Amazon Merch Journey from $0 daily to 9 figures daily

loopline said:

There are others, like a pizza shop where you make less but every time they wear the tshirt in they get X dollars off

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By "they", you mean customers, correct?

plottsch said:

By "they", you mean customers, correct?

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Yes, sorry for being unclear. Im still ironing out a lot of this. Got the first business today, a pizza shop, that I can pitch it to.

So if it is a pizza shot for example, the pizza shop has it easy, they pay $250 to get setup, unless I waive it as a sales pitch etc.. Then they put a QR code on a business card, or their take out menu, maybe a link on their site or in a promotional email, whatever.

The shirt can be anything, it can be just of their pizza place, or it can mention the discount or whatever the owner wants. then the deal is whenever a customer wears the shirt in, they get $2 off a large pizza, or maybe its a free large drink with a large pizza or whatever, the owner probably knows what works, if they have run promos before.

So the play is from a marketing side as they wear the shirt around the pizza shop gets free adveritsing, also they get a constant reminder whenever the person sees the shirt in their wardrobe.

Then the pizza shop is also going to make an X dollar profit off of the shirt too.

So with traditional advertising they have to pay for the coupon to be made and then they have to pay to have it distributed then they have to take the loss and honor it.

With the tshirt they pay $250 to setup, but then thats it and then it can have residual effect for years, as long as the person owns the shirt. It can even be a 2018 shirt and in 2019 the customer has to buy a new shirt to get the discounts again, just like movie theaters and lots of other places do.

At any rate thats the idea, there are twists etc... but you get the point.

loopline said:

It can even be a 2018 shirt and in 2019 the customer has to buy a new shirt to get the discounts again

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Ahh, that clarifies things -- without a sunset on the time horizon, Bs would be bleeding cash.

I think my missing link has been the Ads man they are so cheap

You can try to upload more beautiful designs with a new account. If you can not find a place to buy you go to google search "merchmarket" ,search site has the .net where they sell new merch account

hard work always pays off. Good to see your got good conversions.

plottsch said:

Ahh, that clarifies things -- without a sunset on the time horizon, Bs would be bleeding cash.

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Yes, there needs to be a sunset. It could be around an event, or it could be a time frame base, something, but it needs to end. That way they need to buy another shirt. In 5 years the customers wardrobe looks like they are an employee of the buisness, lol.

awesomechamp said:

I think my missing link has been the Ads man they are so cheap

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Ads don't drive a lot of my sales, but its a bump. I think once your shirt sells and then the more it sells of course the higher it ranks, which of course then drives organic sales.

seosky said:

hard work always pays off. Good to see your got good conversions.

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Yeah the secret to getting rich quick is work, lol. You got it.

This is freaking awesome how in-depth this article is. I need go back and read it again to really absorb it. Thanks so much for sharing!

Larry Mattison said:

This is freaking awesome how in-depth this article is. I need go back and read it again to really absorb it. Thanks so much for sharing!

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Your welcome, glad you liked it!

Im still moving at a snails pace, been so focused on my other stuff.

My friend though is doing great. he has 300 shirts up and he hit 1 shirt of them that is doing great. Its selling 4-6 a day every day of it. So its possible, but its somewhat a numbers game on the retail side to find the shirts that are like that and then other shirts that trickle in.

Amazon Merch seems like the new Kindle (KDP). Hopefully you crack a couple designs to make it. I think 9 figures is entirely possible.

Floopa75 said:

Amazon Merch seems like the new Kindle (KDP). Hopefully you crack a couple designs to make it. I think 9 figures is entirely possible.

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Yeah, it seems like its going down that direction. The thing with merch is it could get much bigger then the Kindle deal and Germany and the UK are in the works as well, and Id guess it will just expand from there.

HAHA, if I make 9 figures a year Id be doing spectacular,

For amazon prime day Chriss Green is giving away all 5 of his kindle books for free. If your doing merch these are good to have Im sure, although I haven't read them yet.

Knowing Chris they are all probably several dollars if not $10 each, so its a good deal.

http://chris.green/

loopline said:

For amazon prime day Chriss Green is giving away all 5 of his kindle books for free. If your doing merch these are good to have Im sure, although I haven't read them yet.

Knowing Chris they are all probably several dollars if not $10 each, so its a good deal.

http://chris.green/

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Thanks for the tip!

Just a thought. What if you build a WordPress website with a unique name and domain? Use a local printer or print on demand sites like Printifull. Of course, you wouldn't have Amazon's traffic, but your profits would be a lot higher and you would be building a brand at the same time. I have a Merch By Amazon account but wondering which direction to go.

I will do both.

Hey OP, congrats and good luck to your journey.
I am in india, can i do merch?
If yes, than what things do i need to start.

jefis said:

Thanks for the tip!

