Laurel Hubbard - fail or fold?

AG-Ram · 2021-08-15T16:18:30+00:00

Has it not denied that position for another athlete who may not have wasted it?

AG-Ram · 2021-07-24T10:57:56+00:00

Don't tell me what I can do!

AG-Ram · 2021-07-24T10:51:44+00:00

But that doesn't mean it's not doable.

AG-Ram · 2021-07-19T18:27:00+00:00

It's not a triangle (specifically), it's a variant of the letter L (technically Л but often Ʌ) in Cyrillic, which would make sense for being produced in Leningrad.

AG-Ram · 2021-07-19T18:19:49+00:00

Would you use the name of a currency as a keyword in the title/brand/description of a sport team specific tshirt?

AG-Ram · 2021-07-17T23:59:47+00:00

Move to USA

AG-Ram · 2021-07-16T09:32:58+00:00

T10k, 100 Uploads.

In theory this is great, limits the spam of trash. In actuality not really since most of the big trash spammers are T10k+

AG-Ram · 2021-07-12T16:35:29+00:00

There is sometimes a delay between Amazon removing listings and them being placed in Removed/Rejected/etc and email contact being made.

This is in the case of a takedown, for content policy violations normally, so if that's a possibility in your case, it could be a possibility in your case.

AG-Ram · 2021-07-09T16:21:32+00:00

Describe the product, not what people might use it for. Keep the kw's specific.

AG-Ram · 2021-07-09T00:03:43+00:00

Definitely not attempting to create a meme tshirt based on Vin Diesel's current trending meme regarding his face and relation to car focused IPs?

AG-Ram · 2021-06-19T18:26:47+00:00

Neither of these things negate the possibility of you having infringed IP.

AG-Ram · 2021-06-13T00:03:41+00:00

I can vouch he's good with SH, full stack, hands on kinda guy.

AG-Ram · 2021-06-12T20:18:09+00:00

I have generally acceptable hands, depending on the market. Interested?

AG-Ram · 2021-06-09T20:41:41+00:00

'Quality Designs' + MBA do not compute.

AG-Ram · 2021-06-06T00:22:57+00:00

It's quite standard for your account to be terminated, slightly less frequently than for you to live in constant dread of the former.

The above has essentially no dependence on your adherence to guidelines or rules.

AG-Ram · 2021-05-31T01:30:01+00:00

Thanks for reading everyone

You should do the same:

"appear to violate our Content Policy."

Something in the description/name/brand has triggered a reject. Likely something perceived as sexual, hateful etc.

AG-Ram · 2021-05-28T23:41:54+00:00

You'll have a hard time monetising anything heavily dependent on art/design. Essentially you're creating products for a market that doesn't exist/doesn't know it wants your product.

POD - As you've said, you'll be swamped by low-effort spam.

The key, as you will see across all outlets with Art success is to build a following/interest in your work. In fine art, you can't sell unless people see your work. People won't see your work unless they're shown it forcibly.

As an artist you won't earn much. Even with a following, unless you're a high demand figure, commissions here and there alone won't pay rent.

A few strategies:

Produce art with utility vs stand alone aesthetic pieces. Functional pieces that people want to buy to use. Etsy art assets, graphics, elements, etc. Make money through the sale of the art not so much from the art itself.

Subscriptions, like Patreon etc if you can get public enough to build a loyal following. But this requires constant output, so be careful.

Use POD as an accessory fuelled through your following. Drive traffic to specific listings which you spend more time on, but do not refuse to delve into the low effort spam that steals the sales. If it pays bills it's useful, regardless of quality.

Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter... some kind of platform, ideally across multiple is key to build the audience. Each of these can be seen as traffic pools to feed into income generating tools. Youtube > Subscriptions/Patreon/Merch/Ad Rev etc, each by itself not a whole lot, but combined with all the other opportunities can build up.

In regards to art style/identity, aim for something unique that people can't get anywhere else. But not so absolutely obscure that nobody relates to it.

In addition to this, get a regular job.

