hi everyone welcome back to my channel
my name is mailboy and i teach creative
people how to sell their art online and
today
i'm not going to teach you how to sell
your art online but i am going to talk
about where to sell your art online
most precisely your digital downloads
your printables and yes i'm pretty sure
that most of you are thinking etsy right
now and etsy is amazing marketplace it's
a huge marketplace i do believe it's the
biggest marketplace to sell digital
downloads and printables online but
there are so many other places where you
could be selling your printables your
digital download items that are not etsy
while etsy is a huge huge huge
marketplace that comes with a lot of
potential buyers it also comes with a
lot of competition so let's say you want
to sell coloring pages like printable
coloring pages
hop onto etsy type in printable coloring
pages and see how many people you're
supposed to compete with and it's not
just about
competing with people when it comes to
people searching even if people do end
up at your store and you're a new seller
they're gonna see a new store without
any sales without any reviews they're
gonna look below and see a bunch of
other stores
right in your listing so even if you do
spend the time to bring in your own
traffic that traffic is just gonna see a
bunch of other people from etsy right in
your listing down below branding with
etsy is pretty much non-existent i mean
you can have your own logo you can have
your own cover photo you can have your
social links down below and use your
fonts and your colors when you're making
your etsy listing photos however
etsy is always going to have the same
font it's always going to have the logo
of etsy and it's always going to be etsy
and i remember seeing this in a lot of
youtube videos when people were talking
about the difference between etsy and
shopify even when they were not talking
about printables or digital downloads
they were saying something that is
really true if someone purchased
something on etsy and you asked them hey
that's a cool necklace where did you get
it from
most likely they're not going to even
remember the name of the seller they're
going to say some cute shop on etsy and
that branding is super important
and it's not even just that it's the
fact that people are complaining about
having their shops shut down and yes if
you're on a marketplace any marketplace
can decide to suspend you whether it's
just or not whether you did something
wrong or not and you know if this is
your only source of income and you put
all these hours and efforts into it and
sometimes even money constantly
marketing your shop your time your money
your efforts and a lot of love and that
could all be taken away just like that
and for those reasons for the people who
want to invest time in their art who
want to sell printables branded by them
who want to have their own digital
download spot i made a list of several
alternatives for selling printables and
digital downloads on etsy and these
alternatives can be used regardless of
etsy i mean you can have your own etsy
shop and still be selling on these
platforms or you can decide to forsake
your etsy shop or your etsy venture and
just focus on these platforms and
i went in i sort of was looking for the
most general information that i could
find like how much does it cost you to
get started what are the fees that
you're about to be paying and how much
is that level of customization that you
can do within these platforms during my
research i saw actually quite a lot of
platforms and i'm not yet fully savvy on
all of them but if there is a platform
that is really interesting for you guys
please let me know in the comment
section down below and i'll be happy to
go ahead check it out and make a full
tutorial just about that there are
actually a bunch of tutorials lining up
for some of these platforms to be you
know diving deeper in and some of these
platforms already have a tutorial in the
channel i'll make sure to leave links
down below to the videos that already
exist and keep updating this video
description so if by the time you're
watching this i have already made
another video in my future and in your
past it will also be linked down below
in the description
are you ready to get started
the first platform we're gonna be
talking about is shopify and shopify is
basically a platform that allows you to
set up an instant shop it has everything
you need in a shop it has the cart it
has products like listings it has
categories for products you can even
make your own blog connect your own
domain and fully customize this to your
needs to start off with shopify other
than the 14 days free trial you have to
pay 29
a month
and they do have more expensive plans
but the first one the cheapest one is 29
a month and you can easily download and
connect the plugin for digital downloads
to shopify which is free shopify does
not charge you to update the listing or
to upload a product but you will have to
pay between 0.5 and 2
for each transaction being made from
shopify obviously if you're sending uh
your revenue into paypal or to pioneer
or to whatever it's connected to you
might have more fees to look into within
that payment processing service shopify
