”Inspirational and motivational speakers to help you grow and expand your Merch business to the next level. Find out how to improve your designs, get new niche ideas, expand your horizons and change your mindset to get the success you deserve.
JANICE PAPWORTHMerch Conference UK Attendee
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Speakers
Please give a warm welcome to the conference speakers. They come from a variety of backgrounds and they’re all keen to share their knowledge and experience with you.
Michael Essek is a designer and illustrator with over 5 years experience in the online T-Shirt licensing industry.
Michael helps artists and designers better understand the print-on-demand and licensing business, so they can generate better ideas, create better designs and make a sustainable income from their work.
Douglas Nimoh is a Dad of 7 and a digital marketing consultant helping businesses since 2007. He joined Merch shortly after it was launched and was able to build a successful Merch business as a stay at home dad and is now at tier 20k. Over the years he has been building his POD businesses apart from Merch and currently has 3 brands on Etsy.
As 2018 has been challenging in terms of sales on Merch especially from new uploads, Douglas has been looking for ways of solving this problem by using external traffic and sales funnels.
Douglas is an active member in the Merch and POD community and loves to help and encourage others throughout the various Merch Facebook groups.
Uygar has been at the forefront of the digital print industry for almost 11 years and owns alloverprint.it, a Print on Demand Dropshipping company based in London. All Over Print offers a vast range of direct-to-garment (DTG) and sublimated print products. Uygar created the AOP+ app that is the first to integrate both Shopify and Etsy online selling marketplaces and plans to support Amazon integration in 2019.
Uygar works directly with many of the top POD marketers from around the world and specialises in sourcing exciting new POD products and advises sellers of the best manufacturing practices and how best to fulfil their orders via Shopify and Etsy.
Helen has been in e-commerce since 2014 and has focused primarily on Amazon FBA and Merch by Amazon. She is co-host of the Merch Money YouTube channel and Facebook group where they interview a different member of the Merch community every Monday night on a live YouTube show and have seen the channel and FB group grow quickly. She has a passion for helping people learn how to succeed on Merch and build their own businesses.
Matt started with nothing. Just a council estate kid from a low-income family in the UK.
With no financial help, no mentors and no guidance, Matt taught himself everything he needed to know and quickly established a passive 6-figure online income. Fast forward until the current day and he has made a comfortable 8-figures in sales online and believes building and monetizing audiences is one of the best ways to make money online.
Having multiple 6-Figure Facebook Groups built organically from scratch with no paid traffic, Matt aims to share his secrets with you.
Luke started his P.O.D journey back in 2013 on Spreadshirt. Since then he’s expanded onto over 10 different platforms including KDP and has recently reached tier 14000 on Amazon Merch. In a few months since starting KDP he has expanded his KDP income from 0 to 4 figures.
This secret speaker has asked to remain anonymous until the conference. You will not want to miss their talk though as it will not be recorded so you'll need to be there to benefit from its content.
Schedule
Session
Content
12:30pm
Registration
Registration is to the right of the bar in Reception.
1:00pm
Introduction
Welcome to the Merch UK Conference
Douglas Nimoh
Creating sales funnels & driving external traffic to Merch
Helen Kinson
Merch By Amazon & Ecommerce
Rick Blyth
Tools & Workflows to streamline your Merch By Amazon
Luke Bowes
How to succeed at KDP for busy Merchers
Matt Webley
How To Grow & Monetise Niche Audiences Using Facebook Groups
Secret Speaker
Find out on the day
Uygar Turantekin
POD secrets, techniques & branding ideas
Michael Essek
Generating new ideas and concepts for Merch By Amazon
Panel Q&A
Q&A on various Merch/POD related topics
6:00pm
Pre-Dinner drinks in the bar
7:00pm
3 course meal
8:00pm
Drinks and networking
11:30pm
Venue closes
Location
Macdonald Manchester Hotel
London Rd,
Manchester,
M1 2PG
London Rd,
Manchester,
M1 2PG
Accommodation
We have negotiated a special room rate for conference attendees. A double room with bed & breakfast (based on sole occupancy) of £109. This deal is available on a first come first serve basis and is time limited to expire on January 4th. To get this room rate please call 0344 879 9000 and quote reference MERC180119.
Giveaways
Prize & Donor Information
1 x Simple Shirt Site – Free Copy, 1 x Artwork Automation – Free Copy, 2 x Books -Free Copies
Michael has written two excellent books on Strategies, Tips And Tricks To Help You Sell T-Shirts Online with Merch By Amazon And Print-On-Demand Sites.
He has also created Simple Shirt Site – a WordPress plugin that allows you to quickly generate a professional looking site that increases the visibility of your products on search engines.
Finally, Michael’s created a course called Artwork Automation that allows you to automate batch resizing, transformations and mockup creations.
Get Michael's Products
3 x Pretty Merch Pro Subscriptions – Free for Lifetime
PrettyMerch works within your Merch By Amazon dashboard to show you charts of your recent sales.
It allows you to drill down into these as well as see detailed analytics in the pro version.
Get PrettyMerch Pro
1 x Merch Buddy – Free for Lifetime
Merch Buddy helps to streamline listing batches of Merch By Amazon products.
Utilising features such as Copy/Paste of Colors/Fit Types and listing data it’ll save you hours of tedious listing time.
Get MerchBuddy
1 x Merch Momentum Strategy Guide Free Subscription
Michael Essany’s fantastic weekly guide is a no brainer for any serious Mercher and it comes at the bargain price of just $9.99 a month.
It contains great interviews and even comes with search terms/keywords to spark ideas for niches to target.
Get Michael's Guide
5 x David’s Merch By Amazon courses
David has created a series of online courses around Merch By Amazon and KDP.
He has over 25 courses which have been very well received by 27,000 students.
Get David's Udemy Courses
1 x D4D Design Bundle
Grab some bargain design bundles from D4D. They have specific niche bundle packs, offer “Ready to Rock” packs which have the keywords in them.
They also have an add-on service where they deliver your listing data and graphics within a Merch Wizard compatible Airtable for super quick listing on Merch By Amazon.
Get D4D Designs
1 x Merch Wizard Subscription – Free for Lifetime
MerchWizard lets you store your Merch By Amazon listing data & designs neatly in one place.
It integrates with Airtable so you control access to your data & designs and don’t need to upload them to any 3rd party sites
Get Merch Wizard
1 x Orbitkit – 1 year’s free subscription
Orbitkit is the easiest way to put your designs on multiple POD platforms. Orbitkit completely automates your uploading process to multiple platforms.
Get OrbitKit
5 x $50 AOP+ POD Credits
AOP+ is a London based Print on Demand Company works on Shopify and ETSY. Create and sell unique, made in London, products in your stores.
AOP+ is offering 15 Sample products and 50 USD AOP+ credits to 5 attendees of the Merch UK Conference.
Get the AOP+ Shopify App
