what's up guys this is video number one
of my Fiverr video series where I'm
gonna go through the entire life cycle
of launching a print-on-demand product
but I'm gonna Outsource every aspect of
doing it to various gig workers on
Fiverr who specialize in each aspect of
the process we're starting off with
t-shirt design and we know hey your
designs need to be good enough if you
want to have a realistic expectation of
making sales not everybody's a great
designer I don't consider myself that
strong of a designer so I love that I
can go on over to fiverr.com link in the
description and hire people who
specialize not just in design but in
t-shirt design so I'm going to show you
I hired five workers I spent over a
hundred dollars and I did kind of a
tiered approach where I hired a cheap
designer I hired an expensive designer
and I hired a few in the middle I'm
going to show you all the results
associated with the price tag that I
paid so let's get right to it
questions
so to start us off I had to figure out
like what Niche are we gonna request
that they create a Design Within so I
hired somebody to do Niche research for
ten dollars and a lot of the niches they
came back with were related to Christmas
because I've been preparing for this
video for some time now and uh at the
time it was kind of like during the lead
up to Christmas and I said you know what
I appreciate you doing a good job they
even provided the um URLs to the
listings that they were kind of data
mining to get projections for and that's
great but I didn't want to do Christmas
because I knew this video would be
coming out after Christmas had already
passed so I decided to go ahead with
pickleball because I've been playing
pickleball recently uh with my mom and
just having fun with that nice way of
getting some cardio in and I mean
honestly we're pretty competitive so
it's been a lot of fun so now I have
pickleball as my Niche uh shout out to
the gig worker who came up with you know
10 niches for me that I ended up not
using I'll also link to him in the
description as well in case you want to
Outsource Niche research because I do
think he did a good job uh but now I'm
gonna hire five different designers and
I'm gonna say hey I want to see some
cool pickleball designs
so I hired a five dollar designer and
this image with the like trippy
psychedelic whatever it actually really
intrigued me and I was thinking oh man
he's gonna do a lot of work for five
bucks and then I ended up uh well I
don't want to spoil it for you I'll show
you what happened later uh designer
number two I spent ten dollars on and
you can see this dude's killing it he's
got 4.9 star average review after over
2500 uh orders okay so he's doing really
well uh order number three twenty
dollars and he's got 254 reviews at 4.9
Stars uh order number four I spent
thirty dollars average five star review
looks like he's got some really quality
um previous work from his primary
thumbnail there and gig number five I
spent 45 dollars on and he's a top rated
seller he or she uh average five star
review 272 reviews 14 orders in queue
and uh yeah the reason I share 14 orders
in queues because it did take quite a
while to get the design handed off from
Mr 45 here
um at the Inception of Fiverr I believe
because I used to use this website
literally when I was in college so that
was that was some time ago
um definitely over a decade ago you know
what I mean and I think everything did
used to be five dollars and then at some
point they're like oh we can charge more
than that you know and then they make
more money so I can't fault them for it
obviously but you know it was nice when
everything used to be five dollars
anyways but you know do you get more for
spending more I decided to test that
theory in this video and I'm gonna show
you the results uh before we get there
though I wanted to plug my free print on
demand mini course all I need is your
email address I'll send the full mini
course to you it's very thorough
completely free if you use the link in
the description and I've got a link to
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would like to join it's really great to
be a part of a community with Amazon
merch because they're not very um good
at communicating things to us the
sellers but you can crowdsource and
information from other sellers by being
in a group like this
and the link is in the description
so designer number one even though I
asked for a pickleball design
for five bucks
the dude basically told me hey I'm only
gonna do text only for five bucks and
then also didn't really stick to the
niche either which was a little bit
weird
uh I don't want to say that if you only
are willing to spend five dollars on
Fiverr that you're gonna get you know
basically something you didn't even ask
for and a text only design that takes 10
seconds to make I don't want to say that
just because it happened but in this
case that is what happened so I wouldn't
really recommend designer number one
based on my experience that being said
though I've done previous videos on
Fiverr where I hired people for five
dollars and they did great work okay by
the way I did communicate to these guys
that I run a large YouTube channel in
the print on demand space and I will
feature their work
so you would think that they would maybe
go a little bit above and beyond with
their delivery but you know what hey it
is what it is this is what you get this
is what I got for five dollars um that
being said check out some of my previous
Fiverr videos like I definitely have
seen better work
um at you know basically the floor the
floor price is five bucks on Fiverr
designer number two delivered a really
nice still text based design uh and I
believe he delivered it in two different
formats one was kind of optimized with
the black in the background the other
one was didn't have a background which
is why I had to put that black box
behind it that's the one you see on the
bottom on the left hand side I really
like this design though because it's
it's minimalist it doesn't need to
always be big flashy with huge Graphics
I say all the time honestly that most of
my designs that I sell maybe like half I
don't know if I can say most are just
text not even with a sunset graphic even
though you guys know it's like cheating
for me to include those Sunset graphics
and then just put text above text below
and maybe add a graphic Maybe not maybe
do a silhouette maybe not but you can do
you can do some pretty like easy
streamlined approaches to design and
make sales but also I love a good
simple text-based design like this one a
good use of number one color contrast
