what's up guys in today's video i wanted
to do an update on the my designs
software we had previously talked about
it in the context of selling digital
products on etsy primarily now i know
the aspirations of my designs is to let
us upload beyond just etsy but for the
scope of today's video we're going to
focus exclusively on etsy as the
marketplace
and the print on demand integration
which recently went live i believe it's
probably live for shopify 2 as well or i
know they were talking about shopify you
guys know i'm not huge into shopify at
some point in the future i'll expand to
shopify but today ain't that day all
right but i do love me some etsy now
that i got my new shop up and running
and i've been using the mydesigns print
on demand integration and it has saved
me
so much time that i had to do a video uh
i i mean it's hard for me to put into
words just how much time it has saved me
even with all the automation tools that
i use
my design software has just been an
immense time saver if there's one thing
i don't have enough of it is time so i'm
gonna show you everything you need to
know by the way my designs there is
still a free tier so i'm gonna show you
where to sign up soon as we get started
so let's go
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we're gonna jump on over to the my
design software in just a second but in
the description at the top i've got a
link to my free weekly print on demand
giveaway i've got my free 8 day print on
demand mini course i've got my print on
demand facebook group so i hope you take
advantage of all of those and like i
mentioned a second ago if you use the
link at the very top of the description
you can sign up for my designs right now
for free
and you can actually use it and do what
i'm gonna show you in this video for
free so i would recommend you do that
because it won't be free forever so lock
in the uh the free tier while it's
available all right let's jump on over
to my designs all right we are here
using the my design software i just
wanted to show you that i do still have
this big playlist here
at the very top of my channel so you can
click the channel icon and check out the
playlist it should be right there um
walking you through everything that
we've covered previously on my designs
i'm still gonna use my designs in this
video but
i'm not gonna do like a start from
scratch cover everything type video
today because i don't want it to go too
long because i really you know the
longer videos run um people don't always
watch the full video so i just want to
show you the print on demand integration
today but also if you want the full
tutorial it is in this playlist i would
recommend watching that playlist it's
extremely valuable software and the
alternative if you choose not to use it
is either to do nothing
or do something but do like less quality
work or
do
equal quality work
but it'll take you quite a bit longer
than if you were to use the software um
unless i'm missing something right but
this is just me speaking to my personal
experience with the software alright so
i actually made a new demo folder and i
queued up some designs from vexels all
in the grilling barbecue niche so show
vexel some love too they're an awesome
source of pre-made graphics they have a
whole team of professional graphic
designers and if you're a
print-on-demand seller like me that
either isn't great at design or doesn't
have all day to spend on designing it's
a great alternative so i'll put a link
to them in the description underneath
the my designs link all right so what i
went ahead and did is i kind of
optimized the listings just a little bit
here um i set you know the keywords here
the primary keyword i actually set to
the file name and the file name i set to
text that reflects what's in the design
so now we have a variable we can access
that dynamically pulls in the text from
the design the secondary keyword here i
set to the product type that we're going
to publish to so i put t-shirt
inventory and pricing tab we have a
price we have a quantity we'll actually
be able to customize those further later
on so i'll show you that
and then on the listing tabs we have the
title which again is dynamically pulling
in the variable we have tags that i used
i kind of use just a tag template just
to make it quick and easy
and we have a very basic description now
we also have a bunch of image slots here
for mockups that are unused so why don't
we make some mockups all right so in the
top left corner here i'm going to go
ahead and click select current page
under more actions i'm gonna go down to
mockups
and i'm gonna type in shirt all right
and now my girlfriend's not a big fan of
this like really red background mock-up
but i personally like it because it's an
attention grabber so i think it actually
might be suitable for a primary mockup
so i'm going to use it all right now
under write to image slot
i'm going to go ahead and select mockup
one okay
and by the way there is a generate
preview button that's how i got this to
pop up behind me now behind me behind me
i'm going to hide myself on the video
there's a button that says create
mockups i'm going to click that
and it is going to cue up this process
here and you can actually see it on the
right hand side
it says active jobs and it says 6
designs in queue you can even click over
where it says jobs and see that it is
working
all right and once it's done
you can go ahead and see that underneath
mockup one perfect
so now let's do that again and just make
a couple more mock-ups here so i'll type
in shirt again let's go ahead and do the
um
what do you think the black shirt as
well uh let's
