hey what's up guys hope you're having a
great day today i want to tackle one of
the most commonly googled questions
related to print on demand and that is
is print on demand still profitable now
hopefully for most of the people that
are subscribed to my channel already the
answer to that is
yes and you don't need to watch the rest
of the video but if you do want to watch
the rest of the video i'm going to go
and share with you some of my 2021 to
date statistics
and i'm going to break down why yes i do
believe print on demand is profitable
for the majority of people that do it
and i'll explain why and how we can
increase our profits of course if you
subscribe to my channel you'll also get
a lot more uh daily if not daily content
on how to increase your profits so if
you want to consider doing that that
would be great but why don't we get
started
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all right so is print on demand or pod
for short still profitable
yes i believe it is and one of the first
thing that popped into my mind when i'm
thinking like if i had to you know if
i'm if i'm at a bar and we're having a
casual conversation with a friend or
even a stranger like how do i break this
down and sell them on the idea that yes
print on demand is profitable and it's
something you should consider doing
the first thing that popped into my mind
is that it's almost exclusively profit
how often in life in general like forget
about e-commerce
how often in life do you get
almost exclusively profit now i guess
the short answer to that is well it's
not that uncommon that's basically what
a nine-to-five job is
you trade your time you receive profit
there's almost no downside other than
losing your time
and uh and and losing your soul
depending on how much you hate your job
i know a bad joke bad joke hopefully
nobody hates their job that much or if
you do uh bear with me you know what i
mean like subscribe to the channel let's
see what we can do about it but yeah
it's almost exclusively profit in that
we don't need to keep a credit card on
file like we can i'm going to share with
you some of my favorite print on demand
opportunities if you uh hang with me in
this video
where you don't need to put a credit
card on file
the software applications you can use to
participate are free
and i guess outside of having like an
internet connected device you know like
a laptop or a tablet or even a phone
some people do from their phone uh you
guys know i prefer my desktop computer
with my three monitors and my fourth up
here um but you know like i said each
monitor improves your efficiency so
every time i've added one i've never
regretted it but anyways i digress uh
it's almost exclusively profit guys
that's rare most businesses in general
require some sort of a monetary
investment you can get your
print-on-demand business started today
for zero dollars and i'll share with you
an opportunity where that's completely
true
okay
the second thing
you control the pricing as in you and me
when we are selling things online we get
to decide how much we charge the
customer so i may sell a t-shirt and
make two dollars a sale and be okay with
that you know i mean make two dollars
profit per sale and i may be okay
because i may sell you know higher
volume of t-shirts than you you may say
no i'm not gonna waste my time doing it
if i'm not making at least eight dollars
a sale boom you go and you change your
pricing eight dollars profit per sale
now of course
pricing is going to factor into whether
or not customers will number one maybe
even see our shirts they may go in and
filter price low to high they may see my
lower price shirt and not see your
higher price shirt of course there's you
know there's a
two two sides to every story but
with pricing controls like we get to
decide what it's worth like how much our
time is worth we may say i'm not gonna
do print on demand if i make a dollar
per t-shirt but okay fine up your prices
make five dollars a t-shirt you know my
my favorite um print on demand
opportunity is called merch by amazon
and i like to price my shirts at 19.99
however of course there's a lot more
nuance than that anybody familiar with
merch knows
you know there's a tier system when you
start out you can list 10 t-shirts
if you've been at it for a while and
you've been successful you can list the
highest i've heard of is 200 000 shirts
and that's currently where i am so i'm
willing to
you know target
random niches that may only make one
sale a year but think about it if i
price a shirt at 19.99
and i make one sale a year
and i'll make five dollars 23 cents
royalty per sale
and if all of my 200 000 shirts can make
that one sale a year one sale out of
every 365 days
i'll make a million dollars right so
it's all about you know it's dynamic
there's nuance
uh there's strategy involved it's not as
boring and as cut and dry as you may
think it is also another thing man the
the repetitive processes with running a
