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oh hey there thanks for joining me for a
new video today
in this one i want to talk about print
on demand automation
i want to talk about how i'm able to
upload
so many products to so many platforms
not just that i'm not going to skip over
the part where i create the designs that
i then
upload to print on demand products that
i then upload to a bunch of platforms
essentially what i want to share with
you in this video is why i can take a
break in the middle of the day
shoot some pool hang out with murphy
here who's following me around because
he's scared of the storm
but i'm gonna show you why i'm able to
do that basically because i can run my
print-on-demand business
on pretty much autopilot i even give you
i'm gonna give you exactly what i did
today
the full workflow and i'm gonna give you
time estimates for each step
i think you're really gonna like it and
as we head into the fourth quarter
again the more online real estate you
can occupy with products for sale
the more money you're gonna make in
simple terms so i'm going to jump on my
computer
and we can get started
thank you so much again for joining me
guys i think you're really going to like
today's video real quick let me
introduce myself for new viewers i'm
ryan hogue i've sold over 1.7 million
on amazon to date i also have a free
print on demand mini course delivered to
your inbox via email one lesson a day
over eight days
i've got a print on demand facebook
community i'd love to have you there
lots of great discussion takes place
daily in there
i also publish income reports if you
want to follow my journey
that essentially started while i was
working two jobs as a web developer
and as a teacher teaching web
development at a local university
and worked my way out of a nine to five
that paid a nice comfortable six figure
salary
uh because the passive income stuff that
i talk about on this channel set me free
please check out my income reports
subscribe to my channel you can keep up
with my new ones
last but not least i have a full print
on demand course i'm constantly
expanding it it's over 70 lectures it's
basically multiple courses rolled up
into one
if you join and you take action you will
make your money back and then sum this
fourth quarter i guarantee it
all right disclaimer everything i'm
going to show you in this video i just
want to get this out the way up front
it may seem like a little bit of an ad
for some automation tools
but just so you know just in case this
is the first video you've ever seen on
my channel like
i'm sharing stuff with you because i try
to be transparent everything i show you
in this video
i actually did today right it's not even
like in theory you could do
no all of the stuff i'm going to show
you is stuff that i did
today it's 6 30 p.m since i woke up
through now
this is stuff that i've been working on
it actually it took a lot less time than
what it sounds like and i'm gonna give
you time stamps on everything as well
so when i woke up and started working
about 9 a.m
i created one design now i created a
design with the intent of it being able
to be scaled
out to multiple designs meaning there's
probably at least one variable in there
it's usually a word all right so i
created one design at 9am after that
i used automatepod.com i used that
software
to scale it out and essentially like
swap in
swap out variables like i said i
designed this design with the intent of
being able to swap out
um some some sort of a word some sort of
a
name like in this case uh mountain
ranges okay
so i used automate pod and i used
canva or you can use photopia.com photop
is free by the way and it works
extremely quickly so
at 9 15 am i load up my design
i key in a text layer and then i hit go
alright then i just leave it alone i can
use my computer
while it runs no big deal or i can step
away and do whatever i want to do
i probably was using my computer let's
be honest i'm a computer addict but
after about 30 minutes it had cranked
out 500 designs
give or take so you upload a spreadsheet
and
it just cues off of the spreadsheet
variables so if i wanted to make
mountain ranges
no problem by the way the graphics you
see in here are um
via all sunsets you guys know i love all
sunsets
i'm not that great of a graphic designer
however they are and for
27 you get an annual license you can
grab these graphics and then just
cut them into your designs literally
drag drop and you're done
alright so after about 30 minutes it is
about 9 45
and i've got 500 designs done now i'm
going to trim 500 down to 400 because
they don't all come out looking great so
i'm removing about 20 percent of them
all right now it's excel time so that
only took about five minutes to trim
100 designs so i went from 500 to 400
and just got rid of the ones that didn't
look great and now it's about 9
50 a.m and i'm jumping into microsoft
excel where i'm going to
catalog information about these designs
i'm going to have to provide things like
the image path where it's stored on my
computer because when i run the upload
automation later
it's going to need that so that it can
actually upload to these print-on-demand
platforms so you can't skip that part
um have to input the title the brand
the description the keywords etc all
those things that you're used to have to
type in manually
on platforms like amazon etsy
redbubble wherever i need to make sure
all of those
are in my excel spreadsheet now here's
the cool thing is
i used to suck at microsoft excel then i
realized if i was gonna be serious about
being a business owner there's no way
around learning excel
then i realized if i want to do this
print on demand automation
i need to be even better at excel so the
past couple years of my life have been a
journey of getting better and better at
microsoft excel and then i venture into
like the world of finance stock trading
et cetera
the better you are at excel uh the
better you're just going to be at
life on the internet at least so
microsoft excel is not something that
intimidates me anymore however i used to
suck at it
and uh one thing i will say is that with
excel you can actually
