hey what's up guys welcome to another
automation week video today we're
talking about pod turbo now right up
front i just want to tell you guys this
software specializes in automating
uploads to amazon seller central
but
you have to have a gear bubble
subscription and you have to pay for pod
turbo so i know it's probably out of the
price range of most people as a result
i'm gonna try to go through the video a
little bit quicker than normal and uh if
it's something that interests you at
least now you know it exists and that's
step one right
but i'm gonna walk you through exactly
how
it works because it's the only software
that i am aware of that can automate
uploads to amazon seller central for
print on demand products and i have used
it
for a long time i've also done a lot of
manual uploads for what it's worth but
this is how i've gotten to over a
hundred thousand print on demand
products on my seller central account
yes you heard that correctly
over a hundred thousand and i'm proud of
it it's a lot of consistent hard work
over the years i've probably manually
pushed
dare i say half i mean i've manually
pushed quite a few but then the other
half or if not half a little bit more
than half pod turbo so anyways guys
let's get started
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quick reminder you'll be able to find
all the relevant links to everything i
talk about in the description including
a link to my page that i built just for
automation week where all the software
that i cover you'll be able to find
links to them as well as discount codes
to them so make sure you check that out
also in the description i've got a link
to my print on demand weekly giveaway
make sure you take advantage of that the
winners will be announced on sunday and
i've got a link to my 8 day print on
demand mini course and my print on
demand facebook group all in the
description so today we are talking
about pod turbo which is really cool and
it functions differently than merge
titans upload automation which we talked
about the other day merge titans will
upload from your computer in a chromium
browser that you can just minimize and
let it run in the background with pod
turbo we actually upload our
designs as the raw png files and i'll
explain to you like how to resize them
and whatnot
uh and then we upload a spreadsheet that
accompanies them and the file names it
basically has to correlate so you upload
a
zip file with all your designs and you
have the file names those file names
need to then show up in the csv file
that you upload with them and in that
csv file you'll basically say like
i want these to be white coffee mugs 11
ounce here's the title here's the
keywords and that's basically how it
works so a little bit different and then
it um kind of cues up the mockups on
their server
and it will upload up to 200 products a
day to your seller central account and
this product was created because
uploading takes time we all know that
and uh we all want more time right to do
whatever we want whether it's to
reinvest that time into our business or
to go do more fun things with our lives
whatever it is all right
i mentioned earlier that uh gear bubble
is required to use pod turbo it would be
amazing if they could integrate it with
another production partner but i'm sure
that would cause probably a huge
headache for the developers but i still
am going to hold on to hope that one day
they will expand beyond just gear bubble
because gear bubble number one costs
money monthly subscription
even though they had some good deals
um not too long ago at the end of like
2021 for like lifetime deals so if
anybody grabbed those you might be uh in
luck
but if not you have to pay monthly and
then gear bubble also unfortunately has
like increased their product prices by
quite a bit recently so just make sure
you factor that in when you are pricing
your products through pod turbo i always
aim to make a minimum
10 above the base cost of the product
like minimum that's just a rule of thumb
for me across the board with print on
demand
so we're going to be able to take our
designs and what i like to do is take
each batch of designs i like to do a
hundred designs per batch now if you can
make that happen uh i'm gonna also be
dropping a video this week on automate
pod the chrome extension that can
automate your design process and
download them for you so it actually
makes it reasonable to get to that
number um this is just my approach by
the way you don't have to do the
quantity approach but i don't see any
reason not to right like you can still
do
all the other approaches like like the
high quality approach and have this
running in the background you don't have
to choose between the two so that's why
i just want to make that clear really
quickly but i like to upload to the 11
ounce and 15 ounce white mugs i always
aim to make
at least 10 profit like i said from the
base cost uh the 11 ounce and
15 ounce black mugs as well they have
two-tone mugs i typically will do two of
the two-tone mugs i typically do red and
blue personally
uh they also have i think i skipped one
