As I've mentioned on Steemit before, I'm loving Amazon Merch. I upload my t-shirt designs, Amazon does all the hard work, and I get paid. However, I'm only earning about $200 a month. But my friend, Dan O'Donnell, has been "Merching" for 3 months more than me and is making over $1000 per month on the platform.
So I caught up with Dan in Phuket, Thailand, and got him to sit down and tell me his secrets.
So, how do you make money on Merch?
Here are a few pointers about the above interview.
The more you upload, the more you learn
It's baffling, boring and frustrating at the beginning so you've got to get over that initial hump. Upload to other POD (Print on Demand sites) to get a taste for the t-shirts: Sunfrog, Redbubble, Zazzle, Cafepress, Teespring, Spreadshirt, Teepuplic. That's in the order of importance.
These designs do well:
- Distressed designs
- Light, colorful designs on dark shirts
- Silhouettes
- High contrast colors
- Active, action "characters"
However, don't stress on the above, just keep at it
Keep uploading to Amazon. If you can't upload there, upload on the other sites!!
Don't overthink things
This is a perfect online business in many ways. It doesn't cost you anything. So you may as well do it.
Isn't Dan a nice guy?
Here he is: Dan's YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/user/twizzler3b/
Search for Dan's podcast: OD on Life.
Useful resources (search for the following on Google and Facebook):
Elaine Heney http://www.merchentrepreneur.com/
Jacob Topping
Lisa Irby https://passiveshirtprofits.com/
Great load of tools:
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I checked my account after your last post, still waiting to be approved. Hopefully they'll let me in soon.
Glad you and your buddy are doing well with it! When do they pay you? Is there a long period between each one like with KDP (Kindle Publishing) or is is more month-to-month?
"Payments go out approximately at the end of the following month." That's what they say. Tbh, I haven't even been checking as the payments so far have been very small. If it goes up to $1000/month for me, I'll start noticing! Similar to KDP, I guess. Best of luck with Merch, @futuristgear, remember to keep checking! :)
Yep that sounds similar to Kindle, Cool!
I'm still getting this:
Gives me more time and incentive to get my own stores going I guess. :-)
Ahh, it's so frustrating. Yes, upload to RedBubble and the other sites while you're waiting. You get invaluable experience. (But you won't make much money lol).
Yep, sure is!
I've done that, had a pretty good month with RB last pay period.
Currently working on adding CoinPayments to my own stores too, so I'll be able to accept crypto. :-)
Double wow. You're doing well on RB and you're gonna be accepting cryptos!! Is this on RB? I get like one sale a month there :)
Yep! I couldn't live off of it alone or anything, but I'm getting pretty consistent sales on there.
The Crypto payments is only on my own stores (sadly). I'm going to be using this: https://www.coinpayments.net/ so hopefully that works well. :-)
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Great post Rob. Very informative!
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