in today's video i'm going to walk you
through a complete full comprehensive
tutorial for print on demand
this is going to be a combination of me
talking to you here and also screen
recording on the computer
so if you're following along at home
you'll be able to follow along click by
click
for those of you returning to the
channel welcome back thank you guys so
much for all the support you've been
showing me for those of you who are new
to the channel my name is greg and i
like to talk about online
entrepreneurship
and sharing the resources that i wish i
had along my journey so if you're
interested in making money online
feel free to look around the channel
because you'll find a lot of things here
completely for
free that typically would have to pay
for in a course with that being said
today's video is going to be a full
comprehensive tutorial
starting from step one just the idea
that you want to get started with print
on demand
all the way to the last step where all
you have to do is rinse and repeat to
grow your business
now in this tutorial it is going to be
straight to the point and it's going to
be exactly how i recommend doing it and
how i personally
would start over from the beginning if i
were starting from scratch now with that
being said there are going to be a
couple paid tools throughout this video
they are optional i highly recommend
them because they will make your life a
lot easier as you're getting into print
on demand however if you don't have a
budget at all you don't have to use
these tools they are only my personal
recommendation
now with that being said as we go
through this tutorial i may mention
certain videos that are linked down in
the description
for more detail on a specific part of
the process so
keep in mind all the links that you'll
need are down in the description there's
going to be a table of contents down
there as well so if you do need to jump
around or reference
back that'll be easy for you and now
without further ado let's go ahead and
jump into this tutorial
so the first thing with print on demand
is to cover a couple core concepts that
we really need to understand
before going into how to put it all
together the first thing is that in
print on demand essentially we're going
to create designs and upload them to
print on demand websites where it
creates a virtual listing
all completely for free and then people
can come along and find those listings
find your design on a specific item and
they can order it now the cool thing
with this business model of print on
demand is that us
as the sellers we just create the
designs and upload them to the websites
now the actual websites when someone
makes a purchase they will print the
design on the specific item that the
customer ordered
they will ship it out to the customer
and they even handle all of the customer
service
this is great for us on the seller side
of the situation because it makes a very
passive business model
and the way that we grow our business we
don't have to bring on other employees
simply we just have to create more
designs and upload them for the most
part and i'll talk
about this a little later in the video
but when you create a design and upload
it to one of these websites it's up
there forever so you don't have to worry
about constantly updating your stores or
your offerings once you upload that
design once it stays up there forever
and people can continue to buy it for
years to come
now there's only two more things to
understand before we get into this
tutorial
first being that there's three print on
demand websites that i highly recommend
i have tried a ton of different print on
demand sites and i've boiled it down to
just the top three that give me the
biggest return for my time spent
invested now these three sites are
teespring redbubble and merch by amazon
now the reason that i love these sites
so much is that one they're completely
free you don't have to pay for any
listing fees and two they do marketing
for you
now on some of these other print on
demand sites once you upload your design
they're not going to do any marketing
for you it just
operates as a website and you have to
bring your own traffic
however on these three sites not only is
it free but they do marketing for you
they bring in traffic to their
marketplace to see your designs on
products and essentially get you
long-term
organic sales where you do not have to
pay for any marketing
just to put it in perspective if you're
curious how much traffic these websites
get to their site every month
teespring gets about 17 million visits
per month
redbubble gets about 19 million visits
per month and
amazon which is merch by amazon gets
about 2 billion website visits per month
these are all people going through their
marketplace and looking at their
products where your product will
eventually be listed
now also something that's really good to
know as we go through here is that these
three websites teespring redbubble
merged by amazon
are all non-exclusive so when we create
one design we can upload that design
individually to all three of these
websites creating three separate
listings someone may go on to teespring
but not know about redbubble what that
means is they'll see your design on
teespring but they wouldn't have seen it
on redbubble
as you can see this is just a great way
to get more traffic to see your designs
and ultimately more sales long run
so with all that being said the last
thing that we need to cover before
getting into this tutorial
is the difference between teespring
compared to redbubble and merch by
amazon
now redbubble and merch by amazon they
actually do marketing for you right off
the bat
when you upload your design you create
your listing on their website they add
it to the marketplace almost instantly
this can take anywhere from a couple
hours to up to 72 hours
but your item will be added to their
marketplace and essentially the
marketing that they're doing for you
starts right away however over on
teespring they have a system called a
trust score
so when you create a new seller account
which for those of you who are new to
print on demand you'll be creating a new
account on all three of these sites
however on teespring when you have a new
account you essentially have to do a few
requirements on your account before they
will start listing your designs your
listings
in their marketplace now to make a long
story short essentially all you have to
do to get your trust score is make sure
that you're not infringing on any
copyright so you're not using companies
logos or companies names in your designs
and the second part of that is you need
to get two to ten sales of your own
on your designs and then they will
recognize you as a trusted seller and
they will start doing all the marketing
for you and add your listings to the
marketplace for their 17 million people
per month to start seeing
so as we go through this tutorial i'm
going to come back to the truss score
component of getting your first two to
ten sales that you have to get yourself
that they won't be doing for you
and i'll show you how to do that
completely for free again with no paid
advertising
a trend you will find on all the videos
on this channel talking about print on
demand
is that i do not recommend using paid
ads for print on demand
okay so now we should all be on the same
page now we can start the tutorial and
as i mentioned before
this tutorial is going to be with a few
paid tools the first one we're going to
start out with is for niche research
and these paid tools are ones that i
personally use i have used a ton
of each type of these paid tools and the
ones that i recommend in this video
are the ones i personally use now you
don't have to use these i just highly
recommend them and you'll see why as we
get started
so step one in this tutorial if you're
new to print on demand and you're
thinking about getting started
is we need to come up with a niche now
essentially what a niche is
is a topic or a very specific thing that
you're going to be creating designs
about
now by doing niche research in the
beginning we can find out what topics
and what niches out there in print on
demand
do not have a lot of competition when
you're starting out in print on demand
it's not going to make sense for you to
go into those very competitive topics
because your new listings as you're
creating them are just going to get lost
in the thousands of other listings in
that topic
so what i recommend to you in order to
