hey what's up guys in this email i
wanted to share with you a
small part of an email that i had
received recently
that provides some motivation that i
think a lot of people that are new to
print on demand
probably need to hear and definitely
need to experience and i hope everybody
will
also the part of this email i want to
share just to me personally i think it
shares like a great perspective
on embarking on really like any new
journey in life i mean in this case it's
the context of
starting up e-commerce business but i
think really
almost anything in life this perspective
that we're going to be sharing
from this person that sent me this email
they'll remain anonymous but
i think it's just good to hear and i
really believe in it so let's get right
to it
let's get right to the email i made a
commitment to myself one month ago to
try print on demand seriously
for at least six months now i'm gonna
stop right there and just say
that to me is the right perspective to
bring to really
anything or most things in life like if
you really want to go for something
it almost doesn't matter what it is like
give yourself six months i mean six
months is kind of an arbitrary number
but
the whole point is there
pre-determining a period of time that
way it's not like open-ended because
when you do something that's open-ended
like let's say you're just going to do
pronoun demand
uh and start a red bubble shop and let's
say you didn't come up with
a minimum period of time but you said
you know what i'm gonna go for it and
maybe you
you know stay interested for a couple
days or a week or even a month
but at the end of that period of time
it's not where you would hope
it would be and you may give up and kind
of miss out on the
scalable passive aspect of owning not
just a redbubble shop but really an
ecommerce store
and you can kind of keep going down that
logic of well
if you're doing all this work for
redbubble and you don't come across
someone like my youtube channel or
whatever other source of information
that would
tell you what i what i like to preach
which is take the designs you made for
redbubble
upload them other places you've already
done most of the work uploading them to
other places
doesn't have to require a lot of time or
effort and honestly automation also
exists that you can do it with the click
of a button
so anyways it's like it's it's a
function of what you know
and of course we don't know what we
don't know but you know assuming you
have
at least enough information to launch a
redbubble shop
this this person already knew they were
going to do it for six months regardless
i love that
because if you leave it open-ended it's
like mind games you have to play with
yourself
we're all subject to this by the way um
like if you don't give yourself a
predetermined period of time you may
give up after like two weeks
and it's not your fault i guess but it's
like if you already know you're doing it
for six months then it's not even a
question
and this is like the the sort of like
psychological game i play with myself
like i was looking at my youtube channel
today and i was like man i've posted
basically daily content for
just about a year i counted i missed
like 15 days of not posting videos so
365 days 350 videos and
again it's just when i when i'm on a
roll i don't really question if it's
gonna get done like the the
psychological game in my head has
already been won i'm like no i'm doing
this
you know and when it comes to starting a
youtube channel i was like man this
sucks i'm not comfortable doing this i
had already been teaching at the college
level for
i think just about five years and still
talking to a webcam
in a room where you're by yourself it's
weird you know what i mean and it's
still weird but
it's definitely a lot easier after two
years but anyways things like that just
winning the mental game
is what i love about that first sentence
so i'm gonna try print on demand
seriously for at least six months
to try and build a better future and was
really motivated by watching your
youtube content i do try to provide the
motivational content and just give you
kind of some insights into my brain
the first two weeks i went all in and
was able to get around 130 designs up on
redbubble
awesome 130 designs in two weeks you
know what i mean and this is from a
beginner's perspective so i'm sure the
learning curve as you guys all know
again
regardless of what you're doing the
learning curve is steepest
early on i then decided to create a
separate account for text only designs
and was able to get about a dozen
designs up on redbubble and
etsy now just interjecting here i don't
know if that's like necessarily what i'd
recommend
i don't know redbubble's policy on
multiple shops so i'd recommend if you
guys are just listening and you're like
oh can i make a second account
um because they give you i think 60
uploads a day i would just keep it all
in one
account personally that's my
recommendation but um anyways let's go
back to the email
i told myself i needed to keep it up
consistently
and more than likely wouldn't see any
sales for at least a few months
but i haven't been able to do that so
there's been too much going on at work
okay so they had to step away from
for a second but anyways here we go back
to the email anyway to get to the point
a few days after putting the project on
pause i got my first redbubble sale
then the day after my first etsy sale
and now i've just had a notification for
my second
redbubble sale small potatoes i know but
i'm absolutely over the moon with three
sales considering the short time
and minimal work i've been able to put
in so far i haven't
even had the chance to finish going
through your mini course yet by the way
plug the mini course
i do have a free print on demand mini
