Today, I'm going to share the one tool
that made me the most money selling t-shirts online.
I personally use it almost every single day.
And if you're going to get just one tool,
this is the one that I recommend.
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 making money online.
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you know that these videos are no fluff.
They are straight to the point.
So with that being said, let's go ahead and get started.
In this video I'm going to be sharing one very special tool
because it has hands down,
made me the most money in selling t-shirts online.
Not only that but I'm going to show you
the seven different ways that I personally use this tool.
The specific tool that we're going to talk about
in this video is for the area of designing
and marketing your t-shirt designs.
However, what I'm going to show you in this video
reveal some of the more kept secret ways of using this tool
that are not commonly talked about,
but there are definitely ways that I personally use.
With that being said, this tool can be used by anyone
because there are free features and there are paid features.
So no matter what your budget is,
you will still have ways of using this tool.
So now that we've talked about what this tool is for
and who it is for, now let's talk about what it is.
This tool is called placeit.net.
Now if you've seen other videos on the channel talking
about placeit.net,
it's because I really do personally use this tool
and recommend it.
In this video I'm going to elaborate
a little bit more than usual
and show you seven different ways that I use placeit.net.
Not just the basics and the common ways of using it.
One quick disclaimer, just to get this out of the way,
I do not work for a Placeit.
Yes, I do have a referral link for Placeit.
And that referral link gives anyone
who signs up with it a lifetime 15% off discount.
But I am not an employee of Placeit,
they're not paying me to make this video.
I just wanted to put together a video
that delivers a lot of value to whoever is watching it.
And the way that I came up for this video's topic
is what is a tool that has delivered me a lot of value
that I can share with someone who ordinarily
wouldn't be able to find this just searching the internet.
With that being said,
let's go ahead and dive into what is placeit.net
and what are the seven different ways that I use it.
So first things first, for anyone who is new to placeit.net,
essentially what it is, is generally around the apparel
and fashion niche.
And it's going to allow you to create mockups
where you can put your design onto a model
and it essentially Photoshops it onto them.
And it's also going to allow you to create designs.
Now I say it's generally in the apparel and fashion niche.
However, they have thousands of different templates
in all different niches.
I think the last time I checked
they had something like 50,000 different templates
you could choose from.
So you're not never going to run out of options
to choose from.
Now generally placeit.net is a paid subscription website.
So you have to pay monthly or annually to get access
to all of their templates.
However, they do offer some free design templates
and free mockups.
As we go through this video,
I will link out to everything directly.
So if you're looking for one of the free templates,
there will be a link for it down below.
So now that you have a general overview
of what placeit.net is,
let's go ahead and break down these seven different ways
that I personally use it to help sell t-shirts online.
One of the seven ways that I use placeit.net
to sell t-shirts is using situational mockups.
Now these are not your traditional t-shirt mockups
where you have your design on a model wearing your shirt.
These are more along the lines of scenarios or environments.
So think along the lines of someone using their computer
and you can add an image of
what website they are browsing through.
So the way that this will help you to sell more shirts
is you can create a post like this
to put on your social media.
A very simple example of how you can do this,
is you can find a mockup of someone browsing the computer.
And on their computer, you can have photoshopped
in your storefront.
Now if you have social media pages for your storefronts,
by putting an image like this,
it adds more depth to your page.
As someone's scrolling through, they don't just see shirts
or models, but now they also see someone on the computer.
And when they look at that computer screen,
they can see the person in the photo
is browsing your storefront.
It simply adds another layer of depth
to your social media content.
Now keep in mind,
you don't have to stop just computer screens.
You can also do iPads or iPhones,
all different devices, TVs, Wall Art.
You can get very creative with, but just keep in mind
that you don't have to use just t-shirt mockups.
You can also use situational mockups.
Moving onto number two.
This is probably one of the staples
and that is going to be creating t-shirt designs.
Now, I just know that for t-shirt designs
along with every other category here,
there are free versions of these
and there are paid versions of these.
I'll put a direct link to both of these
down in the description.
But just know that
if you're going to use their free t-shirt designs,
it's going to be a very limited library.
However, you still get to use placeit.net
and download the t-shirt designs
with full commercial usage rights.
