 10 print-on-demand products you can sell without investing in inventory. This is part two of two. Hey guys, if you haven't watched part one of the series, you want to go back and watch part one first, because in that video I actually list all the products. In this video here, this is the exciting one. After you learn what the products are, in here I'm going to show you how to design and create these products and price them so that they just fly off the shelf. So let's get right into it. If you haven't subscribed yet, make sure you subscribe. Make sure you ring the bell. Turn on all bell notifications so you're notified every single time I do a new video or if I go live. Now creating new products, it's a lot of fun. I've created new products myself from courses to survival food and all that and it's really exciting to come up with a product and to know that that product didn't exist before you came along and you made something out of it. It is super exciting, but you may not think you're creative or you may be creative. There's three ways you can create your product and I want to go through each one here. The first one is the obvious one. You can create it yourself. You can create what the shirt says, what the design says, you know, for your coffee mug, whatever you want to do, you could just do it yourself. The number two way is to hire somebody else. There are a lot of product designers out there. You can go to Upwork. You can go to Fiverr and say, hey, I want to have t-shirts designed. I want to have mugs designed. And you can find somebody to do it pretty cheap, maybe 10, 20 bucks doesn't cost you that much. And then the third way is what you can buy design templates. Now design templates are something where you just change the words around the design is already there. It's already set up. The font's already set up. And I want to go through each one of these things so you can kind of understand what each one of them is going to mean to you and so that you can make a good decision as far as how you want to go about it. Now let's talk about the first one, creating it yourself. This is probably one of the more difficult ways of going about it, but it's not hard to do. A lot of t-shirts, a lot of mugs, a lot of things like that just have a few words on them. It's just a saying so it's not that difficult. Do keep in mind that you're going to need a very high resolution so you're going to need something like, you know, a PDF or you're going to need Photoshop or something like that so you can upload a very high resolution. Also keep in mind if you're designing your own that each product is going to have different dimensions, each company that you deal with is going to have different requirements. So the size of the dimension for a coffee mug is going to be different from a t-shirt, from a wall art, from a shower curtain or whatever. So just keep in mind when you are designing those that there are different dimensions that need to be adhered to. So you want to make sure you select the parental demand companies that you want to use and then go ahead and do your designs based on that criteria. The number two alternative is just to hire somebody else. And fortunately nowadays that's very inexpensive to do. You can go to Upwork, you can go to Fiverr and all you really have to do is give them the words you want to use or give them an idea of the design and nowadays you can get it for 10, 20, 30 dollars. Now I would say the more you pay usually, usually you're going to get a better design but that's not always the case. So whoever you decide on make sure you check their previous reviews, make sure they've got a lot of experience, they've done a lot of designs. Make sure you look at the designs. Almost all of them will have a portfolio and if they don't that's a problem. So make sure you hire somebody with a portfolio and look in their portfolio and see what they've done in the past. That's a great way to get all your designs done quickly and professionally and you'll probably get really good results doing that. Now the last way to get your designs done is to buy design templates. There are actually websites where you can go in and purchase these templates. They usually range from anywhere from seven to 25 dollars. A couple of them that I'll mention to you, a creative market is certainly one of them. Another one is Graphic River and they sell different kinds of graphic assets and templates and you can use them on all kinds of different products. They're very helpful. Just keep in mind that other people are probably using them too. You know they sell those templates to a lot of people so you're not going to be as original. However it's a quick way to get something done. Now your first step is to create a mock-up product. In other words what is it going to look like on that particular product. Now some of these print-on-demand sites have product mock-ups on there and you can actually use them. You can also go to you know creative market or you can go to Graphic River and they have mock-ups there that you can actually purchase and they're usually $10 to about $40 so you can do your mock-up there. But it's really important to kind of see that product before you go out there in the market and try to sell it. The next thing up is pricing. What do you do on pricing? Now since we're talking about print-on-demand products understand that your profit margin and let me explain what profit margin is first to I don't want to go over anybody's head but let's say that you're selling a t-shirt for $25 and the print-on-demand company is going to charge you $10 for that t-shirt and they're going to charge you $3 to ship it out. So that is your dead cost right that $13 and if you're selling it for $25 you're going to make a $12 profit. Now if you were to go out and buy the same t-shirt and bulk and you order 500 of them maybe you could get them for $9 but the point is here we don't want to invest in inventory. That can be something you'll want to do on down the road but in the beginning we want to test it and just because our profit margin is a little bit less