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Every Mercher will always have the same issue when starting the career: How to promote Merch by Amazon items? Amazon, along with Alibaba, is one of the largest e-commerce marketplaces on Earth. With more than 2.8 BILLION traffics each month, it’s an ideal place to sell your items.

However, e-commerce is not that easy game, the fact turned out a bit harder than expected. In fact, The competitive rate is too damn high that your sole item got lost in the sea of shirts and at nowhere to be found. Luckily, what you need to do is giving it a little juice!

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Give me a little juice F.R.I.D.A.Y.

Aka “Promotion”, as the name of the topic, we will learn about “How to Promote Merch by Amazon”.

How to promote Merch by Amazon

There are 3 essential ways to do this:

  • Promotion via Social Media.
  • Running Ads, boosted posts, bloggers or influencers.
  • SEO, optimization, keywords research.

1. Promotion via Social Media.

First of all, this is the fundamental way that everyone should think about first. Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Forums, Instagram, even Discord. This is cost-free method where you can post your designed shirt, receive engagement and spreading power. In general, people like, share and comments could bring your promotion to anywhere on the social media. Here is the detail:

  • Open new Facebook or Instagram account. Send invitation, friend request or follow/unfollow trick to get people’s attention
  • Attach your Merch by Amazon link inside each post, of course
  • Upload your shirt there, try to be niche specified
  • Spread your post over other places like Facebook Groups, Instagram comments, Forums, Discord servers.
  • Spend time to make your contents and posts interactive to maintain engagements

Moreover, this is pretty time-consuming but cost-free. If you have a team specialized in this, they should bring your brand and merchs all over the net.

Nonetheless, if you are a solo mercher, this is not worth the shot as it doubled the time you invest in social media rather than design and upload your new shirts. So, you should continue your work on finding ideas, generating designs and upload it to Merch by Amazon. Finally, this method is for team specialized, not recommended for a sole person to work.

2. Running Ads, collab with bloggers and influencers

If you want instant work, then Ads is your go-to choice. At first, invest some of your royalty in ads should return in extreme benefits. You can try Facebook Ads, using the fundamental Social media you’ve built above to do that, that should do the tricks. Sadly you can’t use Google Ads to lead to Merch by Amazon items, it’s forbidden by Merch by Amazon policies.

Furthermore, running ads on other blogs or collab with influencers also work nicely. There are notable Merch by Amazon bloggers like Merch Pursuits, Michael Essex, Niche Pursuits, Monte Werle which you can ask them to stick your shirts on their website’s sidebar. Of course, this goes with a fee, like all other ads.

However, working with ads requires extraordinary care. You need to analyze, calculate the stats, evaluate the efficiency and adjust your ads if needed. In general, optimization should keep you on track to attract more sales. Otherwise, you’ll just burn your money for nothing.

My advice for this method:

3. SEO, keyword reseach and optimization

This is both cost-free and no time-consuming, but it’s the hardest. In general, people are likely to search for what they are considering to buy. The same as on Amazon, with more than 2.6B traffics each month, the number must be huge. Therefore, you have to draw as much as those traffics to your Merch by Amazon items.

First of all, you will need to define what niche, topic or theme are you working on. This evolved into your designing progress, that you must have a specific idea before drawing the shirts. Base on the niche, you should gather all keywords that related to it and optimize them, use the best only.

This optimization should bring your items into the search page of related keywords, getting higher chance to be seen by customer, higher chance to sell. Thus, this is compulsory in every Merch by Amazon items nowadays.

However, keep in mind that optimization also need some workout. Your description, title and brand must be optimized, but there are limits. Therefore, you will need to balance between the versatility and density of your keyword pool to not exceed those limits.

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Final words on Merch by Amazon research – How to promote Merch by Amazon items

Optimization is the key to everything. First of all, you can use social media to promote your Merch by Amazon items. Try to use multiple platform to create a network of your own to promote more efficient. However this is time-comsuming, yet cost-free.

Otherwise, you can spend money on Ads, promoting via bloggers or influencers, some fees for them should do. This method need extremely optimization to balance the costs and the sales you earn.

Last but not least, SEO and keyword optimization on your own Merch by Amazon items. Try to abuse the gigantic traffics of Amazon to earn sales. Moreover, remember to optimize your keyword pool for description, title and brand either, balance between versatility and density. You can try to learn about Merch by Amazon keyword research here. Good luck on how to promote Merch by Amazon items.

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November is the most important month of the year. We have Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and many more sales off occasions. As the price has been lowered due to promotion, the buying volume and demand significantly rises. Make sure your supply and designs are filled enough to maximize your sales this period.

However, it’s wise to focus on what truly matters instead of uncategorized investing. There are some events which you can use to design about and get sales.

First of all, there’s always be the Hot Calendar:

Merch by Amazon Design Inspiration

Election Day - November 6th

Election Day is one of the most important days for US Politics. This time, is the time for the people to speak, vote and put their trust on their representative. They can run campaigns, march, encourage and support for their vote. One of that, wearing a supportive T-shirt is a great way to support. You can put names of the candidates on your T-shirt design, people can buy and wear it in the street to show their support.

Keywords you can use to lists on your products:

– Elect, election, vote
– Names of the candidates, votes and states

Currently, the best t-shirts for Election day are here:

Veterans Day - November 11th

This is the National Day in the US, people spend this day to honor and thank all US Soldier had been fighting and protecting the Nation, preserving peace and finally show respect to them. This niche is an evergreen niche which you can sell at any time of the year. However, on this Veterans Day, the sales will rise up

Keywords you can use to list on your products:
– Veteran, Soldier,
– Protect, fight, peace,
– Patriot, military, freedom, free

You can look into a few most successful T-shirt designs for this niche here:

International Men's Day - November 19th

We have International Women’s Day, and con the contrary we also have the International Men’s Day. We not only honor the dignity, characteristics and good personalities of Women, but also the manner, strength, hardworking and brave of Men. Both genders are all deserved to be honored, and let’s support them all

Keywords you can use to list on your products:
– Men, man, boy
– Galant, brave,
– Daddy, dad, father.

The most successful T-shirt designs for this niche are:

Thanksgiving - November 22nd

Thanksgiving is coming. Let’s gather around the table and together pray and thanks for what we are gifted. This day, Turkey is served and a good time for the family to be together. Let’s wearing a Thanksgiving shirt to mock the turkeys or simply bring the spirit of the Thanksgiving to your house!

