hey what's up guys in today's video i
want to talk about some exciting changes
that gearbubble has made recently
specifically i really want to highlight
their new streamlined workflow that
allows us to really take advantage of
fba print on demand now i know it's
almost counterintuitive right because
print on demand means that the order
takes place first and then they create
the product but we can sell fba print on
demand products and i actually love this
model because with print on demand we
can often create product listings on
different uh websites different products
etc we can test them
almost for free in a lot of cases for
free sometimes you know if we're paying
any fees like on etsy it's like 20 cents
per listing so very low to test if we
have best sellers and of course you know
some products are going to sell better
than others these are prime candidates
based on real data to consider doing as
fba because when you sell is fulfilled
by amazon
it increases the rank in search results
it increases click-through rate include
increases conversion rate because
everybody loves their prime shipping i
don't know about you guys but in
northern virginia we get often times
like one day shipping sometime same day
so anyways guys this is something that
should be on our radar and i'm really
excited to tell you about it so let's
get started
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all right so today we are talking about
gear bubble anybody that's not familiar
with them they are the first print on
demand production partner that i ever
used all right and i think they're the
first print on demand production partner
to have an amazon seller central
integration now sometimes people ask
like what is amazon seller central
really quickly that is the way that
amazon really intends on sellers to sell
on amazon when you sell through merch
and kdp you're selling through these
like
very carefully curated portals that are
separate from uh where you know 99 of
people that sell on amazon actually sell
through which is seller central you can
find it at sellercentral.amazon.com
this is where you can list uh fbm
products meaning fulfilled by merchant
which is really how the standard you
know gear bubble integration works when
you integrate gear bubble with amazon
you then go into gearbubble.com
create your product whether i'm going to
show you some products by the way but
they've got a lot of jewelry they've got
mugs they have a ton of different uh
drink wear honestly um shirts
sweatshirts i mean huge catalog of
products uh you create it in gear bubble
then you push it to your amazon account
when you do that gearbubble has a sync
and if it detects that an order took
place they'll automatically fulfill it
when it's shipped out they'll upload the
tracking to amazon
the difference there is that when you do
fba
print on demand through gearbubble uh
they're gonna basically create
the products ahead of time ship them to
amazon for you
and amazon will then store them pick
pack and ship them after the order takes
place and of course it's eligible for
prime
so check out gearbubble the link is in
the description guys
the first piece of news though i wanted
to share is just a congratulations
because they were bought out and now
they are i guess they were acquired by
bergio international so they're publicly
traded uh that's basically the extent of
my knowledge uh but that's you know it's
a big deal i'm sure they got you know
quite a bit of um
of you know i'm sure the founder donald
wilson who i've never met the guy but
he's seriously like one when it comes to
like entrepreneurs that are good at
e-commerce uh he's the guy on the left
in that picture
anytime that dude speaks like everybody
just needs to listen cause he's so
smart and accomplished and always way
ahead of the curve so he has my like
utmost respect and to my knowledge i
think he's the founder of gearbubble so
shout out to them shout out to donald
all right so some of the products now
that you're gonna find in gear bubble
like they've always had jewelry but now
that they've been bought out by bergio
again my understanding is that they
really specialize in jewelry
specifically among other things i'm sure
so now we're seeing more jewelry pieces
on gear bubble and if you haven't sold
any print on demand jewelry it may sound
counter-intuitive
but check out behind me
so they're not necessarily customizing
the jewelry pieces themselves
they're oftentimes like customizing the
cards that come with the jewelry you see
what i'm saying so we as print-on-demand
sellers can create little templates we
can use canva we can use whatever we
want you know i know everybody loves
canvas so that's the first thing that
came to mind
but we can create these cards that go
behind the jewelry and then the jewelry
is just the icing on the cake and what's
great about jewelry is uh
you can charge a pretty penny like you
can make um you know some decent money
selling jewelry because you can really
mark up those prices all right now you
can see here just behind me for some
