hey what's up guys in today's video we
are taking a look at the top five
best-selling products from printful in
2021. this data is extremely valuable
because regardless of how we're selling
our print on demand products like it
could be on amazon it could be on etsy
could be on ebay you know i love the
major e-commerce websites but we could
even be running our own you know shopify
woocommerce uh whatever you might want
to run your you know if you run your own
independent store whatever backbone you
want to deploy it on
you're going to need to choose
what products to sell your designs on
all right we already knew that but
why guess you know if the customers are
basically volunteering this data to
printful who has to fulfill the orders
and printful is then turning around and
making it available to us
i'd say this is pretty valuable so that
we don't have to guess i hate guessing
you know what i mean the internet and me
as web developer the one thing i learned
really quickly is you can pretty you can
track quite a bit you know you can
collect quite a bit of information and
i think it's pretty favorable to the
people who utilize that information to
make informed decisions so that's the
plan for today's video i'm going to
share the top five bestsellers with you
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all right we're talking about the top
five printful print on demand products
of 2021 uh while i don't know
necessarily who sold what uh when you
look at the aggregate total of all the
orders that came through printful last
year uh these were the top five products
and i'm gonna start by saying that
number five actually surprised me the
most and we're gonna do these in reverse
order so you'll probably be able to
figure out like what the most popular
products are by the time we get to the
end this is the biggest surprise in my
in my eyes actually there's another good
surprise at number one though i'm gonna
i'm gonna save it all right so number
five unisex sweatshirts that was the
fifth best-selling product on printful i
actually would have maybe guessed it
like
i don't know i was thinking somehow that
like hats would have made their way into
the top five but nope i just ruined it
okay now you know hats aren't in the top
five i suck at this game but unisex
sweatshirts fifth best-selling product
on printful in 2021 and the best selling
type of unisex sweatshirt on printful
was the unisex crewneck sweatshirt
gildan 18000 all right and
it's probably because it's got the
lowest price tag so it's got the highest
profit margin actually there's a haynes
one it looks like that has the same
price tag of 1995 but uh less color
choices with only five and it ranges
from small to three xl the gildan 18000
though has um looks like 11 or 12 color
choices and it goes all the way up to
5xl so guys honestly i've been sleeping
on sweatshirts i am guilty of that i'm
putting my hand up and saying hey i'm
going to be better about that in 2022
and if you're thinking ryan why is this
information useful because i know
somebody's thinking that um
you don't need to necessarily feel like
you have to right away start stocking
all of your stores with sweatshirts but
if you at a minimum if you have a
best-selling design
you need to make it available on
sweatshirts because they're the fifth
best seller from what's probably the
biggest print-on-demand production
partner outside of merch by amazon i
mean i'm just guessing here i wish i had
that data that'd be great
but yeah so sweatshirts need to be on
everybody's radar from here on out
number four
is coffee mugs now this is to me pretty
easy to understand i think most people
on a daily basis are consuming either
coffee or tea
in the mornings right i don't know i
could be off base there but i know it's
really popular at least here in america
and what do you drink it out of well
if you're like me i mean honestly i have
a uh a tumbler
that holds probably like 24 ounces and
um i've been drinking a lot of tea
lately myself but um so because if i had
to drink a 24 ounce tumbler of coffee
i'd probably have a heart attack just me
personally so hey
everybody loves coffee out of a nice
white glossy coffee mug that in fact was
the best selling type of coffee mug on
printful in 2021 now if you go off of
printful uh you can typically find you
know places like custom cat for instance
another print on demand production
partner that not only sells the white
mugs but they sell the black mugs um
gear bubble does too
i think guten like a lot of different
ones do so printful for whatever reason
doesn't have a black coffee mug in the
lower price range uh you can get the you
know two-tone coffee mug it looks like
and you can even get the
color changing one behind me but uh yeah
definitely if you're using printful you
want to offer your best-selling designs
on coffee mugs and here's the best part
i know i've said this before i'm going
to say it again though
the
design space
on a t-shirt or on a sweatshirt right we
know t-shirts so well we just saw
sweatshirts sell extremely well at
number five uh it just so happens to
line up almost perfectly with the design
space of a coffee mug right they're
vertical rectangles now you can do like
an all-around print on a coffee mug if
you want to get crazy and but what's
cool is when you're designing coffee
mugs in printful there is a way to just
click duplicate design and that way it
will be on one side of the mug and the
back side so it's it looks like you're
getting like a nice value if you're a
customer instead of getting like a
really ugly you know one-sided design
coffee mug
all right number three
best-selling product in 2021 was
stickers all right and uh you know when
i'm selling stickers i'm mainly moving
them through redbubble but there are
times when again if something's selling
really well
i'm gonna push it to amazon you guys
know i love selling on amazon through
seller central if you follow me on
instagram by the way i'm posting updates
to my instagram story every single day
trying to just show you guys what my
sales look like for well in on on
printful specifically i do it for the
last seven days because i don't think
they do just one day's worth of sales so
i give you my seven day you know
aggregate which um if you didn't if you
didn't see it today i'm doing quite well
averaging 200 a day in sales on amazon
so not too shabby uh but stickers if i
have a best-selling sticker or a
best-selling design
i mean i already you know that's how my
brain works but that's hopefully why you
guys are subscribed to me on youtube is
