hey what's up guys thanks for joining me
for a new video in this one
i wanted to answer a question that i
believe originated in my print on demand
facebook group which of course will be
linked in the description below
along with a link to my print on demand
free
giveaway where two winners are selected
every single sunday it takes like 10
seconds to enter so make sure you take
advantage of that guys
uh but i wanted to answer this question
about
can you use multiple production partners
actually i believe the way the question
was framed was something along the lines
of
which print-on-demand production partner
should i choose
for my print-on-demand business i don't
remember if they said where they were
selling
not that it matters um but well it
matters in the terms of like
if you want to sell on etsy you have
more options
of who you can use to fulfill your
orders than if you were to sell on like
amazon seller central for instance
uh where you have a limited scope of uh
businesses that have integrations with
seller central
i don't really know why that is by the
way i get a lot of these companies
reaching out to me
and they want feedback and the first
thing i always say is hey if you get a
seller's central integration done
let me know because i would love to
share that with my youtube subscribers
you guys
because seller central for some reason
it's like very limited as far as our
options go
so anyways they had asked this question
and
sometimes when i'm just going through
the facebook group i go through it at
least once a day i go through all the
facebook groups i run
and i kind of like get ideas of where
everybody's at in terms of
their businesses and what questions
people commonly have
and this was one that i wanted to kind
of dispel a myth right away
that you have to choose one production
partner for your business you do not
need to choose
just one production partner well i guess
you do have to choose at least one
but you don't have to choose only one
now first thing i want to say is
my recommended print on demand
production partner
based on my four plus years experience
using i think
i've used four different ones to date uh
printful prinify guten and
gear bubble i recommend printful from
first hand experience
because they are free they have a seller
central integration
and they give you complete autonomy as
far as complete autonomy goes
relative to the other options they give
you the most autonomy over your business
so you don't like have to work with
printful support you can typically do
most of the things you need to do
on your own on your own time
instantaneously using their user
interfaces
as opposed to like doing simple things
on other um
production partners typically means you
have to work through support so i
recommend printful i'll put a link at
the top but i know that's not why you
guys are here
i wanted to elaborate that you don't
need to choose only one you can use
multiple production partners
for your orders let me give you an
example i recently did a video where i
compared printful to printify if you
guys missed that one check it out i will
put a link to it in the youtube cards
right here it actually dispels a lot of
myths about like printf i
being cheaper across the board for all
products
i actually go in and i show you guys how
a lot of times like the pricing is
disguised
imprintified now the reason i'm sharing
that is because if i want to sell
t-shirts like the probably the
best-selling print on demand product
i'm going to use printful their t-shirts
on average are much cheaper than prinify
so for the reasons i said earlier plus
you know if i want to sell t-shirts yeah
i want to use somebody like printful
that gets them printed pretty quickly
gets them shipped out quickly
uh has an affordable price if you want
to sell the gildan 64 000 shirts which
are my go-to's
so i might use printful for t-shirts but
what if i want to sell coffee mugs
that's not uncommon coffee mugs sell
extremely well plus if you want to sell
coffee mugs on amazon
you don't have to compete with merch by
amazon sellers because coffee mugs
aren't available through merch by amazon
so you see what i'm saying we always
look for an edge
and that to me is a perfect opportunity
okay we're not
we're not competing with prime eligible
uh listings
sign me up how can we sell coffee mugs
all right well who do we use to sell
coffee mugs though
uh well actually you know what seller
central might not have been the best
example because i was going to say
i would look to guten or custom cat even
custom cat
that's who i would use to sell coffee
mugs because actually guten sells cheap
coffee mugs but custom cats are a little
bit cheaper
and the quality's not sacrificed at all
i actually did a video
where i evaluated all of the custom cat
coffee bugs they sent me a bunch of
samples
we even had fun and threw one off of the
roof over here
and let it hit the ground from about 20
feet up if you missed that video
i will also link to that in youtube
cards right here because that was a good
one
so custom cat has high quality mugs
and they're affordable use them to
be your production partner for mugs now
here's the thing what if you're using
printful
and custom cat at the same time is that