print-on-demand business designing
uploading keywords
to me that was like almost therapeutic
you know like i go a million miles an
hour in life i i tend to just whatever i
spend my time doing i try to be good at
right and um you know of course we all
need to relax at some time but i wasn't
good at relaxing my relaxing time uh you
know today i'm a little bit better at it
but
my my relaxation was uploading you know
i put on some netflix or some movie or
tv show and that's stuff that i just
didn't do but when i'm doing something
repetitive like uploading for print on
demand sure so it can be relaxing it can
be enjoyable
and you're building a long-term business
that's going to make you recurring
passive income like
and there's almost no downside as far as
monetary investment you see where i'm
going with this so of course it's
profitable and don't be distracted by
short-term profits this is a long-term
business
you can start today and make your first
sale today how often is that the case
the reach you get with e-commerce it's
not unique just to print on demand but
with e-commerce the reach you get if you
list something for sale on ebay
on etsy on amazon
absolutely massive unfathomable i mean
these numbers are so big that we don't
even understand them like what does a
hundred thousand people look like well i
bet you amazon gets a hundred thousand
unique hits a day on the us market i'll
bet you that i'll bet you to get way
more than that what does a hundred
thousand look like in my head i can't
even envision it but those are all
potential customers
so print on demand and e-commerce in
general is um
unique in that regard the reach is huge
and you can you can make your first sale
when you start today
now let me share with you quickly some
of my favorite print on demand platforms
now this is going to look familiar to
some of my subscribers but if you're new
here please consider subscribing because
we talk a lot more about them in you
know throughout the weeks and whatnot
so my favorite one
is called merch by amazon it's amazon's
print on demand platform so there's lots
of ways to sell on amazon including you
can sell t-shirts through amazon seller
central of course there's a lot more
work involved in doing that if you
get into merch by amazon which is invite
only you have to apply
you can basically list t-shirts very
quickly very easily
again there's no downside you don't ever
have to put a credit card on file you
can choose to if you want to advertise
but if you don't want to advertise it's
pure profit you only get paid out a
royalty when you make a sale and when
you make a sale amazon
creates the product ships it to the
customer handles returns handles
customer service you sit back you don't
do anything after you create that
listing you don't need to do anything
redbubble very similar to what i just
described except for it is a competitor
marketplace to merge by amazon and
what's cool about redbubble is they have
a massive massive library of print on
demand products that are available for
you to
create um or for you to apply your
designs to
you can do things like hats you can do
socks you can do duffel bags jigsaw
puzzles backpacks t-shirts sweatshirts
you name it they've probably got it
and you can start that today so when i
said you can make your first sale today
with little to no downside meaning
redbubble you don't need to pay anything
you just get paid out of royalty
redbubble is the easiest lowest barrier
of entry place to start
so if you don't believe me you want to
try to prove me wrong go to redbubble
and see what happens alright it's going
to be tough to get your first sale in
one day but it is possible
uh and then i couldn't not mention that
you can use printful
and they are a company that has software
integrations with the major e-commerce
platforms like amazon ebay etsy those
are my big three
and with that integration
you're able to create print on demand
products again these are products that
don't exist until after the sale takes
place in printful and then following a
sale they will create it ship it out to
your customer and you pay printful to do
the creating your product and shipping
it
but you price in the cost that you're
gonna have to pay printful
uh you price that in when you create the
product listing
so if you know it's gonna cost printful
or printful is gonna bill us eleven
dollars to create a t-shirt and ship it
well when i list that t-shirt on amazon
i may want to charge 19.99 so what's
1999 minus 11 we've got about nine
dollars
and then amazon's going to take a fee as
well so you need to factor all these
things in but hopefully i'm not scaring
anybody away this is basic math and it
becomes second nature after a while uh
same goes for ebay same goes for etsy
so my 2021 so far just to get you guys a
little bit excited about getting started
with print on demand or continuing if
you're still new all right
and by the way guys like i spend a lot
of time on youtube i run a private