get your first few sales pretty quickly
for that teespring trust score
is to do research and find niches that
do not have a lot of competitors
now the goal here is to find a niche
that has a lot of search volume so
people
are looking for it however there are not
a lot of listings out there so there
aren't many options for people to choose
from
what this means for us is as a new
seller we can come in and we can create
a lot of great designs in this topic
and then as those same people come every
month and they're looking for those
designs
in that niche they will see more options
that they can choose from and the
majority of them are going to be
yours this increases your chance of
getting them to buy one of your listings
because
as they're scrolling through the options
of what they can buy a ton of those
options are made by you
so with that said let's switch over to
the computer for the first time here and
go into the first tool that's going to
help us
research niches so this is the first
tool that we're going to be using here
it's called merch informer and
essentially what we need to do is either
register for free
or if you already have an account just
log in now before we get into this tool
quickly i want to show you the pricing
of it if you don't have an account
already to use this tool it's about 10
per month and i do have a discount code
from them down in the description so if
you want to use that it comes down to
about eight dollars per month
and they do offer a free trial so if you
are just getting started in this they
have a three-day free trial it gives you
full function
however this is a tool that you're going
to want to keep around long term because
as you're thinking about creating new
designs in the future
it's really good to find out if those
niches are worth your time
so again the link to this to bring it
down to about eight dollars per month is
down in the description so if you want
to click that to go over and follow
along
feel free to do that you can even create
a free trial from that link
and now once you're logged in there are
a bunch of tools that come with merch
informer but what we are going to be
using is the competition checker on the
left side here
so once you're here essentially all you
have to do is type in the niches that
you're considering going into and it'll
tell you if that is a good idea or a bad
idea
so before this video i did a little bit
of preliminary research just so i
wouldn't waste your time here and i
found a good niche to go into and a bad
one as an example and then also a
pointer that i can give to you
so in this search i searched high school
graduate and as you can see on the right
side we have an
a grade now once you start doing
searches on here you will see that the
grades go from a
to f and there are grades in between
it's just going to show you how good of
a niche this is to go into
now something else that's very important
to understand is that the data being
pulled from merch informer the data that
we see on the sides and this grade and a
little bit more that i'll show you in a
second
is being pulled from merch by amazon now
as i said before there's three platforms
we're using
teespring redbubble and merch by amazon
merch by amazon is the biggest one they
get roughly 2 billion views per month
so the data that is being pulled here is
from merch by amazon specifically
now it is safe to assume that the data
is the same for teespring and redbubble
that's what i personally do and i
recommend it to you the reason i say
that and the reason that i like using
merchant former is because one it's
going to give you a quick result of
whether this is a good or a bad niche to
go into
just looking at this letter grade and
two the other research tools out there
for niches
take data from the entire internet
they're going to take search data rather
than
print on demand data with the data and
merchant former we're getting it
specifically from merch by amazon
the other niche research tools you'll
find out there are taking into account
everything that is searched on google
and throughout the internet
it's not specific to print on demand so
getting back to this the one that we're
going to use for this example is high
school
graduate it gives us a good grade shows
you how many people we're competing with
how many of those have best seller ranks
meaning that they're selling well
and then something else that's pretty
cool about this tool is when you scroll
down you can see the top 10
best selling designs in this niche
currently on merch by amazon
this will give you some ideas so if you
want to create designs similar to these
or just use it to get some creativity
juices flowing this is a good place to
do that
so a couple pointers i can pass on to
you when you start using merch informer
are that when you're searching for a
phrase that is more than one word
as you can see this is high school
graduate put quotation marks around it
now if you don't and you search it like
this
you're going to get an improper rating
because it's pulling the keywords
separately so be sure you don't make
this mistake and if you're searching a
phrase that has more than one word
put quotations around it the other tip i
can pass on to you is make sure that
you're searching for a niche that is
specific enough
this is high school graduate rather than
graduate this is also more specific than
searching something like
dogs now since this is a single word we
don't need quotation marks around it
however it's just way too general and
there are way too many products that
we're competing against
that if we start uploading in it our
listings are just going to get lost
so with that in mind we have officially
used merchant former we know what niche
we are going to be starting with
and this way our designs that we were
creating in the beginning have a good
chance of being sold
because there are people looking for it
and not a lot of options to be bought
all right so now that we have our niche
figured out where we are going to start
now we need to start creating designs
in that niche we'll start off by
creating just one so i can show you how
this is done
and then just know that once you know
how to do this process you will be
creating as many designs as you can just
make sure that they are good designs
given the design tool we are going to be
using makes it easy to create these
designs
i don't personally have graphic design
experience i haven't had graphic design
experience over the last few years that
i've been doing this
but using a good design tool makes it
easy with that said let's go over to the
design tool so we can start creating
designs around this high school graduate
niche
so this is the design tool that i
recommend you use there's a link to it
down in the description it's called
placeit.net
this one goes about 15 per month but
again they gave me a discount code i can
share with you that's down in the
description as well
they don't have a free trial that you
can use but by using the link in the
description it brings it from about 15
down to about twelve dollars per month
this tool placeit.net and the other tool
merchant former are the only two tools
that you need it's just finding your
niches and creating good designs the
rest of it is basically rinse and repeat
you're just going to keep doing that
over and over
throughout this tutorial i'll explain
that a bit more so essentially all we
have to do is type into the search bar
what we are looking for so i know we're
looking for high school graduate but we
have to keep in mind high school
graduate
is very specific so if we start typing
that in for t-shirt designs made
specifically for high school graduates
it's going to give us only the results
that are specifically for that
however if we type in something like
graduate or we type in something like
education even bigger we are going to
get a lot of t-shirt design
templates that we could potentially use
and browse through most of the time
you'll find something that's in the
education category over on placeit could
perfectly be used for a specific niche
of high school graduate
so with that said i'm going to start by
typing in graduation and we'll see where
that goes from here
so once you've typed it in you can go
through kind of the suggestions here i'm
just going to go with graduation
and this is going to show us t-shirt
designs mixed in with social media post
templates
and even mock-ups we will be coming back
to some of these things a little bit