doesn't mean we shouldn't do it because understand you don't have to invest any of your money and that's a key component right there is you don't have to invest money so it allows you to test a whole lot of different products without having any investment outside of your time and whatever design it was for that particular product. Now as far as setting the actual price what you want to do is look at some of the places you're going to sell your product so let's say you're going to sell it at Etsy. You can go on Etsy and you can search t-shirts that are similar to what you have you can see what they're selling for and then you can price your product accordingly. I wouldn't say I would be the lowest one in there because there's always somebody who is almost willing to lose money just to get a customer on their books and hopefully sell them something on down the road which is certainly a good business plan in some cases but right now you may not have those other products you can't do that. You also don't want to be on the highest end because those products you know they don't sell as well the most expensive ones don't sell as well so if you can kind of hit that sweet spot in between you're better off. Now some people say oh my gosh it's too late for me to do that there's so many people in the market. That's actually a good thing the fact that there's a lot of people in the market doing this right now gives you a lot of data you can see what designs are working you can see what prices are working you can see who's selling t-shirts especially on something like Etsy you can go in there and see how many sales they had so it's actually really good information for you and that's how I would recommend you actually pricing your product is looking at all the competition that's out there. Now before launching your product you're going to want to create a few pages and you're going to want to have them on your website. The first one is an about us page you want to give the buyer some information about you how you got started what your story was what your goal is you know maybe you're doing eco-friendly products and you want to save the world and save the oceans and all these things you'd want to talk to them about that on your about us page. The next thing you want to have is a contact us a contact us is super important people always look for that because they feel like well if I buy from you and I don't like something or I want to return it what happens you know how am I going to contact you and that brings me to the next page which is a refund page refund pages are so very important this just this morning I had somebody who bought one of our courses okay and it's not a print on demand product but they bought one of our courses and they said you know they didn't think the course was totally for them they just thought they would watch you know my free stuff and they would get a refund on what they bought and we do have a refund policy but part of the refund policy is that they have to go through the course and they have to implement what's in the course or we don't give a refund because they haven't even tried it this particular person said oh yeah well they were they were watching the videos and doing all this but we have software that tracks all this and that person had not watched any of the videos they hadn't done anything and that's that's a big problem right they've got to at least try my courses sitting there by itself if you don't watch the material and you don't implement anything it tells you to do will not make you any money guaranteed it's not going to make you any money so we do have that refund policy that you have to at least try it and implement the stuff and we also track you and we know if you've tried it because we can tell if you've watched the videos it's quite simple the next page you're going to want to have is a terms and conditions page terms and conditions are simple as you know what i'm going to do with your information do we share your information with other people all that good stuff that people want to know about that's really important to have a page on that too next one is of course a shipping policy shipping policy lets people know based on where they are in the world when they can expect to get that particular product now as you're using these print on demand companies they will have a shipping policy too and they'll tell you it takes three to five days to produce it and another three days to you know get it to the customer so you'll want to take whatever that policy is and add a day or two to it so that the customer knows how soon they're going to get the product now some people say well you know i get scared because somebody wouldn't buy if they heard it was 10 days well the point is if you don't tell them and you don't get it to them in 10 days they're going to refund anyhow so it's better just to let them know upfront let them know it's a high demand product and it's going to take 10 days to get to them or whatever the whatever the shipping policy is and the next thing you're going to want to have as far as your pages is what a frequently asked question page this is so important guys because otherwise you're going to be answering the same questions over and over and over and over they're going to be sending you emails and you're going to have to keep answering the same question so what we do is we have a frequently asked question page and we can just direct them to it if they ask any questions whatsoever we can direct them to it and they can get all their questions answered we also have a help desk we do all this through kartra kartra is great marketing software i highly recommend it you'll find a link to it below in the description you can click on the link and you can go there and see what it does if you like kartra which i'm sure you will and you want to build your pages there which is a really good idea you can get it for a trial for only one dollar so do want to check that out now let's talk about how you can market your products that's super important too we got the pricing down and the creation and all but