How to sell print on demand on ebay
Start Selling Print On Demand Products with Ebay and Printful Step By Step
all right what's going on guys we're
back for another quick video and I hope
you guys are having an amazing week as I
know I am I want to make this quick
video just says I've kind of been making
a lot of videos surrounding expanding
from merch by Amazon to on to other
platforms for your print-on-demand
business and the last video was all
about expanding on Etsy I'll put a link
to that one down below in the comments
make sure you guys check that out if you
haven't already but this video is give
me doing something similar but actually
showing you how easy it is to add eBay
as a sales channel using the printful
integration so make sure you guys check
out the description below I'm gonna put
links to all the relevant content down
there and of course subscribe to the
channel if you guys are in the
e-commerce or print-on-demand space my
channel is all about e-commerce KDP
print-on-demand
and creating online businesses that
lasts and can help scale your business
to make some additional income on the
side of your full-time job or hopefully
go full-time with doing this business so
with that being said we're gonna go
ahead and hop right into this video and
I'm just gonna show you guys how easy it
is to actually get start with printful
and get your first t-shirt or product
listed on the eBay marketplace so we're
gonna hop over into the computer screen
now and I'm gonna show you guys how to
actually go about getting started so
we're over here on the printful homepage
if you guys don't know what printful is
essentially they are a print on demand
fulfillment company so similar to what
merch by Amazon and you know some of
these other platforms do like custom cat
gear gear bobble gear launch teespring
etc printful is a really great provider
for fulfilling all kinds of different
designs and products so we upload a
design to the printful platform after
we've created an account and you guys
will see you all just show you some of
the products that they do if you're not
familiar with them so let's go ahead and
take a look at some of the products here
and also show you guys kind of some of
the breakdown on pricing but they have
everything in here so printful as you
know men's clothing women's clothing
kids and youth so they even have stuff
for toddlers in here they have hats
accessories you know home and living so
things like these pillows you guys can
kind of see in these pictures you can
even do canvases which are really
popular and you can make a really good
margins on those and coffee mugs and
they have tons and tons of other
so I haven't even played with all these
different things but as you guys can see
I'm just gonna poke around here a little
bit more so we have the normal t-shirts
and that's what I've spent most of my
time in and I'll show you guys a few of
those and you guys can see here the the
kind of we have all kinds of different
products right we have the men's
champion shirt for example which is
$18.50 that's a pretty pricey shirt you
know the ones that I normally stick with
are these two products right here if I'm
doing t-shirts and that's the unisex
Bella and canvas t-shirt you guys can
see that this one starts at 1295 that's
our cost before shipping and fees and
this is available in all these different
colors and sizes now if we're doing
something a little bit more simple I
normally stick to the unisex basic
Gildan t-shirt because it's so
inexpensive for us so it's 895 now with
printful their fulfillment fees for
shipping are about four dollars a shirt
for the first shirt if your customer
orders let's say two products of two
t-shirts from you it's four dollars for
the first one and then it's about a
dollar for the shipping costs on the
additional unit which helps us get a
little bit more room for margin there so
it's always a great you know a great
idea to be able to try to upsell and
sell multiple shirts in an order but
either way if the pricing strategy that
I'm going to show you guys allows you to
still make a good return on your
investment here and actually get a
margin out of this so with that being
said just to take a further look here we
also have you know all-over t-shirts we
have you know sweatpants hoodies we can
even go back and I'll show you guys a
few of the others here but we have I
mentioned that kids ones we have baby
bibs so we can even explore that kind of
stuff we have baby body suits they have
hats you know all kinds of different
styles of hats they have accessories so
you can even do things like jewelry here
iPhone cases home and living now this
really if you guys don't have your
wheels already spinning this is going to
allow you if you have one design think
about how many different products you
can put this design on so if you have a
design that's a winning design and you
can put it on you know a hundred
different products and then put those
products in all kinds of different
places so Etsy merch by Amazon Amazon's
main storefront
Bay etc this is going to allow us to get
in front of more and more buyers and
give our products a higher and higher
chance of being able to be sold which is
why I love print on a man in general
your your one product or your one design
turns into you know hundreds of
different products across different
store fronts so you can get thousands of
you know free views and even you know
work with advertising to get higher and
higher views and conversion rates for