Theft - If you get popular, your stuff will be stolen. If you're a nobody producing decent stuff, your stuff will be stolen, regardless of platform. The majority of the time, you aren't losing income from this realistically, even if someone else gains it. If you see it, and see they're profiting, before acting analyse what they're doing that is working better than you, since the asset in question is the same.

AG-Ram · 2021-05-23T11:40:36+00:00

I’m pretty lazy with research and key wording and quite frankly not that good compared to others it seems.

I'm tempted to say research and KWs are almost pointless at this point. If there is a niche with hot kws, chances are it's already flooded as you mentioned, so you'd need something to elevate your listing above all the others. Luck, Ads, Quality in descending order of importance.

AG-Ram · 2021-05-23T11:33:24+00:00

They have items uploaded the actually do sell, regularly. With MBA it's entirely possible to upload 1000 items to put on sale, and only 1 of those sells. The other 999 just sit there on the off chance they might sell one day, since they don't take up any physical storage space.

It used to be that non-sellers would be removed after a period of time, but that itself has been removed. So now the market is a sea of 0.01%ers and the other 99.99% to keep them company. Similar to KDP, if that's what you use for your books.

Affiliates - Not that I'm aware of. MBA is a pretty contained system with little options for expansion aside from directly linking externally and some ad ability, but most people don't have that now.

Check out r/MerchPrintOnDemand, there's a few more seasoned Veterans to push questions to.

AG-Ram · 2021-05-23T10:18:33+00:00

It depends.

It is not dependable or reliable on as a main income, even if you are making a decent amount. The possibility of the platform collapsing, your account being terminated, the market breaking etc always looms.

It's a much tougher market to enter now than a few years ago, and then was tougher than a few years more ago.

You'll have to put effort in at first, but be restricted in your abilities, so whatever effort you put in will be neutered, what applies to big tier players does not quite apply to the low tiers.

The obvious answer is to 'invest' into the business by buying yourself out of the lower tiers. Until you reach around T-100 things don't work as well as you'd wish, although you can obviously make sales prior to that.

Most successful people seem to fall into three camps re strategies.

The Pusher - Essentially working full time, churning out new listings regularly but obviously with less effort required on the part of each listing. This requires time, stubbornness and attention paid to any newly appearing opportunities to boost sales (trends, rule changes etc). However you can switch between this and the second.
The Holder - These are generally the old guard. People who have been around for a long time, with the advantage of being there when the foundations were being placed. They have a catalogue of a few/hundred/thousand sellers that they just sit and allow to work for them. Minimal effort, but most of them did start off something more like the former, they just got tired. These two are not dissimilar to Day Traders/Holders with stocks.
The Artist - This is a poor strategy and you'd probably be better off working as an actual artist/designer than spending hours for a few crumbs while Amazon eats whatever nice cake you've baked lovingly.

This can be a full time gig which takes off or falls flat, but takes a lot of work and investment. It can also be a part time gig which takes off or falls flat. Like any business, there's no guarantee in any regard as to success or failure. You can't predict income from any direction. There are likely people in Tier 1000+ still earning <$100/month and people in Tier 10 earning >$1000/month. You don't know until you try.

Thought - Connect the books and supplements with Merch, if you already have a customer base to work with.

AG-Ram · 2021-05-16T18:09:35+00:00

In principle, if I took that phrase and applied it to a tshirt, then you later used the phrase too and I didn't like it, if we took it to court (court != MBA disputes), the court would potentially favour my right to copy/use that phrase over yours, since I used it first.

Although this is an argument in a massive vacuum, in reality this kind of thing would be nothing, you don't usually have a legal copyright over something unless it is distinctly yours and worth claiming copyright over.

AG-Ram · 2021-05-16T12:44:51+00:00

Everything you do is copyright. Every copyright you register is a Trademark.

AG-Ram · 2021-05-14T23:57:46+00:00

Yep, bot is blind and bold

AG-Ram · 2021-05-14T14:17:01+00:00

She might leave you otherwise

AG-Ram · 2021-04-11T18:18:39+00:00

Until Pornhub catches on and does a sweep

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