Is Merch Informer Worth It? Full Review

Now for the Merch Informer tutorial and a look into the major modules included in the Newbie subscription:

Product Search

Using keywords you can identify best sellers & estimated monthly sales. This enables you to take their concept and make a similar competing design. 

This module also allows you to check competition and advises you whether the niche is saturated or whether it is worth going for/profitable. 

Essentially you can target high-value, low competition ideas and maximize your profit. It makes sure that you don’t waste your time on ideas that will never sell.

The product search functionality saves so much wasted time that even by itself it makes Merch by Amazon worth it for anyone who is even semi-serious about Merch by Amazon.

Keyword Finder

The Keyword Finder module of Merch Informer is invaluable as it can generate hundreds of design ideas from a single word or phrase. This is an incredible creativity boost and means you will always have a surplus of ideas. Aside from the product search, this is the next most valuable module.

Competition Adviser

The Competition Adviser can be accessed from either the Product Search or the Keyword Finder and allows you to determine the profitability of the idea(s) that you’ve uncovered.

This will save you hours of wasted time by avoiding uploading unprofitable designs to Merch by Amazon.

It also lets you know whether the phrase or keywords are trademark safe, preventing you from needing to check TESS manually. This is incredibly useful to prevent account deactivations due to copyright infringement.

Listing Optimiser

Then you have the listing optimiser which will take a look at your listing and grade it based on how effective your keywords, title, etc. are. It also features synonym suggestions to maximize keyword saturation and increase traffic, and therefore sales.

Merchant/Brand Search

Merchant/Brand Search is similar to the product search but you are limiting the results to a high-performing brand. This way you can see a successful Amazon Mercher’s products, how they’ve structured keywords etc., and try to replicate their success.

Trademark Alerts (Limit to 50 for Newbie)

When you submit a design to Merch by Amazon it should not be trademarked. The problem is that a trademark can be registered after you upload.

In legal terms, you are protected by previous use (before it was registered) but unfortunately, Amazon doesn’t see it this way and will take your t-shirt down and potentially add a strike against your account which can eventually lead to suspension.

The trademark alert means that you are notified if a design you have listed breaches a trademark and can take it down before even Amazon can react, thus avoiding any takedowns.

Again, this functionality is a huge time saver, making the Newbie package with Merch Informer worth it several times over.

Newbie Subscription Conclusion

So as you can see for $9.99 the Newbie Subscription for Merch Informer is packed full of useful tools to get you up and running with Merch by Amazon. It keeps those ideas flowing and keeps you up to date with trends. And as mentioned, you can trial Merch Informer for free for 3 days, so you can check it out before committing to pay.

If you’re new to Amazon Merch, are returning after a hiatus, or are simply running out of ideas, the Newbie subscription pays for itself as you’ll reap the cash back after only a couple of sales.

Personally, when we began our Amazon Merch journey we found Merch Informer essential. Over the years when ideas were running dry, we returned and renewed our subscription, each time seeing a very visible increase in sales on the Amazon platform.