what's up guys in this video i'm going
to talk about threadbasket they are a
print on demand custom graphics
company where when you join you can
license out their graphics and use them
to create custom designs for your print
on demand products now
if you're like me and you're not the
strongest designer i mean even if i was
a strong designer i'd constantly be
thinking in my head like am i
designing fast and efficiently enough to
where it makes more sense to
do it myself than to just pay some
service like this
where i can just go there do a keyword
search for whatever type of graphic i
need and then just use that
now i'm going to show you some examples
of exactly how i use thread basket to
create some designs that sell
on amazon merch on etsy on redbubble you
name it they're good designs i mean i
spent maybe five minutes max creating
three just for this video
and when i show you them i'll walk you
through how i found those niches
as well as how i converted them to um
you know to use them on other products
so i'm gonna cover all that in this
video it doesn't really need to be a
long one because this is pretty
straightforward
i think a service like this should be
easy to use so that's what i'm going to
show you everything you need to know and
if you want to check out threadbasket
of course i'll put a link in the
description but let's get started
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let's talk about thread basket so
again they have a team of professional
graphic designers i mean this is
basically
exactly what they do they have
professional graphic designers that
create these awesome custom graphics
it's as simple as you log in you click
designs
you can either look at what's there and
tailor your designs
to what is available to any graphics
that you like particularly
or if you went in and you say all right
i know this niche is going to be selling
well but i need a nice graphic
to pair with you know text or whatever
else that you're envisioning in your
head
uh but you don't trust yourself to
design it yourself well
again you just come here do a keyword
search and pull a graphic also i'm gonna
walk you through the license just to get
that out the way because that is one way
that they differentiate themselves
from a similar service like vexels which
limits the duration of when you can use
their graphics to the duration of your
subscription whereas
threadbasket i mean i'll just tell you
now they let you use the graphics beyond
the duration of your subscription which
is unique
so again here i just went to the designs
it's defaulted to
sort by newest designs they have a very
wide selection here
and i ended up using this um
aces you know poker clearly poker
gambling style
design because you know i man i kind of
miss seeing all my buddies we used to
play poker
pretty often i won't say how often but
we played pretty often man we just had
fun with it it was nice to
to get the guys together for poker night
every now and then
and you know i missed that you know
online poker is not the same it's not
not when it's your friends
so i was like hey let's use the poker
graphic and run with that so
uh what i did is then you click get this
now i put an arrow there so you click to
get this now button it should pop up and
say do you want to download this
click yes and also on the
screen with that graphic you'll see they
provide
keywords to assist you in well if that's
like redbubble you know you can just
copy paste those as your tags
but if you're posting it to like amazon
or something
or amazon merch where they don't let you
put back end tags like that
um you could at least tailor your title
or bullets or description
around those keywords and you can see at
the bottom there
right behind me they put a section of
similar
designs so i'll actually show you how i
might use this
approach or why that would be relevant
later in this
video all right so when you perform the
download
this is what you get you get a eps file
a jpeg file a png file
an svg file which is what i used in my
design which i'll show you in a second
and you get this standard license now
the standard license that comes with it
actually references
a pdf license that gets generated
automatically when you down each time
you download a graphic and it's
really nice looking actually and it
comes with a unique qr code to verify
that you
are allowed to use that graphic okay and
also
so i don't think you should look at the
notepad text file
because the full license is in the pdf
and that's what i'm going to show you
here here really quickly
so as mentioned here's your certificate
that proves that you have the right to
use the graphic
the license here rather than reading
this there's a better description here
so i'm just this is just through the pdf
that you can find by the way you can
find this pdf
in your account under downloads so you
get the standard
license no attribution required where
you can use this websites software
applications
printed in digital media advertisements
and promotional items presentation of
products and public events
multimedia works and merchandising
that's the big one that we're probably
here for
you know we're investing a little bit
into thread basket so hopefully we can
make
multiples on our return um or on our
investment
so you can use t-shirts hoodies sweaters
mugs canvas prints etc
what you can do with this design you can
use thread basket content forever and
worldwide even after your subscription
ends you have the non-exclusive
non-transferable non-sub-licenseable
sub-licensable right to use the license
material an unlimited number of times
for any media purposes listed above
commercial or personal
if you're using the material for
merchandise print-on-demand printed
purposes
your license covers you for up to 500
prints after which you must renew
extend your rights so you can actually
go back to the graphic
after 500 sales or 500 prints
and you can click download again and it
will ask you do you want to download
again essentially to refresh that 500
number
you may alter and create derivative
works and you may also use the materials
as the main image for merchandise
purposes so i usually just do it as
derivatives
outside of when i was using all sunsets
in a previous video for
creating a um you know it's funny i have
it right here you see this like phone
pop socket there with the t-rex
so you're not supposed to i don't think
all sunsets wants you to just upload the
graphic as is they want you to create
like a variation but i did it just for
like a demo video
and didn't intend for it to ever sell
and it ended up selling a bunch of times
this t-rex man people love their t-rexes
so
that's just a fun side story because it
still sells to this day it's got like
three or four reviews on the listing
so what you cannot do with this design
sub license
sell or rent any original content for
example uploading the content to
other platforms such as but not limited
to shutter stock free pick pixabay
all those websites so you can't like
resell the graphic of course
upload you cannot upload thread basket
content in its original form to print on
demand
platforms which allow third-party users
to create their own products
specifically
spreadshirts create your own area as an
example
you cannot distribute thread basket
content unless it's been expressly
authorized by thread basket and you
cannot offer thread basket content
