Here's what concerns me the most about Merch, and what I've been doing about it.

Zazzle has never been my top earning POD website, but I sold 2 of the 5 Halloween shirts I uploaded. I took a look at everything I sold this year and came to a conclusion about what my strategy should be going forward. I was approaching Zazzle all wrong, and in this podcast, I share what I will do differently.

Merch Informer is a research tool with a monthly fee that helps you easily find what T-shirts are selling well on Merch By Amazon. It also helps you quickly scope out how competitive a keyword is. I don't use Merch Informer, but wanted to make a quick point about people who criticize others for buying products (or the people who create them) just because they don't need them. We all value different things, and Merch Informer has helped a lot of people from what I've seen.

Here's my opinion of buying your own shirts and what I would do if I was on the 10 tier on Merch By Amazon.

One of my first outsourcing experiences was a nightmare. The design ended up being stolen from someone else. In this episode I share how you can guard against that and other advice for when you hire a 3rd party to create your design for Merch By Amazon or any other POD site.

If you aren't succeeding with Merch, it's not because it's saturated. You are doing something wrong and probably not niching down enough. In this episode I share an example of a top-selling T-shirt that illustrates why creativity and ideas are paramount!

In this episode I give my ranking of the three most important components of Merch By Amazon success. If you want longevity with Merch and POD in general, I believe you need to be efficient at 2 of the 3.

In this episode I share my unique Halloween sales situation from last year and I share another way you can buy very reasonably-priced Halloween images to use for your shirts.

It's always best to diversify, and I've definitely done that with print on demand websites. In this episode, I share my ranking of six print on demand websites.

At the end of the month, Zazzle (another print on demand site) will begin uploading some of the products to Amazon, but they will be selective about which products get pushed. In this episode, I'm sharing my strategy and why I won't be uploading the same shirts I have on Merch By Amazon.