In today's video, I'm going to be sharing with you guys
my current complete list of paid subscription tools
for print on demand.
Hi, everyone, and welcome back to another video.
If you're new here, my name is Greg
and I like to talk about online entrepreneurship
and sharing the important resources
that I wish I had along my journey.
First things first, print on demand can be completely free,
and you do not need to pay for any tools or any paid courses
to actually have success.
From years of experience,
I found that there are three tools that I actually recommend
and think are worth the cost.
The absolute main reason that they're worth the cost is
because they're going to ultimately save you time,
whether this is creating designs that will actually sell,
choosing niches that are actually profitable,
or wasting your time from doing manual tasks every day.
Now when we look at the other side
of not using any paid tools, yes, you can do this,
everything will still be done the same way,
but it will take a lot more time and effort on your part.
With the use of a couple of these paid tools,
things are either quick and easy
or they're completely automated.
Plus it takes the guesswork out of choosing good niches.
At the end of the day, it's up to you to choose
if you want to spend your time or your money.
For many of you, I know
that this will be up to your situation
and your financial budget, but as a quick look forward,
if you go all in on all three of the tools
that I personally use and recommend,
it'll cost you $20.69 per month with the discount codes
that I'll talk about later in this video.
To take that a step further,
it's only $13.74 a month combined,
if you buy a year's worth of these tools upfront.
I will absolutely be keeping price in mind
as we go throughout this video
and show you how you can keep costs as low as possible.
For each of these three paid tools that I recommend.
I'll show you what the paid tool is,
what free alternatives are,
if you don't have a budget at all,
how to use the paid tool, when to use the paid tool,
who I recommend it for, and lastly, the discount codes
if you are going to sign up for the paid tools.
And to make this easy,
so you guys have a place to reference
for all of these links,
all the resources and discount codes will be linked
down in the description.
So with all that being said,
before we actually get into the three paid tools,
there's three stages of print on demand,
and it's important to know what they are
before considering where you need to add in paid tools.
The three stages are simple.
Stage one is choosing niches to create designs about.
Stage two is creating the actual designs,
and stage three is marketing your designs.
Stage three of marketing your designs
is only in the beginning phases,
when you need to get a few sales on your account.
Then, after this, you no longer have to do this phase.
And later on in this video, I'll explain that a bit further.
Stages one and stage two, where you're choosing niches
and creating designs are continuous.
As long as you're growing your print on demand business,
you're going to continue doing these.
With that said, let's get into the three tools
I personally use and recommend for you guys.
The first tool is called Merch Informer.
This tool is for stage one
because it shows us which niches are profitable,
so we know what kind of designs
to be spending our time creating.
Yes, it is a paid tool coming in at $9.99 per month
or $8.32 per month if you sign up for an annual plan.
Yes, I do have a discount code for you guys
linked down in the description.
It's 20% off bringing the price down to $7.99 per month
or $6.56 per month if you do the annual plan.
To use Merch Informer you type in the niches
you are considering going into, and it'll tell you,
based on real data, about print on demand,
if it's a good idea,
or if it's a complete waste of your time.
That in itself should be enough of a reason to get it.
But additionally, it's going to show you
the current top 10 best-selling designs in that niche,
so that you have an idea of what type of designs to create
that are currently selling well.
I'm going to add a link down into the resources
and in the description that has a video on the channel
that goes into more detail on how to use Merch Informer.
As far as when to use this tool,
I recommend using this tool
whenever you are ready to make new designs.
Typically I do this in batches.
I'll spend an hour or two creating a big list of good niches
to bring into stage two of creating designs with me.
As far as who I recommend this tool to,
I recommend this tool to everyone who's in print on demand
because it's obviously a no brainer
and it comes with a three day free trial.
Even if you're someone who has no budget for a paid tool,
you can use a three day free trial
to make a big list of good niches.
And there's unlimited searches
while you're on the free trial, so you're not limited.
Now this is definitely going to be
one of the tools I recommend keeping for the long run,
because it proves to pay for itself
by guiding your time spent creating designs
towards profitable niches.