Now, speaking of commercial usage rights,
this is one of the main reasons
I do my t-shirt designing on Placeit
because everything that you create on placeit.net comes
with full commercial usage rights.
This will keep you out of trouble
with copyright infringement.
So you're not using someone's graphic or font.
And they have what seems like a million different templates
that you can choose from.
So it's easy to go in there with a blank mind,
find inspiration and just start creating off
of their templates.
The name of the game and the real strategy
for making money selling t-shirts online is creating a lot
of great designs.
Now in the past I've used
very complex design software like illustrator.
I've just found myself not being able
to get the designs out, find inspiration
and make them quick enough to really be able to scale
in this business.
So, using something like Placeit you can go in,
find inspiration, customized templates,
swap out photos and texts.
It's all very quick.
And the last thing about creating designs with Placeit,
is you download that file right to your computer,
which means that you can then upload that file
to any POD website that you want.
This be Teespring, this can be Redbubble,
it can be merged by Amazon or all three.
All those sites are non-exclusive.
So you can upload that same design file
to all three of them at the same time.
When you compare that to using the design software
on Teespring for example,
if you design your t-shirt on Teespring,
you will not be able to actually save that design
to upload to the other websites.
Number three is another way
of creating t-shirt designs on placeit.net.
This is one of the more kept secret ways.
I've talked about it on the channel,
but I haven't seen anyone else anywhere talk about this.
What this is, is using placeit.net logo design tool
for your tee shirt designs.
Now, yes, as we just talked about in number twp.
there are a ton of t-shirt templates
where you can create t-shirt designs.
However, if you go over to their logo tool,
you can then use their logos
to create t-shirt designs as well.
You can save these with transparent backgrounds as well.
Save that file to your computer
and upload it to the POD sites.
Just like you did using their t-shirt design templates.
Now, just to put in perspective how powerful this logo tool
on Placeit is, just know that a while ago
Placeit took the logos out of their subscription
and you had to buy each logo individually.
It wAs $20 per logo. If you had a membership
or $40 per logo if you did not have a membership.
Now since then they have brought unlimited logos
back into the subscription so you pay monthly
and you get unlimited downloads of these logos.
The reason that these logos are so special
is because you can create very elaborate,
typically very hard to create designs
in the matter of minutes.
You can choose from their graphics library and it redesigns
that logo or that design with that new graphic in it.
One big tip that I can pass on to you
is browse through their gaming logos.
I found that those make really good t-shirt designs
and now you don't have to be in a gaming niche to use these.
It's just those designs are really good.
The fourth way that I use placeit.net moves away
from the creating of the t-shirt designs
and moves a little bit more into the marketing.
This is using their Instagram story templates.
If you create a niche specific Instagram page
linked up to your niche specific storefront,
then you'll be able to post two types of posts.
One are going to be the actual posts
that go on your Instagram page.
And second are going to be the posts that stay
for 24 hours that go onto your Instagram story.
Now you can select to put these as highlights
so they stay on your profile forever,
that is totally up to you but either way you do it
in Instagram stories it's just going to pull more traffic
to your Instagram page.
Now, yes, it definitely is true.
Instagram stories become much more effective
when you have a built up following.
But even if you are just starting out
with an Instagram page, you can post Instagram stories.
And I have a little trick for you.
When you were creating your Instagram story,
add in some text and put in your relevant hashtags.
Once you do this, you can drag with your fingers
and make those hashtags extremely small.
And then you can go back up top and you can add a sticker.
This can be any kind of sticker
that is relevant to your story,
and you can put it right over top of your list of hashtags.
What this is going to do is cover up those hashtags.
Nobody will see that they're even there
and it will give you the same effect of the hashtags
as if they were on your post but now it's on that story.
This is just another little marketing trick
to get your stories out to more people
even if they are not following your page already.
Now, these are all little tricks that I've learned
along the way.
If you enjoy these little tricks like this and this video,
in general feel free to leave a like down below.
I really do appreciate it.
The fifth way that I use placeit.net
and I highly recommend for you is probably the staple
of placeat.net, this is using the t-shirt mockup tool,
where you can upload your t-shirt designs
onto model wearing them.
