Alright guys, welcome back to another video.
This is going to be the part two of the first video
answering all of the big questions you guys have had
about print-on-demand.
Now, just a reminder the reason that I split this video
into two is because there were 50 questions
and that would be a ton of information to cover
in one video.
So this is the remainder of those 50 questions.
There's 25 questions here that I'll be answering for you.
And these are really good questions in regards
to print-on-demand.
So if you didn't see the first video, it will be linked down
in the description and vice versa.
I highly recommend watching both of these videos
because you'll learn a lot of information
about print-on-demand very quickly.
So before jumping into these 25,
I just wanted to say one more time.
If you are new to the channel, welcome, my name is Greg
and I like to talk about online entrepreneurship
and sharing the resources that I wish I had
along my journey.
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the comments, everything you guys are awesome.
And it's awesome to meet all of you guys
and talk to you down in the comments.
So without further ado, I want to jump right into these 25
and get you guys some more answers.
All right, question number one here is,
"How many followers on Instagram do I need
"before I get my first sale?"
So this question is coming in regards to the
Instagram strategy for getting sales
on your Teespring Storefront to get your trust score.
If that kind of sounds like gibberish to you.
If you are new to print-on-demand,
I'll link up a full tutorial for print-on-demand
down in the description.
That will answer a lot of questions for you there.
But to give you the answer here on how many followers
you need to get your first sale on Instagram,
you actually don't have to worry about followers at all.
The strategy that we use Instagram for
is using niche hashtags.
So we are getting people who don't follow our page yet
but are interested in a niche to see our posts
and go over to a storefront.
With that said the vast majority of the purchases
are going to be impulse purchases,
right place at the right time.
This is not actually coming from followers
who are brand loyal, that are going to follow you
for a long time and make a purchase of a design
that they really liked down the road.
So I wouldn't worry about followers at all.
I would just worry about posting more great content
on Instagram with good hashtags.
Question number two,
"If you are rejected by Merch by Amazon,
"then what can you do?"
The short answer here is you can apply as many times
as you need to just make sure that you're using
a new email address every time you apply.
In the past, they didn't require you to use
new email addresses, but now for some reason they do,
so, just make sure that you use a different one
when you apply.
I have heard from many people who have been accepted
on the second or third application
without doing anything seemingly different.
Question number three, "How do you collect your earnings?"
This is a good question and it's different for all
three of these sites.
So Teespring, Redbubble, and Merch by Amazon.
On Teespring, you connect either Payoneer or PayPal
for you to be paid.
And then all of your profits will build up
in your Teespring account.
You go to the payouts tab and you can actually payout
to that Payoneer or PayPal account anytime you want.
Over on Redbubble and Merch by Amazon,
they automatically payout and give you your money.
So you don't have to worry about manually paying out
on those two sites.
Question number four,
"Text designs or elaborate designs,
"which ones do you recommend?"
So I actually sell a lot of both of these,
but with that being said, I spend most of my time now
creating designs that have texts, but a graphic on them.
They're not too elaborate and they're not
basic text-only designs.
These by and large come from t-shirt design templates.
They're going through templates.
They have graphics and text on them.
That's where I would spend your time creating designs.
Question number five, "My upload frequency on Teespring
"has been inconsistent.
"Does that affect my trust score?"
The short answer here is no, you can upload couple
of designs on one day 10 on the next day.
It doesn't matter if you stop for a while and upload more,
that will have no effect on your trust score.
Question number six,
"Why do I recommend niche-specific storefronts?"
This is a really good question and a really big staple
in the entire strategy.
Creating a storefront on Teespring and promoting it
to traffic over on Instagram.
It's super important to be about one specific niche
for two main reasons.
The first reason is over on Instagram,
you have to use hashtags to get traffic.
By being focused on one specific niche,
we can use hashtags that are all about one specific niche.
We are going to get in front of people,
interested in that single niche.
Then once those people see our post
and go to our storefront,
they see that the entire storefront is about that niche.
It stays relevant to them and it keeps their attention.
As they're scrolling through increasing our conversions.
If you make a more general style store
that has a ton of different niches in it,
it's going to be really hard for you to find
proper hashtags to attract people.
And then once they get there, they're going to see that
there are all different types of topics.
It loses their attention very quickly.
Number seven, "My listings on Teespring are not showing up
"in the marketplace.
"What is going on?"
This is simply because you don't have a trust score yet.
Teespring's the only one that has a trust score.
So essentially you need to drive two to 10
of your own sales.
Once you get your trust score,
then Teespring starts doing all the marketing for you
and they add your items to their marketplace.
Don't be worried about this in the beginning.
If you don't see your items on the marketplace,
you can't find them, that's the reason why.
With that said, a lot of people worry that they won't be
able to get sales if no one can find them.
That's where the whole Instagram strategy
with the niche storefront comes in.
So if you do need to learn how that works,
again watch the full tutorial down in the description.
Number eight, "Can you do all of print-on-demand
"only on a smartphone?"
The short answer here is yes, you can,
but it's going to be a little bit slower
and not as efficient.
I recommend getting a laptop.
It's going to be the fastest way because you get
the desktop version of all the websites.
