hey guys thanks for joining me for a new
video today i wanted to talk about
something that comes up a lot when i'm
doing consultations and it is really
about assigning a priority
to various print-on-demand platforms and
the opportunity like we're going to base
it on the opportunity that they present
to us as sellers because ultimately
we're doing this most likely to build
up recurring passive income
and not all of these opportunities are
created equal
now you guys probably already know like
what represents a good opportunity well
it's typically
how many customers we can get in front
of right because we don't make money
unless somebody buys our products so
what do we say like keep it simple right
follow the customers where the customers
shopping um that being said you probably
can guess what my number one opportunity
is but in this video like i want to
weigh these options against each other
and almost like assign them tears
and this way since i know not everybody
has all day to work on things like when
you do have time set aside to grow your
business
you can invest your time accordingly
according to the opportunity that each
of these opportunities holds okay so
that's what we're gonna examine in this
video let's get started
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all right so what should we
prioritize when it comes to all these
great print-on-demand opportunities out
there uh this is not a simple question
to answer but i'm going to attempt to do
that and i'll talk you through my
decisions as we go and of course i just
did it in list form everybody loves
lists so let's start at the top
i think merch by amazon needs to be the
top consideration i think even for
people that don't know what print on
demand is like people that have no clue
they should be on merch by amazon why
wouldn't you be
like i always i have this saying in my
mind that just says like make it work
for you so if it's like somebody that
sits at a computer for 30 minutes a day
and just checks their email well how
about check your email for 20 minutes a
day spend 10 minutes on merch by amazon
everybody watching this video that's
successful on merch knows that this has
the potential to grow and scale into
substantial income okay most you guys
watching know this even if you're not
there yet you know it's possible because
you've seen people that have been there
like have gotten there and you know that
the only thing that stands between you
where you're at and where you could be
in the future if you've already seen
someone else achieve it you know it's
possible is time
right if you determine that you're going
to put in the effort so merged by
amazon's a no-brainer you get to sell
print on demand products
on the world's largest ecommerce
platform that are prime eligible okay
and
you don't need to put a credit card on
file zero dollars right it's completely
free money you get paid royalties yes
it's amazon's sandbox so we have to play
by their rules
but guys um i just think this is an
unparalleled opportunity uh so many
people have achieved like big success
and made life-changing money from it and
it's only just getting started i mean
really remember how we did a video
earlier this year where i read a job
description
from
a uh what was the i don't remember what
the job was but it was from merch by
amazon it was a job description they
were hiring to the merch by amazon team
one of the last things they said in the
job description was we're just getting
started and i put a big emphasis on that
because that's a sign to us sellers you
know the community that this isn't going
away so keep a nice long-term
perspective
and uh just don't quit you know what i
mean don't quit even if you have to step
away for a month or two or however long
remember that it's there come back every
now and then check in um those listings
that you did before hey they're still up
on amazon hopefully making you some
sales and some money
so uh in this video i'm also going to
try to give you like an idea of how much
traffic these websites get so that we
can kind of compare them to each other
because traffic represents potential
customers and that represents
opportunity to make sales and make money
which is why we're all doing this most
likely right
so amazon.com gets massive massive
massive traffic
what is this um simply web i believe is
this website simply web they do
estimates of traffic and they estimate
that
in the last six months on desktop mobile
uh and tablet in the last six months
they're estimating two point
basically 2.5 billion
visits to the website so
unparalleled and they're estimating
almost nine pages viewed per visit uh
that is absurd um so yeah and then
bounce rate thirty six percent which
actually for bounce rate in my
experience isn't even that high um so
you would deduct maybe the 36 percent
from the 2.5 billion but either way
that's just that's just how it goes on
the web so amazon guys massive uh
opportunity
number two
and i'm gonna circle back around to
