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Since late 2015, Merch by Amazon has been one, if not THE biggest opportunity for content creators and graphic artists to turn their hard work into cash by selling print on demand t-shirts (and soon other products!). Since the launch of the program, a lot has changed and almost all of it for the better. Pixel for Pixel copycats are now at a minimum, fulfillment capacity has increased, and tiers have also increased (although slowly). One of the biggest problems on the platform though has been the blatant abuse of the copyright system. If someone copied your design (and remember, Amazon is getting a lot better at detecting this with the release of their image recognition software on the backend) […]

As many of you may know, before we started Merch Informer I was big into the affiliate marketing scene building large scale websites and eventually selling them. This is a great business model (it can even be used to sell more merch shirts!) and you meet a lot of really great people in the business along the way. This is how I met Thomas and the team over at FE International. Throughout the years I have known him, he has always been an excellent source of information and advice. Since I have sold a few Merch by Amazon businesses in the past that has caused a lot of controversy, I thought I would get up a post about how exactly […]

With the Merch by Amazon program nearing its 2 year birthday coming up here soon, I have been thinking a lot. I get a lot of questions each day through Merch Informer as well as Facebook about Merch and if it would be too difficult to get started now. Too much competition! Too Saturated! How can I stand out with hundreds of thousands of shirts already on Amazon? I know if you read the Merch Informer blog (which you are doing right now!), you have probably heard these questions and claims as well. Today I want to address them. Let me be very clear. With the program still in its infancy, there is so much room for growth and so […]