stores are built using themes these are
basically templates of how the store is
going to look like and they're super
easy to customize and a lot of them are
free i mean well not a lot of them if
you look at the grand scheme of things
are so many things for shopify that cost
money but if you're just starting out
finding a free theme and just starting
with it might be the best solution you
can pretty much customize everything
from colors to fonts have your own logo
and of course your own domain to create
a full ecosystem that is just yours
yes you will not have the backing of a
marketplace
traffic is not just gonna pour in from
people searching on etsy but one traffic
isn't exactly pouring from etsy either
and two people do search for things like
printables and digital downloads on
google so instead of going in and trying
to investigate etsy seo or what is
trending on etsy if you're setting up
your own shopify store or any of the
other stores that i'm talking about
please make sure to follow up on google
seo google seo trends tool which was
reviewed in this channel already and it
was a super fun tutorial and just make
sure that you're up to date with what
people are searching for on google and
on other search engines and combine your
seo and built your shop according to
that
next up we have wordpress and
woocommerce wordpress is the biggest
platform the biggest service the biggest
technology to self-build your own
website without needing to code it does
help if you can code html css and php
will definitely help you out with
wordpress but you can make amazing
wordpress websites and blogs without
even knowing how to code it's my
favorite platform to go to my favorite
type of technology to be using for the
past
i would like to say eight or nine years
and wordpress has a plug-in a free
plug-in called woocommerce which
basically transforms everything into a
shop so you can add products have
collections have a cards have a user log
in see what they paid for and have the
payment processing all set up wordpress
is also built on themes and there are so
many of them there are so many simple
free themes that you could be using and
then you know connect them to your
woocommerce plugin but they're also
extremely
complex premium themes that have a free
version like astra cadance or ocean wp
that i've mentioned several times in
this channel before woocommerce fees for
each and every product that you sell
depends on the processing service on the
payment processing service and it's not
a fixed
amount that i can tell you guys but it
doesn't cost any money to upload
products into the website it does cost
to host the website somewhere and
purchase the domain domain names can
cost you nine dollars ten dollars twenty
dollars even two thousand dollars
depending on the complexity though most
domains cost around nine to eleven
dollars
hosting services can start from ten
dollars a month to a hundred dollars for
four years depending on the hosting
supplier depending on the package you
take how long do you pay up front and
with some of them you're also going to
get a free domain my favorite one to use
is hostinger they're relatively cheap
they have good customer service when it
comes to the chat you can get free
domains if you get the extended hosting
services and ssl securities is pretty
much 11 or 12 dollars per lifetime
moving on to something simpler than both
shopify and woocommerce we have selfie
and
selfie is a platform that i've yet to
dive deeper into although it does look
interesting you have 19
costs per month you can connect your own
domain and they say that they don't take
processing fees on their end if you make
any sales so it's worth checking out if
you want me to go ahead and check out
selfie for you guys and make a full
tutorial about them please let me know
that in the comments section down below
we've already had several tutorials in
this channel about shopify and wordpress
so i'm kind of interested and hearing
from you guys if you want me to make
more tutorials on them or if you want me
to make a tutorial on selfie
we also have e seawid which is sort of
free
if you have only 10 products and then it
goes up to 12.5 dollars per month if you
want to sell between 10 and 100 products
and it goes up the more products you
want to upload this could be an
interesting selection for people who are
just starting out and they want their
own like custom kingdom to play around
with but they're they don't have a lot
of products yet this is another platform
that i just encountered doing my
research yesterday and i still don't
know much about so it would quite be
interesting to see if you want me to
make a tutorial about that one go ahead
check out easyweed's website as well as
selfie website and let me know which
platform is more interesting to you guys
and i'll put in
the small box and make a tutorial on
that
moving up to a platform that has been on
this channel quite a lot is pay hip and
pay hip is a super cool platform that
basically lets you open up an instant
shop that is on their domain so it's
like payhip.com
whatever your shop name is and people
can go in there you can customize your
own logo you can customize the colors
you can customize the fonts and you have
