Merch By Amazon: Sell Shirts on Amazon (no investment required)

[Grizzly]

It's great. I haven't done the lessons in a few days. I can already use it and do more on it than the other design platforms and I am only on the third section. Going to get back started this week though.

Think I might buy merchinator and some fonts really soon. Going to stop hiring designers. Has been a waste of money and the designs I do myself, sell quite a bit more than the purchased designs.

I feel you on that designer bit...dude i hired does amazing work but i dont wanna be dependent on him as i get tiered up...let's say i get 100-200 uploads a day...do i wanna have to constantly keep paying a designer just to meet my daily quota? dude i work with charges almost a stack for 100 designs...you telling me im gonna be paying this dude a stack a day? that's out


i might as well do this shyt myself....i have an art background anyway so i feel like if i practice enough i can get pretty good at this shyt im getting the 400 page Affinity workbook and a Wacom tablet next after this course



here are those brushes i promised you btw...Frankentoon Texturizer Pro. there's about 70 in there

http://www.mediafire.com/file/jfj1c374zb10311/Frankentoon_Texturizer_Pro_1.6.zip

 

[WetinBeDat]

selling t-shirts is stupid

but other products

id make a private label FBA thread but its not an easy path

A couple years ago there was a teespring facebook craze. guys were making bank hawking tshirts. A couple friends of mine were doing 20-30k/month. If you're a decent designer and good marketer, selling tshirts def isn't stupid.

 

[Grizzly]

How do you use Keywords in the use of shirts on your page?!?V

what you need help with bro?

 

[loki]

I feel you on that designer bit...dude i hired does amazing work but i dont wanna be dependent on him as i get tiered up...let's say i get 100-200 uploads a day...do i wanna have to constantly keep paying a designer just to meet my daily quota? dude i work with charges almost a stack for 100 designs...you telling me im gonna be paying this dude a stack a day? that's out


i might as well do this shyt myself....i have an art background anyway so i feel like if i practice enough i can get pretty good at this shyt im getting the 400 page Affinity workbook and a Wacom tablet next after this course



here are those brushes i promised you btw...Frankentoon Texturizer Pro. there's about 70 in there

http://www.mediafire.com/file/jfj1c374zb10311/Frankentoon_Texturizer_Pro_1.6.zip

Your designer sounds a lot better than the main one I was using. He did alright work, but he wouldn't do what I wanted or he would ask for work, disappear and then pop up days later saying he was ready to work. I finally had to stop working with him. That thousand dollars is really steep.

I'm also trying to do the art thing. One of the udemy courses I purchased was art based. Going to get a couple more when I finished that and the affinity course. Let me know about that book and the tablet once you get it.

Thanks a lot for the brushes. I'll definitely return the favor once I start purchasing things for affinity.

 

[loki]

A couple years ago there was a teespring facebook craze. guys were making bank hawking tshirts. A couple friends of mine were doing 20-30k/month. If you're a decent designer and good marketer, selling tshirts def isn't stupid.

I've seen people make that on merch. Definitely a lot of potential on merch and these other pod's.

Seen a lot of people reporting that they are moving up to the 100, 500 and 1k tier without selling the amount of shirts required to tier up.

 

[MMS]

you dont get a cookie for knowing how to do FBA my dude. I do both FBA and Merch....it's not that hard. and there's a few posts about Private Label in this section already too. if you wanna provide a more in-depth thread then go ahead but coming in here tryna stunt cause you sent out your first shipment is corny

to be on Twitch talking about "selling shirts is stupid" is hustling backwards too when most of the top streamers on Twitch sell merchandise....this shyt was lowkey made for yall

do you sound like you stunting

A couple years ago there was a teespring facebook craze. guys were making bank hawking tshirts. A couple friends of mine were doing 20-30k/month. If you're a decent designer and good marketer, selling tshirts def isn't stupid.

OR you can private label one product that already sells (revenues can range based on your product, ive seen some that hit for well over 50k+ a month revenue with few reviews if youre diligent in research)

the key difference is it takes real $$$

Ive got a 5 product brand im building and the marketing style im using allows me to upsell within a single ad multiple times. Then you pull customer emails to laser target warm and hot lists of potential repeat buyers...which then get duplicated and used on various ad platforms to funnel more highly converting traffic to my listings.

if cashflow is low i can see doing merch but if anyone else is reading this and have a stable job and/or north of $5-6K capital you can throw down on a good product. Market it properly with intent to brand and youll find its wholly possible

I'm quitting my engineering job at the end of the year

 

