One Design Made This Etsy Shop $4,000 a Month (Here's How I Found It)

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(Summarized from the Bengali caption track.) The creator shows how to research trending print-on-demand niches, starting with a free method and then a paid tool. The free method is Amazon’s ‘Hot New Releases’ section: look for shirts listed in roughly the last 30 days with low BSRs that are already ranking, spot the patterns, and understand why they are selling — while identifying and avoiding trademarked or copyrighted material (he cautions against using World Cup team names or ‘USA’). Examples examined include a rainbow trout fish design (around 35,000 BSR and selling regularly), an ‘ouch ouch’ body-pain design, and ‘Flight Was Never an Option’ with a penguin holding a gun (around 99,000 BSR, selling consistently since its first sale on July 5). He then cross-checks demand on Etsy using EverBee, comparing listing age against sales — e.g., two months and 28 sales for a trout shirt, two months and 153 sales for a ‘Flight Was Never an Option’ listing, and one month and 11-12 sales for others — arguing that more sales in less time means stronger demand. Signals he cites include add-to-carts, bestseller status, and reviews with customer photos. Highlighting one shop via EverBee, he credits its single ‘Flight Was Never an Option’ design with 153 sales and $4,000 in revenue in two months, supplying the shop’s whole monthly sales, and notes another listing shown with 614 sales, a 4.8 out of 5 rating, and 66 reviews. He also describes feeding the gathered data into Claude AI to develop original design concepts and studying how the successful shop expands by applying ideas across different animals.

Key takeaways

• Use Amazon’s Hot New Releases as a free research source: focus on shirts listed within about the last 30 days with low, falling BSRs.
• Cross-check demand on Etsy with EverBee by comparing listing age to sales — more sales in fewer months signals a stronger trend.
• Treat add-to-carts, bestseller status, and reviews with customer photos as additional confirmation that a design is really selling.
• Per EverBee data he shows, one ‘Flight Was Never an Option’ design did 153 sales and $4,000 in revenue in two months and carried its shop’s monthly sales — figures he attributes to that tool.
• Avoid trademarked and copyrighted elements (e.g., World Cup team names), and use the research data — he suggests with Claude AI — to create original concepts rather than copies.

Episode details: published August 26, 2026 · 7:32 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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