In this video I'm going to try and answer google's top questions for print on demand. Let's go!!
Thanks for joining me on this video. My name is Juna with Detour Shirts. I've been designing and
selling t-shirts online with print on demand since 2005 and so I thought it would be cool
to answer some print on demand questions and not just any print on demand questions the print on
demand questions that google has so if you ever went to google and typed in a phrase or something
there's going to be some questions there i'm going to do the same thing with print on demand i'm just
going to type in the search print on demand and i'm going to show you all the questions that pop
up in google and i'm going to attempt to answer a bunch of them i probably five six something like
that i don't know how long this video is going to be but i'm going to do my best to answer all
of them in order as much as i know so let's go to google right now and i'll show you what i mean so
here i am on google right there it comes up when you have the chrome browser it's the first thing
so i'm just going to do print on demand you can see i searched for it before
and just do that and hit enter and you'll notice there's a bunch of things that come up but have
you have this down here people also ask or if you click on this right here you'll also see people
also ask so there's a bunch of things here so let's just go down these there's four right here
so the first one is which site is the best for print on demand let's see what google says google
has this article eight best print on demand sites to sell your designs one is printful two shopify
three redbubble four spread shirt five t public six zazzle seven cafe press and eight society six
so i don't know who wrote that article that google is going to but my experience has been different
first of all shopify and printful um they're kind of print-on-demand sites i mean printful you can
sell print-on-demand stuff but you'll have to do it through another party site like shop shopify so
i have a shopify store which i use printful for so i wouldn't put those two on kind of the same list
they're kind of working together so my vote for the best print on demand shop you might have
seen my video here i have 10 different print on demand shops that i go through and my favorite by
far which i think does the best for me now i can't say this for everybody but for me merch by amazon
is by far the best if you haven't seen that video again go watch that video i'll break it down on
why i think it's the best in all of that so uh i wouldn't put it in that order that that person put
it in i would put it in a different order and i would take printful and shopify off of that
because yes shopify and printful together could make you a lot of sales if you know how to drive
traffic to your shopify site but it doesn't have any organic traffic and of course you could sell
bigger high profit ticket items on your shopify store with printful or with some other print
on demand sites so i think that's why they say it makes the most profit per item but
just with the organic traffic and all of that from amazon for me merch by amazon is the best
print on demand site so that's how i would answer that google question all right back
on google let's see what google question number two is people also ask let's go down here can you
make money with print on demand let's see what google says first you probably know my answer
google says they found this article the amount of money you can make with print on demand
is highly based on what kind of products you sell your target audience and how well
you reach them through marketing if you make one sale per day you may profit around five to eight
dollars per day assuming the customer buys a single shirt yeah so i mostly agree with
that answer i believe you can make between five and eight dollars a day i think most people on
merch by amazon probably make about four or five dollars per shirt some actually do a lot lower
i know on t public you only get like four dollars a t-shirt unless it's on sale then you only get
two dollars a t-shirt there are some other high profit items so really on merch by amazon and a
lot of these print-on-demand places it's all about quantity and quality right you want to make it
sure that you have the right quality something that people actually want to buy you can't just
put up anything and expect people to buy stuff you really got to know what people want to buy
and make sure that it's something you know that people actually want to wear if it's a t-shirt or
or use if it's a sticker or things like that you have to do your research and make sure that you're
designing something good and then you also want to do lots of quantity so you don't want to just
put up 100 t-shirts you want to put up thousands and thousands of t-shirts just to give yourself a
better chance and the marketing part yes it is important but hopefully you're on a place like
merch by amazon or redbubble or t public that have a lot of organic traffic of course if you
can push more traffic towards your shops you have a better chance of getting a sale right because
you're pushing lots of that traffic it's really hard to push traffic to print-on-demand sites
they they do a really good job themselves at doing it but if you have a shopify store like was said
before of course that's the only way you'll get traffic so you really gotta know how to do that