number two you know by the way three
three colors in the color scheme it's
not crazy it's got a little orange a
little black and a little white and I
think it looks great
um the the font selection for pickleball
kind of a little bit baseball e of a
font but that's okay I think it looks
great and then the established 1965
which I had no clue I kind of just
figured out about pickleball recently um
but I mean I think this is a great job
I'm not just saying that I really like
this design especially from just like a
minimalist perspective that I think all
of us are probably skilled enough to
execute
designer number three for twenty dollars
uh this is their design it says can I
dink it yes you can so I also kind of
let them you know basically decide like
what pickleball sub Niche they wanted to
do uh because you can kind of tailor
Your Design to a sub Niche that you like
based on what text is included if
there's any text if there's none Etc I
think this Design's okay I mean for 20
bucks like I'm not that pleased with it
just just be honest like I don't have to
you know praise everybody I think
that the the size of the paddles
relative to the size of the ball isn't
that great
um the gradient that they used is you
know it's okay it's not blowing my socks
off
um the font selection is like okay you
know what I mean the varying font sizes
I'm okay with I don't like that the word
yes is that much bigger just because I
don't I don't know I mean I know it's a
reference to a song right can I kick it
yes you can I think it's A Tribe Called
Quest if I recall
um I just don't know if you know what I
mean the the word yes needs to be bigger
than the other text either way all right
we got that for design number three
design number four they actually sent a
sketch this was a 30 designer sent a
sketch for me so it's like hey this is
actually original work
um and some people if this is how they
operate you know I gotta respect that
right uh they sent the sketch I said yes
I love the sketch I love where you're
going with this I love that it's a big
bold design text is easy to read you got
the paddle you got the ball I didn't
tell them to put the paddles of the ball
by the way I left this open-ended okay
and this is what he delivered now it's
it's monotone right it's just a black
design but you can also flip this number
one so you can do a color overlay and
flip the black to white and then you can
sell the white version on a black shirt
black version on a white shirt get two
different versions out of that this is
also going to translate really well into
coffee mugs as well because hey some
people eat breathe and sleep pickleball
literally I saw it on the TV I was at my
parents house for the holidays they had
pickleball on the TV must have been on
ESPN the Ocho I don't know I don't know
what channel had it on it must have been
ESPN the Ocho though for real if that's
even a channel that was like a DodgeBall
movie joke
um anyways pickleball keep calm and play
they got the shield which hopefully is
not an infringement I don't think I
don't think pickleball actually has a
shield the way that you know in the NFL
when you say the shield it's like a uh
when you say the shield it's like saying
the corporation you know don't say
anything bad about the corporation you
know that's the employer but I just I
really like this design the notice the
ball and the paddles I think the the
sizing is a little bit more
um you know the ball is not a giant ball
if you guys have ever played pickleball
it's a like a tennis size ball it's just
made of a different material and it's
got holes in it so the paddles actually
should be bigger but it's okay I mean
they can be about that size uh in the
design and I think it's fine I probably
would have made the ball a little bit
smaller but either way I I like this
design for 30 bucks I think we can get
our money back out of this for sure
um just charging 20 bucks for t-shirts
and making sales over a long enough time
Horizon and finally designer number five
they took their sweet time in delivering
this uh I think it was like over two
weeks
that being said check out this work like
can we just stop and sit back and
appreciate this for a second
um well you know what I just realized
look at the the text where it says
pickleball in the second design it looks
very similar to designer number two you
guys notice that it looks very similar
right here
to
is that the exact same font
no okay it's not the exact same font
either way it's interesting that they
had a similar take on it now notice what
this guy got right for 45 bucks
is the relative sizing of the ball to
the paddle all right and this all
honestly looks like original work this
is definitely beyond my ability to
execute as a designer
um this is just yeah I really like this
the color schemes the orange white black
uh yellow and white on the left side
there
um what is there to say other than man
he did a great job you know and he even
like nailed the little aspects of the
paddle the ball itself the shading you
know that's above and beyond if you ask
me so you get what you pay for in this
case especially when you look at
designer number one for five bucks
designer number five for 45 like would
you guys say that this one is roughly 10
times better than the first I would you
know what I mean the first one wasn't
even in this the right Niche all he had
to do was type pickleball you know
um anyways so I will link to all of
these designers in the description
perhaps maybe you know if you really
like the work of like this guy um
apologies for not like saving his name
here but I will have that linked in the
uh in the gig obviously you know maybe
you can work out like a deal where you
hire him a couple times and get a bundle
you know I think that Fiverr actually
has a like kind of a subscribe and save
option
um in their website now I'm pretty sure
I did see that so perhaps if you're
looking to regularly Outsource regularly
hire
um somebody for designs and you like
what you see that should be considered
um remember 2023 it's your year make it
work for you if you suck at designing
and you don't want to practice getting
better Outsource there's no shame in
that at the end of the day as long as
you are making money that's why we're
all here right we want to scale these
businesses up and having really nice
Graphics which I feel confident in
saying that these are really nice
Graphics these ones behind me here
um that's certainly gonna you know help
you on your way of building a real print
on demand business anyways guys thank
you for watching this video again I'll
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