Keywords you can use to list on your products:
– Thanksgiving, thankful, pray
– Turkey,
– Thankful, grateful, blessed

Below are the highest ranked T-shirts on Merch by Amazon:

Black Friday - November 23th

Black Friday is the deepest, biggest sales off occasion in the year. The price of everything is on sales at a significant low portion, allowing people to afford to buy stuff they want. This is the most insane sale off time and the buying volume is incredibly high.

You can seize this chance to put your T-shirts on sale and maximize your profits on this sale season

Bolster your sales with the hottest events in November!

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Merch by Amazon review: Earn more money from T-shirts https://spyamz.com/merch-by-amazon-review/ https://spyamz.com/merch-by-amazon-review/#respond Tue, 09 Oct 2018 08:19:38 +0000 https://spyamz.com/?p=3331 Merch by Amazon you must have heard about. It’s a print-on-demand service that can bring you a lot of money....

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Merch by Amazon you must have heard about. It’s a print-on-demand service that can bring you a lot of money. There are opportunities, also challenges while working with Merch by Amazon. Today, our Merch by Amazon review and talk about it deeper, so that we could help you get started with Merch by Amazon with ease.

What is Merch by Amazon?

Good question. First of all, Merch by Amazon is a place where you can upload your designs, Amazon will produce the product based on sales demand and your designs, then ship them to the customers who bought it on Amazon.com. Your designs can be: T-shirts, Hoodies, Sweaters, Long-sleeves, Short-sleeves, Shirts…

This is a print-on-demand service, which means they print the t-shirt after the sale was made. Amazon will handle the production procedure, also the logistic process and storage, you won’t need to worry about products, materials, factory, warehouse, tailors, unsold stuff or any of them. It’s risk-free (or at least very-tiny-small risks). In general, the only thing’s gonna waste you is time and your thinking brain.

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In short for TL-DR:

  • You upload your T-shirt design and set the price.
  • Amazon approves it, making it as an Amazon product.
  • People buy it.
  • Amazon makes it, ships it to people.
  • You have the money. Sounds fun!

“Easiest money I’ve ever made.”

People are usually misunderstood with Merch by Amazon, that they will need to produce, print the T-shirt and ship it themselves. However, this is not correct. Your job is only to draw, design, and list your items. Amazon will take care of the platform, payment, selling, producing and shipping. We’d like to clarify it so that you can easily get started with Merch by Amazon.

According to our statistic, Merch by Amazon currently has 6.5 million T-shirts available. In addition, there are a lot more T-shirts which was removed from the platform that you can’t find them on Amazon anymore. In fact, this number could reach 25 million. To be honest, such large numbers of shirts and designs.

What will you earn with Merch by Amazon

Here is the full list of the royalties you will earn for each product, based on product types that you are selling

Merch by Amazon accounts split into many tiers:

  • 10
  • 25
  • 100
  • 500
  • 1000
  • And so on…

This tier represents the number of Shirts you can upload at maximum T-shirts you can upload on your account. The tier will rank up after you reach specific milestones of sales. However, Merch by Amazon can suspend your account if you violate the Content Policy many times. You can read the full Content Policy here: https://merch.amazon.com/resource/201858630

How to start Merch by Amazon?

Registering for a slot of Merch by Amazon could be easy, what you did is just press “Request an Invitation” in this link: https://merch.amazon.com/ and filling your information in.

Are you looking for deeper information about Merch by Amazon, you can read our previous posts analyzed and explained everything about it here: Merch by Amazon – All you need to know.

To get started with Merch by Amazon, this guide will definitely help you what to do next: the Ultimate Getting Started Guide for Merch by Amazon.

If you want to find the best Merch by Amazon designs, please check out our post here: How to find profitable Merch by Amazon designs.

And finally, for Merch by Amazon research, please check out our detailed post: How to do Merch by Amazon research.

In the meantime waiting for approval to Merch by Amazon, you can read the post above to get a better understanding of Merch by Amazon.

Merch by Amazon Pros

1. Money-saving

You do not have to invest in many things for producing or shipping. In fact, the only job you do is prepare a PC or Laptop, image editor application like Photoshop, and start drawing your own T-shirts, no more facilities required. However, you might need a license of your image editor, but it doesn’t cost much, a few sales on Merch by Amazon can cover the fee. Furthermore, money-saving means less risk for you, either.

2. Time-saving

Designing or drawing T-shirts won’t take much time and if you’re a good designer, you can draw multiple designs per day and get it uploaded for sales. Faster drawing process means more T-shirts online on Amazon, more sales for you.

3. Low-risk business

Your job is to design and to optimize your listing. Thus, you’ll be off from handy work like printing, shipping or producing, or maintaining the site/platform running. It will be less risk for you.

4. Attractive earning

For each item sold, you will earn a percentage of that sale and Amazon will bulk them all up to pay you each month. If your T-shirts went viral and had a lot of sales, you can earn $2000/month and it costs you almost nothing.

5. Easy idea generating

To have a shout-out design, you should have a top-notch idea for it and use it well. The source for ideas can be various: on Facebook, Twitter, newspaper, TV, viral events, memes, and more. To find it best, you can check out what the others are doing and find the bestselling T-shirts with 3rd party tool. The tool can give you insights and all necessary information about Merch by Amazon research, market and T-shirt designs. Above all, SpyAMZ is the best tool can help you with that.

The cons

2. Competitive rate

First of all, the first issue that people meet is the competition in the market. After reading all above, you must be realizing that Merch by Amazon was so good that everyone can enter. Thus, this leads to our first problem: over-population. There are so many “Content creators”, many look-alike designs, many choices for customers to buy. So, more products means less chance people will buy your t-shirts. That’s sad

2. Stealing, copying designs

As the number 2 issue rises, we have Stealing issue. At first, other people can observe your incredibly high ranked T-shirts, they can copy it exactly, or steal your concept to make their own design. This somehow pushes the creativity to climax but causes a severe problem to Content Creators. Even if they don’t know what’s the meaning of the shirts, they saw it high ranked, so they copied, make sense. Therefore, this also causes confusion among the customers and force the market to become more complicated.

3. Trademarks, Copyrights issue

Well, you know that all the top-notch idea which easy to go viral and recognized usually come from with other famous elements. Those elements mostly come from the intellectual properties of other parties, like movies, books, songs. However, these are not allowed with Merch by Amazon, so your idea sources will become smaller. Also, it’s very easy to violate Content Policy, as these policies are strict. If you violated too many times or violated some terms heavily, your account will be suspended.

