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Technically yes, but i wouldn't risk it. Account safety should be always top priority.

@DanielScholtes thank you

You're confusing the file format with the color profile, i saved the designs in the PNG format

Thanks for your feedback. I base my videos on my own experience of selling in print on demand for nearly 6 years. And yes, i partly agree with you - sometimes the bad and ugly designs can outsell the good ones. But that's just the exception.

Haha thanks, i guess we did it

You're welcome! Thanks, you too!

Yes, i've also noticed that in some of my listings. This happened to me when the brand and the title was the same except for some extra keywords in the title (in the video it was "for women"). Then amazon just removed these keywords from the title. I guess it's not bad for the algorithm, but it looks bad on the search results. So i would avoid this by having an unique brand name.

@DanielScholtes I will try to not use the same title in the brand and see what will happen. Thank you for that.

Thanks for sharing your experience! It's always worth it to go the extra mile.

Thanks for the compliment! Great suggestion but unfortunately i have no idea about this topic. This would be important if you have your own shop, which i don't have. My main focus is on amazon merch on demand where amazon is the seller of the products.

The best solution would be to generate the image so that you can easily remove the background. My tips are that you generate the design with sharp/hard outlines and a solid colored background. Instead of black, prompt a dark grey background so that the background remover can easily differentiate between graphic and background.

Thanks robo! Yes, i feel the same as i'm also speaking from experience. The bad thing about the returns is the fact that most of the times you won't even get to know the reason. Sizing, the fit of the shirt or the print quality isn't in our hands but if it's something with the quality of the design, then you should absolutely know it.

@@DanielScholtes "If it's the quality of the design" I totally agree. BTW your advice to use a grey background has been very helpful. Thanks again.

You're welcome! Okay, so you probably should get your tierup in the next tierup wave. The sign "SOON" that you see on your dashboard is just a prediction from the productor plugin, unfortunately it's not from amazon itself. I've just checked when i had my tierups, and i've personally had tierups in the past at the start/mid of january, so i don't think that we have to wait till february. In the lower tiers, most sellers agree that the amazon teams checks the accounts manually for a tierup to see if the uploaded designs are okay for them.

Where did you see the tier up sign "soon"? I am on tier 100 and sold almost 200 products and still waiting for my tier up.

You need to have the productor chrome extension installed - then you see it on the dashboard. Since you have the sales, you would also need to have at least 80% of your slots filled, that means 80 designs uploaded in your case

@ yeah. I have 91 designs uploaded. I will check productor. I might have something else. Btw..new follower here. Thanks.

Appreciate it, thanks for your support!

You're welcome, glad you like it! Wether i add the slogan or parts of it to the title depends if there is any search volume for that specific phrase, if there is, then i would put it into the title. You can use keyword tools like helium10 to find this out, or just use the amazon search bar. If there is any search volume for this phrase, it will get suggested/autocompleted by amazon in the dropdown menu of the searchbar. If it's a completely new phrase then it doesn't make much sense to add it to the title. You'd rather fill the title with very relevant keywords - you can then put the phrase into one of the bulletpoints. If i have a lot of designs for one niche, then i would always try to have unique titles for each design. If you have very similar designs, then i would also change 1-2 keywords in the title. I wouldn't use the exact same title and brand as the amazon algorithm could see this as duplicate content. Hope this helps, let me know if you have any more questions!

@@DanielScholtes thank you very much for your detailed answer :) so you also use different brandnames for a niche? I often ask myself whether it makes sense to have a different title for each design, because in large niches, for example, the probability is very high that the titles are very often exactly the same

You're welcome! I try to use one brand name for about 50 designs max. in a niche. This prevents copycats from stealing your ideas by clicking on the brand name and seeing all the phrases and design ideas. If there are that many listings with exactly the same title in that specific niche, i would consider not going into that niche. If you check on amazon for a specific phrase and there are already hundreds/thousands of results for it, then i wouldn't try to compete for that phrase. I'd rather come up with a unique phrase otherwise it's too hard to stand out in the crowd.

@@DanielScholtes i meant rather big niches like the cat niche, not a special slogan. with advertising i think you can also go into niches like the cat niche, and use only main keywords there. i meant that dozens of designs will have the exact same title there even if you only use mainkeywords or long tail keywords

If you go into big niches like the cat niche, then yes, you will likely have listings that are quite similar to the other listings that are already online. But you could try to crossniche with other (smaller) niches and also include these keywords in the listing. Always keep in mind that you have to do heavy advertising for these big niches

You're welcome, glad it was helpful!

Good question! When you generate images on piclumen, they are only visible to you. You can check that on the down left corner, click on the 3 dots and then check the settings. The first setting then says "The generated image is private by default and will only be made public when you post it to the community." and you can't even set it to public.

@DanielScholtes awesome, thank you!

You're welcome! Thanks for your support!

When taking an idea from one niche to another, you always have to check the demand and the competition in the niche that you want to go into. When there is no demand, it doesn't make sense to go into that niche. Please check my video about niche research: th-cam.com/video/Y9fN5Yvl7-o/w-d-xo.html If you have any more questions, please let me know!

Danke dir für dein Kommentar. Ich denke allerdings nicht dass die KI das Ende des T-Shirt Business bedeutet, im Gegenteil. Richtig angewendet bieten die KI-Tools eine wesentliche Qualitätssteigerung im Vergleich zur "alten" Methode (d.h. Vektor aus Vektorenplattform suchen + Spruch dazu) - noch dazu sinken die Kosten immens. Eine eigene Brand ist nie falsch in meinen Augen, jedoch kann man nicht sagen dass allein weil es eine eigene Brand ist, diese auch jede Krise übersteht. Bei der letzten Aussage sehe ich es komplett anders. Wir haben jetzt durch KI mehr Möglichkeiten und Chancen denn je, diese gab es noch vor ein paar Jahren nicht. Ich sehe KI ähnlich wie der Sprung von der Schreibmaschine zum Computer - auch das haben bestimmt einige Leute damals kritisch gesehen. Aber diejenigen die sich schon früh und kontinuierlich damit beschäftigt haben, hatten auch damals einen großen Wettbewerbsvorteil.

