hey what's up guys i'm excited to show
you some new software for launching your
own print on demand website in 15
minutes yes
15 minutes because it doesn't need to be
overly complicated
as much as i love some of the
alternative software solutions they it's
like you know when you get a lot of
choice it's like with great power comes
great responsibility some people i think
get overwhelmed it's not a um it's not
uncommon to get overwhelmed when you
have a lot of bells and whistles to mess
with in order to make your website uh
but in this case we're gonna look at
tech to print
this software is created specifically
with one thing in mind and that's to
make it easy for you and i to launch our
own websites and sell print on demand
products and what's cool is we can
actually sell customizable print on
demand products and let our customers
make changes or even upload their own
designs i mean it's really cool um
similar to kind of like etsy
personalization but taking a degree
further in that they can like i said
upload their own assets reposition them
etc uh really just you know a nice
open-ended way of capturing sales and
like i said very easy to set up 15
minutes or less i'm gonna walk you
through how to do that in this video so
let's get started
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real quick reminder in the description
i've got a couple free resources for you
i've got my free weekly print on demand
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group and of course i have a link to
tech to print which you're gonna want to
well take advantage of after you watch
this tutorial you can always re-watch
and follow along with me as well so they
you know you can see right here from the
website screenshot i took they want to
empower our customers to design so this
is what's really cool we're not only
just launching a print on demand website
where we sell our own products but we
are allowing our customers to
utilize a uh built into their web
browser t-shirt designer um if you guys
have ever seen websites like custom ink
you know custom ink right a lot of times
in the past i don't know if this is
still true but when you would google
like
i want to make a custom shirt you know
they would always pay to be the first ad
at the top because then they would
charge people like 30 something dollars
to make you know a one custom t-shirt
and in retrospect now looking back i'm
like okay i see why they were able to
bid so much on google ads because the
markup they were charging was insane but
for whatever reason a lot of people
don't do price checking they just click
the first link and you know the rest is
history right
i'm definitely guilty of having done
that at least once in the past so i
don't judge anybody but today we're
looking at tech to print we are going to
be on the right side of that equation
for once we're not going to be the ones
shelling out 30 40 bucks for a custom
shirt we're going to be the ones
collecting for custom shirts don't worry
we don't have to fulfill anything they
actually integrate with printify which
also is going to give us a nice little
pricing edge because printify to my
knowledge has the most competitive well
we know they're an aggregator of various
production partners which is nice
because then there's fallbacks if any of
your primary partners maybe go out of
stock for whatever sold
they can just send it to the next
printer but um also great as far as you
know with all these printers kind of
under one hood
you can see things like who's got the
shortest production times who's got the
best prices etc
all right so getting started you're
going to want to sign up for tech to
print i've got a link right there at the
top of the description for you and you
can try it for free for 14 days so why
not go ahead and do that all right go
ahead and click that on their website
try for 14 days
sign up to start your free trial and
after you've done that
find me on this video you might want to
pause it right now if you're following
along
all right this is what your dashboard is
going to look like once you're logged in
i love when they uh almost like gamify
things they lay it out one two three
four five six six steps to completion to
launch your shop get it up and running
so
there are six steps in total uh
estimated five minutes i don't know it
might take you a little bit longer than
five minutes but it's going gonna take
you somewhere in the range of five to
ten to fifteen like we said earlier so
first things first upload your logo now
it is officially a branded website when
you do that so
when you um wanna make a logo by the way
go ahead do it yourself however you want
to me personally i went straight on over
to canva typed in logo because canva has
well over 40 000 logo templates that we
can easily customize and i went ahead
and decided to i was like i'm gonna make
my website called foodies and then i was
like uh that's square i don't know if i
like the square that much oh how about
this one i like that one it's got the
flame it's got the fork and the spoon
and i like that font selection i like
the letter spacing i think i went in
there and increased the the horizontal
letter spacing i think it's called
kerning um and yeah i like the way that
logo looks so i exported it from canva
that probably took me 60 seconds to do
well let's be honest i had to scroll and
find that logo let's just say it took me
like three minutes to find the logo
click it change the text but there we go
we have a logo
so then i go ahead and upload that to
tech to print and i'm on to step two
