hey guys thanks for joining me today i'm
here with curtis from my designs and uh
curtis man how you doing i've been doing
good man it's good to be back on
yeah happy friday man i'm i'm loving my
designs lately i've been using it
like all the time uh me and marielle we
split this new etsy shop that we started
so she's helping get designs together in
like various specific niches i'm doing
other niches
the process before my designs was so
convoluted i'm not like complaining
about it because it was heavy automation
but i was using like probably four or
five different services for different
things and then i had to still bring
everything together manually i no longer
need to do that for my etsy shop because
of my designs so thank you for putting
this together man yeah absolutely man uh
we've been at it for two years so
hopefully two years polished yeah
we've been building it for two years now
at this point and things are starting to
get polished and we got a lot of the
infrastructure that we wanted in place
that's now there so it's starting to get
really smooth and
starting to get exciting to be honest
dude i'm i'm loving it man and it's like
running so fast you were telling me
before we said before we started
recording that like the the mock-up
generator specifically runs incredibly
fast
yeah i think i think at this point right
now we can generate 100 mock-ups in
about 20-30 seconds so if you're doing
bulk mock-up production you can select
all your listings generate mock-ups you
know at some point you generate five or
six hundred of them in less than five
minutes so it's pretty powerful
yeah and anybody who's just tuning in
like let's kind of go through this in a
linear sequence so that we're not kind
of fragmented for for the people that
are watching and you guys that are
subscribed you probably heard me talk
about my designs
i'm sure you have actually because i've
referenced it quite a bit uh but it is
basically like from my perspective then
you can kind of piggyback curtis um it's
it's all in one software for print on
demand sellers and it's cloud-based
right so instead of having like 50
folders on my computer with different
designs in each one or if you're like
marielle you have a really you know
dirty desktop on your computer i'm
always like clean up your desktop clean
up your desktop my designs it's like
drag drop
organized and within that folder in the
cloud now right so it's backed up also i
love having backups uh i can do all of
my like
type like seo you know title description
bullets optimization create mockups and
i was pushing them as digital files to
sell as digital downloads before now i'm
able to push them as print on demand
products
yeah that's right we uh we released the
print on demand infrastructure about a
month and a half ago what print for you
is our first print provider and now we
have swift pod
at as a second print provider which is
really popular among a lot of top
sellers so we're really excited to get
that done and with the two we have 13
clothing based products that you can
choose from
you know with many more coming because
we have a huge catalog from swift that
we need to onboard
so we eventually get to that such as
mugs and a lot of other clothing options
the baby onesies and things like that
are really popular
but uh yes so the print-on-demand
stuff's done and it's uh it's it's
really unique because if you use like
print for printify you know you have to
publish one product at a time you upload
your design you go through that the
entire process of selecting the product
the colors the variants pricing markups
and then publish and then go repeat that
process so my designs this is one thing
i like to always bring up is you can
drop let's say 100 designs into your
collection in the cloud and i've done
this yeah since you told me i could do
100 i literally went and did like 100.
