hey guys ryan here thank you for joining
me on a friday night in this video i
want to follow up
on what i promised yesterday i want to
talk about how on august 19th which was
two nights ago
i sold over 1100 using the printful
amazon integration now i was selling
print on demand products
without giving you the niche in this
video i want to give you some insights
into the process i used
to both find the trend recreate the
design
and list it for sale on the world's
number one marketplace in the world's
number one e-commerce marketplace
guys if you're not using amazon seller
central to sell additional print on
demand products and gain additional
visibility
it's probably time to start you know
we're heading into the fourth quarter
and um you know you're just leaving
money on the table if you're not doing
it so
i'm gonna jump on my computer and we can
get started
thanks again for joining me guys in this
video my intention is not to make this
like a super in-depth tutorial to
recreate every single step but i do also
want to be a little bit transparent
share with you exactly how i stumbled
upon this trend
what steps i use to get it listed for
sale on amazon so that you can take
action
and set yourself up for success as well
real quick before we start let me
introduce myself for new viewers i'm
ryan hogue i've sold over 1.7 million
on amazon to date if you want to follow
the links in the description i've got a
free 8 day print on demand mini course
delivered to you via email one lesson a
day it's also very relevant
to what i'm going to cover in this video
because it gets you set up in printful
which is what i used to fulfill the
orders um
that i made using the printful amazon
integration i also have a print on
demand facebook community i'd love to
have you there link in the description
and i publish income reports on the
first or second day of each month if you
would like to subscribe to my channel
you can stay up to date with my sales
you can follow along you can also go
back in time
and see how long it took me to scale up
to where i'm at today
last but not least i have a full-blown
print on demand course it's over 70
lectures it's
packed with value and it'll help you
make money this fourth quarter if you're
not where you want to be with your
print-on-demand business so
time is ticking and the earlier you join
the more valuable the course is because
again the fourth quarter's coming right
so what you see here
this is my sales from the last four days
using the printful amazon integration if
you have a printful account which by the
way printful is free
you can use the statistics tab on the
left-hand side and you can
sort between your different printful
stores and you can see your statistics
so i set the date range from august 18th
to august 21st
granted it's still august 21st so this
isn't my this isn't the full picture of
the sales i'll be doing today but
as you can see it's been about i don't
know three and a half days let's say
and i've done two thousand four hundred
ninety one dollars in sales
fulfillment cost 1 491 dollars and 44
cents profit 999.90
granted from that 999 you're gonna have
to deduct the amazon fees
you know i always like to be fully
transparent so i didn't make a thousand
dollars profit in four days but i made
a decent amount of money i made over 800
i think if i do the math
uh it should work out to about 800 and
like 30 to 40ish
all right and real quick you know i also
have been selling through the printful
ebay integration i
if you follow my income reports it's
pretty well documented that i don't sell
as much print on demand products as i
would like i don't move as much volume
on ebay
typically but even ebay has been nice
these past four days i've done 466
dollars in sales
fulfillment costs 267 profit 198.66
ebay usually takes about 10 so just
deduct 20 bucks from there
uh not bad and then as you can see here
too
i'm trying to point i suck at the green
screen backwards pointing it is not easy
it never gets easier
but there's a fulfillment discount
column guys part of
using printful and succeeding
is that you get discounts for being a
high volume seller so the more you sell
the heavier the discount is that's
applied to your sales the following
month
this is something i love about printful
it's just one of many things now i get
it
printful delays have been bad i'm not
like a printful shill
no one pays me to promote printful i'm
just saying from my personal experience
you want to use multiple production
partners you don't want to just
lean on printful because depending on
the product types you sell
they may be slow one month and fast the
next month well when they're slow
you can always cancel your orders in
printful and move them to another
platform
if i'm not speaking your language and
