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Introducing The Trademark Hunter – New Merch Informer Module

December 17, 2018 Merch Informer Merch Informer News, Trademark 3 comments

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 […]

How to Keyword Merch Listings

December 8, 2018 Merch Informer Beginners Guide To Merch by Amazon, Optimization 19 comments

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!

Introducing Merch Legend – Sorting Your Dashboard With Ease

December 4, 2018 Merch Informer Amazon 3 comments

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 […]

Search Title ONLY – Merch Research Update

November 18, 2018 Merch Informer Merch Informer News 1 comment

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, […]

How to Check PopSocket Trademarks BEFORE You Upload

November 12, 2018 Merch Informer Beginners Guide To Merch by Amazon, Merch Informer News 5 comments

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 […]

Speed Up Merch Listings – Merch Informer Lister UPDATE

November 8, 2018 Merch Informer Merch Informer News 6 comments

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 […]

Merch Informer Book Hunter Chrome Extension UPDATE

October 29, 2018 Merch Informer 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 […]

How To File Letters Of Protest Against Frivolous Trademarks

October 24, 2018 Merch Informer 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, […]

UPDATE -Add Filters Inside of the Merch Informer Products Designer

October 20, 2018 Merch Informer 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 […]

Trouble Filling Your Q4 Slots?

October 14, 2018 Merch Informer 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 […]