Venus Entrepreneurship | Passive Income 2019 | Merch By Amazon Best Sellers Rank Explained

Visionaries, sharing my thoughts on Amazon BSR bestseller rank and how it is both a gift and a curse to MBA designers. Share your experiences with me.

Visionaries, welcome back. This time, I have another Merch by Amazon video and want to talk to you about BSR. Its a touchy subject with me because to me it's a gift and a curse. When you're new to Amazon, and I've been on Merch by Amazon for about a year now. So, I'm not a newbie anymore so to speak. However, there are veterans that's been on there since its inception. So, I still feel like I'm on the younger end of the curve. But, BSR, when you first start out if you're new to Merch by Amazon, obviously when you post a new shirt and it starts to sell, it gets a BSR. So, if it sells one time it gets assigned a BSR. Then on from there. The lower the BSR is, the better your shirt is doing. I found that the better my shirts are doing, then people start catching on because we have lovely tools like Merch Informer and other things that monitor BSR. So, as your shirt gains popularity and the BSR goes lower even though BSR changes from day to day, people start to take notice. Some of my designs attracted copycats. You want your shirt to do the best possible so they keep ranking at the top of Amazon search and get noticed by your customers. But it's also gonna get noticed by other folks, so there's nothing you can do about that.

I love to see my BSR getting lower and lower climbing, ranking well but, it's just kind of brace for it being a matter of time before you get copycats on your heels. Trying to either a copy it verbatim or do variations of it. So, that they can saturate the niche and underprice, and take some of your sales away. So, on shirts that I know are trending, are gonna be popular I go ahead and design variations of that on my own and flood the niche. Design your own, variations colors, backgrounds images, whatever you want to do, and make sure you flood the niche. With those keywords and make sure you flood it out. Otherwise, you know BSR is gonna alert others to the fact that your shirt is doing well. And they're gonna do it. So you better do it before they do it type of thing. That is the mindset that I've had for various shirts that I've posted which fares well for me and then I got a shirt that's doing well and I move on to something else. I leave room for somebody else to start designing variations of the shirt. And then they have so many shirts up there that they're able to play with pricing and all of that. Meanwhile, I have the one shirt and I priced it low to begin with to get some sales and then when I price it higher then you know it becomes oversaturated at that point. And it's a pricing war after that. So I have some shirts that sold really well at the beginning of their cycle and then dropped off. Then I lowered the price, I had to play this bargain basement game to keep sales going. But it's like at that point, should I just let it go? When early on I saw the sales were going and flooded the niche out. Chances are, even if the individual is picking a different design it'll still be one of your shirts. So, that is the advice that I have for you.

Definitely shoot for the stars. Having a great BSR is great. Having regular sales is great. When you see that you have a shirt doing that, do variations of it. I know it's harder to do that earlier on when you are tier 10, tier 25, tier 100. But, once you climb over that definitely do variations. Because, I was against it at first like why am I going to be repetitive? But, I see the necessity of doing that. Especially if it's a design or a concept or whatever you believe in. You want to continue to have it be profitable as you move up in tiers so that as you put up new designs and continue that process you'll have a nice healthy catalog of evergreen products to sell. Now, I do trends as well but, a majority I would say probably 95% of my shirts are evergreen shirts and not holiday based or trend based shirts. So that's my two cents for now, in terms of BSR.

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Playlist | Merch By Amazon Essential Videos for Beginners https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...

Merch Tools I Use For Research and Design
Merch Informer (affiliate) - https://merchinformer.com/609.html
Canva (Graphic Design)
DS Amazon Quick View (Analytics)
Openclipart (Images/Graphics)
Pixlr (Image Editor)
Pixabay (Images/Graphics)
Pretty Merch (Analytics)
Merch Police Infringement for Amazon (Copyright Infringement Form Tool)
Merch Research (Merch Informer Chrome Extension)
Merch Tools (Analytics Chrome Extension)
Linkclump (Archiving Merch Listings)
Amazon Merch Tools (Archiving Merch Listings)
Unicorn Smasher (Analytics)

Venus Entrepreneurship | Passive Income 2019 | Merch By Amazon Breaking Into Saturated Niches

Visionaries, wanted to share with you my quick process for researching and breaking into saturated niches. This method has worked for me pretty well and I have some bestsellers within some of these niches that continue to make consistent monthly sales so always worth a try. #merchbyamazon #amazonmerch #passiveincome Playlist | Merch By Amazon Essential Videos for Beginners https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Merch Tools I Use For Research and Design Merch Informer (affiliate) - https://merchinformer.com/609.html Canva (Graphic Design) DS Amazon Quick View (Analytics) Openclipart (Images/Graphics) Pixlr (Image Editor) Pixabay (Images/Graphics) Pretty Merch (Analytics) Merch Police Infringement for Amazon (Copyright Infringement Form Tool) Merch Research (Merch Informer Chrome Extension) Merch Tools (Analytics Chrome Extension) Linkclump (Archiving Merch Listings) Amazon Merch Tools (Archiving Merch Listings) Unicorn Smasher (Analytics) If you enjoyed this video please like, share and subscribe. My channel features content about entrepreneurship, passive income, my natural hair / loc journey, vegan diet, music, arts, culture, comedy and more! Stay tuned... You can also find me on… Website: http://absolutevenus.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/absolutevenus Youtube: http://youtube.com/absolutevenus Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/absolutevenus Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/absolutevenus

Venus Entrepreneurship | Passive Income 2019 | Merch By Amazon Report Copyright Infringement

Visionaries, wanted to share with you my quick process of reporting copycat pixel for pixel copies of my designs. This method has worked for me pretty well and most times the designs that I report are taken down within 24 hours or less.

