Print On Demand: Master Merch by Amazon with DeepSeek AI

About this video

The creator walks through a full Merch by Amazon workflow using DeepSeek AI, starting with Amazon Hot New Releases to spot demand. He points to statement-driven and seasonal ideas surging there, including Gulf of America / Gulf of Mexico shirts, Mardi Gras, and St. Patrick’s Day, and explains that Amazon is search-based, so buyers find products through long-tail keywords. He then prompts DeepSeek for cute Mardi Gras shirt ideas, narrows to a unicorn concept, and asks DeepSeek for more detail and for similar ideas from a screenshot of an existing design. Because DeepSeek does not generate the artwork itself, he takes its prompt into Ideogram to create the image, checks details like missing eyes, upscales it, and cleans it in Photopea on a 4500 by 5400 pixel, 300 DPI canvas, removing the background manually where needed. In Merch by Amazon he selects shirt colors that do not clash or hurt readability, notes that the creator says standard t-shirts account for most of his sales, and uses DeepSeek again to draft the brand, title, bullet points, and description within character limits using long-tail keywords placed near the start of the title. He revises the copy to avoid misleading shoppers — for example, not implying actual glitter is on the shirt — and checks phrases for trademarks with a Chrome extension linked to USPTO records before publishing.

Key takeaways

• Start research on Amazon Hot New Releases and look for designs already making repeated sales, not just a single spike.
• Use DeepSeek iteratively: brainstorm a niche, ask for variations on a specific concept, and feed it an image to generate similar ideas.
• Turn an AI prompt into artwork in a separate image tool, then upscale, remove the background, and proof details before upload.
• Write listings around how customers actually search, putting the main niche keyword early and weaving in relevant long-tail terms.
• Edit AI copy for accuracy and trademark risk, removing misleading material claims and checking phrases before publishing.

Episode details: published February 28, 2025 · 37:41 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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