these products so if you guys aren't
already doing print on demand I highly
recommend you get into it and this is a
really really simple way to actually get
start with print on demand and start
selling your products so if you guys
don't already have a print full account
you're gonna go ahead and want to create
a print full account I have a link to
the the sign up down below in the
description so you check that guy out if
you guys want and I'll show you guys
what the process is gonna look like so
once our print full account is actually
created we're gonna come in here and on
the left hand side there's a stores
feature a restores module now I've
blurred some of my stores out just for
to protect my accounts that you know so
no one steals my designs here but all we
need to do is scroll down and click on
the choose platform button now this is
gonna prompt us to choose which platform
we want to sell one so you know I've
used this integration with a lot of
success on Etsy it works really really
well shop if I've played with I've done
a lot with the eBay and all those work
very very well I haven't really played
with some of these other ones
WooCommerce Squarespace but obviously
you guys can see here you know depending
on whatever platform you want to sell on
there's tons and tons of different
options here for us which is another big
one nowadays and these are you know lots
of different places that we can actually
play around with so for this video
obviously we're gonna be sticking with
eBay so we're gonna go ahead and click
connect now if you guys don't already
have an eBay account make sure you go
ahead over to eBay and create that
account it's gonna take you know 5-10
minutes and you just need to put in some
basic information since I already have
an eBay account we're just gonna go
ahead and go through this process to
keep this video fairly short here
printful also I will say has very very
great customer service and support and
they have a lot of walkthrough videos
like this so if you guys you know are
having any issues or any trouble you can
always reach out to them or
watch you know some of the videos that
they have here but step one as you guys
can see is we need to click the connect
to ebay button this is going to redirect
us over to ebay and I'm just gonna log
in with my eBay information so again
guys I'm gonna blur this out but let me
login really quick and this process is
super super quick and easy right it's
gonna take us about five minutes or less
when you do agree to their policies so
I'm going to go ahead and hit agree all
right step one is done next we need to
fill in some of this general info it's
already auto loaded some of my mind from
another eBay store so I'm gonna go ahead
and change that out and I'll show you
guys before I actually get it now we're
gonna go off of our Etsy store which we
have let me just show you guys the Etsy
store we created the other day and I
created this store from scratch just to
give you guys an idea of you know how
how Etsy actually works on how you can
use this same the same print full
integration there so let me just show
you guys that shop so here is the really
simple store we created two many turtles
shop and we uploaded our first design
right here this is a really simple
design I made in canva on my own so I
don't have a lot of design skills but
you guys can either be you know buying
these designs buying pre-made designs
you know hire a designer to do this work
or just create designs yourself but
we're gonna take this product and get it
live over on our eBay store so to do
this again we're gonna hop back over to
eBay I'm gonna do the brand name here as
the same as my eBay want too many
turtles shop and we're gonna put in our
email address
and it's gonna ask for the maximum
handling time in days I think the
default on your guys should be five days
I'm gonna leave it as that for now go
ahead and click continue and that is
gonna take us to the next step which is
the payment policy now we have a few
options here we can create our own in
eBay or you know since my eBay store
already has a few I'm just gonna select
one that I already have here which is
immediate pay so I want the buyer to pay
immediately for these products if we
don't have it we can create a new one
I'm gonna hit continue and now we are on
to step four the return policy I'm gonna
leave it as this default the print full
return policy we wanted to create our
own that's fine but I'm just gonna go
ahead and use the default one printful
is already made for us and hit continue
and as you guys can see here it is
synchronizing some of our product
information again I'm gonna blur this
out because I did already have some
products that are synced into eBay so
the nice thing is if you guys already
have a store that has products in there
you know maybe you already had printful
synced in the past or something like
that it's really cool because they'll
actually pull all of your data directly
back in but while this is synchronizing
we're gonna go ahead and act as if this
is a brand new eBay account and we're
gonna go ahead and upload our first
product in here and it's really simple
to do that just go ahead and click add
product now this is gonna take us to the
choose product area oops looks like it
just refreshed so add product and we're
gonna select the type of products we
want to add so for the sake of this
video we're just gonna do our normal
t-shirts and I'm gonna use the shirt
that I talked about in the first part of
