Hey everyone, welcome
back to another video. In today's video, I'm going to be giving you a complete print on demand tutorial. Now, this video is going to cover everything that I personally do. And it's literally going to
take you from idea of wanting to start print on demand to
getting your first sales, and cover everything in
between step by step. Now, throughout this video, I'll explain things here on camera, but also I will put
you on screen recording so you can follow along step
by step on your own computer. Now lastly, before we
switch over to the computer here and get started, I just wanna say that this is
going to be a longer video. There is a ton of information
for me to cover in this video, so it is going to move at a quick pace. And I really hope that you
take advantage of this. This literally could be a full
course, and as you guys know, I'm just giving it to
you for free on YouTube. It has all of these special
tools, artificial intelligence, everything that I have learned to use is all going to be
spelled out in this video. So all I ask is if you
do enjoy this video. Please just give it a thumbs up and let me know down in the comments. So without further ado, let's
switch over to the computer and get started in this video. So the very first thing to cover here is, what is print on demand exactly,
what is the business model? Just so we are on the same page as we go through this tutorial. So essentially what the print
on demand business model is, is you create T-shirt designs, you upload them to a
couple different print on demand websites. And then people can
come to those websites, they can find those designs
on T-shirts, or hoodies, or other apparel, and they can actually
purchase your design printed on those items. But the whole kicker here
is that that specific item that they ordered will be
printed, and it will be shipped, and all the customer
service will be handled by the print on demand website themselves. So us as the print on demand seller, we are only responsible for
creating those T-shirt designs and uploading them to the
print on demand websites. So to show you exactly
what this looks like, let's come over to Amazon. Which if you didn't know, is actually the largest print
on demand website out there. Not many people know that
you can do print on demand on Amazon. But to show you what this looks like, if you type in a type of
T-shirt, this is camping T-shirt, and you scroll through the results, you'll see a bunch of these
different T-shirts available. And any of these listings that
say "Amazon Merch on Demand," they are actually people who
have only uploaded the design and then Amazon is
doing the rest for them. Amazon is creating this listing to show what it would look like. When anyone orders this item, Amazon's going to print it, ship it, take care of all of the customer service, but you would never know that
just scrolling through here. Now, something I will say
is that some of these, something like this, it does not have the Amazon
Merch on Demand label on it. This could actually be a person
that is selling on Amazon, where they print the items themselves, they ship it out themselves. So that is mixed in here, but
the people taking advantage of the print on demand business model, they will all be labeled with
"Amazon Merch on Demand." So to show you what this looks like, if we click in on one of these items here, the listing is going to show up exactly like any other
product that is on Amazon. You can see what the product looks like, you can actually change the
color of what that would be. And the reason that you
can change the color is because none of these
are actually printed yet. So once you place an
order in a specific color, and then you come down, you pick what kind of shirt
you want that printed on, and you pick your size, you can actually just
add that to your cart, you can buy it now, and it ships just like any
other product from Amazon. Now, with that being said, if you do everything
correctly in print on demand, you literally just have
to upload your designs and then you sit back and
collect your paycheck. That is literally it. You don't even need
any internet connection for this to happen
because all of the traffic is coming to the websites that I'm going to show you automatically on their own, so you don't have to do any advertising or anything like that. Now, saying this out loud
starts to make it sound like it's too good to be true, but I've literally been
doing this business model for almost 10 years now. And I'm just trying to give
back with these tutorials, and create the things that I wish I had when I was starting out. So I really hope that you
guys put this into action. Trust me when I say there is plenty to go around
in this business model. Now, a couple important
things before we move on from here just to tie
all of this together. Amazon is the largest print
on demand website out there, but they are not the only print
on-demand website out there. What many people don't know is that when you create a
design, something like this, and you upload it to Amazon
to be sold on Merch by Amazon, you can also upload that exact same design with the exact same title and description to other print on-demand
websites at the same time. This means you are going
to get organic traffic and sales from not only
Amazon, but the other websites that I'll show you in
this tutorial as well. Now what's going to be really
cool is that I've been selling on many different print on
demand websites over the years, and I figured out which
ones sell the best, and those are the ones that I'm going to be showing you in this tutorial, just so you're not wasting your time with other print on demand websites out there that don't
actually get many sales. And then the very last
thing before we keep going here is that there's
actually two different types of print on demand. There is passive print on demand, which I've just showed you here. This is basically you upload the designs, the websites do everything for you, and you just collect your paychecks. And then the other way is
active print on demand. This is where you are
creating your own website, you're uploading your own
