Posts archive for February, 2017

Merch Copycat Problems? 6 Ways To Find Out Who Is Stealing Your Work

We have seen it happen time and time again. You spend hours coming up with an awesome concept based on niches that are doing really well on Amazon. Your design is stunning, unique, and ready to sell. It starts doing well, but almost immediately, people copying your design pop up and start undercutting you. Sometimes these people are using your design exactly, and other times they are taking parts of what you created to barely change their design. You could go through and spend a ton of time on Amazon looking for these, but there is actually a lot easier way that I am going to show you today with reverse image search engines. Not only can these applications be […]

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10 Amazon Merch Ranking Factors You Should Understand

Have you been hammering out one great design after another just to see that a few days later some pixel by pixel copycat outranks you and steals most of your sales piggybacking on your creativity? Well don’t worry we have all been in the same boat. Unfortunately, when it comes to selling on a global marketplace like Amazon.com sometimes being a great designer is simply not enough. In the short guide below we are going to try and go over all the basic factors that amazon takes into account when placing your listing in its search results. Just in case you are wondering how important good rankings are in Amazon search compared to on Google here is what Searchengineland.com reported last year: […]

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5 Ways To Market Your Merch by Amazon Shirts for Free

Being part of all the Merch by Amazon Facebook groups and talking to people who are just getting started with the platform often have the same complaint. They open up their account and see they have 25 spots available. They will then slowly fill up the slots and after 3 weeks, may have a few sales or even worse nothing! Does this sound familiar, or is this describing you? I have seen over and over again posts like this, and then the responses are always the same “have patience!”. Coming from a marketing background, I always thought this was not the best response. If you have nailed down your Merch SEO and made sure that your listings are good, you certainly […]

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