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hey guys ryan here thanks for joining me
for another video today
what i want to talk about today is why
i'm still recommending
that you guys use printful to start your
print-on-demand businesses now
i know we've all heard about the six
weeks of delay time between an order
being placed
and it being produced and shipped to our
customers obviously that's unacceptable
our businesses cannot last if it takes
six weeks
to send products out to the customer but
of course
i've got a strategy i've got a plan and
what i want to do is share that with you
in this video i'm gonna start by telling
you my logic my reasoning behind
recommending printful
as your primary production partner first
then i want to share with you my process
that i'm using
to get orders sent out in three to five
days
on average using a printful alternative
while still creating the initial
products
through printful so that the sync is
established because guys like
when things are normal when things
return to normal hopefully sooner than
later
i still 100 believe that printful is the
best
production partner but it never hurts to
have some alternatives so what i'm going
to do is i'm going to go jump on my
computer and we'll get started
all right before we start let me
introduce myself i'm ryan hogue i've
sold over 1.6 million dollars on amazon
to date if you want to follow the links
in the description i've got a free eight
day print on demand mini course it'll
walk you through how to get started with
the
printful etsy integration i've got a
print on demand facebook community it's
been really active lately we're all just
out here helping each other succeed as
sellers there's plenty of meat on the
bone so you don't have to worry about
helping each other too much and then
getting stepping on each other's toes as
far as sales go
and i publish monthly income reports if
you want to follow my progress as an fba
seller
kdp seller print on demand seller all
you have to do is subscribe to my
channel or join my email list and i'll
let you know the next time i drop one of
the income reports
last but not least i've got a full print
on demand course it's basically multiple
courses
rolled up into one big course for the
price of one course if you want to check
it out there's a link below it's over
10 modules it's 10 modules over 60
lectures my favorite part is the bonus
section where i show you how to automate
your uploads
all right back to the reason you're here
i want to talk about why i still believe
printful is the best print on demand
production partner even with
six week delays now i'm gonna do some
high level summaries here and in the
future i'll do a more
in-depth printful review for the year
2020 and beyond i've already published
one
in 2019 obviously things change over
time so i'll refresh that sometime in
the near future
the first and primary reason i recommend
printful though is that you get more
control over your business
than most of the alternatives give you
all right printful verse printify
is the easiest comparison prinify is a
middleman
when you use printify as a production
partner they farm out your orders
to various smaller companies and as a
result you lose the ability
to be self-sufficient with things like
updating and canceling orders
minor things like changing an address on
an order which by the way that happens
all the time
and reshipments i mean i don't even know
if they support reshipments
printful on the other hand you'll get an
email when something is sent back and
then
it's as simple as following the link in
the email click change address
and well you might want to ask your
customer what the right address is first
but you can do that no problem
so you get a lot more control than the
alternatives than the counterparts
by using printful even gear bubble they
have multiple factories
that they own it's not like they're
farming the work out to other companies
the way that prinify does but gear
bubbles still
they i don't know if their software is
just lacking but
you have to email support you have to
email their support team and bug them to
do simple things
why why don't they just give you the
control to do it yourself once you use
printful
it's hard to go back to relinquishing
those controls
um and having to rely on support teams
to get overwhelmed you know
understandably so by the way that's
called a poor workflow when you have to
work with the support team
instead of being able to do these things
yourself incentives now printful's
volume discount i've talked about it in
the past
when i was still selling on etsy i was
pretty much hitting the volume discount
threshold
every single month unfortunately after
etsy kicked me off
for no reason it's been a little bit
harder to hit although i did hit one uh
recently not last month but the month
before
now the volume discount on printful
recently changed
they made it much more accessible to
average sellers
so here's my progress right now we are
halfway through the month of june
and i have already locked in a five
percent
discount for july so the way this works
is if you
reach the threshold for a volume
discount it'll apply to
all your sales the following month and
with print on demand being a game of
margins it definitely doesn't hurt to
have to pay a little bit less
for the products you're selling now they
rebranded this entire thing there didn't
used to be this fancy thermometer
and you guys have heard me talk before
about how much i love printful's website
i was a senior front-end web developer
at my nine-to-five job prior to quitting
that job thanks to the passive income
stuff that i talk about
on this channel but you know i really
appreciate
a beautiful website like printfuls with
a great user interface
and uh easy to use right ease of use
anyways i'm loving the thermometer
you can see that if you sell one
thousand dollars you get a five percent
volume discount if you can sell
2500 you get a seven percent volume
discount
now keep in mind it used to be that you
had to sell five thousand just to get
the five percent off so they've made
this
much more attainable and guys also just
like amazon merch
this gamification of business typically
leads to
more success uh and you should approach
your own business this way gamify it
have some
fun you know it's weird that it's so
easy for guys like me to play computer
games all day you know i was a huge
gamer prior to me
you know what i like to say is i started
taking life more seriously and
i gamified business that way was fun and
i enjoyed
chipping away and you know trying to get
a little bit better each day the same
way i was when i was a
i was a world-class computer gamer at
multiple computer games you know i
take this stuff seriously um but yeah
the the volume discount
it's definitely a step in the right
direction for printful because they only
make money
when we make money and they're making
this easier for us
uh and i skipped the last bullet it's
centralized all right this is the last
bullet i wanted to talk about with
printful but
if you have multiple stores through