4. Wait time for approval

If your account gets terminated, it’s cool to create a new one. However, you might need to use different information to register. Furthermore, the wait time for Merch by Amazon approval is not constant. It might take a week, a month or even longer. Please cherish your Merch by Amazon account. It’d better stay away from Intellectual Properties or Copyrights.

5. The risk from returned products

At first, this sounds not legit but it’s true. As I said, Amazon handles the job to produce and ship the T-shirts to customers. The quality of the product is based on Amazon and if the T-shirt has any defect from Amazon producing, the customer can return it. If so, your royalty of that sale will be deducted, along with a small amount for “returning fee”. This could possibly cause your royalty down below zero. Nonetheless, regardless the defect is from your side or Amazon, you’re the one have to pay for returning fee.

Final words on Merch by Amazon review

Merch by Amazon is the most popular Print-on-Demand platform. You can enter and work with as low-risked as possible. It’s all about design and seizing chances. Merch by Amazon is a market where you can sell your clothing design in the easiest and most effective way. You can research, forecast the trends, design, upload it to Amazon, run marketing and let it sell fast. It does not only make your brand become more famous, but also brings you a lot of money you desire. Merch by Amazon is low-risked, creative and fast money earning. It’s a good place for you to start your business. Good luck with your T-shirts 😀

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October is the month for Halloween, and people are preparing everything for the upcoming sale season. The last quarter of the year is always the best time for everyone to shop. Seize the chance, this time is the time to get rich for Merch by Amazon T-shirts!

First of all, there’s always be the Hot Calendar:

Merch by Amazon Design Inspiration

Taco Day - October 4th

Taco is one of the most favorite fast food of Mexican, and it was so good that American also love it. Taco has gone viral in American culture and partially become a significant choice for those who want a nice, unique and attractive meal. People love tacos, so they made up a day for Tacos, named Taco day. Wearing a Taco shirt, eating a Taco on the Taco day, magnificento!

Keywords you can use to lists on your products:

– Taco, tacos, taco day
– Mexican, Mexico
– Food, fast food

Currently, the best t-shirts for Taco day are here:

German - American Day on October 8th

The day for the two cultures: German and American can cross each other. People will be very interested in German’s beer, festival, American’s lifestyle, food and everything else.

Keywords you can use to list on your products:
– German, Germany, Germans
– America, American, Americans
– Beer, beers, prost, cheers

You can look into a few most successful T-shirt designs for this niche here:

International Day of the Girl - October 11th

We have International Women’s Day, and we also have the International Day of the Girl. Celebrate the day with your girlfriend, your daughter, sister, and your friends. Put on a T-shirt for Girls to show them how you love them and always get their back. This is an evergreen niche which fast-selling in the whole year, and this time is the right time to rocket the sales!

Keywords you can use to list on your products:
– Girl, girls, baby girl
– Daughter, sister
– Girlfriend, friend

The most successful T-shirt designs for this niche are:

International Sloth Day - October 20th

Sloth, the slow, lazy, heavily moving creature, has been the topic of thousands designer to draw T-shirts about. Due to its iconic laziness, people are likely to buy T-shirts about sloths, because once wearing one, they will feel more comfortable. At least, they’re not the only one on this Earth that being lazy haha!

Keywords you can use to list on your products:
– Sloth, sloths
– Lazy, laziness,
– Some other quotes about laziness
– “Bed”, seriously that one works

Below are the highest ranked T-shirts on Merch by Amazon:

US National Cat Day - October 29th

Cat is always a cut-but-sassy pet. The topic about cats is endless and you can easily create many many ideas, unique, attractive and humorous. Moreover, you can take many variations such as furry, kitten, kitty, etc.

Keywords you can use to list on your products:
– Cat, cats
– Kitty, kitten,
– Paw, paws, furry
– “Purr”fect, Pizza cat, Tacocat, 

There are some of the designs sold really well via Merch by Amazon here:

Halloween - October 31st

It’s time for the best niche for Merch by Amazon in October: Halloween. This niche, every year, sells fast like a tornado. Every idea, every phrase about Halloween could be a rocket for your sales. It’s super effective and draws very many many attraction. To stay ahead of everyone else, SpyAMZ offers you the FULL database of Halloween t-shirts for you only. From that, you can learn the very best of all other’s t-shirts and make one perfect Halloween designs.

Keywords you can use to list on your products:
– Halloween
– Ghost, ghosts, evil, sorcerer,
– Scream, devil, witch, demon,
– Monster, mummy, T-rex,
– Pumpkin, “Trumpkin”

We proudly give you the full database of Halloween T-shirts:

Bolster your sales with the hottest events in October!

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Amazon Marketing Services – Get success with Amazon https://spyamz.com/amazon-marketing-services-get-success-with-amazon/ https://spyamz.com/amazon-marketing-services-get-success-with-amazon/#respond Thu, 30 Aug 2018 07:37:46 +0000 https://spyamz.com/?p=3244 Amazon Marketing Services – or AMS you must have heard. This newly service of Amazon gives you tons of potential...

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Amazon Marketing Services – or AMS you must have heard. This newly service of Amazon gives you tons of potential opportunities to get success with Amazon in general, and Merch by Amazon in specific. In short, it’s like a mini-version of Google Ads, but better. While Google Ads run on Google.com itself and many, many more places within millions of webs, Amazon Marketing Services run on Amazon only, not only texts but also pictures included, and the effectiveness is not so far behind. Let’s dive deeper into the detail.

What is Amazon Marketing Services?

Amazon Marketing Services is a Marketing System which allows you to run and targeted ads to reach specific range of audiences/customers. It also bases on keyword searched, CPC (Cost per click), budgets, and your visual assets (pictures, images). These ads will trigger when the customer search for something on Amazon via the search engine. Sounds simple, pretty much like Google Ads. Every month Amazon has millions of traffic, and with Amazon Marketing Services, you can make some good use of them. Luckily, it’ve just launched for Merch by Amazon either, which mean if you currently are a Merch by Amazon content creator, you can join the Amazon Marketing Services program. However, not that everyone can access Amazon Marketing Services at once. Same as Merch by Amazon, you will need to wait for approval to get in. Hurry up and register it right now here:

Start Amazon Marketing Services

What’s good to join Amazon Marketing Services?

First of all, you can legally run ads and target your specific customer range on Amazon. We all know that the amounts of Amazon customer is huge and we can direct them to our products. So your first benefit always is increase in your product sales and conversions. The effectiveness, it’s up to your content and your budget.

