Introduction: Make and Sell Custom Shirts w/ Merch by Amazon (Udemy.com)

The course is a 3.3 hour walkthrough of Merch by Amazon, the program that lets anyone sell print-on-demand shirts on Amazon. It runs 39 lectures over 14 short sections: a quickstart that builds a shirt, the dashboard, the image template and shirt creation. After that come eight Photoshop tutorials, design and business ideas, and a brief trademark and copyright section. It is pitched at total beginners, and about 37,900 students have taken it. The course skips in-app promotion, and the description says so.

Reviewers like the pace and the plain delivery. Chris Green is described as clear and to the point, and one person calls it a nice ramp from zero to a listed shirt. The business ideas section gets a specific shout-out. The complaints are fair, though. One designer already knew half of it, another found a lot of it common sense, and one reviewer felt it was padded with repetition. A German student missed tax and billing detail for people outside the US, and one reviewer said it all exists on the instructor's YouTube channel.

Age is the biggest catch. The last update was September 2016, and a 2019 reviewer noted that Merch has since added things like tiers. The course holds 4.1 stars from 1,006 ratings, with 588 of them five stars, so most people left satisfied. Treat it as a cheap orientation to the basics, then check Amazon's current rules before relying on any detail. A few happy students said they plan to take the instructor's advanced course.