Advanced: Make and Sell Custom Shirts Using Merch by Amazon
What you'll learn
- Create a Merch by Amazon account
- Understand the digital file requirements for shirt designs
- Use the Merch by Amazon platform to create their own shirt designs available for sale on Amazon
- Become familiar with all of the Merch by Amazon account settings
- Forward and mask domains
- Create their own Amazon Associates account
- Create their own Amazon aStore to market their Merch by Amazon shirts
Requirements
- Students should have an Amazon account to take this course
- Students should be comfortable entering banking and tax information into their Amazon account
- Basic photo editing skills (Photoshop or Illustrator) are beneficial but not mandatory
Description
Merch by Amazon is Amazon's newest platform for content creators. It allows anyone to create and sell shirts right on Amazon's website with no upfront costs or minimum print runs. Anyone can now easily create custom branded shirts that their fans will love to wear.
Merch By Amazon is a completely free platform to use. Simply sign up and start uploading your own designs. This course will outline all of the exact specifications and dimensions required for each type of merch offered through the Merch By Amazon program including t-shirts, hoodies, Popsockets, cell phone cases, and much more. Products offered through Merch By Amazon are also eligible for Amazon's Prime shipping services. In the future, it is very likely that Amazon will continue to offer additional products that Merch By Amazon designers will be able to offer to their customers.
This course will help you get started and learn how to use the platform both optimally and creatively. This course includes video demos of shirt designs in Adobe Photoshop as well as actual creation of an Amazon product page for a new shirt design. If you want to learn how to take advantage of this incredible new platform to not only create awesome shirts but to also make money along the way, then this course is for you.
Who this course is for:
- This course is for anyone who wants to learn more about the Merch by Amazon platform
- This course does not go into the details of in-app or in-game promotion of Merch by Amazon products
Instructor
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I'm a Professional Book Marketer and I help authors SELL MORE BOOKS.
The business of books is 1% about having a "good book" and 99% MARKETING.
I coach authors and writers how to write their books in such a way that THEY BENEFIT even when they give their books away.
How is that possible? It's actually pretty easy, barely an inconvenience.
Authors should be including 'calls-to-action' and access to additional content within their books to incentivize readers to visit their websites and collect email addresses.
They should also include links to their social media profiles within their books.
And they should also use their websites to give away sample chapters (or other types of digital lead magnets) to collect email addresses and build a valuable email list of interested readers and prospective customers.
You want to get your book into as many people's hands as possible and, if you're a new author, giving away books can be a lot easier than selling books.
I teach my clients about the 80/20 rule of book marketing this way:
Give away 1,000 books (these can be digital so no cost).
20% of those people (200) will JOIN your email list.
20% of those people (40) will BUY SOMETHING from you (physical book, online course, membership, webinar training, etc.).
20% of those people (8) will BUY WHATEVER ELSE YOU'RE SELLING such as coaching or consulting.
To find these EIGHT CLIENTS, you give away 1,000 books.
Since 2011, I've sold hundreds of thousands of books and earned hundreds of thousands of dollars in royalties exclusively as a self-published author.
Leveraging self-published books is easily the most powerful thing you can do for your business today.
Where else can you have a physical product available for sale on the world's largest and most trusted marketplace and, when it sells, Amazon will literally do ALL OF THE WORK and send you a royalty check every month?