hey guys in this video i want to talk
about five things you need to know
before starting your print on demand
business with my ultimate goal of
helping you be as successful as possible
once you get it off the ground let's get
started
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research tools all sunsets premium
pre-made graphics to help you with your
designs and my favorite red bubble niche
research tool bubble scout you can find
a link at the top of the description so
these are five things you need to know
before starting print on demand and i
know these are common questions because
i actually got the inspiration for most
of them from google which is the result
of people searching them so the first
thing that we're going to talk about is
the legality of print on demand like is
it legal
now generally speaking print on demand
is legal but
if you don't do your due diligence and
make sure that you're not infringing on
someone else's intellectual property you
can find yourself in a lot of trouble
also you can find yourself unable to
sell on the major e-commerce
marketplaces if you have too many uh
strikes against you for repeat
infringement
now the way that i validate if i have
the rights to sell something well number
one if you do original work you're
typically safe however
depending on where you're selling
they may do algorithmic approval and
rejections
of submissions to the platform okay
meaning you don't just get a human that
makes sure that whatever you submitted
is okay or not you get an algorithm
written by a human that's meant to
police the entire marketplace at scale
the reason i mention this is in order to
keep your account safe my best advice is
to at a minimum every time you make a
new design
go to the uspto website the u.s patent
and trademark office uspto
and i'll drop a link in the description
it's
tmsearch.uspto.gov and here you can do a
trademark search so what i like to do is
type in the text associated with my
design
and then when i search it
you have to check two things on this
screen you check the live dead indicator
now if there is an exact match for what
you searched and you see live under the
live dead column
then you see a reg number for a
registration number so it has to say
live and it has to have a registration
number and it needs to be an exact match
well in that case
you would need to do further due
diligence to see if it is an exact match
with what you're selling in which case
you're probably much better off not
selling it you know just scrap that
design and move on to the next one also
you typically want to do this before you
do any designing that way you don't
spend time designing something that you
don't have the rights to sell
the second thing you need to know is is
print on demand free
now generally speaking it is and that's
pretty incredible because there aren't
too many things left in this life that
are free but print on demand is a way to
make money without spending money
believe it or not now the top two
opportunities to do just that
in my book are merch by amazon
and redbubble now redbubble you can go
sign up right now i'll drop a link to
everything in the description too so you
can kind of follow along uh redbubble
you can pretty much sign up right now
and start selling right now and make
your first sale today i know it's crazy
also they've got a huge catalog of
products that you can sell your designs
on
merch by amazon has been expanding their
catalog as of recording this i believe
it's 14 products that you can sell on
however their program is invite only and
you actually have to request an
invitation so i suggest everybody
watching that's not in there use the
link in the description and request an
invitation uh right now okay and if
you're approved you can sell prime
eligible print on demand products on the
world's number one e-commerce
marketplace as well as
six or seven international marketplaces
as well so you're getting global
coverage and guys when you make a sale
oh wait i should just reiterate you
don't even need to put a credit card on
file to start so it's truly free when
you make a sale they'll create the
product ship it out to your customer
they do customer service and you just
get paid a royalty how cool is that
that's why it's scalable and it's
passive
there's also other opportunities that
are kind of free it's a little bit of a
blurred line because you can sell on
amazon seller central ebay etsy shopify
you can do all of those things
and
you can
integrate using software to a company
like printful which is my company of
choice where there's a software
integration so i can list a t-shirt on
well let's say i design a t-shirt i can
list it on amazon ebay and etsy on all
three marketplaces now let's just say i
get one sale on each marketplace
well printful software will
automatically detect the sale they will
create the product they'll ship it out
to the customer the only difference is
we need to do customer service whereas
on the previous slide merch by amazon
and redbubble they even take care of
that and they just pay us a royalty with
seller central ebay and etsy
uh we have to pay printful to produce
and ship the product but when we price
our products for sale on those
marketplaces we factor in that we're
