I've sold millions of dollars of print
on demand products over the years my
goal in this video is to recommend five
tools based on my actual experience
tools that I actually use to help me hit
those numbers and I'm going to tell you
how I use them and why I use them and
most of them are free or they have a
free trial so let's get right to it
one is commonly overlooked for its
potential
it's Google Trends alright google.com
forward slash Trends by the way
everything I show you I will link to in
the description to make your life easy
and I'll link them in order but did you
ever wonder like what sells more
Christmas shirts versus Halloween shirts
versus I don't know St Patrick's Day
shirts well you can type them all into
Google Trends and it won't show you the
exact search volume like it won't give
you the discrete number of searches but
on a relative basis it'll show you uh
what the best performers are and you see
them over my shoulder here behind me now
this is just one example typically what
I'll do is I'll look at trending niches
that are close to each other in
proximity as far as timeline and that
way it helps me see like if I had to
prioritize one Above the Rest just based
off search volume I know which one to do
I don't have to guess I love having data
to make these informed decisions
speaking of data to make informed
decisions that's going to roll us right
into tool number two
I love using Amazon
generally speaking the majority of the
time as the jump off point for my
research process because Amazon gives us
BSR alright hopefully you guys all know
what BSR is but if not really quickly it
is a data point that they share with us
all right and it shows us how well a
product is selling relative to all other
products in that category
so the number one bestseller is just
that it's the number one bestseller but
given uh this data point we can actually
project how many sales something is
making and it's hard to do like as a
human I don't think a human can actually
do it out of memory but there are tools
that assist you with doing that if you
want actual projections of like the
number of sales per day per month Etc
but even just knowing the best seller
rank again as a relative data point is
really helpful in making your decision
of whether or not to pursue this Niche
this sub Niche this cross Niche whatever
it is this product if it's Amazon FBA DS
Amazon quick view is a Chrome extension
it's completely free and you can grab it
right now it's got over half a million
users I mean it's absurd Whoever thought
of this as a genius
uh you can just install it right now in
one click as a Chrome extension then the
next time you go to Amazon what you'll
see is when you do a keyword search in
search results there will be little
boxes underneath each product showing
you this product's best seller rank or
BSR for short based on its category
now if you're more of an Etsy person I
did want to shout out ever be which to
my knowledge is probably the most
affordable tool on the market that does
similar sales projections if you guys
didn't know Etsy actually does show you
the number of times a product sold based
on the shop like I'm pretty sure you can
just type in the shop name and then do
slash sales I think uh so it's not you
know as good of an indicator as DS
Amazon quick view that shows us BSR
because BSR is constantly updated so
even in the absence of sales we still
can see
um you know when up when a niche or a
product is hot and when it's not you
know what I mean when it's hot and when
it's cold whereas you know Etsy is only
going to show us like how many sales
it's made but either way so ever B
actually takes that and wraps it up into
a nice user interface for us to look at
if you're more of an Etsy person you
should be using at least probably some
tool it's not realistic to think you're
going to count every Shop's number of
sales you know especially older shops so
everbeat is a nice affordable option it
does a lot more than just what I it does
a lot more than just what I told you but
in terms of like like me trying to
validate niches validate ideas
you know DS Amazon quick view for
Amazon and ever be for Etsy
tool number three
oh before we get to Tool number three
guys quick plug I have a free print on
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all right tool number three actually
it's more like my dual tools for design
because if your designs aren't good
enough
to make a sale then you're gonna make
zero sales right I mean if you're on
Amazon you might actually get lucky and
make a few sales I've seen some really
ugly designs that have sold I've sold
designs that have typos in them I'm
guilty you know sometimes I'm the guilty
party all right uh I'm not infallible
but between Kittle which is a design
creation app that works in your web
browser so it's not like a big clunky
program like I love the Adobe products
like Photoshop illustrator and I use
them but they're big and clunky I know
some of you guys watching this are
probably on like a laptop that's maybe
not the most powerful application well
you can still run Kittle it just runs in
your web browser and what's great about
Kittle it's very intuitive very user
friendly in terms of making designs but
also they have pre-built templates that
you can use as jumping off points so
it'll have things like complementary
color schemes uh complementary fonts
font families font sizes font colors and
in general just like good graphics that
are easily customizable so Kittle I mean
I've talked about it on my channel but
they definitely are like a very nice
easy way of creating High end designs
with little to no experience if you use
the templates and they make the
templates available for free if you pay
for Kittle but they have a free trial
for Kittle as well I think you can use
the template still but you may not be
able to export high resolution but
