i tried selling print on demand t-shirts
on etsy for
about seven days i know that i've tried
selling print on demand on etsy before
if you guys haven't subscribed since
april and may then you might have seen
my previous etsy videos and i actually
haven't done anything with etsy or print
on demand in a while so i figured i
would give it another try
last time i didn't have much luck the
only sale that i got was from my mom
and this time around i did have some
more luck with it so in this video i'm
going to tell you guys what happened
and what i'm planning to do next with
this etsy t-shirt business
yo what's up everybody welcome back to
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don't know me already hello my name is
meg and on my channel i make videos
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ideas basically non-traditional ways of
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first things first it's actually been a
little while since we've talked about
print on demand on the channel
so for those of you that are new here
and don't know what i'm talking about
print on demand is an online business
model where you can
design and sell your own t-shirts
hoodies mugs
um there are a ton of other different
print on demand products to choose from
but the best part of this business model
is you don't have to actually hold an
inventory of these products which means
you need to invest
little to no money up front to get
started so you can list your custom
products on an online
store or marketplace and only when a
customer orders from your store
you then have to pay to have the product
made and shipped to that customer i also
think it's important to mention
that when it comes to print on demand
even though you're designing your own
products you don't necessarily need to
have the most amazing
design skills personally i'm definitely
not a professional graphic designer
i do use photoshop but i only create
simple text-based designs
there are other free easy-to-use
softwares to create designs
a popular one is called canva and i do
believe that they have a free trial but
if you're completely against creating
the designs yourself you can always hire
freelancers on fiverr to do so for you
or you can actually also buy designs off
etsy if you search for the name
of the design that you're looking for
followed by the letters svg for example
if you want to sell shirts for
thanksgiving you just
simply search in thanksgiving
shirt svg and a bunch of listings
for thanksgiving themed designs will
come up that you can buy
download and put on your own shirts and
other print on demand products to sell
back on etsy but you might also be
thinking if you don't own
one of those expensive t-shirt printers
how are you going to create these
products to sell
well don't worry because you don't
actually need to invest in a fancy
t-shirt printer because with print on
demand you connect your online store to
a print-on-demand fulfillment service
like printful or
printfy and whenever you get an order on
your store they take care of everything
from the creation of the product to the
packaging
to shipping it out to your customers so
you never even have to see
or touch the product that you're selling
i've used both printful and printed five
before
and i've made a video comparing the two
so i will link that up here in the cards
as well as down in the description of
this video if you guys want to check
that out i personally recommend both for
different reasons
so if you're interested i'll have links
to both of them in the description below
and
full disclosure they are affiliate links
so if you end up purchasing something
through my links i will get a commission
with no extra cost
to you affiliate links help support the
channel so i would appreciate it if you
sign up using them now you can start a
print on demand business on a couple of
different platforms such as
shopify ebay amazon redbubble and of
course
etsy like i said earlier i did try etsy
before a few months ago without finding
any success so you might be wondering
why i've decided to give this another
shot
well a little while ago i saw a video
titled i tried
the t-shirt print on demand side hustle
by another youtuber gary rozelle who
mostly makes amazon fba videos
and in his print-on-demand video he
found success on etsy within
just seven days and i ended up getting
over a seven day period around 75 to 80
orders i'll show a screenshot
of my gmail account of all the orders
coming through so the average profit was
about five dollars per shirt and let's
say i sold 70 i sold a little bit more
than that but let's go 70
over a week's time period that means i
made about 350
profit on this little kind of startup
side hustle
after watching his video i was so
determined to figure out etsy so
i started researching and watching
youtube videos because
my biggest concern when it came to
selling print on demand on etsy
was doing the product research and
finding winning designs to replicate and
sell on my shop i watched a lot of
videos from
my favorite print on a manned youtuber
ryan hogue including one
where he recommended a product research
tool called laura
so i decided to try it out for myself
and i got myself a free trial
and just a disclaimer at the time that
i'm filming this i'm not affiliated with
allora in
any way basically the software is a
google chrome extension
so when you have it installed on your
browser and you go to etsy you can
perform a search and when the results
come up allura will analyze all of the
listings and show
an average of typical favorites typical
price
and it'll give that search term a score
from 1 to 10
based on the level of demand and
competition
for those keywords 10 meaning high
demand and
low competition which is what i wanted
to go for
when you go to a specific listing and
click on the allura icon
you can actually see not only the amount
of favorites that this listing has
sales and revenue if you have the
premium version but you can also see
the exact tags that that seller used to
list that product
personally this is my favorite part of
allora because i'll basically
copy all the tags to use them in my
listings as well
so before i got started working on my
designs i created
this google spreadsheet to make a list
of all the ideas and all the
etsy listings that i was going to take
inspiration from and once i had a lot of
products in my spreadsheet i started
designing
like i said earlier i'm definitely not a
professional graphic designer
so i would only go for the simple
text-based designs
when it comes to creating your products
you would upload your designs onto
printful printify or another fulfillment
service of your choice and for the past
week with this etsy challenge i was
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i'm pretty sure that i have another
video on how to do this i'm pretty sure
i have a printful tutorial and i
might also have a print if i tutorial
but i do know that i have a tutorial on
how to like list products on
etsy so i'm not going to go through the
entire process in
this video but feel free to leave a
comment down below if you would like to
see a full tutorial on how to create the
designs
upload them to printful or printfy and
then create the listings on etsy and i
will make that happen
so over the past week i tried to create
as many designs as possible
and list as many products as possible
onto etsy i would even create multiple
variations of certain designs to test
different fonts and styles and see what
works better and now i'm going to give
you guys
what you've been waiting for the results
of this
seven day etsy challenge by the way i
started this etsy challenge on october
8th so from then
to october 15th i ended up listing 20
products on my etsy shop and in that
time i got 180 visits to my shop which
resulted in
three sales my shop's conversion rate
for that week was
1.7 and i generated 56.97
i made my first two sales on october 9th
for
37.98 and my third sale was on
october 14th for 18.99 all three of the
sales were t-shirts listed
for 18.99 each plus four dollars
shipping
now for this video i'm not gonna go too
in-depth calculating these profits but
the production cost to fulfill each
t-shirt was about
nine dollars each which means that the
profit on each t-shirt was about ten
dollars each so that means that my
profit selling on etsy for
seven days was about thirty dollars i
know that's not
much but it does prove to me that it is
possible to
make some money selling t-shirts on etsy
in a short amount of time
and it was really exciting to get sales
on etsy for the first time
after i got those sales i just really
wanted to keep getting more
however i am planning to continue this
challenge for at least the rest of
the month so that means there will be an
update to this video
since i started this challenge on
october 8th i'll stop doing this
on november 8th unless this really takes
off so you guys can expect an update for
this video
in the middle of november basically in
like one month from now
so in the next couple of weeks i'm
planning to create even more designs
work on my seo more and optimize my shop
more i might also test to see if my
designs themselves are the problem
by buying other people's designs either
on fiverr or like i said i can buy them
on
etsy so for now i'm going to wrap up
this video thank you guys
so much for watching i hope you enjoyed
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