 Print on demand. Now I'm pretty sure a lot of you have heard of the term print on demand and some of you probably already know what it is but some others have probably thought what is print on demand? I have no idea. Let's go find out. So this video is going to focus on absolutely everything that you need to know on print on demand. What is it? How to get started? What are the best products to sell? And can you make some money from it? All of those questions and more will be answered in today's video so make sure you stick around all the way to the end. Now before we get started my name is Mario with out of DS and one of my specialties is actually print on demand. That's how I get started in the e-commerce business. One of my best months so far was I think last September and I made about six grand in one month. Now while compared to some of these other influencers that make massive amounts like millions each month it might not seem like a lot but being realistic about things it's pretty good six grand extra a month. Coming through simply just one marketplace is a good amount of money. It definitely helps. I'll tell you that much. Obviously that doesn't include all of the other marketplaces that I'm selling on but just so you know print on demand can potentially be a very lucrative business. Now before we get started let me know down in the comments below what your thoughts are on print on demand. Do you like it? Do you love it? Do you hate it? Have you tried it? What are your thoughts? I would love to hear them. Let me know down in the comments below. So if that's something that interests you if you want to learn more about print on demand alongside drop shipping then make sure you hit that subscribe button and ring that little bell notification so you don't miss out on any future videos. Let's go! All right to get started what exactly is print on demand? Now it's pretty simple and it's very easily compared to drop shipping. So with print on demand pretty much all it really is is a fulfillment business model. So what ends up happening is somebody's going to come to your store whether that be your own website your Etsy or your eBay store and they're going to place an order for a particular print on demand product. That's going to be typically either a t-shirt a hoodie maybe a mug or a mouse pad things like that. Then once that order is placed what happens is that order is actually automatically rerouted to your printing supplier. So you're not going to touch that order at all. This is going to be rerouted to your supplier they're going to manufacture the product they're going to print it and they're going to fulfill it so they're going to ship it out and then they're going to supply you and your customer with a tracking number. Let's say your customer bought that item for $30 you're paying $10 that means you're making $20 in profit. Now print on demand primarily started with t-shirts that's what got the entire thing off the ground but little by little after that a lot more products started being added and a lot more things started being offered. So for example right now we're over at AutoDS.com just so you know AutoDS.com offers some of the best products when it comes to drop shipping but alongside that we also offer tons of print on demand products as well products that you can customize whether that be in a single spot or be able to customize the entire thing you can find them over at AutoDS.com. Now if you're not a member of the AutoDS family just yet then what are you waiting for? You can get started for just $1 for two weeks and you can check it out and see if you like it but trust me after you try this out and you add some of our products to your store and you start making some sales I'm pretty sure you're going to opt in for that yearly subscription but aside from that let's check out some of the products that are available through prints on demand. So here as you can see you have your typical t-shirts like I said you have a tank top a hoodie some stuff for kids and your basic t-shirts got a onesie as well now if you keep scrolling you're going to end up coming across these over here. Now what these are are products that you can print all over so this hoodie right here you can print everything from the start of the neckline all the way to the bottom of the garment or even on the hood itself and on the entire sleeves the shorts right here same thing you can print on the entire product now not only that but there's also a bunch of different variations for those same products different types of shorts different types of pants you also have things like mugs phone cases tumblers masks you have stuff for around the house so you have garden flags mats bath mats and the last one I'm going to show you even though there's a lot more is my actual favorite and that's shoes you have the option to fully customize these shoes how crazy is that so as you can see there's a lot of different products that you can choose from now the main thing with prints on demand is having you focus on not only the products that you're going to be printing on but primarily on the designs or the designing part of it and the marketing so with prints on demand you get to be a bit more creative than with something like drop shipping now with that being said prints on demand also has a few more limitations than drop shipping does for one the biggest difference and limitation that you're going to find with prints on demand is simply the amount of products so with drop shipping you can sell anything from a ream of paper for an office supply store to an entire furniture set with prints on demand you're going to be offering more day-to-day items like the ones that I just showed you but with that being said with prints on demand you do have the ability to make a lot of money being able to customize your products and add your own designs is what sets prints on demand apart from any other business model now some of the