what is up guys and girls hurricane liz
here with an update video for you guys
on this video that i did i want to say
it was almost nine
months ago now that video was titled how
to make a hundred dollars a day selling
t-shirts on amazon
without any design ideas and it
currently works in 2020
the question to this video is does it
still work now
and if so can somebody really start
making money online using this method
using my absolute favorite place to
design
upload and sell t-shirts on and they
answer to the question might surprise
you
as well as some of the updated tactics
that you'll have to learn in order to be
able to sell
t-shirts in 2021 and beyond now before
we jump into that actual video i just
wanted to quickly introduce myself to
those you that don't know who i am i go
by the name of hurricane liz and i've
sold
millions and millions of dollars of
products on amazon not only fba
merch by amazon but also kdp and i've
also sold them off of amazon so in this
video i'm going to show you how i would
go about starting if i was brand
spanking you and looking to get on
amazon specifically with
t-shirts so without further ado let me
show you how i would go about starting
to make a hundred dollars a day selling
t-shirts online
by using the world's biggest site so
let's go to do this
all right so i'm sharing my screen here
and you'll see this is the video that
started it all
i didn't realize how popular this thing
would get but the reality is
people out there are really excited to
learn about how to make money
online from the comfort of their own
home and this technique is definitely
going to be a banger so you guys want to
definitely check this out now let me
talk about this much a lot of people
always ask liz what is the best platform
to sell t-shirts on
well i'm a little biased and that's
primarily because i've been selling on
amazon for
almost a decade now and the absolute
best
thing that i've seen ever in the history
of online marketing
is this giant that they call amazon and
the reason for that is we get to
leverage their traffic so we that means
that we get to use their buyers
at our disposal to try and get to buy
our products so
i know that didn't make sense but you'll
see here what i'm talking about in a
minute and so here we are this is merch
by amazon
it is pretty much a one-stop shop if
you're a t-shirt designer so let me
explain to you because one of the
biggest questions i got was
how does this work liz i still don't
understand how do i ship all this stuff
out
who creates the t-shirts for me and all
that good stuff well the reality is
is it's pretty simple after we sign up
for an account which i'm going to show
you the process here in a minute all
we've got to do
is we've got to design the t-shirt once
we get the t-shirt designed i'm going to
show you how we check to make sure it's
all
legal and we're not breaking any
trademarks and things of that nature now
i do remind you guys i'm not a lawyer so
you will want to check up with a lawyer
if you have any real doubts about
if your t-shirt is legal to sell or not
and what i mean by that
is don't infringe on somebody's copy
which means don't try and put the
simpsons on a t-shirt because that's
just not going to fly with amazon and
it's not gonna fly with the creators of
the simpson right you will probably get
a cease and desist and possibly even
have to pay some money but
once you get your design going all you
gotta do is upload the design to amazon
and then pretty much that's it from that
point forward you can decide
if you want to do additional promotions
to the product which i'll talk about in
another video
or you can just let it be a game of
numbers and what i mean by that
is that all you do is just design as
many possible designs as you can throw
out there
and allow amazon to handle all the rest
so what exactly does that mean
that means that amazon not only puts
this
t-shirt on their website but if somebody
clicks on that shirt and decides to buy
it
they will print the t-shirt for you they
will ship the t-shirt to the customer
for you
and they will fulfill any customer
service that is required of that t-shirt
from that point forward so what that
basically means is that all you have to
do
is design the t-shirt so i'm gonna go
ahead and show you the process now
for how to set up the account how to
prove to them that you are legit
ready to get started on your amazon
business because they only take serious
people so they only want action takers
and then how to check the shirt how to
upload the shirt and do all that good
stuff so let's go to jump into merch by
amazon here and i'll show you how to do
that okay so step one to get into merch
by amazon is you hit this button you hit
request invitation
and what it's going to require you to do
is log in so i'm going to show you what
it kind of looks like because i already
have several amazon accounts i don't
want to have to log into any of them and
i don't want to create a new one it's
going to look like this you sign in