Now if you've used the three day trial
and you don't have the budget to afford it,
let's talk about a free alternative.
What this is is kwfinder.com.
KWFinder used to have a free plan
where you could just use it entirely for free,
but now they offer 10 day trials
for each new email that you sign up with.
So you can use the 10 days, sign up with a new email,
get 10 days, and then after the free trial,
it goes up to $29 per month.
So with that said, I don't recommend it at the $29 a month.
I only recommend it for putting in new emails
and using the 10 day trial.
Now something that definitely needs to be noted
between the two here is
Merch Informer is using print on demand data
for their results.
KWFinder is using Google search data for their results,
so you kind of have to read between the lines a bit more.
And Merch Informer is definitely going to be
more accurate for us,
but KWFinder is a good free option
that has a longer free trial for us to use
if you don't have a budget at all.
Now with that said, for the first batch of searches,
I definitely recommend using the Merch Informer free trial
because you'll have three days
to basically do unlimited searches
and create a big list of good niches.
Lastly, the discount code for Merch Informer is GREG20.
I'll have a link in the description,
but if you type in GREG20 in the coupon code,
it'll give you 20% off of any plan.
And that actually stays on your account for every billing,
not just the first month.
So that was the first tool, Merch Informer.
Now let's move into tool number two.
This is placeit.net.
This tool comes in in stages two and stages three,
because it allows us to create great designs very quickly,
but it also allows us to create model mock-up photos
of models wearing your designs on shirts.
Yes, again, this is a paid tool
and it comes in at $14.99 per month
or $8.33 per month if you sign up for an annual plan.
Yes, I also have a discount code for you guys.
It's 15% off and it brings the price down to $12.70 a month
or $7.08 a month if you pay annually.
Now as far as how to use placeit.net,
remember we have the two features that come with this.
You have creating designs
and you have creating the model mock-up photos.
To create t-shirt designs with it,
you can browse all of their templates.
They're always adding new ones.
You can change text. You can add images.
You can add your own images, graphics, change colors.
You can do everything, then once you're done,
you can download that right to your computer.
And with that design file on your computer,
you can upload that to any of the print on demand websites.
Now the other feature is their model mock-up photos.
So basically you can browse all of their models
and then you can upload your design that you created.
It'll be essentially photoshopped onto their shirt,
and then you can pick the color of the shirt
that they're wearing.
Download that right to your computer.
Now you have this image on a computer
that you can upload to anywhere for your own marketing.
Something that is extremely important to note
about placeit.net is that anything and everything
that you create on placeit.net
comes with full commercial usage rights.
What this means is you can actually use this
for your business and profit from it.
Definitely keep in mind that not all design tools have that.
For a more detailed tutorial on how to use placeit.net.
I'll link a video down in the description.
That'll go over how to use both the designer
and the model mock-up tool.
Now as far as when to use this tool,
I recommend using this tool
whenever you are creating designs
or you need to create content for social media marketing.
When you're using their tool to create designs,
it's going to save you a lot of time
and give you the ability to create designs
that historically were very hard to do.
You had to have skill to do it,
and it took a lot of time even if you had those skills.
These are going to be graphic heavy designs,
not just simple text designs that you can create
on any basic tool.
Now with that said, I recommend this tool
to almost everyone in print on demand
because it's a no brainer.
And again, the designs that you create from it
will pay for the actual subscription to the service.
So essentially by having the subscription,
you should be able to create designs
that will pay for the subscription and then some.
Also, I think it's such a good recommendation
because most of the people creating designs
for print on demand are like myself,
where we don't have extensive graphic design experience.
So by having a tool like this,
we can actually create those graphic designs
that previously we weren't able to create.
The only people that I don't really recommend
placeit.net for are for those of you
who have a special style to your artwork,
something like free hand drawing or painting, et cetera,
different things that aren't exactly standard designs
or graphic based designs.
With that said, even for those people,
the model mock-up is going to be really helpful
because you can upload
those special designs that you created
along with any other designs you create
and put it onto models without having to hire models
and then take photos of them
with a professional photographer.