And this way, it increases your efficiency
and speed in print-on-demand.
Number nine, "I got my Teespring sales,
"when does the trust score start?"
So first off, congratulations on getting
your Teespring sales.
Those first two to 10 sales are so important
to get the marketing going.
I've seen it an average of about a month from when
you get those sales to when your trust score kicks in.
There is no direct way to check if your trust score
has kicked in yet.
However, there's two ways that you can do this.
You can go to the marketplace, search for your listings,
and see if you can find them.
If you can find them in the marketplace,
that is a great indicator that you have a trust score
on your account.
And second, if you go to your analytics on Teespring,
you can go over, you can switch it from sales to views.
And that way you can see if your views are going up
if they are going up, that means Teespring's
doing marketing for you
and more people are seeing your listings.
Moving along to question number 10.
"What is the earnings potential for print-on-demand?"
This is a great question.
I don't blame you for thinking about this early on.
However, I wouldn't focus on the money,
the earnings potential for print-on-demand
I would say roughly over the years that I've seen it,
I would say is an average of about $1 per month per listing.
Now, yes, every time you make a sale, you'll make somewhere
from two to $15 profit.
However, you're not going to sell every item every month.
So as a benchmark for making your financial goals
with print-on-demand,
I would say an average of $1 per month per listing.
Number 11, "What is the earnings breakdown
"from the three sites for me personally?"
That's a good question and it's a little bit biased
because I've been on some of the
three sites longer than others.
However, I would say that Merch by Amazon and Teespring
are about tied for earnings.
And then Redbubble is definitely below them.
With that being said, I have been on Teespring longer
than Merch by Amazon so you can factor that in as well.
No matter what way you put it I highly recommend
being on Teespring, Redbubble, and Merch by Amazon
because they are all three really big earners.
This brings us nicely into question number 12,
and that is, "Can you upload the same exact design
to Teespring, Redbubble, and Merch by Amazon?
The short answer here is yes.
All three of those sites are not exclusive,
so if you create one design, you can upload it to
all three of those sites separately.
Number 13, this is a great question,
and thank you for asking it.
I don't often talk about it, but is a really big point,
that is, "What type of business entity
do you have to register for print on demand?"
The answer here is you don't actually have to register
a business at all.
Anytime an application or something in print on demand
asks for your business name or organization name,
you can use your first and last name.
You do not have to go out and get business permits
or set up a business entity for print on demand.
Now, as you start to grow print on demand,
I would say somewhere around $50,000 per year,
it might be smart for you to start looking
into creating a business entity just
for your own protection, keeping things organized,
and being able to properly make business deductions.
With that said that is not required at all
just something to think about as your business
starts to grow.
Question number 14,
"What about all of the other free print on demand sites?"
What I would say is that I've used a lot of these out there
and I would treat all of the others that are not
Teespring, Redbubble, and Merch by Amazon, just as backups.
I would first put all of your time and designs
into the top three and then if you find yourself down
the road, not creating more designs,
then you can take the designs that you've created
and also list them on the other websites.
They are not going to bring in as many sales
as the top three, however, it's just good backups
and it helps you diversify even more.
Question number 15,
"Where do you get inspiration for new designs?"
This is a great question.
And I just go around and search the internet.
Sometimes I'm even in a restaurant and I see something
on the wall and I'll jot it down on the notes in my phone.
Additionally, I'll go through different websites
like Etsy or Pinterest and just get ideas
and jot things down in my notes as well.
Then the next time that I'm creating designs
for print on demand, I just put all of those ideas
into t-shirt templates and it works really well.
I can understand that this process could be different
for every person.
However, that's the way that I personally do it.
And I can recommend it to you if you want to give it a try.
Question number 16, "How do you change the order of items
"on a Teespring storefront?"
This is something that definitely should be easier.
However, if you go into edit the products that are available
in that storefront, you can use the star icon
and it'll prioritize that item and bring to the top.
If all else fails, you can archive a listing
from your dashboard and then reinstate it
and it'll go to the top of that storefront as well.
Question number 17,
"Are motivational quotes too broad of a niche."
The short answer here is yes.
Unfortunately, I do think motivational quotes is going to be
too broad of a niche
because it's going to be hard for you to target
the right people and then bring them
into your storefront and keep the content relevant to them.
I think if your niche is motivation,
it's just going to be far too general
because you're going to get motivated cyclists
or you're going to get motivated business owners,
or motivated yoga people.
Motivation spans just a bit too big so
I would focus down your niche a little bit further.
Question number 18, "How much marketing does Teespring,
"Redbubble, and Merch by Amazon do for you?"
This is a great question and they all do different marketing
for you, but I'll break it down by monthly traffic
to their sites, just to put it in perspective of how much
traffic they're actually getting for you.
Teespring gets roughly 17 million visitors
to their site per month.
Redbubble gets roughly 19 million
visitors to their site per month.
And Amazon gets roughly 2 billion visitors
to their site per month.
All of these people are going to be browsing
through the marketplaces and seeing designs.
The more designs that you have in those marketplaces,
the more views you're going to get.