this video now normally how I choose
this is always try to do the a dollar
ninety five cent one just because I want
to get as much as possible out of my
designs and I want to you know pass on
some savings to the buyer the only time
that I'll choose the more expensive 1295
dollar option here is if this design
only looks good or sorry if this design
that looks good on a lot of different
colors or I know that the buyer is gonna
be interested in you know more call
options because as you guys can see here
this $8 95 cent design really only has
three color options it has the white
black and I think this is a navy and
then a gray now on my Etsy store I'll
just show you guys but I you know I know
this design looks good on white it looks
good on black but I also want to add a
few other color options right I know
that maybe I'm gonna have a parent
buying this for a child they might want
it on blue or maybe on pink if it's for
a girl or for a boy we're not judging
these days so I'm gonna choose this one
the Belle in canvas and I'm gonna show
you guys how I priced my shirts as well
this is gonna take us right to the
configuration area and it's really nice
I wish that merch by Amazon would adopt
some of this because they make it super
simple as you guys can see here I can
choose where I want the design I could
put it on the front I can put it on the
back they even do sleeves so I can add a
custom image or design of my sleeves and
you guys can see you know printful they
really allow us to customize this quite
a bit so this is also great a lot of
people say you know there's too much
competition with print on a man well to
be honest there's so much variety that
you can do and find ways to be unique
and set yourself really apart that even
if they're you're going into a niche
that has a lot of other competitors if
you find a way to create a cooler design
or maybe you deliver it you know in a
different style like providing it on the
back or the left-to-right sleeve or
something like that or maybe you want to
add a custom label inside to give that
extra level of you know your brand or
whatever it may be
printful is a really easy way to do all
of that so for this we're just gonna go
ahead and add this design on the front
and let me just grab this over here
let's see if it'll go okay and we drag
and drop now you can also click on that
and upload directly from your computer
your file library and there we go so our
design is right here I'm actually gonna
want to show you guys one thing if you
guys are using a designer like I am the
really nice thing is that we can also go
ahead and click and you'll notice over
here on the right we have the option to
upload from a Google Drive folder or
from Dropbox so my designer for example
he does you know my
designs and then he'll upload them into
Google Drive and so if I want to add you
know a hundred of my designs in dump
them into printful so that I can easily
upload them without downloading them
from Google Drive and then re uploading
I can click this and actually pull them
directly but again guys we're just going
to take that design as it's already in
here so we have our file uploaded and
one other thing I want to point out is
that you can also add text directly in
the printful platform so if you wanted
to add anything add clipart I don't
really utilize this feature but it is
there if you guys want we can also you
know resize our design let me make this
get it back and you know we can drag it
around up and down so it gives us a
little bit more functionality than a
merge by Amazon might next thing we're
gonna want to do is choose our color
option so we know this looks a decent on
white I'm gonna go ahead and choose
black and you guys will see it's making
the mock-ups live for us so we can get a
feel for what the customer is gonna see
as well I like that one let's see what
else we have let's do that blue and
let's do that pink and obviously you
guys are gonna want to spend a little
bit of time in here you know making sure
that you're choosing the best possible
colors I'm just trying to go fairly
quick just for the sake of this video
but I normally spend a few more minutes
in here now one thing I want to point
out as you guys can see is I'm kind of
adding on these colors down here there
are some warnings for us it says
discontinued colors and sizes this does
happen fairly often if you think about
it from a logistical standpoint printful
is actually keeping all these products
you know at their warehouse to actually
fulfill so oftentimes you know they have
to keep pink for example in every size
range so oftentimes they are gonna have
products that are out of stock in
different size ranges so we can see here
the extra small on the heather forest
blue and lilac this pink color is
actually out and same with the lilac on
the pink for three XL and for Excel so
our options here really we can take that
those sizes off and that can solve it or
our other option here would be actually
to choose some different colors so I'm
gonna see if there's a different pink
that maybe still looks good
and is in better stock so let me just
check a few of these alright so this one
you know this one doesn't look amazing
but again for the sake of the video I'm
just gonna leave this on here and then
I'm gonna uncheck extra small because I
want to keep those other colors on and
there we have it so now the next step is
proceed to mock-ups now this is one of
the other really powerful things is
printful automatically gives us this