Second, you will have the access to the Amazon searched keyword system, at least a part of it. Amazon won’t show you the whole board, like Cost-per-click (CPC), Impressions, Conversion Rate (CR), Volume, Clicks, etc. They will only suggest you the most effective, most relevant keywords to your campaign, your ads and contents. Also, a suggested bid is coming along. Thus, you can have a bigger picture of Amazon Market, and quit the Keyword guessing game (so tired of that game tbh). This not only improves the efficiency of your ads, but also is the material which you can use to improve your listing for your own products. Imagine you are running ads with these keywords and also on your products also was optimized using the same ones, your listing and your ads will surely appear of the top search page for any targeted customers!

There is more! Amazon Marketing Services can also give you other similar products on the platform, let you learn, adapt and improve yourself. I know they are your rivals, but you can learn from them to do better than them. It’s time to dominate the market!

Also, the Amazon Marketing Services is very budget-friendly. It gives you periodic business report and help you evaluate the efficiency and tweak your campaigns to meet your needs. You have the control of your budget threshold at anytime, even the running ads. And Amazon only charges you when customers clicked or interacted with your ads. Moreover, it gives you an user-friendly, simple yet awesome dashboard to have the best overview on all of your campaigns. With this, you can completely control everything: observe impression, CR, sales, add or remove keywords, adjust bidding or budgets, etc.

What’s the drawback?

Time, the first thing that holds you back is time, surprisingly not money. Why? Because same as Merch by Amazon, you will need to enter a hell of registrations, document verification, and finally: the Approval from Amazon. It could take a few days if you’re lucky enough. Or weeks, or months, even a year sadly that’s the truth. So clearly you will be being held back by time.

The second thing: Your wallet, your budget, your money. The “campaign budget starts at just $100”. Well that’s what I’ve heard, and I doubt that you cannot reduce your budget lower that this milestone. It’s not a big deal for a corporation or big businesses, but for the smaller one that’s could be troublesome. Well, it’s up to you to run it or leave it. Your call, pals.

Some people got in and already talking about, we can stay tuned for more updates while this game becomes more popular.

Final words

Amazon Marketing Services has opened a gateway for all user of Merch by Amazon to advertise their own stuffs on Amazon with campaign, ads and keywords optimization. This is a huge chance for all Merch by Amazon users out there to promote their on T-shirts in the most effective way. The Most Effective Way. It also help you with listing, keywords and give you a quick view on Amazon keyword data. However, it does not cost cheaply and it will take a while to be invited in. Start your request today and get in the program as soon as possible!

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August is passing by with many potential niches like Back to school, Big Foot, or the US President Donald Trump. This August also is the time for the return of many ball leagues like Premier League or NFL. This means we have many Fantasy League to join in. The upcoming September promises to bring more and more potential trends which we can extract and get sales! Let’s step ahead of the curve and find which niche is worth invest in?

First of all, there’s always be the Hot Calendar:

Merch by Amazon Design Inspiration

US Labor Day - September 3rd

The day of US Labor, celebrates the hardwork and contribution of everyone, encourages and motivates people keep moving forward. This is also a potential niche with quite high ranked t-shirts on Merch by Amazon market.

Patriot Day - Remember the September 11th

No one can forget that tragic day, the collapse of the Twin towers of World Trade Center, seized thousands of lives. Every year, people in the US hold many memorial occasions, to remember who had fallen, and to fight and stand against terrorism.

Keywords you can use to list on your products:
– Patriot
– Remembrance
– 9/11, 911, 9-11
– Sept 11
– Never forget
– 343 (343 fightfighters had fallen in the tragic event)
– Memorial

You can look into a few most successfull T-shirt designs for this niche here:

US Grandparents Day - September 9th

You must have known about the success of the Family niche. Family niche is also an evergreen niche which can get sales at all time of the year. This’s why we all need a t-shirt for that niche. Especially, we have many many celebrated days for this niche: May’s Mother Day, June’s Father Day and Parents’ Day, and now we have Grandparents Day in September. There are a lot of people love wearing a T-shirt talked about their family’s member.

Keywords you can use to list on your products:
– Grandpa
– Grandma
– Granddad
– Grandmom
– Grandparents
– Gift

The most successful T-shirt designs for this niche is:

Mexican Independence Day - September 16th

US’s neighbor, who successfully influenced their culture into Americans, it’s our lovely Mexico. In this upcoming September 16th, Mexico is going to celebrate one of their biggest day: The Independence Day, and I believe it would be amazing!

Keywords you can use to list on your products:
– Mexico
– Mexican
– Independence Day
– Pride
– Celebrate

Below are the highest ranked T-shirts on Merch by Amazon:

International Day of Peace - September 21st

The United Nations has selected September 21st to be the International Day of Peace, celebrating the invaluable of Peace, encouraging people to work together, bring peace to the mother Earth for a brighter future.

Keywords you can use to list on your products:
– Peace, peaceful
– Love, make love not war
– Equality, equal
– Kind, kindness

There are some of the designs sold really well via Merch by Amazon here:

Oktoberfest - Starting from September 22nd

Beer is a very popular drink around the world, especially for men. We drink beer when happy, sad, or for nothing. And it’s gonna be more fun if we drink together! How about a FESTIVAL, with FULL of BEER? Yes I’m talking about Oktoberfest, held annually in Germany, being the biggest Beer festival in the world. German beer is also known to be the best beer on Earth. Oktoberfest will start in September 22nd and last until the first half of October.

Keywords you can use to list on your products:
– Beer, drink beer, beer drink
– Oktober
– Oktoberfest, Oktoberfest
– Beer lover, beer lovers, love beer
– Beer-rific
– Beer-tastic

Look at some notable designs for Beer, shall we?:

Bolster your sales with the hottest events in September!

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July is coming through, and August is coming up. Last month, the Merch by Amazon market is stormed by FIFA World Cup with the champion’s title belonged to France. This August, will there be another storm coming?

First of all, the Hot calendar of this August:

Design Inspiration

Watermelon Day - August 1st

Love for watermelon is infinite. This little superior cute melon with red and green color can always attract many people. You will stand out of the crowd with a watermelon shirt. In general, this niche is an evergreen one, you can harvest it all year. However, the best season for it is Summer, when people’re likely to wear colorful t-shirts with attractive, cute designs.