so many amazing options that are built
into the system you have the option for
a printable or a digital download item
to sort of give a free preview so for
example if you're selling a digital
paper pack that has i don't know 15
papers you can give out one for free
people can click on it download it and
view the quality you can also do it if
you're selling ebooks let's say you're
selling a book a very long book a novel
that you wrote down as an e-book you can
have the first chapter or half the first
chapter listen as free so whenever
people go onto your ebook they can click
on it and start reading and well if they
can't put the book down they're gonna
have to buy it from you one of my
favorite features with pay hip and the
reason why they were on this channel so
much is the fact that you can have an
instant promotion and discount to
someone who shares your listing on
social media there's actually a button
for that so you can give like 25 off if
someone is going to share this on
pinterest on twitter or on facebook so
that's an amazing way to have other
people do the job of marketing for you
and it also banks sort of on the fact
that these people might have friends who
are interested in the same topics as
they are and it is kind of cool
especially because you don't have your
own costs i mean it's not like you have
to pay anything to sell printables once
you've made a printable coloring book
for example you can set it up for ten
dollars but if someone's gonna promote
it on facebook they will get 20
off you don't lose that much money
actually people feel more motivated to
share this on social media and i don't
think that they will delete it anytime
soon plus it's a cool way to give people
a discount other than hey everything in
my shop is 50 off like i see so many
people on etsy doing true to today pay
him does not have the option to connect
your own domain to it but it does have a
free option
pay-hip basically has three packages the
free one which basically costs you zero
dollars a month but paper is going to
take five percent commission for each
transaction you can choose to pay pay
hip 29 a month and then your commission
basically your transaction fees are
being lowered to two percent or choose
to pay pay hip 99 each month for zero
commission and
i know a lot of people are going like
why would i pay 99 a month just to not
pay commission because you know if
you're just starting out and you're
gonna sell like five or six different
printables a month and they're gonna be
relatively cheap if you're selling
printable sticker sheets or printable
planners go ahead with the free plan of
pay hip and pay five percent commission
but if you're starting to sell in bigger
volumes just opt in for a bigger package
and pay less commission you know just do
the math in your head because if you're
starting to sell really well and you're
selling six thousand or five thousand
dollars a month yeah ninety nine dollars
per month is pretty much gonna be better
than five percent commission one of the
things i like most about pay hip is that
they don't force you in to paying more
money to get more features all of the
features of pay hip the full
customization of the fonts and the
colors the option to give away a free
file as well as the option to share
stuff on social media to get a discount
are available on
all of them you don't have to pay more
money to have more features they do have
a lot more features than what i've
mentioned there were several tutorials
using pay hip in this channel and a link
down below to pay hip to go ahead and
check it out for yourselves if you do
have a wordpress website and you thought
to yourself hey well i can just put in
the woocommerce plugin turn my wordpress
website into a store and that would be
an awesome way to sell printables or
digital downloads that is true
but
payhip also has this embedded plugin
into wordpress where you can have a
checkout from pay hip like an actual
product from pay hip on your wordpress
blog so if you're already blogging and
you're looking into printables as a way
to make extra money
it might be better to connect this with
bay hip and not put it like not
transform your blog all of a sudden into
a shop and change it too much if you
want me to make a tutorial on how to
embed basically stuff from pay hip
products from pay hip into your own
wordpress website please let me know
that in the comment section down below i
really wanted to make that tutorial last
month but i thought to myself that i
have no idea how many of you guys are
actually using wordpress or pay hep so
if that is something that is interesting
to you guys i will make a video about it
i have a pay hip account i have a bunch
of wordpress websites so it's not a
problem at all just comment and ask
another service resembling pay hip is
gumroad
and gumroad i think was so much more
popular than pay him i mean i was
looking into so many youtubers who do
procreate tutorials who do designs and
they all chose to sell their art or sell
their brushes on either etsy or gumroad
and
i'm not sure
why i mean i was looking into gum road
and it does look nice it looks like you
can fully customize everything but the
fees are higher than pay hip i do know
