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Can You Start Selling Print-On-Demand T-Shirts Just By Being A Good Artist? (Sadly, The Answer Is No)

If you’re the creative type, always doodling, sketching, or drawing, you might have always wanted to monetize your craft by selling print-on-demand t-shirts and for a good reason. It’s estimated that the custom t-shirt printing market was valued at nearly $4 billion in 2020 and is expected to more than double and hit $10 billion by 2025. Artists now have the ability to create unique, intriguing, personalized, and customizable t-shirts and have them printed on demand while making a profit with zero risk that the print-on-demand (POD) model offers. But if you think your artistic skills are all it takes to get started, you’re in for a surprise. Just like any business venture, selling print-on-demand t-shirts requires business acumen, determination, […]

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New Products Not Selling Through on Merch by Amazon? Here’s Why!

If you have been part of any Facebook groups or heard the chatter around the block, chances are you have heard some of the conspiracy theories of Amazon changing something, sell through rates tanking, or not being able to make many sales. So what exactly is going on with Merch by Amazon? Did the algorithm change? Why is it that you can only find your shirt in search if you use an exact match full title string? Let’s talk about it, explain why your new shirts aren’t selling, and figure out what to do about it! My New Merch Shirts Aren’t Selling! This is something we have seen come up over and over again. If you head over to merchresearch.com, […]

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How To Create a Merch by Amazon Landing Page With All Your Products

As the holidays approach and with Q4 already kicking off, most Merchers have started creating their AMS campaigns and running ads. Running ads before a certain event or holiday can help you gain BSR which will lead to an increase in organic sales. In this article, we are going through a step-by-step process of setting up a landing page for your brand and running ads to it. Creating Your AMS Store Head to https://advertising.amazon.com/, and on the left side menu click on Stores. Clicking on Create Store will take you to the next step, where you have to fill out your store’s information and select a layout. The page meta description is what will end up displaying in Google when […]

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Merch by Amazon Saturation – Does It Exist and How To Find Wide Open Niches

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Saturation is a word that often pops-up on many different online businesses and money-making forums, and it’s no different with Print On Demand. There has been a lot of discussion in the Facebook groups about Merch by Amazon being saturated and that it’s hard to find niches that have low competition. Sure, there are some niches that might be hard to break into; but getting in front of the right audience is actually not that hard. Today we are going to show a step by step process on how to find an unsaturated niche that sells well on Merch by Amazon. Let’s get into it! The Inspiration – Merch by Amazon T-Shirt Idea The first step of finding an unsaturated […]

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How To Find “Not Buyable” Merch Products In Your Merch by Amazon Account

Merch is turning back on! ASINs are becoming available to purchase, and people are starting to fire up their business and start running traffic (free or paid). The one glaring issue though is that Merch is turning on ASINs one at a time, and it can be really hard to figure out what ASINs are actually available to start running traffic to. So in this guide, we want to go over how to find these ASINs that are NOT turned on yet, so you can keep an eye on them moving forward. But first, let’s talk about keyword rankings! ASIN Keyword Rankings – What’s Changed It looks like all of the Merch ASINs are actually coming back incredibly quickly. Over […]

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How To Kick Start Your Merch Account After The Printing Pause

It has finally happened! Merch by Amazon is turning the printers back on and our ASINs are being restored. We are back in business! Well, most of us are, that is! In this article, we want to go over the change that just hit everyone’s Merch by Amazon dashboard, and give you what we think is the easiest way to get ahead of the crowd when it comes to kick starting your business from an even playing field. So, let’s get started! What We Know About The Printing Pause On 3/19/20 we got an update in our Merch dashboards letting us know what almost everyone had already seen…Amazon was experiencing increased demand and order volumes so delivery times for Merch […]

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The Best Free Merch by Amazon Plugin You Have Never Heard Of

Over the years, as new plugins are released for Merch by Amazon by independent creators, we have tested pretty much all of them. When it comes to Merch, TESTING is your biggest edge over every other seller on the platform. Anything that can give you any extra data about your business is great. Some of the plugins we have tested have been downright terrible, and some have been really good. A few months back, we stumbled across a plugin that was pretty much unheard of called: Productor. This plugin… is GREAT! Oh, and its free. The amount of tools and data this creator has packed into a single plugin is pretty much unheard of, especially being free. So today, I […]

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How To Use Rank Tracking To Optimize Merch by Amazon Listings

The vast majority of Merchers use a spray and pray approach when it comes to uploading shirts. You upload your limit of shirts, and hope something sells. This CAN work, but over the years it has gotten hard and harder, making research even that more important. But… Let’s say that you went through all the research steps, found a good subniche where there are buyers for your shirt designs, and you know what makes up a good design! All that is left is to list it right? Yes and no! The first step is listing it, using keywords in your title, bullet points and description to make a great listing for a customer. However, if you want to have a […]

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Evergreen Versus Trending and Seasonal Merch by Amazon Designs – Understanding The Difference

When it comes to any print on demand business out there, and especially Merch by Amazon, there are 3 core areas on how to build your business: Evergreen, Trending, and Seasonal designs. While this seems pretty straight forward on the surface, there seems to be some confusion on each of these areas, where they overlap, and how Amazon works with each. Today we are going to go over each of these in detail, and why you might think you are going into a trending niche but really, you are no where to be found and finding it impossible to rank. Lets jump into it! Evergreen Merch Designs Evergreen at its core just means that something has enduring popularity. Put in […]

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How To Scale Your Merch Account Through Amazon Advertising (AMS) Automation

It has been a while since we posted anything on the Merch Informer blog, and for good reason! The last few weeks we have been extensively testing one of the coolest tools that has JUST hit the market that anyone serious about Merch by Amazon will easily find the value in. This tool takes one of the only guaranteed ways to scale any business (advertising), and takes it to an entirely new level! I should have titled this blog post “how to scale your merch account through amazon advertising without losing your mind”. Lets face it, competition is increasing on Merch by Amazon. Using the proper keywords to get in front of the right audience is only a single piece […]

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