Hi everyone, and welcome back
to another Print On-Demand video.
This is going to be part three
and the last video in this mini-series of
10 Things That All NEW Print On-Demand Sellers Need To Know.
Now I had no intentions of making part two
or even this video, part three;
however, you guys have been receiving it so well
and telling me in the comments
that they've been helping you ton.
So with that being said, this is going to be the last one.
However, if you are new to Print On-Demand
and you're just getting into this space,
I recommend watching all three of these videos.
You can watch them in any order.
However, what it's going to do is get you up to speed
and teach you a ton
and give you a general overview of Print On-Demand,
and then you can go into the channel
and watch detailed videos on certain aspects.
But by watching these three videos,
it's going to teach you 30 things
that you need to know about Print On-Demand
if you are new to the space
and it's going to do it very quickly and efficiently.
With that being said,
for those of you returning to the channel, welcome back,
and thank you guys so much
for all the support you've been showing me on these videos.
For those of you who are new here, my name is Greg
and I like to talk about online entrepreneurship
and particularly sharing the resources
that I wish I had along my journey.
So if you're interested in making money online,
feel free to look around the channel
because you're going to find
a lot of things completely for free here
that you would typically have to pay for in a course.
Now with all of that out of the way,
if you guys know the style of these videos,
there's never any fluff,
and I get straight into the point,
so there's just three things we have to cover
before we get into this list of 10.
First, any videos that I mention
throughout this list are going to be linked down
in the description.
Second, there's going to be a table of contents,
just like the other videos.
So if you do wanna skip around,
or if you're coming back for reference,
just look in the description below
and you can jump around if you like.
And lastly, the third thing before we get started
in this video is part one and part two,
the videos prior to this are going to be linked down
in the description.
If you are new to Print On-Demand,
I recommend watching all three of these,
because if you watch all three,
you're going to learn a ton about Print On-Demand
and having general overview very quickly.
So with all of that out of the way,
let's go ahead and get into the first of 10 things
that all new Print On-Demand sellers need to know.
The first thing is a common question
that a lot of people ask and that is,
"Do you have to pay listing fees to actually upload
your designs to make them for sale?"
Now, the short answer for you is no.
The three platforms I recommend you sell your designs on
are Teespring, Redbubble and Merch by Amazon.
None of them make you pay for a listing fee.
Now, if you start going to other websites,
you may find that some of them require you
to pay an upfront fee to list your item for sale.
However, if you're using Teespring, Redbubble,
or Merch by Amazon, you will never have to pay anything.
It's completely free to upload your designs
and create a listing to sell them.
Number two, what if you upload your designs
to these websites and somebody copies your design?
What do you do?
So essentially all of these websites have a filter in place.
So if they see that there's a duplicate design uploaded,
they're not going to allow it, it's going to be flagged
and it will be removed automatically.
So therefore, if you upload your design first
and then someone comes along
and copies that design exactly as it is,
that one should be removed automatically.
Now, I wish it was just that simple;
however, there is a slight gray area
of what if they are clearly copying your design,
but they changed something small so it's not identical?
Now, the way this works is the automated system
should catch this as a duplicate as well
and remove the copycat's design;
however, if it does slip by and you go in
and you are searching for your designs
and you find someone else that copied it,
you can report it to that website
whether it's Teespring, Redbubble, or Merch by Amazon.
They will investigate it
and see if it is too close as a copy,
and if so, they will remove that person's design.
The way that it works is basically timestamped.
So if you uploaded that design first,
they can reference their system
and see that you clearly uploaded that design first,
so you have rights to it.
Now in one of the other videos
that I made in this mini-series, we go over copyright
and do you need to copyright your designs,
so I recommend learning more in that video.
However, just know that by are you uploading that design,
you get informal copyright rights to that design.
And if someone else copies it, theirs should be taken down.
Number three is on the opposite side of that.
If you were creating and uploading designs, how do you know
that you're not copying someone else's design?
So there's no direct, very easy way to do this
and search everything at once.
However, from five plus years of experience doing this,
as you were creating designs,
simply just search the platform
that you're going to upload it to.
And also just do a quick Google search
because that may bring in results
that you didn't see on the platform
and just make sure that your design
is not exactly the same as someone else's.
Now, obviously I wish there was a very easy way to do this,
but as you're going through this,
you only have to do this once until you upload the design.
Because once you upload that design,
you're the first person to upload it as it is.
So essentially just search the websites
before you upload it,
to make sure that there isn't
something exactly how your design is.
Number four, this is a question that's going to come up
as you start to get into text-based designs.