later on this tutorial but stick around
i'll get to it as quickly as possible
so on the left side we're going to come
down and we're going to go to t-shirt
design
now as you can see graduation is a
little bit specific here so they do have
just 17 templates for us to choose from
you'll find with some niches there are
thousands i think placeit has over 40
000 templates to choose from but as we
are getting niche specific
in some cases it limits how many they
have to offer so just be creative with
what you're searching for
i'm going to switch this search to
education and see how many more we can
get
and when you do a search up top after
you've already done a search just make
sure that you turn off
search within results and that'll give
you even more we'll just click enter
here
and we'll come back over to the left
side and we'll switch this to t-shirt
designs we have 43 to choose from so as
you can see as you get more creative you
have more designs to choose from
so these are all designs that we can
customize for t-shirts
and i'll show you how to do that first
we just need to pick one to start with
so i'm going to start with this one
right here
happy graduation day i think this would
be perfect for a high schooler
and keep in mind who we are making these
designs for in this specific niche of
high school graduation
it's not likely going to be a high
school graduate buying the shirt for
themselves this is going to be a parent
or a grandparent or a friend
somebody purchasing a shirt for the
graduate and it would be given to them
as a gift so with that said here is a
template that we can start customizing
we can move things around if we want to
go back we just hit reset layout
we can change all this text to say
anything you want you can put in extra
text if you like
and then you can even change the font of
it so if we click the down arrow we can
switch it to anything that we like
so i kind of like that new font that we
just switched it to so i'm going to
switch the other one as well
and then should we need to change the
color of the text we can change that
with this drop down over here
and then if we want to add more text we
just hit add another text right over
here
and then this one is added with a
background just so we know we come into
over here
switch it to text background and we just
turn that off turn it to the
checkerboard and it'll make it
transparent
go back to text color and you can switch
it to anything you want again we can
switch the type of font if we need to
so i really don't need this one so i'm
just going to uncheck it
and then if you need to upload a logo or
upload an image you can do that right
here by clicking upload it'll go to your
computer documents and you can select
what you want to add in
you have a lot of creativity that you
can do here so since we just moved this
to the side it's offering us to reset
the layout again just to put it right
back in the middle that's perfect i like
to use that whenever i start moving a
lot of things around
so with that said that's the basic
rundown of how to use this that is the
left side over here now on the right
side is the reason that i love
place it so much is that they give you a
ton of graphics with full commercial
usage rights so you don't have to go
find illustrations make sure you have
the rights to use them all of these you
just click right here and it essentially
just works it right into your design so
i'll show you another example in a bit
here
but these illustrations that are worked
into your design for you
save you a ton of time on a lot of other
design tools you click to add an
illustration and it just adds it to the
front or the back of the graphic
and then you have to start figuring out
where it fits on here you just click any
of these and they will be worked
directly into the design template the
name of the game in print on demand
especially in creating designs
is efficiency you have to make sure that
you can save time and you can create a
lot of designs quickly
rather than spending hours on a single
design you're simply not going to have
enough listings out there to make a lot
of money from all that organic traffic
that's going through these marketplaces
so going on with this design i really
like the one that was first on here now
if you want to find other designs that
aren't in college graduation
you can just switch this to graduation
see what comes up and you'll have
different icons that you can use
so just know that you can scroll through
the side over here and you can keep
switching these searches
to find a ton of commercially usable
graphics so now that we have this design
basically ready to go all we have to do
now is take the background color and
switch it to
transparent and then as you can see you
have the white text with the dark blue
if we want to change the color of this
graphic so it's all white all we have to
do is select the graphic
go to main graphic and switch it to
white or any other color that we want
now if i were to save this design like
this it would have a transparent
background it would be all white text
and we would put it on a darker color
shirt so you can see it
however for the sake of this example i
think this might be a little bit
confusing
so i'm just going to switch all of these
to black so that we can see what we are
exporting here
okay hopefully that gives you a better
idea that has a transparent background
everything we've created right here
is ready to go so once this design is
ready to go all we have to click is
download up top here
again it's going to confirm that this is
commercially usable so we can profit
from it by selling it on print on demand
websites
it's also going to tell us the size of
this image this file here is 4000 pixels
by 4800 pixels
now for most cases for teespring for red
bubble you can save it just like this so
all you would click is download now
and then it'll save it to your computer
and it'll be ready to upload to
teespring and
redbubble however something that i want
to share with you that'll save you a lot
of time down the road
is that merch by amazon has a specific
size requirement
for your designs to be uploaded onto
their site now since merch by amazon is
such a big player in the print on demand
space you want to make sure that you're
uploading them
properly now what merch by amazon
requires for most of their items that
you're going to be selling
are 4 500 pixels by 5 400 pixels
now as you can see here it's only 4 000
pixels by 4
800 pixels so what do you do and how do
you get it sized for merch by
amazon now luckily placeit makes this
really easy for us so all we have to do
is click download now
just as it is straight from the designer
here then once it says click here to
download
all you do is click view all below it
and here it's going to bring you into
all of your designs that you have
created recently this is where you can
re-download any designs if you need to
but what we are going to do is click the
little down arrow that's just below it
and go to crop resize and here we're
just going to change the dimensions to
what merged by amazon wants
what this is is 4500 pixels
by 5400 pixels now all we have to do is
click download from here
it's going to show us again that it is
processing the image just wait a couple
seconds for it to be ready
and then click the download button and
it'll go straight on to your computer so
this is now ready to go click here to
download
it'll download it right onto your
computer you can open up this file and
now we have this design
formatted for merch by amazon and ready
to go this is perfect for print on
demand because it has a transparent
background and as you can see when
you're zooming in
it's perfectly clear so this will look
good on a t-shirt now a couple things to
make note of here is that when we size
it for merch by amazon by doing this
extra step
it will work perfectly for merch by
amazon teespring and redbubble they
don't actually have
size requirements so we can take that
same size that we did for merch by
amazon
and upload it to those other two as well
by doing it this way and sizing it for
merch by amazon first it just saves us
time down the road
so now we have officially created our
first design that is sized and ready
to go and it is in the niche of high
school graduate now before we leave
place it i want to show you the other
way of creating t-shirt designs that i
really like that not a lot of people are
talking about and i highly recommend
that you take advantage of
