Hi everyone,
welcome back to another Print on Demand video.
This is actually going to be a part two video.
It's the first time I've ever done one.
However, last week I made a video going over 10 things
that all new Print on Demand sellers need to know,
and you guys had such a good response to that,
and it helped a lot of you.
So this is 10 more things that all new Print on Demand
sellers really need to know.
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thank you guys so much
for all the support you've been showing me
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For those of you who are new to the channel,
welcome to the channel,
My name is Greg.
I'd like to talk about online entrepreneurship
and sharing the resources
that I wish I had along my journey.
So if you're interested in making money online,
feel free to subscribe because you're going to find
a lot of things completely for free on this channel,
that typically you would have to pay for in a course.
With that being said,
you guys know the style of these videos.
I get right into it with no fluff.
There's just three quick things to cover
before we go into this list of 10.
The first thing is just like the last video.
There's going to be a table of contents
down in the description.
So if you do wanna jump around this video,
or if you need to come back and reference anything,
that will be very helpful for you.
The second thing is any videos that I referenced
to for more detail on the topic
are going to be linked down
in the description.
And the last thing is,
if you didn't see the other video,
I'll link that down in the description as well.
I recommend watching both of these,
no matter what order you watch them in,
they're going to be very helpful.
All right, with all of that out of the way,
let's get right into number one.
This is what is a storefront when we're talking
about Print on Demand.
So on this channel, when I'm referring to a storefront,
I'm referring to specifically Teespring creating a free shop
on their storefronts tab.
It costs you nothing,
And what it allows you to to do,
is put multiple of your items on one link.
It essentially creates a small little website for you.
That is just a shop.
So you can link someone to that page
and they can see multiple of your items
rather than just one listing.
Something that's very important to note
is that this is only for Teespring.
I'm always talking about Teespring,
Merch by Amazon and RedBubble.
For RedBubble emerged by Amazon,
you do not need to do storefronts or a shop at all.
When you upload your designs to those websites,
they're going to add it to the marketplace
basically right away.
And they're going to be marketing them individually.
However, on Teespring, you need to get a few
of your own sales in the beginning
so you get a TrustScore,
And the easiest way to do this is by creating a storefront
and sending relevant traffic to that storefront,
to get those sales.
Storefronts and how to use them still
sounds like gibberish to you.
Stick around for the next couple here,
and I'll clear them up for you.
Number two, this is how many storefronts
on Teespring do you need to have,
the short answer here is you really
only need to have one.
However, don't get confused about this,
that single storefront that you create
on Teespring needs to be about one specific niche.
It cannot be every different topic of design
that you've created into one clickable link.
That's not the idea here.
The idea is to look up a good niche
to start with, that doesn't have a lot of competition,
create a niche specific storefront on Teespring for that,
create designs about that niche,
add them to the storefront
and then start posting about that on Instagram
with niche specific hashtags.
All of this is completely free.
You don't need paid ads and you don't need
to pay for that storefront on Teespring.
The reason this is so important for new sellers
on Print on Demand,
is that what if you have multiple niches?
Does that mean that you need to have multiple storefronts?
If you wanna create multiple storefronts
for different niches on Teespring,
then you absolutely can do that.
Just know that you have to make multiple storefronts,
they all have to be about their own niche.
And this brings us right into the third thing,
and the last thing about storefronts here.
That is, if you do have multiple niche specific storefronts
on Teespring, do you need to have multiple niche specific
Instagram pages, one for each.
The short answer is yes.
If you are going to have multiple storefronts,
each one of them has to be branded completely independent
of the others.
You don't want them all to be combined together.
You want them to be their own brands on Instagram.
And to clear up everything about storefronts,
I'm going to link a video down in the description
called "Full Strategy."
It'll walk you through everything.
Additionally, I'll link up
the Print on Demand startup checklist,
which we'll go through it in a PDF document,
that's step by step so you can click through
and just follow along.
So hopefully that clears up storefronts for you guys
and the first three things that you need to know.
Now let's move on from here.
The fourth thing that all New Print on Demand sellers
absolutely need to know, is how do you handle taxes?
So the short answer to save you a lot of time here is one,
you do not need to have a business set up,
so you don't have to create a business entity
and get permitting to sell.