it can be with email marketing it can be with ads facebook ads and things like that i like to do
ads on amazon so that i can get traffic there amazon has a really good program for that so if
you can get on amazon and i actually have ads on amazon as well people are already going to amazon
to buy something so they're in the mindset of buying something and searching for something
so make sure that you're designing something that people want to buy and make sure that the
keywords are there so then when they search it they can find yours easier so make sure you use
seo and things and then of course the ads help if you're on that front page already for that topic
so that would be my answer to that and i think um many people it's a big range depending where you
are how long you've been doing print on demand how well you know each of the print-on-demand
sites people can make you know nothing you can make absolutely nothing a day up to thousands and
thousands of dollars so that's a big wide range there's uh people that make hundreds of dollars a
day people that make thousands of dollars a month doing these kinds of things and and especially if
you're doing big products with shopify and stuff you could be probably doing a thousand dollars a
day but those are on the high end i think most people probably bring in between 100 and 500
uh dollars a month if you're just starting off if you're just doing it for a year or two but and as
you stay longer and longer and print on demand and learn how to do it and keep adding more and more
good things that people want to buy the sky is really the limit so that's my answer for that one
so question number three on google you can see right here what is the
most profitable print on demand kind of like the question number one question uh
i guess it's a little different which site is the best for print on demand but i'm guessing people
want to know what's the most profitable could be the best let's see what google says here
again they have the same articles eight best print on demand sites to sell most profitable let's see
if the same printful shopify redbubble spreadshirt printful shopify redbubble spreadshirt t public
says cafe press yeah so it's the exact same uh list as it was on number one and i would
do the same and by the same i mean the exact same answer that i give gave for number one is for me
it is not shopify and printful it is merged by amazon by far the most profitable for me
because of the organic traffic and things like that so amazon is just a beast people
go there again to shop and they already are in that mindset to shop and if you can provide
what they're looking for they will buy more and more especially for q4 so if
you want to do print on demand t-shirts at least t-shirts i know my shop's mostly about t-shirts
it is merch by amazon for sure if you want to do other products possibly shopify would be better
for you you can you know spend the ads it's not a great idea to spend money on facebook ads to
sell t-shirts because the profit margin is not that great but if you're selling bigger ticket
items you know higher ticket items you might get away with doing some ads for that for shopify
so question number four on google let's see are print on demand worth it i don't know if
that's the right way to uh do that question but let's see what the answer is on google
what are the conclusions print on demand is great for starting an online business because
of the low cost and minimum risk factors it saves you time since you don't have to take
care of production or shipping i would agree with that i definitely would tell others about
print on the man and i do i've told everybody i know about print on the man since i started
it is a great way for creators especially if you can design something it doesn't cost you
anything to do print on demand a lot of these shops just take a cut of the sale so you don't
have to worry about anything for example merch by amazon i talk about it a lot for a 20 shirt
so if you're selling a 20 shirt you get a little more than five dollars and amazon takes the other
14 from that so it's a win-win you don't do anything you don't have to worry about inventory
you don't have to worry about customer service you don't have to worry about
driving traffic none of that all you have to worry about is concentrate on designing the right thing
so do the research design the right things upload it to amazon on all the products make sure that
you use the right keywords and it's very risk-free now again it's not quick money uh you're gonna
take a while to actually put a lot of designs so that you know what's selling uh you're not
gonna get thousands of dollars right away but over time you'll be able to figure out what's working
and start to get a paycheck month after month and make money while you're sleeping this is the
incredible part about print on demand you can have a nine to five you can be on vacation you
can be doing other things while amazon is selling your products or whatever redbubble t public go on
all of them they'll be selling your products for you and you don't have to do anything all you do
is keep putting more designs and more designs up and that's why i think it's such a great way to go
because kind of like youtube it doesn't cost you anything but time and so you're content
creators in the sense of you're creating uh digital artwork content right for t-shirts
or stickers or books or i i focus mostly on t-shirts it's detour shirts but you can do a