yeah if you're on the if you're on the
top subscription of ours you can do up
to 120 you can publish up to 120
products at a time so you drop all the
designs into a collection you can edit
the data in bulk generate mockups in
bulk and then go through the publishing
process one time instead of you know 120
different times so really it saves you
you know it takes five ten minutes of
upshot or twenty products versus doing
that manually it's gonna take you know
eight hours maybe more
dude it's it's incredible man um
like recently and i can literally just
very quickly show my whole or not show
but like kind of just talk through it
it's like i'll drag and drop well you
call them collections so i'll click new
collection and then i name it so i was
just thinking of an example it could be
like
fruits right like marielle has got me on
this ridiculous uh
tangent where we've been going to this
website called miamifruits i think.com
and it's like all these rare exotic
fruits that are incredibly expensive but
she loves like you know we record we
have our little side channel on youtube
that we have fun with so we're like
recording reviews of these expensive ass
fruits we just we have some downstairs
that smell absolutely awful called
cheese fruit by the way i would not
recommend that we have to basically like
review them and throw them out because
they smell so bad
so it could be cheap or it could be
fruit um themed designs right like
whatever the fruits are i'll drag and
drop let's just say 20
of these designs i click the upload
button they upload in 30 seconds to one
minute then i go the first thing i do is
i set a very well you have these
templates right yeah the templates
literally
have the fields we need to publish these
for sale so it's like title
tags description
the other ones that i use a lot are like
primary keyword secondary keyword
so then the next thing i'll do is i'll
select all 20
and i'll say edit in bulk and i'll say
please read the file name and store it
in the primary variable field and i will
strategically name my files like if it's
the blue a blueberry i'll call it
blueberry if it's strawberry i'll call
it strawberry.png
right and i just keep doing that for
each file
what mydesigns then does writes it into
that primary variable field and then i
can use that variable and when i'm
writing like the titles out in bulk 20
titles at a time i can say primary
variable space shirt
primary variable lover gift primary you
know i'm saying it's a blueberry shirt
blueberry lover gift
and it's doing it 20 at a time it's so
beautiful man then i feed it into your
tag generator which is incredible also
uh it can go fetch tags from redbubble
if we're doing etsy though obviously
like we need 13 tags we need 20
characters max yeah so i love to
actually
yeah that was brilliant dude that you
can switch the um place where the tag
generator goes and switch it to
uh the actual platform so i can switch
it to etsy and then say generate me 13
tags i know it's going to be 20
characters yeah go you know
and we do have more updates coming for
the tag generator too it should continue
to get better
but yeah that's a really popular feature
of ours as well generating tags in bulk
for you know 100 listings
yeah that's
that's crazy man i'm loving it and from
there it's like you know i'll write it i
actually have just a kind of a
copy-paste generic description
that i use for shirts and i might switch
it up for other product types and then i
just go into the mock-up generator so
select all go to edit mock-ups or
mock-up generator and then i just you
know go to clothing from the drop-down
and within the clothing section there's
shirts sweatshirts hoodies tank tops and
and there's a bunch of them right and by
the way are all these going to be free
forever how's that going to work
with the uh the print-on-demand products
the the mock-ups like generating pockets
so we're going to have a huge library of
free mockups like right now i believe we
have 200 and something mock-ups um you
know it's from wall art to clothing to
stickers etc
um we are going to also add in premium
mockups and with those premium markets
if you have any of the subscriptions
you'll have access to premium markets
really high quality mockups again that
you can use in bulk but we'll have like
size charts and color charts and
different things too
that uh that i think when people see
it's gonna really blow their minds
because it's it's pretty you know it's
these type of processes that if you do
manually just take so much time and
that's that's what we want to do at my
design just kind of automate all those
processes yeah give you the quality
mock-ups the size charts and everything
you need to build a great listing on
etsy or shopify or amazon in the future
dude and you guys are already doing that
so it's amazing so after i get my
mockups generated i think at this point
unless i'm forgetting something we did
the tags wrote the description the title
um i might actually set the the
secondary keyword variable to the
product type because uh as you know
we're heading into q4 so yeah i'm not
just publishing to t-shirts anymore it's
gonna be cold outside plus i got
marielle helping with the shop she's
like dude you you haven't been listing
uh crewneck sweatshirts man they're
they're super popular and when i did uh
my first video with cassie johnson she
was the one telling me too that she's
been crushing it with uh you know i
don't know do i call him crew next do i
just call them sweatshirts like i don't
know what to call it yeah crew next week
people have been crushing it with those
so i'm uploading to those at a minimum
now too and i've already been making
some sales by the way through my designs
with the i had some with the print for
your fulfillment but i've really enjoyed