So if you have text-based design,
you basically have to choose the color of the text.
Now, if you have white text,
you're going to be putting that on darker shirts
so you can still read it.
On the contrary, if you have dark text,
you're going to be putting that on light shirts
so you can read it.
So the question is,
when should you be making these variations?
If you have a text-based design,
do you create the one with white text
and put it on dark shirt
and then create a separate listing
with dark text on the light shirts?
And my answer for you from experience is,
when you are getting started in the beginning,
you do not wanna be doing this on every listing.
Think about it from their perspective.
If these websites see you creating designs
and creating two of every design,
that starts to look like spam,
and it doesn't look good on a new account.
So what I recommend you do is pick one of them
and just upload one listing for each of your designs,
and then as you see down the road,
if one of them starts to really sell well,
then create the alternate version of it.
This way you're only creating the alternate versions
or the variations of designs
that you already know are selling well.
Number five, this is specifically for Teespring,
when you're creating a Teespring Storefront.
There's been a little bit of a glitch,
it's something that I really don't like on Teespring,
this has been happening for over a year now,
and it's when you add a listing to a Storefront,
It expands that product into every style that you chose,
so short sleeve, long sleeve, tank top,
whatever you put in that listing,
it creates what looks like a separate listing
for each of them in your Storefront.
Now, if you don't do anything about this,
it's going to stay by default that way.
And when a customer comes into your Storefront,
they're going to see the same design
on five different items, and it just doesn't look good.
So what I recommend you do is you need
to pick just one of those items to leave in the Storefront.
When someone comes and clicks that design,
they're going to see all of the other options
they have available as well.
But this way it's not showing all of them
at once on the Storefront.
So the question is, how do you do this?
It's pretty simple once you know how to do it.
However, the first time is a little bit difficult.
So for those of you who are new to doing this,
the way you do this is you click on Storefronts,
and then you click on the little edit icon,
in the corner of the thumbnail of your Storefront,
and then you go to Products, Add Products,
and then uncheck the versions
that you do not want in the Storefront.
That's it, then just make sure you save it,
and you're good to go.
Moving right on to number six, that is,
do you need to do paid advertising?
And if you are set on doing paid advertising,
you wanna spend money, how should you do it?
Now this response is all coming from experience,
and I have tried a ton of different versions
of paid advertising and saw which ones work best.
Now, the only time I recommend doing paid advertising
is if you really need some initial sales
and you wanna get your trust score on Teespring,
or you just wanna get the ball rolling
and you have money to spend on it.
For the vast majority of people,
I don't recommend doing paid advertising
because in most cases, you're just going to lose your money.
You're not guaranteed to get sales from it,
and it can be very difficult
unless you know what you're doing.
So with all that being said,
the way that I recommend doing paid advertising
for Print On-Demand if you do need to get some quick sales
is doing paid Instagram shoutouts.
Now in this video,
I don't wanna go into too much detail on this
because this is totally a video in itself,
and I've already made a video about it.
So a link of video down in the description
that goes over paid ads with Instagram shoutouts
so you can learn everything you need to know about it,
but that will be linked down in the description.
With that being said, just be clear
that I do not recommend doing paid Facebook ads
that you're creating yourself.
The same, no paid Instagram ads, no paid Google ads.
And the ones that I do recommend
are paid Instagram shoutouts
that are very different than creating your own ads.
So again, you don't have to do any paid ads at all,
but if you do wanna learn about that,
there's a video of down in the description.
That'll teach you everything you need to know.
Number seven, this is why I personally do not recommend
using Printify, Printful, or Etsy
to sell your Print On-Demand designs.
These are all massive platforms used
by a lot of people.
However, you have to understand
that there's a difference between those three
and the three that I use,
which are Teespring, Redbubble, and Merch by Amazon.
Now, essentially the biggest difference are the ones
that I use, Teespring, Redbubble,
and Merch by Amazon are all free,
and they're all going to do marketing for you.
The other ones on the other side,
Printful, Printify, and Etsy,
they start to bring an upfront fees
that you have to pay to upload your designs.
And additionally, they are not going
to do any marketing for you.
Now, there are pros and cons of both of these,
and they're both very different business models.
However, in a nutshell,
the ones that I do recommend are very passive
and you don't have to pay upfront.
The ones on the other side can be more expensive
You're going to have to pay fees,
but you can get more customized products.
So without getting into too much detail,
I'll link another video down in the description
that goes over in detail the difference between these.
So if you are interested in learning more
about the differences, feel free to watch that video.
Number eight, this is in regards to shipping fees.
