hey what's up guys hope you're having a
great day today i want to show you how
we can create print on demand back to
school products and sell them via
printful obviously printful integrates
with big marketplaces like amazon seller
central etsy ebay shopify lots of
options lots of places that we can sell
these products by the way i do recommend
if you're gonna take time to um follow
the tutorial that i'm about to show you
and create some really awesome looking
print on demand back to school products
that you do list them in as many
marketplaces as possible i think that's
the best way to get the biggest bang for
your buck as far as like your time
investment but i also wanted to let you
know that as of 2020 apparently back to
school spending per household has risen
to just under 800
789.49 in 2020 and uh the trend is
expected to increase
so there's certainly an opportunity i
mean i hear a number that big i'm like
okay well then i should be selling some
back-to-school products
also printful's doing a promotion where
you get a five dollar coupon just for
pushing a back-to-school product to one
of your stores now as soon as i heard
that i took advantage of it so i think i
got my coupon back in like july or maybe
even earlier but um i can vouch that it
works i applied that five dollar coupon
to an order that i fulfilled and it
reduced the price of that order by five
bucks so it's literally just putting
five bucks in your pocket guys um so
yeah so why don't we get started
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alright so again guys we're going to be
using printful for this tutorial you can
follow along with me if you'd like but
if you haven't signed up please use the
link in the description to do so it's
free
and uh yeah it's great i love printful i
use them to fulfill the vast majority of
my print on demand orders so as i
mentioned in this tutorial we're gonna
do what we're gonna create a back to
school backpack and a back to school
spiral notebook both of them are best
sellers this time of year so we should
be taking advantage of that
so i'm going to show you how to create
this gummy bear backpack now i famously
and when i say famously i'm being
sarcastic but when i went to college
i don't know why i did this actually but
i had like a black backpack that had a
really like shiny golden batman logo on
it and it was really obnoxious it didn't
really make any sense because i'm not
like into comic books or batman or
anything like that i just thought it was
funny it was a good conversation starter
i got a lot of compliments wearing it
around campus and hey who knows right
it's not just uh elementary school
middle school high school but college
students they need backpacks too so
my mind went to selling a funny backpack
so i ended up on the gummy bear pattern
i've actually used this in previous
tutorials but i love this pattern it's
just so bright and vibrant and i love
the design so we're gonna make a gummy
bear themed backpack in printful
uh by the way this pattern
i used vexels to find now you're of
course able to create your own designs
and patterns and whatnot but vexels is
like my go-to if i need a pattern that's
the first place i think to go so i'll
put a link to vexels in the description
if anybody wants to check it out i think
you can get a discounted
account if you use my link so check that
out that'll be in the description but
why don't we go over there to printful
and create this backpack
so here i am at printful uh if you're
going to add this to your store what i
would do is on the left-hand side the
navigation i would click stores and then
if you don't have any integrations done
you can check out my free
print-on-demand tutorial in the
description and it'll walk you through
how to get started with printful get you
familiar with it and walk you through
integrating with etsy by the way and
it's completely free so take advantage
of that the link is in the description
but assuming you have a store integrated
click your store and then click add
product you'll get to this prompt so we
are doing a backpack um you can just
click accessories right here you'll see
the backpack picture and then scroll
down to where you see backpacks by the
way you can see there's lots of options
there's a ton of products you can sell
so you don't have to restrict yourself
to just backpacks but for the sake of
this tutorial we're gonna do a backpack
and a notebook so click backpack
and as you can see here you've got some
options uh look at that one of them is
already out of stock so i guess people
were really taking advantage of the back
to school um the one that i like though
is the all over print backpack for 31.95
so we're to click that one
and now you see your blank canvas and
you can see you can design the front and
pocket the top panel bottom panel and
inside pocket after you upload your
designs
you can kind of position them and you
know have it kind of set up where you
think it looks best also you'll be able
to click mockup view and preview how the
finished product will look so i'm going
to click the design tab then i'm going
to hit choose file
now i've already uploaded
the gummy bear pattern that we're going
to use so i'm going to click that
and you can make this bigger you can
make it smaller you can turn it into a
pattern similar to what you do in
redbubble
there's a lot you can do with it but i'm
just going to leave it as is honestly
because i want to be consistent across
the you know all of the different
various panels of the backpack so i
could go to mock-up view now but instead
i'm going to click top panel and i'm
going to do the same thing i'm going to
choose file
i'm going to click the gummy bear
pattern perfect now i'm going to go to
bottom panel same thing choose file
click the gummy bear pattern and the
last one is uh
inside pocket i'm gonna click that i'm
gonna click choose file
and i'm gonna click the gummy bear
pattern all right boom we've uploaded
the gummy bear pattern to all four
panels now i'm to click mock-up view
this is not required to do but as this
is a tutorial i'm sure everybody wants
to see the progress thus far
so boom
we've got our backpack preview image
right here this will most likely be the
primary image that'll be used as a
mockup when it's published to our store
we can see the back
we can see the sides you can see what it
looks like inside with the laptop by the
way my batman backpack that i
that i used in college it didn't even
fit a laptop
so after the first year after i was a
