what's up guys thanks for joining me for
a new video this one was inspired by i
believe somebody in my print on demand
facebook group
they asked about they didn't want to
start their own like shopify print on
demand website where they would handle
payments on their website they just
wanted to start a website
where they could i think link to their
works
on various pod marketplaces so what i'm
going to show you
in this one is a couple things i'm going
to show you first
the ultimate easy mode in case you want
to i don't know impress your friends and
family
by giving them a domain name you know
for all intents and purposes a website
uh but essentially the domain name you
give them
would resolve to a marketplace of your
choice for instance it could go straight
to your redbubble shop like i could
buy the domain ryan's redbubble or i
probably wouldn't want to put redbubble
in it but
like ryan's bubble shop.com or something
and then i'm going to show you how
when my friends or family go to that
domain
it takes them straight to my redbubble
shop so it'd be like a custom domain or
some you know whatever
something cool like that i'll show you
how you can do that in like five minutes
or less
and then in part two i'm going to show
you how if you want to actually own
a space on that domain essentially how
you can host it how you can get hosting
for it
and do your own customizations and link
to your
etsy store your redbubble store your
amazon store etc so if you're interested
in seeing those things
let's get started
i'm not running a print on demand
giveaway this week but you can grab
my free print on demand mini course
using the link in the description
and right next to that link i've got a
link to my print on demand facebook
community so if you'd like to join i'd
love to have you we just cracked 10 000
members so you know let's keep it
growing
all right let's talk about option number
one as far as getting your own website
goes and this one is it's weird for me
saying website
to me it's more of just purchasing a
domain name and then forwarding the
domain name
to a location of your choosing like your
redbubble shop and i'll show you an
example of how i do this
with my youtube channel so first thing
you need to open an account with godaddy
now you don't have to use godaddy you
can use any domain name registrar but
godaddy is probably the most popular one
it's the one i've been using for the
longest period of time so that's the one
i'm gonna use in this example
so you can find a link in the
description i'm not an affiliate for
godaddy their affiliate program is
awful like i don't know why it's so bad
but i've never been able to actually get
a real link for it so or you can just go
straight to godaddy.com either way
and then once you make an account which
by the way is free
you can purchase your domain name and
i'm not going to walk through that it's
essentially click next click next click
next by the way
quick while we're here while we're
talking about it godaddy is like the
king of
upselling during the checkout process i
don't i mean
i've been a web developer since 2008
um you know i used to dabble back then
but i was building websites back then
i don't know a single person ever that's
gotten through the godaddy checkout
process without getting at least one
upsell
not including myself right because i
mean i
so i'm just saying if you buy a domain
name just pay for the domain
don't worry about anything else i got
you covered all right so
that being said now that you've got your
godaddy account and your domain name
go to manage domains so you might need
to click your name in the top right
corner and then go to manage domains but
either way it should be in the control
panel
go to manage domains now you should see
a list of all your domains i have a
bunch of domains on my account so i
blurred out a couple of the private ones
but
as you can see here i've got ryanhog.com
reinhard passiveincome.com and
ryansmethod.com so if you want like in
this example
uh i am going to show you how i redirect
ryanhogpassiveincome.com to my youtube
channel so what i did was i checked the
check box next to it
and then i scrolled back up and i went
to where it says forward
and i clicked that and then i clicked
right here forwarding
domains and then it just
triggers a little pop-up on that page so
what you want to do
is where it says forward to set that to
either http https
for youtube you would use https and then
put your link in so i used
youtube.com reinhard passive income the
forward type
uh again if this is just gonna be a
permanent thing leave it at 301
otherwise
i would just use 302. and then hit save
and then it's probably going to take
like 20 to 30 minutes
to propagate if it takes an hour don't
worry give it a little bit of time but
that should pretty much
work like that's pretty much it that's
all it takes
so then you can go to
reinhardpassiveincome.com
go or whatever domain you bought give it