that a potential reason for that might
be timing because
as i was discovering pay hip and i was
like oh my god this is an amazing tool
why has no one talked about this you can
set up your own shop and it's so amazing
i went into their social media and i saw
that roughly a month or two months
before i made the video about them
they launched this option to build a
store so one of the reasons why
my favorite youtubers are using gumroad
and not pay hip could be because when
they set it up pay hip was not really a
viable competition it wasn't really a
competitor of gumroad and gumroad was
just the better option gunroads fees are
sort of tricky so you start off by
paying nine percent fees to come road
for each and every transaction however
once you pass a thousand dollars in a
lifetime of your membership with gumroad
then you start paying seven percent
processing fees pass ten thousand
dollars a lifetime and pay five percent
fees pass a hundred thousand dollars and
pay three percent processing fees and if
you end up selling a million dollars
it's 2.9 yeah it's kind of disappointing
from going like from 3 to 2.9 but i'm
guessing that it's just you know their
minimal fees or something like that
because they are free however
gumroad sort of has the discover gumroad
which is a platform that features you to
their clients and if you get your
product on the discover gum road and you
get a sale from discover you have to pay
an extra 10 fee one of the best features
for gumroad is the option to rent
someone a downloadable product so in
that way
you can sell a movie
like a downloadable version to rent a
movie and
limit the amount of time that people
have to watch that movie
kind of like blockbuster
but those are just some of the options
and some of the info on gumroad because
there is going to be a full tutorial on
gumroad in this channel and i'm not even
asking you guys i'm just letting you
know there's a full gamer tutorial
coming up in october in this channel
because
seeing so many of the people that i
appreciate so much online
using gumroad makes me wanna make a
tutorial about them because well i'm
gonna check them out for sure and i
might as well film it while checking it
out if any of you are using gumroad or
using pay hip or any of the other
alternatives that i mentioned here
please let me know and if you are and
you've already set up shop feel free to
check out a link down below in the
description to shop reviews you can go
in and anonymously submit your shops i
would love to review bay hip shops and
gum road shops and shopify stores and
woocommerce wherever it is that you're
selling your printables or digital
downloads and print on demand because
shop reviews is for everyone and as of
next month
shop reviews are going to be a weekly
thing i did mention in some of my videos
that october is going to be completely
different
i am changing everything that i do in my
channel starting from the first day of
q4 which is first of october and really
making a schedule
and more on that in next videos
last but not least an honorable mention
creative fabrica yes creator fabrica has
been on this channel for such a long
time because well i'm using their
graphics for print on demand and i love
using their fonts i'm obsessed with the
fonts that are out there and you can use
them for commercial purposes there is a
link down below to a page they made
especially for the maid tribe community
where you can get 30
lifetime discount for the print on a man
membership which is super cool and super
awesome but you can also sell on
creative fabrica we had a full interview
with linnea from creative fabrica print
on the man and kdp department where she
was talking about the licensing
the trends and yes she was also talking
about how to sell on creative fabrica
how to contact them how to start a
portfolio there and what you can sell
there and i'm not gonna
elaborate on that as much because i do
want to get back to creative fabrica and
talk to them about
how people can sell on their platform
let me know if that is something that is
interesting to you guys if you want to
see someone else from creative fabrica
or see linea again in this channel
talking about how to sell on creative
fabrica because i'd love to host people
here
it feels kind of lonely by the way if
any of you guys who are watching this
and have a special story to tell about
how they started selling printables or
digital downloads please let me know you
can do that by dming me on instagram at
may.arroyo because i am
kinda itching
to have a guest on my channel that is
one of the
viewers with all that information now in
our heads
where should you sell your printables
and digital download items because it is
a huge huge amount of information
and i do believe that the right answer
would be different for each and every
one of you i can
try and explain it from my perspective
because i am coming back to etsy soon
and launching an etsy store to sell
seamless patterns and clip art for
commercial purposes because i do believe
that there is a huge crowd there and
i don't want to start selling this on my
own platform and promote it by myself
because i'm doing so many other projects
which is the puzzle project uh that i'm
super excited and that you'll hear more
