Hey everyone, welcome back to the channel.
In today's video I have five tips
that will help you make more money
from your print on demand business.
Now, I've been selling print on demand
for almost 10 years now
and I can definitely confirm that print on demand works.
It's a great way to make a lot of money.
However, what I see from a lot of new
print on demand sellers
is they are simply missing opportunities
that's causing them to leave a lot of money on the table.
So in this video, I'm going to cover the five
most important things that you can do
to get every dollar out of your print on demand business
and make sure that you are getting the most profit possible.
Starting with the first tip,
now more and more people are finding out
about print on demand and how good of a business model it is
so there are more sellers.
So with that said, this first tip
is probably going to be the most important.
Now, what this is is the big popular general niches
are for the most part are filling up
with all of these new sellers.
So it's time for us to find these small niches
that still have a lot of search demand,
but they have low competition.
If you ignore this concept
and you just blindly create designs and upload them
in any niche that you want, you're going to be competing
with everyone else and their brother.
So you're going to have tons of competition.
Your designs are simply going to get hidden in the mix.
However, if you're smart about this
and you use this tip of finding these small niches
there are literally tens of thousands
of these still out there that haven't been found
by the masses of print on demand sellers.
These niches are the ones that you wanna spend your time
creating designs in
because you will be among the first one there
and that means you're going to get all of the sales.
Now, you can use tools like Google Trends
or Merch Informer to find these niches.
I've personally used both over the years
and now I use Merchant Informer exclusively.
They do such an amazing job at finding these niches
that I don't think you should use any other tool out there.
Since there are so many of these niches to be found,
I literally couldn't fill them all myself.
So I put together a tutorial on this channel
that shows step-by-step how to use Merch Informer
to find these niches.
I'll put a link to that video down in the description below
and I highly recommend checking out that video
because this one thing can make such a big difference
in your print on demand business.
Now for the second tip, finding good niches
to create designs in is super important,
but all of that is for nothing if your designs are bad.
Now, what I see is far too many
new print on demand sellers creating designs
that are just simply not good.
It can be really hard to be honest about this one
with yourself, because if you ask other people
for their opinion on how your design looks,
most of the time
they're not going to want hurt your feelings.
So they're just going to say it looks good.
So being honest with yourself and getting an honest opinion
from someone else on your designs is really hard to do.
And with that said, having good designs is essentially
a requirement in order to get sales.
If your designs are bad, no one's going to buy them
no matter how good of a niche you found.
So my tip on this one is that I highly recommend
using a T-shirt design tool that has customizable templates.
Now, before I personally found out
about these T-shirt design templates,
I was making all of my designs from scratch.
However, when I found out
that there are T-shirt design templates
that you can simply customize,
it was a game changer for my print on demand business
because it brought my daily output of designs
from just a couple designs per day that I was making
from scratch up to about 50 designs per day.
And the kicker was that the designs
from these templates were better
than the ones that I was creating from scratch.
Now, to try to save you some time here
I've used pretty much all of the T-shirt design tools
out there and I personally use Placeit.net
for a couple reasons.
The first reason is they have
the largest library of templates out of anyone
on the internet.
They're always adding new ones almost every day.
So you're going to get fresh stuff that no one else has.
And the second reason which is probably even more important
is that all of their templates, their fonts, their graphics,
they're all copyright free and commercially usable.
That is a must for print on demand.
And several of the other design tools
out there that have T-shirt templates are not
copyright free or commercially usable.
So be super careful with that one.
Now, if you're interested in Placeit,
I'll put a link down in the description
that'll give you 15% off any of their plans.
It's a couple dollars per month
but trust me when I say it's definitely worth it.
Okay, now for the third tip
if you have great niches and you have great designs
it's going to make it pretty hard
for you to fail at print on demand.
Just those two things should make a massive difference.
However, there is still one thing
that I see a lot of people doing that's causing them
to leave a lot of money on the table.
Simply put, if you don't use keywords
in your title and description, the print on demand websites
don't know where to rank your designs.
So the tip here is to make sure
that you are putting the name of the niche
and similar variations of that name in the title
and description of all of your listings.
If you don't have these keywords in your listings
you could have the best niche and the best design
but it's never going to show up to people
'cause the print on demand website
doesn't know who to show it to.
Over the years, I have personally seen
some really great designs out there
that don't have keywords in their listings,
so they aren't getting any sales.
Now, to put this one into perspective
this could be costing you a couple thousand dollars
per month in profit from a single design
if you don't have the keywords in the title and description.
Now, for a video on how to do this properly
you can refer to that first video
on how to find the low competition hidden niches.
It covers the key wording in there as well.
So that'll be a good resource to show you how to do this.
And now for tip number four.
If you've done these first three tips properly
you're going to see a massive improvement already.
But for those of you
who really wanna take your print on demand sales
to the next level, this tip is going to be for you.
When you are using the passive print on demand websites
like Amazon Merch on Demand, TeePublic, Redbubble
et cetera, et cetera, you can actually rely solely
on their organic traffic to get consistent sales.
These websites all get millions of visitors
to their website every single month, totally organically.
And if you have the right niches
and you have the right keywords,
your designs are going to show up to those people.
However, to get even more sales on your listings
you can promote your products on social media platforms
and send that traffic directly to your listing
on those websites.
Now, to save you some time here
I have had the best results posting mock-ups
and screenshots of my designs on Instagram, Facebook,
and Pinterest.
Now, something else that you can do
for a quick boost in sales is you can collaborate
with influencers on these platforms
and pay them for a sponsored post.
Now, from experience, try not to spend anything
over $20 for a sponsored post.
That should be enough of the price point
to get you the results you're looking for.
Something important though, is to make sure
that you are vetting the influencer
that you're doing a sponsored post with and make sure
that they actually get a lot of real engagement
on their posts so that you can see
that they haven't bought their followers.
So you should be in really good shape
with these four other tips.
But there's one key component that you're going to need
if you wanna get your sales numbers
into the tens of thousands of dollars profit per month.
This tip is to continuously be monitoring your sales numbers
and make data-driven decisions about the business.
And although this can sound like a time consuming
and boring process, I have an easy way to do this.
The simple, most effective thing I can share with you
is to track which niches are getting the most sales.
Now, once you've determined what niches these are,
go back and create more designs in those niches
and get them uploaded to the print on demand websites.
Something that's pretty interesting about this
is over the years that you're selling print on demand
those top selling niches will change over time.
So you're going to have plenty of work
to go back and create designs in.
And then a parting piece of advice
just to get some more value in this video
is something that you can only learn from experience.
And that is that don't be afraid to experiment
with some of these really small and obscure niches.
Some of them may turn out to be really good sellers
that you would never expect there to be
a lot of traffic or buyers in.
So there you have it.
I'll put links to everything that I talked
about in this video,
all the resources will be down in the description below.
Something else I'm going to put down there
is a full step-by-step print on demand tutorial
totally free here on YouTube.
It's right on my channel, but that will walk you through
everything you really need to know step by step.
And as always, if you have any questions at all
just let me know down in the comments.
Otherwise, I'll see you all in the next video.