with either an amazon account or you
create a brand new one right so i would
just create a brand new one to keep it
separate for everything that you have
because heaven forbid you want to sell
this in the future right and then you'll
begin
this application so here's what you're
going to need business contact
information bank account and social
security number or other tax
identification number
you hit begin application and this is
the screen you're hit with right here
okay so first and foremost we got to put
our business name if you don't have a
business name you put your actual legal
name
you put your address here you put the
city the state the postal code your
phone number
and then the email address that you're
going to want to use for this actual
account
that's it pretty simple right you hit
save and continue you go to the next
step
right here you request an invitation
form so right here it'll ask you for a
specific type of industry it'll say
something like artist or something that
nature
you hit the name of the organization it
could be your name again
and additional information now this is
the hack that most people
don't know now they'll just go and put
some quick blurb they won't even have a
website and then they'll type the
characters and hit send requests
what you want to do is you want to set
up a shop a free shop on a site like
teespring so for example
these are a couple t-shirts that i set
up on teespring i set this up right here
and what i did is i linked amazon to my
designs for these two t-shirts now
i'm not saying just do two i'm not
saying do the same thing that i did i'm
saying
throw up about five to ten different
designs on teespring and then
link it here in your actual application
so that when they ask you what is your
additional information
you can link one t-shirt here but you
can put here are some of my t-shirt
designs and write a small blurb about
yourself and what you are
wanting to do on amazon so again before
you start make sure you already have
some sample t-shirts that way you get
approved
don't risk the fact that you don't get
approved now after that you'll hit
send name send requests so here's the
different industry types that you could
put
just put small business it's as simple
as that you could also put designer and
that's pretty much
it other than that what you've got to do
is
don't ever wait for the email to come
from merch because a lot of times you
don't get it
i had several accounts where i did not
receive it try and log into the account
that you set up every couple days
if you are approved it will say so if
you're not it will give you a decline
all right so now let's talk about number
step two okay so the next step is to
actually
figure out what kind of design we want
to make right so to do that there's a
couple different sites you can use
first and foremost you can choose amazon
and as i showed in my first video
i looked up funny t-shirts right but you
could put something
like in the example right now we're
about to hit halloween so we could look
up halloween shirts and see what pops up
and you can also just allow amazon to
tell you what's hot like how i'm gonna
put halloween and see what amazon tells
me is actually hot
it'll suggest what people are searching
so right here
it shows decoration shirts for women so
let's look at specifically halloween
shirts for women if we were trying to
get some ideas
to find this and we'll look at halloween
shirts bad witches club
so this is by disney themselves i was
going to say this is not
good and you'll be able to get some
inspiration i smell children
drink up witches so you could definitely
do a spin on this
the font looks very witchy and you know
what they say about witches
basic witch so here's another good one
and you can keep
looking and getting some inspiration for
amazon.com again
use your imagination as far as what
people would search that way you can get
a good
number of actual ideas on what kind of
shirts to make
the second site that i like to use this
site is woot.com woot is actually owned
by amazon so a lot of people might not
have heard of this but i'm going to go
ahead and go into shirt
and i'm going to take a look at some of
the top shirts now a lot of times people
will vote on these
and you can see right here september's
best shirts
vp debate shirts so a lot of interesting
stuff
let's look at the vp debate because you
know that's usually the most
controversial topic that there is so we
can see what's actually
popular right stop playing politics
here's a little star opinions and facts
i don't really see any funny ones yet
but here's a good one this one looks
like the actual
shopping bag font like i'm speaking i'm
speaking
so that must be related to the actual
debate
and here is a fly so something must have
happened in the debate and again i'm not
into politics so i don't even know what
the heck's going on
i'm just here for the bs so
uh that's kind of funny because it's a
fly so again
these are where you can get ideas from
and then you can spin them into your own
