what's up guys in this video i'm going
to review custom cat they're a print on
demand production partner that needs to
be on your radar
there is one product type specifically
that they really excel
at relative to their competition don't
worry i'm going to explain everything
you need to know in this video
and i'm going to show you if you stay
till the end i'm going to show you
me testing their coffee mugs because
they boasted you can throw them off of a
balcony off of a roof
and they won't break so i went outside
and me and marielle threw
four of them off of the balcony i'm
gonna show you the results also
obviously i'm gonna do some
uh product quality reviews because they
very graciously sent me
some of their products i got a i got a
hat a t-shirt and some coffee mugs to
show you
so stay tuned guys this is gonna be a
good one let's get started
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start talking about custom cat uh they
are
you know i mean if we're just being
honest they're like most of the
print-on-demand production partners that
you've heard of
you know printful printify gear bubble
custom cat etc guten i mean the list
goes on there's a ton
of companies getting into the print on
demand space because there's a lot of
money to be made now
what you're probably watching this video
for is for me to tell you
what sets them apart from their
competitors and
i don't want to bury the lead too long
but let me cover some of the other high
level stuff and then i will tell you
one reason why you really need to be
using them alright so also i just wanted
to let you know on their website you can
find videos
from their factory you can see how their
production runs go
i've checked out a couple of them and
it's good stuff so they this is another
thing that should be on your radar
they've got over
300 uniquely customizable products to
choose from
and i was surprised by that actually
because i was really
looking to them for one product type
specifically that i keep alluding to
and then i went through their catalog
and i was like whoa this thing is i mean
it's huge
their catalog is absolutely massive
don't worry i'm going to preview it for
you
they say 40 000 units produced and
shipped daily i assume that's on average
50 000 plus partners powering their
businesses with custom cat worldwide so
that's a lot of people using them for
either fulfillment or using them
in their integrations for their online
e-commerce print-on-demand businesses
and they've got 20 years in the game
doing print-on-demand fulfillment
i found this on their website after
doing some digging now it never hurts to
include a shipping map so they are
located in michigan i think it was
detroit michigan when i looked
so depending on where you're shipping to
you can
actually behind me i'm blocking it but
you can see the uh color coding of this
map and how many days you can expect it
to take
for ground shipping the red is four days
the orange
the burnt orange is five days and uh i
don't see any burnt orange actually no
it's in oregon
and um indiana up there in the top left
and i think that's it the other
brownish orange is only two days all
right so integrations
this is also something that i'm sure a
lot of you guys are wondering what can
we integrate them with because if you're
like me
you want stuff to be automated and as
passive as possible so we need those
integrations that automatically detect
orders and fulfill them
and upload tracking so that we don't
have to do that right so we can focus on
other things like scaling
and uh currently they have these
integrations they've got shopify
woocommerce
etsy that's a big one i really think
guys if you're not selling on etsy
after this video please go do it i
actually have a really
i mean my most successful video on my
channel i was gonna say a really
successful video but it doesn't sound
right but
literally the biggest video on my
channel is my etsy print on demand
tutorial so check that out i can put it
in the youtube cards right here if you
want to
uh customcad is a great option for um a
production partner that integrates with
etsy the etsy integration by the way
guys it takes like two clicks it's the
easiest one out of all of them
uh bigcommerce they've got an api and
then you can also
create orders via csv upload
all right so like i was just saying and
i'll put a link to that
etsy video but custom cat plus etsy plus
coffee mugs
now maybe alluding to my favorite
product that custom cat can fulfill here
is a thumbs up that is something that
should be on your radar
so let's talk about products now this is
just screenshotted from their website
because it looks cool but i'm actually
going to show you
a glimpse at their catalog of not even
this is probably like half the products
that they sell because i really only
went down the
men's they've got it split by like men's
women's children i just went down the
men's
and uh that's what i'm going to show you
here so these are the top sellers
and you see they've got coffee mugs
they've got t-shirts tank tops
hats blankets etc i'm going to preview
them like i said but i had to put a
little star next to coffee mugs
that is because they thrive at coffee
mugs not only because the quality
is as good as you're gonna find anywhere
and don't worry i'm gonna preview it for
you because like i said they sent me
some mugs for me to review in person
but also the base costs i couldn't find
more competitive
as in lower priced coffee mugs anywhere
else on the internet i mean keep in mind
i was recommending prior to finding out
about custom cat
i was saying you can go pay for gear
bubbles monthly integrations at 97
a month because at least you're saving
on coffee mugs like printful charges i
think
6.95 or 7.95 i think it's 7.95 it's
either 695 or 790
5. for an 11 ounce white mug
printful charges 4.95 for an 11 ounce
white mug
custom cat for reference 3.75 cents for
an 11 ounce white mug so
you can have the most competitive
pricing that you'll find anywhere
by using custom cat for coffee mugs and
like i said i'm going to review the
coffee mugs
for you later and show you that they
don't break when they're shipped now
they've got a wide selection of shirts
including short sleeve long sleeve
raglan v-neck
all over print they've got hoodies both
pullover hoodies and zip hoodies
they've got a pretty wide selection of
polo shirts surprisingly
and jackets and tank tops
and pants i mean look at all the options
here they've got a
baby toddler shirt which i mean if
anybody's selling on etsy i know those
can be popular especially because you
can enable personalization which is
perfect for print on demand
they've got a wide variety of hats i
believe i'm wearing the cp90
knit cat knit cap they've got
bags what is that one two three four
they've got 18 different bags well
yeah maybe that's like 17 bags and then
three laptop sleeves
you actually even a laptop briefcase
that's interesting
they've got jewelry including a dog