use formulas to make doing the uh
seo the keyword side of things
relatively easy and pain free
however if you don't really know what
i'm talking about and you're not
comfortable
um you're gonna face a little bit of a
learning curve but don't be deterred
because you can't skip that step all
right next after about let's say
9 50 to 10 30 so it probably took 40
minutes to do those uh spreadsheets
because
here's the thing i like to split them up
into 50 designs per spreadsheet and i'm
going to upload
50 per day to all the various platforms
we'll
circle back around to this later but um
that means i'm going to take like 400
designs divide by 50 i've got about
eight now
eight different spreadsheets 50 unique
designs per
takes a little bit of time with the
spreadsheets the first one takes the
longest
after that i have a uh a workflow that
actually makes it pretty easy where i
use the file names that are generated
as my primary keywords and then i feed
them into microsoft excel formulas i
know this probably sounds crazy right
now but
um if you've seen it it i promise it's
not as bad as it sounds it's actually
pretty easy
um coming from me at least if you trust
me it can be easy
it's as easy as you make it or as hard
as you make it anyways
up next i'm taking these png designs and
i'm converting them to
kindle direct publishing or kdp pdf
formats so that i can sell them on
amazon kdp as low content books now this
is another thing that i haven't really
talked about lately on my channel
but it's stuff i've talked about in the
past i do have a playlist put together
on my youtube channel that will get you
introduced to amazon kdp i also have a
full course that talks about how i made
3
500 on amazon kdp in my first 10 weeks
as a kdp seller
literally all i did right hand to god
all i did
was i took my existing amazon merch and
print on demand designs i always call
them amazon merch designs because
for me like i'm always prioritizing
amazon merch as like the apex as my top
priority and then everything else kind
of trickles down from there because i
think amazon merge has the highest
earnings potential therefore
everything for me for my personal
approach is optimized around that
so i'm going to convert my png designs
to kdp ready pdfs
and then we'll circle back around to kdp
later about how the automation works but
now it that takes about 30 minutes all
right to convert the pngs to pdfs for
kdp
and now it's about 11am so i'm two hours
deep into this now i know you're
thinking ryan you have an easy button on
the thumbnail and you're talking about
automation
so far it's two hours of manual work i
hear you but i'm doing a week's worth of
print on demand
that's going to get me so much coverage
on so many platforms
it's only going to take me a couple
hours on a monday morning so hopefully
you're seeing that yeah it's not
it's not completely automated i didn't
just snap my fingers and
make it happen but it's damn close to
being fully automated alright so
now i'm back in excel very similar to
what we talked about earlier
except this time we're doing it for kdp
because we need these uploaders
to work and in order to work we need to
provide them with you know the
path to the pdf files we need to provide
like the interior path
the book cover path we need to do the
title there's specific things you need
to know about how to do title and
subtitle for kdp
how to do keywords etc don't skip kdp
because it sounds difficult trust me
trust me go back in time to my income
reports from
november december last year i started
kdp in the fourth quarter and i was
rewarded handsomely for doing so
so don't skip kdp guys it's it's just an
equal part of the workflow is everything
else
all right next so if i go back to you
saw i took the t-shirt design
i turned it into you know the book icon
for for kdp books
now it is what 11am
so the kdp spreadsheets guys a lot
easier than the print-on-demand
spreadsheets
at least in my opinion so that only took
about 15 minutes to do it's honestly not
that hard
after that i'm taking my t-shirt designs
that we started with and turned into kdp
and now i'm converting them to become
coffee mugs now
you can convert them to become more than
just coffee mugs
i'm just circling back to my personal
workflow to what i actually did today
so this is going to be using pod turbo
and gear bubble to sell coffee mugs on
amazon through seller central
this is very specific and if this is one
of your first videos that you're
watching on my channel i apologize
because i am jumping around a lot
there's obviously a lot
to this puzzle but again it's a little
bit of a learning curve up front and
then you become comfortable with it and
it becomes
easier to kind of understand but i'm
trying to take one design
or in this case 400 designs get them
selling on as many viable products and
marketplaces
as possible and streamline the workflows
and make it as easy as possible to do so
that is
ultimately what we're doing here so i'm
taking the t-shirt designs which i
i always save at 4 500 pixels by 5400
pixels
and i need to convert them to 4200
pixels by 3600 pixels
so that i can have them sold as coffee
mugs
through gear bubble on amazon now i've
got tools to streamline all of this
if it sounded like there's any manual
processes for that
sort of stuff where it's going to be
like 400 designs and i'm have to resize
and save me
no i've got tools for all this stuff and
this one's easy this is just png to png
there's a website called bulk resize
bulk resize some i forget what it's
called anyways i talked about it in my
pod turbo video on my channel which i'll
put a link to right here in the corner
of this video if you want to check that
out
but essentially i'm just re-rendering
them and then you guessed it
back in excel we are back in microsoft
excel for the third time today
generating
new spreadsheets this time for pod turbo
pod turbo spreadsheets though are uh
very easy in my opinion to
generate i don't make them any more
complicated than they need to be
so they take me by far the least amount
of time so that only took me
probably for 400 designs
and i'm uploading 200 per batch but i
also make them available on white mugs