Thank you very much!

Thank you, love reading that! If some of the words in the phrase are trademarked and are common language, then it's not a problem. But i would also put the phrase into google to check if the phrase known from a movie or a song for example. Then don't use the phrase. I've made a separate video about trademarks, check it here: th-cam.com/video/2M2NCBRghHk/w-d-xo.html If you have more questions, please let me know.

@DanielScholtes Thank you so much. I have one more question. If I take a phrase, for example, "just a girl who loves to travel," and I search on the USPTO, and I find that one word is trademarked, should I leave it?

You're welcome. Yes, every word in this phrase is just common language, so as long as the complete phrase is not trademarked you're good to go. Be careful if 2 or more following words are trademarked (marked red in productor), then i just wouldn't use the phrase.

You're welcome! Glad you like it

You're welcome robo! Just checked the resolutions: Midjourney gives you a resolution of 816x1456 pixels, Amazon merch needs a resolution of 1800x3200 pixels so that means you need to upscale the image 3x which will give you a resolution of 2448x4368 pixels. If the file gets too large, then you can easily compress the image with caesium. I also have a video about that process on my channel.

Thanks! If you have an amazon merch account, i would highly recommend to upload them there. For the listings, please check my video about the listing process. I would apply it like in the video.

You're welcome, glad you like the video! Thanks for the sub!

You're welcome robo! I wouldn't say that it's wrong to do that, but you always have to be 100% relevant to the design. In my opinion, it's more efficient to write the listings like i've shown in the video, saving you time and headache

@@DanielScholtes, I hear you. Watching this helps me realize how much overkill I'm doing. Your method really looks like you are giving the Amazon algorithm what it wants and then moving on to the next design as you say "saving me time and headache".

Thank you, i love to hear that! I've stopped uploading to teepublic and spreadshirt a long time ago, but as far as i know you can't place ads on these platforms. If you haven't got your account on amazon merch on demand yet, i highly recommend to apply there as it's the no.1 POD marketplace platform out there by far.

@DanielScholtes thanks dear now after trying teepublic and spread l will try Amazon but I am afraid of rejection case

Don't worry, your application to amazon merch will be rejected quite a few times and that's quite normal, but you just have to keep applying until they accept your application and get you an account.

@@DanielScholtes thank you so much for your help

You're welcome!

You're welcome, glad it was helpful! Sorry, i don't really know what you mean. Have you checked out the other videos from this series? I've created a playlist named "Amazon Merch Mastery: A Complete Step-by-Step Mini Course" - if you watch these videos from beginning to end you will have everything in order to create successful designs for amazon merch. Let me know if you miss anything in the videos!

It depends if you offer these on a marketplace like redbubble or open a shop on etsy. On redbubble, you just upload the digital files and redbubble handles the printing and shipping. On etsy, you have to connect a POD fulfilment provider to your shop that prints and ships the stickers to the customer. Or you could just offer these stickers as digital downloads on etsy.

You can use it on idm-vton.github.io

These kinds of stickers sell really well on marketplaces like etsy as digital downloads or as a print-on-demand product. Stickers are also popular on the platform redbubble.

@@DanielScholtes which print in demand service do you recommend?

If you want to sell stickers, go for etsy

@danielSchultes but Etsy isn't a print on demand service, it's just a shop. Where are the stickers made? Who is the print on demand provider?

It works like this: you connect your etsy shop to a print-on-demand fulfilment provider like printful or printify for example. When a customer buys a sticker, this provider will print and ship the stickers to the customer. On etsy, you still have to manage the customer service by yourself. Hope that helps!

I'm using the paid versions in the video, but there are also free (limited) versions available from both chatGPT and Ideogram

You're welcome!

Thanks for the kind words! The video about the listing process is in the making and it's coming next week

@ thank you so much

You're welcome and thank you! Actually, this video is part of a series. Like a mini-course for amazon merch on demand, starting from niche research, then finding phrases and design ideas, then creating these designs and then in this video editing the designs. If you want to start from the beginning, start with the video "Niche Research Secrets for Amazon Merch". If you just want to see the prompts, then jump to the second video "Design Research Secrets for Amazon Merch"

I've sold one so far. I only put up 3 or 4 designs though, and they're all holiday, which might not sell too well on a tumbler. It sounds like other people are having success with them though.

@ good to know. I haven’t heard much on the success. Congrats on the sell. I made ten designs today then looked around and realized I can’t find any merch tumbler products. Just parties selling at a super low price.

I've added the tumblers to my existing designs and i sold quite a few of them. I think it really depends on the niche wether the merch tumblers show up or not. If the niche is too saturated and already has established sellers with a lot of reviews, then it's too hard to stand a chance there. There's a way higher chance in selling in smaller niches where the competition is not that high. Also, amazon likes to push their own products, for example their amazon basics products or our merch on demand products.

@@DanielScholtes I agree. Thanks for the info.

You're welcome!

Thank you robo, glad i could help. Yes, that's the thing, you always have to check the result of the background remover, so it makes sense to do this one after another. I haven't tested it yet but there is a free image upscaler at dgb.lol which is server-based, you might give this a try. You're welcome and thanks for your support!

Thank you!

Thank you for your support!