pros and cons to prints on demand is for one prints on demand is actually pretty easy to start and on top of that it's pretty cheap to start as well so for the most part one of the places that you're going to be selling on is going to be etsy etsy is the number one place to sell your prints on demand products now to sell on etsy it's practically free you're only paying 20 cents each time that you list the product after that when you get a sale then you are going to get a fee but to get started you're only going to be paying 20 cents now if you want to sell on the platform with ebay then there you can get started for completely free because you can upload and list your products again completely free now it's also very low investment it's also very low cost because not only are you not paying a listing fee or anything like that you're actually not paying for anything until you get an order so you're not going to pay for that t-shirt or for that mouse pad until somebody places an order for that item so once you have that order then you place that order with your supplier and then that's going to go through now with po d or print on demand you also don't have to hold any inventory with a lot of other business models you're going to have to have your own inventory especially if you're shipping it out yourself with print on demand you don't have to worry about any of that stuff you don't have to worry about finding any storage space any extra storage space you don't have to worry about paying for that extra storage space with print on demand you don't hold absolutely any inventory the only thing that you have to hold really is your laptop your computer or your phone now the last benefit that i'm going to cover for print on demand is the fact that you actually have room for some pretty good profits if you go about it correctly now what do i mean well some people are going to make their print on demand designs they're going to upload them onto some products and they're going to sell them for super cheap or they're just going to upload some very generic products and they're going to hope that they sell now that's not necessarily how you should be going about this if you want to learn more about how you actually should start your print on demand business or how you should market it or how you can scale it make sure you hit that subscribe button but one tip that i'm going to give you right now is if you want to make more money when it comes to print on demand for one come up with some high quality designs you don't want to have a blurry design on anything that you sell whether that be a t-shirt hoodie or a pair of shoes you want that print quality to be good quality always so because of that you're always going to have to look for high quality images and you have to make sure that they are too another thing is you can start your own brand so when you start your own brand you can charge more for your products as well given the fact that you have high quality items too so you don't want to start your own brand charge top dollar for premium products and end up giving them some really crappy t-shirts so when it comes to print on demand you get the choice of choosing a few different t-shirts or a few different brands when it comes to your garments my suggestion to you is look up each one of those model numbers that you're given and check out the reviews see which one's better and which one people are preferring more and go with that even if you make a couple of bucks less because if you can give your customer a better product chances are they're going to come back and make another purchase whereas if you give them a crappy product they're probably never going to purchase from you again now a couple of cons when it comes to print on demand for one shipping times can sometimes be a little bit wonky so sometimes they can be longer than others but typically speaking generally it's going to be between two to seven business days that's the industry standard and that's pretty much the average all around two to seven business days for standard express is going to be about two to five it's going to take about one to two business days for the most part for your product to ship and then the rest is going to be based on your carrier now that doesn't seem to be too long which realistically speaking it's actually not a lot of people here two to seven and they automatically think oh it's going to be seven days well even if it is seven days seven days isn't that bad and it's not going to be seven days for the item to actually ship it's typically seven days for your customer to receive the item the item actually ships pretty fast printing these products is actually a lot easier than a lot of people think if you have the right machinery or the right equipment now another thing that you need to look out for is supplier quality so some suppliers might actually have better quality than others it really all depends on which one you go with now if you choose out of ds then you're pretty much going to be guaranteed some of the top quality products everything is going to be high quality because the print manufacturer that we work with they have been thoroughly vetted and their items have been inspected to make sure that you actually have quality products but if you don't go with out of ds there's a lot of other places that have multiple printers or multiple print suppliers so that in itself can cause some issues with quality sometimes it might not be the same as other times all right so now that we know what print on demand is and the pros and cons how do we get started well that's actually extremely easy let's break it down step by step okay the first thing that you need to do is you need to select the niche now when i say select the niche i mean select a design niche or select a niche that your business is going to be revolving around so do you want to focus on the dog leash do you want to focus on pets do you want to focus