now with your playset subscription you
can go into not only their designs but
you can go into
logos as well now these are specifically
for creating logos
however you can use them for
print-on-demand t-shirts and items as
well
so once you're in their logos and want
you to type in the text here
just click the little button below that
says see all of our templates and from
here these are all of their logo
templates that we can actually customize
and create our own
going off the same niche we want to we
can create them for anything
and get much more complex designs this
is where the graphic being worked into
your design
comes back into play that i was
mentioning before so again the same as
the t-shirt designs except you can come
through here and you can customize these
to be in any niche
so you can click any of these and start
editing them as you can see once you're
in here the text the font the color
is all the same as the t-shirt design
templates just more designs and more
options that you can use apart from the
t-shirt design templates
once you do this again we're just going
to change the background to the
transparent color
and then we click the download button
and we do everything the same as before
resize it for merch by amazon and you're
good to go so i just wanted to share
with you to make sure that you knew that
you could use the logos
as well as the t-shirt design templates
when you're creating t-shirt designs on
place it
all right moving right along we've got
the first two big steps done we figured
out what niche we're going to start with
we created our first design now we need
to actually upload it to teespring
redbubble and merch by amazon
so let's go over to teespring.com this
is where we're going to begin
now if you don't have an account on
teespring just yet you're going to want
to create an account on teespring
again this is completely free to do you
can do this from practically anywhere in
the world
and i'll explain that a little bit more
once we get into the account now once
you have your account let's just go over
to the overview
this is an example account that i've
used for a couple tutorial videos and as
you can see it's pretty funny
it actually sold an item i was just
using this to create listings for
examples
did nothing else with it and one of the
items was purchased and i made two
dollars profit
so once you have your account set up and
you're ready to go just go up to start
designing
and then we're just going to scroll down
through all of these products and we're
just going to start with a standard
t-shirt
t-shirts are going to be the most
popular seller across basically all of
print on demand so that's what i
recommend you create most of your
listings with
now as you'll find out as we go through
this you can add multiple items to your
same listing but i'll explain that as we
get into it so let's just go over to the
men's t-shirt which is unisex so men and
women can both buy it
we'll start with this and then it still
gives us a couple more options of
different items we can create on
typically i just go with a classic tee
or a comfort tee
it will show you how much the product
will cost now remember when you are
print on demand seller you are not
paying this cost now to give you an
example let's say that this item cost
about ten dollars to produce
if we set our price as we're going
through this process at fifteen dollars
when a customer buys it they will pay
that fifteen dollars the ten dollars and
change will go to teespring as the
product cost
and that five dollars will go to us so
as a seller you never have to be paying
teespring to print any of the products
all of the costs and the fees are
paid by the customer so let's just go
with a classic t here
and here it's going to give you two
options which are typically confusing
but i want to explain them so you
understand this says buy or sell
if you are creating designs for yourself
you want to buy samples or if you just
want to create cool t-shirts and buy
them at cost you would go with buy this
is not going to list it on the
marketplace it's just going to make it
so you can purchase it
however what we want to do is we want to
be sellers of design so we go over to
the sell one and that is where we're
going to click
so now we are brought right into the
designer and from here it's very easy
now on teespring you can actually create
designs right here so we could add text
we could add images but i do not
recommend doing this
because you cannot save that design file
this is the reason that we use places is
because we can use their templates we
can create great designs and we can save
them to our computer
so that we can just take that file and
upload it to all three of these
print-on-demand websites
when you create it directly on tspring
you cannot save that design file
so you cannot upload it to the other two
websites so with that said all we are
going to do is click add image
go through the files on our computer and
select that file that we just downloaded
from placeit
so now just by clicking that file on our
computer it uploads it right onto the
t-shirt and we're good to go
should we need to move anything around
we can still move it around
but we just want it right in the center
as they put it on now that's about it as
far as putting your design
on the shirt you can see the front side
we can see the back side typically just
printing on the front side
is plenty that's where i sell most of my
designs you don't have to do dual sided
printing
i recommend just printing on the front
now coming down to the next little
section here is we have the product
colors
so as you open this up you will see a
bunch of different colors to choose from
what i can tell you from experience is
try to pick no more than
five colors if you give buyers too many
options of too many colors and too many
styles they get what's called paralysis
by analysis where they're basically
paralyzed in their decision because they
have so many options
do they like the pink do they like the
lighter pink do they like the purple
if they have too many options they don't
end up buying any of them
so what i personally recommend is no
more than five colors no more than five
styles
per listing so we'll just add in some
core colors here and the big thing to
make sure is that you can still see your
design on that color
so if we put it on navy it's going to be
a little bit hidden there and you can't
really read that dark text
so i'm going to turn that off and just
put it on a lighter color shirt we'll
put in a red
a green and an orange since this is a
male on the shirt it's a man not a woman
i'm not going to put in women's colors
now if your design could be bought by a
man or a woman
then you're going to want to make sure
that you have men's and women's colors
available
again don't go over five so take out the
orange and put in a pink if this were
made for women as well
so the colors are all good here we are
good to go i'm going to click done
and now we go on to our pricing so
teespring is going to suggest
pricing for you however what i have
found is that the suggested pricing is
just slightly too high
what i can personally recommend to you
and what i've had the best success with
is pricing your items a few dollars
below the suggested price so remember
before we were talking about on a
classic tee the price to make that shirt
was 10.57
now what you will see here is if you put
in i want to sell it for 10.57
it's going to say you will make a zero
dollar profit teespring profit comes
from that product
cost so that 10 and 57 cents includes
their split
as well as what it's going to cost them
to print and actually make that shirt so
what you want to do is price your shirts
accordingly
for t-shirts they recommend 24.99 what i
recommend is 19.99
it's still going to give you a 9.42
profit every time you sell this shirt
but it's going to be cheaper than most
shirts which are 24.99
now what you don't want to do is come in
and price your shirts at 12 or 13
this is just way too low a lot of people
think that by doing this they're going
to undercut the competitors and get more
sales yes
in theory this may work however in the
print-on-demand space i do not recommend
it
now once you've done one currency you
can move into the other currency and
again we're just going to do roughly
the same now as you can see if we type
in the same number since it's in a
different currency there's going to be a
slight variation in the profit margin
