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Jay,
It’s a separate Amazon account that you have to apply for separately. You can sell custom designed items that are print on demand. Tee shirts are the main thing sold there I believe.
It takes time to learn the process but once you sell a shirt it will stay up presumably indefinitely and you get the royalties on every sale.
We sell on merch as well, but just got accepted and only have 10 designs up. We’ve sold a couple, but you really have to promote the shirt off of Amazon to drive traffic. We haven’t started trying to do that yet.
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Sorry for the late reply. I’m a totally newbie at it but I watch a lot of great YouTubers who vlog about it. Texas Gal Treasures is who got me started. She doesn’t do much marketing at all and I definitely don’t. I’m sure she adds them to Pinterest and Facebook maybe but I don’t even do that. People do find them organically as long as your keywords are good and amazon gives you a good rank. I actually don’t do a lot of trending shirts because there’s too much competition and there’s always people who can design better and faster. I do a lot of simple text designs. You save them as a png file and some other pic requirements amazon asks for. But it’s free to upload and you can set your own price and pic shirt colors and edit and delete your shirts as you go. It’s great when your on a lower tier like I am right now of 25. The next tier is 100 then 500 then it’s by invite (whatever that means). It takes forever sometimes to get accepted in but once your in you just need to upload something once to stay active. I didn’t realize it the first time and lost my account. I begged to be let back in but nope. Finally they went thru and mass re-posting people who they previously deactivated. It’s fun. You don’t really need any experience. I have Photoshop but I’m not good at it. I know people who just use pic monkey. You just need transparent backgrounds. They pay you once a month. I encourage everyone to give it a go. Just read the fine print and learn about trademarks and don’t copy anyone’s exact design.
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Merch
https://merch.amazon.com/landing
Texas Gal Treasures hosts a weekly merch talk with other youtubers. This one had her sister on it who just got started so she was asking a lot of newbie questions.She sells on eBay too which is how I first found her. I’m pretty sure she knows about you guys.
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Jay, if you found a way to get paid for bodily functions you’ve hit the gold mine!
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The profit depends on how much you sell your shirts for. I set mine at 17.99 each and it’s 5.49 in profit I think. I think Amazon has a flat 9.80 fee plus 15 percentage of the sale price. I just recall it’s 7 something for a 20 dollar shirt and nothing for an 11 dollar shirt. It’s good for padding your numbers I guess. My goal is not to create 1 shirt that sells a ton but get tiered up to where I can make a lot of shirt designs and have several sell once. Although luckily my second design sold 8 this month. It’s great because other than designing it you do nothing. No customer service, shipping, nothing.
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Just a follow up. I made 100 bucks last month on merch. It doesn’t sound like a lot but it’s basically passive income so I’ll take it. I moved up to the 100 tier so I’m able to upload more shirts now. If i get 40 more shirts to sell ill be bumped up to the 500 tier. It’s just pure organic searches that is getting me my sales. I don’t advertise anywhere although I probably should. I just don’t want to spam my friends with shirt links. I could make another account but then I’d have no friends to show them too and frankly I don’t like marketing. So I’ll take the extra income as it comes in naturally.
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