print on demand designs and creating your own listings, and then every time you get an order, you can actually send that order to a print on demand fulfiller. They will ship it out
for you so you don't have to do any of the printing, but you are still responsible
to drive your own traffic, bring your own buyers,
and most importantly, you have to still do your
own customer service. When you do this passive route here, all of the customer service
and everything is done for you. So needless to say, I can definitely tell you over the years, the passive route is
so much more enjoyable, and that is what this entire tutorial is going to be based on. Okay, so let's move right
along in this tutorial and start to get into the fun stuff. So the very first thing is that when you
are creating designs for print on demand, you can create those designs
and sell them in any niche or any topic that you want. The only important thing to
know here is that you need to avoid copyrighted
or trademarked things. These are most commonly
going to be movie quotes, song lyrics, or company
logos, company names, or company phrases. As long as you are avoiding those things, you can create your
designs on anything else. So to give you a perfect example of this, something like this
design that we just saw, or even going back and
looking at these other ones. These are all great ideas, this is kind of the sweet
spot for print on demand. You're creating designs that
someone would want to buy for themselves or buy as
a gift for someone else that's interested in that topic,
for this example, camping. So for you getting started
in print on demand today, what I would recommend
for you to do is to think about what are your hobbies
or what are your passions? What are things that you know
a lot about or you care about, that's going to keep this engaging, it's going to keep it very interesting and fun for you to get
into print on demand. So once you roughly have
that idea in your mind, and remember you can change
this niche down the road as many times as you want to, then I would come over to etsy.com. Now, although we are not
going to actually be using Etsy for print on demand, we're
not going to sell on there. I have used Etsy for years
previously to come up with ideas of what kind of designs I
want to create and sell. So type in your niche, and then "T-shirt," and then just scroll through here. Now, we're not looking for
anything to directly rip off and just copy, but we're
just looking for ideas to get our brain going
here so that we can use that as inspiration for our designs. So as you scroll through here, you can see "Camping because
therapy is expensive." That's just a funny shirt for camping. You've got "Camping crew." As you keep scrolling through, you're just going to see more ideas here. Now, something that I have learned, and this is going to be the
first kind of special tool or strategy for you to use, is
that scrolling through here, yes, it gets your brain going, but it's not going to tell you
exactly what kind of designs to create within this overall niche that are likely to sell well. That's where I've learned to use tools where it gives you kind
of insider information on what gaps there are within camping that are actually going
to sell really well. So now that you've seen
kind of a backup way to come up with ideas and
get some inspiration here, now let me show you how I currently do it. So this is a tool called Merch Informer. If you have seen my other
print on demand tutorials, you will see that I use this quite a bit. I'm going to show you a few different ways that I use this specific tool
throughout this tutorial. And I will say that this is a paid tool. So the pricing here is about
9.99 a month or $20 a month. You only need the newbie plan to do this. And I've actually been
using them for so long that I have a coupon code that
I can share with you guys. I'll put it down in the description, but it gives you 20% off
of either of these plans, so it should bring it down
to about $8 per month. Now, what's nice about
this tool also is they have a three day free trial, so you can actually use
the tool totally for free for three days. So you can do this whole tutorial without having to pay anything. So with that being said,
let me get logged in here and then I'll show you how to use it. Okay, so once you are
logged into Merch Informer, we're going to come to the left side where all of these really expand into other print on demand
tools that you can use. Specifically what we are
looking for at this stage is to go to keyword research
and then keyword finder. Now, this is the beauty
of using a tool like this. Literally you just come up here and you type in what the niche
is that you had the idea of, and then you click search. And then literally in a couple seconds, it's going to break down
that entire overall niche and show you where the gaps are, where other people are
not selling designs in. Now, when you hear camping overall, you might just think to create
general camping designs. But as you're scrolling through here, we're looking on the left side, this is going to tell you what
kind of that sub niche is. And then we're looking at competition, and we're just looking for the green ones. That means that it's low competition specifically on that sub niche. Now, I'll show you some examples, I'll scroll through this entire thing and pick a couple out here, we will use them for this tutorial. But the super important thing to know here is that as print on-demand
starts to get more popular, those big overall niches
like camping, golf, yoga, those are all going to start to get full and more competitive. However, by having a tool like this, this is literally your secret
weapon to go in and find, what are all of those sub
niches within the overall niche that everyone else doesn't know about and people haven't thought
to create designs in yet? So literally by scrolling through here, you can skip over everything that is red, and we're just going to scroll
down and look for the ones that are green, "Camping
fun, camping friends." Not all of these are going
to make a lot of sense right off the bat. "Camping is," you could