however this is what i recommend it
makes it simple and as the currency
fluctuates it'll stay about the same
price
now just to explain the difference
between the two currencies and why we
have to enter two different prices
because as a seller in print on demand
we can upload from anywhere in the world
but buyers can also buy from basically
anywhere in the world so there's
different currencies that they can
purchase from
now if the item is fulfilled from a
fulfillment center that is not in the
u.s you're going to be using a different
currency
so all in all no matter where you are as
a seller you will be paid
in your currency but just know that
buyers can buy in their currency
so that's why we have to set the two
different prices so with that said we're
basically ready to go here to the next
section i'm just going to switch this
back to white just to make it nice and
consistent
let's go ahead and hit continue and now
we can choose which styles are offered
in this listing so remember before i
said up to five colors is what i
recommend
but also up to five styles is what i
recommend so it'll show you what styles
you have added to the listing along this
left side right here
right now we have a unisex classic t
which you can see in select styles it is
check marked right here
now i don't recommend adding other
t-shirts if you already have a t-shirt
when i say up to five styles i mean long
sleeve shirt hoodie tank top
mug these are other styles you don't
want to be adding too many different
variations of the same item
so let's go ahead and click out of that
we have a classic tee now let's go over
to hoodies and sweatshirts this is
always a good item because they have a
really big profit margin on them
so again you're going to have a bunch of
different variations of this item that
you can choose
i'm going to go with the classic
pullover hoodie i'm just going to select
it to turn it on but i'm also going to
edit it
and then again we can come right into
colors and we can choose what is offered
if you want to offer the hoodie in a
different color just go through here and
see what you'd like to offer
and you can turn it on again i recommend
no more than five colors here
so this looks good i'm going to leave it
on the white one and then i'm just going
to make sure that the white one is shown
first a lot of people ask how do you
change the color of the listing they
accidentally put the wrong one as the
first color
this is the section where you do that
just click edit and switch it to the
white one
now the white one will show as the first
then we need to change our profit here
as you can see the suggested price is
41.99 which i think is a little bit
steep considering it has a 22
profit margin in it for here i'm going
to do 35 that will be our sale price
for this hoodie that's how much it will
sell for and as you can see we have
about a 12 to
15 dollar profit margin on this so every
time someone buys it we make
12 to 15 so that looks good i'm just
going to go ahead and hit save
and we are all good this is checked off
and as you can see we have a classic t
and a classic hoodie they are both added
and they are both white on the front
and basically you just repeat this until
you've added all the styles that you
want so typically in my listings and
what i recommend for you is doing five
items
do a t-shirt a hoodie a tank top long
sleeve shirt and a mug
now depending on what that design is
sometimes i'll swap out the mug or some
of the other styles with something that
seems more fitting for that specific
design
so i'm just going to go through and add
the other items really quickly here
remember always go through and edit and
make sure that you have your right
colors that you want in here
and you have the color that you want to
show first which is white and then you
have your pricing set
if you don't change any of this the
pricing stays on the suggested price
which is just going to be too high so
again for this we're going to price this
at 19.99
just a couple dollars below the
suggested price
that looks good long sleeve
again just making the prices a few
dollars below the suggested price as you
can see we're still gonna make
seven to eight dollars profit on every
sale
now as you can see we have four items
added to this listing now i just need to
come into accessories and go to a mug so
we can add it on a mug as well
and make sure that you have all the main
colors that you want added here just
going to add in some of the common ones
make sure that you have the right color
mug showing on the front
and then set your pricing and as you can
see it's just a few dollars below the
suggested price
and save changes so now we have the five
items that i typically add to the
listing so this listing is ready to go
we just hit continue
and this is the last part of the listing
this is where we add in our title and
description i've made videos on this
channel going over different templates
that you can use for the title and
description
however as a good rule of thumb you want
to include the name of the shirt
of what's on that text or what it's
about in the title and additionally put
that in the description because they're
going to be looking for keywords
in the title and the description for
what they should be ranking you for
so as far as the description goes i
don't like to over complicate this and i
don't like to fill it with spam so i
have a very simple template that i use
feel free to use it yourself or use a
variation of it if you like
add some fun to your wardrobe with this
or give it as a perfect gift
now you have to come in you can't just
post it as is you have to come in and
add your keywords to it so there's a
couple places and i'll show you where
they are to add your keywords of what
your design is about
so add some fun to your this is the
first one this is where you put in what
it is about
add some fun to your graduation wardrobe
with this
and then describe what the shirt is so
it's kind of a funny graduation design
and that's what we're going to put in
so if it's a funny design you put in
funny before you put in the keyword
again so funny
graduation design or give it as a
perfect gift
so that's all you have to do for the
description and you can use that
template and just swap out what the
words are about what the niche is so
that's it for the description nice and
simple just be sure to put in your
keywords so they know where to show you
and then as you scroll down you're just
about done you have a url that they're
going to assign for you
it's going to set it based on what's not
taken so happy graduation day is
probably taken
so i'm just going to do happy graduation
day dash one this again is going to have
keywords in our url so as people are
searching for
graduation day or happy graduation day
we will show up based on our keywords in
the title
description and the url make sure that
you set this on public that way other
people can see it once it's added to the
marketplace
and then if you have an existing
storefront you will add it to it here
we are going to be doing that but not
quite yet i'll show you that in a minute
so just like this we are ready to go we
click publish listing just give it a
second to load here
if for any reason this crashes and
doesn't go all the way through try it on
a different browser and that will be the
browser that you'll want to use for
future listings
so now we have our first teespring
listing and if you followed along this
far
you're officially a seller on print on
demand this listing is now for sale so
someone can buy your design on a t-shirt
on a hoodie on a mug they can even pick
their color and their size
now when someone does come along and buy
this they will pay for everything and
just that profit margin that we put on
top of it will be added to our account
that we can cash out anytime
now speaking of cashing out on teespring
something that's important to do
once you've created your first design is
go to your drop down go to
settings and then make sure that you add
how you're going to be paid out this is
a variable in the trust score so we have
to get a few sales but also they need to
know that they can pay us so all you do
is scroll down and all you have to do is
add your email address for your paypal
account or your payoneer account
now the reason they have both of these
as options is paypal is more us-based
and payoneer is more
universal so you can do it from anywhere
in the world so if your region does not
support paypal you can create a payoneer