by the way you can change the t-shirt
color by putting in a hex code so i'm
gonna use two two two two two two so
pretty dark black without it being a
solid black we'll write this to mockup
too we'll do a quick preview first just
to make sure that it looks good
before generating the final mock-ups in
bulk
by the way i'm only doing six shirts at
a time but you can do up to 24 at a time
and they may they may expand that to
even more in the future all right i
think this looks pretty good i will
click create mock-ups
and now let's go and do one more round
of mockups i was told
that they are working on sizing charts
and it appears they are okay so i typed
in size when i searched these mock-ups
and let's go ahead and select one of the
t-shirts here so i don't want it to be a
v-neck oh actually they have the file
name here as well so bella 3001 that is
the one i think we're gonna use primary
color let's do the um black t-shirt
again
and uh
set it to mock-up three let's do a quick
preview though make sure it looks good
um
all right i'd say that looks pretty good
maybe i'll darken the shirt just a
little bit
we'll just do the full black
and you'll notice it has the um size the
width the length so that is perfect for
us if we're going to be selling bella
canvas 3001 and it even has our design
on it which is pretty darn nice if you
ask me
who knows in the future they may do
things like color charts as well for the
colors that we offer um sky's really the
limit with their mock-up software i mean
i'm loving it so far so i'm going to hit
create mock-ups
and now we should have um three really
good mock-ups ready to go
as soon as that job finishes says
designs in queue
i will go ahead to publish all right
perfect so now we can actually
over here on the top right we can under
file slots we can switch from you know
primary to mockup1
mockup2
mockup3
and you know we can just kind of scroll
through everything looks good why don't
we publish all right
so i will go to instead of more actions
go to publish then instead of going to
digital which is what we did in the
previous videos go ahead and click
products
okay now the first thing you're going to
want to do
is actually if you want to switch from
etsy like i know they're adding shopify
support and they'll expand beyond that
in the future
go ahead and add your etsy shop
and then select etsy category i never
really do categories but if you want to
clothing is selected by default
underneath there you can go to gender
neutral adult clothing then tops and
tees then t-shirts and then graphic tees
all right and then i'm going to click
validate and next step and when you
click that if you have like
too many tags or some of your tags are
over 20 characters or anything else that
etsy doesn't like it'll flag it for you
so you can catch it and fix it here in
my designs before pushing to your um
pushing to etsy and having an error okay
so here we go um we have you know women
clothing men clothing i'm just going to
click t-shirts on the left-hand side you
can see bella 3001 that is the shirt
that i'm gonna roll with uh you see
price from it says 1223 partner is print
for you um
you know i was actually supposed to be
joined by curtis from my designs but he
wasn't feeling that well today so in the
future i'll get him on again but he
mentioned that they're adding support
for more print partners so right now
it's just print for you
also that should add you know more
competitive pricing i think he also
talked about they may consider like for
people that upgrade out of the free tier
to the paid tiers
uh give you more competitive pricing on
the products
so that's something to look forward to
but you can see here price from
currently 12 23 shipping from is uh 4.99
average production time is only one
business day so they're doing really
well in terms of production and getting
them shipped out at printforia lots of
colors lots of sizes perfect exactly
what i want and if they do add the lower
pricing i will certainly be the first to
upgrade because like i said this
software is invaluable for me i you know
the currency i don't have enough of is
time so i'll trade money to get some
time back for sure no brainer
all right so next you can see here um
first i'll select the sizes i'm just
going to click all of the sizes so we
have extra small through 3xl
under additional mockups i'm going to go
ahead and click mockup 1 2 and 3 and
have those be pushed but now we can
select our colors i noticed that white
is selected by default let's leave that
we can go ahead and select black as well
i generally optimize my designs to be
sold against dark shirts so i'm going to
probably select like dark colors we'll
do navy
brown
dark green
and i think that's five colors that's
typically enough for me maybe a royal
blue too why not i like royal blue and
actually since i normally optimize for
dark colors i'm gonna uncheck white um
just to be you know
because i definitely they all may look
good in white this time but in the
future when i'm doing like a lot of
files at a time like i might upload 100
or 200 designs at once
i typically just either am doing it for
light colored shirts or dark colored
shirts and i don't want to you know have
any returns on my hands so anyways um
you can see generate mock-ups is
selected and you can see the mock-ups
are generated over here on the left hand
side for me that's great for kind of
previewing the colors as you select them
but i
am not a huge fan of how these like flat
white mock-ups look
especially next to the
dynamic mockups that we've already
created
previously using the mock-up generator
so what i'm going to do is i'm going to
uncheck this box that says generate
