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

[blizzard man]

What benefits come from the different tiers? Is it just the ability to publish more designs or is there a tier where they charge you less per design?

I have to find a way to get more revenue from this. Yea Amazon does all the work but unfortunately they charge like it too.

I don't think there's a benefit to tiering up other than having more designs avail.

The cut isnt great but if you're just flooding the site with generic designs for every niche you can think of then it can prolly pay off, but if you're more I to designing your own 'line' or brand and want a better cut it's prolly better to go thru a drop shipping site and then just trying to market and drive traffic to your own url

I feel like I'm somewhere in between those two so I'm Workin on figuring it out, but for now I have stuff up on multiple POD channels

 

[Based Lord Zedd]

I don't sell on Amazon because I hate their basic ass interface and lack of data, but I do sell print on demand.
Having a pretty good Holiday run. Also got lucky and had someone post one of our items to Reddit, thread got 900 upvotes which lead to more sales.

 

[OsO]

Two questions, what are some of the best print on demand sites?

Also how do I execute white designs on black t-shirts without it looking like the design was ironed on? I don't have that issue with black designs on white shirts, but all my black t shirts come out looking like:

 

[Based Lord Zedd]

Two questions, what are some of the best print on demand sites?

Also how do I execute white designs on black t-shirts without it looking like the design was ironed on? I don't have that issue with black designs on white shirts, but all my black t shirts come out looking like:

I use printful. Most of our shirts are printed on black as the primary color, they are able to do it easily unless you try to print black on black which makes no sense to do anyway.
All the sample's I've gotten have looked great.

 

[ORDER_66]

Can anyone give me some pointers on selling these shyts i need to make some bread...

 

[Based Lord Zedd]

Sitting at 180 orders this month, which is about 6 per day or so. The highest day this month was yesterday, sold 20.
Hoping to do big things in 2019!

 

[ORDER_66]

Sitting at 180 orders this month, which is about 6 per day or so. The highest day this month was yesterday, sold 20.
Hoping to do big things in 2019!

put me on breh...

 

[Based Lord Zedd]

put me on breh...

I don't sell on Amazon but do the same basic print on demand stuff.
The biggest thing is finding out who you want to sell to. To me, this is probably just as important as having quality products.

You have to find a market/theme that isn't already flooded with 1000 people trying to sell things. When we first started we struggled to even get people to see our shyt. I feel our stuff was better quality than the competition, but it didn't mean anything because people had to swim through 100 other shirts to find us.

We switched our gameplan up and started selling to a really specific group of people, who have an interest that I happen to know a lot about. Then things started taking off naturally.

Print on Demand is nice because there are no startup costs and easy to get into, but that also makes it tough because everyone else thinks the same thing.

 

[ORDER_66]

I don't sell on Amazon but do the same basic print on demand stuff.
The biggest thing is finding out who you want to sell to. To me, this is probably just as important as having quality products.

You have to find a market/theme that isn't already flooded with 1000 people trying to sell things. When we first started we struggled to even get people to see our shyt. I feel our stuff was better quality than the competition, but it didn't mean anything because people had to swim through 100 other shirts to find us.

We switched our gameplan up and started selling to a really specific group of people, who have an interest that I happen to know a lot about. Then things started taking off naturally.

Print on Demand is nice because there are no startup costs and easy to get into, but that also makes it tough because everyone else thinks the same thing.

So how did you find that group of people to buy the shirts breh??? im having a hard time getting sales. I get likes on IG but no buys...

 

[Based Lord Zedd]

So how did you find that group of people to buy the shirts breh??? im having a hard time getting sales. I get likes on IG but no buys...

It's hard to do. I found them because I was already part of the group, so I knew all their little inside jokes, where they hang out online, etc.
if I was going to try to do it now with a different group, I'd probably do a comination of social media research / keyword research.

Some stuff like this might help:
Merch by Amazon: Start and Scale Your First Successful T-Shirt Business
How To Quickly Find Good Niches For Merch by Amazon - Merch Titans Blog
Find Your Most Profitable Merch By Amazon Niches with Niche Analytics | MerchPilot
How to Do Merch by Amazon Research - Merch by Amazon - SpyAMZ

Also on Instagram look into shoppable posts. I don't know if you can do this with Merch@Amazon or not, but it might make selling through Amazon easier.

 

[blizzard man]

I don't sell on Amazon but do the same basic print on demand stuff.
The biggest thing is finding out who you want to sell to. To me, this is probably just as important as having quality products.

You have to find a market/theme that isn't already flooded with 1000 people trying to sell things. When we first started we struggled to even get people to see our shyt. I feel our stuff was better quality than the competition, but it didn't mean anything because people had to swim through 100 other shirts to find us.

We switched our gameplan up and started selling to a really specific group of people, who have an interest that I happen to know a lot about. Then things started taking off naturally.

Print on Demand is nice because there are no startup costs and easy to get into, but that also makes it tough because everyone else thinks the same thing.

ive been wanting to remove my shirts off the different sites and sell them directly through a site like printful, but I don't have a biz account or credit card or anything to link them through. do you recommend having that setup first before going through a POD company like printful or print aura?

 

[Based Lord Zedd]

ive been wanting to remove my shirts off the different sites and sell them directly through a site like printful, but I don't have a biz account or credit card or anything to link them through. do you recommend having that setup first before going through a POD company like printful or print aura?

I guess it depends on your reason. Printful will let you charge everything straight to your Paypal account, so that's all you really need.
If you are moving volume I'd suggest using a card that you get cashback on.
I'm not selling enough now that I'm too worried about getting a card specifically for this, I just use one I already have. I'll probably go that route at some point if we keep growing.

 

[Silkk]

I don't sell on Amazon but do the same basic print on demand stuff.
The biggest thing is finding out who you want to sell to. To me, this is probably just as important as having quality products.

You have to find a market/theme that isn't already flooded with 1000 people trying to sell things. When we first started we struggled to even get people to see our shyt. I feel our stuff was better quality than the competition, but it didn't mean anything because people had to swim through 100 other shirts to find us.

We switched our gameplan up and started selling to a really specific group of people, who have an interest that I happen to know a lot about. Then things started taking off naturally.

Print on Demand is nice because there are no startup costs and easy to get into, but that also makes it tough because everyone else thinks the same thing.

Out here selling that MAGA gear huh

 

[Based Lord Zedd]

Not really selling t-shirts anymore as my main item but still doing print on demand.

Hoping to hit order #600 for the month today.
I have had to put so many orders in my bank thinks I'm being frauded and keeps shutting down my card

 

[Silkk]

Not really selling t-shirts anymore as my main item but still doing print on demand.

Hoping to hit order #600 for the month today.
I have had to put so many orders in my bank thinks I'm being frauded and keeps shutting down my card

I need to try to get approved again