account instead
and connect it right here now a common
question is do you need to have a
business account for this
no for paypal and payoneer you can do a
completely free personal account
and that'll be plenty for this you don't
have to register a business or anything
like that now once you've done this and
you've added your email it's going to
send a confirmation link so make sure
that you check
your email and verify that email and
then it will be confirmed on here
so if you've stuck around this far in
this video you're doing extremely well
and we're almost done there's just a
home stretch here
first thing is that our teespring
listing is now up so now all we have to
do is come over to
redbubble and then also merch by amazon
and we're just going to do
the same thing so we go through the same
process here nothing special with either
of these
you can use the same title and
description for all three of these sites
and again you use that same design file
that's on our computer to upload onto
these items
now with redbubble and merch by amazon
you don't have to do anything with
storefronts or your own marketing
because there is no trust score so
essentially for those two you're already
at the end of the process
for redbubble and merch by amazon you
find good niches you create as many
great designs in those niches as you can
you upload them to the site and then you
go back to the beginning you don't have
to create any storefronts you don't have
to do any marketing yourself
now the only thing that's important to
note is that when we start talking about
merch by amazon
when you create your account you have to
actually apply so you have to request an
invitation takes about five minutes to
fill out that form and it's just because
they have so many people interested in
joining that they can't accept everyone
so i'm going to link a video down in the
description just for you to bookmark
when watch later once you finish this
one
that gives you pointers on what you
should put in your application to
increase your chances of getting
accepted
so once you are accepted to merch by
amazon the really important thing to
know is you're only going to have
10 slots available in the beginning so
as you start creating your designs in
good niches
pick the 10 designs that you think are
the absolute best and the best niches
and put those up on your merch by amazon
account
you don't have to do anything you don't
have to send any traffic or anything
they will just organically get sales and
once you get 10 sales you'll be moved
into the next tier which allows you 25
slots to upload designs
again once you get 25 sales you're moved
into the next tier and it just keeps
going up more and more the goal with
merch by amazon is just keep moving up
and adding as many designs as you can
now this goal stays true for red bubble
and teespring as well
the ultimate goal is to get as many
great designs up there in good niches as
we can
so that takes care of the process for
redbubble and merch by amazon again
we're just adding as many designs as we
can there and making sure we're finding
good niches and creating as many good
designs as we can
now coming back to teespring this is the
last part of the process here and it's
specific to teespring because they have
the trust core
all right you guys are doing really well
we are on the last section here this is
the last part of the whole process and
this is specifically just for
teespring now in theory we could just
treat teespring just like redbubble and
merch by amazon where we're just finding
good niches and creating a ton of great
designs in them
however we really need that trust score
from teespring so we have to get two to
ten of our own sales
once we do that they start adding our
items to their marketplace and they
start doing all of their free marketing
for us
so it's very advantageous to us to try
to get those first few sales as quickly
as we possibly can
so that we can get added to their
marketplace and take advantage of their
nearly 17 million people coming to their
site
every month browsing through the
marketplace so with that said what we
have to do is go back over to
teespring and from here let's go to
storefronts and as you can see there's
another example of a storefront that i
was creating in another tutorial video
however what we are going to be doing is
click create new storefront
and this one is going to be specifically
for our niche that we found on merchant
former
so in this example it is high school
graduates so what we're going to do is
come up with a name that is not us it's
not ambiguous but it is about the niche
so what i would do is high school
graduation tease now i know we're going
to be selling sweatshirts and long
sleeve shirts and tank tops but by
putting tees in here kind of gives
people an idea of what it is
people associate teas with graphic tees
or designs on a t-shirt
so i think it works well in storefront
names and i can recommend using it so
this is good high school graduation tees
that's the name of our storefront
now if someone else has that name in
their storefront already it won't let
you do it so find one that is not
already used
now from here we have to customize this
storefront it's not a long process but
you're going to go through your header
and you can change the color of this
header in this drop down over here
i'm going to leave it as it is click
save if you did change it we're going to
go to the banner and this is where you
can upload a banner photo
so on some of my other storefronts that
you've probably seen on these tutorials
you can add in a very slim
banner and it'll go right along the top
it's 1600 by 200 pixels to be
exact but i'll show you how to create
that banner photo in a second here we're
going to come back and we're going to go
to products this is the most important
part
we're going to add products and we're
going to add in the products that we
just created
so as you can see they are all separate
listings we can check all of them that
we want to add
but what i recommend doing is adding
just one of them so as you know we put
that design onto
five different styles in the same
listing and we don't want to add all
five of them to the same storefront
because it's just going to look very
repetitive so typically what i would do
is just add it on the classic t-shirt so
as you can see it says classic t right
here we're just going to hit the check
mark to the left of it and then we'll
hit
done and then again we're going to hit
done over here and as you can see it
just added that item right to our
storefront now something that's good to
know is that since we only picked the
t-shirt
it's actually fine for us because when
someone clicks on that t-shirt it brings
them to the full listing where they can
see all five of the styles and all of
the different colors associated with
them
okay so basically we have just created a
storefront granted we haven't added a
banner photo we haven't really spiced it
up to look really good
but this is a functioning storefront the
way we see that is we click go to store
down at the bottom
and it brings us into our real live
storefront so we're going to leave this
page open we're going to come back to
this in a second i hope you guys are
sticking along with me here
but this is going to be the storefront
that we're going to be doing some free
marketing to get traffic
over here and make some purchases and
get us our trust score so now that we
have this storefront we've clicked go to
storefront
this is the actual link to that
storefront i'm going to leave it up
because we're going to come back and
reference it in a second here so now
that this is ready to go
now we need to talk about how do you get
that initial traffic over to your
teespring storefront so that you can get
those first few sales and get your trust
score once you have your trust score you
don't need to do storefronts you don't
need to do any of that anymore
all you have to do is find great niches
and create a ton of great designs in
them however we need to get people to
this storefront so they can see all of
our listings in this really good niche
and they can start buying them
so how do you do that well over time i
have found out that instagram using a
completely free page on instagram and
free niche hashtags
you can target people really well you
can put in a link to the storefront and
as you start posting about things in
that niche people find your posts they
find your profile and they click on the