fill in the blank there, but that's not what we're looking for. We're looking for, and I'll show you exactly
when I find them here. Okay, here's a bunch of
green, "Camping women." Perfect. Apparently there are a
lot of camping designs, but they are made for men. You wouldn't think to do
that extra search to find out that there are not many
designs created for women. That is exactly what I'm talking
about with this research. And then you've got more here,
we've got "Camper camping," so actually camping in a travel camper, not actually setting up a tent. "Beer camping, family
camping, camping adventures." So literally family camping,
beer camping, camper camping, and camping women. Just like that, I've literally
found four sub niches or low competition gaps within camping. If you go into print on
demand on the websites I'm about to show you, and you create designs
in these sub niches, you are going to be
one of the few sellers, and inevitably you are going to get sales because you're one of the
only few to pick from. You're not uploading into
a very crowded market. So once you've got this
first sub niche picked out, we will start with camping women and I'll show you how to do this. And then once you've
made designs in these, you can literally come back
and you can start doing all of these other ones
and filling them as well. So this is the next tool
that I use in this process. It is called ChatGPT. It is a totally free
artificial intelligence tool that you can use. The website to get to
it is chat.openai.com. And by the way, I'll put links to all of
this down in the description. So you don't have to memorize any of this, all the links will be waiting for you. However, at the moment
while I'm making this video, this tool is still totally free to use. You just have to create an
account and you can use it. I will say though, there have been rumors about
big tech companies purchasing this software and putting
it behind a paywall so you can't use it for free. So all I'm trying to say is if
you can still use this tool, definitely use it for
this part of the process. So what ChatGPT does is
you basically come in and you can write a message. It's basically like you are
asking a question to Google, except it's basically an artificial intelligence
virtual assistant. So whatever you ask it, it's
going to generate an answer and give it back to you written with artificial intelligence. Now, what I use this for in
my print on demand process is asking it to brainstorm ideas for me or slogans that I can
put on T-shirt designs. So now that we have the idea
of women's camping T-shirts, now let's go over here,
and I'm going to say, "Write me 10 funny women's
camping T-shirt ideas." You don't have to put funny in here, you could put in something
different or funny. I just find for print on demand, a lot of people are purchasing
these shirts as gifts. So having funny designs
in really any niche is only going to help you. So then you just hit enter or you hit go, and it's literally going to start writing these ideas for you. Now, just like that, we
literally have 10 ideas that we can use for print on demand, and some of these are great. So, "Camp hair, don't care," that I imagine would make a great shirt. "Hiking is just walking
where it's okay to pee. My favorite camping accessory? S'more wine, please." these are great ideas for
print on demand T-shirts. And literally, you can change
this from 10 to 20 or 30, and they'll just create you a longer list. You can even do regenerate, and it will rewrite the list for you. And it's just going to
give you similar results or slightly different results. It'll ask you, was this better or worse? This is artificial intelligence saying, "How can I make you happy? Did I do better this time? Do you want it to be slightly different?" And then you can go back
and forth on the results that it's written for you. And you can even prompt
it to do other things. So, "Make these shorter," if you want them to be shorter phrases instead of longer ones. And it's just going to
regenerate these for you. As I'm looking through these, there's literally so many good designs that you can create here that are just hilarious T-shirt designs. So this is my new and improved process for finding these T-shirt design ideas. The first part being so important
of finding that sub niche. The second part is using AI
to come up with the ideas instead of Etsy. However, there's one big
catch to using ChatGPT, and that's that it's not
going to tell us which ones of these are copyright
or trademark protected. Remember in the beginning, we briefly talked about
movie quotes, song lyrics, or company names, logos, or phrases. those are the most common
things that you cannot use for print on demand. However, things like
phrases like these can also be protected by people or companies. So the next part of this process is definitely the most
serious and the only real part that you have to do for print on demand, is making sure that all of these, or the ones that you want to use at least, are not protected by other people. If you just use these the way they are and you go create your design and upload them to print
on demand websites, the people that own these
can flag yours as a copyright or trademark infringement. And if your account on that website gets too many of these flags, your
whole account gets taken down. So just spend a minute here, make sure that you are protected, free, and clear before you use these, and I'll show you how to do that. So the way to do this is you take the ones that you want to use from here, and just exclude the quotation mark. So I'm just going to take this first one, command C, or you can right
click and you can copy that. And then go back over to Merch Informer. And they actually have another tool that we can use for this. You go to trademarks, and
you go to trademark alerts. And this is literally a tool
that we can just command V or we can right click paste, and you can start putting
all of these in here and search them all to see
if they are protected or not. So I'm going to hit enter,
come down to the next line. And let's go grab another one of these. "Camping hair, don't care,"
