Hey everyone.
Welcome back to another print on demand video.
In today's video, I'm going to be sharing with you
the best print on demand platforms to sell on.
Now, for those of you who don't know,
I've been selling print on demand for quite a few years now,
and I've used just about every platform out there.
With that being said, there are a few platforms
that have absolutely outperformed the rest,
and those are the ones
that I'm going to be sharing with you in this video.
Now, as an added bonus in this video,
I'll also share the platforms
that I don't recommend uploading to
and I'll explain why as well.
Now lastly, before we jump into this video,
I just want you to know
that I'm going to explain things on camera here,
but I'm also going to put you
on screen recording on my computer
so I can show you these platforms
and analytics and things like that.
Okay, so going into this,
in order for this to really make sense,
you have to understand that there are two different types
of print on demand.
This is something
that barely anyone else online is talking about,
but there is active print on demand
and passive print on demand.
These are very different business models
for print on demand,
and you have to know the difference between them
because certain platforms
are either one of them or the other.
So first off, let's just cover
what is active print on demand.
Active print on demand
is where you're creating your own website
and driving your own traffic
or bringing in your own buyers with advertising.
And then whenever you receive an order,
you send that to your print on demand fulfillment service,
they do the printing and shipping,
but then again in active print on demand,
you have to handle the customer service.
And lastly, something that not many people will tell you
is that every time you get an order
with active print on demand,
you have to actually front the money to pay for that item
so that it gets printed and shipped
and then you receive the full money from the customer
with the profit built in afterwards.
Although that is a popular way of doing print on demand,
that is not the way that I recommend doing it.
When we look at passive print on demand,
this is a much better way
of doing print on demand in my experience.
So what passive print on demand is,
is you create your T-shirt designs
just like active print on demand,
but instead of uploading them on your own website,
you upload them to marketplace websites
that organically get people coming to their website
looking to make purchases every single month.
Now, when I say people
organically coming to those marketplaces,
I'm talking about millions and even billions of people,
and I'll show you that in analytics in a minute here.
Now, beyond these websites bringing the buyers for you,
whenever you get an order,
they're going to print the item, ship it for you,
but they're also going to handle
all the customer service for you.
And lastly, you don't have to pay upfront for the products.
The money that the customer pays
when they order that product covers the whole upfront cost,
so we just get a split of the profit afterwards.
In my experience, this is such a better way
of doing print on demand,
because you don't have to worry about running paid ads,
you don't have to worry about handling customer service,
and you don't have to pay upfront
every time you receive an order.
So with that said, now when I share these platforms with you
and I say which ones are passive and which ones are active,
you'll know exactly what I mean.
Okay, so let's get into the fun stuff here.
The first website that I really recommend selling on
if you are selling Print on demand is called TeePublic.
Now, T Public is one
of the smaller print on demand marketplaces,
but it is fully passive.
They have a really good uploading interface.
So if you are new to print on demand,
this is a website I would recommend starting on.
They just make everything so easy for you.
To show you what this looks like,
if you were to type in funny fishing shirt,
it's literally just going to be
kind of a marketplace results here.
So you go through, you can see these search results,
you click on any of these designs,
and it's going to show you
what that design looks like on the shirt.
You can pick out the color you wanna printed on,
the type of shirt, whether that's male, female, classic,
different types of shirts here,
and then people can just add it to their cart
and purchase it just like that.
Now, this is a fully passive print on demand website,
so all you have to do is upload your designs,
create this listing,
and they literally do everything else for you.
A couple things that you wouldn't really know
unless you've used this before.
TeePublic is kind of cool.
It's one of the only websites that sets the price for you.
So you don't even have to worry
about setting the price on your listings.
They will actively run sales for you
and do different marketing campaigns, changing this price,
putting it on sale for a flash sale
just to entice more people to purchase your designs.
And then again, you're just going to get
a split of the profit every time someone buys it.
Now, being that this is a passive print on demand website,
as I had said before,
that means that they're bringing their own buyers.
So you upload the listing,
you don't have to do anything else.
No marketing, no advertising.
And just to show you some proof of that,
if you look at teepublic.com, this is one of my SEO tools,
so it kind of shows me how much traffic
is going to these websites every month.
And you scroll down here to the right here,
you can see Organic Traffic,
and this is over the last six months.
But when you look at how many people
are coming to their website,
this is about a million people per month
coming to their website.
That is a ton of traffic.
And trust me when I say that is much more traffic
than you would get if you were running your own paid ads.
So with that being said,
there is no shortage of traffic coming to TeePublic,
and this is the smallest of the websites
I'm about to show you.