everything at the end of this because
there are different ways to approach
print on demand and e-commerce in
general and i will factor that in when i
get to the end of this list but
opportunity number two
in my book based on my personal
experience and what i've seen other
people able to achieve is etsy now i'm
not just gonna read you a list of all
these platforms in order of their
website traffic so etsy
gets about 400 million visits in the or
got about 400 million visits in the last
six months okay now that's a lot of
visits obviously amazon crushed it but
etsy is still just a great opportunity
to sell anything that fits the etsy
policies all right my first etsy account
ever got
banned because i listed something that
was completely fine and it was handmade
but they just didn't think it fit the
catalog so they didn't even let me just
delete the listing because it wasn't
anything vulgar either and they are
there are vulgar things on etsy and mine
was not anywhere close to the actual
vulgar things that i've seen sold on
etsy but anyways that's one thing that
etsy does is they ban accounts and even
though they they're one of their slogans
is keeping commerce human they will
never let you talk to a human it's
literally all automated and if you try
really hard the best you'll do is you'll
get somebody named alex at etsy legal to
send you a copy paste response telling
you that they won't unban your account
so there's always that um that i hate
about etsy that they will terminate
sellers opportunity to sell on the
platform for literally no reason but it
is what it is there's still a great
opportunity to sell there
marielle my girlfriend she loves etsy uh
she did a great etsy series on her
youtube channel by the way that i can
link to in the description in case you
want to check that out showing you how
she's been growing her etsy account she
made four sales just today i'm not
making that up i was talking to her
about um we're working on some like
christmas templates for some specific
niches and uh we're collaborating on
them and she was like yeah i already
made four sales today it's like damn all
right well you're doing really well on
etsy congrats and she's loving it so
etsy guys don't sleep on etsy
the cool thing about etsy is that while
there is a lot of things that kind of
there's a initial learning curve it's
not like merch by amazon where when you
just start they don't throw too much at
you right it's a very kind of slow and
easy to learn i would say merch by
amazon etsy there's a lot of moving
pieces initially but when you get over
that hump etsy becomes very like cut and
dry simple workflows you just go you do
them to post new products you know you
have some customer service that comes
with the territory
and uh you build your etsy business up
over time
so don't sleep on etsy i think it
represents great opportunity uh i had
done i think like 70 000 or 80 000 in
sales
prior to my second shop getting closed
unfortunately but what are you gonna do
um i still help marielle with her shop
every now and then but like she's she's
doing really well and she hasn't even
been on etsy for a year
so etsy again 400 million uh in traffic
in the last six months so don't sleep on
etsy it's also it got included in the s
p 500 so their stock is just absolutely
crushing even though i think it's kind
of a crappy company
as a marketplace great for sellers
number three i'm gonna say amazon.com
and this is referring to opportunities
to sell print on demand on amazon
outside of amazon merch because there
are other opportunities like amazon kdp
there's
amazon ignite there's seller central
where you can just integrate with
printful or gearbubble and list products
throughout the day which is literally
what i do after i
uh finish recording this video i'm going
to push two more products to my seller
central account and what's cool is they
will live there forever until i close my
seller central account which i don't
intend on doing uh at this point i've
just got you know i don't even want to
tell you guys how many products i've got
tens of thousands of products because
i've been doing this since 2017 and back
in 2017 when i wasn't making sales i had
the foresight that over time those
numbers will continue to grow and guess
what happened
i didn't quit and those numbers have
continued to grow it's such a simple
formula you just gotta execute right so
amazon.com great opportunity to make
print on demand sales and i'm not gonna
show you the traffic because we already
looked at amazon's traffic 2.5 billion
estimated visits in the last six months
all right number four is gonna be ebay
now
it's funny i i did a uh
i took a call with another youtuber like
two days ago they're helping me kind of
level up my recording setup um i love my
my mic here i spent like 600 bucks on a
mic is awesome but i want to level up my
you know cameras next or something like
that you know maybe set up like a studio
one day
uh because i do like recording these
videos so
you know always thinking about leveling
