is artificial intelligence gonna spell
game over for print on demand this is
something that never actually crossed my
mind but there was a pretty active
thread in my print-on-demand facebook
group today and i drew inspiration from
it and i wanted to give my commentary on
it in this video because i think it's
actually a pretty interesting take
so we're going to talk about that in
this video let's get right to it
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so this is what i wanted to talk about
today so um this post was uh pretty
interesting and i guess i'll just kind
of read through it and give you my
thoughts as we go so gideon says okay is
it just me or are the numbers of people
teaching print on demand rapidly uh
increasing then the number of people
actually learning it everywhere i turn
someone just wants to sell a course on
how to make millions in one month with
print on demand um so i guess just to
start uh that's not even really what
inspired the the video idea it was
actually a couple people in the
descriptions talking about ai and
whatnot so that's what i really wanted
to highlight but um just to comment give
commentary on the initial
opener i don't actually watch very many
other print on youtube content
because i don't want to like copy
people's content if that makes sense
like i want to have original thoughts
and i always feel like it's tainted if
i'm watching too much content from other
people that being said when other
youtubers in the space do have a
big video
you know i watch a lot of youtube so i
mean i sit here all day and i got a
monitor up here so i just like you know
i'm not watching cable news put it that
way i got youtube on i got other you
know t uh websites running content and
if there's other big videos they tend to
like work its way in front of me uh into
my news feed and then i'll typically
watch it but
i don't know is everybody selling
courses and coaching now i mean i'm not
aware of that but uh hopefully i know
what can be annoying is if people get
too pushy and you know fortunately with
our time being spread so thin as it is
and hopefully
if one thing print on demand uh does
well
it's teaching you how valuable your time
is because once you learn print on
demand
you now know how to monetize your time
without spending money right it's not
fba oh i need money to make money no
with print on demand you can make money
without spending money so
your time is extremely valuable don't
waste your time watching crappy content
right don't waste your time watching
people trying to sell you a course if
they're not providing any real value
outside of that course because
you know there yeah there's a lot of
reasons obviously not to you know pay
for courses if you don't know for sure
number one that the people know what
they're talking about number two that
you know they've verified that they
they're actually successful in whatever
it is that they're teaching uh so yeah
you guys already know all those traps
like what inspired me to start my
courses because i never had any
aspirations to do it was somebody named
kevin david who is just like one of the
original like course scam artists the
dude clearly didn't know what he was
talking about when it came to amazon fba
specifically i don't know if he actually
knew about anything about the other
stuff that he had courses for but
it like lit a fire in you know under me
to start my own fba course because i was
actually a successful fba seller and it
was clear as day that dude didn't know
what he was talking about so if anybody
was wondering why i have courses but you
know for what it's worth like we put out
lots of free content uh it's typically
fragmented you know all over the
internet there's youtube videos and
whatnot um if you can find the answers
to your questions good but you know when
you join a course a well put together
one you typically do get like everything
you need in the order you need it if
you're not getting that
just ask for a refund right there's no
there's no shame in doing that
all right the next comment says because
people are from kelsey because people
are figuring out it's more profitable
and way less daily work to sell a course
or take on coaching clients than to run
an actual print-on-demand business hey
it's debatable but i mean i respect
everybody's opinion i'm not trying to
say anybody's wrong here um
the thing that like regard put it this
way regardless this is my opinion
regardless of what you're selling like
to me making a sale is
about getting people to acknowledge that
you exist or that your product exists
right if you're selling like i guess
coaching or a course it's about
you existing right they need to know you
exist right and establish that you're a
subject matter expert right for them to
trust you enough to pay you for your
um your information right
uh if it's a product well you just they
need to know your product exists first
and foremost then it needs to be like
either a compelling like value
proposition
uh you know it needs to be high quality
it needs to be something that gets them
to convert right
so is it easier to
you know
get get in front of people and convince
