Wanna get paid for designing t-shirts? Merch by Amazon is Amazon’s print on demand platform. You design a t-shirt, upload a PNG, and Amazon does the rest and pays you a commission every time one of your t-shirts is sold.
However, it's frustrating at first ...
When you start out you’re only allowed to sell 10 shirts. Then after you’ve sold 10, you’re allowed to sell 25, then after you've sold 25 (or, in my case, 50) your allowed to sell 100, then 500, then 1000, then 1500.
I've just been tiered up to the 500 tier. So I can have up to 500 different designs of t-shirts to sell on amazon.com – I’m very happy.
I'm very lucky I got tiered up to the 500 tier straightaway. I’d only just surpassed the requirements having sold 100 shirts in total.
Merch is frustrating at first but it’s great to see how quickly you can gain traction there and start selling good quantities.
My sales figures
I was looking at my stats this morning to see the trajectory.
I was accepted into Merch in February this year. In March and April, the first two months, I sold only one t-shirt in each month!!!!
In May I sold 10. In June, the next month, I was beginning to sell one a day and then July last month I was selling two to three every day.
And now we’re in August and I've been tiered up! (Currently sold over 120).
In case you’re wondering, each shirt sale can mean $0.35-$7 profit, depending on what price I’m selling the shirt at.
It takes a while to get going but ...
So you get the idea of how you can get a great momentum going. The more shirts you sell the more shirts you're able to sell. The more you get used to understanding what works on the platform.
It's important to get as many shirts on the platform as you can in these early stages.
Amazon is hopefully going to roll Merch out to the rest of the world. And it's hopefully going to include other items (tracksuits, mugs, baseball caps) – it's not just going to be for t-shirts in the US.
So it will help to get in there as quickly as possible.
Are you interested? Read more here: 💰 How To Make Passive Income With Merch On Amazon – What Is It & How To Get Started