Blog

Social Hunter – New Merch Informer Update

One of the hardest parts about being a seller is making sure you can bring all the moving parts together to make sure that you are offering your customers exactly what they want. You need to first have amazing designs that resonate with your audience. After you have the design part completed, you still need to figure out how to get eyeballs on your product and use the right keywords to get the search traffic from the platform you are selling on. Merch Informer has just released the new Social Hunter module which will help you bring all the pieces together with the help of Etsy! The social hunter brings in Etsy search to show you the EXACT tags that […]

Read more

Announcing New Software – Merch Locker

How many hours of your life have you wasted because you were looking for that specific design that your designer created for you, or that you had created 3 days previous but were not sure what folder you put it in? Perhaps you were trying to find a design because it was removed from Merch by Amazon and you want to put it back up… but you aren’t sure where you put the file/folder OR excel spreadsheet with your listing data? If you are anything like me, you are spending way too much time trying to figure out some form of organization for your Merch business and get crucial information of how many designs you have in a niche. THIS […]

Read more

Introducing The Trademark Hunter – New Merch Informer Module

One of the biggest issues today in the Merch by Amazon space is the ability to monitor your listings for Trademarks. When you have just a few listings, it can be incredibly easy to go in every week and take a look at your listing data to make sure you are not infringing on any intellectual property of another person or business. When you start to fill out your slots though, this becomes more and more difficult. Often times, your listings will remain compliant for months if not years. Then… one day you get a take down notice from Amazon because something in your listing has become trademarked that wasn’t before! Merch Informer set out to fix this issue, and […]

Read more

How to Keyword Merch Listings

This is hands down the most requested piece of content we have received. Being able to properly keyword a Merch by Amazon listing in order to get it in front of potential customers can make or break your business. Today, we are going to go over exactly what you should be doing in order to connect with customers. These techniques can be replicated each and every time you upload a new product to Merch! To your success!

Read more

Introducing Merch Legend – Sorting Your Dashboard With Ease

In a massive sea of Chrome plugins that can help you with your online business, it can be difficult to decide what to download and use, and what to ignore. You have all seen those Chrome screenshots where people have half the screen taken up by different plugins that they never ever use! What if there was a plugin that helped you grow and monitor your Merch business and that you used everyday? Would you try it then? We did! Merch Legend is the newest Chrome extension on the block and it does something important that I have been talking about for a LONG TIME! It helps monitor your reviews (which can be the literal life blood of your Merch […]

Read more

Search Title ONLY – Merch Research Update

Q4 is here and so are the Holidays! If you have been in Merch by Amazon for even a few weeks and have been doing your research (like you should!), then you know just how annoying research can be around the holidays. It is annoying because EVERYONE is trying to capitalize on the extra traffic and holidays by stuffing their bullet points and description with keywords. Today, we fixed that problem and added Title Only Search to Merch Informer! Search In Title Only Since Christmas is coming up, let’s use that as an example. Say you want to search for “Dabbing Santa” and see what kind of competition you would be facing (which is a LOT in this niche). However, […]

Read more

How to Check PopSocket Trademarks BEFORE You Upload

When it comes to checking Trademarks for wording used in our designs and listings, we all know how much of a pain it can be. The USPTO website looks and acts like it is out of the early 90s, and if you have not spent the time to learn your way around, it can seem pretty daunting. That being said, it is a MUST that you understand trademark in this industry, or you simply will not last long. On the TESS website, most everyone is familiar with the basic word mark search, but if you want to SPECIFICALLY search for trademarks in the 009 category (this is for PopSockets), you will want to use the free form search. Specifically this […]

Read more

Speed Up Merch Listings – Merch Informer Lister UPDATE

Today we are proud to announce we have pushed an update to the Merch Informer Lister that will speed up your listing process even MORE! This Merch plugin is 100% free for anyone with a Merch Informer account and can be downloaded here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/merch-informer-lister/ffkgbikejcgiojinaohlajcogfkpihlf. If you were ever wondering how people can fill hundreds of slots per day and not lose their mind, this would be how! Allowing you to set up profiles and automatically fill out your listings before you check them over can save hours of your time. We took this process, and made it even faster. Here is how! Merch Informer Lister Update The first step is to set up these profiles: Info Profile (this will fill out […]

Read more

Merch Informer Book Hunter Chrome Extension UPDATE

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 […]

Read more

How To File Letters Of Protest Against Frivolous Trademarks

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, […]

Read more