storefront and they come over here
and all of a sudden they've ended up on
your storefront looking at the products
that you've created
so i'll walk you through right now how
to do this we're going to switch over to
my
phone so i can go into instagram and we
can start this process
okay so once you are on instagram this
is a pretty important part we need to
create
a new account this is not the account
that you personally use on instagram
we're not just going to start posting
photos of t-shirts there
what we need to do is literally create a
new account so
log in or create a new account create
new account
and this is where we're going to set the
username now we want the username to be
as close to
the storefront name as possible now with
instagram you can get creative by using
underscores or periods
so as you're going through here once it
loads for a second it's going to tell
you what is taken so obviously high
school is taken someone has that as a
username
so i'm just going to do high school and
underscore is a nice divider
graduation and another underscore
and tease high school graduation tees
with underscores
this is ready to go as you see we got a
check mark so this literally works and
i'm just going to hit next
then it'll ask you how you'd like to log
in i just do add a password instead and
set your password here
and then they'd like you to set your
birthday here so i'm just going to set a
date that looks good
let's be 26 years old right now and then
just adding a phone number or an email
so if you have an email on a different
account it's not going to allow you to
use
it so you may need to create a new email
which is very easy you could just go to
gmail or any other email provider
and just create basically an account
that is for print on demand
and then once you've done that it's
basically just walking you through your
new account
now once you get to add a profile photo
i'll show you how to make that in just a
second here but we're going to skip it
for now and now we have a brand new
instagram account which is specifically
for our teespring storefront about high
school graduation tees
so the first few steps that we need to
do here we need to edit our profile so
click the edit profile button up top
for the name we're going to type in our
storefront name again
high school graduation
tease
and what's nice is when someone is
searching accounts on instagram it shows
the name
under the username so they will be able
to see high school graduation tees are
what your page is about
and the website link this is one of the
most important things on instagram is
you need to make sure that
this website link is the storefront link
that we have on our computer
so i'm just going to reference my
computer and type this in and then once
we have that typed in we basically have
enough that we need on this page
however we do have bio where we can type
in and customize and make this profile
look good
telling people what they are here for so
in here i'm just putting the best high
school graduation teas in town
because it is kind of a play on words
because it's in town
every high school has its own town and
it's very competitive from town to town
so that's just a simple way to do it
there's other videos on this channel
going over
different styles and different formats
that you can put in your bio but
essentially this is up to you just make
sure that you're telling someone when
they come to your profile
what you what they will find on your
profile so once we've done this we are
good to go so we can just hit done
so what's cool about this is now since
we put that link up there when someone
comes to our profile they can click that
link and it goes right to our teespring
storefront where they can see all of our
items that we have in here
then once they click on them they can
see that entire listing front and back
they can see the different products it's
available on and this is everything that
we have just created on the computer
okay so now we're done on the phone for
right now we're on the last couple steps
here we need to come up with our profile
photo we also need to come up with the
content that's going to be posted on
this page
and then i'll show you how to find the
niche hashtags to get your traffic to
your instagram page so they go to your
storefront and make their purchases
okay so now that we have that instagram
profile ready for us and waiting for us
now let's create the profile photo we
can also create the banner photo for the
storefront here
and we can create the content that's
going to be posted on that instagram
page
so the content you're going to be
posting on the instagram page is you
want to be showing off what you have to
offer which are your shirts
and also you want to be showing engaging
posts that people want to see on
instagram if you are only posting photos
of your t-shirts which are screenshots
from the listings
it's going to get old to people and it's
not really as engaging
so what is engaging content well this is
what i like to do
let's go back over to place it and this
is where we left off before i'm just
going to go back to their home page
with the subscription to place it that
we were talking about in the beginning
again it's like 12 dollars per month you
can create your t-shirt designs but also
you can create mock-up photos
again they have thousands of mock-ups
just to give you the number right now
they have almost
50 000 templates that you can choose
from and they're adding to them daily so
there's 810 that are recently added now
what that means for us is we can go to
mock-ups hover over that
click on t-shirts and now we have a ton
of mock-ups where simply
all we do is we find the mock-up that we
want to have a photo
on our instagram page and you do this a
ton of times so this is basically
endless content
and essentially what you do is you find
the ones that you like and then you can
put the designs that we created on place
it before
you upload it and it photoshops it onto
that model so there are
endless possibilities here but you want
to find people who are in your target
market
find the people who are in that niche
that you created this page for
for this example that is going to be
high school graduation so we want to
find people who look like high schoolers
and that's who we want to use
but also don't forget you have the
search feature up top
graduation we'll search within results
this time because we want to search
within mock-ups that way it's not going
to show us the graduation t-shirt
designs but rather just the mock-ups
this time so then just like that we have
mock-ups of
graduates in their cap and gown which is
a perfect fit for what we are trying to
advertise here
and then all we have to do is go to
upload image and select the design file
that is on an item in our storefront
now it's going to allow you to crop it
first let's go with what is recommended
and if we need to make that design
bigger or smaller on the shirt we can
change that in crop
so as you can see this is a little bit
low for where i would prefer it's kind
of on the stomach rather than the chest
so i'm just going to go back to crop
just going to bring it up to the top
and we'll try it right there that looks
a lot better so happy graduation day
there is a young male wearing a young
male on a shirt about graduation day
in his cap and gown all we have to do
here is hit download
again commercial usage is okay just a
reminder this is why i love place it so
much
wait just a second here and it's going
to process the mock-up and then we can
download it directly to our computer
alright it's ready click here to
download we'll open this up
and just like that we have an image that
looks like it was professionally taken
as you can see the quality of all their
mock-ups is top-notch
and our design is photoshopped onto
their shirt now what we are going to do
with this image is send it to our phone
and then we will post it on our
instagram page so if you have an apple
computer and an apple phone you can
airdrop it to yourself
if not you can email it to yourself and
you can open email on your phone and
download it that way
but one way or another you want to get
this from your computer to your phone
this is so that we can use it in
instagram all right coming back to the
phone i just airdropped it to myself so
i have it on my phone here
now we're going to switch back over to
instagram and now we are ready to post
our first photo so all we do is the add
button
