HOW LONG until I hit $1,000 PER MONTH on Amazon Merch? (Not what you'd expect)

In this video I show you how long it took me to reach $1K in Royalties in one month on Merch by Amazon. I also give you tips on how you can apply my experience to your own journey. My intention with this video is to motivate you and to give you some perspective, in the case that you are not currently happy with your Print on Demand results.
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[@yassinemouradallah8694]

Thank you for your frankness, because you do not sell illusions to people as some do, results that require a lot of work and some time because there are a lot of skills that must be learned

[@PhilipAnders]

Yes it definitely takes a lot of time and dedication. Whilst it's an easy business to start because you just need a computer and time, doesn't mean it's as easy or quick to succeed.

[@MissMolly3377]

@@PhilipAnders That is what I said. His channel is awesome. He isn't trying to sell something, every 5 minutes. He genuinely wants to help us. He is in one of my top 5 POD channels, easily. It is hard for me, because I have to use my daughter's computer, and I can't use it, if she is on it. I use her iPad to design, but her iPad isn't one of the best ones, so I need to use the computer to upload and make sure my designs are properly set up. Sometimes, what I do on the iPad shows up differently on the computer.

[@PhilipAnders]

Thank you very much for the comment! Just out of curiosity, who else is in your top 5?

[@kaizendae]

Thanks your vids they really hit better than the rest, The mindset speech, belief in compounding breeds patience and more work, I'm not suprprised you're very successful and won't be surprised if you reached even more. I'm on Merch since 2018 still Tier 4K now with ~40 Monthly sales, I had to stop between 2020 and 2022 I got Masters degree and first job, I started to get back on the game hopefully I reach tier 8K and $1k/Month By the end of this year. Good luck!

[@PhilipAnders]

Thank you for the kind comment and I am glad you like my content that much! If you have got some time to put into Merch I am sure you can get to tier 8000 this Q4. I have been self employed since May 2019 so I had a lot of time to put into this. I can imagine with a Masters degree & job it must have been impossible to spend any time on POD. If you're still getting ~40 sales a month and tier 4k you must have been doing something right before you stopped👌

[@trollnearu1595]

I applied 3 weeks ago for the first time and I got approved

[@fact_crap]

How do you approved ?!

[@musicteacherengel]

Thank you very much for this truthful and honest information. I am still a newbie in this POD world, and I've already started to get discouraged about the lack of sales. I started off focusing on evergreen designs because I thought that's what would sell, and maybe those will pay off in the future, but they certainly haven't gotten me out of the lower tiers. I appreciate your advice (and the advice of others) to focus instead on trends that will result in more immediate sales in order to get out of the lower tiers and open up more slots for some evergreen designs. All that to say: Thank you, Philip!

[@PhilipAnders]

You're welcome and thank you for watching! I hope you found this video encouraging. Pretty much everyone feels as you do when starting out with POD. If you enjoy the work associated with it, it's worth it to keep going!

[@moreiranelson2041]

@Steve Engel are there any monthly fees or anything that you need to pay to use MBA ?

[@PhilipAnders]

@@moreiranelson2041 MBA is totally free

[@moreiranelson2041]

@@PhilipAnders okay nice thank you :)

[@musicteacherengel]

@@moreiranelson2041 Yes, totally free, which is what initially appealed to me. The application process can take a long time. Philip and others have great videos on how to apply.

[@Mikenike88]

I started back in 2019 and my first 1000 came from December 2022. It felt good.

[@faithwoman8]

Thanks for being honest! I am more motivated to keep working on my design skills...Thanks again.

[@PhilipAnders]

I am glad you found the video motivating! :)

[@ruslank4028]

Hi Philip. I have just recently stumbled upon your videos and can't stop watching them and I'm not kidding. Since you're talking about money in this video I have a question to ask as a new person into this POD stuff. Are the payments that artists like yourself receive from Amazon, Redbubble, and other POD marketplaces already tax deducted? What I want to know is who pays the taxes, the artist, or the platform which deducts it and sends money to your account net of taxes? The marketplaces I have researched don't state this clearly. They mention tax forms they send out to artists and that is it. Keep up the good work!