Sometimes when you go on these different websites
and you look at Print On-Demand products,
you see that these shipping fees are actually pretty high.
Now just keep in mind,
the first thing is that some of high shipping fees
are temporary because of the world situation right now,
and that will change in time.
However, the more important thing to understand
is that the shipping fees are determined
by where the buyer is from,
not where you as the seller, are actually uploading from.
So what that means is if you go look at listings,
you may get a shipping fee for what it would charge
to ship that item to you in your current location.
Just know that there is a whole world of people out there.
They may be in different locations
where it is far cheaper for them
to have a product shipped to them.
So it depends on the buyer's location
on what their shipping rate is going to be.
Now, again, if you wanna learn a lot more
about the shipping rates and how that all works,
there's a video down in the description.
Keep in mind that for all of these things
that you've seen in all of these last three videos,
there are going to be detailed videos on the channel
that you can find to learn more about them.
Okay, we're finishing up with two very important things.
This one is number nine,
and this is a problem that I see a lot
of new Print On-Demand sellers run into
in regards to picking a niche.
Now, what we need to know as a new Print On-Demand seller
is that in the beginning,
a niche is actually very important.
The reason I say that is
because it's going to determine how quickly
and how many sales you're going to get
when you're first starting out.
If you are going into a niche that is too general
of a topic, for instance, dogs, cats, coffee, one of those.
That means that a ton of other people
are likely in that niche already,
meaning that it's going to be overly competitive.
So you as a new seller, creating some designs in that niche,
you're not going to get found as quickly
as if you went into a more specific niche.
Think along the lines of a golden retriever owner
who likes coffee.
So this way you're bringing in not just dogs,
but a type of dog, and then that that person likes coffee.
This way, you can create designs
that target a much more specific person.
You're targeting someone that owns a golden retriever
and loves coffee,
they're two big staples of their personality.
As opposed to someone who just likes dogs,
it's going to be much more relevant to them
and bring in a lot more emotion.
Think about if you're buying a gift for someone
and you know that they love their golden retriever
and they love coffee.
You might buy them a gift of a shirt if it says,
"All I need is my golden retriever and a big cup of coffee."
That's much more specific than "I love dogs,"
or "I drink coffee."
I think you can probably pick up what I'm putting down here,
but just make sure that you're getting creative
with your niches and going pretty specific with them.
If you start out just way too general,
it's going to be harder for you
to target people on Instagram
and get people that are actually committed to buying that
because it is very relevant to them.
So that's one of the biggest mistakes I see people making
in regards to niches.
So just make sure that in the beginning
you are picking a specific and a good niche.
And number 10, this is the last point
in the last video of this mini-series,
so I wanted it to go out with a bang.
If you've stuck around for all three of these videos
and you're watching this last one,
this is going to be the best piece of advice I can give
to any new Print On-Demand seller
to help you succeed and make sure
that you have a good experience
and a profitable experience selling Print On-Demand.
The best piece of advice I can give
to any new Print On-Demand seller is two-part.
One, you need to make sure that you're picking a good niche.
Two, is you need to make sure
that you have a good design tool.
If you have both of those things sorted,
it's going to be very difficult for you
to not succeed in Print On-Demand.
I know a lot of people
because I see it in the comments sometimes saying
that Print On-Demand just can't be that easy.
And I wanna make sure that you hear it from me
based on my personal experience over the years,
and from everyone that I've been talking to in the comments
that come back and share their success with me,
is that if you have a good niche and good designs,
and all you do is focus on getting more good designs
out into those good niches, you're going to succeed.
Overall, it is a very simple strategy
and just make sure that you don't overcomplicate it.
I just wanna make sure that you guys know
that you do not have to be spending money
to invest in ads to get your product seen.
It's simply about efficiency and scale.
Find good niches and create a lot of great designs
in those niches.
That's the name of the game here.
So with that said, in the beginning, focus on efficiency.
Don't get hung up on one design for several hours.
Focus on finding a couple of great niches
in the beginning, jotting them down as a list,
and then going to your design tool
and just spending as much time as you can
creating a ton of great designs in those niches.
This is how you're going to get a really good start
in Print On-Demand,
and just know that it's somewhat of a snowball effect.
In the beginning, you have to get the snowball rolling,
but as you start to get more and more good designs
and good niches, the snowball starts to grow.
And as you know, with a snowball,
as it starts to grow and as it starts to roll,
it gets bigger and bigger, faster and faster.
So guys, that is it for this video.
That is actually it for this mini-series on
10 Things That All NEW Print On Demand Sellers Need To Know.
I hope these three videos have been super helpful.
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