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How A Simple Influencer Campaign Made Over $1000 With A Single Shirt (Famebit Marketing)

June 15, 2017 Case Study, Paid Merch Marketing 9 comments

If you have not noticed, we at Merch Informer like talking about marketing your shirts once they are live on Merch by Amazon in order to stand out from the competition. Having a background in marketing has helped tackle the usual channels of marketing that have helped Merchers see success running campaigns and using social media. To start off our guest blog series, we invited Jewel Tolentino to write a post on a marketing strategy that I have not seen anyone really talk much about: influencer marketing. Since Jewel and her business partner are Youtubers, this strategy is a pretty awesome twist on using Youtube to drive amazing sales and traffic to your shirts. Don’t worry, you do not need […]

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100k School Debt to Financial Freedom – Merch by Amazon Update 1

June 7, 2017 Amazon, Case Study 59 comments

From talking to people all over the world about Merch by Amazon, there seems to be a few common themes. There are those that are just looking to make a little side money, and there are others who are looking to replace their full time job. Almost everyone I have talked to are trying to dig themselves out of debt or pay their mortgage each month with their Merch money! If you have read any of the interview series we have started doing, you will see that some of these people who have dedicated their time to their merch craft have been successful at getting rid of their debt. Not having all that pressure looming over you really helps to […]

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Merch by Amazon Success: Interview with Matt Carlett

June 5, 2017 Interview Series 2 comments

When Merch Informer first launched, Matt was one of the first people to jump on board and has stayed with us ever since then! He has seen some crazy growth with his Merch business and regularly posts in the Facebook groups giving general advice and getting people motivated by displaying large daily selling numbers. We got a chance to sit down and chat for a bit about how he approaches Merch and some of the steps he took to get ahead of the curve. He is one of the most helpful Merchers out there, so I will let him take it away! Tell us a little about who you are and a general ballpark of how much per month you […]

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Keyword Optimization Merch by Amazon Case Study

May 31, 2017 Amazon, Case Study 33 comments

Do you use keywords in your Merch by Amazon shirt titles? Maybe you only use your keywords in the bullet points. Perhaps you have tried to add the keyword to the brand name as well, but are not really sure why. You could have heard any number of people tell you where and how to include the keywords you want to rank for in your listings. If you have followed Merch Informer, we went over our strategy in the 20k a month case study where we lay out a little on how we do our keywords. This has very clearly worked for us, but everyone has their specific way of doing it. Not only that, everyone will swear that their […]

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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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