 It's time to stop bullshitting and just face the fact that merch is fucking dead Am I lying? I mean, I think we're just being real. Yeah, so we're positive and optimistic guys But we're also real and honest and the honest truth of the matter is fact of the matter however that line goes is Merch is dead and like no one's making any money before we get into talking about why we feel this way and what you Should do about it if you are immersed in that making money plug away Rasmus We created a mastermind group on Facebook completely free nothing. You got to give us or anything It's really for you guys and the reason why You're lying already. They do have to give us. You gotta give us your email. I have to give us your email Okay, I don't know what we're gonna do with it We're not gonna send you emails yet at least maybe sometime in the future But we're at least collecting your email in real life It's impossible to find people that actually give a shit about online business and entrepreneurship Like I actually want to change the fucking life facts I can't find one in real life. Everyone I find is online in particular It was those one particular Facebook group Well, I've made a lot of like online friends that turn to real life. Let's shout out friends Yeah, it's called mentored by millionaires. It's Mike Vestille's free Facebook group So we're creating our own free Facebook group to kind of serve the same purpose Just a place to network and meet other people just like you, you know Just people who are into online business Ambitious want to actually fucking do something worth a life instead of just go home 9 to 5 bullshit routine and not actually get anywhere Everyone wants it but the people that actually do something about it. Yeah, and we've made four really good friends Let me shout out real quick Zach, Henry, Carter, Tyler, they all have channels These are four people that we've met up with and our legitimate friends now just from this free Facebook group So we made our own Facebook group because we want to create that thing I want people to have a place where they can find Other entrepreneur like you and just talk so you can make whatever posts you want actually like I know I want to be a part of this online business freedom lifestyle thing whatever But I don't know what to do. Where do I begin? It's the first link in the description if you ask me the points to make friends in that group Okay, let's move on to actual fucking video merch is fucking dead. Oh, what do we start? Where do we talk about why we think so? Yeah, let's talk about why we think so so why we think so is because People are not making money People are not making money And if you are you're not making as much as you should be compared to the time that you're putting into it There's way better businesses that you could be spending your time on making way more money So I want to talk about my experience and first of all you can't even tell what yours could just get terminated because I'll eat that's what it takes. Let's talk about that But you cannot rely on it to be a real long-term business that's asking to change your life I feel like yeah, oh for what? No, no, it's not you feel like that's the way it is You cannot rely on Merchant Amazon as a stable source of income. It's like your account at all times It's just hanging by a thread. It's true. And then like Augustine wind Or like if something like a leaf can come on cut the thread and the falls and destroys your business And you don't even have to be like doing black black hat shit You can be playing by the rules and everything and you'll still get terminated Out of nowhere and Amazon does not give a shit. They're basically like fuck you Fuck off. That's what happened to me. Yeah, I got my shit terminated for no good reason Let me talk about myself real quick So I haven't made an income report video and maybe like three months or something because I'm not because I'm trying to hide them I'm that it like my income's gone down, but it's not that much to talk about There's nothing to learn from that making I have the most t-shirts out More than I've ever had right and my income keeps going down when Merchant Amazon and the reason why is if you realize in the past Don't go. Yeah, if you guys in the past people are getting rejected from Merchant Amazon Mm-hmm. I think they're accepting everyone now Yeah, and I see why they weren't accepting everyone in the past because look at what's happening Yeah, one year ago. This was not applicable one year ago people were making money people were putting out t-shirts You're making sales the more you tear up the more sales you make the more t-shirts You have out the more sales you make now. It's the opposite like every month it comes going down You're putting out more designing no money selling spending more money every month the more designs out and my income is going down And another a cool thing that merches doing is they're coming out with all these new things pop sockets Which were making money, but not anymore and then everyone hopped on them and then I got super sad And there's like and Merch dot UK. I don't sell pop sockets anymore Remember I made a video but had to sell a hundred bucks a month. That was sick But you're actually selling a hundred plus. That was real. I was real. I saw like 140 in one month How many you saw now month? I Sway, maybe 10. Oh Wow, and nothing's changed you put out more pop sockets. Yep. Yeah, so sales are just dying off for everyone across the board from what I know I'll be honest. I haven't seen a single other person's dashboard I'm assuming that's the case So when I got my account terminated I was doing like 300 a month and I had worked on that business for over 12 months It's fucking sad, right? How sad is that? It's really sad. That's sad So it that was my fault, but it was also Merchandise not just sucks thick I and you you have you know, I thought a thousand yet. I totally yeah, my max was like 970 I've had like good success with Merch right in the whole in the grand scheme of things $970 one month who cares Which what I want to do I want to hear from you guys I want to hear how long you've been doing it. What's here? You went and how much money are you making? Yeah, and how much are you spending to get designs out because I feel like