Okay, it is time for me to expand into new territories and try my luck at Merch by Amazon. If you are unfamiliar with this platform, it is pretty easy: You can create your own t-shirt and hoodie designs, sell them on Amazon, and they will print and ship them for you!

I have decided to try Merch by Amazon, as it does not require me to invest any capital into stock. This is great because I have all my capital in my FBA business. And just like with FBA, the most important thing is doing product research!

If you can find the right topics and create some t-shirt designs around it, you can make some nice passive income!

So to help me with the product research I will use Merch Informer. From what I have been reading, they are like the Jungle Scout of Merch by Amazon and the best tool to help with product research.

Features

Product Search

Okay, so let’s find our first niche! I will just enter a random word and see what the best-selling shirts are with the keyword “cat.”

Here are the results:

So, as you can see, the best selling t-shirts are about the famous woman yelling at cat meme:

We can also see that Christmas t-shirts are popular right now—pretty obvious since Christmas is around the corner. So maybe we can combine the two and create a cat meme t-shirt in Christmas style!

Designer

Once you have found your niche, you can start designing your t-shirt or hoodie! I personally have no Photoshop experience, so I am very happy Merch Informer has a special design module. You can very easily create your own designs!

Lister

After you have designed your t-shirts, it is time to create the listings. I plan to create at least 10 designs per niche I find, so it will take quite a lot of time to create all these listings.

Merch Informer has a lister Chrome extension that automates most of this! With only a couple of clicks, you can easily bulk upload and edit your listings!