you're kind of like what are you talking
about ryan this is kind of why i wrote
the
70 plus lecture print on demand course
that covers literally the full spectrum
and how to approach
print-on-demand businesses in a dynamic
nature i'm just saying
um but yeah let's move on that wasn't
the point of this video i don't want to
talk too much about printful
all right here's an overview of what i
want to cover this is how i did what was
it
we did 2500 in sales on amazon
and let's just round that up and say 500
on ebay let's just call it three grand
in sales because again by the time
tonight by the time it's the 22nd of
august because it's still the 21st i'll
have done about three grand in sales
most likely this is a high level
overview of how i accomplished this so i
broke it down into four steps you got to
find the trend
check if it's trademarked if it's not
trademarked go ahead recreate it
and then sell it now let's dig a little
bit deeper into this starting with
finding a trend
so guys finding a trend first and
foremost i just want to be up front
there's probably always multiple things
with trend potential as far as print on
demand products go
that are out there every single day you
guys know as well as i do the new cycle
today moves faster than
probably at any point before in human
history does that mean you need to be
glued
to every single trend all day every day
i think you might drive yourself crazy
doing that that's just my personal
opinion so
for me when i'm hitting these trends i'm
just sticking to what i know i'm
sticking to subject matter that
interests me
and if i see something with trend
potential like part of me doing this for
three and a half years at this point is
that i know how to attack them
i know from experience and i'm gonna
keep getting better i'm gonna keep
learning and i'm always gonna try to
improve my process but
you know i've been at it for a while now
like this isn't the first time i hit a
trend
i've hit bigger trends in this before go
check my august 2020 income report if
you want to see a big month i did
25 grand in profit in one month it was
absolutely crazy if anybody wants to
check that one out i'll put a link in
the
corner here on the youtube cards anyways
let me
give you some suggestions of how i keep
up to date with these trends without
driving myself crazy so for one
i use news apps on my phone now
i don't necessarily use these news apps
again i stick to what i like
so chances are whatever your interests
are there's some app
out there that will give you
cutting-edge real-time breaking news via
push notifications
now if you guys could see my
girlfriend's phone it is absolutely
absurd she never clears her
notifications
so at any given time she has i'm not
even kidding like 50
and you can scroll forever through them
and that would drive me crazy so i use
an
app called push bullet what this does is
it actually allows me to use my
phone from my desktop computer so
i hate using my phone i it's so
inefficient like
i grew up with computers so i don't want
to sit here on my thumbs all day this is
inefficient it's slow um i know some of
you guys are great at it but me
personally like i know i'm faster than
you with a keyboard and a mouse and
three screens i know it
so i use push bullet it mirrors my push
notifications from my phone to my
computer and a bunch of the phone
functionality
so it doesn't bother me if i get a push
notification and i'm almost always at my
computer because you guys already know
i'm a huge computer nerd
but if i get a push notification from
some app it's like
i look at it i read it and i dismiss it
and it takes maybe
three seconds max i'm not even i mean
i'm like a robot at this point
but sometimes it sends something and i'm
like hold up that has print on demand
potential
and then i go i follow up i move on to
step two
you know if i think it has print on
demand trend potential is it trademarked
well
you guys should hopefully know how to
look this up but if not hey you know
what
today's the best day to learn go to
tmsearch.uspto.gov you could also use
like trademarkia.com if you don't like
the trademark website but this is the
official source so i just go here out of
habit
type in under search terms uh the text
of your design
it's a little bit harder to do the uh
what is it called not word mark but the
other one with graphics
but with word mark it's easy type in the
text hit search if you see no test
records were found
you're good to go next step all you have
to do is recreate it uh
depending on your proficiency with
various graphic design programs this may
or may not be hard it may or may not
take a lot of time it also depends on
what the design is
so for me it's like i just launched
photoshop i'm
i've been using photoshop for over 15
years maybe longer maybe closer to 20.