that's another great one. Copy, paste. Let's go grab another one. "Life's more fun when you're camping." That again, these are hilarious. Copy that, we'll put that in here. Lemme just grab a couple more. Okay, so that should do it. We've got seven of them pasted in here. And literally all we do now is hit save, and it's going to drop all of
these down into our list here. And now all we do is hit check trademarks. Now, if your page doesn't already show that they are checked down
here, just refresh your page, and then it will show
that they are checked. Sometimes that happens. But now we can look at
all of these phrases and instantly know if they are safe to use for print on demand T-shirts or not. So all of these actually
happen to be safe to use and they are not
protected by other people, but if you got any red Xs, do not use those to upload on
your print on demand shirts because your designs are
likely going to get flagged for copyright infringement, and we do not want that for our business. So as this turned out, all the
ones that I want to use here, they are all free to use. This just saves you a ton of time, and you know going into this, you have the peace of mind
that you can be using them. So once you've gotten to this stage, there's literally just the
designing and the uploading left. You are very far along here. So first off, congratulations
for getting this far. Now, we have our design ideas, and now I'm going to show you how to turn these into full fledged print
on demand T-shirt designs without having graphic design experience. So when it comes to the
actual T-shirt designs for print on demand, they are arguably the
most important part here. Even if you find some really
good low competition gaps in niches that people
are not uploading to, if you have bad designs, people are simply not going to buy them. When I started out in print on demand, I still was not a graphic designer and I was creating things by hand. This took a lot of time and
my designs were not very good. A lot of them were just
text-based and that was it. Over the years, I have learned
that there are websites out there that have print
on demand T-shirt templates. That you can go in,
you can customize them, you can change things, use
all of their templates, download that to your computer, and you can upload those to
the print on demand websites. This will make your life so
much easier in print on demand. It makes the design
process very efficient, and it gives you professional templates so you're not starting from scratch. So with that said, let
me show you the tool that I personally use for this. This is the design tool
that I have grown to use, and I have used many of them
out there over the years. It's called Placeit.net. Again, I'll put a link to
it down in the description. This is another one that is a paid tool, but trust me, it is so worth it. Between Merch Informer and Placeit, these are the only paid
tools that you need for this entire business model. Now, as far as pricing goes for this one, pricing is about 9.99 per month. So it's the same as Merch Informer. Again, I've been using them forever, so I have a coupon code from them as well. I'll put that down in the description. The reason I use Placeit is because everything on their website, from the fonts, to the
graphics, to the layouts, is copyright free. As we were just talking about, the phrases cannot be
protected by other people, but there's also such thing as the fonts or the graphics being owned
and protected by other people. Some of these other design
tools out there that I've used in the past are not 100% copyright free. So you might create a design,
everything looks good, you upload it to a
print on demand website, and it gets flagged and
taken down in the future and you don't know why. It could be because the font that you used is owned by someone else. This is just a nuance to
this kind of business model, and that's why I use Placeit, is because you don't
have to worry about that, everything on here is copyright free. The reason I think it is worth
spending a minute to explain that is because I understand
when you are starting a new business, you're not
trying to pay other people money, you're trying to make money yourself. So I just wanted to make
sure that I was transparent and properly justified
what tools I pay for and why I recommend them
to you if you are getting into this business. So with all that being said,
let me log into Placeit and I'll show you how
to bake these designs. Okay, so once you're logged into Placeit, you have a bunch of different things that you can create here. Specifically what we're
looking for is designs, and then we're going to apparel and print, we're going to go to T-shirt designs. Now, this is going to show you all of their
different T-shirt templates that you can use and customize. If you scroll all the
way down to the bottom, you can see there are over 800
pages of different templates you can choose from. And each one of these has to have at least 20 designs on them. So there are a ton of designs. Now, all of these can be customized, and you can even sort on
the left side by newest, most popular, bestselling. However, from experience here, what I would recommend for you to do is to just go straight up top and type in what your niche is. So I'm going to type in "camping,"
I'm going to hit search, and then this is going to bring
up everything that they have on the niche of camping. Although we are not
creating mock-ups right now, you can actually upload
your design onto a model, which is pretty awesome. But what we wanna do is
come over to the left side, scroll down over here until
you see T-shirt designs. Now, these specifically, since we've just done
the search for your niche and sort it by T-shirt designs, these are all going to be
T-shirt design templates specific to camping that we can use that we know are all copyright free. So once you scroll through
here, you can get an idea of all of these different
camping templates, and they can all be customized. The idea is that all of
these different phrases that we want to use, you wanna put each one of