International Beer Day - August 5th

This niche had some several items which have been live and sold well on Amazon. People love beers, everyone loves beers. You can gather your friends for beers, or enjoy the solitude while drinking alone. It’s nice to have a t-shirt about beer accompanied with you. Check out some hottest designs for Beer right here:

National Sisters' Day - August 7th

This is a day to acknowledge the joy and love that your sister brings into your life and to make sure that she knows that you cherish all that she does for you. Not only for your siblings, but also for your friends, your besties, soul sisters. A group of sisters can go shopping, travel together, love and help each other through struggles. Once sisters, forever sisters. Celebrate your sisterhood with others and get some design ideas about sisters here:

Lazy day - August 10th

There is one thing that people love to to: doing nothing. Laziness is not only an art, but also a topic which the Merch seller had been extracting it for a long time. This is also an evergreen niche. There are many good ideas about Laziness, let’s check them out below and get yourself a lazy shirt!

MTV's Video Music Award - August 21st

Thí is one of the most biggest awards from MTV, gather all the celebs from entertainments industry to attend. This promises to be an exceptional show with many awesome performances and the awards for the greatest Video Music 2018.

Dog Appreciation Day - August 26th

Dogs always are the best friends of human. Myself is a dog lover, I always wanted to have a t-shirt about my dog and play with my pet on that day. To be honest, dogs have more emotions than we’ve ever imagined. Let’s check out on the designs about dogs right here:

Boost your sales with hot designs of August here

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Do you want just only a half of the picture, or the complete picture of the Merch market?

Hello everyone, towards us the merchants of Merch by Amazon, it’s compulsory, important, extremely necessary to research the market and aware of every aspect of it. In every war, it’s not that guns and ammo or fighting jet are the best weapons, but Information is. You have the intel, you win the war. So, how do we get the intel and how can we get it best? The answer is Merch by Amazon research tools. We all know that the biggest tool in the industry is Merch Informer, and our SpyAMZ had just entered the market unknowingly. Most of the reviews and feedbacks are the price is way too higher than Merch Informer. It’s true, we have no reputation but charged for that high, our trusted score will be incredibly low. Therefore, today I will show you the differences between Merch Informer vs SpyAMZ. I will completely be honest in this post about the strengths and weaknesses of both, not gonna flatter our own tool. I just want to prove that SpyAMZ worths $99/month.

The same in the two

Both of the tools provide useful search, latest items, and data of Merch by Amazon items. Therefore, users can easily navigate and manage the data to find the most suitable keywords x designs for themselves. Not only that, the two tools also give users the ability to avoid trademarks with TM checking/alerts. The nicest thing is the data of Top Bestseller items. Learning from the successors is one of the best ways in Merch.

Did you run out of idea? SpyAMZ and Merch Informer can give you some advice and suggestion over keywords by Analytics and Finder. If you love something, they can also help you bookmark the items and observe its change by providing detailed data and useful charts. No place for handy record anymore, they both run everything and track down stuff even while you are sleep. Also, they both provide image resizer for your artwork and design, saving lots of time.

The Differences

The Designs

The first thing I want to make clear is the design of these two. After logging in, Merch Informer brings you to the dashboard which contains all their professional tutorial videos. While SpyAMZ brings you to the statistic page where displays all the numbers about Merch by Amazon market today.

In my opinion, Merch Informer set up their items in rows will reduce the numbers of T-shirts observed and the designs on the T-shirts are pretty small to see. While SpyAMZ removed the T-shirt frame and just capture the design only, put them in a grid layout and emphasized the rank changes.

Merch Hunter

This is the most important part of every Merch by Amazon Research tool. This listed all the bestselling items via Merch by Amazon.

Merch Informer divided into many tabs: Merchant Search, Merch Hunter, Trend Hunter.

SpyAMZ integrated them all in to 1 tab only: Products

Merch Informer

Good: Search for all the lowest Best Seller Ranked items. Easy to search and exclude keywords by adding (-) before the words. The search page stays the same, with Results Data, Last Searches, Actions, Keywords Count, and Bestseller items on Merch by Amazon.

You can also check for rank change graphs when click on the item’s actions.

Bad: Poor rank filter, no time filter, no product types filter, no Official/Unofficial, Alive/Dead/All filters. No Sudden BSR increase filter. Doesn’t display the dead T-shirts. The only way to find dead T-shirts is to search for that item exactly. And the dead T-shirts has nothing to distinguish from the alive ones. No Save Query feature for better search each day.

It doesn’t show the items automatically, you will have to press Search to have items displayed. The ranks of Merch Informer is not emphasized, hard to recognize. No rank change indicator, no rank change percentages. The result was limited to top 1000.

My personal opinion about the Row Layout of items: it’s hard to see the design, hard to observe the whole results, to much abundant information which can be hidden. There’s no option to change into Grid Layout.

Merch Informer doesn’t have single detailed page for their items, the link will lead to Amazon product page instead.

With this limitation of the search feature, Merch Informer only provides a half of the picture.

SpyAMZ

Good: Advanced filter: Time, Rank, Product Types, Official/Unofficial filter, Keyword Exclude, Status filter. You can display Alive, Dead or All (Alive + Dead) T-shirt in the Products tab. You can exclude items from Official brands (Marvel, Disney, Star Wars, Shane Dawson,…) to avoid confusion.

SpyAMZ contains many preset: Trends, Best Seller Rank, Sudden BSR Increase, Date first available, etc. You are free to filter and shrink the search pool. The result is unlimited.

For example, you can search for “Unicorn” T-shirts that don’t have “Birthday”, Ranked from 1 to 200,000, first available within a month, Unofficial, and Alive only. You can search for Has all word,  At least 1 word, Same order or Match phrase, up to you.

Greater than that, you can save this search query and you can check back tomorrow, if you save queries with time filter like 1 week, the date period will auto move to the day of exact 1 week, not a fixed date. Therefore, you can easily check SpyAMZ everyday with your super creative complex queries.

The ranks of SpyAMZ was colorized: Green for up, Red for down. It also has the rank changes percentage next to it. Also, the number of search results is unlimited. If you do not enter any search criteria, it will show you the whole 10M+ T-shirts database.

You can switch between Grid layout and Rows layout. Click on the image to show the detailed board with graphs for the items. Click on the name of the item will take you to the detail page of that items, including all information: Rank, price, types, brand, description, graph, similar design.

SpyAMZ has no limit in search, the results are always completely displayed for users, giving you the whole complete picture of Merch by Amazon.

Bad: No Trademark checking at the search page, no detailed results data, only results amounts, no reviews for items in the search pages.

Search Examples

I’ve made some search examples with both the tools and Merch Informer didn’t provide the full results as SpyAMZ did. The searches from Merch Informer always give limited or partially missing search results, causing data loss and inaccurate decision. Therefore, the trusted score of Merch Informer is not as high as SpyAMZ, for sure.