[@PhilipAnders]

this depends on where you live and what the tax laws are between your country and the one where the payment is coming from. For me it's only in very few cases that tax is deducted before I receive payment.

[@PhilipAnders]

And I am glad you are hooked on my videos :D Thanks for watching them!

[@ruslank4028]

@@PhilipAnders Thanks for the prompt reply.

[@fisher774]

Thank you philip

[@maximusDMR]

Hello Philip, can you help me understand why some designs have like 300 sales per day and all the rest copied once (almost the same just tweaked slightly) have no sales at all? I've seen many times situation like this and can't figure it out. Is someone running some ads on this listing or something or just dominated the niche so madly that no one is able to compete?

[@user-re2dc7dv3d]

This video makes me back to life again

[@PhilipAnders]

glad it helped you!

[@jaceborg]

A year from now I'll likely STILL be waiting for Amazon to tier me up ;)

[@HomeOfficeHustler]

wow great video, I'm on T2 and only making about $300/$400 a month with 1750 design. how many designs and Tier were u when u start making $1k a month?

[@PhilipAnders]

As it's 2 years ago I don't remember which Tier I was and how many designs I had unfortunately. But this Q4 should definitely help you. From my experience new shirts start selling during q4 and then carry on selling throughout the next year, leading to an increase in average monthly income. If you sell evergreens that is.

[@spudspuddy]

ive been stuck on tier 500 for years, i'm maxed out on designs, should i start deleting all my old ones and replace with new designs ????? i rarely make a 100 bucks in any month

[@pushismano77]

I got into Merch two month later than you, tried every strategy possible, will be sitting in tier 10 but random tiering happened 😀 and now I'm 100, with 27 designs of 100 and no ideas what to do next. Redbubble shop completely dead with 2000 designs. Maybe T-shirts just not my thing? I sell other stuff on diferent platforms.

[@PhilipAnders]

if you are having success and fun with the other stuff you are selling, I would say follow that. If you are really passionate about POD I would try and fill up those 100 slots with some unique Halloween designs :)

[@MorenoChileOficial]

Redbubble is dead for everyone!

[@pushismano77]

@@MorenoChileOficial good to know,

[@MorenoChileOficial]

@@pushismano77 I think the reality is like Philip describes it. It takes 1 or 2 years to start making decent money on merch. Then you learn the tricks etc. Before I think is BS if someone is telling you different. Redbubble you can make us100 or us200 a month with 5000 designs or more. That's what I think is more accurate. But I see people on youtube preaching they sell us 80.000 per month in Redbubble only to have more followers and more earning with adsense. There's a los of BS out there....

[@pushismano77]

@@MorenoChileOficial 😀I am old enaugh to recognize BS when I see it. I don't want a millon ( for now 😆), I just want to see progress of the work I put in.

[@StuSiney]

u sir are an inspiration!! question being a graphic artist do you mainly make your own designs or buy online?

[@PhilipAnders]

thank you!! I use premade graphics from vexels and creative fabrica quite often to save time. But I also create a lot of stuff myself and customise the premade graphics :)

[@StuSiney]

@@PhilipAnders yes im a tasined Graphic Designer and my own designs have sold best - i am nowhere near your amount of earnings but this has given me hope - do you have a facebook group?

[@PhilipAnders]

@@StuSiney Discord group yes! Link is in the description😉

[@epicrebuild4747]

Nice ma man🔥🔥❤️

[@barbking2708]

I’ve sold 18 shirts and am still in tier 10 hell😭

[@PhilipAnders]

I have always had to wait at least a couple weeks until getting tiered up. So annoying it's not instant. Hope it happens soon!

[@barbking2708]

It’s been 3 months! I know…so frustrating. I’m just ramping on Etsy while I wait. Thanks for your content, it is awesome

[@danimotherofchickens479]

Did you buy your own shirts or were they organic sells?