these on their own template. That way you have a
bunch of unique designs. Now, kind of a rule of thumb here is, whenever I'm going into one
of these low competition gaps within a niche, like the
women's camping shirts, I'm trying to create 20
to 40 different designs, upload them into that kind of gap, and then move on to the next one, Whether that was beer camping or whatever one I wanted to go into next. The reason for this is because
whenever a seller comes in and searches for that, basically any design that
they're going to purchase there, whatever listing is likely
going to be one of mine because it's low competition and I put 20 to 40 good designs in it. That's how all of this really works, and that's a rinse and repeat process. So let's get started
with the first one here. I'm just going to come back and I'm going to use
"camping hair, don't care." I'm just going to copy that, and then I'm going to go back over here. And I'm going to pick
one of these templates. I'm a sucker for these circle designs, I just really like them, they
come out so easily, so good. And then once you click on it, you're basically now in
the editor on place it. And basically all we need to know here is that this text corresponds to the text box over here. So whatever you change here is going to change this text box. You can move things around, you can make them bigger and smaller, and then you just hit the back button if you wanna undo something you did, or if you wanna put it back
to the original layout, you just hit the reset button right here. So I'm just going to come over here, and I'm going to select this, and I'm going to delete
that and hit paste. And that actually didn't paste very well, so I'm just going to
manually type this in. Camping hair, don't care. And literally as you type this in, it's going to reformat it into this design so all of the heavy
lifting is done for you. Now, what's also cool about these designs is they're already in the camping niche. So the graphic that's in the middle is already about camping. Now, if you wanted to change
this graphic to something else, all you do is the graphic
that's in the middle right here is actually editable on the left side. So you hit edit, and you can
search for anything else. So if we typed in camping,
you can click any of these and it will sub that
right into your design. You just click on it and
it'll put that in the middle. And all of these graphics that come up, these are all copyright free, they're all commercially usable as well, so you don't have to
worry about using them and then somebody flagging
your design later. So literally just in a couple clicks, I've made this custom design. If you wanted to, you could literally leave
this how we had it before, and you can use this design right here. As long as you are changing
something on the design and downloading it, it's
totally yours to use. And then another important
thing to know here is, if you do want to change the font itself, not the text, but the actual font, whether that's the color of the font or what the actual font
is so it looks different, you just go to the
corresponding box over here, you hit the dropdown, and you can literally just go
through any of these fonts, all of them are going
to be copyright free. You can even hit more fonts. And then all of these fonts you can use totally copyright free, you don't have to worry
about someone else owning it. And then the same goes for the color. You literally can just click here, and you can change the
color to anything you want. Okay, so now that you've
got your design ready, there is one extremely important thing, and Placeit makes it very easy. This background, this blue
color, we actually do not want. So when you're creating a
print on-demand T-shirt design, you only want the design itself, you don't want this blue rectangle to be printed on that shirt as well. So not all tools will have this feature, but Placeit does have it. But what that is, is once
you have your design ready, the very last thing you do is
you go to background color, and then you go all the
way to the bottom corner, it's kind of hidden here
and it's a checkerboard. this is the transparent background. Once you click that, the
background blue color goes away. And although you can't
really see our design, we know it's there because
we already created it, this is the very last thing we're doing. So now once we upload this
to a print on demand website, only this design will be
printed on that shirt. And in the next step, you'll
see what I mean by that. So this design is literally ready to go. All you have to do now
is just hit download. Give this just one second to load here. It's going to process your design and then you can download
it to your computer. But once it is ready, it will
say, "Click here to download." Just click that. And it's going to ask you what
you want to name this design. So what I would name it is
whatever text was on that shirt. So I should still have it copied. Lemme just paste it right
here, camping hair, don't care. That's what I'm going to name this design, and I can save it right to my downloads. So this is our design right
here saved on our computer. And as you can see when you zoom in here, the quality of this design
is actually really good. So when it gets printed on a shirt, you're going to have no
issues with the resolution or having blurry images or anything. When it saves it off of Placeit,
it's saved as a PNG file, which you'll see in the
next step is very important. And the resolution is
perfect for printing. So once you've gotten to this stage, you're literally almost done already. All that's left is really the logistics. This is just uploading to
the print on-demand websites, putting your title, your
tags, your description, and you're really done. So again, congratulations
if you've made it this far in this video, you are literally
on the home stretch here. So without further ado, let
me show you what's next. So this is the part of
passive print on demand that I really enjoy, and this is something I'm
excited to share with you. When you create the designs like this and you have them saved
on your own computer, you can upload them to multiple
