what's up guys in this video I went and
tried to shoot my own
Etsy product mock-ups for
print-on-demand products obviously on
Etsy if you want to succeed you are
going to need some really nice
thumbnails all right and when I say
really nice it's subjective like I
always say do a little bit of research a
quick 10 second search into the niche
you want to sell in often reveals quite
a bit you'll typically see some
consistency in the best-selling products
which tend to rank near the top of
search results so you don't want to
skimp on your mock-ups and I had a
little bit of I don't want to say
Insider knowledge but I had Curtis from
my designs when he was trying to get
some mock-ups for his software my
designs that I use all the time he said
that he was interviewing the some of the
top sellers of mock-ups on Etsy if you
guys didn't know you can buy mock-ups on
Etsy and he said that some of them said
they were making just a ton of money
they were making a ton of money all
right like a thousand dollars a day plus
so there's money to be made here I'm
going to show you my results and I I I
even hesitate to call myself an amateur
photographer but you know I like to have
fun with it learn on the go you're going
to see the outcome of me and Marielle
trying to make our own Etsy mock-ups but
we had fun with it and uh let's get to
it
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quick reminder in the description you'll
find a link to my free print on demand
mini course and you'll find a link to my
print on demand Facebook group so I hope
you'll check those out
all right so as we just mentioned guys
on Etsy if you do a quick search on some
high value keywords or really just any
Niche you want to sell in you will
notice oftentimes that there are some
really nice looking mock-ups that tend
to rank towards the top you'll also
notice sometimes there's a lot of um
consistency like almost like these
different sellers may be using the same
source of their mock-ups there are
people on Etsy who sell their own custom
original mock-ups and they're often in
the range of like a dollar to five
dollars so it's not like you're breaking
the bank especially like you know if
it's a really good one that makes you
some sales you tend to make that money
back pretty quickly so I would recommend
looking into that or doing your own like
I said I'm going to show you what we did
in this video
so here are the products that I shot in
this video
and this is all based on the my designs
multi-product upload where I can create
one Etsy listing and make that design
available on multiple products so I'm
going to show you the ones I prioritized
in this video shooting the mock-up store
so the Bella canvas 3001 a pretty
standard popular unisex t-shirt
the Bella canvas v-neck
6405 all right we shot that one
the Gildan 5400 long sleeve shirt
the Gildan 18 000 and by the way these
are not the mock-ups I shot
if you couldn't tell they're too good uh
the Gildan 18 000 crew neck sweatshirt
and finally the Gildan 18500 hoodie all
right so that's what we're working with
in this episode
now I used to be the person on the
outside looking in wondering how do I go
about recording video in general or
taking good photos in general and I
years later I don't I'm hesitant to call
myself an expert because I think I'm
pretty far from it there's always just
such a learning curve
um but that being said you know I do my
best here now I want to share with you
what I use because I used to be like
what the heck how do I go about doing
this I even bought somebody's course I
don't even remember what the course was
about but they said that they shared
their like video recording setup in the
course so I didn't watch anything I just
went straight to that lecture looked at
their setup and was like okay whatever I
paid for this course it's worth it
because now I know what you use to make
really nice video
so and again I'm not trying to pretend
like I have all the answers here like if
you've ever done like photography you
probably know more than me I use a Sony
a6400 uh mirrorless camera as my primary
camera also you know a smartphone camera
is really good I made sure to shoot
everything twice one with the smartphone
camera one with the
um nicer you know Sony a6400
and then I got some products from neewer
all right I don't know if you guys are
familiar with this brand but they have
incredible lights I mean they have more
than just lights but when it comes to
recording video especially like maybe
you want to start a YouTube channel or a
tick tock or whatever it is I've been
using newer products for probably like
four or five years now okay and it's
nice because I actually upgraded some of
them so the ring light is perfect
because you can like Mount your phone in
the middle turn the light on and record
yourself super close and it can you can
rotate your phone horizontal vertical
you can use multiple phones uh me and
Marielle we love this okay and I'll link
to these in the description in case you
want to check it out it's also they can
still arrive before Christmas in case
you need a last second gift
some other neewer LED lights by the way
what we really like about these is that
you can charge them and then you can
just you know they don't need to be
plugged into work so we've got like the
big studio lights uh I don't know what
to call them other than to me like just
big studio lights we have those and then
we've got these newer lights that we
just got new for this photo shoot and we
really prefer these because like they're
easy to move they're easy to reposition
like I said they don't need to be
plugged in you can you can basically
program them uh in the back from behind
the brightness level
um things like that
and that's a two pack by the way here's
another example we didn't use these in
this video but this is just another
newer product that marielle's been
loving that we just recently purchased
these kind of attached to tables or
different surfaces my girlfriend Muriel
she has like her own dog ice cream brand
and just dog brand in general
um and like she loves these for shooting
both the dogs and for shooting her
product in general for things like
social media and whatnot
uh and then last but not least we have
this one that's like this is meant to be
used in conjunction with your phone so
it can kind of like clip onto a phone
onto a laptop onto a tablet all right I
know everybody records from every
different device possible so if you
record on a laptop it doesn't even
matter this thing just Clips on it's
lightweight again portable doesn't need
to be plugged in check this out
um Marielle she has like a tick tock for
our dogs and this is Pablo uh and she
has like the light on him and it's made
such a difference to have a good light
source so this is something that's like
really important for shooting videos all
right I just want to make this clear up
front because I know that like this
information to me was extremely valuable
in the past to the extent that I even
bought a course just to see what like
Hardware to buy because I didn't know
all right also shout out to Rose forever
I ended up getting some roses from them
they hooked it up for this video to see
if I could like make the the look in the
feel like the Etsy vibe in some of these
photos so I'll show you kind of how we
ended up using them uh in this video
and all by the way if you want to use um
a promo code for Rose forever they
already are doing free shipping in