I have a good system in place I'm only paying two bucks for super high quality designs other people spending five talking fast buddy slow down If I know you're passionate about how much Merch sucks. No, no, I'm more passionate about that Okay, I'm very passionate about how much Merch sucks But I have like a good system in place like have expenses pretty low if others are spending $5 per Stake, then you're I think your expenses are way out paying your yeah They're way more expensive a lot of people aren't even broken even yeah, yeah now that's a shit business to be in This is a good transition to go into like what do you do about it? Mm-hmm. So first off if I think you're in Merch and you're struggling which you are because you're in Merch I think this is why I believe you should stop doing Merch Stop wasting your time with it and actually put it into a much better business model now There's a bunch name an online business and it's gonna do better than Merch The thing about Merch is it's so easy for anyone to get stuck if you're trying to make your first all online I think Merch is the best thing and that's why there's who cares. I'll make one doll That's just like you who I made a doll that sort of thing and that's why there's a million people in Merch And there's literally we were saying there's like going 50,000 shirts up a day There's no way it's way more than 50,000 teachers. You guys enough you can put up how many 300 a day 400 I put you learn you to listen 400 a day just one account because that's so expensive. Yeah, okay Put it up 400 new designs cost $800 $800 what That's one day Wow Wow Wow what do you do if you are in Merch? Stop Merch Go into a better online business spend your time building that online income somewhere else and what we're gonna recommend We're obviously gonna recommend what has worked for us and has changed our lives Why wouldn't we we've tried drop shipping we've tried on the NFBA Video about our experience with those. Yeah, it's pretty interesting. We've tried you know information product Which did really well, but that's different because we that's with YouTube. We've tried making an app I tried that but self-publishing has by far by far been the best results The easiest it's not about easy, but it is the easiest to make money. Actually, it is about easy money Let's just be honest. Why would you want to make hard money if you can make easy money if it's real? No reason. Exactly. Exactly. Just say what it is. Yeah, let's say you hit a thousand. How long take you hit a thousand? Nine months, maybe probably not over a year. No, I've been doing it now for like okay for like 14 right? So you've been successful so you could take nine months to get to a thousand or You could be like Eric Foster and Hit hit 4k in royalties in two months two months into the business 4k in one month See look I was wondering if he had I was wondering if he had books before they turn on your books No, he ordered his very first book ever on August like third. Uh-huh. Yeah, and then in October made 4,000 also, so oh that reminds you we have a Road to 10k episode two coming soon. How many audiobook sales did we make we made 37 overnight 37 overnight? So I think we're on track right now. You know like five bucks each It's like 150 bucks. Oh, this account is brand new. We started a few months ago We're bringing up to 10k as fast as possible. We're on track. I don't want to talk too much about it. Sorry Sorry, I just love audiobooks and publishing because you actually make money with it All right, so with regards to what do you do if you're a marshmallow is on how do you get into publishing? I mean risk-free. Do you have to run money right now? Just learn about it. What do you do? We have a free mini course about audiobooks completely free This is like what's the rest so it's this Mastermind link as the first one the free you want the free courses the second one Definitely check both of those out and yeah doesn't hurt too. Yeah I don't think we missed anything. We're really bad at making shorter videos not the shorter videos are better But sometimes we just ramble. I don't think we rambled I think everything we've talked about has been on point except for right now. I'm rambling about how much we ramble Like I'm rambling about putting this shit. I'm sorry. I know people used to I've heard of people making 10 15 Kilo Mercer for haven't heard a single oh a long time ago I haven't heard about the ship. Yeah, that was the shit I haven't heard a peep about a cent shit because they're not making the money. Yeah one last thing I want to say okay, and then this video is over. Yeah, then this video is over So the reason why Mercex is consulting competition. I'll just show an example of like the most niche Keyword and look at how many fucker results are like. Oh, I got this fire Keyword it's so unique. Let's get to 200 people already made this fucking design. Yeah, and audiobooks is the exact opposite There's no competition. That's what makes it so fucking great and easy And it's not gonna float competition because there's a barrier of entry. That's a lot Merce There's no barrier entry. So everyone just comes running through the merch gates But then you put a little hurdle and it just followed a trip over it And then they land on their face and they don't get back up And then they stop so alright and the fucking that's that's the end of the video Do you agree that Mercex dead or not be honest like talk with your head and not your heart like oh I've been immersed for a year. No, I'm gonna build this thing. No Mercex You don't suck Mercex. I know we might be stepping on some people's feet right here. Maybe I don't know shit show me I'm wrong. Thanks for watching. I'm gonna do one of these. Have a good day Before we end the video, I just want to say this please do not get discouraged by this video I'm saying it because I don't want you to waste your time working on something When there's so many better options to make money online So please I want this to encourage you take action in publishing I'm not saying do publish you so we teach you do something else as well I just don't think Mercex Amazon is the best thing out there and then also We forgot the secret emoji of the video the magic of the magic emoji of the video I'm sorry. All right. See ya