hey what's up guys in this video i want
to talk about my favorite print on
demand website and this is inspired by
commonly searched questions on google
related to print on demand so hey i love
print on demand i've been doing it for i
think over five years now if my calendar
is correct and yeah i've got some
experience to speak to i'm going to give
you my thoughts in this video so why
don't we get started
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all right so what is
the best print on demand website and of
course like a lot of things in this life
while we may prefer binary answers uh
this is definitely subjective so my
answer may be different than somebody
else's answer that you talk to
but my personal
favorite website for print on demand is
merch by amazon i i mentioned that you
know i definitely favor the websites and
i think i speak for many people
that make it easy on us
to participate like if you're watching
this and you haven't even sold on print
like anything print on demand yet
the highest likelihood of you succeeding
is not going to be
you going and starting a shopify website
you know what i mean where you have to
literally i mean there's just so much
you have to do you have to launch the
website buy a domain design the site add
products integrate with
a print-on-demand production partner
that can fulfill your orders just so
much you have to do
or
sign up for merch by amazon which is
invite only by the way so i can drop a
link in the description
so you can check it out but assuming you
get an account so you can sell
you will immediately be able to list
prime eligible products print on demand
products right as of recording there's
just 14 different products you can sell
on the world's largest ecommerce
marketplace so you literally go from
yesterday you weren't selling anything
online to today you're listing
prime eligible print-on-demand products
to the world's largest uh audience of
customers
and what changed really you just signed
up for merch by amazon so i mean i don't
know what what's not to love about this
opportunity
and you know i feel like if you are
interested in learning more about merch
by amazon
subscribe to my channel i do a lot of
content about it and i've got some great
videos on it as well
but i know you guys didn't just come to
watch this video and hear me talk about
merch by amazon so i want to talk about
my favorite print on demand production
partner because when i say merch by
amazon i'm talking about one avenue of
listing print on demand products on
amazon.com but there are other ways to
do it for instance the
the intended way to sell on amazon is
through amazon seller central and you
can go sign up for an account there
at
sellercentral.amazon.com and that exists
independently from merch by amazon even
though the end result is you know you
can list a print on demand t-shirt
through merch by amazon and through
seller central and the end result is
you'll have two listings created
on amazon for sale
okay so they exist independently of each
other yet the end result is you're still
adding products for sale on amazon's
catalog
now seller central is the primary way of
selling on amazon and for some reason
very few print-on-demand production
partners
allow us to list products for sale
print-on-demand products for sale on
amazon's catalog the two biggest
print-on-demand production partners in
my mind if i had to guess i don't think
i have the actual data to verify this
but i mean i don't think many people
would disagree if i forgot one you guys
want to remind me of let me know in the
comments below but i'm pretty i feel
like it's pretty safe to say printful
and printify are the two biggest
production partners
so guys production partners
are the people that will actually create
our product that we sell and they do it
after the sale which is what makes print
on demand so popular and so accessible
to the sellers because we don't have to
put money on the line ahead of time uh
they will create the products for us
ship them out to our customer
and upload tracking automatically by the
way both of um both of these companies
that i'm mentioning here printful and
printify
they both have software integrations
with many major e-commerce marketplaces
like amazon etsy ebay those are the big
ones that always stand out in my mind so
that when you make a sale it
automatically detects the sale creates
the product ships it to the customer
marks it as shipped and uploads the
tracking information so it's completely
passive on our end other than doing
uh customer support
now i should make a distinction that
printful integrates with amazon seller
central printify as of recording this
does not and i don't really know why so
many companies don't integrate with
amazon seller central probably like an
approval process isn't involved if i had
to if i had to guess
and when i get companies that print on
demand companies reach out to me for
potentially like me featuring them on a
video the first thing i typically say is
like hey do you integrate with amazon
because that's a great way of standing
out and i would feel a lot more
comfortable you know endorsing you if
you had that you know because that is
presents such a huge opportunity again
we're selling stuff right so we want to
follow the customers because the whole
point of us selling stuff is to make
sales and you're going to make the most
sales if you're in front of the most
people we keep it simple right
uh one distinction i wanted to make
though is when you sell through merch by
amazon
amazon has their own infrastructure
their own warehouses with the printers
the employees that run them
they take care of everything for us and
they just pay us out a royalty so it is
the
i always say it's the most easy mode
right it's the the most hands-off to use
merch by amazon
when you do printful or printify and
let's just say outside the scope of just
amazon since printified does not
integrate with amazon directly right now
you're responsible for a little bit more
you're responsible for
customer service for handling returns
and there's various ways you can go
about doing that if there's an issue
with an order or somebody wants to
change something uh maybe they ordered
the wrong size you need to switch it
from a large to a medium
you can do all that and you're
responsible for doing it
because after the orders come in and the
software integrations detect the order
and it sends a signal to the printful or
printify employees that they need to
produce the order and ship it out you