Searched for “Unicorn” products:
Merch Informer: 100 results
SpyAMZ: 65,282 results

Searched for “Daddy” products:
Merch Informer: 100 results
SpyAMZ: 35,663 results

Searched for “Disney” merchant:
Merch Informer: 16 results
SpyAMZ: 3,541 results

Searched for “Marvel” products:
Merch Informer: 178 results
SpyAMZ: 4,414 results

Merchant search

Merch Informer has a separate tab for Merchant Search, while SpyAMZ integrated this right in the big Products tab. The results amounts of SpyAMZ is WAY BIGGER than Merch Informer’s. For example, I searched for Disney on Merch Informer, only 15 results. Meanwhile on SpyAMZ, there are 548 Disney Merch by Amazon T-shirts.

Same as the search below, I searched for Marvel brand in both the tools. To search for brands in SpyAMZ, type “brand: XXX” (XXX is the brand, you don’t need to hit Enter, SpyAMZ will auto search when you’re done typing).

Good: Merch Informer provides a full detail of results data, last search, and some other actions. They display the items in rows, with full details, price, rank, ASIN, description, and all the actions with the item (Mark for favorites, Trademark checking, details with graphs, Report infringement). They even display keywords counts in search results.

Bad: Merch Informers row layouts will reduce the observing efficiency of users, reduce their visions on overall items. Some data and information are not so necessary to display, taken too many places. The Results amounts are pretty low, only 16 items for Marvel.

Good: SpyAMZ provides the result amounts, friendly organized and easy-to-track layouts, and many filters for you to shrink the search pool. The rank was marked with green or red to show the changes. The result amounts were also displayed on the top right corner.

You can use many filters and query to shrink the search pool and find yourself the best designs. If you are looking for details of each product, simply click on the image, it will show you all of it, including ranking graphs. SpyAMZ provides 586 results in Marvel search, way larger than Merch Informer. The result also is not limited.

Bad: No action to check trademark right at the search page, no Report Infringement feature. No keywords count in the search page.

Product Search

Merch Informer

Good: Same as Merchant search, they provide results data, last searches, keyword counts and items in rows. Fully detailed with descriptions, ranks, price, reviews, etc. The search box has a drop-down to suggest keywords and phrases. You’ll have actions like mark favorite, check TM, report infringement.

Bad: Result limited at 100 items, no filters for the search pool. The row layouts again limited our visions and observations. No ASIN search available.

SpyAMZ

Good: The grid layouts, the advanced filters. You can also search for ASIN, Phrase, keywords with many search mode: Has all words, At least 1 word, Same order, or Match phrase. If you don’t like the Grid layout, you can change to the Row layout on the top right corner. There’s no limit in the search results.

Bad: No dropdown for search suggestion, no reviews, no Trademark checking at the search page, no last searches.

Trend Hunter

Merch Informer

Good: It provides you Movers and Shakers, the tracker that find any item has its rank rises suddenly dramatically. Also, Merch Informer does have display mode: Daily, Weekly and Monthly. Each row has its own ranking graph, product reviews, basic information (ASIN, Price, BSR)

Bad: Limited 500 search results, hard to see the designs, no advanced filter for the trending items, no mark to indicate which one is trending.

SpyAMZ

Good: SpyAMZ integrated this right into the product tabs, named Sudden Increase and Trends preset.

The Sudden Increase items are the ones that have rank risen dramatically, like 90% – 99%.  This filter only considers rank rising percentage.

The Trending items are the ones that have the lowest BSR, and the rank has risen more than 20%. This is like the Sudden Increase items but also consider the lowest BSR. All the trending items ranked < 100,000 will have a lightning mark. You can easily recognize the latest trend on Amazon by searching for Trending items + time filter 1 week + rank < 100,000.

If you like graphs, switch to Row layout or click on the image, it will show up. SpyAMZ also provides unlimited results.

Bad: No Daily, Weekly, Monthly scale, no results data and other indicators.

Favorite

Merch Informer

Good: Categorized Favorites, where you can select a category to display your bookmarked items within that category, You can change, rename, or delete the category. Also, it’s possible to move an item to another category.

Bad: No option for Category description, nowhere to store notes about those items saved under the category.

The Favorite marking process is quite complicated, you will have to go back to any search page, tick on the heart at the end of the item row. After you’re done clicking, you will have to scroll up and press the big button Add to favorites and choose a category for it.

Merch Informer doesn’t allow an item to be under multiple categories.

SpyAMZ

Good: Very easy to bookmark your favorites. Just go to the Products tab, hover to the image and click the red “Save” button. It will show you the list of the categories and you can tick on multiple. You can also create a new category right there

SpyAMZ Favorite categories have a field for description, you can also change the name and description any time.

Bad: No option to delete a category

Keywords

Merch Informer

Good: Including keywords on CafePress and Etsy, Google analytics indicators (Search volume, CPC, Competition). Has the feature to save keywords into favorite and let you track them later.

Bad: You will have to search for the keywords manually. There’s no option to show the most popular keywords in Merch by Amazon. No ranking range filter, merely to check competitive rate of keywords.

SpyAMZ

Good: Automatically show the most popular keywords on Merch by Amazon, listed the counts, has the rank range filter. You’re also able to search for keywords and found their counts.

SpyAMZ archives all the keywords status each day so you can easily change the date to the past to watch the older version of most popular keywords.

Bad: No advanced analytics indicators, no option to save keywords to track them later.

Trademark Checking

Merch Informer

Good: Indicator Safe (v) or Not Safe (x) with colorized. It checked for the whole phrase and have details button leading to the trademark checking site. All your searched phrases will be stored and you can delete it anytime. It also has the option for bulk checking trademarks (in case you want to update the status of the trademark license)

Bad: The process once again is pretty complicated. You will need to enter all of your search terms, separated by “Enter” then save them all. Then, you will hit the bulk Check Trademark button to check them all, including the old and new ones.

Merch Informer does not search for Trademarks in words separately, only the whole phrase, without trademark types.

Merch Informer uses Trademarkia to check trademarks

SpyAMZ

Good: Easy to search by just hit the search terms in and it will automatically display below. All your search will be stored and let you compare, or check them later.

SpyAMZ search for the whole phrase, partial phrase, and words separately, giving you the best result on Trademark checking. The terms are displayed in colors (Green and Red).

Click on the stored terms will bring you a window to lead you to Trademark checking site

It will have notifications if you have any unchecked Trademarked terms. SpyAMZ also have the feature to let you check the terms again, and let you know types of trademarks.