freshman i got rid of it just because i
needed to bring my laptop around and i
didn't want to like carry a laptop case
i don't know
not a fan of that oh and you can see
it's got a wallet zipper there kind of
hidden in the back so yeah so you got
all the mock-up images done then guys
all you have to do is hit continue um i
actually did this in a sample order
scenario so instead of it asking me for
the title and the price
it just went ahead and brought me to
this screen but if you're pushing to a
store the next screen probably asks you
to set a title and a description and
then after that it sets your price and
then you push it to your store all right
but guys how easy was that to create a
backpack now i would recommend again
pushing your products
to all of your stores
now that means going to your stores tab
and recreating this product and then
pushing it to amazon to etsy to ebay to
shopify to wherever you're integrated so
just a quick reminder there but why
don't we go ahead and move on to the
notebook
so we're going to create this nft
journal now nfts are non-fungible tokens
they're kind of like
unique
digital
uh blockchain based
things i don't know what to say things
because it can be like you can you can
tokenize a digital thing you can
tokenize physical things uh it's
definitely going to be something that is
going to become more and more part of
our lives i actually did a video last
week on my finance channel talking about
microsoft winning a patent to basically
tokenize physical things um so anyways
that's a separate topic for a different
day but we know
young people uh in school that may be
buying this they may know what nft is
and it may be more relevant to them and
they may think this design looks pretty
cool i certainly think it looks pretty
cool so we're gonna make the nft journal
all right and this could just be their
spiral notebook for a class for any of
their classes in school but i think the
cover and the back side looks pretty
cool and you guessed it i grabbed this
from vexels they actually have been
expanding their amazon kdp
promotions um promotional material and
and designs journal designs notebook
designs etc so i went ahead and i
grabbed this from vexels i absolutely
love this design i've got one other cool
one that i'm going to show you before we
wrap the video up but why don't we jump
on over to printful and create this
spiral notebook so here we are again on
the product creation wizard in printful
and what i'm going to do is i'm just
going to click the search bar and i'm
going to type in notebook
and there you go spiral notebook pops
right up i will click that and here you
go it takes us directly to the product
they currently only offer one size
that's five and a half inches by eight
and a half inches
so that'll work the designs that you can
work with they pretty much work for
most sizes of notebooks if you're doing
amazon kdp you need to upload
specifically the correct size but if
you're doing printful it's a little bit
more laid back you can upload your
design i would just recommend in the
highest resolution possible and then you
can kind of rescale it as you see fit so
i'm going to click the design tab i'm
going to click choose file
and i'm going to select the front cover
so
i've uploaded that already
and
i think it looks pretty good i can kind
of move it around if i want to
kind of center the
ethereum logo coin uh so that i think
that looks perfect as is now don't
forget to click the back
button
and then now upload your design to the
back of the journal so i'm gonna go to
choose file
and here is the
back of the journal that i had
previously uploaded perfect now i can
click mockup view and make sure that
this is going to look correct before we
move on
yep okay there's the finished product
preview that's what will get pushed to
our store
we got the front the back
looks perfect to me so i think we just
created a journal about as easily as we
possibly could guys we don't need to
worry about uploading an interior
through printful
we just go ahead upload the front cover
the back cover and whoever buys it is
going to have some lined paper in the
middle that they can use for whatever
they deem necessary here's one other
journal cover that i liked from vexels
there's actually there was like 11 pages
of search results so there's a ton that
you can choose from and again you can
upload these to printful you can upload
them to amazon kdp they actually come
optimized for kdp so anybody that's
selling through kdp maybe consider
checking out vexels i'll of course link
to it in the description but here's just
a really cool sketchbook notebook cover
um i used to draw a lot when i was uh in
school i don't know if i still have it
like in me anymore um
you know i still got it a little bit but
uh definitely better with hand sketching
than i am with uh digital artwork so i
might use a sketchbook like this anyways
just showing you that there's a lot of
different themes that you can take this
it's not just marketing basic journals
to students you know what i mean you can
market it as a sketchbook and you know
the interior doesn't have to change
necessarily so i just wanted to point
that out all right guys just a reminder
too make sure you upload to as many
different marketplaces as possible to
get as much coverage as possible uh i
strongly believe that if you occupy as
much online real estate as possible with
things for sale
it's a reasonable expectation that you
will make more money than if you were to
occupy less online real estate right
internet real estate is cheap we know
physical real estate quite expensive so
take advantage of the online real estate
all right guys before i wrap up just
wanted to remind you again i wrote an
eight day print on demand mini course
that will walk you through getting
started with the printful etsy
integration it's a great place to start
uploading your first uh print on demand
back to school products i also have a
print on demand facebook community which
is a great place to get help completely
free very helpful a large community
everybody's you know doing great with
helping each other out as needed and
getting feedback on their products and
whatnot and last but not least i did
write a full print on demand course
walking you through how i make six
figure print-on-demand sales every
single year so if you guys want to check
that out there's a link in the
description thank you for watching
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