print on demand websites where they can all get traffic and they can all get
sales at the same time. So with that said, in a second we'll switch
back over to the computer, and I'll show you exactly how
to upload to these websites. But first, it's very important
to know which websites to upload to. There are tons of different
passive print on demand websites out there, but not all of them
should be treated equally. I've been selling on
many different platforms for many years now, and only a couple of them have
really outshined the rest. Now, the reason that this is important is you don't wanna be
wasting your time uploading to websites that are just
not going to give you sales. Rather, I would focus on the ones that are really the big hitters here. And what those are currently are just three specific websites. So I'll put these up on the screen here so you can screenshot this or jot this down just so you
have this for reference later. But the first website
is called Teepublic.com. The second website is
called RedBubble.com, and the third website is
Amazon Merch on Demand. Now, these three websites
are all free to use. All you have to do is create
an account with your email, and literally they get tons of traffic. Just to give you some reference here, Teepublic gets about a million people to their website automatically, organically every single month. Those are just people coming
in looking to buy shirts. RedBubble gets almost 10
million people per month, and then Amazon gets almost
a billion people per month. So just by being on all
three of these websites, you're not going to have
to do any marketing. All you're going to have to do
is upload your designs there, and then sit back and
let them do the rest. So with that said, let's get
started on the first one here, this is Teepublic. When you come to Teepublic, it's basically just a marketplace. So if you were to type
in "camping T-shirt," you will see all of the different designs that are available. And when you click on this, it will show you what it looks like. Just like we saw on Amazon, this is basically just
another version of that, but specifically for print on demand. So for us, let's go to the homepage, and we're literally just going
to hit create an account. And then once you get to this page, literally all you have
to do is fill this out and then you're going to
be ready to upload designs. So I'll fill this out with you just so we can go along step by step. And then you'll have this
little button at the bottom that says, "Yes, I'd like
to advertise my products in offsite marketing." I highly recommend just leaving that on. It's not going to cost you anything extra, it's totally free, but it allows Teepublic
to run additional ads on your listings to try
to get more sales in. Remember, you're splitting
the profit with Teepublic, so you get your profit,
they also make their profit. So if your design is selling well, they're going to want to advertise more of it and just make more money. So by leaving this turned on,
which it should be by default, you're just opening
yourself up totally for free to get more sales from
their marketing efforts. Now, if you leave this on
and you create your account, and you decide later on for some reason that you want to turn this off, you're still able to turn it off later. I don't know why you would,
but I just wanna make sure that you know that that is an option. So once this is all set,
just hit create my account. And then quickly just go
check your email in your inbox and verify your email. And then once you've done that, just go back to account and go to log in. And now we're just going to log in with our email and password. So just like that, you have a
seller account on Teepublic. That's literally how easy this is. You don't have to pay, you don't have to have a business set up, you just need an email
address to get started. And then you can literally
just go to sell your art, and it allows you to do one of two things, you can just upload a single
graphic that we just created, or if you were on Placeit and you went through
all of those sub niches that we picked out and you created all seven of those designs, you can upload them all at once just to make the process faster. I only have one that we've made here, so I'll hit single file upload. And then your first time around, it's going to ask you to
create a storefront name. Now, importantly to know
here is that back in the day, creating a storefront was important because people would find
you through your storefront. Now, on these print on demand websites, especially the three in this tutorial, the storefront is not very important. Rather your designs are just going to show up individually
on the marketplace. So people are going to
find you from searching or from the advertising that these companies are doing for you. So people are rarely ever going
to see your full storefront. So you can name this
anything that you want here, it does not need to be
about the specific niche that you are creating, because this is just the first
niche that we're going into. As you create more designs
in all different niches, you can keep uploading them
to this same storefront, again because it can be treated
more as a general store. So I'm just going to call this
GGTees, Greg Gottfried Tees. Store name is available, perfect. Now, take me to the uploader. So now we've got their upload page, this is literally where we
need to upload a PNG file. As I was mentioning before, when you create your design on Placeit, you save it to your computer, it's already saved as a PNG
with a transparent background, so we don't need to do anything extra. Just click on this little icon, and we'll go select that
file off of our computer and we'll upload it here. Alright, just give this
a second to upload. And here is our design right here. So remember how we had the
transparent background, that's why we can't really
tell what the design is, but we know from creating it
that our whole design is there. But as you scroll down here, it allows us to put in our
title, our description, our tags, and it allows us to choose what products this is going to be
