hey what's up guys it is automation week
and we have a new video today we are
talking about automate pod this is a
chrome extension that allows you to
automate the design creation process for
your print on demand business so when
you pair automating the design creation
process with automating the upload
process well i think you're starting to
see the potential here of the full
picture when we put it all together uh
this is a chrome extension by the way so
it is pretty darn easy to implement uh
the tutorial videos are only a few
minutes long and i will of course link
to them in the description i'm going to
link to everything you need in the
description including a discount code
for 50 off pretty sweet deal uh but yeah
let's get started and we will cover
everything in detail
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as i mentioned it is automation week and
i have a link in the description where
you'll find all of the resources the
tools that we cover in automation week
all the tutorials and the maximum
discount codes that i could get so
that'll be in the description also down
there i've got a free weekly print on
demand giveaway link that you should
take advantage of i mean completely free
you got nothing to lose got an eight day
print on demand mini course delivered to
you via email all i need is your email
address i'll send you one lesson a day
for eight days and i've got a great
print on demand facebook group if you
guys would like to join i would love to
have you
all right we're talking automate pod
today i know what a what a clever name
automate pod and it automates the print
on demand design creation process i mean
pretty straightforward uh i'm gonna walk
you through these steps in order to
install and utilize this
tool and uh it's gonna blow your mind
how simple it is so
step one
all you need to do is install the chrome
extension and that is available through
the website which is linked to in the
description
if you guys have never installed a
chrome extension before the first thing
you're going to need is to make sure
you're using google chrome web browser
and after that all you have to do is
navigate over to the chrome web store
page and click add to chrome if you've
already got it installed you'll see
remove from chrome and you don't want to
click that unless you're ready to get
rid of it
after you've installed the extension
you'll want to grab a subscription which
i mentioned is 50 off if you use the
code in the description for automation
week uh you can't really beat 50 i guess
you could beat 50 off um if you win the
hey if you win the print on demand
giveaway actually
two people will win uh they'll be
announced this sunday they'll receive a
free i believe month or two months i can
double check but it's at least one free
month to automate pod so um make sure
you take advantage of the giveaway and
shout out to everybody that sponsors
those weekly giveaways but yeah for
everybody else 50 off not a bad deal
also you can just sign up for one month
run it a bunch of times get you know
thousands of designs created and then
just cancel no harm done right uh so
anyways make sure you have a
subscription because you will need a
license in order to
utilize the chrome extension
and there's the code by the way forgot i
had a slide in here so the code is
automate week and you get fifty percent
off
step three i recommend checking out the
tutorial videos on the website i will
link to them in the description as well
um but there's just a navigation item
called tutorials and uh there's a couple
short videos linked to on the website
that yours truly recorded and i walk you
through exactly how to utilize this tool
to get the um full benefit from it
including by the way you know you can
use multiple variables in your designs
you're not limited to just one although
typically i only use one if i'm being
honest uh speaking of variables what are
what are these variables you're talking
about ryan uh these are like pieces of
text that the chrome extension will swap
in and out the values of and we actually
get to feed a list of values that we
want swapped in and out for instance if
we want to make some designs related to
people that love birds bird watchers
maybe it's their favorite breed of bird
well you can come to the website
and there's i don't know 15 or so
maybe even 20 variable templates already
built out for you right and you can
you're more than
welcome to make your own templates
but at least you have these as a jumping
off point so you're not going to have
like some buffer between you getting
getting started right and you know i
mean it won't be because of the variable
variable templates at least as long as
you download these they're pre-made um
you'll be able to utilize them right
away so we have things like bird breeds
cat breeds various collectors items
collections
dogs fish hobbies horses jobs
we have a couple lists of various jobs
uh
names male female etc
rabbits reptiles amphibians usa states
years years and ages which are great for
like birthday shirts so
lots of potential all right and if you
can't think of ways to utilize this go
to your
research tool of choice type in birthday
shirt and i'm sure a couple of them
you'll see not only turning x year
born in you know turning four born in
2018. you know what i mean you can kind
of take it a step further with these
tools
not that you couldn't do it manually but
it would take some time you know what i
mean if you really want to build all
these out and scale out a nice design
template
all right step five is
design you've got everything you need
you've got the chrome extension
installed you've got the variable
templates that you may want to utilize
even if you wanted to create your own
make sure you have that queued up and
ready to go
and then head on over to your
print on demand design application of
choice so
automate pod currently supports both
canva and photopia
both of which are web browser-based
design applications as you probably
guessed for a chrome extension to work
it needs you know because it's tied to
your web browser
pretty much means we're going to need to
be designing in our web browser in order
to utilize it well that means you can
use canva or photopia currently uh canva
is extremely popular with a lot of print
on demand sellers for obvious reasons if
you guys have never used it it's got
just a bunch of um
cool functionality it's also i think
what's cool or what people probably like
most about it is it's very intuitive uh
if you've never used canva i'll put a
link in the description i believe they
have like a free trial you can use i
don't remember how long might have been
a week and um yeah they've got a lot of
like built-in graphic resources it's
just very user friendly if you're new to
print on demand it's uh you know it's
definitely worth considering as a
jumping off point also then um well as
you can see here i've got a video
overlaid
that uh it hooks right into canva you
set your text layer as long as it's var
1 at a minimum that's for the first
variable and all uppercase
as soon as you launch that chrome
extension it's going to rifle through
all of the variables that you uploaded
and download it'll swap in and out the
words and download them for you and
you'll have a folder in your computer
wherever your downloads are stored with
the finished product
uh it also supports photopia
i never know if i should be calling it
photopia or photo p either way
whatever you want to call it it's almost
like some team of developers got
together and recreated adobe photoshop
in a web browser and then made it
completely free which i'm all for uh if
you use automate pod in combination with
photopia by the way it actually runs
faster than canva for a number of
reasons so if you're all about speed or
saving money or both photo p is a great
option because while canva will you'll
have to pay monthly for photopia is
completely free for as long as i've
known it existed and hopefully for the
foreseeable future photopia will remain
free but as you can see here it hooks
right in and downloads your designs into
a folder and before you know it it'll be
done it'll flash a little pop-up saying
okay we're done and you'll have a folder
on your computer with all of your
finished designs ready to be
uploaded which you can do manually or go
ahead and go to the automation week
playlist on youtube and or the link in
the description to my website and i'll
include the
video tutorial with each link to the
tool and you can see how i automate my
print on demand uploads to
the various print on demand marketplaces
using merch titans upload automation
which works great in conjunction with
automate pod
guys thank you for watching this video
if you found it useful please let me
know in the comments below also if you
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before i leave i wanted to remind you
that i did write a full print on demand
course by the way the last module in the
course is all about automation it's more
in-depth to like very in-depth tutorials
including any like extra um things i can
provide you as far as like value you
know sometimes it's upload spreadsheets
and whatnot that are you know built out
to basically make it as easy as possible
to cue those up
things like that you can find more in
the description guys but thank you for
watching this video i really do
appreciate you and your time and i will
see you tomorrow with a new video
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