ideas if you've never read the book
steal like an artist i highly recommend
it as it talks about this actual topic
now let's hit the final site that i
would go to to get ideas
okay so this site is a paid site and
it's called merch ninja and i'm inside
here and i'm just going to go and look
at the trends
and take a look at the top sales or the
top bsr
or the bsr winner and you can also look
at the new designs now i will have a
whole new video
that's dedicated and it's probably going
to be a couple videos to this actual
tool
which is fantastic if you are going to
want to design t-shirts because it'll
show you
what's actually currently hot we're
going to take a look at the usa so i
didselect.com
not to brag but i totally got out of bed
today and it's got this sloth
here's a lot of rbg shirts since she
recently passed away
here's this pacman with ghosts so a lot
of really
actual interesting idea i can't i have
plans in the garage
messy bun coffee run gangster app i need
a nap
hashtag momlife so this is how you can
kind of get ideas again this is a paid
tool and there is a link below for this
actual tool which i do actually get a
commission
on so i will just be completely
transparent about that now there is one
other one that i use and that i've used
in the past i like this cat one where
the cat is kind of almost throwing the
glass that reminds me of my cat okay and
this is another
site that costs 9.99 a month the link
for that will also be below in the
description
and this is called merch informer and on
merch informer i like to use the tool
called merch hunter
and i'd like to look at the top 100 best
sellers
with nothing other than just that hit
search i'm in u.s market
it'll specifically pull out merch by
amazon shirts
and again we're going to notice that a
lot of the actual t-shirts that come
back are very similar here's an rbg
t-shirt
here is namaste in bed so there's a lot
of things going on about staying in bed
here's some skeleton hands on the boobs
and here is
a halloween pumpkin with a mask on which
is looking like it's fire right now and
so honky
halloween there's all sorts of t-shirts
so either one of those tools will help
you find
ideas and that's pretty much it for this
step step two is we have to design our
t-shirt right so
we've got two actual choices here we
either
do it ourselves and if you don't know
how to do it you very easily can learn
by going to youtube and just searching
photoshop lesson
there's also a lot of third-party
applications that you can actually pay
for and use that make design
simple or you can actually use a site
called fiverr that i like to use
these are the simplest ways for a
beginner to actually use before they
actually hire
an actual graphic artist designer by
using
sites that there are out there so i'm
going to look up t-shirt design here
and you're going to see that there's
going to be a bunch of people i can't
even spell but there's going to be a
bunch of people selling t-shirt designs
starting at
10 bucks here's one for 55 that's a
little too much you don't want to pay
that much for a t-shirt design
but you want to look for a guy that's
like 10 right and these 10
guys will do a design for a t-shirt
based off of your specifications
here's a guy that's five dollars right
so based off the specs
that and the template that you
downloaded when you're trying to
register for merch by amazon you'll send
it to these guys
and you'll ask them to design a t-shirt
for you for as little as five
to ten dollars and that's how you can
get started if you don't want to design
yourself
or if you have no design experience
whatsoever but if i was going to do this
i would a
either learn how to design it or get a
full-time designer
which you can actually do and you can do
this at a site like onlinejobs.ph
and while i'm not going to go into the
details like i did last time you can
watch my last
100 merch video to do that pretty much
right here you can hire a full-time
graphic artist for anywhere from about
300 to 400
a month and they will design for you 40
hours a week
however just remember that once you do
this you are now a manager and you have
to make sure to give them
the ideas for the designs because if not
you're just going to get an employee
sitting there not doing anything and you
still having to pay them
and that could be a burning of money
i'll tell you that much from experience
so
be prepared to actually work after that
all right so now let's hit step three
we got our design ideas and we're ready
to give them to the designer but before
we do that we want to make sure and
verify that they are in fact
legal for us to create so for example
you don't want to be making any t-shirts
that
are dallas cowboys and have a star that
is a clear trademark infringement you
also don't want to be doing any rick and
morty t-shirts with rick and morty as
the characters on here again you're
going to get a lawsuit
or you're going to get removed from
amazon as fast as i could slap you
across
this screen right now and i don't want