them to trust you as a person or you
know then to carve out internet real
estate on amazon or etsy where they
don't even need to know that you're the
person behind the scene selling that
product or benefiting from them buying
the product i mean that's that's the
only angle i'm working there where it's
like with print on demand we know we can
go design a t-shirt then sell that
t-shirt on all of the major e-commerce
marketplaces
and we will benefit from merely being on
that marketplace without having to worry
about like
you know you know what i mean doing it
on our own whereas if you're doing like
coaching or courses or whatnot you're
probably out there on your own so it's
just worth considering it might actually
be easier to run a pronunciation
business but i'm not trying to say
anybody's wrong here i just give him my
give him my take uh diane said notice
that too so i guess i don't know how
prevalent it is i also use youtube
premium so i know a lot of like gurus
probably sell courses and whatnot using
ads and while i am the beneficiary of
people that advertise on my videos i
never see the ads because um pretty much
the only subscription service i pay for
i know this is crazy because we live in
a world full of subscriptions but i just
i don't really um for entertainment
purposes the only one i really pay for
is youtube premium i do get you know
netflix for free um i've done a video on
that in my finance channel if anybody
cares but um just for like staking some
crypto i get i get like youtube or no
not youtube i get netflix amazon prime
and spotify for free so if anybody's
interested i'll link to that video in
the description if you want
um yes i noticed that too diane said
john said those that can do those that
can't teach and i've heard that and i
mean definitely there's some truth to
that nobody can deny that um those that
are named ryan hoog who are you know
crazy people that
use a computer all day every day pretty
much since age 13 that was 20 years ago
i'm now 33. uh we do all of the above
because we can make it work you know
what i mean like we operate and focus
heavily on efficiency and that allows us
to do
and teach
um as evidenced by the fact that like i
built all these businesses up for those
of you guys that are new to my channel i
did it while working nine to five as a
senior web developer and then teaching
three classes a semester for seven and a
half years at a local university where i
taught web development so i mean
i'm just saying like if i can make it
work i know everybody can make it work
just
hyper focus
on efficiency and remember that there's
two types of people in this world those
that do and those that don't and you
have to choose and you don't have you
don't really actually have to choose you
just are what you are right you're
either a doer or you're not a doer if
you join my my email list you get an
email it's part of like the introductory
sequence that literally says like are
you a doer and i put that
like pretty prominently as one of the
first emails you'll get because
like if you're not a doer
um i just don't think in general like
life is gonna be as favorable uh if
you're not a doer because you what it
tends to happen is you just wait for
things to happen around you and you
either get lucky or you don't whereas
doers
we do we manifest things right we
actually take action
um and this is where again if you want
to tie this back to the course comment
those of you guys that are inspired
ready to take action but don't know
what to do next there's no shame in
paying for somebody that has been there
before to kind of lay out a blueprint
step by step that we can kind of trust
works right so again i'm not trying to
sell you courses when i say this this is
just us having a conversation
unfortunately one-way conversation
but let me know in the comments below
your thoughts um so john said no offense
to the real teachers out there but the
internet is being flooded with fakes and
gurus definitely there's a really good
let me see if this guy's kicked off
youtube or not but there's a youtube
channel i want to shout out um
that has like hilarious content yeah
this guy right here all right
mike win it um this guy has hilarious
content on his channel even though yeah
he's been still actively uploading okay
uh mike win it and i'll link to him too
in the description but he's like great
for exposing like predatory fake gurus
and whatnot so check him out if you want
to be entertained while also seeing some
gurus exposed he also goes for like kind
of the upper echelon but definitely good
content there
so he says uh if you think it's bad now
wait another year the ai tools will soon
take over this market and the gurus will
be in hog heaven
yeah i mean
that's actually what inspired this video
naturally i talked without for five or
six minutes without even getting there
but i just wanted to kind of comment on
the ai tools we'll soon take over the
market and patrick said uh selling you a
dream not a product yeah the ai will
make it ma will make it a mad
marketplace of scams and fake reviews
all over the shop no pun intended yeah i
mean if you're on um just each website