like up to an hour
and uh it should just redirect you
straight to the website so if
that's your red bubble shop that you
want to take people to put your
redbubble link there if it's your etsy
shop put your etsy shop there
etc you can also do some other
interesting stuff like you could buy
um ryan'sdesigns.com forward slash maybe
this is something i can do in my course
and uh because i don't like to give
everything out on youtube unless there's
a lot of interest then maybe i'll just
do it for you guys but i don't want to
do too much technical web developer
stuff on this channel
because i don't think the youtube
algorithm likes it honestly um
so i mean the youtube algorithm's fine
with it but they like it when you kind
of stay in your lane
at one niche at least that's my read on
it um like i did my bitcoin video got
like a couple thousand views but not as
many as it should have and
i've done some like stock market videos
doesn't do as well so anyways
um it's not that hard to do i'm sure you
could probably just google it too
anyway so that's it for the forwarding
ready now i'm going to show you the
second option if you want to
host your own website give you complete
flexibility complete control
over everything and this video check the
time stamp it's not a four hour video so
i'm not going to give you like a full
tutorial on
how to do everything that i do on like
reinhard.com which i built from the
ground up
did the front end back end database etc
etc
but i'll show you how to at a minimum
use godaddy and then use
the web hosting company that i use to
get set up with both a domain name and
hosting option
to make the two work together so that
you can then you know if you want to do
like links to
all your shops for for instance you
could do that pretty easily
so again first things first you already
have your godaddy account you have your
domain name but now you need to manage
your domain name the same way i just
showed you how to do it except instead
of going to
forwarding go to name servers
and then your name servers by default
will not look like what you see here so
you just need to hit
change and then put what you see here
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ns1.fatcal.comns2.fatcal.com
now that's assuming you're going to
follow my tutorial which is going to
involve using
this company called fat cow now
it's a funny company name but they i
mean
here's the thing i've been using them
for since 2008 so i guess like 12 almost
13 years when i joined they were one of
the best companies and at this point i'm
kind of just locked in so if they're no
longer the best
i'm just speaking to my personal
experience here i know they're
definitely affordable by the way
and uh they don't limit your like
databases they don't limit your
bandwidth i mean it comes with
minimal restrictions like you can't
start the next youtube
website and host like video streaming
but um but like if you want to stream
video just upload to youtube and embed
it
anyways so you can use fatcal again if
you use my affiliate link that would be
awesome because they do have an
affiliate program
and after you sign up for your account
which by the way i think the first it's
like three dollars and 15 cents a month
when you first sign up
so it's a really good deal for the first
year and if you can get multiple years
on that an introductory
rate that's your best bet all right so
next thing you want to do after you have
your account is go grab
filezilla ftp client now
if i'm getting a little technical it's
okay to slow down pause the video
go watch a ftp tutorial but honestly
it's it's like
it's not that hard like it says see at
the top there it says host username
password port
well here's all the info you need host
ftp.fatcal.com
enter your username and your password
for the account you just created and
then port
i don't even think you have to enter a
report honestly but if it makes you just
put port 21
then hit the uh green server icon or the
it's a server icon with the green check
mark that should connect you to the
server
or actually just hit quick connect the
big button
um and then after that that's where you
you're now connected to your
web host via ftp and you can create
a folder where i would just call it like
websites or something
and then within the websites folder put
a web put a folder for
your domain the one that you just
purchased so if my website is
ryanhogpassiveincome.com
i'd probably just make a folder called
reinhard passive income
all right now you're going to need to
use this link
to do the next step unfortunately like
right now of course of all days they are
upgrading their
control panel so when you log into
fatcal and look at the control panel
you have limited access to things that
we used to be able to do
easily so now you have to use this link
right here and i'll put it in the
description
to access the portion of the domain
manager
where we can point so that when somebody
