tier 50,000, has passed $150K in royalties and is approaching 50,000 all-time sales; he claims standard t-shirts are 91% of his sales, with men/women/kids fits split roughly 49/33/17, and his top colors are black, navy, royal blue, dark heather and pink. He closes by urging keyword and niche research and putting top-selling designs onto other products.

Key takeaways

• A grayed-out publish button usually means you selected more products/marketplaces than your daily submission limit allows — publish one product to one country instead.
• Each product type and each marketplace counts as a separate submission, so selecting 7 products means 7 uploads against your limit.
• To tier up, fill at least 80% of your tier’s slots and exceed the tier’s sales threshold (e.g., 8 live products and 10+ sales at tier 10), then repeat at each tier.
• Pricing low early builds sales volume and helps you leave the lower tiers faster; profit focus comes later.
• Per the creator’s own account data, standard t-shirts dominate his sales, black is his top color, and proven designs can be extended onto other products like phone cases.

Episode details: published August 8, 2020 · 12:17 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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