Glen Zubia Reveals His Process to Generate Over $4,000 PER WEEK in Sales Without Spending a Single Cent for Inventory, Using Amazon’s Merch Program – EP80
In this episode of the AM/PM Podcast we talk to Glen Zubia, a successful Amazon Merch seller that goes over the process that has allowed him to sell up to $4,000 per week on Amazon’s Merch program without spending a dime on inventory.
- Introducing Glen Zubia
- Glen tells us what the Amazon Merch program is
- How much money does Glen make from this program?
- How much of his revenue is actually profit?
- What price points does Glen set up on his Merch T-Shirts?
- What is his #1 selling product?
- Using Holidays for big sales
- Does Glen create designs for the front and back of the shirt, or just one?
- Does Glen feel you should focus on single sided shirts or double sided?
- What does Glen thing of the quality of the shirts that you get from the Merch program?
- How many shirt colors does Amazon give you and what does Glen choose?
- What is the most popular shirt color to use on Merch?
- Should you sell text-only based shirts? What does Glen say works best for him?==
- How much money do you need to get started with Merch?
- What you need to look at in terms of image licensing from stock photo sites
- What is shirt gating?
- What is a shirt tier and how does that work?
- What tier is Glen at? He’s way up there!
- How many Tshirts has Glen uploaded to Amazon at this point?
- How many shirts does Glen upload per week and what is his weekly goal?
- Does Glen do this alone or does he outsource some of this work?
- How many hours per week does he spend per week on Merch?
- What happened to Glen’s income when he took a month vacation and didn’t upload even 1 shirt during that time?
- Does Merch only do Tshirts?
- How long does it take for a customer to get a shirt when they order and is this an issue for Merch right now?
- What is your plan to grow beyond your current revenue stream?
- Summary of what the Merch Program is
- What is the price point where sales drop off?
- Checking to see if slogans or trademarked before you start using them on shirts
- How many violations can you have before you get in trouble?
- Does Glen focus on specific niches or does he use a carpet bombing strategy?
- Glen talks about how sales affect the search rankings
- How long did it take Glen to move up to the next tier of shirts?
- How long did it take Glen to fill up the initial 25 shirts for the first tier
- Glen talks about his thoughts on whether getting one company or person to buy 25 shirts at one time can get you past the first tier.
- Glen expands that topic to talk about making money by selling to businesses to create company shirts
- Do men, women or youth shirts sell more than the other?
- Glen talks about which shirt color sells the best for him.
- Any way to get approved faster? Glen talks about one way he saw how to get moved up the list.
- Glen gives his thoughts on using keywords within his listings.
- Dealing with images that you use with Merch and what your options are for each shirt
- Glen talk about how many brands he has and why he does this to keep copy-cats from stealing all his ideas in one place.
- How does Glen choose his brands?
- Can other sellers hop onto your brand? Glen talks about this.
- Do the keywords in your brand name help your listing?
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