December and then you can get 20 off um
using the code in the description that
they provided me so shout out to them
appreciate that all right so here are
some of the photos uh I've kind of
realized right away that the background
before we put these anywhere on Etsy
probably needs to be cleaned up a bit
like we should have closed that window
the fact that you can see outside
definitely not ideal um you can also see
the huge light like just reflecting so
like I'm already being critical of
myself but you know what I mean this is
our first goal so we can we can
definitely do this again and do a better
job
um so that's the Gildan 5400
um long sleeve shirt and what's cool
guys is that if you use these uh in my
designs for instance as a mock-up and it
doesn't have to be used in my designs
but I mean that's where I'm going to be
using them because I can do everything
in bulk uh we can actually like have
that shirt color configurable so that
the color can be changed but that
requires like a skilled graphic designer
to do that but you can basically input
the hex codes if you guys have ever used
my designs you've probably seen this how
it works but because they they have that
enabled on a lot of their default
designs right now
all right so even though it's light blue
um we can definitely have that
configurable to be like any color that
we want
all right here's another example right
here from the side I'm not as big of a
fan of the ones from the side uh
typically I like the straightforward
ones also when your hair is on your
shirt that's probably going to make the
life of the designer who's trying to
make it uh the color customizable hell
so that's something we should have
considered honestly put the hair behind
so there's two of the Gildan 5400s here
we swapped to what I believe is the Bell
canvas 3001 again a little bit to the
side and here's one that's straight on
also you know
stepping in front of the Christmas tree
using those newer lights I thought about
doing a side by side here showing you
with and without the light because it
did make a big difference uh it's so
much better with the lights guys so um
if you need like a Christmas mock-up um
we you know shot our own here
and then one with the Roses laying down
sideways I haven't seen too many
sideways mock-ups on Etsy so hey why not
try something unique here with the Bella
canvas 3001 on the couch with the
beautiful roses by the way these roses
are not like typical roses they last
forever when I say forever I'm not sure
how long but I know Marielle told me a
couple years ago that she really likes
these so I've been buying them for her
just like in different colors for
different occasions uh for years and
from the first ones I ever bought her to
today like they're all still around they
all still look and smell uh fresh so
just a quick plug but I'm not just
saying that you know what I mean this is
actually true if you've ever seen these
like forever roses I have no clue how
they do it but that is in fact how they
work
all right here we go the gildan's 18500
uh hoodie all right
and this is probably a better one here
like more straightforward we try to like
wrinkle the get the wrinkles out you
know what I mean so that it's a little
bit easier to mock up the design over
top
uh here's the Gildan 18
000 uh crewneck sweatshirt again in
light blue but I mean a skilled designer
would be able to um
have that configurable although I will
say like the lighting we probably should
have been better about having the light
sources probably on both sides equal so
that the light on the shirt was equally
like saturated on both sides so that if
you are going to do the customizable
um color where you know when you're in
my designs you just input a hex code and
it changes the whole thing
um I feel like that would probably be it
probably make a better result because I
feel like there's different colors of
the blue showing just based on the light
sources in this photo
and here we tried one where she just
kind of pulls it down I don't think it
looks natural for like an Etsy mock-up
but you know it definitely makes it
easier if you're just going to copy
paste a design over top you know
and here's one more 18 000 crew neck
up in in front of the Christmas tree
all right and here we go it's the uh
what is it 6405 I think the Bella canvas
I think 6405 Bella canvas 645 is that
what it was yeah 6405 uh the the v-neck
in Black I think the black looks pretty
good actually for uh just a baseline
mock-up
and we haven't hit higher resolution by
the way I just like put these in a
slideshow because they're just easier
for me rather than spending like five
hours editing the video together with
the full resolution
um again pulling it down just a little
bit but I think that makes it easy to
put the design mocked up right there
um this one's a little bit to the side
not too much I think that could work for
a nice uh a nice potential and even if
we crop this one you know if we cropped
it to like just this part for Etsy I
think that would be good because then we
removed the the background also it would
have been better to shoot at a better
time of day you know with it being
winter time the sun went down really
early
um that probably doesn't help you know
if it was nice outside we just go
outside if it's like summertime but it's
freezing here so
and then here's one more just
straightforward so you can see
um I think I mocked it up actually where
I put a design over top but I don't know
where that went when um anyways so we
load these up into my designs guys you
can put these in a PSD file you can add
the uh smart object layers and it will
put the design over top this was not
actually me doing it in my designs I
just did a quick one here to show you
like essentially what will happen so if
we load it up like up to 120 designs at
a time in my designs if you're on the
premium account which I am because I use
it all the time uh you can essentially
have it batch create like 120 mock-ups
at a time
um per you know per mock-up photo so
that's essentially what we're aiming to
do here
and if you're in my private Community
I'm going to have some of these images
converted and then provide them to you
so I know a lot of you guys well not a
lot but I know quite a few you guys are
already in there if you guys are
interested in joining I'll put a link in
the description with 40 off this is kind
of the example of like what I might
provide to you to make your life a
little bit easier
um a lot of you guys are already using
my designs so check that out and you get
a nice discount for being in the
community to use my designs as well
shout out to the sponsors Rose forever
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as if they're freshly picked they use
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Crazy colors as well like royal blue I
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code also one last quick shout out to
the newer brand I've been using them for
over four years is maybe even five at
this point lighting makes a huge
difference whether it's photography or
video I know that first hand Marielle
knows that firsthand from her video
efforts so make sure you check them out
they're on Amazon they have their own
website I will drop you all the links to
everything that we use regularly in the
description of this video
guys thank you for watching this video I
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