Now, these t-shirt model mockups are the staple
of how I've built my foundation of selling t-shirts online.
It simply makes more engaging
and more attention grabbing social media posts.
When you're posting these on social media as your posts
on your page, you're simply going to get more people looking
at them for longer and considering buying your t-shirts.
If you're just posting screenshots of your t-shirt designs,
it can only do so much.
However, mixing in photos of models
wearing those t-shirt designs takes your social media page
to an entirely new level.
Because it brings in the element of people.
Now you have photos of people wearing your shirts.
Someone who's scrolling through and sees this post
has more to analyze.
They can see what the person looks like.
They can look at the person's eyes
and see what they are wearing.
Now having access to these t-shirt model mockups
is not just for your own social media posting.
You can also use these t-shirt mockup photos
to customize your storefront and make the banner image
extremely relevant to your store.
And something that I highly recommend is,
if you were going to hire an influencer to post a photo
for you on their page,
please make sure that you are sending them a mockup photo
of someone wearing your t-shirt, because when they post that
it will get far more engagement
than if you just send them a screenshot of the t-shirt
that you're trying to sell.
And lastly, another way that I can recommend
using these mockup photos is for those of you who are
in the more advanced level
and if you are running paid Facebook ads
or paid Instagram ads, using an image
of a model wearing the shirt is going to convert
a lot more than just a screenshot.
Now, a quick disclaimer,
I don't recommend using paid Facebook ads
or paid Instagram ads for anyone
who is in the more beginner phases of print on demand
for 99% of people
I would say you just going to lose your money
because there's a lot that goes into testing
and optimizing these ads
until you see a positive return on investment.
With that being said, let's go ahead and move
into the six way that I use placeit.net
and that is taking the t-shirt mockup photos
to the next level and creating t-shirt mockup videos.
I will be the first to say that I have no idea
how they create these, but essentially what this is,
is a video of somebody where you upload your t-shirt design
and it gets animated onto their shirt.
So to make these is exactly the same
as creating a standard t-shirt model mock-up photo.
But when you download it you're going to have a video.
Posting videos like this on your social media page
is going to add in more depth again
to your social media account.
When you start posting mockup photos, mockup videos,
situational mockups, screenshots of your shirt,
all of these on your social media page,
you'll see that people have a lot more to engage with.
They have a lot more to analyze.
It keeps their attention when they're on your page
a lot longer than if you just had a bunch
of screenshots of shirts.
And moving right along,
we have already made it to number seven.
The seventh way that I use placeit.net to sell t-shirts
and that is by using Pinterest pin templates.
Now you won't find me talking about Pinterest all
that often on this channel.
It's because it's not one of the main ways
that I do marketing.
However, the Pinterest pin templates you find on placeit.net
are absolutely amazing
and they create the really good photos
that you see on Pinterest.
Now, there is no crazy strategy that I have for you
for selling t-shirts with Pinterest.
All I recommend to you is spend as much time as you can,
whenever you can creating pins to put on Pinterest.
Now, the account that you make on Pinterest
will be just like the Instagram page that you make
and it will be niche specific.
Now, by doing it this way you can create all content
for that niche specific storefront.
And when you create these pins,
you can either link them to the whole niche storefront,
or you can them to a specific listing.
With that being said, I don't recommend spending a ton
of time and trying to craft a crazy strategy for Pinterest.
All I recommend doing is using these really good templates
from Placeit, they are vertically formatted.
So they take up the most space on Pinterest
and just getting these pins out there on Pinterest,
because in the long run
it's going to get you free organic traffic
to your storefront or to specific pick listings.
So guys, those are the seven different ways
that I primarily use placeit.net.
There is a ton more that we could talk
about on placeit.net but I wanna make sure I'm sticking
to only the value in these videos
as to not waste your guys' time.
With that being said, if you have any questions
or any specific topics on Placeit or any of the other tools
that you might have considering,
please let me know down in the comments.
I'd likely use the tool before or have information about it
if it's on Placeit.
as always, if you enjoyed this video,
I really appreciate.
The thumbs up.
If you have questions for me, let me know
down in the comments and I'll be seeing you guys
in the next video.