Here's a real life example
of a print on demand niche
that is currently earning $4,000 profit per month.
I'll explain what it is and how they got to this point
so you can learn from it.
The site's called Print Steve and offers custom portraits
for people to buy based on pictures that they provide.
I came across this on Flippa last week,
which is a site people use to buy and sell businesses.
Print Steve was for sale at that time
so the stats were publicly available.
From that information we can determine that (1),
They earn around $4,000 profit per month
from selling prints.
(2), They have design teams that do the actual artwork.
(3), It's a print on demand business
so there's no inventory to think about.
If you've used print on demand services
like Redbubble before,
it's the same premise
except you cut out Redbubble
and customers come directly to you.
You sell on your own website instead of someone else's.
But everything else is automated in the same way.
It's no big secret or anything special
but that's exactly why it's so interesting.
Because in theory, anyone can do it.
It demonstrates what's possible.
I'm not suggesting that you buy Print Steve
but rather learn from it.
So here we go, let's learn.
This is the auction on Flippa
and I'm only gonna reveal publicly available details.
Meaning that anyone can access this information
for free if they wanted without even signing up.
The only thing it sells is prints.
Which shows you don't need anything too revolutionary
or fancy to find success.
Buyers choose what they want
and get to customize the end result
with these backgrounds.
Mateusz, who owns the site,
isn't some super godlike individual.
He just put 2 and 2 together to get 4.
So let's have a look at how he did that.
There are three components here.
Number one, is the Shopify store
that enables the site to function.
We know it uses Shopify
because the owner specified it on Flippa.
If you've not heard of Shopify before,
it allows anyone to create an online shop.
It provides the infrastructure.
So the website, the templates that make it look nice,
the coding to take payments from customers
and the ability to list your products...
It's all done for you.
Number two, is the artists that create the orders
from customers.
You can use sites like Upwork or Fiverr
to find people that could do the work.
And perhaps this is what Print Steve did.
I've already got videos about how to use both Fiverr
and Upwork which I'll link in the description.
It looks from the website like most of the work
has already been done
with these background templates.
And it's just a case of adding in characters
based on the customer's uploaded photos.
So it would be very low cost and easy to sort this out.
And number three, is the print on demand supplier
used to create the physical product
that gets sent to customers.
The supplier isn't specified
but there's plenty of options available.
Personally, I prefer using Printful
because it's one of the most hands-off suppliers
that I've found.
So if your goal is passive income, keyword "passive",
then maybe consider this.
Again I've got a video
about how to use Printful specifically
if you are on sites like Redbubble
or Merch by Amazon
which I'll put in the description.
There are loads of others though like Printify
which is a similar service, or CustomCat.
Just choose your favorite.
So in summary, Shopify enables customers
to use the website and place orders.
Artists pick up those orders
and create the designs.
And a print on demand supplier prints them onto products
and sends them to the customer.
Very simple but clearly effective.
It's easily possible
to completely automate all three aspects
that make this site successful.
So the income would be earned totally passively.
We know from the auction
that the site's only a year old.
So it's become successful very quickly too.
This is one very easy way to make money online.
And if you can make one sale,
you can make a hundred sales.
It's just a case of scaling the business up.
If what you take away from this video
is that you need to make a Simpsons-themed niche site,
then you've missed the point.
The point is to show what's possible
with the resources that are available.
I'm actually doubtful of the legality
of offering Simpson style portraits like this.
So definitely don't go down that route.
And I purposefully waited
so the auction for Print Steve had ended.
So it didn't seem like a promotional piece.
The point is that you can use the same resources
that made this site so successful
and apply your own ideas.
Don't get me wrong.
There will have been a lot of hours put into the site
to get to this point.
But the premise is easily replicated.
It's true that setting up something like this
will need financial investment
but it's not too overwhelming.
Shopify has got a 14-day free trial.
Then after that it's $29 a month.
Which includes the website store, discount codes,
all that stuff.
There's also that cheaper $9 plan
which they don't shout about too much.
That allows you to do a similar thing
without the fancy extras.
There are a lot of services similar to Shopify
if you want to use something else.
This isn't a Shopify advertisement.
It's just what Print Steve uses
and one of the most well-known services.
You can use whatever you want
and just google "eCommerce platforms" to get a list
or I'll put links to others in the description for you.
The artists that you'll need are available
for a very reasonable fee on sites like Fiverr or Upwork.
And you'll only pay them for the work that they do.
So your customer will have paid you before you pay them.
The same is true of the print on demand services.
The clue's in the name.
They only *print* on *demand*.
You only pay for what you use.
No investment in stock.
And you only use a supplier when you get an order.
It's not 1995
where you have to order a thousand blank prints
and keep your fingers crossed
hoping someone buys one to start recuperating your expenses.
Hopefully you found this helpful and eye-opening.
If it's all a bit much,
then just stick to the free print on demand sites
like Redbubble or similar.
But really this video is just to show what's possible.
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