on cars do you want to focus on health and fitness what topic do you want to focus on now that's extremely important because that's going to lead to our second step and that's going to be choosing the right products so when you choose the products that you're going to sell you want to make sure that the products that you're choosing are relevant to your niche so what do i mean by that if you're in the pet niche what are you going to be selling so you're going to be selling some t-shirts that have maybe some funny dog sayings some pet designs maybe some hoodies along the same lines things like that also you can sell dog bowls with customized names on them maybe a customized dog leash things that go with the pet niche now what are you not going to be selling well for one you're not going to be selling a bath mat why would you sell a bath mat if you're selling pet products another thing you're not going to be selling our shoes how are shoes relevant to the pet niche they really aren't now what if you get into the car's niche what if you're selling cars well same thing you're going to be selling t-shirts with relevant designs you're going to be selling cups and mugs that have some funny sayings on them or some things that are relevant to cars but you're not going to be selling dog bowls or you're not going to be selling customized dog t-shirts at least not if you're in the car niche so you see where i'm getting at you need to make sure that your products are relevant to your niche now that you know what topics you're going to be covering or what niche you're going to be in and what products you're going to be offering you need to actually get started with designs now designing a lot of people have a lot of problems with myself included designing is not my strong suit i have the ideas for designs but i can't make them come to life i can't put it down on paper or i can't put it down on a screen with photoshop or anything like that it's just not in me i just can't so because of that there's a lot of resources that you can use to actually help you out with this and pretty much streamline the entire thing so for one check out Pinterest if you don't know what to do if you don't have inspiration for designs check out Pinterest Pinterest is a great place to come up with different designs because you can get a lot of inspiration on there now just so you know if you want high quality designs which you're pretty much going to need you don't ever want to go with low quality designs simply because if the design is too low quality most prints on demand platforms aren't going to accept it they're going to deny the design and you're not even going to be able to print products so in order to get high quality designs there's two things you need to focus on one is a dpi and two is a size i'm not going to get too deep into this because this can get very technical and very complicated but just use this as a general guide for the size go with a minimum of 15 by 15 inches which equals out to 38 by 38 centimeters now as far as the dpi or the resolution never go below 300 you don't have to go over it because that's just overkill but never go below 300 dpi keep those two settings and you're always going to have good quality prints now another thing that i need you to know is to get these high quality prints you are going to have to have a subscription service unfortunately you can never get these for free and pretty much anywhere so a few places you can find high quality designs are for one etsy on etsy you can find tons of different pngs or images that you can use for your prints on demand products so as you can see here there's tons of different that you can choose from merry christmas bro i really like that one you got some pokemon ones you can't really use that because that's copyright remember don't print anything that's copyright you can go in jail got disney ones same thing don't use those here you have some nice ones here so you have this merry christmas one that one's good you have a few different design options here not the grinch one etsy is notorious for having a lot of copyright things on there even though they do get taken down all the time when you search for something you're going to come across it so just be wary of those and skip those all around your next option is kiddle now kiddle is actually my favorite because for one it has all of these different templates that you can choose from and you can edit them so you can change the text you can move around the images you can do whatever you want aside from that though it even has an ai image generator now with ai a lot of people are a little iffy about it because it's very wonky or at least it used to be these are actually some of the designs that i've created using the kiddle ai and as you can see they're pretty good one of the biggest issues has been hands and looking at this one right here you can see that this hand is actually perfect it has four fingers and not like 20 and it's structured the way it needs to be and the last resource i'm going to give you is vexels now on vexels you're going to find premade designs all of these designs you can download as long as you have a subscription of course and in a lot of them you're actually going to get the photoshop file so if you know photoshop you can edit some of these all right so after you figured out the designs that you want to do or after you already have the designs then the next thing that you need to do is select your selling channel or your marketplace there's a lot that you can choose from because you can really sell your products anywhere but realistically speaking there's going to be three top contenders that's going to be etsy ebay and Shopify etsy is the number one place for these types of products everyone goes to etsy looking for tumblers mouse pads customized items t-shirts hoodies all that fun stuff ebay is close second although certain products on ebay are going to do better