Print On Demand Research: Finding Hot Trending Designs

About this video

The creator shows his full trending-design research process on merchresearch.com: set the marketplace to USA and product to t-shirts, leave other filters blank, search, then sort by newest arrival. That surfaces multiple new ‘Everyone is welcome here’ shirts, which he traces via Google and news articles to an Idaho teacher who was told to remove that classroom sign — showing hands of different colours with a heart — prompting student and public support. He validates demand with Amazon Best Sellers Rank, pointing to new listings at roughly 31K, 36K, 42K, 43K and 46K BSR uploaded only yesterday or two days earlier, explaining that a sales rank means the shirt has sold and that early, fast-moving listings on a viral story can sell heavily — he speculates the best may be doing at least 5 and possibly 10-30 sales a day. He stresses looking for a pattern — the same idea appearing more than once and selling consistently — rather than a one-off. To avoid simply copying, he asks ChatGPT for five similar design ideas (it suggests a unity tree, diverse puzzle pieces, hands around a globe, a rainbow of hearts and phrases such as ‘rooted together in love’, ‘we all belong’ and ’love knows no borders’), and uploads the sign image to Ideogram AI, which generates his own ‘Everyone is welcome here’ versions with the text spelled correctly. He also pitches his Top Research Design Vault at $10 a month, which he says includes weekly researched niches, keywords and prompt suggestions, with access to over 880 niches.

Key takeaways

• On merchresearch.com, search USA t-shirts and sort by newest arrival to spot designs that have just started selling
• Use BSR as demand proof: new listings already at roughly 31K-46K BSR within a day or two signal a catching trend
• Check the news and Google context behind a trend — here, an Idaho teacher ordered to remove an ‘Everyone is welcome here’ classroom sign
• Look for pattern and consistency across multiple listings of the same idea, not a single isolated design
• Create an original version instead of copying: get alternative concepts from ChatGPT and generate the artwork in Ideogram AI

Episode details: published March 17, 2025 · 10:28 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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