the um swift pod just because i was
already using them for printify yeah so
that was kind of an easy no-brainer that
you know if i'm using them here and it's
working they're they're they're either
the highest rated on printed fire
they're up there as like one of them
yeah i think they're i think they're the
top three um i just know just with my
discussions with other top sellers they
love sweat pod it's a really they're
stable reliable platform
and they're good they're good at
fulfillment they never really run into
inventory issues which is a big deal
with print on demand so we're really
excited to have that integration finally
done at my designs
yeah that was huge like you gave me a
little bit of a warning it was coming so
i actually held off on publishing for a
couple days and just kind of let them
pile up and then as soon as swiftpewdia
went live um just published a bunch
right away
um so yeah so then the next thing i do
is i collect my i select my 20 uh fruit
designs they got all the you know
optimizations needed for from a search
engine optimization perspective they've
got the mock-ups let's say i generated i
don't know four mock-ups
then i go you know publish and then i
click products so that's what's cool
that didn't used to be there prior to
about a month and a half ago
and you know from there it's like select
your etsy shop you support multiple etsy
shops right yeah so on the uh you know
if you have any of the subscriptions i
think the base subscriptions three shops
um the the biggest subscription there's
unlimited shops so yeah you can manage
you know multiple shops from one my
designs account which is really powerful
so you can just choose the shop you want
to publish to that's the same process
all the way through you just choose it
on the publishing during the publishing
process dude that's awesome man i'm only
doing one shop right now people have
asked me if they should do like niche
shops i always pictured it being a
headache but you know it's probably not
as much of a headache as i thought if
you have my designs because it's
literally like click publish there's a
drop down just click the drop down and
select your other shop i mean
pretty yeah exactly make it really easy
um you want to do the same thing with
shopify too and
ultimately amazon
yeah so you have a huge scope of what
you're gonna eventually accomplish with
the software yeah
yeah i mean we're just getting started
like the infrastructure is so big it's
such a big project but it's it's been
polished up and we're getting ready to
officially launch later this month
and uh from there we'll just continue to
roll out new features um new mock-ups
and like other things we discussed
earlier size charts and eventually the
ability for you as a user to upload your
own mockups which has been highly
requested so whether it's a psd file or
an svg and then use it in bulk with our
mockup generators
yeah that's gonna be a big feature
that's so cool man like what you guys
have got going on just like just any of
these features alone
are like killer they're so useful but
then you've combined them all and you're
not even officially launched yet you
said you're gonna go um you're aiming
for what late september yeah we're
looking to launch september uh 22nd
which is a thursday it's about two weeks
from now so
we're out we're polishing everything off
there's so many updates rolling out
every single day right now so just
getting ready for that
dude that's gonna be crazy i can't wait
though and then is there anything
anybody should be worried about like i
know you still have the free accounts as
an option is that going away after you
you guys launch no the free accounts
will always be there so the free
accounts are great because you can come
into my designs you can upload your own
designs you can actually just use the
product get a feel for it learn it
because it's pretty complex
you'll definitely want to learn it
because it's so powerful once you do
um and then when you're ready you just
upgrade to a paid subscription it brings
a lot more value and allows you to do
more bulk like process more mockups in
both publish more products in bulk et
cetera and then of course more cloud
storage space and different features you
have access to but the the free account
is so powerful i mean rather you're
selling digital products or
print-on-demand products you can start
the free account get a hang of things
start making some sales and then upgrade
when you're ready
so that's the idea we have we'll keep it
free for as long as we possibly can
yeah it's awesome man and uh if you guys
are like watching this video and i know
we've not done too much visual stuff
like we're not doing any screen shares i
may edit in some overlays into this
video before publishing but like if you
would like us to maybe do another like
future video potentially i don't know
live we could maybe um let us know
though in the comments and like we could
maybe do more of like a tutorial where
uh you know we could really get into
your minds um the users you know i mean
i'm a user uh and i mean curtis have a
direct line of communication so i'm like
curtis can you do this and like a week
later it's done so
yeah we do have the community side too
i'm actually glad you brought that up
because we
we really value the feedback of our
users there's a lot of different people
that sell different products in
different spaces and they have all these
ideas and suggestions that are amazing
and like the way we build our
infrastructure is like we can actually
roll out new updates and features that
can accommodate a lot of these
suggestions and the feedback so and we
can do it quickly
so if you ever have any suggestions we
have a community site to my designs that
we would love to hear we'd love to hear
your feedback and suggestions