which is the template
so we are launching our own website here
we want that website to look good
and you don't need to be a web developer
like myself in order to make it look
good because they have templates built
in
in the screenshot behind me i've got
like six of them but there is many
templates to choose from so go ahead you
know you can preview them and select
whichever one you like one cool benefit
to all these templates is that they are
mobile responsive so if anybody goes
picks up their mobile phone and decides
to browse on their phone guess what
no functionality is sacrificed
everything works as you would expect so
you you're going to go ahead and launch
a custom
high-end website right away how how far
into this tutorial are we a couple
minutes um we're doing pretty well
all right so i went ahead selected one
that i liked it's actually the one right
here behind me my chair is kind of
blocking it but when you click it
it'll say add theme so go ahead and do
that
and next thing you know you've got your
custom website it is very flexible in
terms of the ability to add
customization to the website itself so
i'm not going to get too in depth in
this video but there is and i'll show
you later but like in the dashboard
there's something called website builder
all you have to do is click that and you
can customize like any and every element
of this website
color scheme the elements the text etc
you can add sections you can remove
sections all the standard stuff
all right the third
step to launching our website is
uploading our products okay so go ahead
and click that and when you click it
takes you to the products marketplace
i imagine over time they will probably
expand the product catalog that is
available here keep in mind that they
are just pulling from printify right so
uh it goes tech to print to printify to
the customer basically right
so not every product in prinify's
catalog is currently um like made
available through um tech to print but
right now you know they've got the the
basics so you can go ahead and kind of
search or scroll find what you like here
i selected a sweatshirt a t-shirt a tank
top and a hooded sweatshirt so i went
ahead with like the four you know that's
not the four but it's like four very
basic product types and next you guessed
it we need to upload designs okay so
we've uh selected some product types to
enable on our website there's no harm
done by the way let me just take a
second there's no harm done by selecting
everything you can just go ahead and
select everything
it's it's not there's no like i keep
saying there's no harm done but like for
real like you'll see later why it may
actually make sense i mean there's
probably a sweet spot you don't want to
overwhelm customers with too many
options but
ultimately like when we upload our
designs
those designs will be made available on
all the products that are selected okay
so they do come with some default
designs these are not ones that i
uploaded that you see behind me you can
go ahead and delete them if you don't
want them uh to be there because these
will actually show up to your customer
on the front end or i mean again you can
customize everything but um
tech to print does boast this product
customization tool it's one thing that
really sets them apart and when i say
them apart like tech to print
is the behind the scenes of your website
when we launch our foodies website for
print on demand custom products like no
one knows that it's really tech to print
that's the backbone right of the of the
store but i went ahead and i clicked add
new design family uh i've got some
beautiful food related designs for our
foodies websites that i got from
creative fabrica shout out to them lots
of nice pre-made designs i'll include a
link to them in the description as well
in case you're not using them you can
join for one dollar for the first month
and you can get a bunch of pre-made
designs which works very well very um
complementary to launching your tech to
print website so i go ahead i upload the
designs
and uh you can you know mess with them
you can make them into patterns you can
add shadows i'm not doing any of that
stuff when i upload my designs they're
99.9 of the time like ready to be used
as is so i don't want to be tinkering
with them in this case i just uploaded
them and then i hit save the save button
is right above me in the top right
corner
and after that you can basically just
enable them on the other products i
think by default i can't remember if
it's by default that they're already on
or not if it wasn't then i went ahead
and i just enabled them on all the four
product types that i had selected
previously got the tank top the hoodie
the t-shirt and the sweatshirt
a lot of people been killing it with
sweatshirts lately by the way so don't
sleep on those don't skip those make
sure you make those available
all right and from there we move on to
payment methods because now we've
basically created some pre-built
products but again two keep in mind the
customers can also make their own so
we're not just restricting them to the
four that we see behind me and you can
upload more designs and again enable
them on more products but the customers
will still have the ability to customize
their stuff which i think is a great
option it's how websites i mean just the
first one that came to mind is like
zazzle you know i know they lock in a
lot of money that way by just kind of
being one of the biggest
t-shirt marketplaces that lets people
like easily customize stuff
all right as far as payment methods go