possible in seller central yes
in etsy yes in shopify yes in ebay
yes but what happens when you sell a
t-shirt and custom cat downloads the
t-shirt order
custom cat won't do anything they don't
recognize the product therefore they
don't fulfill the order
now printful same thing if you sell a
coffee mug through custom cat
printful sees all of your orders now
what they've configured it to do
is if they see you made an order that
they don't recognize they will email you
and they'll say a product well exactly
what does it say i'm trying to think
it's something about like a product we
don't recognize has been sold or
you know please either sync or ignore
this product
so they let you know that they see the
order
but this isn't something that originated
from printful therefore
they can't automatically fulfill it for
you
you can do just that though you can
either sync the product in printful
meaning if it already exists in your
printful account you can link it up and
then printful will recognize it
and be able to fulfill it for you in the
future or you can just click the ignore
button
and you actually don't even need to
click the ignore button you can just
delete the email and move on but
i just want to let you guys know that
like they can all play together
in your seller account with no issues
it's not a problem
and what's cool is let's say custom cat
for some reason goes out of business
or they sell out of their white coffee
mugs well
you can still go into printful when you
get that email saying hey we see an
order but we don't recognize it
you can go create the white coffee mug
in printful and have them fulfill your
coffee mug orders from the future
um you can go and you can add printify
and i was looking the other day at like
printifies posters
are pretty darn cheap like i was
actually really impressed by how
affordable they were
so let's say you want to sell posters
i've i've done consulting calls
with people that sell a lot of
motivational posters and i remember when
people were telling me that i was like
you know what that's kind of genius
because i don't know i just remember
like when i was working by nine to five
man people in the cubicles would have
like funny posters not a lot of people
but like
some people had some funny um you know
the motivational cat posters where the
cat's hanging on and it says like hang
in there or something
um you know posters sell all day a lot
of stuff that sells on t-shirts can sell
on posters as well
and vice versa if it's selling on a
poster you can sell it on a t-shirt
so printify for posters perfect printful
for t-shirts
custom cat for mugs um if you want to
pay monthly you can use gear bubble now
i don't recommend that
unless you really like want to sell a
lot of gear bubble products because they
do really excel at a couple things
um i used to think they were the best
for coffee mugs until i figured out some
of their competitors
that are free to use actually have
better pricing but gear bubbles great
for
things like um well certain types of
mugs like
uh tumblers and travel mugs and even
like wine glasses which is cool
but i was gonna say jewelry jewelry you
can actually get away with murder you
can charge a
very nice markup on jewelry sell
necklaces for like 30 bucks
on gear bubble and they only cost around
9.95 i mean it varies depending on what
you're selling but like let's just say
10 bucks to 15 bucks to fulfill a lot of
the most commonly sold jewelry so if you
want to sell a lot of jewelry
you may have options as far as like
gluten's got jewelry and
uh printful has jewelry but there's a
little bit overpriced um
so gear bubble cheap proven
lots of people are selling jewelry i
mean i'm in the gear bubble group and i
know that people are making a killing
with jewelry
um so you can have all those running at
the same time
they will not step on each other's toes
but you need to be vigilant
and make sure that a sink doesn't break
you when i say sync i don't mean like
the kitchen sink i mean s-y-n-c
your gear bubble sync for instance all
the products you pushed to your seller
central or etsy account using gear
bubble
if that sync breaks then they will no
longer fulfill your orders that they're
supposed to fulfill you need to keep an
eye on that because if you have a bunch
of late shipments
you will get your account closed i know
it's not news to anybody that's
subscribed to my channel but like we
obviously want to keep our accounts in
good standing
with the marketplace and of course with
the customers you guys already know that
though
that's a whole nother topic for a
different video um but yeah guys that's
really all i wanted to cover
in this video inspired by the facebook
group so if you guys aren't in the
facebook group yet make sure you use the
link in the description
and join and of course i actually did
write a free uh print on demand mini
course too
that'll get you set up with the printful
and etsy integration uh
over eight days i just send you one
lesson a day so if you have a little bit
of time that day do the lesson
wait till the next day and i'll send you
the next thing you need to do but
anyways guys thank you so much for
watching
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