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Publishing Multiple Shirts-Uploads MBA Finally after many months of waiting Merch By Amazon has made it possible to publish to multiple shirt styles and market places ( UK and Germany) at the same time. This is a huge time saver and a very good tool, still in Beta but working really well. It took a few months for the rollout to come up on my dash but it was worth the wait. Let's take a look at the tool. Sorry for the delay in this I got sidetracked with FBA for a month. The Interface                                   In the heading of your dash, you will see the usual links.  Except now the new CREATE (beta) From there you will have the choice to publish multiple or single products. Choosing single brings you to the old setup. Giving you the products that are live in your account. In Multiple you get all products (new ones as well) which is a nice hac...

New Products Added Finally Well after months of debate and conjecture on everyone's part, the Merch crew has finally added a few new products. The old line up has been getting pretty stale with the last update being popsockets, as far as new products. Though the MBA crew has been working hard and has fixed many issues with the platform, the new product rollouts are still done at a snail's pace. Though many thought phone cases or those weird lettered sunglasses would be up (Maybe they are in secret) The crew pulled a fast one on us all, though we did expect one item. Let's take a look at the items and the how. The Products                        The products released are as follows : Tank tops  V-necks Raglans  We all expected and wanted tank tops, which are good sellers on other market places including Etsy .  The only other interest as far as lettered or design woul...

What Is POD Print on demand had been around for quite a few years. There are a great many entrepreneurs that have made ( in their estimation) millions on this phenomenon. In a nutshell, you design and sell your designs on T-shirts, Cell Phone Cases, Mugs, Jewelry, Leggings, Socks, Posters etc, this list is huge and growing. Basically the transfer of design or letter from one media to another, digital file to Tshirt for instance. In most cases, these are totally free. You work on a commission or Royalty based pay scale. People have really misrepresented this industry as a drop shipping one (it is but, it's not) and will try to sell you this info! These Pods can be partnered with other online e-commerce platforms. You have Zero inventory so entry is super attractive and basically ZERO risk. A Small Warning     Beware, there are Guru`s for everything today, GURU means let me take your ...

Staggering MBA Listings The old 80/20 rule really comes into play here. 80% is wasted time and energy, 10% is what actually makes money or is productive. In Merch by Amazon, we are plagued by the 180-day rule (it used to be 90 days) meaning if it doesn't sell, it is automatically removed. This is not a huge deal until you reach T-100 and up. Think of your listings coming down 25 or 50 or 100 at a time! Let's take a look at how to minimize this. Slow Down Uploads                                                           One of the things you will learn is to slow down how much you upload a day or week depending on you. If you have 100 slots to fill, don't rush. You get 10 or 25 uploads a day (I don't remember exactly) Your shirts seem to go on a carousel of...

 Is Organic Dead On MBA It's really interesting how people are jumping from one reason to another that sales are becoming harder to get on Merch By Amazon these days. Sales are definitely hard to come by, they always have been for me anyway. Are there more people in it, yes Amazon threw the gates open in the past year and a half. Is quality better? Not really in most cases, it's just a matter of the right eyes seeing the design. Is organic dead?  Let's take a look at the statement. Why Is Organic Traffic Dead? Good question. Let's look at why.                              I decided to write on this matter because today browsing one of the FB groups that used to be top notch, I came across a statement from a guy I used to a lot of respect for, up until I read the post. The post generally said "well good luck getting your shirt...

Are Websites Necessary In 2019 This is a come around question. Meaning we have been here before. There was a time when websites were the only way to do business online and there was a time when you didn't need a website. Squeeze pages were the thing. Usually directing straight to the source or website, whatever your model was. Today we have moved to a refined squeeze page. Now we call it a landing page, which grabs info and narrows down the field. Let's take a look and see. What Is A Landing Page                          Think of a landing page as a landing zone.                                                                                           ...

Sales Slow For Redbubble I have been so busy lately that I didn't notice a pretty big drop off in RB sales since Dec. 2018. Although t is pretty common in POD or any other E-com enterprise for big slowdowns to happen, it is my first with Redbubble. Though this could be attributed to many factors it does always make me wonder. Although I will not defame RB for anything here, as I have always felt they have been really fair with designers, paying on time and in full. Let's take a look: Traffic Jams                                                  The first thing I always like to look at is my traffic: Is volume the same or close Are my Key Words, Tags Stale (this does change over time) Are my designs stale Is there more competition in the niche or (platform) Are my designs and text compli...

Reach Out With PPC | Email Campaigns Though a lot of people say this is a dead duck, don't believe that for a minute, not yet anyway. PPC and Email lists are and always will be one of the most effective ways to drive customers to your sites or products. Organic traffic is getting harder to come by year after year, still very possible, but harder to actually get a lot quickly, and not as easy or fast to harvest email addresses. There are tons of tricks to do this with landing pages funnels etc. Email lists are still one of the most effective for campaigns bringing return customers, and being the most drilled down and targetted way to identify possible new customers. I used to try and run a few (not too successfully), years ago, much has changed, and I was just looking over a few things to check it, so I thought I would write this up. Let's take a look... Set Up First thing is to get an AdWords account. Easy peasy just sign...

Interesting...VERRRRRYYY Interesting Facts About Merch I thought I would write this piece on some anomalies I have noticed between the Two accounts we have in our home. There are some super interesting things here that I was sure were just strange occurrences, not even coincidence, just weird. Like this is spooky stuff here ;)  This is sort of a fun Urban myth thing maybe... or is it. Try to do a couple and see if it is fact or fiction, I'm sort of baffled myself. So Read on... A Strange Beast  Is MBA In the last year, as we became a two account home within that period, loosely give or take a couple months or so we started to see some strange things start to occur. At first glance, it just looks like some kind of strange thing going on. Hardly so thought-provoking as stats. Then you start to see the same things and patterns develop over time. Ghosts, Gremlins, I'm...