than others i've sold more tumblers on ebay than i have t-shirts and Shopify that's actually going to be specifically for starting your own brand i don't suggest starting a Shopify store to sell customized products or to sell generic products if you're going to start a Shopify store start up your own brand make sure you have your brand colors your logo and you have everything in order to make sure that you come off as a brand the next step is to select your print on demand supplier now i mentioned it earlier one of the best ones that you can go with is auto ds simply because for one you get your two week free trial so you get to test out some of the different products on here at a better rate than some of these other print providers so when it comes to print on demand a lot of the places that you go with are going to have their free tier and they're going to have their paid tier with the free tier a lot of the times you're going to pay higher prices but you're not going to have a monthly subscription now if you go with the paid subscription of course you're going to be paying the monthly fee but the products are actually going to be a couple of bucks cheaper but none of these places actually give you any free trials or any dollar trials so i highly suggest checking out auto ds because you're going to get some of the best prices some of the best quality some of the fastest shipping not just to the us but also to europe and you can get started with the entire thing for just one dollar now we need to move on to marketing our products so how are we going to market our print on demand products well this is pretty easy and the number one place that you're going to do this is going to be tiktok tiktok is absolutely blowing businesses up right now if you're not creating content for tiktok then you're missing out on tons of money but aside from that you have organic marketing that's going to include making your own content and posting everything for free so this can include Pinterest posting on tiktok posting on youtube making a blog posting on facebook things like that you also have google advertising where you set up your google ads account and you start advertising your products on google influencer marketing which right now is actually one of the best ways to go about it especially if you're on tiktok shop tiktok shop makes influencer marketing a lot easier a lot easier than it's ever been but with this what you're going to do is simply look for influencers in your niche whether that be on tiktok instagram or wherever else it may be maybe even blog influencers and offer to send them a free product or offer to give them a product and a discount code for their followers something like that then they're going to promote your products to their customers and it's going to drive traffic to your store now i'm going to leave you off with a few different tips to help you get started and to grow your business one of those is to keep up with trends now i know this is easier said than done a lot of people say keep up with trends and just you know figure it out but what i'm going to tell you is get on tiktok honestly tiktok is where you're going to find trends that's where you're going to find the most trending things going on right now get on tiktok start a new account and don't focus on things that you like so don't start liking things that you're interested in start liking products start liking print on demand products people wearing t-shirts people showing off their mugs people showing off their tumblers things like that start liking all of those different types of videos and you're going to get more and more suggestions after you see different videos with similar products then you can really start to focus down on what niche you want to get into or what product you want to start selling or what else you can start offering another thing i highly suggest you do is to order a sample make sure you order a sample because not only will that ensure that you're offering top quality items but you can also use it to make your own videos what better way to market your products than organic marketing and making your own videos on top of everything it's the cheapest way to do it as well but order samples check out the quality make sure it's good it's it's simple quality control also make mockups a lot of people don't know what mockups are mockups simply are digital files or digital images with your designs on the products you don't have to have your product actually printed so if you have a design for a t-shirt you can make a t-shirt mockup with auto ds whenever you upload your products it's automatically going to generate a mockup for you that's going to be on your listing but you can vary this you can put it on different models you can even put it on videos so certain websites like place it's specialized in mockups place that comm is a website where you can go and get some pretty specialized mockups some of people even wearing your design now it's absolutely crazy it looks really cool i highly suggest and that's pretty much everything that you need to know about print on demand the business of it and how to get started let me know what you thought about this video down in the comments below i would love to hear your thoughts on it let me know if print on demand is something that you plan on starting if it's something that you have started or if it's something that you just simply aren't interested in whatever it may be let me know down in the comments below i would love to hear your thoughts on it huge thank you term for watching especially if you made it all the way to the end as always it truly means the world to me if you didn't make it this far obviously you enjoyed the video so make sure you smash that like button make sure you hit that subscribe button and ring that little bell notification so you don't miss out on any future videos with that my name is mario with autods and i'll catch you all next time