None of that.
All of this is done completely through you personally.
If you're ever asked them one of these websites or PayPal,
Payoneer anything for a business name,
you can use your first
and last name that is completely legal.
So the first thing since I'm talking about taxes here,
these are my opinions,
and these are my recommendations, this is not legal advice.
So with that being said,
essentially how this works is at the end of the year,
you add up how much you were paid from the specific website.
So let's say you're selling on Teespring,
Merch by Amazon and Red bubble.
You go to each of those websites,
however you selected to be paid,
and you just add up how much you were paid
from that website that year.
When you go to pay your taxes for that year,
you simply go to the category of other income
on your personal taxes,
and you add in Teespring paid me this much in this year.
Merch by Amazon paid me this much in this year.
That is in a nutshell how it works.
However, I'm going to link a video down
in the description that I made a while ago,
that covers this in much more detail.
So that will be down in the description
called Print on Demand taxes.
Moving into number five.
If you are using merchant former to research niches
and find good niches to go into,
what does it mean,
if you keep getting the letter grade of F
as you keep searching all of these topics.
At first glance,
you would think that everything is just saturated,
but that's actually not the case.
This is a little bit of a learning curve,
and essentially all you need to know
is that if you are searching for a keyword
or a topic that is one word,
you can type it in normally and click search.
If you searching a keyword or a topic
that has more than one word,
try putting that phrase in quotation marks
and then searching it and you'll get
much more accurate results.
Moving into number six,
as you are starting with Print on Demand,
you are definitely seeing a lot of information
and some of it may be talking about affiliate marketing.
So the question is, what is affiliate marketing?
So the first thing to clear up is affiliate marketing
is not Print on Demand.
They are actually two very different things.
As you guys know Print on Demand,
is very trusted and it has a very good reputation.
Looking at affiliate marketing,
you see a lot of different reviews saying it's good,
it's bad, it's a scam.
And the short answer is, actually is legitimate.
Where those bad reviews are coming from,
are from people who are selling courses to teach you
how to do affiliate marketing.
What I think you guys should know, is that I personally do
these two business models.
They represent the vast majority of my income.
And the really important thing to know
is that both of these are completely legal.
And if you do them honestly, and the right way,
they are the two best business models
that I can recommend to anyone,
and you can make as much income as you need.
Just with these two,
without adding in all of the other business models
you possibly could do out there,
you only really need these two to make as much as you need.
And the last thing to add in about what affiliate marketing
is, is that you can do both of these at the same time.
As you know, Print on Demand,
once you put in the hard work, all of it is passive.
Everything is done for you.
The same thing with affiliate marketing.
It's a very similar start,
it does take a while to get started.
However, once you put in all the work
to create all of your affiliate marketing content,
it is 100% passive from then on out.
So you can do both of these business models
at the same time.
That's what I do.
That's what I highly recommend for you as well.
So that brings us right to number seven.
If you are considering starting affiliate marketing
at some point, when should you start affiliate marketing,
if you're already doing Print on Demand.
I recommend starting with Print on Demand
because you can scale it up very quickly.
And then once you have at least 50 designers,
on Teespring Merch by Amazon and Redbubble,
and you have your trust score on Teespring.
So all of the sites are doing marketing for you.
Then you can consider adding in affiliate marketing.
I do not recommend starting on day one,
trying to grow both at the same time,
it's simply going to be overload and too much work for you,
which makes it counterproductive
you're not going to either thing done.
Just know that the timing for when you start
affiliate marketing from Print on Demand
is going to be different for everyone.
It depends on what your financial goals are,
it depends on how productive you work every day
and how much work you've gotten done in what amount of time.
Essentially just aim for when you personally
are comfortable knowing that you have done
a ton of work on Print on Demand,
and you wanna change your focus
over to something different.
That's when I would recommend switching
over to affiliate marketing, change your focus for a while,
and just remember that at any time,
you can always come back to Print on Demand
and grow that business even more.
With that being said,
that's the extent of affiliate marketing for this video,
because this one's on Print on Demand.
However, I'm going to put in an affiliate marketing
startup checklist, down in the description.
