hey what's up guys the theme of today's
video is preparing for Black Friday and
Cyber Monday and I actually had printful
send me a box of some best-selling
products that you can stock your shops
with whether it's on Shopify whether
it's on you know my preference like
Amazon
Etsy Etc but these are some product
ideas that are selling really well right
now I'm gonna review them for you uh in
person I had my mom actually film it for
me so shout out to my mom for helping
with the video and printful by the way
they put together some resources I will
link to all of them in the description
to help you prepare for this holiday
sales season and to me that really does
kick off the holiday sales season on
Black Friday on Cyber Monday so
definitely you know your customers
whether it's like I said whether it's
through your Amazon and Etsy shops or if
you have your own you know Shopify store
and I'm sure you have your email list
that is like something that you must do
you must be sending coupons out and
running sales so we have like the 2022
uh online sales guide basically here on
printful prepping you for the holiday
season Q4 foreign
shopping holiday guide 10 steps to jump
starting your holiday preparations
social media trends to inspire your 2022
holiday marketing campaigns and finally
the holiday order deadlines which is
always something that we need to keep in
mind if we're using printful for
fulfillment so all of those will be
linked in the description now let's get
to the product review
we wanted to say hello anybody that's
been been subscribed to my channel since
2020 may remember her she was in a
couple videos but she was the size of my
hand and now she's fully grown and here
at my parents house so Millie will be
also around while I do the unboxing
alright so let's check out what printful
sent me
all right first thing I notice you guys
know I love to sell hats uh my mom
behind the camera knows I like to sell
hats because oftentimes
they get shipped back to me from Amazon
I don't know why Amazon customers feel
the need to ship them back since I have
returnless refunds but uh she's
certainly seen you know at this point
hundreds of returns and they just kind
of pile up and then I give them to her
and she gives them away so we have a hat
here it says you snooze you lose and I
didn't actually choose what they sent me
so this is the organic baseball cap
e-conscious so I believe it's like an
eco-conscious uh baseball hat and you
know guys people are loving the you know
Eco what I call it eco-conscious I guess
the green movement you know what I mean
the uh the products that are reducing
the burden on the planet so this is
definitely one that you could consider
selling this Black Friday Cyber Monday
that is the theme of this video even
though you can sell them year round it's
not like you need a holiday to sell them
but uh this is certainly something you
should consider stocking on your store
we have some stickers so they sent a
bundle of stickers now this is just kind
of showing that oh this is actually a
postcard so you can sell postcards now
that's not something that I have a lot
of success with to speak to in a you
know first-hand experience but hey like
I said with print on demand
it cost us nothing to stock our stock
our virtual shelves so why not also it
doesn't hurt to borrow right borrow wink
wink ideas from other successful stores
or successful websites obviously check
trademarks if it's clean you can do your
own thing with uh you know the funny
holiday cards and whatnot uh for ideas
you know Christmas is right around the
corner uh what else well around the
corner for Black Friday Cyber Monday
that is uh they put a little insert here
for me I didn't actually read that but
it basically outlines what products they
sent me so I have that list right here
as well uh sticker packs all right don't
forget it's like more bang for your buck
instead of doing one big sticker unless
it makes sense to do one big sticker
like sometimes you drive around you see
cars with like a huge sticker on the
bumper okay fine do one sticker but
sticker packs you get more for the same
price right you just have to make your
graphics a little bit smaller and space
them out it's good if you're gonna do
sticker packs like consider doing a
sample order printful gives you a
certain number of sample orders each
month you get 20 off and you get free
shipping now I literally before I came
to my parents house to do this unboxing
and to get a haircut
I was at my buddy's house who's having a
baby
I dropped off two custom products that I
sample ordered from printful so I got 20
off and free shipping I made a baby
onesie and uh like baby t-shirt and I
mean it was Dirt Cheap it was probably
combined like 15 so do a sample order
for your sticker packs before you start
selling them on your stores just to make
sure that you don't like make the common
mistake of bleeding your bleeding one
sticker into the next into the next so
quick tip there uh we have a hoodie this
is the Gilden 18 500 no the 18500 is uh
yeah okay 18 000 is the sweatshirt so
the Gildan 18
000 is these the crewneck sweatshirt the
Gildan 18500 is the hoodie all right and
uh personally like if you ask me
I like the hoodies all right and I
realized after joining uh a little group
it kind of formed organically of some
really like high tier merch sellers but
also mainly Etsy sellers that I was
probably leaving money on the table by