printful every time you upload a design
it's it's a centralized repository for
all your designs they're all there
so if i want to sell something on
amazon.com
that i'm already selling on amazon.com
or if i want to list the same thing on
ebay
all i have to do when i am selecting my
designs
is there's a little drop down and you
can switch between your stores so i just
hit the little drop down
and i see my designs for my amazon.com
store i go i select the design if it's a
hat design you know it's already
digitized i've already paid the 6.50
fee for the embroidery digitization so i
just select that
boom now i've got it selling on other
stores you know and that's a great
strategy
and it's it's an advanced strategy if
you're selling embroidery because there
is that one-time
fee that'll pretty much eat away at your
profit margin on the first sale you get
but once it's digitized
you've got an extra incentive to list it
on additional marketplaces so consider
doing that all your designs are kept in
the cloud in a centralized place for you
all right and now let's talk about how
to use
printful even with six week delays for
t-shirts you know the most common
print-on-demand product
how you can still use printful and not
have your business suffer all right now
we already know
delays bad all right if you look at the
comments
on the video i dropped i think last week
or the week before where i had
i said guys it's time to move on from
printful yeah
not many people were happy about the
delays that they were facing
with their orders understandably this is
the update from today june 16th it says
dtg is taking 23 to 28 business days to
ship
out all over print 22 to 27 days net
gators five to eight business days
that's not bad
an embroidery it says 16 to 20 business
days
quick note on embroidery i don't know if
maybe like you know i wouldn't be mad at
them if this is true but maybe my
account has like some special star next
to it and i get like
my orders expedited but my embroidery
orders have been going out in like five
days
or less on average so i mean that's not
even close to 16 to 20 days but
i'll take it right but with standard
like t-shirt dtg prints
we cannot have our customers waiting
four weeks even for
the shirts to ship so i've got a plan
for you
i'm gonna show you my exact workflow how
i'm handling this right now
without my business just getting ruined
all right
when you get an order with printful you
get an email from printful and depending
on the marketplace you sold
on you'll probably get an email from the
marketplace as well saying hey you got
an
order you need to ship it out etc this
is what i do
i get the email from printful right
because
i'm still suggesting that you create all
your products via the printful
sync so that in the future
if you sell the product and you don't
need to do what i'm about to show you
and use a different company to fulfill
it
it just takes care of itself on
autopilot that's my rationale behind
using
printful but what you do for now is you
get the email hey an order came in
printful detects it
hit cancel order all right the email has
a link all you have to do is hit cancel
order they'll say are you sure hit yes
no more printful fulfilling that order
all right next
i'm going to recommend a company that i
probably heard about from the comments
of that
previous video that i alluded to someone
said hey check out shirtley
so and there's plenty of alternatives
and i want to do more print-on-demand
production partner
review videos by request i love the idea
so i've already
went ahead and done some test orders
through shortly and i'm going to speak
to that experience
really briefly but by the way if you
want to check out shirley
use the link in the description to help
support the channel
all right so i placed two test orders
the first one was placed on june 5th it
was shipped out on june 10th so it took
five days
from the time i placed the order which
was about midday to get it
sent out now five days is not that bad
especially right now i mean that's
pretty damn good
now it has not been delivered yet but
that's not shirley's problem
test order number two i placed on june
6th now one note on the shirtley test
orders is you can actually use the test
order function to
ship products out to your customers
i know you're not supposed to do that
but i'm just saying i went ahead and
tested if i could
and it worked and you get 30 off so not
a bad uh
not a bad deal there um you don't get
infinite test orders but
just saying all right test order number
two i placed it the day after so on june
6th i placed test order number two i
sent this out to a customer
it shipped three days later and it was
delivered on the 16th
so all in all it was 10 days from when
the customer placed the order
i got printful telling me hey you got an
order i said printful cancel i can't be
waiting four to six weeks for you to
fulfill this
then i went to shirtley.com and i
clicked create order
and i'm gonna do a more in-depth shirtly
review
in the near future but trust me guys
their website it's not as good as
printful's
it's still extremely easy to use you
just click create order
you can either hit basic order or you
can hit sample order like i said sample
orders you can send them to your
customers at 30 off so it's not a bad
idea to use that
uh and then it it's three to five days i
mean at least in my experience i only
did do two orders that's not the biggest
sample size if you guys have experience
with shirley and you want to drop me a
comment below
letting me know your thoughts definitely
would appreciate it
uh i'm all ears i probably might do a
couple other test orders before i drop
the shirtley
review video just to see their other
product types and i'm going to show some
of them on camera
but you know one order was five days one
order was three days
average order fulfillment time four days
from my two orders
so shirtley seems like a very viable
print on demand production partner
to have in your back pocket and again
for those of you wondering if you need
to
sync shortly with your store you don't
need to
you can you can sync multiple production
partners
with your stores but i don't think you
need to unless you're seeing
really high volume of orders but the
thing is like if you've already created
the products through the printful sync
you don't need to have one product
synced with multiple production partners
it really doesn't take long
to manually create orders in shortly so
again you're just hitting cancel on the
order in printful
going in manually keying in the stuff
into an order in shortly
and it will take care of itself by the
way guys shirtley has an
etsy integration and a shopify
integration and they have a
coming soon sign for an amazon
integration so if they get that amazon
integration up
that's going to get real interesting and
again it's also free to use shortly
there's no monthly fees
i hate that there are production
partners that charge monthly fees and i
cannot get behind recommending them all
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