available on, what colors. And I'll walk you through
all of this real quick. Now, something that's important to note here that you might be wondering, just to try to answer this, it says, "Your image isn't large enough
to support Wall Art options." And basically what that
means is that the design that we created off of
Placeit is not massive, so it can't be printed on a big wall art. We are just focusing
on T-shirts or apparel, so it's just going to print
about the size of a T-shirt, not the size of entire
wall tapestry or something. So you can disregard
this message right here, we are not focused on wall art anyways. So as we scroll down here, the first thing we have is our title. Now, over the years of
doing print on demand, I have tested many
different title formats, and what I have found
to be the most efficient in regards to saving you the most times that you can get a lot of
these good designs uploaded and the most effective in
regards to actually having you show up in these
search results properly is a very simple formula that I use here. The first thing that I put in the titles is the actual phrase that is on the shirt. So this is going to be
Camping Hair Don't Care. And then the second part of
the title is going to be, what is that low competition gap or that keyword that we want to show up when people are searching? So for us, that is camping women. Now, something to know from
experience for Teepublic is that you do not need to
actually put T-shirt, or hoodie, or whatever the clothing item is at the end of the title here. Because when you go to
a listing on Teepublic, whatever style of apparel is selected, they are going to auto-populate
into the end of your title. So if someone has a T-shirt selected, it will add T-shirt at the end here. So when you go over to
Amazon and RedBubble, just be sure that you are
actually adding in T-shirt at the end, but T public,
you don't need to do that. So that is how you do the titles. And then to do the description,
just copy all of this. We will copy it. Come down here and paste this. And then a couple modifications. So just say this with a capital T, "This camping hair, don't care." And then put "T-shirt is perfect for." And then leave what you had
at the end, camping women. I'm just going to put a period there. This is going to give us the
same ranking power by keeping what is on the shirt and who it is for, and turning that quickly
into a description. So that's literally it. That's all you have to do
for title and description for all of these shirts that you make. So now a couple other logistics things, we are going to put in our main tag and then our supporting tags, which are basically what else
is relevant to this design. The first thing, I would just put in your
general overall niche. So although this is in
the low competition gap of women's camping shirts,
I'm going to put in camping. And the reason I wanna do that is because
I want this platform to know that this is a camping shirt, I don't wanna miss out
on any camping traffic. So let's just select that
one, and then come down here. And once you click in on here, it's going to open up all
of these supporting tags that it thinks your shirt
might be relevant to as well. So I'm going to hit nature,
I'm going to hit hiking, adventure, travel, camp,
camp fire, hike, exploring. All of these are absolutely
relevant to this design, so I'm going to select all of them. What's nice about
Teepublic is it just gives you all of these ideas that
you can quickly just select. Teepublic I think has the
best uploading interface of the three websites, that's
why I wanna show you it here. Because all of these other
things are also going to carry over to Merch
by Amazon and RedBubble. You're doing the same process, just following their
specific upload interface. So that is it, we literally
just knocked out the title, the description, and the tags. Now, just a quick question, "Does this have any mature content?" Hit no here, it is going to be safe to list on their marketplace
without any restrictions. I personally don't recommend creating anything that is really edgy, or something that has profanity, or something that's vulgar. I think that's just going to open you up to potential problems. So I would just stay
on the safe side here, and just create designs kind of like this. And then as you move along here, this is going to be what the
actual products look like in your listing. So another important thing here is that we
have a light color design. This is white text and
generally a light design, so we can't see that when
it's on a light shirt. So I'm going to just change
this color to a black. Now, all of a sudden you can
see what that looks like. So as a rule of thumb, if you
have a light color design, you don't want that to be
available on light color shirts, and the same thing for dark
designs on dark shirts. Now, what I've changed over
here is just the default color. So when someone opens up the listing, what's the first color that they're going to see the design on? However, once someone's in your listing, remember in the beginning I showed you all of the different colors you could pick from? Well, that's all down here. So I could select all colors, and then it would be
available on all of these. But as we just talked
about, it's a light design. I don't want that on light shirts, so I'm just going to hit dark colors, and it's automatically going to take out all of the light designs that it may not look good on and just have the dark ones available. So all of these will look
good with this design. Now, this is, again, a really
nice feature to Teepublic, but when you're on the other websites, you'll just have to manually pick out what are those dark colors
you want it available on. So now that we've got the colors figured out as to what it's
going to be available on, a couple quick things here. So these are all different apparel items that people could possibly
buy our design on. We've got a T-shirt, we've got a hoodie, we've got a tank top, crew neck, all the different types of shirts that people could buy this on. Now, as you are looking through here, just make sure that your