not offering crewnecks because
apparently crew necks are like more
popular
um maybe not I can't say that
definitively but I I wasn't offering
that many on crewnecks uh because I was
just a hoodie person myself so I would
say maybe lean more towards the crew
necks instead of the hoodies by default
and then if you have a bestseller
offered on the hoodie as well so that's
the Gildan this is the Guild in 18500
the Gildan 18 000 is the primary crew
neck that I'm stocking with my Etsy shop
every new design that I put on my
um on on my designs you guys know my
designs right the software I'm using to
publish to Etsy in bulk every new design
that I put at a minimum I'm putting on
the Bella canvas 3001 and I'm putting on
the um Gildan 18 000 okay that's the
crew neck also printful I mean I can't
say this definitively right but I may or
may not have heard that printful maybe
available as a production partner
through my designs in the future I can't
say when but I did hear that that may be
a thing all right don't quote me but I
swear I heard that uh earlier today
actually so it's actually a good timing
all right they sent me a printful pen
thank you for that they sent me a
printful mouse pad
now I personally have a gaming
background the mouse pad that I use my
buddy introduced me to and it is like 30
inches wide so this one won't do for me
but maybe my mom behind the camera if
she wants a new mouse pad with money
signs on it it's yours uh they sent me a
laptop sleeve now this is actually
really cool
because my laptop gets beat up like I I
have a laptop case but the only time I
used it was when I was teaching at the
local University teaching my web
development courses
I haven't taught those courses in two
years at this point uh a year and a half
but
so my laptop anytime I bring it
somewhere it's just beat up it's in my
backpack the corners of the laptop just
if I put the backpack down they're like
the first thing that hits the ground so
I'm guilty of beating up my laptop is
what I'm trying to say this will prevent
that and that's a nice way of marketing
laptop cases to anybody that may want
them granted somebody who's gonna find
your laptop case for sale I'm guessing
probably doesn't need convincing they're
probably buying your laptop case because
of the design that you put on it more or
less but one thing worth noting that you
can take a t-shirt design granted my
shirt is blank but theoretically if I
had a t-shirt design it would translate
well into the portrait mode of a of a
laptop case and anytime you can do
something super easy just take it from A
to B like I did t-shirts to coffee mugs
is was the big thing that I used to do
uh laptop sleeves why not I mean it's
when it's gift giving season everything
sells so that is you know gonna be Black
Friday Cyber Monday and right after that
that's basically gift giving season I
know a lot of people start buying their
gifts then so laptop sleeves uh
embroidered patches all right now what
do you do with these like I was never in
Boy Scouts that's the only thing that
comes to mind when I think of and like
maybe if you want to sell them to biker
gang members uh beyond that I don't know
what you do with the employer
embroidered patches somebody let me know
in the comments but they can certainly
do them at printful and they're cheap
um I sell a lot of embroidered hats
patches I've never even tried but it's
cool to see them and
the last product in this little gift box
oh Millie wants to say hello
oh Nelly said I want the backpack I want
the backpack all right so they sent an
all-over print backpack now I have
certainly
tried to sell these before uh sold maybe
one or two I didn't try that hard but
sometimes like I said if I have a
best-selling design I'll throw it on
different products and just see what
works
what's cool about the all over print
products though you know backpacks for
instance like hey it's it's Christmas or
it's gift giving season you know a kid
might need a new backpack for school
when I was in college I think I had a
Batman backpack that we got at Target I
just thought it was funny I had a big
golden like that symbol but obviously
don't sell that but if you can think of
something that looks good in all over
print whatever kids are into right now I
don't know you know maybe like I'm just
like oh Bitcoin maybe you know they love
their crypto uh you know put it on the
backpack but with printful like you can
set the background color so the default
for this is white they set the default
background color to this like Navy or
not Navy yeah navy blue navy blue uh
it's a little bit lighter than a Navy
but they set it to navy blue and then
they just did the like repeatable
pattern over top so I mean you can you
don't need to be like a super crazy
Savant with graphic editing and graphic
design skills to do something like this
you just need to have a couple like
design elements you can in the design
tool like do patterns so that the
software itself will replicate Your
Design across the backpack itself in
this case and you set the background
color in printful so it's not that hard
it's not as hard as it looks if you've
never tried give it a shot and that's
pretty much it so um guys thanks for
watching this video thank you to
printful for sending me the care package
here to help you guys prep for Black
Friday Cyber Monday thank you Mom for
filming and I'll see you guys at the
next one
again