or modified content for download so all
the things you would expect i just want
to get that out the way i know that
reading licenses is boring but it's
better to just understand it before you
end up using a service so we got that
out the way
so now let's show these designs really
quickly of course you know i prefer
photoshop
so i loaded up adobe photoshop loaded up
my merch
photoshop file which just has you know
most of the things i need
for most designs loaded it up pulled the
svg file in because svg are vector files
so i can scale it up
infinitely and it will not lose its
quality so
svg preferable or any any vector files
preferable
to bitmap alright and then all i did was
i moved that graphic up notice i made it
really big because i think big designs
really sell better online or at least
they get more clicks in search results
and then i put some really big text that
just said i heart poker you know
uh all i did was i went to amazon and i
typed in like
funny poker shirt and then i realized
that that was probably not the keywords
i wanted to look at
after just evaluating some of the
listings because there were a mixed bag
of listings from what i expected and
then i realized
texas hold'em was the uh primary
keywords that i should be probably
looking at so i switched the keywords
texas hold'em and
that's what i was looking at so or at
least i mean in my mind i don't know why
i play texas hold him so i was thinking
like okay texas hold him is what i
should be looking for
not that i don't know if it really
matters poker in general there's various
types of
poker games that you can play but so i
did i heart poker then
i found some other designs you know i'm
always looking to see what's already
been selling because then i at least
know like
either someone's searching for that or
when they typed in
funny poker shirt or texas holdem shirt
and they saw that one
they clicked it and they bought it so
it's it's already validated
right so that i'm just making my own
version of that so i'm all in
you know just a standard phrase related
to poker and
this one i made a third one just says
i'm probably bluffing so you see how i
how easily i created these designs right
like this is just
graphic plus text you know and in this
one i had text above text below and
whenever i do this sort of a design
if it's like the bottom word is like the
key the main keyword then sometimes i'll
change the color
just to have it stand out you know so
that's what i did here also the font
that i'm using is called admin texture
um you know i use it in a lot of designs
lately because it sells so if you guys
are interested in that i can put a link
to it on creative
fabrica hopefully it's on sale again the
last time i did a video and i
referenced it it had been one dollar the
time before that and then it went up to
18
so if it's 18 just just hold off on
buying it and check for uh wait for it
to go on sale
all right so that's it so i downloaded
those designs i go to merch by amazon
it's as simple as uploading the design
selecting what products you want
so here are three good-looking standard
t-shirts that i promise you will sell
these shirts can command a 1999 price
point make you 5.23
royalty per sale i promise okay now you
might not want to start right out the
gate in 1999 but that's up to you
depending on
your tier depending on if you're
prioritizing more sales and less profit
because you're in a low tier
or if you're in high tiers and you just
want to go for the profit these are
these designs are absolutely good enough
to make sales
those you guys in the low tier the
reason i'm saying that is because i know
what it's like to be discouraged in the
low tiers or when you're new
thinking like what does it take to make
a sale you know and then once you start
making sales you're like all right all
right i belong i get it but
if you're still in that that before that
phase just know that like something
simple like this
good graphic plus big text i mean that's
that's literally good enough to make
sales all right
and then also because i'm in the high
tiers you know i might just take this
graphic and i'd probably make more than
three i don't
ever go in and make one design if i have
a nice graphic i'm gonna probably make
like
minimum 10 20 designs so i did three for
this video but i would
scale it out to more designs in that
niche also whether you have the upload
slots available to do this
or you just want to list on hoodies
because
i've been selling a lot of hoodies
lately probably because it's cold
outside at least where i live
uh you can go to merchresize.com it's
completely free you don't need to set up
an account or anything like that it just
runs locally on your machine
but you can drag and drop your designs
to where it says
click here to convert and then swap the
drop down
it'll default to pop socket just switch
it to hoodie and then click download all
so i did that it took maybe 10 seconds
to do
and then all of a sudden now i've got
three hoodies as well and i've been
experimenting with
uh increasing the royalty on my hoodies
to like 10 bucks
and i've been doing that on my
girlfriend's account and it's been
working you know like it's so nice when
you hear that well i don't
i don't enable my cha-ching sounds but
it's nice when you see a sale come
through
and you see a 10 royalty you know and
sometimes when i'm hanging out with her
on the computer i built her she enables
her sounds so we hear the cha-ching and
it's like
boom ten dollars from a hoodie you know
so experiment with hoodies if you
haven't been uploading to them as often
but
there you go i took one graphic from
thread basket spent maybe five minutes
designing because the graphics already
done so then i just did a little niche
research
added some text uploaded to t-shirts
converted to hoodies
uploaded to hoodies six slots i
guarantee you these are good enough to
sell
and that's it i mean keep it simple guys
there's nothing crazy about this process
um that's really it so by the way if you
have any questions about thread basket
definitely drop them in the comments
below
hopefully that's pretty straightforward
though uh and again you can also this is
what i forgot
then what you can also do if you have
extra upload slots is you can swap the
graphic
with other poker graphics so then you
can turn off the
graphic that you saw me use in these
designs and you know remember how i
showed you there were similar graphics
in a section but below
click a couple of those download those
graphics here you've got like some
bloody poker cards
a little bit weird but you know who
knows maybe you find a
halloween poker cross niche and here's
some other
um playing cards here so separate
graphic so then you can swap out those
designs with uh with new designs create
other unique designs in the same niche
and really attack that niche or if you
were launching a niche store
on redbubble or etsy or something um
this is a good way of getting some
unique graphics
to stay there in that same niche but
make more unique content for it so
that's it guys thank you for watching i
hope you enjoyed it by the way quick
reminder i have a full print on demand
course that shows you everything you
need to know to start
scale and automate your print on demand
business if you want to check that out
there's a link in the description but
thanks for watching guys
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