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hey guys ryan here thank you for joining
me for another video
today i want to share with you one of
the biggest
print-on-demand hacks out there it's
something i've been doing for over a
year
on a daily basis yes i am talking about
automating the upload process you know
the most
boring tedious part of running a print
on demand business
yes well that is a thing of the past
because
you can run an application that will do
it all for you so i'm gonna break down
four different options that you can
choose whether or not are right for you
that can automate your uploads to
various print-on-demand platforms now
each one of them
has pros and cons and they all have
different costs so i broke all of that
down for you in today's video
i'm gonna go jump on my computer and i
will share everything with you
all right guys thank you again for
joining me as promised i'm going to show
you how you can automate
your print on demand uploads really
quickly for new viewers let me introduce
myself i'm ryan hogue i've sold over 1.7
million
on amazon to date and in this video i'm
going to show you how you can sell on
more than just amazon you can sell on a
bunch of different marketplaces
with the push of a button if you want to
follow links in the description i've got
a free 8 day
print on demand mini course it'll help
get you started i've also got a print on
demand facebook community i'd love to
have you there lots of active discussion
if you'd like to subscribe to my youtube
channel i publish monthly income reports
you can follow my journey as a
print-on-demand seller
you can even go back in time and see how
long it took me to hit the
1 000 profit a month mark i always
distinguish revenue from profit by the
way because i want to give you guys a
real insight into my journey
last but not least i have an almost 70
lecture print on demand course with an
active members only community i'd love
to have you there if you're interested
link in the description all right back
to why
we are all here i'm gonna show you four
different options
four different tools you can use to
automate your print on demand uploads
you don't need all four
most likely one is good enough i'm going
to show you the
pros and cons of each one of these
services and i'm going to give you a
cost analysis so you can choose which
one's right for you
if any at all real quickly i wanted to
just explain how this works all right so
the gear icon is meant to represent the
automation app that's
uploading for us now on the left hand
side there you see the gear
and just in one arrow to redbubble
that's because redbubble
is both a marketplace and a
print-on-demand production partner as in
they will bring customers to their
platform that help
us get sales following a sale they
create the product and ship it to the
customer and do customer service for us
and they pay us a royalty as the artist
very easy to get started with print on
demand
on a platform like redbubble now it's
also easy to get started
selling print on demand on etsy like you
see here however
etsy will not create the products for us
and ship them to the customers and do
customer service
that's gonna fall on us as etsy sellers
now
of course we don't want to create a
manual process headache
if our business scales and then we have
to create the products and go to the
post office etc
that's where we hire a company like
printful
printful is the production partner
they're the middleman so if we make a
t-shirt sale on etsy
printful will automatically detect the
order create it
ship it to the customer and it's taken
off of our plate
so we'd have to do customer service
that's the only part that we'd have to
do
so there's two ways to sell print on
demand online i wanted to clarify that
because
these automation apps that we're going
to be looking at
a lot of them can upload both to
marketplaces
and production partners that act as
middlemen
to more marketplaces so the potential
is a lot broader when you can push to a
place like printful here
which then allows you to push to
something like 20 more different
platforms something like that
now the first tool i want to highlight
is called merch titans automation i've
been using their tool for
just about a year now if not longer and
i've been extremely happy with it i mean
it's
reliable it's constantly being updated
and improved
and uh you know i'm not supposed to talk
too much about the future of the tool
but i know they have something
huge that's going to be a
print-on-demand game changer
in the plans for the not so distant
future obviously i'll be the first
person to tell you about it when it
drops
um but as far as upload automation goes
it is
rock solid now for each of the tools i'm
going to share with you i've got links
in the description
using them supports the channel and
remember i'm not sharing these tools
with you because i'm an affiliate i'm
sharing them with you because
i use them regularly they provide my
print on demand business
so much utility by freeing up so much
extra time for me to do
other things for instance i'm running
the uploader right now while recording
this video
if it wasn't for merch titans honestly
because that was the first one i ever
used if it wasn't for them
i probably wouldn't be on youtube in
front of you right now so i
owe them a debt of gratitude also full
disclosure i'm a little bit biased
because i've
met the guy who created merch titans i
was in las vegas for a fantasy football
draft
and he lives out there so we met up
kicked back a couple drinks and became
friends
all right now the cost of merch titans
automation it's
69.99 a month or if you go with the
annual plan you can save some money
52.49 a month
i would also like to just remind you
guys that print on demand is a 365 day
sales cycle so if you
join merge titans and you actually use
it
that's key you have to use it then in
the fourth quarter in october november
december when sales are
crazy because everybody's buying stuff
online for instance i mean honestly
remember the printful ceo and the etsy
ceo were saying that they've been seeing
black friday like
sales volume in april right so we're
already seeing huge print on demand
sales numbers
in like the the middle of the year when
it's normally slow so