in between here but i also upload to the
heat
the heat color changing mugs you guys
know i'm talking about the ones that
change color when they're heated or you
put something hot inside
uh the shot glasses which i mean i had
to shed a tier because they used to cost
two dollars ninety five cents now
they're up to four dollars ninety five
cents which is a massive price increase
not liking that
i upload to the travel mugs i upload to
the tumblers as well uh
and then i think yeah there's a couple
different tumblers and i think that's
pretty much it guys the way i do it i
try to make sense of everything that i
do so like
i don't want to get too much in depth in
this video but i do of course have
separate resources available where i go
extremely in depth into the exact
process the logic that i applied to to
reach that end um give you like my
spreadsheet template because there is a
spreadsheet involved
but basically i'm going to walk you
through like kind of how you go about
doing this so you need to have a
spreadsheet to accompany your designs
first you have the designs and i
cannot skip this point right here you
need to resize your design so i always
design at
4 500 by 5400 pixels
and that works great for pretty much all
the print on demand platforms except for
when you're queuing up your pod turbo
uploads fortunately there's a free
website called bulk resize photos i drag
i drop a hundred images in at a time and
then i hit um when you when you drag
them in you get like a couple options
it's called image resize i click image
resize i type in 3600 by 4200 i set the
file type to png and then i just hit
convert and it converts all of them it
takes maybe two minutes per batch it all
kind of depends really and then it
downloads them and that's exactly what
you need so and it downloads them as a
zip which is actually what you need to
upload to pod turbo um when you're
actually trying to queue up these
uploads and by the way like i'll spend
like one day every few months and i'll
queue up like three or four months worth
of pod turbo uploads and then i just
don't even worry about it i just forget
that it exists until you know three or
four months down the line when i need to
you know go in and do it again so i
actually just recently did it last week
so it's fresh on my mind how to go about
doing this
and basically what i was trying to get
at is i want to like maximize um
my efficiency and my what i get from my
time investment so when i convert these
files and then i make the csv file i
have like an exact process that goes in
a very specific order of how i go
through the whole thing
and it's very efficient it's about as
efficient as i think it could possibly
be in getting as many uploads queued up
as you can
and maximizing the number of you know
products that you've got
that are available to us from the
designs that are optimized at these
dimensions 3600 by 4200 because you can
actually you know gear bubble has it
supports a larger catalog but you don't
want to i don't think it makes sense to
like constantly resize
your images you know i i like to resize
at 3 600 4200 because i can do a lot
with those okay but if i want to upload
to certain other products i'm gonna have
to resize again and that to me it's not
worth it it takes too long okay but you
figure out what works for you i want you
to know that's possible but um for me
it's like i'm you know moving quickly i
got a lot on my plate so uh this works
for me at those dimensions and if it
doesn't work at those dimensions i don't
do it
okay so you need your spreadsheet i kind
of covered this more in depth in the
merch titans upload automation video
about how i do my spreadsheet stuff but
basically you know you have your
spreadsheet this is not actually the
exact spreadsheet that you need for pod
turbo but hopefully you get the point
here um there's certain headers that you
need you can go download it from pod
turbo once you log in it's very easy to
download the spreadsheet
i recommend using um as many shortcuts
as you can for instance i always name my
design files
the primary keywords okay and then i use
this little shortcut here where you
select all the files you can hit control
a for windows users
then
hold shift and right click one of the
files when you hold shift and you right
click you get
access to the copy as path okay and
that's extremely useful because then
while you don't actually need the file
path for pod turbo because you just need
the file name
uh then i pull it into notepad plus plus
i can do just a bulk um
basically find and replace so the front
end of the file path that's you know c
colon slash slash whatever your computer
you can just replace that right so it's
just a bulk delete basically and then i
delete the um
it comes with quotations delete the
quotations then you've got your file
names you'll need to move the file names
into your csv for pod turbo so i copy
paste done um then and actually you'll
probably need to do it a couple times
because you need to put the front image
and the back image there's a column for
front image column for back image
because if you've ever uploaded to