ideas you can charge like 30 40
uh dollars a pop
and the base cost is gonna range by
product type but it's often around like
15 16 if not you know it could be a
little bit more could be a little bit
less
uh you can see here they've got like
various like customized jewelry these
are some of the older pieces but i know
these do really well i've been in
facebook groups with gear bubble sellers
like i said i've been around using gear
bubbles since 2017 and i've been in some
facebook groups with some sellers that
were just absolutely crushing it putting
up astounding numbers a lot of it had to
do with jewelry though and i just never
was
i didn't really try that hard with
jewelry i've said this in the past but
my big thing was like t-shirts and
t-shirt designs don't translate well
into uh you know pendant necklaces
because they're round whereas the
t-shirts that i'm designing are often
rectangle but i could take them and put
them on coffee mugs right so i did a lot
of uh my damage if you will with coffee
mugs and not just coffee mugs they have
like travel mugs camper mugs i've talked
about it in the past they have a huge
catalog of drinkware speaking of coffee
mugs here's some examples of gear bubble
coffee mugs and i'm not trying to show
you the whole catalog that would take a
long time but just to give you a quick
overview of the high level product
categories that they have available
check out behind me here um you can hit
pause if you would like to but also know
that like when you click for instance uh
precious jewelry right here
it doesn't just take you to one product
it takes you to
multiple products that are all kind of
like complementary inside of that
category okay
so let me quickly tell you some
best-selling products right now from
gear bubble this is something that's
really cool they um
they didn't give me necessarily an
account manager they gave me like a
contact though and they said hey like
what can we do to make you know to help
you basically and i said oh it'd be
great to know like what type of products
are selling well and they said all right
we'll tell you you know the best sellers
and you can pass that along so here i am
doing that uh right now the best selling
product is the sunflower bracelet and
you see that on the left hand side there
second best selling product is the cross
dancing necklace and third best selling
of course i'm blocking it here i'll hide
myself is the love dancing necklace all
right and again you can customize the
cards that come behind the jewelry
that's really the game you know that's
the game that print on demand sellers
are playing right now
so when it comes to fba products and
this is what really excited me now for
the record gear bubble is awesome they
already did fba
they they
they had a workflow for doing fba but it
was very manual all right i've done it
in the past
i did it with i think like fives or no i
did my first order was five skus i did
it again i don't remember how many skus
i did the second time but you know what
i do remember was that when i first did
it i thought i was a genius
because it was in the fourth quarter and
i sold out of everything and i was like
man i'm gonna make so much money and i
was already doing fba at the time by the
way so i mean i wasn't really
intimidated by the concept but after q4
ended those sales really slowed down and
i realized the money is going to be made
in trends it wasn't that i couldn't sell
evergreens but it was a lot harder
if you're not in like a you know
around a big trend and et cetera you
guys get it uh so with fba print on
demand products and again it's not
really fba print on demand it's just you
know coffee mugs or jewelry in this case
you'd probably want to strongly consider
that since they're moving so well
um well actually i'll walk you through
the process but i did just want to let
you know that gear bubble is offering
discounts based on the quantity of
products that you purchase okay
now they actually have pre-set
quantities let me show you real quick
so when you go through their fba
workflow you can't just key in like
random numbers and i it makes a lot of
sense
why they do it this way if you have ever
sold fba you probably understand where
we're going with this um the carton
configurations when you send products in
amazon i think prefers when it's kind of
consistent and i mean you can definitely
you know if you put yourself in gear
bubble shoes if you're gonna start
fulfilling these orders of bulk quantity
products
and you're a lot of times like what if
it's for coffee mugs right and those can
break if there's if the carton itself
isn't full so they have some preset
configurations for quantities of
products that you can purchase to have
sent to fba meaning gearbubble's sending
it straight to fba you're not touching
the product okay just so if anybody's
like if you're still with me here um
they're not going to send it to you to
send fba they're gonna send it straight
in for you so it's a hands-off approach
to get prime eligible products and again