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your welcome, cheers!

visualtechm said:

Just a thought. What if you build a WordPress website with a unique name and domain? Use a local printer or print on demand sites like Printifull. Of course, you wouldn't have Amazon's traffic, but your profits would be a lot higher and you would be building a brand at the same time. I have a Merch By Amazon account but wondering which direction to go.

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Sure, I mean if this plays out well over time and I get well into it, then I will do that. There is a play with printful and still selling on amazon, also Etsy is quite a good place, and you can do other POD places or a shopify store. you could find your own local printshop as well, some people do that.

Everything outside of amazon though requires 2 things that amazon merch does not

1 - you have to do customer service.

2 - you don't have amazons traffic.

What you do get that you don't get with amazon is

1 - higher margins

2 - more freedom to go faster and do more of what you want

3 - the ability to add products that amazon merch doesn't currently let you do, like coffee mugs or hats etc...

4 - the data of the customer so you can remarket to them and build a brand.


I have zero time to do customer service and/deal with other stuff, so amazon does it all, but at a premium cost. However for me the play is amazon or nothing, because I simply don't have time to do those other things.

That said, I already have a site with shirts up and I do drive some traffic there, so I can remarket a little. Further I want to start running contests, that way I get a mail list going, and can build a brand and have at least "potential" customer info and still sell on amazon, so a bit of the best of both worlds anyway.

Its give and take, but right now the others can't be a play due to time constraints.

visualtechm said:

I will do both.

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Good luck.

sexyaf said:

Hey OP, congrats and good luck to your journey.
I am in india, can i do merch?
If yes, than what things do i need to start.

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I don't know, you would have to check with merch. I know when you sign up they do ask you what country your bank account is in, and I know of non US citizens that are living in other countries that do merch. I also know that down the track they are supposed to be bringing merch to Germany and the UK, if I recall properly. So they may well open it up to more people if you can not do it now.

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As for general updates, its slow for everyone right now. Sold 1 shirt in the past 7 days. The other 2 people I collaborate with are way down. 1 has sold a small number of shirts in the past week and the other has sold none.

The merch community reports it being slow right now as well.

Thats likely why amazon does prime days in July because they need to boost sales in July because its just slow and everyone has said that it is going in.

As we hit 4th quarter thats where the lions share of the action is.

So right now I am honestly not even doing a lot as Im growing my contact form marketing business.


But Im doing a little and I want to keep at it as we move towards 4th quarter.

On the side note, my wife started doing Create Space, which is "kind of" "sort of" a little bit like merch in so much that its print on demand, but you do journals and something else. Its also thru amazon but the approval process is instant and you can start instantly and there is no limit (at this time) to what you can upload.

But its considerably more complex then merch and just different all together.

I may do create space too at some point but merch is bearly in the cards at the moment. All in good time.

My goal is to have a liveable income from merch by the end of 2020, so it just takes time. Ebb and Flow.

So Ive not been working on this hard, working on my other stuff hard and letting merch idle mostly.

Have T 500 and 263 designs up. About 100 of those are pop sockets, and sold my first pop socket yesterday.

Today I got other markets, UK and Germany. So interested to see how that plays out. Thus far amazon has been migrating your most popular designs and sales to UK and Germany markets for you, so Im going to set on my hands for a few days and do nothing and see what happens.

Any updates?

Been a minute since I updated eh?

So Ultimately I started this with 1 other friend and a 3rd joined in shortly there after.

I ultimately pretty much abandoned it due to I don't have time and I have other ventures that make more money for the time spent.

however my wife has picked it up now and is just getting going. So the past 2 days we sold 7, which is super high, as it was about 1 a week given I was doing zero work.

Ive sold about 160 items total since I started.

My 1st friend made $600 last month and is on track to do between $600 and $800 this month. He is off hiking havasupai and won't be back till late tonight so Im not sure where he is.

The 2nd friend is trending about the same $500 to $700 for this month.

At this point we are about 1 year and 4 months in. So my 1st and 2nd friend still work on it regularly although they have ups and downs, part of why they do it as they both have full time deals, families etc...

But overall its nice income for them and Im confident a year from now if my wife sticks with it and all goes well she can be in the same range. Probably faster as I already have some shirts that sell sometimes in my account and its at T500 so it saves her 2 or 3 months of getting going on it.

We might try some fathers day promotion. Marketing is what I do well and so if I can get shirts from the 3 of them together listed on a site, I can market it, and take an amazon affiliate commission on any sales and my wife and 2 friends can make sales and everyone wins. Its not really profitable for me to spend my time there, but its my wife and friends, so what are you going to do? lol

So its going well I think.

I dont' recall exactly what last Christmas was for my friends but I believe they did over $1500 in Dec and a good bit in Nov. So hopefully this 4th quarter is good for everyone.