The model mock-up feature on Placeit is really good.
And I don't want to downgrade talking about that
because we're talking about the ability
to create t-shirt designs.
Just know that both of those features,
creating designs and the model mock-up feature,
both come with your placeit.net subscription,
and they're both very helpful.
Now on placeit.net, there is no free trial, unfortunately,
but speaking of free, there is a free alternative
if you do need one.
A free alternative to this would be canva.com.
That's the one that I recommend
because it's computer-based.
Now if you are going to use Canva
as a free alternative here,
just know that you'll be able to create designs on Canva,
but you will not be able to create model mock-up photos.
That's only on Placeit.
Additionally, Canva is going to be very limited
compared to placeit.net,
as far as templates and your creative ability.
Also, you're going to be required to do a few extra steps,
like removing the background from the design,
and that's something that Placeit does for you
just in the click of a button.
Things like this are definitely things to consider
when comparing adding a paid tool to your tool box
of tools that you'll be able to use every day.
If it's going to save you five minutes
every time you have to remove the background from a photo,
it might just be worth it,
if you're talking about creating 10, 15, 20 designs per day.
Lastly, yes, I do have a discount code for this.
As I mentioned before,
the discount code for Placeit is linked
down in the description.
The code is actually built into the link,
so you have to click that link to get 15% off,
and that will be applied to either the monthly plan
or the annual plan, and it's not just for the first billing,
it's for every billing going forward.
So that finishes up number two, that is placeit.net.
I can't recommend that enough to you guys.
It really is a powerful tool.
Now let's move into number three. This is later.com.
This tool is for stage three explicitly
because it allows you to schedule and automate
posting of marketing photos to your social media accounts
without having to do it manually.
Yes, it is a paid tool coming in at $9 a month,
or if you pay annually, it's only $7.50 a month.
However, they have a free forever plan and I've tested it,
and it actually has all of the features that we need
for this purpose.
So you can use the free forever plan
and not have to pay for a paid plan at all.
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then I don't know what is.
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Now in regards to how to schedule out and automate posts
for social media later,
all you basically have to do is go online to later.com,
sign into your account,
link it to your different social media profiles,
and then upload photos of the posts you wanna use.
And you can drag those out onto Later's calendar,
on which days you want it to post,
add in your description of what you want
to go along with that photo,
and then you're basically done.
Later, every day, whenever you scheduled that out
will automatically post that content
to that social media account.
Again, I'll go ahead and link up a video
down in the description that goes into more about later.com
and how to use it.
As far as when to use this tool,
I recommend using it when you are just starting out
and you need to drive traffic
to your shirts using social media.
Using later.com is simply going to save you a lot of time
from having to manually go into your phone or your computer
and posting to all these social media accounts every day.
You can basically do what I do,
and that's sit down once in the beginning of every month,
spend an hour to upload all of your photos,
write out all of your captions,
and schedule out the whole month's posting
of social media content.
As far as who I recommend this tool for,
I recommend this for people who are new to print on demand,
and they still need to get those first few sales
from their own marketing.
As far as who I don't recommend later.com for,
I really don't recommend it and don't think it's necessary
for those of you who already have
sales and traffic coming into your shirts,
so you don't have to use your own
social media marketing anymore.
As far as the discount link, since this tool is free,
you can use the free forever plan.
You won't need a discount link at all.
I'll still link to later.com
so you can go right over to the website.
Along with everything else mentioned in this video,
all the resources will be linked down in the description.
With that said, if you get all three of these tools
that I personally use and recommend,
you'll only be paying for Merch Informer and placeit.net.
They will cost you $7.99 per month and $12.70 per month,
or $6.56 per month and $7.08 per month
if you buy the annual plans.
That's $20.69 per month combined,
if you go with the month-to-month plans
or $13.74 per month combined, if you buy the annual plans.
So those are the three tools for print on demand
that I personally use and why I recommend them to you guys.
I'm not going to link up any videos
on the side on this one
because everything you need is linked
down in the description.
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