pet tag so that's interesting on the in
a bone shape
they've got customizable flip-flops they
have
12 customizable blankets they've got
wall art available they've got
customizable towels
including a microfiber golf towel that
could be interesting
and they've got customizable ornaments
all right let's take a peek at the
quality of some of the products that i
got to review so here is the t-shirt
that i am wearing
this is a next level apparel shirt i do
like it it's nice and fitted
for anybody that's athletic they the
color came out really well and the print
quality
also it's not too zoomed in here but you
can see that in their logo they've got
like kind of a
i don't know i'm just guessing like two
pixel line of you know against the green
they've got white
and against the white they've got green
and it's maybe hard to see in this
picture but
it did print really well and really
crisp and as far as the next level
apparel goes i mean
those shirts sell all day as far as
print on demand goes
and i'm sure i mean personally i like
this shirt
they also sent me a gildan heavy cotton
shirt i'm not as big a fan of the gildan
heavy cotton shirts i've seen them in
the past
and uh just not really i just don't like
the way they fit i don't know they're
just big baggy loose
and heavy honestly oh and they put a
hamburger here
now when i showed it to my girlfriend
marielle she said whoa that thing looks
3d
partially because it's printed really
well but also because like the shirt
being kind of
wrinkled from me having it in my closet
for a while waiting to do
this video because i was waiting for
them to um upgrade their website
partially made it look more real
they also sent me this beanie as you can
see and the embroidery
i don't really know how else to put it
other than that you know you can see
what the design is
it's a nice beanie and as far as
embroidered hats go which i've sold
quite a few of
in my time running a print-on-demand
business online this is as good as
anything i've seen
before now for the fun part coffee mugs
coffee mugs i think they really excel at
and what i
wanted to show you here is how they're
packaged so they come in a cardboard box
the cardboard box ranges in size based
on the size of the mug so 11 ounce mugs
are smaller
you get a different um plastic i don't
know what to call it plastic
like capsule and it's actually two
pieces one goes on the bottom one goes
on the top
and it kind of suspends it it's it's uh
it's not touching the box itself so if
the box drops
the mug itself will not be impacted on
any one side
um with the box so it won't transfer the
direct contact
from the box like falling that's the
reason i share that's because i'm going
to be throwing them off a balcony in a
second
uh and you can see there so it's the box
and then it's the two pieces of plastic
surrounding the mug
the boxes and the plastic are made to
fit the mug itself so it's very exact
which ultimately i think has a lot to do
with why they don't break
so in this first review you can just see
here how they look close up when they
come
out of the box with those two plastic
protecting i don't know what to call
them sleeves or something
you can see here the print quality also
is nice that's a pretty
complex image there of a old-timey
western store
and also the color scheme the gradient
in the sky i mean it all prints very
nicely on this mug
and you can see um from the bottom there
it's the orca coatings
mugs made in china and i've seen those
like you know
when i've ordered gifs in the past prior
to me running my print on demand
business i've looked at some of those
mugs that i had purchased and i'm
it was those mugs so i know that this
mug holds up because i've seen some that
i've purchased myself
as gifts uh hold up over the years um so
i know that's a quality brand as far as
the mug goes
here's another mug this is so this was
an 11 ounce black mug this is a 15 ounce
mug
and you can see it's got a galaxy
pattern on it red blue et cetera
um again print quality is about as good
as i'd expect it to be
here we have a color changing mug so on
the left there you see
that it is hard to really see that
there's even you can kind of tell
there's a design on there but not really
when you pour water in it you see this
behind me here it actually turns white
from black and then you can see the full
color showing through
of the mug and i will also overlay in
post-production a video that i took
of another color changing mug where i
poured the water in and i captured it
changing colors completely so here you
go you can't even tell that mug was
black prior to the hot water being
poured inside
and look at the print quality there as
well of that landscape really nice
they have two tone mugs so here you see
the like lime green and white
and a blue light blue and white mug
so a little preview i threw well
marielle threw both of these
off of the balcony and one of them
i do believe broke alright so here's the
experiment i was alluding to let's have
some fun
okay guys we're gonna run a test
throwing these three mugs
off of the balcony
and i will record from the bottom
perspective but we got the
green and white two-tone mug
and we're gonna throw that inside the
cardboard with it closed
then we're gonna test this uh two-tone
mug right here with the face on it the
crazy face
and we're gonna not band them together
so the pieces may come off and then
we're gonna throw this one right here
where the pieces are gonna be banded
together to make sure that you know we
get the full effect
and we'll see what happens alright so we
are here we are ready
marielle's recording up there i'm
recording down here all right
yeah go for it yeah underhand underhand
that was a good that was a good landing
i don't know we'll see what happens with
that box
that might that might have survived all
right now we actually threw in one more
unannounced
that we're going to throw onto the
hard landing but we're gonna keep it in
the box in the plastic
covering so this one you can overhand
make sure you get it here
don't don't hit me
all right
all right we had a little bit of a break
somewhere
yup that did not survive let's see if
the ones in the grasshead better look
success no damage done
right here no damage done
and without anything holding it together
because it fits
so snugly in there
no damage done three for four
and that's it for this video guys thank
you so much for watching if you've used
custom cat
let me know your thoughts in the comment
section below i'd love to hear from you
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free to ask
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over four years experience i make six
figure plus
print on demand sales every year if
you'd like to learn from me my exact
ways
and this is geared towards beginners but
then it shows you how to scale to
intermediate
and eventually what i would call expert
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