up anyways me and him were laughing
because like he's an ebay seller or he's
an ebay buyer like we both sell on
amazon but he's an ebay buyer and i'm an
ebay buyer and what attracts a lot of
people to ebay is
i think generally speaking competitive
pricing
like we can save money typically on ebay
now that's counterintuitive to a lot of
people because it's not like
everything's guaranteed cheaper on ebay
but anyways i'm getting off topic uh
don't sleep on ebay as a buyer or a
seller okay this year i
publicly because i do my monthly income
reports i started taking ebay seriously
i wasn't regularly posting a lot of
things to ebay for a long time this year
i said you know what that's going to
change i really like this idea for
selling on ebay and i've got some
validation because i'm making sales in
this niche on merch by amazon right so
i'm going to take what's already working
and just
apply it somewhere else we already know
occupy more online real estate make more
money simple concept so posted it to
ebay all of a sudden within like two
months i was making 800 profit on ebay
in a month
that i wouldn't have had otherwise and i
like making money so i'm like okay that
was a good idea i've got 800 that i
wouldn't have had so guys don't sleep on
ebay also it gets a lot of traffic it's
actually doing better than etsy here
almost double what etsy had
estimated uh 783 million total visits in
the last six months
also guys with ebay like it's kind of
like merch by amazon it's not an
official tier system but as you sell
more they will raise your limits and
your ability to sell additional products
so
it's better to start now and slowly
grind up i've had my ebay account for
like 15 plus years for a long time
um so i have really high seller limits
well i guess that's you know relative
but there's people with higher limits
than me for sure but yeah so don't sleep
on ebay so you can list more you got to
sell some to to get higher limits
number five on this list is redbubble
now short and sweet guys redbubble i
think is declining as a marketplace
i look at a lot of other print-on-demand
sellers on redbubble and it seems like
generally speaking sales are declining
across the board now that could be due
to less customer shopping on redbubble
it could be to
the marketplace just getting diluted
with more sellers because redbubble has
the lowest barrier of entry i repeat the
lowest barrier of entry guys if it's
easy to jump on create a redbubble
account and start selling
then you're gonna get more competition
it's just it's just the reality of it
now should you skip over redbubble i
don't think so because it is so easy to
list on redbubble ever since they
implemented the clone function where you
set up one really optimize well
optimized listing
and then you design at the same
dimensions which is why i always design
at the merch by amazon 4500 by 5400
there's a couple reasons there number
one that i prioritize merch by amazon as
i shared in this video but number two
that if you
standardize your approach then when you
upload to places like redbubble and use
the clone function it works so much
better because you've already got that
listing optimized for those dimensions
perfect if you don't know what i'm
talking about guys
uh when you go to your like listings in
redbubble right click the gear go to
clone
also of course i have more videos i have
a course um
there's so many ways to like learn about
how to
optimally
sell on redbubble
also keyword strategy and titles i think
really matter on redbubble but this
isn't going to be a redbubble seo video
so redbubble gets number five
traffic
in the last six months estimated to be
about 30 million visits
also it says trending down by about 3.3
percent so that is not ideal to be
trending down obviously
all right and ranked number six on this
list i'm just basically calling this
everything else okay there's lots of
other um lower in my mind if there's
like a tier system like a hierarchy
i would assign these much lower priority
uh also again like
this is kind of the tier where i think
this whole tier is really skippable like
you can skip this tier
unless here's the thing because i i
don't think remember remember guys our
time is money we can spend our time
pushing
creating new designs we can spend our
time uploading those new designs to the
higher higher opportunity platforms or
we can spend that time uploading to
these low low opportunity platforms like
what do you think is the best use of our
time i don't think we can justify
uploading to these platforms i mean
granted you can kind of ignore like the
production partners like printful
prinify guten like you can get kind of
ignore those because those integrate
with other places so i'm not saying
don't push to you know those production
partners
but i'm talking about like t public
zazzle spreadshirt you can make sales
here and make extra money but i
recommend only doing it
if you're using automation if you use
automation upload to those places all