we need to get paid we need to enable
payment on our website
so we have some baseline payment
providers available here you can
activate paypal you can activate stripe
those are to me the big two
manual is probably outside the
wheelhouse of anybody watching this
video unless you're super techy that is
an option as well you can do like manual
api integrations but you're most likely
just going to just want to enable paypal
and stripe because stripe's going to
take all of the major credit cards and
then paypal of course
is just an alternative payment method
you know so yeah that's pretty much it
for payment methods you're going to need
to go and spend a little bit of time
there with activating them but once it's
done it's done it's a one and done and
then your website can accept payments so
what's not to love about how easy that
is
last but not least add your domain
all right so
we want to you don't have to do this
like you can just have a subdomain of
tech to print
but that doesn't look as professional as
having your own domain name of course so
you're most likely going to want to add
your own domain
and here you go this is their resource
they do have specific resources for how
to connect your domain from a domain
name registrar so you're not going to
buy a domain through tech to print maybe
in the future
that's probably in their product roadmap
right now i don't think it's available
so you can go to places like bluehost
domain.com google uh personally you know
godaddy is usually my go-to and if
you've never used godaddy you can just
google i mean i'm assuming this still
works it's been working for like the
last 10 years
google
cheap domain name find the godaddy link
that should be sponsored and just click
that they'll probably give you your
domain name for one dollar for the first
year
all right for like a.com so if you've
never done that that is a nice little um
if you want to call it a hack i don't
know
it certainly beats paying a full price
though so one dollar for a year and
that's because they know they're going
to get you to renew so it's it's a
pretty good business model for godaddy
it certainly worked on me in the past so
anyways um godaddy is a big option
that's the one that i used and again
they have resources for how to do this
for each domain name registrar so just
go ahead and use um
follow that guide for whichever one you
use to purchase your domain in this case
it takes me to godaddy domains help here
shows you how to edit the dns record it
may seem like oh no it's too techy my
head's going to explode trust me don't
be worried it is a one and done once you
have done it once
you should be good to go by the way it
may take an hour or multiple hours to
propagate if it doesn't work immediately
don't worry that's okay that is pretty
standard all right just check back later
check back tomorrow if it's still not
working you can always reach out to
godaddy support tech to print support
i'm sure
and you should be good to go once it's
done
all right everything else what else does
tech to print offer because right now
i've intentionally kept it pretty high
level i wanted to kind of breeze through
it and show you that we truly can get
started in 15 minutes or less
but they do have other stuff available
integrated right into your dashboard for
managing your website on the admin panel
the admin backend you can add a
newsletter and don't think of it as a
newsletter think of it as building your
email list which to me is like essential
for any online business in 2022 and
beyond you want to be able to maintain
um communication and contact with your
constituents so yeah your newsletter is
a great way of adding people um that
that is a section in the dashboard on
the left-hand side so when you click
that then it'll take you to your website
customizer go ahead and in the sections
type in form
and you'll see forms and maps when you
click that there are pre-built forms
that you literally just left-click drag
drop into your website and it will add
the form to collect things like name
email etc you can also customize them
very easily okay and when i say this i'm
not trying to mislead you you truly can
do it very easily it's like as easy as
it'll be on any website builder you've
ever used it's that easy okay
they also at least in this website
template right there at the bottom for
me they included an email newsletter
sign up so i already had one by default
right there in the footer
they have an app store uh you can add
things like i mean most likely you're
going to want to add google analytics at
a minimum and then facebook business
manager is just going to go and take you
to you know add your facebook pixel for
this uh business and again that's going
to help with like retargeting ads
all things you should consider at least
down the line if you're going to run
your own website and actually be selling
things because
you know
marketing retargeting in your marketing
is definitely more effective than you
know marketing to cold conversions okay
push notifications are also supported by
default you can allow people to opt in i
believe it's enabled by default as well
but if you want to send push
notifications to people that have opted
in with maybe a new sale new product etc
definitely like utilize that any way you
can maintain connection with your
customers your clients is a good good
thing
you can add your team if you have vas if
you have team members et cetera go ahead
and just click that on the left hand
side of your admin panel go ahead and
hit add staff account behind me and you
can go ahead and set them up here so