guys like i guess if you're not tech
savvy i don't know um or if you don't
use the internet like as a regular user
you don't get as familiar with like how
each marketplace works like some it's
probably really easy to fake reviews
others not so much
um if you're selling like a course or
something like that and it's just on
your like own domain you can you can
literally make any content you want
right so just always be aware of that
stuff um you know it's definitely
beneficial to be like kind of up to date
with uh with how tech works and just
kind of keep learning it's a forever
learning experience you'll never know it
all
i'll i'll never know it all for sure um
but the ai tools will soon take over the
market i mean i think what he's
referring to is maybe even just watching
my videos and i mean
just for what it's worth like hearing
that the ai can take over and it's like
yeah i mean i get it right like i'm a
direct beneficiary from leveraging
software but keep in mind the software
is built by humans how much of it is
true artificial intelligence i don't
think a single shred of it is i did have
that one video i did last month talking
about ai niches that was pretty
well received got a lot of views and um
that's pretty interesting right but what
i'm really doing is using an ai tool
that to my knowledge is really just like
scraping the internet kind of like the
way google does indexing information
trying to interpret it and uh spitting
out an answer to questions right so i
said
generate me a list of like
the americans most like 50 most favorite
foods right and i get a list of 50 foods
and then i go and feed it into you know
automate pod the chrome extension
and it downloads a bunch of designs that
say you know i love cake i love pizza i
love whatever you know what i mean that
to me is maybe kind of the extent of
where ai is in terms of how it can be
used with print on demand
from there obviously you can
take those designs
there are different ways of getting them
you know uploading
automating the upload process i guess is
what i'm really trying to say like i
always want to learn as many shortcuts
as possible because you don't get like
an award for spending more time doing
the same thing that you could spend less
time doing so i'm always aiming to do it
in less time again efficiency
uh and then yeah automate the upload
process right no no ai involved in that
but my buddies over at my designs i will
say like they are killing it with
everything they've done so far which
again is like allowing me to run like a
really nice looking etsy business albeit
it's a new one um i'm really aiming for
just a huge fourth quarter because like
it's it's slow right now otherwise i'd
be bragging to you guys about how great
the sales are coming um but i'm doing
like a sale every other day maybe i'm
not spending too much on ads or anything
like that because i'm the type of person
that
is doing this mainly for profitability
and like i can pump up my ad spend right
now but it's it kind of feels like we're
in a lull as far as like general trends
and whatnot so i'm not trying to go
overboard with like pumping up my etsy
numbers when it's it's not that big of a
deal i know i'm gonna crush it in the
fourth quarter if i just stick to the
fundamentals right so i'm just doing
that and being consistent
but i will say yeah i mean to to the
point of like ai and uh the takeover
just remember that behind everybody
leveraging ai tools
there's going to be
a human you know what i mean there's and
the reason i can guarantee that
basically is because didn't the irs just
hire like a bunch of new irs members to
hunt down people that owe the government
money and you know the reason i'm saying
that there's always a human behind the
ais cause
they need to have a tax id you know what
i mean like i guess i could be wrong i'm
sure if you went you know down the
rabbit hole dark enough like there might
be a way of like oh it's a corporation
tax id you know what i mean there's no
human behind that i don't know maybe but
for the most part it's going to be
people like me that did the process i
just described to automate
the lease a list of niches feed that
into design automation then feed that
into upload automation you can even
automate ads to an extent depending on
the marketplace we're talking about and
you know ai can
ai air quotes here
can kind of take over markets um and
then hey i mean i guess that's where you
bring me in i am a guru that teaches the
exact process i just outlined because
hey it works for me those of you guys
that follow me on instagram you see my
daily um instagram story updates
i'm not afraid to you know use tools
that are going to save me time even if
it spends a little bit of money as long
as again it's just a math equation i put
this much in i get this much out okay
it's working for me you know what i mean
another variable in that equation is
time saved so that's kind of how i see
things guys i do appreciate your time
and attention so i'm going to stop
rambling let me know your thoughts in
the comments below thank you for
watching and i'll see you tomorrow with
a new video
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