Bad: No option for bulk Trademark checking.

SpyAMZ uses the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) service to check trademarks

Additional Exclusive Features

Merch Informer:

  • Advanced Competition checker: Check the competitive rate of a keyword or phrase, including Results Data, rated score and related bestsellers.
  • Listing Optimizer: Check the efficiency of an item’s listing, including title, brand, bullet points analytics based on keywords. Also a synonym suggestion for keywords. In listing optimization checker, it won’t show up the design or name or any detail of the item, just a checker whether or not the keyword appeared in fields.
  • Merch Archive: Merch Informer stored all the order, status of all items and let people access those data in the later date.
  • Keyword Cloud: Same as Merch Archive, but stored Keywords instead of Items.
  • Merch Academy: where the successors with Merch by Amazon teach and advice newbies, share tips to learn and grow with MBA. To be exact, this feature contains 5 – 6 premade youtube videos guiding about MBA.
  • Merch Designer: A completed system for you to draw like Photoshop, stored in layers, provides a clip art library, free draw, and undo feature. You can design T-shirts, Hoodies, and PopSockets.
  • Merch Informer Lister: a newly added Chrome extension letting you upload and submit your designs to Merch by Amazon faster
  • Mobile app: Yes Merch Informer does have a mobile app.
  • Download CSV: Merch Informer let you download Favorite Categories, Keywords of Advanced Competition Checker.

SpyAMZ:

  • Events: letting you know all the upcoming events, including details, places, types, date and time, with other related designs for that events. You can search for more about the event by clicking “More Products”
  • Statistics: SpyAMZ is always proud to be the LARGEST T-shirt database on Earth (10 MILLION and rising each hour). With the search results always overwhelmed compared to Merch Informer, you can search and spy for any T-shirt with SpyAMZ. At this tab you can see the total numbers of T-shirts, some other indicators like “Has rank”, “Updated today”, “New today”, “Deleted today” items.
    At the end of this tab, you can see the overall line chart about ranks and prices, pie charts for products types, overall stats for products by ranks.
  • Random: if you are run out of ideas, spamming this Random button would have some use. This Random button located at the Statistics tab.
  • Finding Similar Design: Next to any ASIN in the Products tab, there’s a magnifying glass icon, click on it and it will bring you all the relevant designs to the item you’ve chosen. The similar designs also appear within the single detailed page of any item on SpyAMZ.
  • Image resizer: this will crop, resize your artwork to fit with Merch by Amazon required image dimension (4500×5400 for t-shirts, 4500×4500 for hoodies) within a few seconds. You can also do bulk resizing for multiple items at a time.

Final words on Merch Informer vs SpyAMZ

Both the tools are great, each has its own strengths and weaknesses which can be improved.

However, the giant amount of data from SpyAMZ can give you the best picture, completely of Merch by Amazon with no limit, and the database is growing every hour. Meanwhile, Merch Informer limited the search results and didn’t have such that large database. When you searched with Merch Informer, many items were missing, this might bring you data loss, misleading and poor decision making.

People still wonder why SpyAMZ was that expensive. The answer is SpyAMZ can give you the unlimited possibilities, unlimited search sessions, unlimited results which are not be LIMITED (100, 500, 1000 like Merch Informer). Do you like a row layout with full T-shirt frame that you hardly see the designs and the ranks have no emphasized, or a grid layout with full design look and colorized ranks?

Moreover, Merch Informer just simply show the results, you can do nothing with the search results. While SpyAMZ can CUSTOMIZE the results, shrink it, filter it, put in criteria to help you find the expected results (Advanced search filters)

The point is, SpyAMZ was made to help the users to get ALL they want with just a glance, friendly, easy to watch and track. It’s all about bringing the happiness for users while browsing the tool, so the UI/UX of SpyAMZ is optimized at their finest. On the other hands, Merch Informer’s purpose is bringing as much information as possible to users, even some of them are not necessary enough to appear directly on the search page.

It’s true that Merch Informer did have many great features such as Advanced Competition Check, Listing optimizer, an Advanced Designer system to draw, Archive and Cloud.

While SpyAMZ also has Events, Statistic, Image resizer, Finding Similar Designs.

We all hope you will find your best niche and catch the latest trends while following the Merch game. The last call is up to you, pals. Wish all the best for you 👍👍👍

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How to understand better Amazon Best Sellers Rank https://spyamz.com/understand-amazon-bsr/ https://spyamz.com/understand-amazon-bsr/#comments Wed, 27 Jun 2018 09:42:01 +0000 https://spyamz.com/?p=2956 The Best Sellers Ranking, or BSR, of a product is a number that compares the sales of that product with...

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The Best Sellers Ranking, or BSR, of a product is a number that compares the sales of that product with the sales of other products in the same category, during a given amount of time.

This is the definition that I would most likely provide if I were asked to explain in a sentence what the Best Sellers Rank is. You will agree with me on saying that it is not a hard concept to get.

Basically there is a product that, based on its characteristics, fits into a category and based on its sales, it is compared to the other products of the same category. Then it gets a ranking score, that changes over time.

So why do so many people have problem in dealing with this Amazon parameter? The reason is that it is one of the aspects that Amazon sellers most frequently misunderstand either because they don’t know much about it in the first place or because they know what it is but they don’t know how to use it properly.

This article is being written with the goal of shedding light on such a controversial topic, in order to help you to get more people to your page and therefore to get more sales and eventually more money!

The first thing to remember is that the BSR is updated every few hours, so you continually have to play the “game” in order to always be on top of the list.

Amazon is a fast changing market that depends on many factors; one day you could be on top of the listing and the day after you find out that you have slid back of thousands of positions… this is what happens when the ranking is updated continuously. When you make a lot of sales, for example, you overshadow many other products but the same could be said about your competitors’ products. In case you don’t make enough sales you will need to find alternative ways to drive traffic to your listing and put you ahead of the competition again.

This leads us to the second point, which is: how to drive traffic to your page? There are two ways to do it, you can:

  • Rely on the organic traffic and try to implement an effective keywords strategy in order for your products to show naturally on top of every list of its niches. This may require a lot of patience and time and therefore it’s very risky. Plus you’ll most likely end up not having the amount of traffic that you had hoped for because you can only hope that people somehow will find your products and buy them. It’s a little bit of a “out of people’s reach” thing, isn’t it?
  • Pay per click (PPC) on the other hand is quite effective but you have to pay in order to gain more traffic. By increasing your ranking temporarily, it gives you the chance to appear on the first pages displayed by Amazon. You will, therefore, be noticed and you will get more sales and more reviews. Once you have enough reviews to be considered reliable, you can stop the PPC campaign and rely on organic traffic from then on. So, even tough you have to pay for it and it adds costs to your selling, it also allows you to raise your BSR. And as I said before: you only want to run it until you have enough reviews.

