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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 […]

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

October 13, 2018 Merch Informer 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!

Announcing Merch Informer Book Hunter

October 12, 2018 Merch Informer 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 […]

Exclusive Interview With 6 Figure A Year Merch Brand

September 26, 2018 Merch Informer Interview Series 16 comments

Today I am going to be bringing you one of the most exciting interviews I have ever done. This one is with one of the biggest (non partnered) Merch brands there is! If you have been on Merch by Amazon for any amount of time, you will be familiar with this brand. They have been a powerful force in some of the toughest niches out there. With how hard it is to come in contact with these big brand owners, I have decided to respect their privacy and not mention the brand by name. As Merch Informer has such a wide reach in the Merch community, disclosing exactly who this is could possibly be a negative experience for them. As […]

Merch Hunter Adds International Markets (UK/DE) For Merch by Amazon T-Shirts

September 17, 2018 Merch Informer Merch Informer News 5 comments

This morning we pushed a MASSIVE update to the Merch Hunter you have come to know and love. We have added international marketers (UK/DE) for T-Shirts. This is going to open up so many different opportunities for these emerging markets when it comes to your research as well as figuring out what keywords work best for culture you may not be as familiar with. Merch Informer has also been taking the time to properly collect the historic data on these markets and products. This means that you will be able to see price and bsr history over time. What we know is that you can use this to make better decisions on market fit for your own products. Merch Hunter […]

Launching Your First Amazon Advertising Campaign (Sponsored Products)

September 15, 2018 Merch Informer Amazon, Paid Traffic 61 comments

Once you are accepted into AMS (Amazon Marketing Services), you are probably ready to jump in, set up some ads, and make thousands! However, you quickly realize that AMS rebranded within days of it going live for Merch by Amazon into “Amazon Advertising”. Then, unless you are very familiar with running ads online, you might be getting in over your head before you begin. Which is exactly why I want to write this post. I want to try and attempt to help save you as much headache as possible, make sure you do not flush your money down the drain, and have a solid understanding of how the platform works (and what all those weird words mean), before you get […]

International Markets Added To Merch Informer Keyword Finder

September 12, 2018 Merch Informer Merch Informer News 9 comments

We have just released some pretty significant upgrades to the Keyword Finder module inside of Merch Informer. While these may seem small at first (as they are just 2 check boxes), this lets you pull back keywords for Amazon UK and Amazon DE (Germany). Let me demonstrate exactly why this is so important and how you can use it to get ahead of your competition. Amazon UK/Amazon DE Keywords The first step is to log into Merch Informer and navigate to the Keyword Finder module in the left hand menu. Once you have found that, click on “search” and it will bring you to this familiar page: You will notice that you can now search by Amazon UK, and by […]