
Follow the customers
Make sure your designs are "good enough"
Assist algorithms by mimicking what a customer would type into the search bar (put this in your title)
Consistently push new products
Upload to multiple products & marketplaces
Remember: this is scalable long-term income
This "Trump: I Want You on My Side of the Wall" shirt ties in 3 big trends into a single design:
Valentines Day 2019
President Trump
The Border Wall
Examples of synonyms that could be used in this Husband, Daddy, Protector, Hero t-shirt:
Dad
Step-Dad
Father
Step-Father
Grandpa
Granddady
Father-in-law
"Dadzilla"
Contrast evergreen and trending designs in print on demand, highlighting year-round sales for evergreen items and peak demand for trends tied to events and holidays.
NOTE: Google Chrome web browser is required to use DS Amazon Quick View
Explore the free Insight Factory tool to quickly research print-on-demand niches, including trending shirts, hoodie niches, Etsy SVG files, mug and other product ideas, and Redbubble trends for fast inspiration.
Discover Podley, a print-on-demand niche research tool with a massive Amazon merch listings database and an intuitive user interface.
Master Podly's keyword search and filters to discover subniches like Saint Patrick's Day, assess BSR and titles, and refine results with default, exact, and intitle searches.
Learn the base case for using Podly to study Amazon merch competition with brands filtered out and to identify trends using current versus 30-day BSR and price history.
Explore how Podly guides keyword selection and targeting for product listings and ads, using focus keywords, single and long-tail terms, and manual ad campaigns with broad, phrase, and exact matches.
Google will literally email you trending shirts:
Go to Google Alerts
Add "funny shirt" (or something similar, be creative)
Google will email you alerts automatically with links containing those keywords
Learn two tips to stay on trend for print on demand: use Push Bullet to receive screen push notifications, and keep a TV above your desk to spot shirt ideas.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN:
PART 1
Getting Started: The Two GOLDEN RULES & Other Important Concepts
PART 2
Full Research Tutorials Using Only Free Tools & Search Methods
PART 3
Using The Most Popular Paid POD Niche Research Tools To Identify New Opportunities
PART 4
How To Identify Best-Selling Trends Immediately Using Ryan's Method!
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION / PREVIEW:
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I'm going to outline my niche research process:
Tools For Niche Research
There are two primary tools I use for my niche research:
My "Search Merch" tool
My favorite Amazon research Chrome Extension: DS Amazon Quick View
Using these two tools together allows us to search Amazon Merch listings exclusively, and monitor the best seller rank (BSR) of each listing from the search results.
It's a quick & easy way to check how well a niche is selling on Amazon... plus, Amazon tells you show many listings are indexed on the keywords we provide!
The result: we get a quick glimpse into how well a niche is selling & how stiff our competition is.
Search Merch Tool
It's not absolutely necessary to filter out non-Amazon Merch listings, but there are some good reasons to do it whenever possible:
First & foremost, by searching only Amazon Merch listings, you're able to validate keywords against Merch's content policy. If you see a good number of search results, that means your seed keywords are good to go.
Note: If you see suspiciously few results on keywords that you believe should be high-volume, be cautious. Sometimes listings get through manual review that shouldn't have.
In the example above, I searched for "Beer Olympics" and saw 4 results... this is a massive red flag indicating to me that these keywords are NOT safe for use on Merch listings.
The next reason to search Merch only listings is that they're in a class of their own, as they're Prime eligible.
According to data from Millward Brown Digital, Amazon Prime members have a conversion rate around 74% whereas non-prime members convert around 13%.
Shoppers are able to easily filter out tons of fulfilled-by-merchant (FBM) print no demand listings by simply clicking the "Prime" checkbox on the search results page:
While it's possible for FBA t-shirt listings to exist outside of Amazon Merch, it's a pretty rare occurrence.
The last reason to use Search Merch to begin your niche research is because Amazon's search algorithm isn't that great!
It's not hard to search for "search terms" + "T-shirt" & find a bunch of results that aren't t-shirts.
Why go through the hassle of combing over them when you don't need to? Search Merch does the dirty work for you.
DS Amazon Quick View injects each products BSR into the search results, making it easy to see how well it's selling.
The lower the BSR, the more sales it's getting.