Introduction: Make and Sell Custom Shirts w/ 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
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. This course will help you get started and learn how to use the platform both optimally and creatively.
In this course, students will learn about the Merch by Amazon platform, the image requirements (dimensions and resolution), the royalty calculation system, and the content policies. Students will also learn about the different options and settings in their Merch by Amazon accounts and how to use them to optimize their shirt designs.
If you want to fast-track your understanding of the Merch by Amazon platform and get your shirt designs live and offered for sale on Amazon in as little as a few hours, then this course is for you. Students who complete this course will find that they have a better understanding of the technical aspects of the Merch by Amazon platform as well as the tools needed to create successful shirt designs.
Merch by Amazon is an absolutely incredible platform. This course will also show you the bigger opportunities that Amazon is offering by letting content creators upload print on demand shirt designs. Once a student completes this course, they will be able to use the Merch by Amazon platform for themself as well as be able to teach it to others.
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?