So let's get straight into the next one
that I recommend to you, and that is Redbubble.com.
Again, this is going to be a passive
print on demand marketplace.
Something that's actually interesting here
is that Redbubble and TeePublic,
they're owned by the same company.
Redbubble is kind of the big brother to TeePublic.
And the reason I say that is because Redbubble,
as I'll show you in a minute here,
gets a lot more traffic than TeePublic,
but it's the same setup.
So when you come in here,
someone searches for funny fishing shirt or anything else,
I'm just using this as an example
to keep this the same through all of these examples.
You're just going to see all of this as a marketplace.
And when you click on any of these,
it's going to be the same thing
where you can choose how you want this printed,
what colors, what size,
and you can add it right to your cart and purchase it.
Now, again, being that this is a passive
print on demand website,
when you look at Redbubble's traffic,
they are getting in organic traffic,
just about 10 million people
to their website every single month.
So that's the second of the websites
that I really recommend.
Both of those are passive print on demand websites.
This is the one that I'm really excited to show you.
This is Amazon Merch on Demand.
So this is the simple website
where you actually sign up for this.
And although this looks so basic,
this is actually Amazon's print on demand department.
So to show you what this really looks like,
if you go over to Amazon
and you search for funny fishing shirts,
when you scroll down in these results,
you're going to see the same marketplace setup
that we've seen on those other websites.
And what so many people don't realize
when you're just clicking on one of these is that it says
this little Amazon Merch on Demand label right here,
and that means that the person selling this
literally just uploaded this design, created this listing,
and Amazon is doing everything else for them.
Now, before I show you the traffic on Amazon,
let's go back one step here.
And something that I love about Amazon
is that it shows you how many of these individual listings
were sold in the last month.
So looking at just this fishing niche here,
600 plus bought in the past month,
200 plus bought in the past month, 50, 200 plus.
When you think about this being entirely passive,
where you're just creating the designs and uploading them,
you're making about $5 on every sale.
If you're getting 50 plus of those in the last month,
and that's just on one of your designs,
that's potentially $250 a month in profit
just from a single design uploaded.
Now lastly, before we move on from Amazon,
I really wanna show you this.
When you look at Amazon's traffic,
Amazon gets about 750 million people
to their website every single month,
and your print on demand listings
are just added to their marketplace.
They're not in a different category, they're not hidden,
they don't get less traffic than anything else listed there.
So this to me is the absolute best website
if you're going to be selling print on demand.
Now in a second here, I'll share the couple websites
that I don't recommend uploading to,
and I'll explain why as well.
But I just wanna take a quick second to say
that if you are just getting into print on demand
and you wanna see the full step-by-step tutorial
to use these three passive print on demand websites,
I'll put a link to that down in the description.
It's totally free here on YouTube as well.
So with that being said, the couple print on demand websites
that I don't recommend using,
they fall into the active print on demand category,
and not many people realize
that these are active print on demand websites.
So the first example of this
is using any print on demand that's on Shopify.
Now, there are many tutorials out there
that are going to teach you to start print on demand
by creating a Shopify store
and then using one of these print on demand apps.
Any of these that you choose are going to fall
into the active print on demand business model,
meaning that you are going to have to bring your own buyers,
you are going to have to handle all the customer service,
and you have to pay for each order upfront
before receiving your full money with the profit.
Now, the other big website
that not many people are talking about is Etsy.
Etsy for print on demand still falls
into that active print on demand business model.
And you may be thinking Etsy is a marketplace.
So how does it fall into that business model?
Well, if you're searching something
like we've been using for this entire tutorial here,
you're going to see that yes,
it is a marketplace and they do get good traffic.
However, if you click on any of these listings,
these listings have to use
a print on demand fulfillment service.
So Etsy themselves don't actually do
the printing and shipping.
So although you can create
a print on demand listing on Etsy,
you are going to have to use
one of these print on demand fulfillment services
where then you're going to have to pay
for each order upfront,
you're going to have to manage the customer service,
and essentially all Etsy is doing
is bringing the traffic for you,
but you still have to be super hands-on with this business.
Now, if you're someone who's come into this video,
super excited about Etsy or you're already selling on Etsy,
I'll put a video down in the description
that talks about my experience on Etsy
and a couple things that I wish I knew
before selling on the platform.
So guys, hopefully this video has been helpful.
If you have any questions about this video
or the couple videos
that are linked down in the description,
just let me know down in the comments.
I'd be happy to help you out.
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That's all I ask.
And I'll see you guys in the next video.