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    How to Start a T-Shirt Business on Merch by Amazon
    How to Start a T-Shirt Business on Merch by Amazon
    How to Start a T-Shirt Business on Merch by Amazon
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    How to Start a T-Shirt Business on Merch by Amazon

    By Jill b.

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    Thinking of jumping onto the Merch by Amazon bandwagon but aren't sure where to start?

    You don't have to be an artist to be a T-shirt designer. With a little creativity and marketing savvy, you too can start your print-on-demand T-shirt business. Learn tips and tricks on how to find potentially profitable markets, copyright & trademark basics and ideas for T-shirt designs, even if you can't draw!

    This book is and introduction for budding T-shirt designers. Depending on individual knowledge base, you may need to further study image manipulation software, typography, color schemes or copywriting.

    Don't wait any longer. The time is now to start your business. Order this book today!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJill b.
    Release dateDec 24, 2016
    ISBN9781386720157
    How to Start a T-Shirt Business on Merch by Amazon
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    Jill b.

    Self-Reliance -- One Step at a Time Get free e-books at http://byjillb.com Reliance on one job. Reliance on the agri-industrial food system. Are you ready to break free, take control and to rely on yourself? With a no-nonsense style,  Jill Bong draws from her own homesteading experiences and mistakes, and writes books focusing on maximizing output with minimal input to save you time and money. Jill was born and raised in a country with one of highest population densities in the world. Dreaming of chickens and fruit trees, she left the trappings of the big city and is setting up her homestead in an American town with a population of less than 300. Jill writes under the pen name Jill b. She is an author, entrepreneur, homesteader and is the co-inventor and co-founder of Chicken Armor (http://chickenarmor.com), an affordable, low maintenance chicken saddle. She has also written over a dozen books on homesteading and self-reliance. Jill has been mentioned/quoted in various publications including The Associated Press, The New York Times, The Denver Post and ABC News. She has written for various magazines including Countryside and Small Stock Journal, Molly Green, Farm Show Magazine and Backyard Poultry Magazine. She holds an Engineering degree from an Ivy League from a previous life. At its height, her previous homestead included over 100 chickens, geese and ducks, as well as cats, a dog, bees and a donkey named Elvis. She currently learning permaculture techniques to apply to her homestead in rural Oregon. Learn more by visiting her site http://byjillb.com.

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    How to Start a T-Shirt Business on Merch by Amazon - Jill b.

    Introduction

    Before you read further, it’s important for me to note that this is not a t-shirt design book. Rather, my aim for this book is to help to guide a beginner through starting a t-shirt business on Merch.

    Many moons ago, my husband was a freelance t-shirt designer. Since then, we’ve played around with selling print-on-demand (POD) t-shirts using printers like CafePress.com. We featured our designs on our own website and, when there was an order, we would fulfil it and drop ship it to the customer. Sales were marginal.

    Now, there is Merch by Amazon. According to an article in Entrepreneur.com, Google tops in searches, followed by YouTube. Coming up third is none other than Amazon. Amazon is the top search engine when it comes to shopping. Over 40% of product searches originate from Amazon.

    What does that mean for you? It means that by taking advantage of Merch’s platform, your POD merchandise gets to ride along the marketing powerhouse that is Amazon. Not only that, your products are fulfilled by Amazon as well. So, if the buyer has an Amazon Prime subscription, the POD order qualifies for free Prime shipping as well.

    Merch by Amazon’s Background

    At the time of writing, Merch is quite new. The program that was initially developed for app designers to print T-shirts for sale on Amazon in order to promote their games. Merch rolled out in September 2015 but fortunately for non-app developers, Amazon opened the service to everyone. However, within weeks of Merch rolling out, t-shirt designers, especially those that already had large collections of designs, flooded the service.

    Unable to cope with the demand, Amazon limited the service by making it available by invitation only. That is, you will need to request an invitation at https://merch.amazon.com/landing. I suggest set up a new and separate account Amazon for Merch, even if you have an account that you use for shopping. While you can use the same account to sell, I prefer to keep things separate.

    When Merch sufficiently increases their fulfilment capacity, they will invite you to join. There, you will be placed in tier 1, which allows you to upload up to 25 T-shirt designs. When you sell 25 T-shirts, you will be upgraded to tier 2, which allows you to upload 100 designs and so forth. Higher tiers include 500 designs and a Pro level which is currently by invitation only.

    The time it takes to get the invitation will depend on Amazon’s capacity. You should receive an email to inform you of your acceptance but keep checking your account in case you miss the email, or in case the email arrives later than your acceptance.

    If you’ve read some of my other home-business books like selling on eBay and self-publishing, I talk about needing to have as many products for sale as possible. The more products you have, the larger your digital footprint or digital shelf-space you take up. Think of your grocery store shelves that are filled with products by food giants like Tyson or P&G or Unilever. When you pick something up from the shelves, chances are that it is a product by one of these

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