[@bigcookprintables1968]

Cheers Philip..brilliant video...

[@PhilipAnders]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@joseph-the-seventh]

Loving your content! I am curious to know if you've ever considered buying garment printing equipment (DTG printer) and doing it yourself. I think you would make more profits this way.

[@PhilipAnders]

Thank you! That would mean more profit per order yes but also a massive amount of time input. One of the main draws to this Print on demand model is that it doesn't need direct time input ;)

[@khalidelhiri5369]

Keep going ❤️

[@Mazza1976]

Hi Philip, great video as usual and very honest. I do have a question regarding the keywords vid I have also just watched. When writing the listing it was for a specific niche, gaming and anime, what do you recommend is the best way to write for evergreens e.g. a shirt that says 'Me, Sarcastic, Never?' (this is one of mine) but would like to rank higher (obviously) - any thoughts/advice appreciated and keep up the good work. Thanks

[@PhilipAnders]

I do typically go after hobby related niches so this is a bit of a harder one. I would type sarcastic into the redbubble tag generator for ideas and also look at top sellers with Similar types of quotes and see what they use. Sarcastic is quite a broad term so it's harder to write a listing for it in my opinion. Sorry I can't be of much help

[@MorenoChileOficial]

Thx for sharing! Actually my reality is very similar to yours but I still havent reach the us1000. I think our reality is almost everyones, Earning us4000 in 3 months it seems a little BS for me.

[@PhilipAnders]

You're welcome! I hope you will get there soon, keep going! Q4 is around the corner :)

[@VG00011]

Thank you

[@PhilipAnders]

You're welcome!

[@newlayeryt]

I have a question, yesterday I upload 2 file.now system processing, it's over 8 hours, should I delete the job?or wait?

[@PhilipAnders]

you can't delete processing designs. It just takes a while sometimes, happens to me as well. If it takes longer than a day you could contact the support team about it

[@gouthamkm7510]

What coincidence my timing of starting of MBA was same (feb) & Dec was same, after that i put very little effort but now I focusing again.

[@mint7924]

Curious how much designs did you have in presented statistics, in start, middle, and the end for example ?

[@pjay7415]

Is there a way to reapply, if your merch by amazon application gets denied?

[@PhilipAnders]

Yes, you can apply as many times as you like. You may need a new email address for each new application but I am not 100% sure

[@alexua3920]

Thank you Sir!

[@PhilipAnders]

Most welcome

[@Invisibletoday]

I just found this video and it's really motivating, would you say you have to keep making designs to keep seeing that income?

[@PhilipAnders]

Yes, absolutely. Not just random designs of course, you have to find the right niches and create good designs with good listings. Many won't sell, but you will find more and more good & profitable niches over time

[@Invisibletoday]

@@PhilipAnders Ah that makes sense, thank you for taking the time to reply

[@nanamisorimaji9053]

Can I ask? How many rejected shirt that you ever got in this tier? Thank you

[@PhilipAnders]

I have had 200+ Rejections since I started

[@HistoryBytesX1]

How many reviews do your 20 top selling shirts have on average?

[@PhilipAnders]

Maybe around 50 if I had to guess. Not sure though

[@ISpearfishing]

any tips on how to get accepted on merch if you are not a USA citizen?

[@PhilipAnders]

I actually don't have any tips for that I am sorry. I am from the UK and I managed to get in, I would definitely keep trying. I have heard sometimes it takes a lot of attempts

[@pushismano77]

I have a design background, so I applied with my Behance profile (I lice outside USA), hope it helps.

[@PhilipAnders]

​@@pushismano77 I also added links to graphic design work when I applied No idea if they look at it, but maybe that could help.

[@ISpearfishing]

@@PhilipAnders Thanks for the reply mate. I guess i have to keep trying :)

[@ISpearfishing]

@@pushismano77 Thanks for the tip mate. Never thought of that before. I usually give them my redbubble store. I think i need to open new bank account, new IP address, new home address and try again.

