What Is Merch By Amazon | Over $75K Profit

About this video

The creator explains Merch by Amazon as a print-on-demand platform: you upload a design, it goes live on Amazon, the customer buys it, and Amazon prints, ships and handles customer service while you earn a royalty. He gives his background as being on the platform for about three years in total and full-time for about a year and a half, starting around April 27, 2017. He claims he has sold over 20,000 products — later in the dashboard walkthrough he says over 21,000 products and $76,000 in royalties — is at tier 14,000, and shows 9,545 live designs. He says 92% of his sales come from standard t-shirts, black is his top color, and he claims one design sold over 800 times and earned about $2,600 in royalties. His pricing method is to start a standard shirt at $12.87 at cost, then after it sells raise it to around $15.99-$16.99 and test raising it higher still (the transcript renders the top test price only as ‘up to ninety nine’). He stresses learning the content policy and trademark rules first, checking phrases on the USPTO site and Google, and shows infringing examples using Super Smash Bros and the Chiefs that he says will get sellers terminated. He contrasts basic big, bold text-based designs with his own outsourced illustrated designs (birds forming a heart, a panda holding a heart balloon), arguing being creative and different is the most important lesson.

Key takeaways

• Merch by Amazon is print-on-demand: you upload, Amazon prints, ships and handles customer service, and you collect a royalty.
• He claims over 21,000 products sold and $76,000 in royalties, tier 14,000 with 9,545 live designs; these are his reported figures shown in his dashboard tour.
• Start with standard t-shirts only, design for black first, and make text designs big and bold to fill the shirt.
• Price a standard shirt at $12.87 to get the first sales, then raise in steps to $15.99-$16.99 and test a higher price point.
• Check trademarks via USPTO/Google and follow the content policy before designing; if a phrase feels questionable, do not design for it.

Episode details: published December 21, 2018 · 19:09 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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