Merch Informer, Author at Merch Informer - Realize Your Merch By Amazon Potential

How To Use Upwork To Outsource And Scale Your Merch Business

May 22, 2017 Merch Informer Outsourcing 73 comments

When you first get accepted to Merch by Amazon, it is one of the best feelings ever! You have 10 slots available with 2 uploads per day. The possibilities seem endless (and they are!). What we recommend is always to dive in head first. Get a good feel for the research process (3 day free trial of Merch Informer), understand how BSR correlates with sales, and then figure your way around a set of design tools. It could be Photoshop, it could be GIMP, or something simple like make-merch. No matter what you decide to use, just get to know how to design yourself. Designing the first few designs yourself is crucial to your success on Merch by Amazon. Without […]

Ultimate AMS (Amazon Marketing Services) Guide to Marketing Your Merch

May 16, 2017 Merch Informer Amazon, Paid Traffic 221 comments

[toc] When Merch by Amazon began, the program was targeted at app developers. Once the news was out about this program that would allow you to sell products on Amazon and produce a royalty without dealing with customers or inventory, people absolutely flooded the Merch by Amazon signup page, and they became invite only. Since then competition has grown and so have the amount of people selling merch through MBA. Some people say it has gotten harder to sell shirts, some think it is still easy as ever. The one thing that everyone has been missing though is the ability to run ads to their Merch by Amazon shirts if they were not app developers. There was no option to […]

Growth Hacking Pinterest To Sell Amazon Merch

May 8, 2017 Merch Informer Amazon, Free Merch Marketing 23 comments

How many times have you seen someone mention or felt that you were just not getting any sales through Merch by Amazon leaving frustrated even though they were all posted on social media? Social media can be one of the biggest opportunities for selling your Merch if you do it correctly. The fact is though, that simply posting your shirts to social media is not going to work unless you put in the leg work first. Posting your shirt on your personal Facebook account is not going to get much traction as none of your friends are specifically targeted. Tweeting about your design to the 1200 followers you got by doing a giveaway is NOT going to turn into more […]

Merch Pricing Strategies – Why You Are Leaving Money On The Table

April 24, 2017 Merch Informer Amazon 5 comments

Since we started Merch Informer, we have seen almost every pricing strategy in the book. This is something that most people will probably never agree completely on, and thus, has been the topic of hot debate in the past. Should you price high to be seen as the premium option? You WILL make the most royalty per shirt this way, that is for sure. Should you price right in the middle of the pack of designs and try to compete less on price, but more on unique, amazing designs? Or, do you throw all of that out the window and attempt to make only a few cents per shirt sale and price at the bottom of the barrel in the […]

How To Run Facebook Ads To Merch by Amazon Listings

April 17, 2017 Merch Informer Amazon, Paid Traffic 82 comments

How many of you just landed on this guide and have already tried running paid advertising to your merch listings? Out of all the people that have, I bet the vast majority of you ran paid advertising using Facebook ads and reported back that they were expensive and a waste of time. I have been there! Being involved in the affiliate marketing community over the last few years before I got involved in Merch by Amazon and print on demand, I burned 10’s of thousands of dollars on Facebook without making all of that money back. I certainly do not claim to be a FB ads expert but all of that ad spend did teach me a few things that […]

A Definitive Guide On Seasonal Niches – How To Find, Rank, And Manage Your Listings

April 10, 2017 Merch Informer Amazon, Merch Holidays 17 comments

Seasonal niches can be a massive money maker when it comes to listing Merch on Amazon if you know what you are looking for and how best to manage these niches. If I were to say the word “seasonal niche” to you, what is the first thing that would come to mind? For most, it would be the major holidays: Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, so on and so forth. Every single person selling Merch on Amazon is probably going to upload a shirt or 10 into those categories. Now, the word saturated is thrown out a lot which we do not agree with, but it does make it harder to make sales in these niches. If you have the slots, you […]

Which POD Service Should You Use To Sell On Amazon?

April 3, 2017 Merch Informer Amazon, Shopify, Teespring 31 comments

We have been receiving a lot of questions lately on which print on demand platform is the best for listing your merchandise on Amazon. Todor and I are huge advocates of mixing all three when building your brand because each has its own benefits (and drawbacks of course). In the article below we are going to cover the advantages of these platforms/integrations and how to best utilize each of them when growing your merchandise business. To make this article as detailed as possible we are going to take into account the following factors for each platform: Available products Price Prime eligibility Branding options Keyword optimization Startup expenses Merch by Amazon Merch By Amazon – That’s where it all started. Back in […]

Merch Informer Case Study – A Merch By Amazon 20k Per Month Blueprint

March 27, 2017 Merch Informer Amazon, Case Study 94 comments

Todor and I started Merch Informer just around 6 months ago. Ever since the beginning, we have been Merchants ourselves, practicing exactly what we preach on how to find successful designs, dominate markets, and crush the competition. Month in and month out, we are making more profit from Merch by Amazon and the multiple integrations that are now available for Amazon merch sellers. We grew from early adapters of Merch by Amazon to selling the first Merch business. We got featured on the news! Through a lot of hard work, we scaled up operations and now clear upwards of $20,000 per month through the Merch by Amazon program. Simply put, we know this business and know what you need to do […]

Teespring Amazon Integration – Zero Cost Startup Guide

March 19, 2017 Merch Informer Amazon, Teespring 195 comments

[toc] One of the biggest industries that the internet has seen has been Merchandise and this sector has been growing by absurd numbers year in and year out. I have never really been someone to buy much in terms of Merch but a little over a year ago, I found myself engrossed in the industry. This spawned myself and business partner clearing hundreds of thousands of dollars and launching Merch Informer. Selling Merch allows you to be creative and also business minded! In this guide I am going to go over today, we are going to be discussing one of, if not THE biggest thing to happen to the Merch scene all year: Teespring integrating with Amazon. This will allow […]

Zero Cost Merch Marketing

March 13, 2017 Merch Informer Free Merch Marketing 4 comments

For one reason or another, the majority of Merch by Amazon users are not willing to spend money to actually market the goods they work so hard to create. While this is not recommended (we have lots of guides on how to drive your own traffic), there is nothing wrong with wanting to ride the Amazon gravy train as long as possible. With the Amazon/Shopify Integration that just happened and the Teespring update (guide coming soon everyone, we have inside information here), the simple truth of the matter is that if you want to stand out from the competition and increase your sales, you will need to differentiate yourself from the flood of new designs going online. Here at Merch […]

All posts by Merch Informer