what's up guys welcome to a new
automation week video today we're
talking about my designs this is one of
my favorite new tools of 2022 they're
still in beta and by the way you can
still grab a free account if you use the
link in the description but my designs
and the scope of what they are trying to
achieve as a company in the
print-on-demand space
really makes me think it's going to be a
cornerstone like almost like a home base
for our print-on-demand businesses in
the near future and what i'm going to
show you in this video will hopefully
make it clear why i think that's going
to be the case also if you missed it i
did do a playlist on youtube uh where i
basically showed you how to use my
designs to launch your own etsy digital
download business which guys digital
download is what it sounds like we're
selling them digital files and they are
paying us for those files so it's like
getting something for nothing and i love
it alright so why don't we get started
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quick reminder i released this video as
a part of automation week you can find a
link in the description to my webpage
that outlines every tool we covered this
week also i've got a link down there to
my free print on demand giveaway two
winners are going to be randomly
selected and announced this sunday i've
got an eight day print on demand mini
course you might want to take advantage
of it'll help you get your etsy shop
started for instance and all you need is
your email address i'll send you one
lesson a day and i've got a great print
on demand facebook group which is you
know if you want to be a part of the
community it's a great place to kind of
crowdsource help for any issues you may
be having or help other people out as
well
all right so the theme of uh automation
week a heavy theme at least is that
uploading
you know amongst other aspects of
running a print-on-demand business but
uploading takes quite a bit of time and
it doesn't have to all right and i love
anybody that tries to solve problems
that lots of people face all right like
for instance anybody that wants to start
a print on demand business
faces the same issue with uploading hey
it takes a lot of time doesn't have to
all right so with my designs when you
log into the platform after you open
your free account while it's still in
uh you can go ahead and click upload on
the left-hand side and then you can drag
and drop
all your files
into that space the most i've ever done
it once was 4000
and yes it worked and once the upload
was finished my designs can then convert
them into various formats that are
useful especially if you're on the
customer side of things in this
transaction and you're purchasing the
svgs from us the sellers uh it converts
them into various file types like eps
dxf pdf jpeg png all from that initial
svg and what's cool is that they've been
really hard at work the developers over
there at updating the software and now
you don't have to just sell standalone
svgs you can sell bundles and my new
etsy account i mean it's not really new
anymore but like my best selling
listings have been bundles right and
i've talked to some other people as well
that i know have a lot of success with
bundles i don't know if it's just that
you know on the customer end you feel
like you're getting more bang for your
buck when you purchase a bundle so
as far as utility that my designs has
and this is kind of what they had i'm
going to show you what they've got uh in
the most recent update and what they've
got coming down the pipeline guys
because you're you're going to want to
know about this that's why i keep saying
it's going to be a cornerstone it's
going to be like bookmark it in your web
browser every time you open your web
browser have your my designs tab right
there because it's going to be home base
so it's cloud storage a lot of people
have trouble keeping their files
organized well fortunately now you don't
have to worry about it you can just drag
drop like i showed you into my designs
and it is gonna have a backup in the
cloud so that you you know we say in it
two is one one is none so if you've got
one copy of something you're risking
everything it's basically zero you're
one hard drive crash away from having
nothing right back it up in the cloud
you should be good um you can do your
search engine optimization or seo which
is when we push these products to
various platforms for sale like if we
want to sell an etsy digital download
you can do your search engine
optimization
at scale
in bulk using variables which is
extremely powerful you can bulk generate
mock-ups not just your primary mock-up
you know like i did this mock-up right
here behind me it's like a sticker on a
notebook but you can do bulk generation
of mock-ups and you can have like all of
your listing images done just via the
software by just uploading your svgs
you can create data templates all right
this helps with again the seo so you
don't have to you know if you have
4 000 files do you want to make 4 000
um listing you know titles and
descriptions and tags or templatize them
right of course you want to do it with
templates and then you just use
variables for the unique primary
keywords to each listing i mean if you
guys didn't catch my playlist again it's
i'll put a link to it in the description
for sure
you can
upload to multiple marketplaces all from
my designs and they have their own app
marketplace so that down the line if
developers want to get in there and add
some enhancements or new functionality
they'll be able to do so pretty cool
almost like shopify right shopify for uh
print-on-demand businesses or something
so here's the playlist i mentioned um
and i will link to that in the
description so make sure you check it
out cause my designs it's still in beta
you can still get an account for free i
know it's last time i'm gonna say it but
it's like criminal not to take advantage
of it right now uh as far as utility
goes i mentioned that now you can do
bundles
uh you can add watermarks to images
which is great in case you're worried
about people ripping off your they're
like wait why would i pay you for your
svg if i can just like pull it off of
etsy right now well now there's
watermarks if you choose to add them
plus you don't really you know render
them on etsy at like the full resolution
where people can rip them off right um
even if they do rip it off right it's
going to be in uh not the most optimal
format whereas if you buy an svg it's uh
you know it's a vector file it's
resolution independent they can scale it
up infinitely
uh and then they have an image resizer
built in as well so
existing functionality they're
constantly expanding and i can't wait to
see what's coming down the pipeline in
the future as far as mock-ups they've
been expanding the mock-ups that are
available so i took a couple screenshots
to show you here's some wall art
mock-ups and you can see on the
left-hand side there there's a bunch of
wall art by the way there's a bunch of
etsy shops
that make an absolute killing selling
digital downloads but the way they
market them
is for wall art and i know they've got
some pretty cool stuff coming down the
pipeline for anybody that does photos if
you're a photographer you're really
going to want to pay attention to this
one because they'll be able to do
mock-ups for basically like the section
off you know what i mean like the
multi-wall art um from one photo like
