My Amazon Merch T-Shirt Made $30,000 - Here's The EXACT Strategy I Used

About this video

The creator breaks down Merch by Amazon research using his own account as an example, claiming one of his designs has sold over 6,000 times with close to $330,000 in all-time royalties, as the creator claims, and continues to sell a few times a week, most often on black shirts for men, women and kids. He explains Amazon prints and ships with no inventory or customer service for the seller. The main lesson is to study Amazon’s Hot New Releases and Best Seller Rank (BSR) — lower BSR means more sales — to see what buyers are actually purchasing now. He walks through topical political shirts that surged after the recent presidential election, warns the window for dated designs is short, and suggests cross-niching a trending figure/topic with upcoming holidays such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah and New Year to get ahead of competitors, creating for both possible audiences in advance. He also uses Merch Informer / Merch Hunter, filtering by reviews and excluding brands, to find evergreen and seasonal ideas, and repeatedly stresses double-checking trademarks and copyrights even for designs from his own Top Research Design Vault.

Key takeaways

• Use Amazon Hot New Releases and BSR charts to verify real demand before designing; lower BSR indicates more sales
• Get ahead of current events and cross-niche a trending topic with an upcoming holiday instead of copying the exact trending design
• Create advance designs for both possible outcomes/audiences of an event to be ready whichever way it goes
• Use Merch Informer Merch Hunter with filters such as low reviews and excluding brands to surface lower-competition ideas
• Always double-check every design idea for trademarks and copyrights yourself, even if a research source says it was checked

Episode details: published November 13, 2024 · 15:18 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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