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Your store is set, you feel your images are great, you have unique ideas. You’ve been waiting for a boost for months and you’ve spent hours studying competing t-shirt designs. And yet, still you’re not selling anything? It must be something wrong with the algorithm! Well, no. It’s simple to point the finger at Amazon and its programming. But that’s not the issue. The First Step Is Always The Hardest Perhaps we start with the person in the mirror, the one making all the final decisions. Are your images as good as you think? Maybe your designs are bad. Perhaps your specialty is too broad. Perhaps the unique niche you discovered has been over-used and you have no chance of […]

Ever since Amazon started out as a bookseller in 1995, this now massive global e-commerce platform continues to put customers first. This applies to cases where you’re selling practically any product, including print-on-demand (POD) merchandise such as t-shirts or sweatshirts. To prove the lengths at which Amazon will go to to ensure that there is no profane or offensive content that comes with its products, in 2020 Amazon did the following: “Reviewed almost 10,000 product listings each day to ensure compliance with their policies. Removed over two million products for violating Amazon’s offensive or controversial guidelines, with more than 1.5 million (75%+) of these products identified, reviewed, and discarded proactively by their automated tools, often before being seen by a […]

Recent research indicates that Amazon.com receives about 2.4 billion visitors each month. That’s just over one quarter of the world’s population. And this makes it the world’s largest online marketplace. Amazon enables merch sellers to take advantage of this huge audience through its Merch on Demand platform. All this with little to no startup capital required, the ability to monetize a huge audience, and expand an existing business with new product lines such as t-shirts, hoodies, and more. If you’re an artist or a merch creator, you may be wondering if the other online print-on-demand (POD) marketplaces that have developed over the past few decades are worth considering as an option. But perhaps a more important question is whether you […]

With the endless options of POD clothing and accessories today via Merch By Amazon (Amazon Merch On Demand), it’s easy to list which are the best sellers in any given time period. And which item types in particular are topping the charts? Easily found. But what about the genres that are making waves? And the ones most geared for and by female customers and designers? What trends are women searching for, designing, and ultimately purchasing? Let’s dive in. Peaceful/Centering/Spiritual Global inclusion of differing ideas and beliefs is a growing consciousness in the modern world. Instant access to information allows us to learn about essentially anything. Being accepting of new, peaceful mindsets is something many people strive for today. Slogans affirming […]

As of this writing, the Federal Reserve Bank (aka “The Fed” aka “The Puppet Masters of the US Economy”) are meeting to discuss what is mostly likely a fourth historic rate hike this year. After allowing rates to stay historically low to spur consumer activity during the pandemic, part of the result has been skyrocketing inflation due to demand exceeding supply. Ostensibly, the goal of the hike is to slow down spending across all sectors, to allow supply to catch up with demand and prevent the economy from overheating. Inflation is starting to ease in some areas, with gas prices lowering just a smidge every day. Other household staples continue to rise due to all kinds of factors like supply […]

Merch by Amazon (MBA) or Amazon Merch on Demand as it is now called, is a great way to earn money from your apparel ideas without having to spend money on production or holding inventory. You can take advantage of hot trends while they’re still hot as well as niches and events that perform well. Merch Informer has all the tools you need to do this. That said, if it’s so easy to do and costs almost nothing, there must be a lot of competition in your space. How do you differentiate yourself? DESIGN You’d be surprised how many merch creators have no graphic design experience. Did this stand in the way of them becoming successful Amazon t-shirt entrepreneurs? Not […]