if you're thinking long term like for me
if my sales are ever slow i'm like okay
but
around christmas i'm gonna be rewarded
for this you know hard work that i'm
putting in today
in the middle of the summer so keep the
right perspective on your business it
doesn't matter if it's print on demand
fba anything you always get more sales
around christmas or in the fourth
quarter you know so yeah it's a little
bit pricey but
i think it's worth every penny also it
will allow you to upload
to these marketplaces redbubble
spreadshirt teespring
zazzle merch by amazon t public
and then it allows you to upload to my
recommended print on demand production
partner
printful now through printful you can
then upload to places like
etsy you can upload to i don't know
where
bonanza wish um shopify
just a lot of places if you guys aren't
familiar with printful check out my
channel i've got a lot of videos on them
this is what the user interface looks
like so as you can see there's little
switches here
you can turn on and off each platform
that you want to upload to or
you can just hit the start button and
upload to all of them at once you just
have to load up your configuration
beforehand
alright they also have kdp upload
automation if you guys haven't done
amazon kdp
you are missing out because you can
convert your print-on-demand t-shirt
designs into kdp book covers and sell
them as low content books and make even
more money
i do have a playlist for this on my
youtube channel and a full course
if you're interested all right let's
move on to podconnect and also at the
end of this video i'm going to do a
comparison of each platform so you can
figure out which one is right for you
now podconnect is brought to us by the
same people who created merch informer
niche research tools for amazon merch as
well as
book bolts which is nice research tools
and interiors and lots of good stuff
for amazon kdp that we were just talking
about
so another disclaimer i have never met
neil the guy who created
merchant former book bolts and pod
connect but i have done a live stream
with him actually walking through how to
use podconnect
when they launched it so the cost is uh
20 a month or 190 dollars annually so
definitely cheaper than merch titans but
also a different tool providing
different utility
so podconnect can help us upload to
redbubble spreadshirt
teespring zazzle and then as far as
production partners go
printful printfy and guten which means
it can also then
push technically to all of the
integrations available through
those platforms now guten if you've
never heard of it is a really
interesting print-on-demand production
partner
i'm planning a full in-depth review on
my channel very soon if you'd like to
subscribe
all right this is the user interface for
pod connect very simple very plain
um easy to use not intimidating there is
spreadsheets involved just like there is
for most of these tools
um but you know one of the benefits of
joining my course if you did join my
full course
is i give you my actual spreadsheets
make it
even easier to set them up than
basically as easy as it could possibly
be
and i give you my configuration files
for um these tools whenever
it's makes sense to so like platform
specific configuration
all right pod turbo this is affiliated
with gear bubble
i think they never officially said that
but i'm pretty sure it
is because it basically integrates with
all the platforms that gear bubble does
and looks like gear bubble mock-ups are
generated through it
that's not meant to be a knock it's just
just letting you guys know
it makes it unique all right so it's 97
a month so if you thought merch titans
was expensive think again and you can
also sign up for an annual plan here and
save a little bit of money basically get
two months free
by doing the annual plan so with pod
turbo you can upload to ebay
woocommerce shopify bonanza etsy store
envy
gear bubble and this is where i get a
smile on my face
amazon and no that's not amazon merch
that is amazon
seller central so for those of you that
are already selling
print on demand products through seller
central you know that we can't just
spam it with new listings we will get
throttled and lose our ability to do so
pod turbo allows us to schedule those
new listings so that it can just push
them for us throughout the day it is
truly incredible this is the evolution
of a print on demand upload tool so
that's why i just can't i cannot help
but smile it's so awesome guys
also if you're not selling fbm print on
demand products on amazon through seller
central
you need to be i don't know what else to
say you need to be follow the customers
that's the world's number one e-commerce
marketplace if you need a step-by-step
tutorial on how to get set up there as
well as every other platform you see
here on the screen you can check out my
print on demand course
it's right there in the description just
saying love to have you
all right this is the ui for pod turbo
uh what's cool about this by the way
it's all web browser-based all the other
ones you have to download and run
on your machine as an application
whereas this is done through your
browser
all right and in 10 minutes or less i
was integrated to my seller central
account and i had
a test listing created so it works
all right the next one i want to talk
about in the last tool is called flying
upload
all right this is a german tool so they
have a lot of traction in the german
market
and they have since expanded into well i
guess internationally
so if you'd like to join flying upload i
do have a promo code to save you 10
percent
this is what the pricing looks like uh
by the way they have a free tier so if
you just wanted to get started test it
out you're not really certain it's going
to work for you
they have a free tier i think it's like
30 uploads a month to one platform so
it's not the best as far as like
actual utility as far as your business
goes but hey
it's a great place to get started if
you're a little bit uncertain about this
otherwise the beginner plan 636 a month
pro
40 a month and uh actually that's first
month so it looks like
they all jump up uh to a little bit more
pros 50 a month
advanced is uh 25 a month right here so
maybe the advanced plan is a good place
to start
and they have trademark check built in