Here is how it roughly works:

In this scenario, are reviews important for your sales ranking? They indirectly are. They don’t affect your ranking position but they are certainly the thing that the average customer relies the most on and they play a big role when it comes to customer decisions. Positive reviews lead to more sales, which lead to better ranking positions.

Which product would you trust better?!?

Be careful! You should know that the ranking is affected from the category that the product is in and it can change from a country to the other, meaning that a t – shirt that ranks a certain position in a country may not necessarily rank the same in other countries.

Also, a ranking that is considered great for a category may not be as good for another category because it is taken into consideration the total number of items in each category.

Have you noticed that most of the products have more than one ranking? this is done on purpose in order to reach as many niches as possible, even the smallest ones.

Take a look at this:

As you can see, the product has a different ranking based on the sub category that it is in. Every detail, when it comes to ranking, is important and to be able to interpret them is crucial for your business. All together they can have a huge impact on your success vs failure.

Since your product doesn’t stand on Amazon by itself but it is linked to other products in the same category, sometimes an increase in sales, which may seem beneficial for your ranking, might not mean an increase in BSR.

Here is an example: Let’s say that it’s Halloween and your niche sells t – shirts with black cats on them. Let’s say that the days before Halloween you see a dramatic increase in your sells. Keep in mind that your competitors are probably experiencing a boost in their sells as well! In this case unfortunately your ranking will not change much. An increase in sales alone many times is not enough to increase your sales rank. To increase your BSR your product must sell MORE THAN your competitors. This means that if your sales increase because of a seasonal trend, and therefore every t – shirt in your category faces an increase in sales, you might not see the ranking improvement that you hoped for.

It may also occur that your niche sells well only during certain times of the days. For example: “Good Morning t – shirts”…when are you most likely to think of those ones? Of course when you are having breakfast! You are in the kitchen, sipping your cup of coffee and suddenly you realise that you really need a freaking shirt with a coffee on it and a nice “morning quote” writing kind of thing. So you go ahead and buy it. There is no time during the day to think about it and you would not certainly think of it in the evening when you are out partying with friends or just regularly crushing in bed after a looong day, would you? The volume of sales of these products can be tricky because they can give you the impression that the niche is very popular on Amazon while maybe it is not the best niche to investi in.

My advice is to always try to monitor the niches and do some searches before jumping into them. There are many tools that can help you in doing this. Spy Amazon is one of the most promising MBA Design Database at the moment. It is updated every few hours and it is very simple to use. On the first page you will immediately be able to picture the best trends of the season and the designs that have the BSR. In addition, if you are looking for any specific niche, you can also do your search by using some keywords of your interest and so on. It is definitely worth a visit, and you can test in for free for 3 days!

And of course, when you find a profitable niche, put your best effort into your business to make the best out of it!

Keep in mind that timing is very important and the sells of today weight more than the sells of the day before or of a year ago. This is because Amazon knows that customers always want to be updated on what’s new and cool out there. So by using this logarithm, Amazon allows new items that maybe don’t have a long selling history, or don’t have it at all and therefore don’t display in the BSR, to rank well if they sell more today.

Also, it takes less sales to maintain BSR than to initially achieve it. Infact Amazon tends to favour the stability of sales instead of a dramatic surge over a short period of time. Needless to say that you should not try to buy your own products on Amazon in order to climb the sales ranking. Sudden increases quickly fade away and Amazon will still favour your competitors listings over yours.

To wrap it up:

The Amazon BSR can be defined as a “snapshot” because it is a picture of the situation at the moment that you check. It may be changed after a couple of hours because it depends on many different aspects, among which there are the number of recent sales, the number of units of items per purchase (it is not the same to have an order of one item versus to have an order of 10 items), the happening of particular festivities and the moment of the day.

 

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Hottest July events for Merch by Amazon https://spyamz.com/hottest-july-events-for-merch-by-amazon/ https://spyamz.com/hottest-july-events-for-merch-by-amazon/#respond Tue, 12 Jun 2018 09:22:44 +0000 https://spyamz.com/?p=2636 The post Hottest July events for Merch by Amazon appeared first on Merch by Amazon - SpyAMZ.

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 Summer has come, everyone is going for beaches, travelling, tour and enjoy the awesomeness of all the activities. And more, summer means there will be much more T-shirt demands, so Merch T-shirts will be easier to sell. It’s summer, everyone wants to be so stylish, beautiful to dive in Summer Paradise. Now, let’s see what events this July will bring us.

First of all, it’s always the Hot Event Calendar of the month:

Design inspiration

International Joke Day - July 1st 🙂

Your life might be a joke but Merch T-shirt will never be. With this niche, you can scale any kind of jokes, sarcasm, or some awesome quotes and hit it hard with the keyword JOKE. It definitely draws attentions and bring you sales. Also, you can mix it with other niches like father, dad jokes, fishing, etc.

US Independence day - July 4th

This, is gonna be shaking the whole Merch market. Because simply it’s US Independence Day 🙂 you can scale any type of US flag, map, geographic, or slogan that make US citizens interested. Below is some example t-shirts for this hot event:

Anime Expo - July 5th

An Expo for hundreds of Anime fan (aka Otaku) in Los Angeles this early July will certainly have many attentions from the Merch market. The Otaku force is not only many in numbers but also strong (literally). Therefore, they will have no hesitation to buy themselves Anime T-shirt to show off their proud of being Otaku.

US Parents' Day - July 22nd

You must be aware of the fever of Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, they were so hot! This niche has the same feature as those 2, promising to bring a lot of opportunity to rocket your T-shirt sales. Be ready to catch the trend and idea any time!

Video Games Day - July 8th

This niche is very potential with the quote: “I Paused my Game to be here”. The T-shirt can be scaled with many types of game controller or game quotes. You can see there’s one had mixed a game controller with US flag (US Independence Day niche). Reached rank 45K, this one is making a quite good business there. Not only US Independence Day, you can mix it with many other niches.

Canada Day - July 1st

The Day of Canada, a neighbor of the great America, and coincidently also a popular topic for Americans to talk about. Moreover, Canadians have a featured speaking, which ending sentences with “eh”. This niche is considered to be a potential niche for Merch seller to design for.

Rocket your sales with the hottest trends of July!

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