gonna have to pay printful a flat rate
for the product cost and shipping so we
already know if we're gonna have to pay
printful 12 for a t-shirt well we should
probably mark that t-shirt up to at
least 19.99 when we're selling it on
ebay etsy and amazon
so here's the thing it's free as long as
you protect yourself and price your
products appropriately so you don't lose
money so printful has this thing called
printful wallet and what i like to do on
printful wallet
is i have it bill me
in increments of a hundred dollars at a
time this way it doesn't just constantly
hit my credit card which will result in
my credit card thinking that i'm getting
scammed or something but this is a good
problem to have this means that you're
making regular sales um i definitely
bill printful uh printful bills me a
couple hundred bucks a day because i
make a decent number of sales every day
you know knock on wood hopefully that uh
can continue into the future right
all right number three can you still
make money with print on demand
my answer is yes speaking to my personal
experience uh and by the way if you
follow me on instagram reinhard official
and i always link that in the
description i try to post my daily sales
updates so you can keep up with how my
ecommerce business is going and then if
you want to subscribe to my channel i'll
also do my best to give you tips and
best practices and whatnot
but as you can see here my merch by
amazon account i am just under 30 000
sales lifetime and
the the curve i don't want to say it's
an exponential curve but
because it's so passive and so scalable
i'm seeing an increase in
average sales each day or let's just say
weekly or monthly as time progresses so
as of right now i've done almost 30 000
sales lifetime
and i've made over a hundred thousand
dollars in royalties that's pure profit
in my pocket in my bank account from
just merch by amazon now i can take
those same designs upload them to places
like redbubble that i mentioned also is
a free opportunity to do print on demand
i've got over 600 sales on redbubble
just this year so far and we're not even
i mean we are technically in the fourth
quarter now but we're not in the heat of
the fourth quarter
uh in the last seven days using the
printful amazon integration i've done
over three thousand dollars in sales
this is what i was talking about i list
on amazon seller central when i get an
order printful software automatically
detects it they create the pro the right
product they ship it out to the customer
they upload the tracking information to
my seller central account so the
customer gets the shipping notice i
don't have to do anything outside of
creating that product i don't have to do
anything manual other than customer
service on occasion um so yeah guys take
advantage of that as well i'll put a
link to printful so you can get started
today
very easy to use by the way um i even my
girlfriend she's on printful uh i don't
personally sell on etsy right now but
she's got an etsy shop and she's
crushing it she's seeing almost daily
sales and uh she's seen and a uh
doubling of sales since the fourth
quarter began and she's also on youtube
and she talks about etsy on her youtube
channel which i can drop a link to in
the description in case you guys want to
learn more about how to get started
selling on etsy
uh number four which print on demand
platform is best and it's funny that
this is a question that i wouldn't have
thought to answer if i didn't see people
asking it
on google so in my personal opinion you
want to prioritize merch by amazon it's
not just because it's free
but it's because well for a reason i
mentioned earlier you get to sell prime
eligible
print-on-demand products
on the world's largest ecommerce
marketplace i mean what's not to love
there guys the upside is absolutely
massive now my personal best day i've
made 700 profit in a single day
primarily from a single trending t-shirt
ultimately that t-shirt over the span of
like two weeks made me over four
thousand dollars profit now i know
people who have
done way better than that right so i'm
just speaking to my personal experience
um and that's not bad at all right i
mean would you like four grand for again
not even doing any work again once
you've created the product and uploaded
the listing
you can kind of sit back and relax um
and i have nothing to sell you this
that's literally how it works it seems
too good to be true
um also in addition to merch by amazon
guys keep in mind the designs that you
create
so that you can sell on products for
merch by amazon you can then you've
already done the hard work you've made
the designs
upload them to amazon seller central
upload them to redbubble to ebay to etsy
to shopify to walmart you know what i
mean there's so much opportunity
and you'd be a fool in my mind not to
cover as much online real estate as
possible because i believe the more
online real estate you occupy with
products for sale the more money you can
reasonably expect to make
oh in addition to that you've even got
more i call these more like tier three
marketplaces and i typically use upload
automation to push products here yes you
can automate the upload process you
heard that correctly
all right number five