we'll select the mock-up and we'll hit
the little button in the corner to make
it full size
we'll hit next since it's coming from
playset you don't have to edit any of
the colors or anything if you want to
put a specific style on these then you
can
i do not recommend doing it because i
think their photos are taken
professionally so it has the look that
you have a professional photographer
taking these photos for you
then we'll just hit next now the only
thing we have to do here is write our
caption we're not going to use hashtags
just yet
and then make sure that our toggle
switch is turned on for high school
graduation tees or whatever your page is
now in the caption you don't want to be
salesy you don't want to be trying to
get a hard sale
although a lot of people that find these
images and end up purchasing from
they are buying from impulse purchases
they're not going to really be long-term
loyal followers
they're more so just going to see it
know someone who they could buy that for
and it'll be a perfect fit
you're in the right place at the right
time this is going to happen by the
magic of hashtags which i'll show you
in a minute here so essentially what
we're going to put in our captions is
just telling people what we offer so i'm
just going to go along the lines of do
you know someone who's graduating
do you want to get them an awesome shirt
as a gift well check out our store
because we have a ton of them
and once that's good all we have to do
is click share and this will be the
first post on
our instagram page now once you've made
this post we need to bring in the power
of hashtags so on this post it's really
not going to be seen by anyone yet
because we have no followers and it's a
brand new page
however if we go down to this search
button and we come up to the search at
the top
we go over to tags and we type in what
our niche is
high school graduation
we are going to see a ton of hashtags
that we can use and be putting on our
post
so essentially you want to go through
here and find the ones that are relevant
the ones that are from 2018 or 2019
obviously are not going to be relevant
but the ones that are 2020 or just
generally high school graduation
these are all going to be targeting
people who are graduating high school
and this is relevant for them so what we
are going to do is make a list in the
notes on our phone
of a lot of these hashtags that we
really like that fit what we are
targeting
so i'm just going to open up notes on my
phone and we'll start there so i'm going
to go through here and put together a
list of the ones that fit who we are
targeting which is high school
graduation and for each post you can use
up to 30 hashtags
and you can keep going along here until
you find up to 30 of them and have your
30 best ones in this list
now don't think that you have to stay on
high school graduation we can come back
in here and we can take out high school
and just do graduation
and see if there are some better
hashtags for us to use here just make
sure that especially in a niche like
this where we're targeting specifically
high school graduation
make sure that we don't get carried away
in these hashtags and get into college
graduation or things that may be off
topic but still
seemingly in the same niche so make sure
that you're staying very specific and
targeting the people that are relevant
in your specific niche
okay so this is my list of three right
now i don't want to spend too much time
on this but you can go up to 30
then after you make a post you're going
to select all and you're going to copy
we'll go back over to our instagram post
that we just posted and we're going to
go into our profile we'll go to that
post
and we're going to leave a comment in
the comment we're going to paste
those hashtags we'll post it and now
those hashtags are still going to be
clickable they're still going to be
relevant but they are not going to show
up when someone is looking at this post
as you can see it says view one comment
rather than having all of our hashtags
just kind of out here in the front which
is not very easy on the eyes
so that's why we put it in a comment so
after you post your post come back and
leave a comment
and that's where you'll put in your
hashtags now once you have that list of
up to
30 hashtags in your notes you can keep
copy pasting that
list into your comments on every post
that you make on your instagram page
now don't forget you have to add in your
profile photo so i'm just going to set
it as the same
image that we posted down here but what
you can do is you can go over to place
it and you can create a whole new one
of a different model or a different
mock-up of a t-shirt and you can put
that in your profile photo
all right that'll be our profile photo
for this page and now as you can see our
page is starting to come alive
so what's cool about these hashtags is
since we put these in the comments down
here
people interested in these topics
instagram is going to automatically
show our image to those people it'll
show up in their search when they go
through and they're browsing just
looking at instagram posts and they
don't have to be following our page so
this is how we get
organic traffic just coming from
instagram people browsing around
they see our post they're like oh wow
that's actually good they read the
caption know someone who's graduating
want to get them an awesome shirt
check out our store link that's in our
bio they click on your profile
they go over and they click your link
this is how you get people over your
storefront
completely for free just using instagram
hashtags so essentially bringing this
full circle
when you have your instagram page you
are just going to repeat this process
as you're creating new designs on
playset you'll upload them to teespring
redbubble and merch by amazon
for the ones on teespring you'll add
them to your storefront and then you'll
go back to place it
create mock-ups with those mock-ups
you'll put them on instagram and use
niche-specific hashtags in the comments
on those posts
as you start doing that more and more
people will keep finding your instagram
posts and go to your storefront and
they're clearly interested in this topic
because the hashtags were relevant to
them
the only way they're going to get to
your storefront is if they're interested
in that specific niche then it's just a
matter of time of getting in front of
the right people from instagram who are
ready to buy and they're ready to get
one of those shirts now
you only have to do this process with
instagram in the beginning for teespring
until you get a few of your own sales
and then you have your trust score and
teespring does it all for you they will
start adding you to the marketplace and
you get in front of literally millions
of people per month
redbubble and merch by amazon they do
that for you from the start so you don't
have to worry about storefronts or any
of the instagram marketing now i know we
were talking about the banner on the
teespring storefront i
just wanted you to know that i didn't
forget about that you can use place it
for that as well so you can find a
mock-up that looks good when it's kind
of squished because you only have that
little area it's just a strip of a photo
if you want to add in the banner photo i
recommend using place it to use a
mock-up and create some type of cool
image that's relevant
with that being said guys this is the
full process i know this has been a
lengthy video
there are going to be links in the
description and a table of contents so
you can jump around
if you stuck around this far in this
video my hat's off to you because i know
how long this was
and this was a lot of information this
is everything you need to know to
succeed in print on demand
the rest is up to you it's just finding
more good niches
making as many great designs as you can
in them once you get your trust score on
teespring then you don't have to worry
about the storefronts or the instagram
at all
then it's just a matter of finding more
great niches and making as many great
designs in them as you can
guys i hope this video has been helpful
if you have any questions for me about
any of this
feel free to let me know in the comments
i'll keep an eye on the comments and
i'll help you out with some answers
additionally the channel is filled with
a ton of detailed videos on certain
parts of this process so feel free to
look around there and as always if you
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