to say what kind of slap but you can
imagine what kind of slap
so let's show the idea of girl dad which
i showed as an example earlier
girl dad was a dad that was dedicated to
kobe bryant and it wasn't necessarily
dedicated to kobe bryant somebody else
had the actual trademark
on april 13 2016 so this shirt went
viral when kobe bryant passed away
because people started to make this
because him and his daughter passed away
on the helicopter so people started to
make it
and as a result it got the trademark and
here it is
so i cannot make a shirt that says girl
that and put it on amazon or it's gonna
get shut down if it's a shirt in the u.s
so this is where you check anything that
you want to check so for example i
believe
paris hilton actually trademark this
term which is that's hot
and if you click on there it should show
that this is actually trademarked by
i don't know who she trademarked it
under but you cannot use this term
on a t-shirt because it could get
slapped down now that doesn't
necessarily mean you put it up on amazon
and amazon declines it
amazon might not look at it until
sometime later but
just avoid any actual potential problems
because if you get too many of these
and too many of these little slaps by
merch your account will get disabled so
it's going to be a pain in the ass to
get a new one so just take my word for
it
check it on tm hunt if it's there just
avoid it at all
okay so now that we have all that info
now it's time to upload our actual
design
if you at any time are confused about
any of this i highly recommend you go
inside your merch account and you click
on resources and you'll get all this
fantastic information
that you should look through if you're
confused again i wouldn't just read it
it's not by any means
leisure reading material it'll probably
put you to sleep and if you can't sleep
at night it's a great idea
do read it because then this will
definitely put you to sleep now
you will notice on there there's a lot
of things about best practices
and how to get these actual templates
it'll give you all sorts of
recommendations and information
so read through that in case you don't
know how to do that and you can also
download the product templates
for the actual artwork as well as look
at the sizing and all that good stuff
so now what you'll need to do is
actually upload this design so to do
that you'll hit create
and then you'll hit whatever kind of
actual product you'll want to design
in this case i'm gonna go ahead and do
the standard t-shirt because that's the
most popular one
and it'll ask me for an actual design
and i'm just gonna for
chagrins put this raychu thing and it's
valid because
it's not the right dimension so i forgot
to do that but you'll just go ahead and
upload the artwork and then hit edit
details and you'll select
what size what what actual gender so
choose fit types you'll notice they have
men women and youth so for this example
i put men and women
and then i would go with black i would
never go then with more than a couple
colors because
typically people are usually buying
those couple colors unless it makes
sense for the actual theme
so for example if it was for girls i
might definitely pick pink and red
but if i was just to select a couple of
them here's additional colors you can
just collec
select a few and then this is where
you'll price your item
you'll be able to see both the front and
the back of it and that's pretty much it
after that
you'll want to enter the product details
so you'll go ahead and hit a title
as well as you'll call yourself a brand
so make up a brand name don't say
it's like liz's t-shirts unless that's
what you want your brand to be and then
lastly
you'll put you can put a couple
different bullets so in these actual
bullets you want to put a lot of
keywords that pertain to the actual
t-shirt
so think about what would people be
searching for on amazon if they were
looking for your t-shirt
and that's exactly what you'll put in
here and then lastly you can also put a
product description that is 75
characters and you can make it
searchable and appearable
in the amazon search results now you
might wonder why would people want it
non-searchable well a lot of times
people make t-shirts for a non-profit
and or they don't want anybody else to
be able to buy them just their
particular group of people so you can
also make it non-searchable
after that you will save the draft and
it'll go into amazon's
queue in order to approve the shirt for
sale and you'll usually see it on there
fairly quickly depending on the on the
newness of your account they might not
put that on there that quickly so
again that's how you upload the t-shirt
after all that is said and done
now it's time to promote and now it's
time to head on over to video number two
so that's pretty much a wrap for this
video again if you ask
any questions or comments i will
personally answer them below do not be
shy i don't bite
at least not on camera so i will see you
all in the next video