Posts archive for October, 2018

Merch Informer Book Hunter Chrome Extension UPDATE

October 29, 2018 Merch Informer News 6 comments

Earlier this month we released our new Chrome extension which is part of the Merch Informer family of research products: The Merch Informer Book Hunter. This has already been a great source of easy, unsaturated niches that you can use on Merch by Amazon by using SOCIAL proof! The entire idea was to find ideas off of Amazon (on social media instead), and get some social proof that these niches have customer demand. Bringing fresh ideas onto the Merch platform with your own designs in niches which demand is such an easy way to make sales. If you are unique (but there is demand in those niches), this makes your products stick out, and leads to sales! While this was […]

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How To File Letters Of Protest Against Frivolous Trademarks

October 24, 2018 Trademark 1 comment

The trademark industry is OUT OF CONTROL. As Print on Demand sellers, we hear about this every single day. Someone has trademarked a new phrase, and is using their phrase to take down everyone’s products on Merch, Redbubble, Etsy, you name it! A while back, our good friend Ken Reil found a FREE way to combat these trademark trolls as they tried to register more common phrases and words for their own benefit. Letters of Protest can be filed for free, quickly and easily, which will alert the USPTO attorneys that their may be some evidence out there that the trademark should NOT be granted. It soon became clear that these are working! Since this issue is so incredibly important, […]

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UPDATE -Add Filters Inside of the Merch Informer Products Designer

October 20, 2018 Merch Informer News 10 comments

We just pushed a large update to the product designer inside of Merch Informer. You now have the ability to add any type of filter (what the industry calls a mask), to any of your designs with ANY image/background you want. For those who are not aware, the Merch Informer Products Designer is a FREE designer for Merch Informer subscribers. You can try it out by grabbing a free 3 day trial here: https://merchinformer.com/pricing/. With the ability to quickly and easily add masks/filters to your design, you can easily create variations that change depending on the season or event. Here is how it works! MI Products Designer Masks The first thing that you need is a design. For this example, I […]

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Trouble Filling Your Q4 Slots?

October 14, 2018 Design 4 comments

Are you feeling it yet? Q4 is pretty much at our doorsteps and now is the time to really step up your game. I know I am. I have my design team working full time and they are STILL too slow to kick back enough designs every week for what I need. It makes it even harder since my designers are trying to help out some friends and family as well. Hiring designers can be great, but at the end of the day, the process is slow, it”s hard, and it is just an incredible pain to manage everyone all the time. At the end of the day, if I am out of designers and patience, I still have slots […]

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Finding Trends and Unsaturated Niches Is EASY – Over the Shoulder Merch Research

October 13, 2018 Merch Research 4 comments

If you are having trouble with research, no matter if it is evergreen, seasonal, or finding trends before EVERYONE has jumped on them, you need to find some time to watch this video. It is long, but detailed on exactly how you can bring unique products to market right now in niches that have little to no competition! If you watch to the end, there is also a technique that you can use in your business right now that almost no one else is doing. To your success!

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Announcing Merch Informer Book Hunter

October 12, 2018 Merch Informer News 1 comment

Supply and Demand. That is, in a nutshell, what Merch by Amazon is all about. It does not matter if you are an artist, a business person, a stay at home mom, or just trying to scrap together a few hundred dollars a month with Merch. Your job is to find demand (or create it), and then offer the supply. Doing anything else, is a complete waste of time. A few weeks ago, Merch Informer released a new tool for doing research OFF of Amazon to find demand. We call is the Merch Informer Book Hunter. If you can find demand off of Amazon, and offer the Amazon customers something new and fresh in the same niche (that might be […]

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