and yeah i mean i just fired up i've got
a template for all of my merch designs
like t-shirt designs i've got another
template for all of my hat designs
those are the two primary product types
that i sell i guess coffee mugs too
would be up there
um but those are the big three for me
and it's not hard for me to make designs
i mean i've been
again repetition right like anything
else in life the more you do it the
easier it becomes
so i recreate the design then guess what
sell sell sell right homer so
all i really do as far as selling goes
is sign up for printful
so for me it's like i'm already using
printful when i open my web browser
i have it open up a specific set of
pages
one of those pages is my printful amazon
store
so i don't even need to like open a new
tab and type in printful.com and click
go i don't need to even waste time doing
that because i keep a tab open all day
all i need to do is go to the tab click
add product
using the printful product creation
wizard it may be a lot of steps i mean
that's all i guess relative but it's
probably like a seven step process
however
again it's like anything else you do it
a couple times super easy
uh i upload the product or i upload the
design put it on a product and i submit
it to amazon but here's the thing if you
are not set up on the printful amazon
integration
here are the steps you need to do so for
one joint printful it would be awesome
if you want to use my link since they do
have an affiliate program
it doesn't cost you anything to join
printful it's free for you regardless
i have a link in the description next
you need to join amazon seller central
now
there are two options and is a common
question do i use the free option or the
pro option well you need the pro option
to get a g10 exemption
the g10 exemption replaces your
requirement to use upc codes by the way
upc codes will cost you a lot more than
the 40 a month will because they are
expensive so you're going to do the pro
account
then you're going to apply for a g10
exemption and then you're going to list
your products which again you just go to
printful doc you don't list your
products by going to amazon you list
your products
by going to printful you know what i
just realized i skipped a step in
between steps three and four you need to
establish the printful amazon
link which is a one-time thing and
honestly not again one time thing
probably take you like 10 minutes
not a big deal after that you use the
printful product creation wizard
upload your design place it on a product
hit go
after about 15 to 20 minutes your
product is
listed for sale on amazon and lately
i've been listing two products at a time
when i use the printful integration so
within
probably for me within maybe 15 to 20
minutes of finding this trend
actually i can't lie me and uh marielle
my girlfriend we were watching tv
and i just remember looking at her and
she looked at me and she's like what and
i was like
uh so okay so you know what everything i
told you in this video i realized it's
gonna
kind of sound like a little bit like a
lie because i didn't actually use push
bullet for this trend but i swear i have
used push bullet to find trends prior
but i was actually now that i remember
we were watching tv i looked at my phone
i saw the push notification
i was like man this reminds me of
one of my biggest print-on-demand
success stories
it's playing out extremely similar is
even the same app that gave me the news
notification and i told her i was like
can i go
run upstairs and like get this done
because
there's money to be made here and i bet
you i'm gonna be the only one
at least tonight that's listing it
because that's how it happened back in
august 2018
it was just me and that trend blew up
the next day i mean i literally sold
over seven grand in a day
but that's a separate story maybe i'll
circle back around and retell it
sometime
soon but hey if you guys are interested
let me know in the comments but anyways
i ran upstairs i got the product listed
and
the rest was history i'm still making
consistent sales from this product
through today however that trend
probably peaked
the uh following day on the 19th when i
made 1100
in sales just through amazon alone and
you know back when i was on etsy that
used to mirror my amazon sales pretty
much one to one
so money was definitely left on the
table by not being on that platform but
again it is what it is
and guys i just want to share like
amazon stock has
has almost doubled from its march
2020 lows and part of that has to do
with def
inflation not deflation deflation's what
caused it to crash inflation is what's
causing it to rebound so quickly but
a lot of it also has to do with
increased demand for e-commerce products
and the pie is so big the pie is huge
which is why i
you know my parents think i'm crazy for
having these courses where i show you my
exact processes
and basically hand-hold you to do
exactly what i do
but if you would like to learn from me
my print on demand course has 10 modules
and over 70 lectures
module 5 is all about selling on amazon
via the printful integration
it also covers the gear bubble
integration if you want to use that but
i don't really recommend your bubble
again i cover all of this stuff in the
course in depth the course also
covers things like niche research design
how to sell on all of like all the
relevant other platforms if you would
like to check it out guys i'd like to
offer you guys that watch the video till
the end if you're not enrolled and
you're interested
i'd like to offer you my maximum
discount of 20 off
if you enroll this weekend so if you're
interested just use the link in the
description
i will append a coupon code to that
and as long as the coupon's working you
can get 20 off so i thought i'd do
something special for you guys for this
weekend
because we're heading into the fourth
quarter and if you're not on amazon you
need to be
all right guys thank you so much for
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