design fits 100% in here and nothing is cut off. So I can tell just by looking at this, this is slightly cut off on the right. This doesn't happen every time, but I'm actually glad that it did so I can show you how to fix this. So all you have to do is come into scale and just make it a tiny bit
smaller, just like that. And now your design is back, totally fits. And then just go through the others, make sure that you have no issues here. And yeah, we're perfect
all the way through. So if that ever happens, it
only takes two seconds to fix it and you're going to be all set. Now, the other thing, while we are on this section right here, is that we've selected that default color, which is the first one that
people are going to see. However, if that default
color is not available in every item that's
here, like a baseball tee, this baseball tee is only
offered in black and white, not fully black. So just select the one that
you want to show up first. So all of these are
selected, we are good to go. We've already selected the dark colors, and now we're coming
down to the last section before we can actually
publish this listing. So this section here is, what other products do
you want to be available for purchase beyond just apparel? There are stickers, phone
cases, mugs, wall art, pillows. And this is something that I've
learned a couple years ago, and it is absolutely held true. By far the most sales are going
to come from just T-shirts. Things like stickers, and
phone cases, and mugs, they are not going to sell
nearly as much as your apparel. And the reason that I wanna tell you that is because if you
select a product like this, the design is not always
going to fit perfectly. As you could see, we had to
do a slight tweak on a hoodie and the other apparel items. Well, on all of these
different items down here, you typically have to do
quite heavy modifications to get it to fit and look perfect on here. So you're going to be spending
a lot of time figuring out what fits good, what's
going to be cut off, and ultimately you're not going
to get many sales from this. So what I recommend to you,
something that I personally do, is I literally come in here
and I turn all of these off. I just wanna focus on the T-shirts, and I just wanna focus on the apparel, and I don't wanna be spending
a ton of time modifying and formatting all of these
if these are not even going to make up the majority of the sales. So I recommend doing exactly
what we've done here, setting it up this way, and
this just excludes all of these and should save you a lot of time. So once you've gotten to
here, you literally just hit, "I have read and agree to
the terms and conditions," and then you hit publish. And literally just like that, if you've made it this
far in this tutorial and you followed along, you are officially a
print on demand seller. You have a live listing on Teepublic, everything is exactly
how we uploaded it here. As you can see what I was saying before, it auto-populated T-shirt at the end here, we have our description here. This is the only place, what
I was mentioning before, the only place someone could click and find your storefront. So if they clicked here, it would show all of your
different designs you've uploaded. But it's such a small area, that's why I don't pay
much attention to it. All of the dark colors
that you've selected are all available here. And then people can
switch the type of shirt or the different type of apparel that they want to purchase it on. Again, they can pick their
size and everything here. They can literally add it
to the cart, purchase it, and Teepublic is going to do the printing, the shipping, the customer service, we just get a split of the profit. Now, something else that's important to know here and you may be wondering, is that Teepublic sets
all the pricing for you. It's something that's
really cool that they do. They run their own promotions, so they run sales on
the shirts all for you. So you don't actually set
the price on Teepublic. When it comes to Merch
by Amazon and RedBubble, you get to pick how much you
want to sell that shirt for, and essentially you get to pick how big your profit margin is. Generally, I would say
that a good profit margin for a T-shirt is somewhere
between $2 and $10. And that's the amount that comes to you every time you make a sale. Now, what's cool is that when
someone purchases a hoodie, which is a more expensive item, your profit margin might go
up to 15 or $20 on each sale. And then the last really important thing to know here while we
are talking about the price, and payments, and all that, is that the way you get
paid from these websites as a print on demand seller
is either through PayPal or direct deposit. Merch by Amazon uses direct deposit, or you can have them mail
you a physical check. The other websites, they just use PayPal. Now, all of these websites are literally just going to
pay you out every single month, so you don't have to do anything. Like I said, your paychecks
are just going to come in, whether you have internet
connection or not. It's pretty awesome. But with that being said, what we just did here is just
a rinse and repeat process for the other websites. So I would take this design
that we've just created, and I would take this title,
this description, the tags, and I would go upload that to RedBubble, and then I would go upload
that to Amazon Merch on Demand. That would be our first design, we have three listings from it. And then I would go back and
create the other designs, and see how many of these I
can start getting uploaded to those big print on demand websites. So guys, no matter where
you live in the world, you can start print on demand. You do not need to live
in a certain country or region to do this business model. And hopefully this tutorial
has been really helpful in showing you how to do
it from start to finish. Again, the links to these specific tools and the coupon codes are
down in the description. And all I ask is, if
you enjoyed this video, please give it a thumbs up and let me know down in the comments. Alright guys, that is it for this one. I will see you all in the next video.