really simple way to pull in some
lifestyle mock-ups and choose one that
looks good for our products let's see
what they have so you guys can see they
have been male and female mock-ups they
have just plain short ones they have
this one right here which is kind of a
nice has like a nice backdrop to it we
have kind of a gym aesthetic then some
kind of lighter more fun ones and they
even have this one for couples so if you
guys are doing you know a best boyfriend
turtle t-shirt best girlfriend turtle
t-shirt you could add those designs here
or a couples shirt of some sort so in
this case we're gonna stick with
something pretty playful I like this one
just cuz we're kind of in a green
natural theme so I'm gonna do that and
then I normally will try to choose the
main mock-up image as the one that I
think looks best color wise so I'm gonna
go ahead and check this one it's already
checked here then we're gonna proceed to
the description now I've done a lot of
videos on how to actually create you
know product descriptions and keywords
so I'm not going to go into that for
this video you know make sure you guys
check out my other videos in my channel
to see how I actually do my titles and
product descriptions and do my keyword
research but in this case we're
literally just gonna copy the titles we
made the other day for our Etsy store
and what I like to do is put it the main
keywords in the product title then I
copy the title and put it again in the
description just to help with some of
that search engine optimization and then
I've actually created a few few
sentences that also include some
keywords so you know something along the
lines of if you love turtle artwork or
marine animals and this turtle themed
gift idea is great for the beach lover
in your life get this turtle accessory
for your entire tropical vacation crew
you know get sandy with baby took baby
sea turtle lover
in your life this ternal apparel makes a
great gift for men women boys and girls
we just want this to flow we obviously
are hitting on a lot of the key words
here turtle artwork marine animals Beach
lover turtle accessory tropical vacation
sandy etc you guys get the idea so I'm
just gonna go ahead and copy these over
we're gonna go back in here and I'll
plug those in right here and then I also
add at the very end this is something I
normally take from my merch by Amazon
listings but this is kind of your last
chance to sell the person so the sea
turtle blah blah blah put the title and
makes a fantastic present and I like to
include that word just for you know the
holidays as well so we're gonna copy
that and put it in the bottom and then
we can choose if we want the style at
the size guy that actually as an image
in this I always like to because it
helps avoid questions from potential
buyers we want to you know give them as
much information to make that buying
decision without stopping and thinking
about it ahead of time and then I'm
gonna choose the style and normally this
is unisex unless I have a reason to do
men or women maybe I'm only making a
design for men or only for women and
next we're gonna proceed to pricing now
I told you guys I was going to tell you
a little bit about my pricing strategy
here so remember with this that our our
cost for the actual product is 1295 and
then as you guys can see down here the
shipping it's actually I guess the
dollar higher than I thought but
shipping costs for all variants is $5
and then okay what they did is they
actually decrease this one a little bit
so it's 75 cents for any additional unit
so that means that if we just sell one
shirt our shipping cost is gonna be five
dollars if the buyer buys two shirts
then it's gonna be five dollars plus
seventy-five cents so five seventy-five
so obviously you guys can see is we want
to convert people that are gonna buy a
few shirts at a time it really helps us
make a much better profit margin here
but normally what I do is you know we
see this trend that with all the
e-commerce marketplaces these days
people want free shipping they want to
see that shipping is free they don't
want to see a low price and then they
get to the checkout and all of a sudden
they're hit with a five six dollars
shipping fee so I
always tried to create my product
listing so that I'm I have enough room
you know with the the price to charge or
to take that shipping and still make
some profit margin so if we think about
this our cost with shirts 1295 and then
we have a $5 for feet on the shipping so
that's 1795 and then eBay is gonna take
you know it's a fee as well so if you
guys aren't familiar with eBay fees
there are if you just type in eBay
let's see fee calculator similar to
Amazon
we do have a fee calculator here that's
gonna show us roughly what we're gonna
end up paying the price I like to charge
for my shirts is you know 2195 223 95
and I'm gonna show you guys why I do
that shipping charge let's see we are
gonna do zero shipping cost we pay five
dollars item cost we pay $12.95 eBay
store if you guys are paying a monthly
fee for an eBay store you do get a
little bit of a discount and same if
you're a top rated seller but I'm gonna
seem you guys are just getting started
so you don't have that and you guys can
see down here right we have an ebay fee
of two hours in four cents a paypal fee
of 99 cents so after all said and done
we're gonna make two dollars and 61
cents on this product so now if you guys
factor in you know if we go cheaper out
and we do the $8 95 you guys can see our