[Based Lord Zedd]

do you sound like you stunting


OR you can private label one product that already sells (revenues can range based on your product, ive seen some that hit for well over 50k+ a month revenue with few reviews if youre diligent in research)

the key difference is it takes real $$$

Ive got a 5 product brand im building and the marketing style im using allows me to upsell within a single ad multiple times. Then you pull customer emails to laser target warm and hot lists of potential repeat buyers...which then get duplicated and used on various ad platforms to funnel more highly converting traffic to my listings.

if cashflow is low i can see doing merch but if anyone else is reading this and have a stable job and/or north of $5-6K capital you can throw down on a good product. Market it properly with intent to brand and youll find its wholly possible

I'm quitting my engineering job at the end of the year

Are you selling something that is just trendy now, or something that is going to always be hot?
You mentioned selling things that already sell. How are you competing for the buy box against what I assume would be established amazon sellers. Or do you mean that you look for things that already sell, but no one on Amazon is doing it.
Where do you do your research at to find products that hit well?
What's your plan if/when other people hop on to your product and just throw a different private label on it?

 

[MMS]

Are you selling something that is just trendy now, or something that is going to always be hot?
You mentioned selling things that already sell. How are you competing for the buy box against what I assume would be established amazon sellers. Or do you mean that you look for things that already sell, but no one on Amazon is doing it.
Where do you do your research at to find products that hit well?
What's your plan if/when other people hop on to your product and just throw a different private label on it?

I generally look for items that aren't seasonal and my tools include a few programs

I stay scanning, and my biggest hurdle is always if theres demand first. If I know demand is there then I can make money, then its how good are my opponents listings:

1) Are they cheap?

2) Can I improve the Photos? Listing itself? English? (Tons of chinese sellers)

3) Under 100 reviews?

If I can come in to a niche and compete I know I can win sales. Once you get an existing email list any products you add to your account that can be construed as an "associated item" can be used for upsell purposes.

As far as buybox and alla that, you gotta pick something that will be difficult to hijack by either setting up your listing inherently strong to it. I use custom packaging, good logo placement with a disclaimer for customers. Noone has hijacked me yet but my listing doesnt look generic either

The point isnt to get rich off all the products but to establish a brand of products that support your hit. Then you just rinse and repeat until you got multiple brands and by then we aint really chatting on coli

my game now is testing the waters marketing other types of products and services more income streams = faster growth for my business

 

[Based Lord Zedd]

more income streams = faster growth for my business

Good info. And I agree with the above, but it's also why selling t-shirts isn't "stupid". I'm going to stack FBA on top of the hustle I'm doing now. I have good experience with fba just haven't sold on it.

 

[MMS]

Good info. And I agree with the above, but it's also why selling t-shirts isn't "stupid". I'm going to stack FBA on top of the hustle I'm doing now. I have good experience with fba just haven't sold on it.

it takes stones to sling 10 gs+ with folks overseas

i hit em with this reference and I get relationships off the jump

they see the money paid upfront with a wink

 

[WetinBeDat]

OR you can private label one product that already sells (revenues can range based on your product, ive seen some that hit for well over 50k+ a month revenue with few reviews if youre diligent in research)

Finding something that already sells is possible either path you take. There are competitive advantage tools available to both camps.

 

[Grizzly]

Finding something that already sells is possible either path you take. There are competitive advantage tools available to both camps.

Exactly. In Merch we call those "improvecats" (a play on "copycats")..... people that find designs that are already selling and make "improvements" to them.... shyt is not exclusive to FBA. nikkas just come in here talking just to talk.

I been there before though. You start a new hustle, start seeing profit and you wanna stunt on nikkas real quick, lol. When I first started making money from FBA I was hyped tryna put nikkas on too. I never knocked another man's hustle while doing it though I'm a couple hundred SKUs up with that now. Merch is just more passive income for me and I treat this shyt just like FBA.

Shirts = SKUs

The more SKUs you have up = more opportunities to have your products in customer's faces = more chances to make $$$

The best thing is Amazon has a built-in audience so it makes whatever path you take viable as long as your SEO is on point

 

[Grizzly]

fukk all that tho... I came here to talk about Ebay lol

People have been talking for the longest in the Merch Facebook groups about how Amazon is gonna start rolling out accessories like phone cases, tote bags and all that good shyt. They probably will but my suggestion is not to wait on them at all. I went on Etsy the other day and there are people out here right now making a killing selling accessories. You should either find an independent supplier or use a fulfillment service like Printful to get a head start. I found some cheap mugs from a supplier (around $10), threw them bytches on Ebay two days ago at a 150% markup and already sold a few. If you do this, my suggestion would be to go with what's trending. You can be a bit more liberal with your pricing. fukk evergreen unless you gonna be listing a shytload at once.

 

[Grizzly]

I got that Local Merch course on decky if anybody wants it

 

[CASHAPP]

I got that Local Merch course on decky if anybody wants it

please Pm me the details