a coffee mug pretty much in any
production partner you know it typically
supports a front and a back image and
since i'm typically taking my you know
t-shirt designs and putting them on
coffee mugs and whatnot uh
it's not an all-around design right i
can't just make a coffee mug with one
design right if i'm making a t-shirt
design and putting it on a coffee mug
it's going to look best if there's a
front and a back and it's just kind of
replicated so anyways two columns you
copy paste it twice
then i do one more find and replace
uh i find the dot png portion and i just
delete that and now what am i left with
i'm left with the file name without the
file extension and i told you i named my
files after the primary keywords so then
i have my column in the spreadsheet
where i copy paste the primary keywords
and thanks to excel formulas it
automatically updates my title my
description um keywords all those things
okay
and that is a big part of my process for
pod turbo it is more nuanced than that
because when you're working in csvs it
removes the formulas so then you kind of
have to get comfortable in notepad plus
plus doing some more of those find and
replaces that i keep referring to but i
promise you
i mean i can i can get through it really
quickly so if i can do it you can do it
too if you end up going down the rabbit
hole of pod turbo because i mean hey
it's just uploading a couple hundred
products to you or to amazon seller
central on your behalf every single day
in the background while you sleep you
know what i mean you can't beat that and
i'm telling you i only have to queue up
pod turbo three or four times a year
like that's it and then it just works
okay so i wanted to put this out there
and put it on your radar i don't like to
keep things secret i have no incentive
to keep this secret because i doubt
we're going to be in each other's niches
so anyways this is what it looks like
you know i go to pod turbo and
when you first
start uploading
the status will update in real time so
it'll say like checking csv and if the
csv is good it'll say waiting for design
images when you upload the images it'll
say
uh generating mockups and then after the
mockups are complete it'll say mockups
complete and after that you click these
manage buttons here
okay you have to do it on each row and
when you manage it you can say um i
forget exactly what it says but it
basically says like upload you know what
i mean it's basically a button that says
like cue upload okay so you queue the
upload and then then what happens is
under status it'll say publishing on
process
when you get it to say that
you're good to go you don't have to
worry about anything okay and um i think
each row if it max if it hits the max
uploads per day i think each row
represents one day's worth of uploads i
could be wrong i'm trying to do the math
my head i think it could be one day's
worth of uploads but it also depends
right like if you do 200 products per
row and it hits 200 products in a day
then that would be one day but it
doesn't always hit 200 it depends
sometimes amazon is slow with letting
you get those uploads um pushed so it's
not always going to be um fast like in
the fourth quarter it was really slow
for instance but it's been running fast
lately
the results um as you can see at the
very top if you squint of that
screenshot i have 124 644 products as of
taking that screenshot of course that
number's actually higher
from when i took the screenshot to now
because pod turbo is literally working
in the background and adding products so
from the time i took that screenshot
probably within 10 minutes that number
went up that's that's how this works
okay
um
yeah so that's the i mean this is the
game that i'm playing you know what i
mean i i don't make the rules i just
kind of exist in the system and i'm
trying to make the system work for me
right that's the whole that's passive
income in a nutshell but that's also a
microcosm of passive income in this case
uh pod turbo right
so guys thank you for watching this
video i did just want to remind you that
in my full print on-demand course which
walks you through how to start skill and
automate your business in the last
module i go in depth into automation i
call it the bonus module right and uh
you you get my exact process for pod
turbo so it's a lot more nuanced and
detail-oriented than this video was
including like i say hey just click here
to download my spreadsheet which has the
formulas here's the exact order that i
perform every action here's why i do it
that way i don't want you to just take
me at my word i want you to understand
why we do it that way anyways you can
find out more the link is in the
description if you're interested guys i
also have just the pod turbo module in
case you just wanted that um you can
find that i'll link to that in the
description as well guys thank you so
much for watching this video please drop
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questions let me know in the comment
section but guys thank you for watching
i'll see you tomorrow with a new video
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