JUNE 14TH, 2017: Daily Merch Drive: June 15th Compliance deadline, Rights owner violations, and a personal story...

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02:07 Anthony's story: checking with a urologist

08:30 Compliance deadline

09:09 / 12:42 Checking submission compliance

10:18 Billy Idol's Rebel Yell

14:39 Designers start to cite sources / illustrators were hired

15:54 Resubmissions

17:17 Automating the process to focus on the goals

18:17 Account suspension

22:06 Merch compliance team

24:58 Kevin's story about a creepy guy

27:25 Rights owner complaints

JUNE 16TH, 2017: Daily Merch Drive: Amazon buying Whole Foods, Gary's Walmart Problem, Nike New Amazon Deal, Licensing and more...

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02:36 The Amazon and Whole Foods deal

05:13 Anthony's stepson who reconstructs jeans

06:08 Custom backpacks

06:43 Dealing with a licensing business

08:39 Rights owner complaints

11:13 Suspended Amazon seller accounts

13:34 Trademark decisions

19:19 VA tasks

JUNE 19TH, 2017: Daily Amazon Merch Drive: B2B Merchandise Test, Text Based Design Ideas and Arguing with Kevin.....

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00:56 Fathers' day weekend

01:53 Aaron Rashkin

03:06 Kevin's penny metaphor

05:59 Weekend sales

06:28 Working on AMS and our once a week t-shirt meeting

07:12 Contacting past clients

13:48 Update about our VA

16:30 Merch tip: finding ideas

20:57 Entrepreneur tip: "everybody has a strength they can use in this business"

JUNE 20TH, 2017: Daily Merch Drive: Special Guest Phillip James Stone is with us, Talking VA's, Mass Uploads, Black Hat and more....

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00:53 Philip James Stone joins the drive

01:56 Who Philip is / what he does

05:05 Implementing cleaner tactics

06:09 Philip's Amazon business

08:23 Philip's current status on Merch

09:37 Philip's other POD sites

10:21 Philip's number of drafts per day

15:43 Phillip's past weeks' sales

16:37 Philip's designs

23:16 B2B strategy

25:00 Changing our name

26:16 Our video podcasts

JUNE 14TH, 2017: Daily Merch Drive with audio fixed....Virtual Asst Submitting Designs, AMS on a limited amount of tees, Pushing Designers and more...

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03:14 Update on AMS

07:40 Disagreements and uncertainties

09:12 Pros and cons of getting in on something early

10:42 Shirt pricing

11:25 VA submissions

16:03 Dominating micro-niche

16:11 Pushing designers

21:13 Doing live videos

MAY 30th, 2017: Daily Amazon Merch Drive - Tiered up to 1000 @ 20 Submissions Per Day, Forecasting Sales with Kevin's Formula, Getting Design Costs Very Low, Quality vs Quantity and More...

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00:24 Kevin's Excel sheet

02:02 Update on numbers

05:42 Designs: most people say quality should be high.. but this may not always be true

10:02 Having an evaluation period

11:38 Compliance issues are still present

16:29 People shouldn't miss out on the Merch opportunity

17:16 Kevin's business routine

MAY 31st, 2017: Daily Amazon Merch Drive: We got our 3rd Rejection, Using AMS to get tiered up fast, coaching the designers to be compliant, Amazon not telling us what were doing wrong and more.

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00:59 Getting a rejection

03:23 Bullet points may have caused the rejection

07:30 Image compliance

10:57 Rejections as a big guessing game

14:20 VA tasks

17:28 Driving traffic and AMS

24:29 Unique design ideas

25:47 Design quality

JUNE 1ST, 2017: Featuring Enzo Busciglio (Dad): Kevin Levonas is a no show, paying fiverr for design ideas, FBA inventory, Dad's old school design ideas and more...

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00:45 Today's special guest is Anthony's dad

01:15 Reason for Mr. Busciglio's presence on the drive and Kevin's absence

03:57 Our FBA business and Merch

04:13 Merch status

05:39 Designer strategy

07:00 Picking profitable niches

07:45 FBA update

09:30 New shirt ideas

12:52 "Viral trends would be quickly trademarked and their marketability is only for a season"

13:51 Keyword research for finding good niches

JUNE 5TH, 2017: Daily Merch Drive: the return of Kevin Levonas, staying away from trendy designs, organizing your designs/folders with google drive, inspiring designers and more..

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00:42 Kevin is back

02:21 Anthony's story: he went to a guy's castle

06:08 Update on sales and other numbers

06:58 Designer pricing

09:59 Design quality

10:30 Putting an ad on a Ph website

12:42 Design costs

16:37 Trademark for viral trends

18:06 Update on our AMS

20:54 Designer inspiration

JUNE 6TH, 2017: Daily Merch Drive: Managing Virtual Assistants with a bonus structure, finding better & cheaper designers using onlinejobs.ph

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00:42 Sourcing more products for FBA

02:10 Having an outsourced VA, dealing with time zone barrier, trainings, tasks

10:45 A job posting site for outsourcing in the Ph

11:53 Designer problem

12:31 Hiring new designers / illustrators

16:31 Images that are free for commercial use

19:08 More designer-hiring steps

20:09 Trademarking costs and worth

22:15 Sales update

24:49 Getting approved on Merch