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what's up guys Ryan here so I wanted to
do a video talking about print-on-demand
as a passive income business model and
also talk about how we can sell custom
printed products through printful so
what is print-on-demand print-on-demand
means that we can sell products like
custom t-shirts with designs that maybe
we come up with and not actually own the
finished product we don't actually need
to produce it until after it's sold
that's the on-demand part the print part
is that we put some sort of a design on
it that the customer likes enough to
actually buy from us now part two what
if we just got that order how in the
heck are we gonna go get the raw
materials for the shirt and put our
design on it that sounds like a lot of
work and pretty complex and I'm sure if
you've ever thought about selling your
own apparel you've probably stopped
there because you either had to figure
out how to like buy that machinery and
work it or we can farm the work out to a
third party company like printful that's
much better equipped to handle these
orders for us they have produced
something like actually I think they
tell us it says thirteen point six
million items have been produced and
delivered since 2013 but that numbers
probably out of date they they updated
every now and then but someone who's
already done at 13 million times is
definitely better equipped than we are
they already have the machinery they've
got the expertise they've got the staff
so it makes a lot of sense to farm that
work out to them and what's actually
even more awesome about printful as they
have integrations that allow us to
pretty much automate almost the entire
process after we create products for
sale now the next part of the problem is
oh by the way I should mention before we
even get into it joining printful is
free printful has competitors you've got
plenty of choices for print-on-demand
production partners what sets them apart
well one of the things is that they're
not charging you upfront to use their
service another one is that their UI is
absolutely awesome and gives you as much
control as I've seen using any of their
competitors over your own business
through the UI you don't have to
constantly be in contact with their
support team if you have to like change
an address or something something simple
something that you should have the
ability to do which a lot of
print-on-demand production partners for
some reason do not give you the ability
to do
so anyways purfles free to use and they
have these integrations that allow you
to connect with some of the most popular
e-commerce platforms in the world so
what I just did there is I clicked
stores on the left-hand side and then I
clicked choose platform within choose
platform you can see they have a bunch
of options for integrating with popular
e-commerce sites big ones include like
Etsy they have an Amazon integration
which for some reason there it is
Amazon integration ebay wish I'm using
all the above I'm using it for a custom
Shopify store for my biggest website
that gets like 300,000 hits a month that
I started in college I have a custom
apparel stores associated with that and
I think out of these that is the extent
that I've used printful with relation to
the integrations with e-commerce
websites and platforms but you can get
started on Etsy for free believe it or
not and I have a demo store set up right
here and if you're like a non-technical
person thinking oh well setting that up
must be hard right there has to be some
catch I have a walkthrough published on
my website and I'll show you a second
how in a second how you can get access
to all this information for free walking
you through exactly how to do it but
it's literally I think three clicks you
don't even need to like if you had to
integrate it with Amazon it a little bit
more to it with Etsy I think it's like
three clicks they made it incredibly
simple so definitely don't worry about
that and I already have this is my demo
printful account if you will and I have
it already set up with a demo Etsy
account so real quick I just wanted to
show you how quickly and easily you can
create a product in printful and push it
to Etsy once that sync is established
and then publish it in Etsy so what I
did here is I went to the stores on the
left hand side navigation under products
Inc I'm gonna hit add and you can create
custom t-shirts for as low as 795 and a
cool thing about printful is the more
you sell each month the more of a
discount you get the following month now
there's a minimum threshold that you
have to meet in order to get a discount
but it really incentivizes you to like
focus on growing your print-on-demand
business for one and then for two
I guess that's really it you just really
need to grow your print-on-demand
business but the incentive is really
that number one you want to meet the
minimum threshold and then number two
you want to keep pushing and cuz again
the more you sell the more of a discount
you get the next month so what I just
did again is I went to why went to
stores then I went to add product under
products Inc and it launches the wizard
automatically but you can also just go
and click add product behind there and
if you wanted to sell a custom t-shirt
there is low as 795 but again you can
get that discounted lower if you're
selling high-volume this is a Gildan
shirt I've done a review on YouTube
about the Gildan shirt I'm a big fan
personally it's unisex I've sold over a
thousand of these through my Etsy store
and never literally never had a single
complaint about it being unisex or it
being I don't know uncomfortable or the
fit being off right hand to God never
had a single complaint I've done a video
where like I ordered them in every color
and kind of just modeled them with with