mockups and those will not be pushed all
right that way i don't have to go in and
delete them later perfect because when i
was using printify well i had to go in
and delete all those extra mockups that
were generated and that was a pain and
that required time all right next i'm
going to go ahead and click validate and
next step apparently three of the design
files needed to be resized or saved at
higher dpi so i just went ahead and
unchecked those three so we're gonna
push three at a time right now but just
know that in theory if we were to push
24 at a time which as of recording this
is the max i heard it might go up in the
future but if we're pushing 24 at a time
everything i'm going to show you is the
exact same just so you know so even
though we're doing three now it could be
24 for all intensive purposes
uh so as far as pricing goes like here's
the thing this is another really cool
thing that they set up for us with their
bulk controls so it kind of sets the
default price to 24 bucks but
by default we have these bulk price
controls so i'm gonna leave all sizes
selected and all colors selected and i'm
gonna use replace these are all defaults
and i'm gonna say 24.99
and i'm gonna hit apply okay now
if you don't check this box for apply
prices on current page only because
right now one page is just one
design okay so page two would be a
different design page three is a
different design uh i like to apply to
all of them at once right we want these
bulk controls to save time now here's
what's really cool
uh since the 2xl and 3xl have higher
base costs why don't we select from
instead of all sizes go to 2xl and then
set it to 25.99 we increase by a dollar
hit apply and you'll notice right here
under 2xl it has increased it and if we
go down here to black it has also
increased to 2xl perfect then go to 3xl
and do 26.99
perfect all of them are being updated on
all pages too we can switch to page two
you'll notice that the navy to excel is
25.99 navy 3 xl 26.99 go to page three
same thing perfect
now what if we want to do
a loss leader to increase our
click-through rate by bringing the price
that the customer sees down huh right
that's always a good thing that's how we
increase our sales so i'm going to go to
extra small and i'm going to select one
color okay so let's go to extra small
brown
all right so now
on all 24 theoretically 24 remember it's
three today but whatever
24 at a time we can set the extra small
one color
and we can set the price to 14.99 or
whatever you have to do to remain
profitable let's just do 15.99 since i
didn't calculate it exactly
we'll do 15.99 all right and then i hit
apply
so now if i scroll down here brown extra
small 15.99 and that's the price that
the customer is going to see when they
click and this is common practice on
etsy so but you don't have to do it but
i would recommend it if you're you know
serious about
long-term success on the platform it's
just something that people do right etsy
could easily fix it but they don't they
set it up this way so that sellers would
do what we do
or you know whatever it's your shop you
do what you want to do but i did just
want to show you that we can set up the
loss leader here too
right so we've set the loss leader we
don't need to go in and delete the
crappy mock-ups that you know print
folder printify would generate by
default that we can't stop for being
pushed
we can push straight to etsy now right
then we go to next step
and all we have to do is click publish
and those are going to get sent straight
to our etsy shop and i'm just going to
go ahead and click it and i will show
you when they are live all right guys so
i'm in etsy these are created as drafts
so you have to go in and manually
publish them but it also means you can
play around and not have to worry about
like paying for these listings for
instance uh also i do just want to let
you guys know that you can bulk select
your drafts and bulk publish you can
bulk set the production partner you can
bulk change prices you can bulk add to
section you can bulk change the renewal
options right so
hopefully you're getting the whole point
of this right like my designs is letting
us run our business with as few clicks
as possible and clicks equate to time so
we are saving time
and and hopefully money too because
honestly you're not gonna have to pay
for as many um alternative like tools
and whatnot they're kind of bringing
them all underneath one hood and of
course guys you can get started for free
with my designs now i just wanted to
show you here on the um listing page
itself that the the images made it if
you have any additional images you want
to upload you can go ahead and do that
if you have videos go ahead upload do
that um you know sky's the limit now
with your etsy shop guys keep it simple
you're creating really high quality
listings
in bulk
and it's completely scalable right so
you're not cutting corners you're not
making crappy listings uh hopefully you
get the point of why i'm sharing this
with you i'm really excited about this
software and they're receptive to
feedback they have a feedback mechanism
built directly into the software but
there's also a community board that you
can um get in touch with the team and
like offer them you know your
recommendations what can make your life
easier or do you see a way to upgrade
the software so i like that they've been
really receptive to any um kind of tips
that i've had and that other people have
had anyways guys you can tell i'm a fan
check it out the link is in the
description it is free right now to get
started so what's not to love we all
love free and guys enjoy i will see you
at the next video
you