comes into your new domain
like ryan'sdesigns.com i can tell them
where to point to on the web host
because we can host multiple websites
with that cal on the same account but i
don't want to
point ryanhog.com where i'm pointing
ryansdesigns.com because
ryansdesigns.com might be where i'm just
doing the print on demand shop links
whereas ryanhog.com is like my blog for
everything i do on youtube
so use this link and it should take you
to your domains manager
now the easiest way to well for you it
won't matter but there is a search
function
i think i have like 40 or 50 domains
because i mean it's been 12 or 13 years
but i go in i search and you can see
here i had two results
i searched ryan hogue i got
reinhardt.com and ryan
hookedpassiveincome.com
so i clicked more info next to
ryanhogpassiveincome.com
and then it expands beneath it and it
says overview pointers
transfer dns name servers security
subdomains so
i click pointers and then i set the
first drop down to
subdirectory and then
i put the path to the directory i
created in ftp
to host this website's website files
you know essentially like the the html
css javascript you know the stuff that
makes up a website
um so the non-technical people out there
that are still watching thank you for
making it this far into the video and
just bookmark this in case in the future
you ever decide to give it a shot
um because this is essentially how it
works regardless of who you use for web
hosting and whatnot
um that is i guess unless you just go
straight to like wordpress or
squarespace which is probably the easier
option but
if there's any demand i guess i could do
like a tutorial on something like that
that's more
user friendly um they have they aim to
avoid making you do anything like this
but this is good stuff to know anyways
so change that drop down to subdirectory
change this drop down that i blurred
because i didn't want to give out like
my public pathing
well it's really private it's masked so
every time you go to
reinhoodpassiveincome.com
what it's resolving to behind the scenes
on my ftp server my web server
is the file path that i blurred there so
anyways
uh and then if you need a website
template you can get a ton of free ones
that are really nice
that you just need to go in and
customize the pictures the content et
cetera
at websites like startbootstrap.com so
i'll put a link also in the description
but
completely free um they'll be mobile
friendly
and look good on desktop so start
bootstrap.com
couple uh pictures of some of the free
templates that you can access there
and um you know again like i by the way
i didn't put a slide in but i used
notepad plus plus as like my go-to text
editor it's quick easy free
um so i would just download a template
open it notepad plus plus
swap out the content and then re-upload
it to ftp remember how i showed you
filezilla ftp
then you just drag drop it uploads it
and as long as your pointers are correct
and your name servers are set your
website will work and then by the way if
you're wondering like
what's next how do i link to all the uh
shops and all that stuff i mean i don't
want to do an html
tutorial but i will say you can do cool
stuff like this
you can embed products from redbubble
into your website so if you didn't know
that this is how you do it log into
redbubble
and then on the left hand side there
under artist tools go to link to other
sites
click that link and then scroll all the
way down to the bottom it's kind of
hidden
but you can show off your work on your
own website your non-redbubble website
so this is actually an up-to-date
version of your portfolio because it
goes and it grabs
it from redbubble and redbubble returns
the request it receives and returns the
request so it's
it's not static it's updated it's you
know in real time
anytime someone's on your website
looking and you can grab the embed code
right here again you'll see it you'll
see the section at the bottom of the
of the page you can change the number of
rows number of columns et cetera
so i think the default is 2x2 i set it
to 2x5 but it didn't update the preview
but anyways this is a preview that
redbubble will generate for you of what
your works
will look like and then it also includes
a view my portfolio button so you can
drop this in your website
um ryan's what did i say ryan's
bubbledesigns.com or something
and you can just embed your stuff and
when people click it it goes straight to
redbubble for
purchasing so pretty cool guys hope you
enjoyed this video
um kind of a random one but you know
when i saw it in facebook i'm like
i could answer this pretty easily so all
the links will be in the description
and just a quick reminder i do have a
full print on demand course in case you
want to check that out 10 modules over
100 lectures
if you follow it it pays for itself so
just letting you know that that's out
there but thanks for watching till the
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