and black mugs
so i'm getting four batches done 800
products total
it only takes me probably 10 minutes to
do those spreadsheets if i'm being
honest
so 2 minutes 30 seconds per spreadsheet
now it's time to upload
so this one i'm not going to assign
timestamps to because i kind of do this
throughout the day
whenever it suits me but the ones that
you probably care most about i'm using
merch titans automation to upload 50
designs per day
to teespring zazzle t public spreadshirt
printful um by the way i would not
automate i never did i never automated
printful to etsy i always did that
manually
because i wanted my etsy optimizations
to be as good as possible for etsy
especially because you pay per listing
even though it's 20
cents i don't want to cut any corners
there so
the title specifically and the tags
specifically
i always did manually but printful i do
to bonanza and i do to wish
so that's at least 50 and 50 more
designs there on two new platforms
redbubble merch by amazon which is the
big draw to using merge titan's
automation
and then they are adding support for
society6 in the very near future they're
also relaunching the app
to make it even more user-friendly and
intuitive so
check that out um i mean just honestly
there's a link in the description if you
want to go
check them out um the new website's
going live this week maybe even tomorrow
uh so merge titans automation
and i run this thing while i'm in the
gym getting big
so that's me in the gym i had to show
off the biceps real quick but yeah while
i'm doing that while i'm pumping iron
this stuff's just running in the
background could not be easier guys
next i'm running the merch titans kdp
automation it is in a separate app
because it's a separate service and uses
different file types
so it can't it shouldn't really have
been blended with the print on demand
automation so it makes sense that it's
separate
uh and this one just kind of runs all
day what's cool about this one is you
can just kind of minimize it and forget
it's there
and i just batch 50 at a time and
do about 500 books a week now they say
you can upload more than that i just
like to play it safe because i have seen
errors in their upload counters that
reset on a weekly basis on sundays so i
play it safe
500 new low content books a week and
you know if you want to learn more about
kdp guys i have a full course i've got
the free content on my channel so check
that out
don't skip kdp though uh i've also got
flying upload
now there's a lot of overlap here with
what i mentioned with merge titan's
automation but then they also support
platforms like diskplate
uh surety threadless fine art america
so they're constantly expanding the
platforms they support as well and if
you want to be in as many places as
possible um
it would make sense to also use flying
upload in conjunction with merch titans
automation now
i get it all of these are paid tools i
get these for free so
it's a lot easier for me to say yeah i
just switch between the tools and
hit a button and then let it upload um
but
at the end of the day like i've been
using merch titans automation the
longest
over a year now never had any problems
i'm a creature of habit so that is
where i lean as my first preference
however
you know i did do a print on demand
upload automation tool comparison video
about two weeks ago
i can put a link to that up here as well
if you want to check that out if you
want to figure out which one is right
for you
all right and you thought i was done i'm
not done yet we're circling back around
to pod turbo
so as you can see here i went ahead i
imported
four batches of 200 products per batch
into pod turbo it does a lot of stuff on
the server side what's cool about pod
turbo is it doesn't run locally on your
machine
you upload and it just kind of gives you
status updates as it works throughout
the day
so each one of those batches i'm
uploading two things i'm uploading a csv
and i'm uploading the png images so
in this case i only upload 100 pngs and
then i upload it to the
white mugs and the black mugs but it
ends up being 200 products per push
which is the daily limit that they allow
for amazon seller central this just runs
while i'm asleep and then i wake up
every day and i see this
i see pod turbo you uploaded 199
products yesterday so i guess one of one
of them failed so instead of 200 it was
1.99
um anyways yeah i mean how easy is that
so i wake up every morning i get
something like that
and i got 200 new fbm print on demand
products on amazon seller central
guys i just wanted to tell you about
what i did today it only took
two and a half hours maybe to get it all
set up and that's a week's worth of
uploads
it is a little bit of manual work for a
lot of coverage and again in the fourth
quarter i'm gonna be rewarded for this i
might not be rewarded with immediate
sales
but down the line it's it's all gonna
you know it's a numbers game it doesn't
have to be a numbers game but again if
you're not going to go the numbers game
route
then you're also responsible for
generating visibility
for the fewer listings that you decide
to create and
it's not like it can't be done but
you're gonna have to fork over money for
advertising you need to learn how to
advertise
which like anything else has a learning
curve i'm always gonna be the one that
keeps it straight guys like
you're gonna have to learn so i'm not
trying to talk you out of doing that
approach
but just know you gotta front the money
which then all of a sudden print on
demand requires an investment if you go
that route
whereas if you go my route it's really i
don't think it requires an investment
just time
time and effort so anyways thank you so
much for watching till the end guys i
hope you found this video useful if you
did
let me know in the comments below i'm
actually thinking about
doing more uh tutorials as far as like
actually getting into the
the workflows the actual details about
how i run
merch titans automation how i put the
spreadsheets together etc if you're
interested in seeing some of those
things let me know in the comments thank
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