Additionally, these sites do email marketing,
they do display ads, they do retargeting
so if someone views one of your listings,
as they continue to go around the internet,
it will follow them around as a reminder
that they saw that product before.
But just rest assured that they all have
full marketing departments,
where their sole job is just to get more people
to view their marketplace.
Question number 19, "I've seen designs on marketplaces
"with copyrighted content in them.
"Why are they still up?"
The short answer here is they made it through
the filter somehow, and they will be taken down
as soon as someone finds out about the content.
So just because you see something that is copyrighted
does not mean that you should be creating
that content as well.
Moving right along question number 20,
"What is the biggest barrier to becoming
"a print on demand seller?"
I really like this question.
And I think the biggest barrier is actually ourselves.
When you're starting a new business,
it's not going to be easy and it's going to take
a lot of hard work.
This is not just for print on demand,
but for any new business that you're going to start.
It's going to require you to push yourself
and work hard and there's going to be a lot of times
that you have doubts about if it's going to work.
I think the biggest barrier to becoming
a print on demand seller is getting yourself past
all of these doubts, staying optimistic,
and continuing to put in hard work before you've started
to see the profit coming in.
Question number 21,
"Can you buy your own items for Teespring
"to get your trust score?"
I wish this was the case because it would be so easy
for everyone to get their trust scores.
However, no, you cannot buy your own items.
They will not count towards your trust score.
Question number 22,
"Is it possible to profit without paying for ads
"in print on demand?"
The short answer here is yes.
I'll link up the full tutorial down in the description.
It shows you how to do free marketing using Instagram
and you do not have to have a following built up already.
So to keep this one short, yes, you can do it without
paying for any ads.
Just have the right strategy.
The video will be linked down in the description.
Question number 23,
"Can we use google images for our designs?"
This is a yes and no type of answer.
Yes, you can use images that are on Google
as long as they are copyright free.
No, you cannot just go to Google and search for images
and use any of those.
You can sort Google images, search results
by if they are copyright free.
However, this is not 100% accurate.
If you modify the image and make it your own
or put text over it, or just customize that image
and the image is copyright free,
then you can absolutely use that in your designs.
Question number 24, "Have you found a best time of day
"to be posting on Instagram?"
I have tested this and it's really funny that you asked this
because I spent a lot of time testing this
and looking at the analytics to see when the best time
of Instagram is to post.
What I have found is for every page,
the audience is different.
So the best time that your audience is on Instagram
is going to be different for every niche storefront
that you start.
So the best time to post when your audience is on Instagram
is going to be different for every person.
I would say, just mentally, make a note if you posted it
in the morning, see how many likes you got,
if you posted it in the evening, see how many likes you got.
Test this a few times and see if you can pick up
on any patterns.
I wouldn't put a ton of thought into this.
I put way too much into it and just to find out
that it's different for every page.
Moving on to question number 25,
"How do you stay motivated to keep making
"more designs every day?"
I wish I had a secret or an easy way for you guys here,
but it really comes down to just be willing
to put in the hard work and trust that the process works.
You really kind of just have to be irrational
in the beginning and you have to just push yourself
through putting in work and not getting profit right away.
Once you see the profit start,
then it's reassuring and then it's easy from then on out.
Now very quickly, there are three bonus questions
that I wanna put in this video,
starting with the first one,
"My design has a white background when I upload it
"onto a print on demand site and when I made the design
"it had a transparent background, what is going on?"
Just look at how you sent that design.
Typically, if you're creating the design
with the transparent background on your phone
and you're emailing it to your computer,
sometimes the email provider will convert that
to a white background image.
So just see if you can find a part in your designing
and uploading process,
where there is a possibility that it changed
from a transparent background to a white background.
The second bonus question here is,
"Is there a free niche finder?"
This is in regards to niche research tools
and the free one that I would recommend
is merchant former's free day trial.
I know that's not entirely free.
However, it's the only one that's using
print on demand data.
So it's the only one that I can really recommend
for print on demand.
The three-day trial has full functionality,
so you'll be able to do as many searches as you want,
but that's what I would recommend for the free option.
With that said, if you go out and try to find
a niche research tool and it's free,
I don't know that I would use it just because it's free
because you may not be getting accurate data.
So you might actually be hurting yourself
by trying to save a couple dollars.
So with that said, just use merchant former's
free three-day trial.
That's where I would start.
And the last question here,
this is the third bonus question.
This is, "How do you get more people
"to your Instagram page?"
The short answer for you is look at your hashtags,
make sure that you're posting good content about your niche,
but then look at your list of hashtags
and make sure that one, they're about your niche,
and two, they're not about t-shirt or print on demand
or anything to that regard.
Finding good hashtags in your niche
and trying new ones on different posts
is definitely a part of the process.
And you will find that some hashtags perform
a lot better than others in your niche.
So guys just like that, that is it.
That is the second video.
If you haven't watched the first one,
I highly recommend it then you'll get the full effect
of all 50 of these questions.
But hopefully, that has answered a lot of your questions.
As always if you have more, let me know down in the comments
and feel free to look around the channel
because there's a ton of videos on there that answer
a ton of questions in detail.
With that said, I hope you guys enjoyed this one
and I will see you all in the next video.