lot of different print-on-demand stuff people do well with even digital downloads you don't have to
worry about having an inventory for that either so it's a new age it's it's a great way to you know
have a side uh hustle or business that's bringing in money while you're doing something else so
i would recommend print on demand to anybody that's interested that has at least a little
bit of design background now you're going to have to know what a good t-shirt looks like or a good
sticker looks like you can't just put anything out there and expect it to sell you have to
there's competition out there too everybody's trying to do the same thing right so you're going
to have to make sure that your design is something that people want to buy
and for a topic that people are looking for so as long as you do that and you can handle
those kinds of things i think print on demand is perfect for you and you can do it from your home
and anywhere in the world that has an internet connection which is basically anywhere so yeah if
you're interested in print on demand it is a great way to make money so question number five let's
see right here is etsy a print on demand site what a good question uh let me see what google says
print on demand is allowed on etsy all products on etsy must be made and or designed by hand as long
as sellers create their own designs and disclose the printing partners they are working with
they are allowed to sell them via print on demand on etsy platform yes that is true so i definitely
agree with that answer on google so etsy is a good place to sell your print on demand products
print on on-demand t-shirts you can do that i i've done that before a lot of people do
etsy is a great place to do that you do have to select your partner but there is a tie-in
so if you if you have a printful shop uh or if you have a printfy or any like things like that
shortly gearbubble i think is another one so any of those can tie into etsy and there's
like a plug-in that you can use that when you do something on printful i've done this before and
you upload things to printful it can automatically go to your etsy shop you'll just have to pick
that it is from printful and you'll have to put up your own mock-ups and kind of tie everything in it
it's a little bit of work but you can do it and people do it all the time on etsy so lots a big
print on demand community on on etsy you can do t-shirts and stickers and and all those kinds of
things you can also do digital downloads as well so that's a big thing right now for for etsy so
lots of videos on that on youtube i will go look that up if you're interested in etsy the
nice thing about etsy is they have their own traffic so it's a lot like shopify where you
have to have a third party to be printing your print on demand stuff but unlike shopify etsy
does have some traffic and some really good traffic especially if you study it and and see
kind of what the audience is on etsy uh lots of good things there so if you do want to try that
out if you already have a etsy store and want to try print on demand i i think it's a win-win
because you already know the the things that go on with etsy and things like that so lots of youtube
videos on if you want to do etsy i don't have them personally but there's a lot of them out there
on youtube for etsy all right so the last question that i'm going to answer on google you can see
this keeps growing and growing so if you want to add me to answer any more of these questions let
me know in the comments but i'll do this last one right here how much is printful monthly let's see
what google says it says 49 a month printful pro costs 49 a month with the monthly subscription
or 539 dollars a year with the annual subscription if you have a us billing address so yes that
is true printful pro costs 49 a month but i've been using printful for my shopify store
and it cost me nothing except for the cost of the t-shirt and shipping so i don't have a monthly fee
that i'm paying you can get away with just using printful regular or whatever you want to call it
and pay for the price of the t-shirt or the price of whatever you're doing the sticker or whatever
and whatever the shipping is so you could do something like premier shipping or first class
shipping or just standard shipping depending what you you use so you're going to make sure to put
that in within your cost and just charge above that so take the base price of your shirt i would
actually add 10 so make sure to um because you don't know how much shipping gonna be i would add
10 bucks on top of whatever the shirt right base shirt price is i usually charge about 20 something
dollars and that that is high 22 or something like that for a t-shirt but you have to you're going to
have to pay for the cost and and all those things and you may get returns and things like that so
i would just make sure to price it just a little bit higher to to cover that especially on etsy and
shopify and whatever store you're using with printful so it doesn't cost you anything for
months but make sure to raise your prices right so that is it those are all the questions that i'm
going to answer today in this video for google um print on demand google questions thanks again for
watching hopefully this video is really helpful for you especially those that are starting out and
actually go on google to look for those questions hopefully i've answered those
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