course if anybody wants to take
advantage all i need is your email
address and of course
the link is in the description but guys
like
this is this is what everybody that's
new to print on demand i think needs to
hear and needs to experience obviously
because it's one thing to hear me
read an anonymous email it's another to
experience it for yourself but like
this is it's again i just think of it as
like we know
this works like what i talk about on
this channel
i'm speaking to my own personal
experience there are a lot of talking
heads on youtube by the way that talk
about stuff that they don't actually
like do
or know that much about hopefully you
know if you watch enough of my content
you believe that i'm actually out here
doing this stuff because i am
um and like if you guys didn't know you
can go to my website i'll pull it up on
the side monitor real quick
and i i can show you guys like i
published these income reports
here right here you see on the sidebar
like right here
so literally you can go back in time
to when i made my first profits in april
2017
and you can see how long it took me to
get to where i'm at today now where i'm
at today is not
the furthest i'll go hopefully i'll keep
pushing this thing
but you can see that like i break down
you know my
income for amazon merch non-amazon
merch print on demand um amazon fba
so and i think those are all
complementary ways of making passive
income
and the reason i'm telling you this i
don't care if you guys actually go to my
website or not but
if you choose to i can of course put a
link in the description like you can
actually
see how long it took me to scale my
business and what you'll notice is
you will scale your business much faster
than i skilled mine because you
i mean whether it's me or somebody else
there's plenty of other good content out
there
uh you have some guidance like i went
through this and i don't know how much
content was out there but like i didn't
come across
that much content really and so and
again you don't know what you don't know
but i had a lot of faith that you know
the
what i would always say like merch by
amazon
in in december 2017 752 sales
uh 13 400 revenue i got to keep
basically four thousand dollars of
profit okay now i had just joined merch
by amazon earlier that year and you can
see my first
uh merch by amazon i think sale came in
april
where i made five sales and had a
royalty of basically fifteen dollars
now i mean i don't know you me i just
compared december by the way so i
shouldn't have done december because
that blows the the numbers out of
proportion but like what i'm trying to
show you is like
it takes a long time to scale and in
that case i probably got lucky more than
anything else if you kind of track my
drop shipped print on demand numbers
which is my non-amazon merch print on
demand which is much harder than
amazon merch in my opinion like
redbubble and etsy and wherever else
amazon seller central are my big ones
like
i had no guidance it was a long journey
but when i got my first
five sales like i'm showing you here in
my head
i was think saying to myself like all
right if i can get five sales what
stopped me from getting ten
and then it's like literally what's
stopping me okay i need to tear up my
account well no problem i'm gonna get
teared up eventually boom now i'm teared
up now i can upload 25 designs instead
of 10.
what's stopping me from going from 10
sales a month
to 100 and literally like you can go and
check out these income
reports i don't i mean i'm sure you have
better things to do but like you can see
me go from like may 2017 where i think i
made like
22 sales watch this we go to june
this was that big moment for me similar
to what the the
subscribers sent with this with the
email they just sent i go from may 22
sales to june 141
like that jump is like that you know it
feels great to make five sales and then
22 but like when you go from 22 to 141
and now all of a sudden you're making a
thousand dollars in royalties instead of
a hundred
i don't know for me that was when i was
like okay i gotta start really taking
this more seriously
that was the i was already motivated you
know find your motivation whatever it is
but like that was the validation i
needed to keep the right perspective or
even shift my perspective
to seeing this as a better opportunity
than maybe i even thought it was uh
prior to this this experience right here
and um yeah i don't want this video to
go on for too long but this was a great
email to
um to have read um i love like that you
guys are you know
making your well finding success i don't
think making dreams come true you've
made like three sales but like at least
you hopefully believe now that this is
possible that you belong
and that you can scale this thing much
further so that's what i wanted to share
guys
and before i sign off just wanted to
remind you i run a weekly print on
demand giveaway you can enter completely
for free there's a link in the
description
takes like 10 seconds to enter and two
winners will be selected
i think because this sunday is a holiday
weekend i'm going to do a two-week long
giveaway
so i'll announce the winner um not this
sunday but the one after that
and uh yeah this week is sponsored by
merch titans automation merch
ninja research tools all sunsets premium
graphics and bubble scout the only
redbubble niche research and validation
tool
also next to the giveaway link again
there's an eight day print on demand
mini course that you can take advantage
of completely free
and my print on demand facebook group
all right and that's it guys thank you
for watching till the end i appreciate
you appreciate your time
have a great day and i'll see you
tomorrow
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