i'm not telling you to do this
for a product that hasn't sold yet i'm
saying
i'm sure if you've been doing print on
demand for some time
you know what you know what's working
what's not working uh double down on
what's working also another strong
recommendation all right
don't compete with merch by amazon for
instance merch by amazon we know that
all of those print on demand t-shirts
are prime eligible that's because amazon
owns the whole
workflow and even though they're making
them on demand they're still comfortable
enough of like how long it's going to
take them to create the product and ship
it that they made it prime eligible okay
if you do gear bubble like fba t-shirts
you're going to be at a huge
disadvantage because the customer won't
know the difference between yours and
you know amazon merches that's my that's
my two cents you know i'm giving my
opinion here
i also want to mention that they do
shipping discounts okay so they're
discounting the products based on the
quantity they're discounting the
shipping so they're really trying to
help you gain an edge here i mean those
those discounts are on top of the fact
that you're getting prime eligible
products which if you've never sold
prime eligible
it's hard to it's hard to like
understand how much of a difference that
really makes it makes a huge huge
difference like everybody has amazon
prime these days and everybody loves
that shipping and they will pay more for
that shipping uh but you'll be able to
charge a more competitive price because
you're getting the discounts for doing
the bulk quantity purchases so it's just
a huge game changer guys
uh here's another example of one of the
products right now this is like the
sunflower necklace um you can see
they've got the custom card behind and
uh i know that i had just watched like
an hour-long webinar that i'll link to
in the description if you want like the
in-depth information by the way gear
bubble has a new ceo he leads the
webinar he gives some good insights but
uh they're talking about working on new
product mock-ups which
to me personally i mean everybody has
their own opinion but like i think
product mockups even though they're not
even real like they're print on demand
mock-ups but to me that's like the bread
and butter of
really being a successful seller you
need to frame the product
as good as you possibly can
and that is how the customer is going to
perceive it prior to receiving the
actual finished product right so you
really can win
and get the sale from a good mock-up so
i love hearing that they've they're
working on new mock-ups but also i mean
check this out behind me it's it's
already really nice
all right so
here's just an example if you wanted to
purchase the sunflower necklace that i
just showed you um in this case right
behind me it's about 16.70
per product uh there's tax and there's
processing fees which by the way he goes
in depth in the um webinar if you watch
it that
they've actually like reduced the fees
down to basically exactly what
they are they have to pay the the
processor that you know takes the credit
card payment and as far as tax goes now
that they're owned by a publicly traded
company he said that they have to you
know for it's like required for sec
reporting so uh anyways you have to pay
tax you have to pay the other fee but
i also wanted to make you guys aware my
fba sellers have seen this before my
non-fba sellers this is really useful so
you might as well just bookmark this for
the future even if you're not selling uh
fba anytime in the near future
and you can also google this by the way
uh and i'll link in the description but
fb fba like amazon themselves
have a profitability calculator okay so
if we want to sell like customized
versions of the sunflower necklace here
behind me
like
we can do that and know exactly what our
margins are by simply finding a similar
product or in this case you can pretty
much find the exact same product on
amazon
grabbing the asin which you can just
copy out of the url or just on the
listing itself you can just go find the
a sin it's the unique id it typically
starts with a b and a zero
paste it into the calculator
and then just input the item price under
the amazon fulfillment column so you can
see right behind me i input 16.70 item
price in this case in this example uh
the shipping was zero dollars so i put
zero dollars for shipping to amazon but
if you have to pay more than that you
just input it right there for you know
what i should have done honestly is put
the tax and the merchant processing fees
because that did come out to about 37
i'm editing this in after the fact
because i forgot to mention when we do
fba we need to put a sticker label on
each unit and i doubt gear bubbles doing
that for us in the past they would not
do it for us so i had to pay 20 cents
per coffee mug when i did my fba mugs in
the past now amazon's fees have gone up
recently i just went into my account and
looked at a kind of a small lightweight
product and it gave me a quote of 55
cents for labeling each unit um marielle