have a window of time where you need to
make that change right and it's not
common that customers request changes
typically they order what they want
but if it's required you know you have
to be at your computer and you have to
do that before your order is created and
shipped out because once that happens
there's no going back all right at that
point you basically need to send them a
new one or refund them
so that's worth considering now
really quickly before i wrap the video i
want to tell you a little bit more about
why i prefer printful okay so
straight from their website and by the
way if you're not on printful yet i'll
put a link at the very top of the
description so that you can go ahead and
create a free account okay because one
of the biggest things about printful and
they actually have it in very small text
over there from the screenshot from
their homepage
is that they have no upfront fees
no order minimums
and over 300 products that we can choose
from to put our designs on and think
about how accessible that is that we can
start a free account right now and we
have access to a 300 product 300 plus
product catalog
with no order minimums like if you
google make a custom shirt right now
i'll bet you anything um what is it like
custom ink will probably show up at the
very top because they probably pay the
most to be at the top and when you try
to make a custom simple t-shirt they'll
probably try to charge you like 30 plus
shipping you know what i mean something
absurd well if you can just find your
way to printful you can create a free
account and do a sample order where they
will i believe this is still accessible
to even free accounts
or new accounts where they should
basically give you a 20 discount and
free shipping so you can see the quality
of the product before you sell it
because they understand that sellers
care about the quality and they want
happy customers so uh printful is just a
great opportunity and again they're very
invested in our success as the users
because they only make money when we
make money
so you can um sell print on demand
products you can order the sample orders
for yourself like i mentioned they even
have their own warehousing and
fulfillment services
which is able to um do things like
include inserts into your products now
this comes at an additional cost but if
you are trying to like sell on etsy and
you want to include an insert that says
hey special promo go to this link or
scan this qr code you can set up a web
page that when they go to that link or
they scan the qr code it says hey give
me your email address and i'll give you
20 off your next order and then now
you're building an email list and this
is how you really build a long-term
business okay turning customers into
repeat customers so they've got a ton of
different product types from t-shirts
tank tops hats embroidery on hats and
shirts face masks
bags duffel bags backpacks etc hoodies
socks jackets this is literally just a
very small percentage of what's possible
what's out there
i definitely like whenever i
don't know what to upload because i'm
constantly uploading new products
because i want to you know in addition
to making sales i also want to
be able to speak to my own personal
experience when i do these videos and if
i find some new product type that is
selling really well for me i want to be
able to tell you guys about it but right
now i sell primarily
uh hats and t-shirts and it depends
really you know if it's through printful
it's a lot of hats and t-shirts put it
that way
through merch by amazon a lot of
t-shirts but also i upload to all the
different 14 product types available on
their catalog so printful as of right
now integrates with a ton of different
e-commerce marketplaces and back-ends
for websites when i say back-end for a
website i'm talking about like shopify
wix squarespace square
i've used the printful wish integration
i've used you know the printful etsy
integration ebay amazon shopify uh they
used to have one for
i can't think of it what was it called
uh i don't know why they closed it down
it was a pretty big marketplace but i
only made like two sales while i was
there bonanza that's the name of the
marketplace i had to look it up real
quick um but it was okay it wasn't great
uh so you can see printful is expanding
worldwide and they're expanding at a
pretty rapid pace like it's really
impressive my understanding is that the
uh company was founded in riga latvia
which
randomly i think printify was too and
maybe it's not so random maybe there's
more to the story but either way um i
think both printful and prinify
originated out of riga latvia so maybe
one day i'll get to take a trip out
there and see kind of where it all where
it all began
um but yeah they're expanding worldwide
and when you have worldwide fulfillment
centers guys um their software by
default if it makes sense to will route
the fulfillment to the closest
fulfillment center to the customer right
so that you save on shipping and whatnot
but also if that fulfillment center's
out of the product they ordered well
they can also have it fulfilled in a
different one where it is in stock and
shipped over to your customer so it's
really nice to have all this logistics
and all of this great
software and ai built into it and you
don't have to write any code or pay any
developers you literally sign up for a
free account and it's working on your
behalf you see what i'm saying there's a
lot there's a lot more going on than
what i think initially meets the eye and
this was something new i hadn't seen
this before but these are some
businesses that are using printful right
now so coca-cola duncan cbs spongebob
squarepants comedy central and amc
so guys get started now you can again
sign up for a free account the link's at
the top of the description and how about
this i've got a free eight day mini
course that i'll email to you one lesson
a day so one bite size less than a day
that you can follow of actionable
content to get started with printful and
launch your etsy shop and sell t-shirts
on etsy which is a huge ecommerce
marketplace as well it's not as big as
amazon but for sure there's money to be
made there so the link is in the
description again all i need is your
email address and you'll get those
lessons from me also check out my print
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and last but not least i wrote a full
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make six-figure print-on-demand sales
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