a little like Ryan Hoch comm promotion
on that so you can dig that up on my
youtube channel but this is how easily
you can create a custom t-shirt you
don't even really need to be in
Photoshop printful has a wizard where
you can add text designs extremely
easily oh yeah and you can embroider
t-shirts which is super cool in a great
way of setting yourself apart from the
competition but there's typically an
additional fee one-time fee associated
with embroidering so all you have to do
now that we've selected the product is
go ahead and hit this design tab and you
know we have different colors we can
choose from it's more popular to select
dark-colored shirts also it's easier to
like design for the for dark colored
shirts as opposed to white and then
everything else so I typically will go
with the four dark color click this
design tab and then click add text so we
don't even need to upload our own
designs we can make a design super
simple so I usually say hug dealer play
on words from drug-dealer but usually do
this as my demo design so I'm gonna
change the text color to white and you
can change choose from a bunch of
different fonts that they made available
here so we could use like permanent
marker looks pretty cool make that text
nice and big and bold as you can see
here if we zoom in and turn the grid off
get a nice preview of the
against a model wearing the shirt all
you have to do is hit next or proceed to
mock-ups there wizard will order uh
their mock-up template generator will
generate a bunch of different options
that you can push to your store as the
primary thumbnail I've actually also
done another blog post on my website
about how with Etsy specifically because
with Amazon you have to have the white
background which is why most of these
have the white background but with Etsy
you don't so one advanced strategy with
selling on Etsy is to stand out in the
search results page by coming up with a
custom primary thumbnail because in
search results they're only gonna see
the primary thumbnail so after that you
don't have to worry about customizing
anything else people talk to me about
like place it place dot it and they
asked me if I use it guys there's no
need to pay in my opinion for that not
that there aren't successful stores
using it but like I'm doing just fine
with a very simple like Photoshop
template that I use where I just magic
wand the back the white background off
create a nice custom thumbnail it's
working great for me so typically I use
the flat mock-up because if I am selling
it as a unisex shirt that will be bought
by male and female I don't want to imply
that it's one more one than the other by
selecting a model that's male or female
so I typically do flat mock-ups then you
can click proceed to description and do
all of your text and real quick I just
want to show you how easily because
everybody's selling t-shirts but guys
printful has a wide selection of hats
and they do great embroidery for hats
I've sold I probably sold more t-shirts
than hats at this point but like my
first big success on printful was
selling hats on Etsy well and on Amazon
let me show you my favorite hat so my
favorite hat to sell well actually I
probably have two I love the classic dad
hat you pong right here for 1595
although they did just introduce
recently a new dad hat which previously
the cheapest dad hat was 1595 but this
distressed one is 1495 so it's a nice
lowest price point there
there's also beanies for as low as 1375
and where is the other you pong snapback
this one right here this flat bill you
pong 6007 I've sold so many of these
it's ridiculous they have it looks like
seven colors I typically unchecked
white against because if you're gonna
put like white text then you can pretty
much have white text on any background
color other than white and then again
design just use the text tool if you use
the text tool guys the digitization fee
that one-time digitization fee that I
mentioned for embroidery is reduced from
650 to 395 and again once you've paid
this once with your first sale you don't
have to pay it again so it increases
your profit margin on every sale that
follows so all I'm gonna do is hit add
text I'll say hug dealer so in this case
you are picking from their embroidery
colors so you have a limb or of a
limited selection with what colors you
can choose I'm gonna choose the white
embroidery you can increase the text
size there or I can just dynamically
resize it looks like clicking to
increase the text size for some reason
bugged out the the previewer and reset
the text to black so I won't do it that
way but there we go maximize the design
space looks good it even puts like a
little bit of a textured pattern over
top to preview what it would look like
when it's embroidered and that's pretty
much it so then you sit proceed to
mock-ups choose whichever one you want
to be the default on Etsy also when you
get to Etsy you can rearrange them so
it's not a problem and that's it yeah so
then you think proceed okay this is
where you set up your title your
description if you're pushing to Etsy
set up those thirteen tags this video
wasn't meant to be an Etsy video is
really meant to highlight printful but I
just wanted to show you an example of
how quickly and easily you can get
started today like it's so easy to think
of ten reasons why it's like oh yeah
tomorrow I'll follow along whatever no
you can get started right now time
yourself see if you can get it done in
15 minutes or less I bet you can click
proceed to pricing keep in mind guys
when you look at the profit preview
right here I'm gonna zoom in it says 555
but if you're selling on platforms like
Etsy or Amazon or two of the biggest
most popular ones every sale they're
gonna take a referral fee so you're not
actually gonna get paid 555 you're gonna