that's really cool so with flying upload
you can currently push to amazon merch
display redbubble kdp spreadshirt
society6
surety t public fine art america
threadless and teespring with support
for printful
which again opens the door to multiple
other platforms and zazzle
coming soon so again if you're trying to
maximize your coverage which should be
everybody's goal
you know get your products available for
sale in as many places as possible
uh this is the tool you need or any of
these really
but this one's unique because it
supports some
different markets that we hadn't seen
before like diss plate society6
shirty uh threadless and fine art
america so cool selection there
i think one of them is a german i think
shirty is a
a german print on demand and spreadshirt
also i think has a german arm
all right this is what the upload
interface or user interface of their
application looks like
pretty straightforward easy to use again
there's gonna be spreadsheets involved
but
think about it like this you can type
the same data
into every single website for one design
or type it in one place
and then have all of the platforms that
you're pushing the product to
read it from that single place so me
being a web developer like that's
that's that's how my brain works i
always want to be doing things that way
i don't want to do the same thing twice
like ever all right and just to point
out
if you guys missed my announcement about
a month ago
i shared that a friend and i developed a
chrome extension called
automate pod which you can check out at
automatepod.com again there's links in
the description
with automate pod you can use automation
to
scale out designs so if you're wondering
like all right that's great that i can
upload designs but how the heck am i
going to create this many
to where it makes sense to use an upload
automation tool well
automate pod can do that for you it
inserts
and swaps out variables and downloads
them for you
so basically hopefully this is painting
the full picture of how you can approach
print on demand
in 2020 and beyond by leveraging
automation to both
create designs and upload them using the
assistance of the tools that i shared
here
all right before we wrap up let's do a
quick comparison of the pros
of each one of these tools so merge
titans has been around for a long time
they have a high level of platform
specific customization
they support amazon merch and all of the
merch products
and you can upload the same designs
through merch titans to amazon merch for
like optimized for t-shirt dimensions
and the tool itself will optimize
and re-render that design so that it's
able to be used on hoodies and pop
sockets so you don't have to do any
additional work
it will convert it on the fly for you so
it's
extremely valuable utility and then i
put a huge update coming because uh
they've got something great coming down
the pipeline that's all i can say
pod connect so they have a free trial
available
it's affordably priced it's the cheapest
one out of all four
it's got flexibility built into their
spreadsheets
so you can essentially like
name the headers of your spreadsheets
whatever you want and then
when you upload your spreadsheet into
podconnect you can say like all right
the title of the design is on
the spreadsheet under this header and
the
description is under this header and
it's flexible it's not just gonna break
if it's not how you want it
or how they want it sorry um it stands
out because it supports printfy and
guten which i believe it was the only
tool that supports both of them
it's less intrusive during the upload
process because you can essentially just
like
run it in the background of your
computer you don't even notice it's
there
and last but not least it's compliant
with each platform so
they went out of their way to reach out
to all the platforms they support
and essentially guarantee that it's okay
for sellers to use their tool to
automate the upload process
whereas like amazon merge for instance
they say
in their terms that you're not supposed
to use an uploader so
every platform and service through pod
connect
they've already cleared it that it's
okay to automate uploads to that
platform
in case you're wondering or worried
about it all right pod turbo
the benefits it's highly configurable
it's
browser-based so you don't have to
download anything which is cool
it includes category-based product
information
templates so if you're selling coffee
mugs for instance
the category mug will just autofill a
description for you if you don't want to
type one yourself which i mean i'm
always a fan of
and it supports gear bubble and amazon
fbm print on demand products i mean that
was the
for me that's the seller right there you
can just have it be pushing
to amazon all day every day no longer a
manual process guys if you knew how long
i have been doing manual pushes to
amazon
i yeah it's crazy like my brain still
thinks like every 20 minutes like go
push a new product to amazon through
printful go push new product to amazon
through printful
so being able to automate this is truly
a game changer
alright and last but not least flying
upload so what's cool they have a free
tier available if you want to get
started for uh free and test it out
um podconnect and flying upload both
offer the free option
they support unique uh platforms such as
displate
society6 surety fine art america and
threadless
they have built-in keyword finder they
have built-in trademark validation
um you know just like the rest of them
they're constantly expanding their tools
the platforms that we can push to
and it's an exciting time to be running
a print on demand business because
the future of print on demand from a
seller perspective is going to
you know obviously be largely affected
by tools like the ones i shared with you
in this video
so you can either i mean i hate to just
be brutally honest guys but you know me
i have an affinity for tech
i am a computer nerd i was working as a
web developer i
you know this is what i do and like with
automation and with tools like this you
can either
join them or you can get left in the
dust so i
highly recommend um checking out at
least one of these tools at least check
out the free ones you know
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