How to start your own Custom Merch.

Have you got enough audience to build your online brand? Do you think you’ve enough organic views? Do you think that your audience will love your content? Then it’s time to build your own online merch and sell them online. Nowadays you might see a lot of YouTubers, Gamers, and many more online platform users creating their own custom merch, selling them by promoting them in their content, selling them online, and earning a lot of dollars. 

Introduction:

Creating merch is much more fun and easier than you’ve thought!

So before starting the process of creating the merch, well first talk about basic stuff. T-shirts are the most sold product in merch. So make sure you create designs on T-shirts also. Your fans love showing off their interest with cool t-shirts.
       Here we’ll learn how to design and create the product and sell then whenever any customers buy it. It is called ‘Print on demand’. You don’t need to buy and later sell them. Your work is only to print and get your profit. 

Here are the steps to follow:

• Spot and recognize your audience for your merch.
• Choose the right platform to design your products.
• Make the best design for your products.
• Start promoting your merch.

So these were the few tricks. We’ll go on one by one now. Please focus on every point this is very important because missing any point might lead you towards failure.

1. Spot and recognize your audience for your merch.

Well, speaking about your audience you already know your audience, what they like and want. Making merch requires a little harder thinking about who is your audience and what they want. You need to be sure of some of the following questions to guide you in this process:

• Who will order your custom shirts?
• Why do they value you and your work?
• Do you need to promote a specific album, web series, or project?

You can also do a survey among your followers to know what kind of stuff the majority of the people like. Doing a survey is a key point to get success cause from the survey you can know what the majority of them like then only you can get the best from your traffic. Most importantly you need to interact with your customers in the best manner possible.

2. Choose the right platform to design your products.

This is the important stem while creating your merch. You need to choose the best platform to design your products from which you are going to create your design and then sell those products from that same platform.
For this process, I’d like to recommend you “print per demand” method. This method has the following advantages:

• No risk at all.
• Low effort.
• Easier and beginner-friendly.

So how this process works is that when someone orders your products only the design you created will be pasted on t-shirts and then it is delivered to the customers and you will get your profit. 

There are many platforms based on “print on demand” such as Shopify, Teespring, Red-bubble, Bonfire, etc. I’ve personally tried Teespring and it was pretty user-friendly. You can also try others. But make sure that you choose the right one cause later it will be hard for you to switch between other platforms. As a beginner, I suggest you use Teespring.

3. Make the best design for your products.

This is the step you need to pay full attention to. This is the most fun part of this process. Now after you’ve finally identified what kind of audience you have and also you’ve selected a suitable platform for yourself to create the design you can finally start creating the perfect designs that your audience likes.

Now it’s not necessary to design the stuff from the same platform You can also use some editing platforms like Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, etc. then you can import the design into your product.    

Most importantly you need to focus on creating a design that is liked by your audience. Here are some important tips for this method:

• Choose the best color and style for your product.
• Explore some trends.
• Use some existing branded materials.
• Create a contrasting element to refine your design.

By considering your own needs and the specifics of your audience in mind, it will be easy to create an effective design that will attract attention.

4. Start promoting your merch.

Finally, it is the last step of creating merch. After finally creating a design for your products you need to promote your merch on the internet so that more people can reach there.

You can promote your products on social media like Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, YouTube, or any site where you have your audience engaged on it. And you can also share your product with your friends and family.

To promote your merch I recommend these 4 things:

• Scheduled posts on different social media platforms following a distinct beginning, middle, and end pattern.
• Use Photoshop to make your products look good.
• Simple links that prioritized user experience, making it easy to click a single link.

You need to be sure that your custom merch serves several purposes such as: making money engaging your followers and promoting your brands.

Conclusion:

At last creating, custom merch is really a fun process. Yeah, it will be hard for you to continue doing it at first but once it gets successful then, believe me, you have a chance of getting rich.

Creating merch requires a lot of hard work and the hardest part is to engage your audience in your products. Since the method that we’ve learned here is risk-free you can work part-time and later when the sales start increasing you can switch to full-time.

The most awesome thing about it is that anyone from any part of the world can do this cause it’s really the easiest way to create and sell your products.

Don’t give up!! Start creating merch from today.