How to Make Money Selling T-Shirts on Amazon


Elaine Heney

Elaine is an online entrepreneur from Ireland. Over the last 10 months she has started a new business selling print on demand t-shirts via Amazon’s newest platform, Merch By Amazon. In these 10 months she has sold over $120,000 worth of t-shirts, with profits of over $53,000 while travelling the world.

Elaine is a #1 best-selling business author, has been featured on the Huffington Post, has spoken at the Underground Online Conference in New Orleans and was a keynote speaker at the great British Business Show.

She also has her own podcast, the Merch Entrepreneur Podcast.

Some things we talked about:

  • Started on Amazon FBA
  • A Facebook friend told her about Amazon Print on Demand
  • She uploads designs and works 1 hour a day
  • She has a virtual assistant and uses Upwork to hire her designers
  • Uses apps on her phone to design T-shirts
  • Over is one of the names of an app
  • She now has over 2,000 designs but started with 10, which is the minimum needed to apply
  • Merch will not give you more space until you have sold ten shirts
  • She works in three main fields:
    • Seasonal: Easter, Fathers Day, Halloween, Christmas, etc.
    • Evergreen: jobs, professions, family, sports, pets
    • Trending Topics: What’s Hot
  • She does nothing to market them, 100% are sold through organic traffic
  • You set the price for your T-shirt
  • $19.99 is recommended and you make $7.50
  • uspto.gov is a site to search if there is a trademark in the category that you want to use
  • People buy because of a slogan that resonates with them
  • She also does two podcasts per week
  • Join facebook groups merch by amazon and merch entrepreneur
  • It only takes 60 seconds to apply, go to merch.amazon.com
  • You don’t need to be a techie
  • Elaine Googled how to make an app and started an app business
  • Uses Amazon UK, Amazon Europe and Amazon USA
  • Amazon pays one time per month
  • No risk so sign up and start designing while waiting
  • Join Facebook groups
  • Money really starts rolling in when you have 500 designs
  • Go to Merchresurch.com and type in any phrase-click go and you will see every T-shirt related to that phrase.

Website URL: merchentrepreneur.com