now we got to market it the first way you can market it is through ads facebook ads youtube ads google ads but i will warn you about this do not run ads until you've gotten some training i do have a course on facebook ads you'll find it in the description below you're welcome to check that out if you just run money on ads you're going to lose money in the beginning that's just a fact everybody does because you don't know how to do it so you can either choose to lose money on ads that don't work in the beginning and hopefully try to figure it out which some people never do or what you can do is you can take a course and it teaches you how to do it and you skip over all those pitfalls that's the best way to do it if you want to advertise the next thing you can do is use influencer marketing a lot of influencers out there will give you a shout out or they'll do a post or they'll talk about your product this can be done on instagram it can be done on twitter it can be done on youtube there's plenty of influencers out there that would gladly take your business and talk about your product to their audience another way to sell your products is through affiliate marketing you can use a site like share a sale you can use a site like click bank where you can put your product up for sale and affiliates go there and look for products to market that's a great way to do it you're going to have to pay a commission which print on demand you know you're going to be pretty tight anyhow but if you can afford to pay 10 20% to somebody else and keep it keep in mind when you're paying this other person this is business that you wouldn't have had right because they're going to be sending it out to their list or their people are running an ad for you so you know when you say well gee i don't i don't want to give up any of my profits you're not really giving up your profits you're still gaining more profit as long as what you pay out in commission is less than what your profit margin is it's a good thing it's just added business the last way you can actually promote your products is through content marketing right content marketing you can write blogs you can write stories there's so many things you can do you can do videos about your product you know maybe you talk about your product on your channel i i do that a little bit right with my products because i tell you in the description below there's a course on facebook ads so i'm kind of doing content marketing right now i'm teaching you how to do this print on demand but i'm also giving you some products that will help you along if you want to purchase those products so those are there for you too so content marketing is really good that's what i'm doing right now i'm doing content marketing i'm giving you content but i'm also doing marketing pretty cool and i want to add a bonus to this podcast podcast are really pretty cool i'm not doing one right now you know i'm born into the youtube channel however podcast are very good you could be talking about any subject you know maybe it's animal rescue and that's your podcast or how to take care of your dogs and cats or whatever and then maybe off to the side you had t-shirts that had some of the sayings or some of the beliefs that you had and you could market those t-shirts you could market those mugs you could market hats and caps and wallets and whatever you want to do and that gives you another platform to sell your products so podcasts are pretty good and it doesn't you know a lot of people say well i don't have an audience of millions of people you don't need an audience of millions of people you know you you have a thousand true followers and you know they say you can make a hundred thousand a year off just a thousand people so it really is how you work that audience and what you offer to that audience but it doesn't take as many people as what you would think now the cool thing about print on demand at the end of the series here i want to go over some of this is that anybody can do this anybody can do this you don't have to be an artist you don't have to be a graphic artist you don't have to be some e-commerce genius you don't have to have any experience because there's so many automations nowadays guys from you know sites like etsy where you can put your products or you can use cartridge and build your own pages and then all these print on demand companies make your product for you it's really just a matter of effort and what i've seen over the past decade that i've been doing this more than a decade now is that the majority of the people that don't do well or the people that just quit they just quit they just they try one or two things or they think they're going to do something they never get to it they're quitters okay they're quitters and they're lazy if you're a quitter and you're lazy don't do this this isn't for you this is for people who want to work hard however the payoff is that you can make a lot of money if you want to do that but you're going to have to give up your time you're going to have to give up your effort you're going to have to try some things and everything's not going to work you know don't believe that every time you come up with a design that it's just going to skyrocket because it's not it doesn't work that way you have to come up with a lot of designs and a lot of products and you have to put in a lot of time to do this this is where I lose subscribers because they're like Jay Jay are saying I'm going to have to work hard I don't want to have to work hard that's not what I want to do at all I want that thing where you work four hours a month and you make a million dollars a year that's the thing I want and I say it doesn't exist it doesn't exist it never has exist they sell you that pipe dream because they want your money okay they want you to give them money so that they can tell you that you don't have to do anything and that you're going to make a lot of money it's not going to happen realize it sorry it's the truth now what I'd like for you to do is really you got to 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