[@club4796]

is it okay to apply for MBA with same email address as KDP because i have already have kdp account

[@PhilipAnders]

Yes that's fine

[@owengraner9520]

How many designs did you do a day?

[@mohamedelamineamine8]

Thanks for sharing

[@PhilipAnders]

thanks for watching!

[@yassineacharki]

Thanks sir 🙏🏻

[@PhilipAnders]

Most welcome!

[@addfeel]

Hello sir please steps for open march account and process

[@MissMolly3377]

I have question about MBA, what exactly do you need to join? I heard you need a portfolio of designs, and I was wondering if that is true. I was wondering how many designs you would need, if so. Or, maybe, you could do a video explaining what you need to have to join MBA. Do you need a business license? Or do you just use your Social Security number? I just hear it is hard to get into MBA, and I was wondering what is the best thing to do, to get accepted? I really want to apply to them. Also, do you need to be a Amazon Prime member to apply, meaning, do you have to pay the monthly fee for Prime, to be able to be accepted, or is just having an account good enough. I probably have tons more questions, but I can't think of them now. 🤦😂 Anyway, Thank you, Phil, your videos are always great. You get to the point and don't waste time, trying to sell courses and everything else, under the sun. 😂

[@PhilipAnders]

Don't overthink the application. I believe I once heard a lot of it has to do with where you live rather than what you actually put in the application. You definitely don't need to be a prime member or have a registered business. I just remember putting something along the lines of I am a passionate graphic designer and I think I could enrich their marketplace with some creative designs. And I linked to a portfolio or something. The sooner you try the better, there is a few weeks wait time for a response as well. And if you get rejected you can always try again 🙂

[@MissMolly3377]

@@PhilipAnders Thank you,, so much. I definitely over think everything. 🤦🤦🤦 I overthink and I am a perfectionist....two things that slow me down. I have heard so many things, about the process, but, like you said, I won't know, if I don't try. I live in Bummed F***ed Egypt 🤦😂, in the USA, so hopefully I will get accepted. I heard it is easier to get accepted, if you live in the USA. Thanks, for the reply, Phil. I really do appreciate all that you do for us!!! It really means a lot that you have shared your journey with us, it helps to see that you can achieve success, with some hard work. 🤗 Hugs from BFE, USA. 😂

[@PhilipAnders]

I challenge you to apply to merch by the end of this week ;) You won't regret it, even if you get declided you will have learnt you might need to change your application & you will have saved time by taking action sooner. Good luck with getting accepted!

[@trollnearu1595]

I applied for the first time 3 weeks ago and I got approved , I did not upload no design no social media accounts or anything and was approved

[@STACKZzHOUSE]

Link to your Amazon shop?

[@yassed-me]

that a nice video .

[@asadali-jv7lx]

Bro, how to create half leopard font in illustrator. I Can't do this. Please help me to do it. Love from Bangladesh🇧🇩🇧🇩

[@PhilipAnders]

I haven't done that before so not sure how to do it currently. But there is a quick way around it by using a graphic font like this one: www.creativefabrica.com/product/cheetah-9/ref/2059869/

[@fact_crap]

Did you sell amzon merch account ?!

[@PhilipAnders]

no

[@melaniesunstorm]

did you use amazon ads to promote your products?

[@PhilipAnders]

Not until I got into tier 20,000

[@VG00011]

Have you used ads much on Amazon ?

[@PhilipAnders]

I only started using ads this year, I am no pro at it but I still wish I had started earlier

[@VG00011]

@@PhilipAnders I'm following your advices to get out of Tiers 10 ASAP. I don't have the Ad option yet. Do you know in what Tiers it becomes available ?

[@PhilipAnders]

@@VG00011 I am not sure but I think I read you get access to ads in tier 500. I didn't use my ads until recently so I can't remember when I got access even

[@outsideMax]

Took me 4 years😂

[@NabilMoutana]

500T making $20 to $50 a months.. i'm really thinking about quitting

[@Fahdlevrai]

I’m a designer I can make design for you

[@addfeel]

@Philip Anders Hello sir please steps for open march account and process