profit now goes all the way up to six
dollars and 61 cents so again this is
why I always want to try to do that
basic level shirt the $6 and 61 but I
wanted to show you guys kind of the
worst-case option here of doing you know
the twelve dollar 95 cent shirt a lot of
people there one kind of critique of
printful is that the pricing is fairly
high and to be honest I agree $12.95 is
a decent amount for a shirt but I do
think it is worth it because really they
integrates so seamlessly that I have to
do nothing once I have this product
actually listed on eBay
so you know I'm saving four dollars or
excuse me I'm spending four dollars more
to free up that time of having to go
custom fulfill orders on the backend so
again guys just want to show you this
I'll put a link to this
calculators well down below in the
description but so what we're gonna do
is we're gonna just increase this so
that our prices match that $23 price
range so I'm gonna increase by 495 and
you guys will see that I'll push all the
prices up obviously the larger sizes are
a bit more expensive as well so we're to
go ahead and edit quantities now this is
really important section if you guys are
just starting a brand new eBay store
you're not gonna have the same
capability to list as someone who has an
established store similar to merch by
Amazon eBay does limit you when you're
just getting started fortunately I have
a an eBay account that you know I've
been working on for years now and I've
done a lot of sales volume on so you
guys can see I have the capability a
list four hundred and eighty thousand
products and a value of up to almost a
half million dollars on eBay now why
this is important is if you guys are
just getting started you know you might
only have a hundred slots available so
you don't want to go and put a quantity
of five on every variation because very
quickly that's gonna add up and take up
all your slots and even now you know
even though I do have this volume here
to add more I always just leave the
quantity as one and that's because I
want to give myself room to add more and
more products in here so I'm not gonna
change these for now as you guys you
know start to sell more and more on eBay
you can go in and actually request to
increase those limits in the eBay
storefront and you know if you guys have
any questions about that let me know
down below the comments but the next
thing we are gonna do here is just click
Submit to store and you guys will see
that our product is now processing over
there I'm gonna go ahead and log it into
my eBay account so hang tight while I do
that and we're gonna wait and I'm just
going to show you guys that product in
the eBay account so bear with me for 30
seconds while I get this all going
and guys let me know down below in the
description if you're doing really well
with with printful on eBay
you know eBay is another platform it's
not a huge seller for me but it is a
helpful seller and you know I like to
just again all these are creating assets
that we now have online so let's go
ahead and see if that got imported one
of the other nice things printful is
always adding stuff this is a new
feature they just did add your latest
design a more great product so I can
actually click through and add this
design pretty seamlessly to these other
products here as well now this is
populated in so I'm just gonna go ahead
and pull that up and show it to you guys
so here we are this product listing is
now live on eBay and you guys will see
we have really simply the all those
mock-ups came in it makes it look really
good people see this it's professional
you know we can scroll through these I'm
not gonna spend a ton of time I just
want to see if the sizing charts in here
and I'm actually not seeing it normally
there should be a sizing chart here as
well so that's something I'm gonna need
to look at but you know again guys now
our product is live on here people can
see we have all these different size
options they see 30 days return you know
they see our price here and they see
it's that it looks like the shipping
actually went on here so I actually need
to go edit this but it should be free
shipping to our customers so that's
another thing that we can offer and then
down here okay here's the size guide so
we have our description it's gonna tell
the buyer what they're getting I have
all these keywords in here and we have
the size guide to help kind of you know
make sure that people know exactly what
they're getting here prevent returns all
that good stuff and the brand is
directly pulling in here so this
products live on eBay now you know
someone could go in and buy this and
that you know this video it took about
what 5 10 minutes to actually get this
product in here and so you guys can
really see the power of printful and how
easy it is to actually go ahead and do
this and get your products live and
listed on eBay and add this as a new
sales channel so now we can rinse wash
repeat this process if we have a
thousand designs we can go do this and
put a thousand t-shirts up we could do a
thousand coffee mugs we could keep doing
this over and over again and add more
and more
x2 our eBay account so again guys the
big thing here is get started with this
you know don't put it off yes it takes
time yes it takes work but get your
processes in place start building this
out and start you know making sales and
growing your e-commerce business so with
that being said I hope this video was
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