i already know from from the past you
know from past learning experiences
best-selling design make available on as
many places like e-commerce websites
and products as possible simple logic
right things don't need to be
complicated hopefully it makes sense um
the best-selling sticker is the kiss cut
stickers they come in three by three
inches
and uh five and a half by five and a
half inches on printful i also sell a
ton of stickers through redbubble that
is where i get most of my sticker sales
number two bestseller
and i'm wearing one right now actually
unisex hoodies all right and this one
actually i can't lie it's not from
printful but i do have some from
printful uh the well i'm gonna tell you
what the best selling one is and i'm
going to endorse it because it is
incredibly comfortable but unisex
hoodies coming in at number two and
this is what kind of was crazy to me
it's like i could have guessed unisex
hoodies sold well based on my merch by
amazon data but like i struggle to sell
i can't i can't get number five off my
mind the sweatshirts like i suck at
selling sweatshirts through merch by
amazon and ever since they they did that
switch where it's like you know they
your tier is the number of designs you
can upload and then you have the you can
enable products with the designs i've
been enabling like all the products with
my designs and i'm still not selling
that many sweatshirts so um i'm guessing
the gap between number four and number
five is probably pretty big but anyways
unisex hoodies at number two and the
best-selling hoodie
was the gildan 18 500 all right gildan
18500
very similar to the gildan
18000 that comes in quite a few colors
and size combinations from small to 5xl
uh this is you know extremely popular
and me having only i've owned a few uh
throughout the days like doing sample
orders and whatnot it is extremely
comfortable uh now the most comfortable
hoodie i've probably ever worn is the
one i'm wearing right now from h m and i
went ahead as soon as i found out that
these were as comfortable as they are i
bought every well i can't lie i didn't
buy every color because they have a
bunch of colors that are like almost the
exact same but i own like probably six
of these and i just absolutely love them
and they're just a standard like h m
hoodie um not expensive either but shout
out to the gildan 18500 that is a fan
favorite i sell quite a few of those
myself also guys just a quick reminder
just because you sell something
through merch by amazon because i know a
lot of you guys are on merch by amazon
let's say you have a design and you sell
it on a hoodie through merch by amazon
that doesn't mean you shouldn't be on
seller central selling it on a hoodie as
well i don't know why this happens like
i can't
it's probably just the amazon algorithm
being weird but like
even today right and yesterday i don't
know what it's been a good week it's
been a good week of seller central sales
but i'm making sales
on products that i have selling through
merch by amazon but they're buying it
through me through seller central
and again i can't tell you why but it's
like if i didn't have it through seller
central there's a chance i might not
have captured that sale with my merch by
amazon listing right it's not guaranteed
so occupy more online real estate as i
call it all right
double down
all right number one and you guys
probably guessed it unisex t-shirts are
the best-selling product through
printful in 2021
and uh is anybody gonna be able to guess
which is the best seller here actually
there's little best seller tags what
surprised me was the gildan 64 000
was not the best seller it was actually
the bella canvas 3001 all right and that
kind of had me a little bit surprised
because
generally speaking and i mean i've
looked at my data from the various
places that i make print on demand sales
like etsy amazon amazon merch like those
are my big ones and i'm generally
always selling more black t-shirts than
any other color i mean i guess i also
optimize my designs for black but the
reason i share that is because well the
gildan 64 000 like it has a black color
available and while
right now the gap between the gildan 64
000 and the bella canvas 3001
is uh
three dollars but like it was the gap
has been more significant than that
before we've seen it as high as five
dollars
and so i don't know maybe maybe the
gildan like lost steam as they increased
the price and unfortunately they
increased it again to 9.95 so making it
kind of tough on the uh the sellers
there but
you know the bella canvas 3001 at 12.95
the one quick tip i would say is um just
check your prices
make sure you understand like
your margins um just a quick reminder i
know most you guys do but if you're
selling a shirt at 12.95 the base cost
is 12.95 and maybe you sell it for like
19.99 you know and then whatever
platform is facilitating the the
transaction is gonna normally take a cut
and then there might be like a payment
processor taking a cut and if you run
ads and um just you know double check
your margins make sure you're making
money because you know it's cool to run
an online business and all but like
we're in it for the money right like at
the end of the day so um don't put in
all this work and
come out you know not making any money
right that's really what i want to say
so anyways guys thank you for watching
this video
shout out by the way to wholesale ted on
youtube the biggest print on demand
youtuber uh almost a million subscribers
over there that's where i got this data
so i did want to have to shout that out
printful did not volunteer this
information to me it looks like they
went to wholesale ted and uh gave it to
her so i just watched her video and took
notes and kind of truncated it in my
video so if you guys liked it please
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do have a full print on demand course
walking you through how i make six
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single year you can find out more about
that you guessed it in the description
there's a link but guys thank you for
watching and hey if you have a
bestseller on printful that didn't make
its way onto this list like myself i
love selling hats i know i say that all
the time but
i don't know is it just me that sells
hats i love selling them they didn't
make this list maybe they will in 2022
what product were you surprised that did
not make this list let me know in the
comments below and i'll see you guys at
the next video
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