what's up guys with Valentine's Day fast
approaching I'm looking to make some
print on demand jewelry sales
specifically on Etsy I'm going to be
comparing awkward Styles relatively new
can we still call it new I feels like it
was not that long ago that they launched
their print-on-demand jewelry uh their
message card jewelry I've actually got
some right here that I'll be reviewing
for you in this video and I'm going to
be comparing it to some shine on jewelry
that I've also got right here so I got
both in hand and I'm going to be
basically doing a full review like
pricing quality
um how easy it is to get started for you
in this video so let's get to it
foreign
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so to start my comparison we're going to
talk about ease of use which is easier
to get started with I think that's a big
decision Point especially if you guys
have never tried to sell print on demand
jewelry
so with awkward Styles signing up only
takes a minute or less it's free to get
started and then you can access their
catalog of various print-on-demand
jewelry right now they've got necklaces
and bracelets my experience with shine
on was not nearly as smooth it used to
be that you were required to use Shopify
as a bridge to get automated fulfillment
for your shine on orders but then they
release the direct Etsy integration but
it did not work for me I'm talking it
took months for me to get that working I
don't know if you'll have the same issue
hopefully it's been resolved for me it
was like I literally tried multiple
times over at least two months before
finally got it working so um yeah just
if I'm being honest awkward style is
much easier
all right when it comes to product
pricing they're relatively the same uh
you're gonna probably expect to pay
between 13 to 15
um it looks like maybe shine on has a
little bit of a pricing Advantage but in
order to get the best prices you have to
be making consistent sales uh whereas
awkward Styles you can get them down to
about 1195 or 12 15 in some cases so a
slight Edge when it comes to pricing
goes to shine on
as far as templates go and you're like
templates what do you mean templates
well
awkward Styles actually has over 120
design templates that we can use as
jumping off points or if you just need
inspiration for what the heck am I going
to design on this message card jewelry
they have over 120 templates that you
can use for free all right so there's
really no excuse to get started by the
way they're customizable uh one way to
get an edge over competition on Etsy is
to offer personalization that's like a
huge Edge that you can have on Etsy and
they make it easy to do using their
templates so you don't even have to go
out of your way to make these designs up
uh when you add a template you can just
click into the text and change it
shine on on the other hand uh they don't
have nearly the same even design
application built into their website so
with awkward Styles it's like real easy
select your product add a template click
into the template and customize it uh
with shine on you can download if you
choose to it's probably a good idea
their PSD template for doing jewelry
design or message card jewelry design
you can see that they Mark the areas
that you can design safely within then
they say the areas that you shouldn't be
designing in and they also have some
layers you can turn on and off that show
you what the jewel like where the
jewelry is going to show up in the
mock-ups
speaking of mock-ups
awkward Styles has a bunch of mock-ups
for us to choose from before we publish
to Etsy and they actually have something
else that's really cool I'm going to
show you in just a second I don't want
to ruin the surprise but check out some
of these mock-ups uh specifically I
really like this model one mock-up and
what I like about it is that it shows
the product but what we can do as our
primary thumbnail if we use it as our
primary is we can zoom in right we can
actually crop it something like this for
the primary thumbnail so it really shows
a lot of the product and then when they
get to the listing after clicking it
it'll still show the full image like
this of the full model uh holding it and
so I really like that one as a mock-up
um shine on also gives us a couple
mock-up examples I will say this if
you're going to use any mock-ups like
for your primary at a minimum it should
be one that's straight on
straightforward okay
um some of theirs are a little bit like
to the side uh anybody that watches my
like Etsy Shop reviews
you know a lot of times we're reviewing
t-shirt shops and when there's like too
many crinkles in the shirt or it's like
the model that's wearing the shirts
facing off to the side you can't see the
design clearly I definitely would
recommend against that but I think as
far as the mock-ups go you know there's
a nice little selection on both sides to
choose between if I had to choose one
though I think this model one is what I
would go with and like I said I would
zoom in and crop my primary thumbnail
additional assets this is what I was
alluding to that awkward Styles added
that I think is super cool uh apparently
you can add video when you push and
create product listings via API right
because we're not going to etsy.com and
going through their product listing
creation workflow
um there we're doing it in awkward
Styles and then they're using their API
connection once we integrate Etsy with
awkward Styles which by the way is like
a one-click integration so don't be
worried about doing that if you haven't
set it up yet it'll send a video to the
listing and put it in our listings for
us and anybody who shopped on Etsy
recently you probably know that videos
are important because when you're
mousing over products if there's a video
it's Auto playing the video and hiding
the thumbnail so clearly they want to
steer Us in the direction of including
video and Etsy used to straight up tell
us in the listings hey our data shows us
that you'll see a higher conversion rate
if you include a video now I could have
guessed that but we got confirmation
from Etsy so I love that awkward Styles
has
um multiple videos for us to choose from
shine on uh no video you know maybe in
the future but currently no video they
do include some additional images that
they put in the description which maybe
is useful for like Shopify but uh we
know that if you push this to Etsy
they're not going to let you put images
in the description so these will just
get like filtered out when you publish
your product
all right as far as quality
I'll do a quick quality review here the
one thing I wanted to highlight is that
so awkward Styles they have the um
magnetic box okay so the quality of the
box here is actually
uh nicer than what you're going to get
I'll just spoil it for you at
um shine on so this little like Snappy
magnetic box lip I think it just makes
it look higher quality plus the extra
sleeve that it comes in I think it's
just a nice little touch they're gonna
eventually add the leather box and the
LED box which I'm assuming just based on
what I saw in shine on you might have to
pay extra for the LED box but on shine
on so you can actually see here they
already offer what they call the Luxury
Box and it looks like it costs about an
extra 13 or 12.50
um 12.50 for the nicer box so at least
at a baseline you know awkward Styles we
mentioned earlier the pricing is only
very slightly more but you get the nicer
box so I think that that adds a little
bit of an extra nice touch for people
buying this jewelry that don't want to
look cheap right the box here that you
get with shine on jewelry a little bit
smaller all right it's not necessarily
low quality but I do like the magnetic
and this actually does have a little bit
of a magnetic snap effect to it it
doesn't have the extra sleeve and
actually I decided to go into my archive
and get one of my review videos from the
past because the design just didn't show
through well on my camera but as you can
see it's still a really nice high
quality piece here from Shine On anyways
guys if you couldn't guess I'm probably
leaning towards using awkward Styles
their new jewelry I really like the
quality of it price points relatively
similar with awkward Styles Pro I mean
it's basically the same don't forget
when you join awkward Styles use code
Ryan Hogue you'll get two months of pro
completely free uh and then their UI
honestly is where they have a huge Edge
it's really nice if you want to go and
do customizations of your own designs
that you can upload to awkward Styles or
like I said keeping it simple using the
templates making it easy to offer
personalization and customization so
that's where I'm leaning guys and if you
want to get started on Awkward Styles
integrate with your Etsy in I think it's
like one to two clicks all right and
then you can start publishing products I
will put a link to awkward Styles so you
can sign up for free right now in the
description right there at the top
thanks for watching guys as I head out
just wanted to remind you I have a full
print on demand course where I walk you
through how I make six figure sales
every single year I teach you everything
I know in the course it's linked in the
description and I've got a great private
Community where I go live once a week
and I hold office hours every week so
it's the easiest most cost effective way
to work with me and help me basically
Mentor you and help your business
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at the next one
thank you