that is i just want you to know that
it's here it's awesome when
when apps are mature enough to support
that because i know a lot of us business
owners do in fact lean on teams or it's
not even teams like let's just say you
hire somebody from fiverr to help you
install your google analytics or
something well go ahead and add them
right you don't have to give them your
master login just add them and on a
staff account okay
you can create discount codes again if
you want to run sales this is great for
promotions you've got your email list
well go market to your email list that
you've got a discount code whatever
percent off and go ahead you create them
here again this is just on the left-hand
navigation in your admin panel
all right in the live website guys you
can go ahead and click and view your
live website as you go i mean i
typically keep a tab open to the live
website the entire time just so i can go
and like kind of proof as i as i'm
working
but right there on the header of my
website template it says create your
style personalized products for any
event or occasion customize now go ahead
and click that
it's going to take me to um my product
selection i've got some that are created
by default like i said from the designs
that were already there um just kind of
stocking my store uh before i even had
to upload anything so i mean i'm sure
that's there for like demo purposes you
can just delete them but um the one
behind me right here i definitely
created in this demo it says what diet
and it's got cookies cakes crackers etc
there's also a blank slate um this is
here because again we're allowing our
customers to create their own products
this is the easiest way to make a sale
because people can just buy whatever
they want you know what i mean they're
doing the work and they're paying us
basically to produce it and ship it
little do they know we're just a
middleman we're also automating the
outsourcing of that work to a printify
connected printer so this is just 2022
i'm loving it advances in technology
making this possible what's not to love
thank you tech to print for making it so
easy from here they can use the design
editor to select from different colors
available upload custom images
or choose from a massive library of free
images related to their niche there's
also a huge selection of icons they can
add text they can change the template of
the design
again lots of colors to choose from they
can even add a qr code they can
reposition elements change colors etc
basically make it however they want
before approving then you get to select
how many do you want to buy what size um
is it printed on the front the back is
it double-sided et cetera
then hit add to cart which i am
currently um hiding the add to cart
button but i just hid myself so you can
see it right there behind me and when
you do that it'll take you to an
intermediate step uh-oh see this is what
i love about tech to print just another
thing that i like it hits you with that
intermediate step and what is this this
is called the upsell step where instead
of just taking you to the checkout and
saying okay here's your shirt it says
intelligently it says oh what about
these other products that have the same
design on them because if you want to
buy the shirt the likelihood of you
possibly wanting to buy the tank top or
the hoodie or the sweatshirt is a lot
higher because we already know we've got
your interest on the you know first
product type so what about the other
product types with the same design so i
love this it's called it's an upsell
trying to increase that order value from
that customer then we go to the shopping
cart here you can see we have one last
preview of the design on the product go
ahead if you created a promo code they
can apply it now and then behind me here
i'm kind of hiding the proceed to
checkout button there's also a continue
shopping button if they want to buy
anything else customize anything else
before they check out and that's pretty
much it guys so that's tech to print um
here you go on the last screen here
this is what the checkout looks like you
have the shipping address first last all
the stuff required to ship it to them
normal shipping costs in this case in
this one example six dollars and sixty
cents so the total for their custom
product is going to come to uh well i'm
hiding it behind me here about 25
73 cents and that's with our profit
baked in
you can see the different payment
methods supported there and yeah i mean
15 minutes roughly to get this website
launched and again we have as much time
available to us as we want to spend
customizing things
changing the layout adding sections
tinkering with marketing all those great
things they're all available to us
through tech to print guys so make sure
you check it out at tech2print.com this
is what the home page looks like uh
right now so go ahead when you go there
click try free for 14 days and give it a
shot launch your website
you'll be surprised at how easy it is to
make a really good looking print on
demand custom product website
and here you go again this is what the
pricing looks like of course it's
subject to change depending on when you
see this video so i just want to throw
this in there as well but obviously with
the 14 day trial that is you know where
you want to start with at least to get a
feel for how everything works
all right guys thanks for watching as i
sign off i want to remind you i have a
full print on demand course walking you
through how i make six-figure sales
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