probably lose if it's Etsy you're gonna
lose about ten percent
of that well of your entire sale sorry
so if you sell for $25 you're gonna pay
at sea $2.50 ish and if it's on Amazon
it's gonna be around like 15 to 17
percent usually in my experience so just
keep that in mind factor that in this is
basically what it's projecting through
printful so this is just like what
printful saying if you were to sell at
nineteen fifty based on the base cost
that you pay printful to produce it
that's what you'd pay and then also
their shipping on top of that so but by
default if you just set up another
question I get sometimes it's like oh
well what do I do about shipping and
Etsy it'll push your products to Etsy
with base baseline printful shipping
templates just leave those just leave
those no need to complicate it there's
this new thing that he's doing with like
a free shipping guarantee and all that
means is if someone orders $35 or more
from you they get free shipping and your
thing is someone asked me the other day
like well what does that mean within
printful it means nothing within
printful Etsy and printful exists
independently of each other right
purfles just fulfilling your orders but
if someone's ordering $35 worth of stuff
from you for one like print Foles they
do have a flat rate shipping option but
it's better to just use dynamic shipping
because if someone orders two t-shirts
why would you pay flat rate for both
when if it's going to the same
destination you can save money by just
measuring the package weighing the
package with two shirts and then
shipping it and pocketing the difference
if your customer paid flat rate like
your customer can pay flat rate and you
can ship it with dynamic rates I talked
about that in some of my older videos
about like more advanced ecommerce tips
using printful anyways guys you push
this to Etsy it goes live on Etsy you've
now you're now participating in
e-commerce as a passive income stream in
addition to whatever else you do for
money
it's something that you should be
excited about especially heading into q4
I'm recording this video on October 29th
so it's crunch time right now to be
pushing products to your ecommerce
stores I just wanted to show you
something else real quick so that you
have a reason to trust me so here are my
stats as of today for my well my two
biggest stores my two biggest e-commerce
stores so my Etsy shop has done
seventy-five thousand dollars of sales
to date fulfilled by printful without
even looking at profit 75k
my amazon.com account has done 72.5 k
fulfilled through printful and then my
amazon co uk account has done for 4200
basically so in total it's over $150,000
worth of sales through printful if
you're wondering this isn't like a full
time job of mine i worked two jobs in
addition to doing basically everything
else the YouTube channel the printful
Etsy stuff the printful Amazon stuff
whatever else I got going on so like
this is truly passive and it's truly
like something that you can do in your
spare time as a hobby like I'll watch TV
you have a TV right above my computer
monitor I got the TV game you know
baseball game on football game on
basketball game on whatever and I just
make some designs and it's relaxing and
I make a little bit of side money I
would challenge you to get started and
see what you're able to achieve you know
within reason like if you have a little
bit of spare time throw a couple
t-shirts up on an Etsy shop it's free if
you're really serious about it get
started with Amazon as well because
that's where the most customers are and
if you want to make money selling
anything in life follow the customers
right also I promised you that I had a
free tutorial that will walk you through
getting started with printful Etsy
integration step by step and I'm a man
of my word it's available I'll put a
link in the description but all you have
to do is give me your email on your
first name and every day I will deliver
a new lesson to your inbox for the next
eight days walking you through exactly
what you need to do to get an optimized
Etsy shop open again it's free there's
like a 20 cent listing fee per listening
but I mean it's like nothing really
and it's really it and this is basically
if you want it all at once all the
content at once once you're on the
mailing list there will be an option to
just download the full what is it like
something like 50 page ebook all at once
so guys I'm not asking anything in
return it's literally free there's no
reason not to take advantage of it if
you've watched this far in the video go
ahead I'll put the link right there in
the description and I hope you're as
excited about taking advantage of
printful and what it can do for us and
for our e-commerce print-on-demand
passive income businesses in the fourth
quarter when everybody is buying stuff
as gifts
for Christmas and for whatever holiday
that they celebrate so I got a big smile
on my face because I can't wait to see
what happens and by the way stay tuned I
publish passive income reports each
month on my website Ryan ho comm so
again when you sign up for the free mini
course just keep an eye out for actually
you know what you'll be on my email list
so you'll get a you'll get an email from
me once a month just talking about my
numbers from the previous month so that
you can see how long it took me to build
my business up to the levels that it's
at today and hopefully in the future
they'll continue to scale and grow even
bigger but I just want you guys to have
a realistic idea of like what you can
expect with you know I do Amazon FBA
Amazon merge non Amazon merge
print-on-demand which I call dropship
print-on-demand
and some other things so stay tuned for
that stuff guys if you're interested
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