creative Fabrica also I've got a free
trial link for you in the description
guys they have everything you need to
succeed at print on demand fonts
Graphics tools built in like the shape
Cloud generator have you ever seen the
designs where it's like a shape but the
shape is made up of words
and you wonder how people do it well the
shape Cloud generator on Creative
Fabrica makes it real easy to do that I
could talk about these two for days guys
I'll link to them in the description if
you aren't already using them I know a
lot of you are but so far we covered
Niche research Niche validation we've
covered design now this is how I do it I
mean this is what works for me I'm not
you don't have to try to copy paste my
exact approach a lot of the stuff is
subjective anyways when it comes to
designing you know use whatever works
for you this works for me or it's been
working for me like I said multi-million
dollar print on demand seller I love
being able to say that I want that for
everybody that wants it for themselves
bad enough all right tool number four
now we're getting into the automation
side of things this is not required but
this is what allows me to do daily
YouTube content and everything else I do
because I don't have to sit here and
manually upload my designs there's tools
like merch Titans which does you know
upload automation it can go to places
like merch by Amazon or Amazon merch on
demand uh Redbubble and other platforms
there's my designs from the maker of
merch Titans my designs integrates
currently directly with Etsy and you can
bulk publish beautiful listings it helps
you do like bulk generation of mock-ups
they just launched their AI tool for
helping you with your title your tags
you can use it for I think description
I'm not 100 but I know title and tags
for sure
um it can do so much guys it's it's
literally like the future of print on
demand out of this is going to take a
while for people to catch on to it but
I'm loving it I'm using it all the time
to stock my Etsy shop
and automate pod if you have a really
good design that you made that has the
potential to be scaled out like the
example I like to use is if you're
selling profession themed shirts it says
world's okayest doctor
but you know you can swap the word
doctor out for lawyer and teacher right
well automate pod is a Chrome extension
that can do it for you automate pod is
not free I think merch Titans and my
designs both have a free trial of free
tier now you don't need to rush into
automation I mentioned that the theme of
this video is what works for me like the
tools that I used to hit the numbers
that I've hit so I kind of did it in
order of like what's probably most
relevant to least relevant if you guys
are ready for automation though these
tools are what I use so I'll personally
say that like they work and they get the
job done I mean they free up my time
that's how I'm able to do this right
like I'm a team of one I don't pay
employees or anything like that I
literally do everything myself but I'm
leaning on software that's been
developed by the teams of really smart
people so that like again like I I'm
basically multiplying myself multiplying
my output
all right tool number five the last tool
we covered everything what's left guys
we need somebody to fulfill our orders
we need a reliable production partner
and they need to assist us in running a
profitable business so I mean I used to
like um companies like printful but they
just keep increasing their prices
shipping prices and it's tough you know
what I mean it's tough to maintain a
profitable business it's one thing to
make sales it's another to make sales
and make money right uh awkward Styles
has some of the most competitive pricing
on you know I can speak for myself at
least like the products that I'm selling
consistently for instance my best seller
is t-shirts and their Bella canvas 3001
is under ten dollars when you have
awkward Styles Pro now you can join
awkward styles for free
Pro will cost you a monthly fee but you
can use code Ryan Hogue and try it out
for two months absolutely free so of
course I'll drop a link to that so that
you can try it out they currently
integrate with Etsy with Shopify you can
do workarounds to get it integrated with
Amazon but just a little bit of rigging
that you have to do I may do a video on
that in the future if you guys want me
to but awkward Styles I mean they're
based in the United States they actually
are a part of the printify network but
if you do it through there you're gonna
have to pay a little bit extra so it's
better to go directly to the source in
my opinion
um they have hats that's another best
seller of mine they've got jewelry that
they just launched I've put a bunch of
those on my Etsy shop and used creative
Fabrica which I shouted out earlier to
get some of the designs done I also made
some designs myself and I was pretty
proud of them when some of them sold
including writing the text on the the
message cards for the jewelry but
anyways I don't want to ramble too much
awkward Styles is a great option for a
production partner in 2023 that to me
checks every box so you can um try them
out for free again using the link in the
description you can get Pro for free two
months just use the the code reinhoge
alright guys that's it thank you for
watching this video I hope it helped if
you have questions let me know I have a
full print on demand course by the way I
just uploaded or updated a bunch of it
for 2023 uh a lot of it in regards to
Amazon Seller Central print on Demand by
the way so if you guys are interested in
that that is just one module that's
included you get all the other stuff
research design
Etsy eBay automation I mean literally
everything's covered it's my exact
process step by step it's linked in the
description guys check that out all
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