yeah you guys have a amazing developer
team too like it's a testament a
testament to them that you guys get the
stuff turned around and you're doing it
in a way that
at least from my perspective you know
ex-web developer like it's very
intuitive like your ui is is really nice
and it's not like there's some hidden
controls that you have to like
find you know what i mean after five
minutes of looking but it's all pretty
much where we need it you know yeah and
again i like to look at my designs kind
of like if you were to start with adobe
photoshop it's like it's such a powerful
like software that you kind of need to
learn it and we're simplifying things
and trying to make it as easy as
possible to get started to jump in and
just be able to take advantage of it
right away now it's not as complex as
adobe photoshop you know it's it's a lot
simpler than that but there's so many
different features you can use so i
recommend watching on the training
videos we have many more coming reading
the content asking questions because
once you learn it you probably won't go
anywhere else it's really powerful it's
gonna save you a lot of time you're
gonna be able to produce you know
products in bulk uh just basically get
rid of all these time consuming tasks
that you currently do that you don't
need to and plug them right into your
workflow and automate it and publish
them have fulfillment taken care of et
cetera so that's what we're doing yeah
i'll link to your just your uh youtube
channel in the description too with all
the tutorial videos and like anybody
watching that hasn't tried because it's
like i know everybody knows you can
relate it can be
scary learning something new you know it
might be like oh it's friday i'm not i'm
not trying to do that on a friday like
i'll just do what i'm comfortable with
but i will just say honestly i'm just
keeping it real like if you're gonna
push let's say maximum
or yeah like probably like four products
manually like four products manually
yeah and the time it takes you to do
four you could probably learn how to use
my designs and like i said it's laid out
very intuitively it's like i don't know
how to upload there's a button that says
upload click click that drag drop your
files right it's like it's pretty much
what we described it's not that hard so
um there's great tutorials on the
youtube channel so i would challenge you
guys to dive in there create a free
account mess around it's you're gonna
really like it and you know to finish my
kind of walkthrough that i was doing
verbally it's like i just click publish
to etsy i you know go next select the
product type select the t-shirt you know
colors or whatever
click publish uh you know it gives you
one last step to review everything make
sure that everything looks good click
publish from there it's published or
it's not published it's a draft so i
find them in my drafts folder i love
that etsy has great bulk control so i
can do a quick select all in etsy on all
my drafts i can set the um production
partner to you know either my designs or
you know if you want to set it to swift
pod whatever uh you can then set the
renewal to automatic do this all in bulk
change the section to you know whatever
t-shirts and then bulk publish and then
it's done
it's beautiful
exactly
and even for mock-ups right or four
products like if you were to go and do
each of this process create all the
mock-ups manually for one of those
products and then do it again again
again then go into etsy and uploading
those rearranging them adjusting your
pricing your variants just it just adds
up the time
it shouldn't it doesn't need to
yeah absolutely man plus i mean there's
also the
your mockups actually look really good
so there's that
aspect too right that counts for a lot
and we do have a lot more mockups coming
we have a huge list
our got our designers on right now so
can't wait to get those out so now that
we're gonna get ready to launch we're
gonna really start pushing the mock
upside because that's probably one of
the most important parts to listing and
standing out so we're taking that very
seriously and building as many beautiful
mock-ups as we possibly can
i'm looking forward to it man so
anything else you want to cover because
we've gone 15 minutes i think you know
we've covered a lot of basically how
i've been using the software recently
and i've been successful i was telling
you about my sales earlier uh and it's
you know it's just the beginning so yeah
yeah i agree you know i'm and i'm i'm
usually just building the product but i
try to test as much as possible use as a
user would and you know i'm already
bringing in a lot of cells a lot of
digital cells a lot of print-on-demand
cells and i barely started with a couple
batch uploads
and it's just really cool to see it kind
of coming all together and i'm excited
to hear the the feedback and suggestions
from our users
and the things i love about my designs
but i highly recommend you go try it out
it's free so start start with a free
account and go from there i can i can
highly recommend it and i doubt you will
regret
learning my designs
yeah no you will not regret it because
the amount of time it's going to save
you and the quality of your listings
that you're going to be able to create
very quickly in bulk i mean it's a
no-brainer so guys links in the
description start a free account still
in beta um they love hearing your
feedback which is normally people say
that and it's like
should i really give it you know is it
just going to go in some black hole but
y'all actually like respond and like
take it into account so that's really
great um curtis man thank you for being
here i appreciate it yeah thanks for
having me again ryan i appreciate it and
and i'll talk to you soon
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