boxes with gaps in between stuff like
that
uh they've got you know tumblers tumblr
mock-ups and you might be like ryan why
would i care about a tumblr mock-up well
anybody who is a true
uh what do i want to say like a true i
don't know a person that likes my
content on this youtube channel that
doesn't miss the etsy shop reviews
because i know they don't get as many
views as you know most of my other
videos but
you if you caught my tumblers with
melissa shop review this shop only sells
digital downloads that they mock up on
tumblers okay and they've done 100 this
is the screenshots old they've done over
150 000 sales on etsy i repeat over a
hundred fifty thousand sales on etsy
they charge four dollars a sale flat
rate that is six hundred thousand
dollars plus
done on etsy with digital downloads okay
now are you starting to connect the dots
here why they have these mock-ups in my
designs so you too can say okay tumblers
with melissa's doing really well with
their tumblr digital downloads
maybe i'll go for my own uh because
really i mean what are we selling at the
end of the day we're selling digital
downloads the way we mock them up is
really just trying to convince the
customer of our digital downloads what
they can use them on okay i can't just
man i'm getting so excited about this
stuff
uh and just do a little research if you
don't believe me go to etsy and just
kind of look look around for like five
minutes at digital downloads to see
what's possible
because that's what's providing the
inspiration i'm sure for um for what's
going on at my designs uh you can do
apparel mockups which will be relevant
in a second i'll explain why
they can do sticker mock-ups
so lots of and there's more mock-ups
than that i just went went through some
of the most important ones but as far as
utility they've been doing user
interface improvements they've been
improving performance speed they've been
adding new filters so actual like
functional improvements for those of us
that use my designs for uh digital
downloads and for you know the other
things that are coming on the pipeline
for instance bulk trademark check
and if you're like me and you've tried
various print-on-demand research tools a
lot of the research tools are paired
with trademark checkers
some of them try to do bulk checkers
there still isn't really a great option
that i'm aware of four bulk trademark
checking uh i believe the my designs
bulk trademark check trademark check is
coming out soon and i have high hopes
for it given that their developers have
proven to be extremely competent and
really good at what they do in my
personal opinion thus far uh the bulk
trademark check i'm excited to see that
coming
uh and again guys notice the keyword
there just real quick bulk
trademark check not just trademark check
because we can do that ourselves if we
want to but doing it in bulk and doing
it the right way right that's that's
gonna be challenging but i'm extremely
excited to see um how that tool works
because it's yeah it's been tough
um okay they also have a shopify
integration
that's gonna be ready extremely soon
from what i hear i got you know my
connections it pays to be on this side
of things with the youtube channel it
pays to be a talking head on youtube
uh so thank you guys for the subscribers
you make this possible for me to be in
the know and then i'm happy to share
with you uh but my designs will be able
to push to shopify as well so hopefully
you're starting to see like okay it's
not just etsy now it's shopify maybe
it'll be amazon seller central one day
hopefully it'll be ebay right hopefully
it'll be
walmart or wherever right as many
integrations as possible we say occupy
as much online real estate as possible
make it easy for people to find you and
give you their money in exchange for
whatever it is you're selling that they
want like simple concepts right like
business doesn't have to be that
complicated i mean it is it tends to be
very nuanced and you know but like at a
high level it's like how hard are you
making it for people to give you their
money well okay
all right and as far as the print on
demand integration because the shopify
integration
is going to be a print-on-demand
integration meaning they
are integrating with a um
print-on-demand fulfillment partner that
will be able to fulfill these orders um
you know as a third party
so it's kind of going to be like my
designs to shopify and then if an order
takes place shopify will probably tell
my designs and i don't know i'm not a
developer actually i shouldn't guess i'm
not working on this project so um but
either way automated fulfillment so
automated listing creation to get the
listing up there and then when it sells
automated fulfillment you guys this is
why we can scale our business up if we
had to worry about doing manual
fulfillment or manually creating
listings and manually checking
trademarks and all that it would be
extremely hard to uh scale up i mean
trust me i know because i'm very
efficient at using a computer given that
i'm a huge computer nerd
and i mean i get it almost oh my god
it's almost 20 years that i've been at a
computer daily basically my computer
addiction started when i was 13 and i'm
about to turn 33 so damn
uh all right print on demand integration
you're gonna have basic t-shirts women's
shirts tank tops long sleeve sweatshirts
hoodies and then some premium products
as well and that's just what they're
starting with of course i'm sure the
catalog will expand with time but um
again it's like we upload to the central
hub we do all the seo in the central hub
using templates and variables
gen bulk generate the mock-ups
and then bulk publish the products to
multiple platforms and the fulfillment
is now automated like this is
crazy this didn't exist and i didn't
think anybody would actually like be
able to pull this off from a technical
perspective
given how challenging it would be but my
designs is going for it you know what i
mean so you're going to want to be a
part of this guys you could open an
account for free i said i wouldn't say
it again but here we are
my bad
but the reason i wanted to put this
slide in is because i get a lot of like
not not too many but i get a few
probably like five six seven uh people
saying hey i can't find it why you said
it was free well when you use the link
it's hidden kinda sorta but it's right
there it says click here it's underlined
sign up for a free account so make sure
you do that while it's in beta nothing
to lose guys also i have a full print on
demand course you can find a link in the
description if you want to learn more
about that it walks you through
literally everything from my past
content my future content which will
involve digital downloads uh and i'm you
know constantly updating the existing
stuff also the bonus module is
completely dedicated to automation so
everything we covered in automation week
except you'll get like my full
detail-oriented look over my shoulder
approach to doing all the automated
stuff and when there's like spreadsheets
involved you get my spreadsheet template
i'm making it as easy as possible so um
you can take me up on that offer if you
want to the link is in the description
thank you guys for watching please like
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designs and then enjoy the rest of your
day i'll see you tomorrow with a new
video
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