community of students who i teach my
methods of e-commerce to so i'm spread
pretty thin all right so when you see
these numbers this isn't me
the expert doing this full-time this is
me with more or less a pretty passive
streamlined workflow that uses a lot of
automation and just so you guys know
like when you start your business i
don't suggest much automation if any at
all but down the line after a year maybe
a little bit longer
just know that it's there all right and
with automation you're literally
outsourcing to software not even to
people software's a lot more reliable by
the way a lot more consistent just
saying uh and it'll basically do the
work for you so just know that's also a
possibility
merged by amazon though i've already
sold 180 000
in total sales not profit total sales on
merch by amazon in 2021 and we're just
getting into the fourth quarter where
the majority of sales take place well
maybe not majority if it's like nine
months split or what would it be it
would be eight months if it's like first
eight months combined and then the last
four i'll bet you i'll come somewhere
close to even so i'm excited for what is
to come in september october november
december 1 2 3 4. all right did the math
right
uh by the way if you guys want to see my
daily sales and profit i actually do
post those uh in my
i post my monthly sales and profit on
youtube if you want to subscribe check
out my income reports i try to drop it
on the first day of each month or follow
me on instagram well and follow me on
instagram i guess where i try to post to
my instagram story my daily sales which
include my profits so check that out if
you don't follow me already
alright redbubble i've done 583 sales to
date that averages out to more than one
sale a day and again it's not easy to
make your first sale in the first day i
was mentioning that earlier but it is
possible you can also do that on etsy
ebay uh amazon amazon may be harder i
think the catalog may take a second to
index your new product
uh but i think like etsy for instance
when you post a new product to etsy uh
that counts as a renewal and after a
product is renewed uh it typically gets
higher search placement so if you guys
didn't know that it costs like 20 cents
to renew a product you can go and renew
products early as well as part of like a
strategy to increase visibility
uh printful plus amazon integration in
the last seven days i've done 2100 in
sales
not bad right and i also post those to
my instagram every day as well
so printful and etsy integration uh i
helped my girlfriend marielle start her
print on demand etsy shop earlier this
year and it's crazy we're in september
it feels like it was just yesterday that
we started the shop anyways i uh asked
her you know i'm doing this video on is
print on demand still profitable what do
you think and she's like oh man it
definitely is like she's already on the
big upswing she said her
month-over-month sales more than doubled
and you know she has never been a uh i
mean she technically had a merch by
amazon account last year but she wasn't
really using it we got serious about it
this year along with the etsy shop so
this fourth quarter is gonna be more or
less her first fourth quarter and she's
already seeing a big upswing in sales
between merch by amazon and etsy and by
the way guys when i say merch by amazon
and etsy yes i'm talking about if you're
going to make a t-shirt design post it
in both places some people go straight
to etsy to buy things some people go
straight to amazon why not be in both
places more coverage is going to make
you more sales but yes she said
absolutely she encourages uh people to
get started again printful etsy guys
it's pretty straightforward by the way i
have a free
uh eight day mini course that'll walk
you through exactly what you need to
know to get started in the description
um but you know also if you want to
check out her channel she does some
print on demand content i'll link to
marielle's youtube channel as well uh
she does more etsy content than i do
since she's got the etsy shop not me
uh but yeah here we go this is my 8 day
print on demand mini course that i just
alluded to it's in the description it's
completely free i just need your email
address i'll send you one lesson a day
so you don't get overwhelmed i've got a
print on demand facebook community if
you guys want to join it's awesome a lot
of people helping each other out there
getting feedback on you know designs
things like that and last but not least
i wrote a full print on demand course
it's the most thorough print on demand
course out there on the internet and it
walks you through how i make six figure
print on demand sales every single year
if you want to find out more there is a
link in the description of course thank
you guys for watching i hope you have a
great rest of your day please like and
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will see you tomorrow
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