any best practices left and here is just
where my mind went wherever it went and
i said you know what before i wrap this
video i want to make sure i touch on
this so design
you have to make sure your designs are
good enough yes you can get away with
selling some crappy designs but you're
gonna make way more sales if your
designs are what i call good enough okay
think of simple
um simple concepts like check out this
row number one at the top and row number
one two at the bottom we have two
different uh breast cancer awareness
shirts
however i'll bet you anything you can
guess
which two shirts on the same row sell
better all right you know the ones at
the bottom sell better those designs
have better contrast
the font selections they're easier to
read the designs and the text are big
and bold and
just they make you stop and and do a
double take you're like oh those designs
are really good whereas the ones up top
i'm not trying to be a hater on people's
hard work but they're just a little bit
harder to read i mean if you can't read
the design really quickly and easily
then the customer is probably gonna
scroll right past it if we're being
realistic okay
pricing this is something that i think
we may over analyze at times when it
comes to pricing if you're trying to get
immediate sales
you can price at the floor the minimum
price for you to build profit because
pretty much any e-commerce marketplace
that you sell on is going to
favor listings with high sales velocity
because that means that you know
customers are speaking they're voting
with their dollars and when you make a
sale whether it's because you have the
best design or the cheapest design
a sale is a sale so you're going to help
increase your organic rank which should
increase your organic exposure
on most ecommerce marketplaces but that
being said you don't always need to be
the cheapest to succeed anything under
20
in my mind people will buy so i've gone
and made a habit of increasing my
pricing
to 1999 generally speaking i don't know
that i sell print on man products under
1999 other than stickers on redbubble
when it comes to stickers um i still
make over a 200 percent profit margin
but
the end end pricing tends to be between
depending on what size they they pick
like between five dollars and like maybe
twelve dollars
uh and the last thing i wanted to share
is perspective okay when it comes to
evaluating the success of your
print-on-demand business guys this is
probably the most important thing so if
you're still with me do me a quick favor
and drop a like on the video for the
youtube algorithm because this is
extremely important
most people want to get rich quick and
there's nothing wrong with that of
course we want to get rich quick but if
you can maintain the right perspective
and remember that the sales cycle for
print on demand and anything else is 365
days
then you will not quit when you have a
slow day or a slow week or a slow month
so keep the right perspective remember
that you're gonna make more sales in the
fourth quarter than you are in the
middle of the year or the beginning of
the year so if you quit before the
fourth quarter you'll never know what
your actual like average dollar per day
intake was i always think in in terms of
dollars per day um especially after i
have a whole year's worth of data and i
can divide by 365 and then see how much
money i was actually making in a day and
remember this is passable and scalable
so we're going to see this increase over
time
and guys the last thing that i wanted to
mention is you got to just take action
uh print on demand to me
i really loved it because it didn't take
too much like mental engagement i could
kind of go on autopilot when i was first
starting off and moving slow and
learning the ropes i would put on
netflix and i would just relax create
some designs upload them and over time
like i said dollars per day i was making
money i was making more money
week over week or month over month than
i was in the previous month and i knew
that one day i'd hit that six figure
profit mark on merch by amazon and sure
enough here i am guys and one day i'll
hit that seven figure profit mark so
take this journey with me if you'd like
um there's really no downside
uh and guys thank you for watching this
video before i leave just wanted to
remind you i have an eight day print on
demand mini course you can take
advantage of completely free it'll walk
you through through the printful etsy
integration how to get your etsy shop
opened up and use printful to fulfill
your products so that you can scale it
and automate it uh the link is in the
description all i need is your email
address also i've got a great print on
demand facebook community if you guys
would like to join i'd love to have you
link in the description last but not
least i have a full print on demand
course walking you through how i make
six figure print on demand sales every
single year it's literally everything
that you need to know it's step-by-step
information and i'm constantly adding to
it so you can find a link in the
description thank you guys for watching
please like and subscribe if you haven't
already and i'll see you soon
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