day
right because you click like two buttons
and then you say go
and it runs in the background and it
does everything for you okay
uh it is it is a level playing field i
remember when i first heard of
automation i was thinking this isn't
fair i've been uploading manually well
guess what
after i heard about it
you guys already know what i'm about to
say oh this exists oh there's a steep
learning curve but if i learn it
i can do it every day and save myself
hours from uploading what do you think i
did of course i just did it like that's
that that's life though you literally
just find out about something oh this
makes sense okay perfect i'm gonna make
it work for me as opposed to
let like get crushed by the competition
that uses it while i don't use it now
that being said guys
you don't need to use automation if it's
not like
gonna work for you like make it work for
you i'm a tech nerd i sit at a computer
all day i grinded through learning it
and kind of optimizing my approach for
it including making like templated uh
workbooks and all that great stuff so
for me it works great i run my uploader
every single day first thing in the
morning and if you're thinking oh man i
don't have time to learn just throwing
it out there the bonus section of all of
my print on demand related courses is my
step-by-step exact tutorial including my
exact templates for automation and you
get all that just by enrolling in the
course in addition to whatever else the
course is actually about because this is
included in my merch by amazon course
and my
full you know dropship print-on-demand
course so pretty good deal i mean the
automation alone guys
all right last one seventh shopify
here's the thing
the reason i put this last guys is
because remember how after i was showing
you the platforms i was showing you the
estimated uh traffic to those websites
and i said that traffic is
representative of opportunity because in
order to make a sale someone has to
actually see our product
right they can't buy it if they don't
know it exists well again we're just
using simple logic throughout this whole
video hopefully it resonates with you
guys hit that like button if it does and
let me know in the comments below if you
have any feedback but guys starting
shopify stores is awesome right i was a
web developer professionally for eight
years i love starting websites like it's
not that it isn't fun and a great
potentially good opportunity but
if you start your own website i can't
fathom doing something and not doing it
to the best of my ability so i'm gonna
go down some crazy rabbit hole on
shopify if i go this route where i'm
gonna have to make the website
aesthetically look really great it's
gonna have to load fast because the slow
loading website doesn't work you're
gonna have to run ads because it's
really hard to rank in google generally
speaking but especially nowadays where
they're intentionally centralizing the
internet um you know for various reasons
um use your imagination
not a good thing and it's just gonna get
harder and harder and harder and harder
to participate in commerce if you're not
willing to play with the big boys to
sell on amazon where they're going to
take 15 to 17 percent of your of your
sale price to sell on ebay to sell on
etsy you know where these behemoth
corporations make money off of us
unfortunately it just is what it is guys
shopify also takes their you know small
cut it's not really shopify that takes
this the payment processing but you
can't really escape it guys like it just
is what it is so shopify can hold
massive upside
if you're willing to put in all of the
work which i think could spend like a
year trying to optimize your shopify
store you need to capture email
addresses automate your email campaigns
really publish like great products that
you probably can't just use standard
mock-ups for you probably need to like
order them in real life and do photo
shoots like there's just so much you
need to do you need to have like upsells
increase your average order um costs all
that great stuff guys like you can't cut
corners and expect to succeed um and i
mean the biggest part honestly is just
driving traffic it's impossible i don't
think it's impossible very hard to do
organically from somebody that like has
done it very successfully um because
i've you know started some websites in
the past and benefited from the age of
the domains but also the content that i
grinded out in the past
um but it's very hard to do
probably gonna have to run ads and when
you're running ads that opens a whole
nother like running ads and being good
at it is like a career it's like a
profession in itself that you're gonna
have to go become an expert at so i'm
not trying to talk you out of doing it
but like
time is money are you gonna make more
money doing this or
selling on merch by amazon
and then on etsy right so be realistic
guys um thank you for watching this
video till the end i really do
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