Steal These Amazon Trends: Dad Tees Selling 50× a Day!
About this video
Note: the sales pace in the title is presented in the video as the creator’s estimate. The creator browses Amazon Hot New Releases ahead of Father’s Day looking for repeatable patterns rather than one-off hits. The dominant pattern he finds is the phrase about a dad who always came back with the milk, repeated across designs that swap the character — a skeleton doing a front-and-back design, a Bigfoot version he identifies as a number one new release, and a vintage raccoon version — while keeping elements like sunglasses, a backwards hat, and a milk carton. He says the Bigfoot version’s very low Best Sellers Rank suggests, in his estimate, roughly 30 to 50 sales a day at the holiday peak, and argues such dad designs are evergreen for birthdays and Q4 even though Father’s Day boosts them. He also examines a funny text design about a dad who has everything except a full head of hair, but warns a trademark check flagged the wording, so sellers should find a different quote. He then screenshots a selling design, asks ChatGPT for five fresh text ideas, and follows its top pick — a DadGPT joke about generating bad jokes since the year the buyer became a dad — into Kittl, where he builds, recolors, mock-ups, and downloads the finished graphic at 300 DPI with the background removed.
Key takeaways
- Mine Hot New Releases for repeated patterns across multiple listings, which signals a real trend rather than a single lucky design
- Keep a proven phrase and swap the character or style, such as skeleton, Bigfoot, or raccoon, to create a distinct variant
- Treat Father’s Day designs as evergreen if the joke also works for birthdays and holiday gifting year-round
- Run a trademark check before using a funny quote, and walk away from wording that is already claimed for shirts
- Use ChatGPT to brainstorm variations from a seller example, then build the chosen text design in Kittl and export it ready to upload
Episode details: published June 17, 2025 · 18:48 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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