244: Merch by Amazon Marketing: How to Drive Traffic and Sales to Your T-Shirt Designs

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

Entrepreneurship, How To, Education, Business

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Chris Green is one of the foremost advocates for the side hustle lifestyle. He has 10+ years’ experience as an Amazon seller, author, software provider to others involved in the Amazon ecosystem, and most recently as a t-shirt designer selling shirts on the Merch by Amazon platform. Chris calls Merch by Amazon “the best side hustle out there right now.” With no upfront capital, no shipping or returns, no customer service, and no risk, it’s certainly one of the easiest side hustles to get started with. If you’re just getting started with Merch, Elaine Heney (who made $50k selling shirts last year) shared how to sign up and get your first t-shirts for sale on the Merch platform back on episode 216. Chris picks up where Elaine left off and goes into detail sharing some of his best tips for optimizing your listing, where he finds ideas for t-shirt designs and a few of the methods he uses to market his shirts. Tune in to hear some the unique and interesting ways Chris comes up with t-shirt designs ideas, as well as how he markets them through paid ads and organic outreach. You can find out more at merch.life, and pick up a free copy of Chris’ book Merch Resources (just pay shipping). Full Show Notes and PDF Highlight Reel: Merch by Amazon Marketing: How to Drive Traffic and Sales to Your T-Shirt Designs

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0:00.0	Side Hustle Show 244,
0:02.0	Merch by Amazon Marketing,
0:04.0	How to Drive Traffic and Sales to your T-shirt designs.
0:09.0	What's up, what's up, Nick Loper here,
0:11.0	welcome to the Side Hustle Show
0:12.0	because you can make progress every day.
0:15.0	This week we're talking about the best side hustle out there right now and that's according to my guest Mr.
0:19.2	Chris Green. Chris has been a pretty prolific player in the Amazon world both on the
0:24.5	FBI side of things and on the self-publishing side of things and now on the
0:28.5	merch side of things. So if you're not familiar with the merch by Amazon
0:32.4	program yet it's Amazon's
0:34.0	print-on-demand t-shirt arm, although I imagine they'll expand to other product
0:38.1	categories soon. But how it works is you upload your t-shirt designs, set your price, and Amazon does the rest.
0:44.6	They print the shirts and ship them for you with no minimum order requirements.
0:48.9	It's awesome.
0:49.9	It's probably the side hustle we're most excited about in our household lately and so my wife
0:55.5	Bryn has made over $1,000 so far this year and she's up to the 500 design tier so there's lots of room
1:01.7	to play with inside the account. That's a lot of opportunity to be discovered inside of Amazon's search engine for a great intro into the
1:10.0	Merched by Amazon world I highly recommend it checking out episode 216 of the side hustle show.
1:14.9	That one was with Elaine Haney who made over $50,000 selling merch shirts last year.
1:20.0	That episode is all about how to come up with design ideas and some of the tools you can use to create them if you're not Photoshop whiz.
1:26.0	But this episode aims to pick up where we left off with Elaine.
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