So when you are ready for that,
you can click along step by step
and follow how to get started.
Number eight, this is a very good question
and something that's very important,
as you're getting started with Print on Demand.
The question is, can you use quotes
on your T-shirt designs?
And the short answer here is this brings in copyright
infringement, and a couple other things
that I'll explain and just know that this is definitely
a grey area.
It has always been,
and I think it will always continue to be.
Essentially the quotes that I'm referencing
are celebrity quotes, movie quotes, song lyrics,
company names, company logos, company phrases
and anything else that could potentially be owned by someone
that they are profiting from.
To break it down a little bit more,
just to explain everything you need to know
in 30 seconds, a person or a business can copyright
a word or a phrase on apparel.
A celebrity, or someone who is famous,
that said a quote that quote can either be copyrighted,
or it could be protected
by right of publicity and privacy.
Meaning that we can't use it.
It essentially means that it is their branding
and we are profiting off of their branding.
I know it's annoying, but keep that in mind
as you're making designs.
Additionally, the way to up if it is protected
is to go to a website called
tmsearch.uspto.gov.
And then you can search for that phrase
you're thinking about using,
and see if one it's active
and two it's protected on apparel.
If it's actively protected on apparel,
do not use it because that means it is protected.
However, if it's not active or it's not protected
on apparel, you're free to use it.
As a general rule of thumb,
if you're not sure if it's protected or not,
I do not recommend using it, just skip over it.
Because if you get caught using something that is protected,
it can actually hurt you more than the money
that you're likely going to make on it.
And the last thing here is always feel free
to email the different websites,
if you can use that specific quote or that phrase,
just to get their official written response
and keep that on file, should anything happen in the future.
Moving on to number nine,
can you use images that you find on Google in your designs?
The very short answer here for you guys is yes, you can.
However, you have to make sure that they are copyright free.
If you're looking for copyright free images to use
in your designs, I recommend going to Google
and finding copyright free image websites.
There are a ton out there.
You can choose any ones you like,
but they will include in their search results,
ones that are already copyright free
and free for you to use.
What I do not recommend doing is going to Google images,
searching what you're looking for
and just using images straight out of the search.
They are typically not going to be copyright free.
So please, I don't recommend doing that.
If you are a new Print on Demand seller,
you may be thinking that using copyright free images
is a great way to make good designs.
However, just to give you an idea of what I create,
most of my designs that I'm creating now,
are solely text-based or they have some type of graphic
in the background of it, not generally an image.
So with that being said,
I would recommend your time being spent on an external
design tool, using their templates,
rather than trying to find copyright free images
to create designs with.
Lastly, number 10,
do you need to copyright your designs that you're uploading
to these websites?
The short answer for you guys is no,
I do not recommend doing this.
If you do do this, it's going to be very expensive
to copyright all of your designs.
If you don't do it,
you actually automatically get informal copyright ownership
of that design, because it's your original work that you
uploaded to that website.
So what that means is if you upload a design to a website
that is yours, and someone else comes along
and copies your design and uploads it to the same website,
that website will have an automated system in place
to detect that it's the same design,
and they will automatically remove it.
However, if they do not detect it and they somehow miss it,
you can report that to the website.
They will see that you uploaded it first,
they copied it and theirs will be removed.
Now this brings us into a really good
sub question in this topic.
And that is if you are using templates from an external
design tool, how do you know that you're not going
to upload the same design
that someone else has already uploaded?
The easiest way that I can sum this up is,
you really don't have to worry about this,
as long as you are customizing the templates.
If you're downloading the template as is,
and then uploading it to the sites,
someone has probably already done that in the past.
However, if you're going in and changing the colors
or you're changing the font, you're changing
what the text says, you're adding in a different graphic.
As long as you're customizing these templates
and making them your own,
the odds of someone uploading that exact same design
are so low, just to put it in perspective
of all the designs that have uploaded
over the last five plus years,
I've never had this happen to me a single time.
So I really wouldn't let that concern you.
All right, guys.
That's it for this video,
all the links as mentioned before we'll be down
in the description.
And if there's anything that wasn't covered in this video
or the previous video
that's also linked in the description,
let me know in the comments.
And I can answer that and help you out.
With that being said,
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