had been in her account looking at a
product and she said the quote was like
70 cents so i think if we're doing like
the jewelry though because it's so small
and lightweight hopefully it would be
closer to 20 cents than it would be
closer to 70. um but yeah you're gonna
have to kind of see that as you go but i
did want to mention that as a fee that
we would need to be mindful of that will
not show up in this um this calculator
behind me but anyways you get the gist
of it um they basically show you what
amazon is gonna take from their referral
fee and their fba fee and you can see at
the very bottom there it says net
profitability estimated uh well this is
exact honestly but um since i forgot to
you know add the extra 37
um let's just run with this as if it's
exact net profit 9.63 per sale
all right and that's from this this
example listing here on the left-hand
side that i screenshotted they're
charging 26.99 and we already covered
that we are paying 16.70 to gear bubble
uh for each product so amazon's gonna
take 3.72 cents per you know the
fulfillment fees are nice and low when
you are selling small lightweight
products like hey jewelry necklaces
right uh what is not to love about that
that is i mean honestly a really nice uh
fee right there
and yeah so you're making 9.63 cents per
sale net margin 57.66 percent also that
is very healthy margin
for you to run ads right and that means
if your net profit margin is 57.6
if your a cost right your advertised
cost of sale is equal to or less than 57
you're in the green right and over time
guess what you're ranking that product
and it's going to organically rank
higher and higher and higher guys
this is how the game is played all right
uh they have some big changes coming i'm
going to breeze through the rest of this
i just want to kind of tell you that you
know if you i haven't talked about gear
bubble in a while so it's exciting to
see some of these changes
they mentioned at the end of the webinar
that they're moving towards more of a
printify model in that we the sellers
they want to turn over the ability to us
the sellers
to choose
who we are um because gearbubble doesn't
just do everything in house they also
have like a network of providers that
they farm work out to they're trying to
turn over the choices to us the sellers
of if we want to use you know option a b
or c to fulfill similar products so
that's gonna be really exciting you guys
already know like printify is good about
doing that as well
uh one last thing just a quick reminder
by the way
gear bubble integrates with pod turbo it
is the only amazon seller central upload
automation that i'm aware of i mean the
year is 2022 we're halfway through the
year it's still the only upload
automation that i'm aware of if anybody
knows something that i missed please
email me comment let me know
still to this day like pod turbo's the
only one that i'm aware of that it
exists so every day and i'm not telling
everybody to go check out pod turbo
because it is pretty pricey but i use it
and it pushes 200 products a day for me
to seller central
fully automated at the same time i also
use other print-on-demand production
partners like printful to manually push
products so i'm just you know occupying
as much online real estate as possible
with print on demand products for sale
if i have best sellers now i can go
straight to gearbubble uh i used to have
to email somebody and work with them
directly now i don't have to do that i
can just go to gearbubble the whole
thing is streamlined uh it's not
completely automated in the sense that
once they get my orders they still have
to fulfill it but hey from my
perspective outside of fulfilling or
filling out the form basically the you
know the wizard uh you know click next
click next click next next thing you
know amazon's gonna alert me when they
receive the fba shipments those products
are gonna get stocked they're gonna be
prime eligible if i already have the ad
campaign set up in advance that's gonna
start running ads
that's pretty much it guys i mean this
is uh it's exciting you know what i mean
this is kind of the evolution of print
on demand not that it wasn't possible
before but i always love when things are
more streamlined it takes a lot of the
guesswork out so i'm loving that they
did this also this expands the
product types that we are able to do as
fba whereas in the past it was more
restricted so this is a big step in the
right direction all right guys thanks
for watching quick reminder i have a
full print on demand course i know i
talk a lot in these videos and this
video is already going longer than i
wanted it to
there's a lot of nuance to this stuff
and also every decision that you make is
not necessarily black and white so if
you want me to like
talk through these concepts slower and
give you more of like why i do this and
not that etc and honestly just show you
my full process as if you're looking
over my shoulder to start scale and
automate your business i have my full
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