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Merch by Amazon Success: Interview with Ken Reil

May 29, 2017 Interview Series 12 comments

Over the past year or so, I have gotten to know Ken pretty well. We got the chance to sit down with him and pick his brain about the Merch business and how he has managed to succeed in crushing his own numbers month in and month out. What is most notable is that even though Ken owns an offline business, he was able to tackle Merch by Amazon and turn it into another full time income surpassing 6 figures fairly quickly. This was achieved by hard work and determination. With 85 uploads a day, the guy is sometimes too busy to chat as he is filling those slots. I can even barely keep up with my own uploads so […]

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How To Scale Your T-Shirt Designs With Placeit’s Design Templates

May 29, 2017 Design No comments yet

Today we are featuring a guest post on the Merch Informer Blog from Ana at Placeit.net. We met her about a month ago after a discussion about using mockups to run free advertising campaigns for merch shirts. We have invited her to write about how you can easily scale up your merch designs by using simply templates. Coming up with ideas for t-shirt designs is no easy thing. Sure, maybe the first batch of t-shirts went quickly, but after a while it keeps getting more and more complicated to find tshirt ideas that are original and don’t break Amazon’s guidelines. In this post we’ll go over a couple of tactics that will help you scale up your t-shirt designs and give your shirt […]

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How To Scale Your T-Shirt Designs With Placeit’s Design Templates

May 29, 2017 Design No comments yet

Today we are featuring a guest post on the Merch Informer Blog from Ana at Placeit.net. We met her about a month ago after a discussion about using mockups to run free advertising campaigns for merch shirts. We have invited her to write about how you can easily scale up your merch designs by using simply templates. Coming up with ideas for t-shirt designs is no easy thing. Sure, maybe the first batch of t-shirts went quickly, but after a while it keeps getting more and more complicated to find tshirt ideas that are original and don’t break Amazon’s guidelines. In this post we’ll go over a couple of tactics that will help you scale up your t-shirt designs and give your shirt […]

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Merch by Amazon Success: Interview with Lanelle Barber

May 24, 2017 Interview Series 7 comments

Merch by Amazon is a growing opportunity that pretty much anyone can succeed at. You have to be willing to put in the work and learn the craft as this is a lot different from almost everything you might have done before. I sure had to learn a few new things when I jumped in! Here at Merch Informer, we have tried to share all our trials, tips and tricks, as well as personal experiences that have done into building our Merch businesses. Sometimes these connect with people while other times, other people do a better job at explaining a concept. In an effort to help you move forward in your Merch business, we decided to put together a bit […]

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How To Use Upwork To Outsource And Scale Your Merch Business

May 22, 2017 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 […]

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

May 16, 2017 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 […]

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Growth Hacking Pinterest To Sell Amazon Merch

May 8, 2017 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 […]

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

April 24, 2017 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 […]

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How To Run Facebook Ads To Merch by Amazon Listings

April 17, 2017 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 […]

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

April 10, 2017 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 […]

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