about
this channel
possibly another channel
uh that's gonna be relating to the
puzzle project that i'm working on
with
going back to three
print-on-demand platforms at the same
time
and it's gonna be insane it's gonna be a
crazy q4 guys so i am going back to etsy
i'm also going back to different
print-on-demand platforms and will
possibly expand using pay hip to sell
printable items that are not relating to
what i want on my etsy store because
that is also a reason to have an
alternative for etsy because let's say
you're selling printable wall art on
etsy and you're having a great time and
you're making a good amount of money but
you started developing new skills and
you're making printable coloring pages
and you don't infuse them in the same
shop and you don't want to manage to
etsy shops i know a lot of people who
are afraid to open a new etsy shop
because
they feel like they might get suspended
so you can use gumroad pay hip shopify
woocommerce or any of these other
options to sell a different type of
printable or digital download or
let's say you have a printable etsy
store to sell printable greeting cards
but you also want to sell your music
maybe you're making like awesome music
mixes or sound or you want to sell like
audio books do it on gumroad not on the
same etsy store because those two have
nothing in common those two topics
cannot be in the same store for those of
you who are selling printed man on
marketplaces like redbubble society6
even etsy i did make some videos about
how to blog about your redbubble store
how to blog about your etsy store your
your print under me and business to make
more money and bring more traffic in but
you guys have requested several times
that i basically lay it out to blogging
ideas which could also be related to
pinterest accounts or instagram accounts
like blogging on each and every one of
them or even vlogging on youtube so
on this saturday i'm seeing you guys
with redbubble or any kind of
print-on-demand platform blogging ideas
so it's gonna be super super fun i'm
also going to be seeing you at the 20th
of the month with a special video on how
to make and sell digital learning sheets
because education is a really strong
niche to be into especially with covid
people not going to school parents
choosing to home school or just you know
parents wanting their kids to do
something educational with their free
time instead of just playing in their
ipad and on the 23rd we're coming here
with another shop review video that i'm
super super excited and on the 25th
i promised you guys to start doing
product review videos and i do have a
lot of products coming my way but there
are gonna take more time to arrive fully
and will probably be at the end of the
month or in october but on the 25th is a
video that you guys have been requesting
well pretty much intensively because
i've gotten about 15 dms on this i made
the canva text effect tutorial and
everyone just wants me to make a canva
image effect tutorial including how to
delete background the swirl effects and
what we can do with them so that is
going to be coming up at the 25th as i
mentioned in my previous video
this video was supposed to be tomorrow
but it got pushed in to today because
once the sun is gonna go down it's
officially a tournament day till
tomorrow night when there are three
stars in the sky don't ask me i know
that religions can be weird and yes all
religions are weird when you're not
a part of them or grow up into them but
autonomous day has a special meaning for
a lot of jewish people
a lot of jewish people don't eat during
that day even the not religious ones
it's basically 24 hours of not eating
not drinking not turning on electricity
especially definitely not working and
basically soul searching praying and
connecting with god and forgiving the
people who have hurt us in the past year
asking for forgiveness from those people
as well as forgiving ourselves so as of
this evening i'm gonna dive into some
soul-searching while i'm not medically
allowed to fast i am gonna shrink down
on what i'm eating and
try to
focus my thoughts on this day no i'm not
religious but autonomous day is one of
the traditions that i have been
observing in the past few years
it's sort of like
a yearly
soul-searching forgiveness forgiving
myself for giving others and learning to
let go for that reason i apologize in
advance to those of you who are going to
comment or dm and i'm not gonna answer
right away i'm still here for the next
few hours to answer your comments and
questions and we'll be back to answer
your comments and questions on friday
morning i would like to thank all of you
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with that being said that was it from me
for today and happy i don't want to say
happy autonomous day because it's not
actually a thing but to all of the
jewish viewers in this channel have an
easy fasting a good soul-searching
connect with god and
which is in hebrew and i really don't
know how to translate it other than
finnish good signing
yes religions are weird i said that
before
uh but that was it for me for today and
as usual i'll see you guys in my next
video
bye
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