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If you need to report a copyright infringement visit http://www.amazon.com/report/infringement

Playlist | Merch By Amazon Essential Videos for Beginners
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0J33oeGpZnZGx-WQDNXDIDzxHpodfLih

Merch Tools I Use For Research and Design
Merch Informer (affiliate) - https://merchinformer.com/609.html
Canva (Graphic Design)
DS Amazon Quick View (Analytics)
Openclipart (Images/Graphics)
Pixlr (Image Editor)
Pixabay (Images/Graphics)
Pretty Merch (Analytics)
Merch Police Infringement for Amazon (Copyright Infringement Form Tool)
Merch Research (Merch Informer Chrome Extension)
Merch Tools (Analytics Chrome Extension)
Linkclump (Archiving Merch Listings)
Amazon Merch Tools (Archiving Merch Listings)
Unicorn Smasher (Analytics)

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Loc Update | Why I CUT My Locs

Visionaries, been a while since I gave you a loc update. In this video I explain why I cut my dreads. Don't worry I did not cut them all the way off. But, the amount I cut was significant so did not want to just say I "trimmed" them. Let me know if during your journey if you ever cut or trimmed your locs and why. #dreadlocks #locs #naturalhair

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Venus Entrepreneurship | Passive Income 2019 | Merch By Amazon Rejected Designs

Merch By Amazon rejected designs are no fun for any of us. I share my experience with Merch rejections so far and how I learned from them up through my current level of Tier 1000. Share your design rejection experience with me and our fellow merchers. We will get through it together! :)  If you are not yet familiar with Amazon Merch or curious about how to get started with print on demand (POD) check out the playlist below with great vids from other Merchers like me. Enjoy.

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Playlist | Merch By Amazon Essential Videos for Beginners

Merch Tools I Use For Research and Design
Merch Informer (affiliate)
Canva (Graphic Design)
DS Amazon Quick View (Analytics)
Openclipart (Images/Graphics)
Pixlr (Image Editor)
Pixabay (Images/Graphics)
Pretty Merch (Analytics)
Merch Police Infringement for Amazon (Copyright Infringement Form Tool)
Merch Research (Merch Informer Chrome Extension)
Merch Tools (Analytics Chrome Extension)
Linkclump (Archiving Merch Listings)
Amazon Merch Tools (Archiving Merch Listings)
Unicorn Smasher (Analytics)

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Venus Entrepreneurship | Passive Income 2019 | Affiliate Marketing

Be sure to check out John Crestani's Super Affiliate System (affiliate) after reading this post. Great stuff!

Affiliate marketing is a great method of earning passive income. To ensure your success, you need to know your audience and build a solid strategy. What types of products/services are you most interested in promoting? Do you already have an existing brand online? If so, will the product/service you choose to promote fit with your brand? Ultimately, your success is based on how much traffic you can drive and convert into sales, so your strategy for how you will do this needs to be well thought out.

Will you become a direct affiliate for a business or find your potential client(s) via an affiliate network (i.e. Rakuten or ClickBank)? Which ever path you choose, make sure that you also choose the products/services that you believe in/are passionate about. This way your outreach to potential customers will be more genuine because you can communicate with the customer in a way that resonates with them and is tailored to their needs rather than seeming like a generic commercial to the masses. 

Will you focus on a specific communications strategy (i.e. social media, email, etc.)? Which ever method(s) you choose, how big is your audience? Be sure to incorporate the affiliate content into your messaging in a way that is organic/natural rather than forced and sales-like. Timing and tact is everything! Will you generate traffic through paid ads? If so, will it be Facebook Ads, Google Adwords? It all depends on your audience and what you are promoting. 

So far in my affiliate marketing journey, I have made a couple of hundred dollars. The first sale of course is always the most difficult. Once you have the first behind you, you continue to fine tune your strategy for even better performance. 

One great course to try if you are a complete affiliate marketing beginner is John Crestani's Super Affiliate System(affiliate). The course has multiple modules that take you through the fundamentals of what you need to know to begin your affiliate marketing business and develop your strategy. Take a look and see what you think. You get a free training session to get you started as well. If you want to know more about John Crestani before you check out the course, take a look at the interview below. I like the course because it is super practical so I encourage you to sign up soon and get started. No time like the present.

My next Venus Entrepreneurship post is coming soon. If you have not read my last post on Passive Income 2019 | Merch by Amazon check it out.




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