 In today's video, we're going to be talking about everything that you need to know to be able to start your own print on demand dropshipping business. Today's video is one that I'm actually very excited for. Print on Demand is something that I've always loved and I actually have a lot of experience with. Now, because of that, I'm extremely excited to announce that AdultDS now supports Print on Demand directly on their platform. That's right, on top of having access to some of the hottest dropshipping products and some of the best data and information to actually help you sell these products. Now, you also have access to tons of winning print on demand products that you can fully customize yourself. Very impressive. So first things first, what exactly is print on demand? Well, similar to dropshipping, print on demand is pretty much another fulfillment business model. Except in this case, what happens is instead of a supplier shipping out your item directly, an item actually has to be produced or printed on. So when you're working with print on demand, you have access to tons of different products. These are going to include t-shirts, mugs, cups, tumblers, certain office supplies, some home goods. The amount of products that you have access to customize are absolutely endless. You create a design for a particular product, whether that be a t-shirt, a cup, or a mouse pad. Then using your print on demand supplier, you go ahead and upload that design to their website. Then you go ahead and list that same item on your website or whatever marketplace you're selling on. And whenever a customer places an order, then that order is going to be rerouted to your printer or your supplier and they're going to produce a product. So they're going to take the blank t-shirt and print on it, or they're going to take the blank mug and print on that and then ship it out to your customer. As you can see, it's very similar to dropshipping, except you have a little bit more creative freedom. Personally, that's something that I love about it. Pretty cool. Now, where can you sell your print on demand products? Well, you can honestly pretty much just sell them practically anywhere, but the top marketplaces are going to be definitely Etsy. Etsy is hands down the number one place to sell these kinds of items and then eBay. Then the other option you have is also Shopify. So you can sell on your own website. Now, you can also do print on demand and sell it on Amazon, except it's a little bit different. Amazon actually has their own print on demand service called Merch by Amazon. So if you want to do print on demand with Amazon, you're going to have to go with their program. But by far the best places to sell your print on demand items are going to be Etsy and eBay hands down. So just to show you a few different examples, I'm over on Etsy and I just looked up Sunday shirt. Most of these are going to be prints on demand. Some of them are going to be printed by the seller themselves. Etsy has a mix of both, but lately prints on demand has been absolutely taking over pretty much the entire platform. So looking through Sunday shirts, these are all of the different types that there are. Some of them are super simple. Like, look at this one. All it says is just literally Sunday Funday, nothing else. Now, of course, you can do something as simple as this or you can start to get a bit more creative and maybe go with something like this. Add a few different colors. Then you can actually start getting into some different types of designs like these. So you have the Sunday scarries over here. You also have one like this right here. Sundays are for Formula One. This is niching down specific to Formula One lovers. My suggestion on this part is just be careful because Formula One is copyright and trademarked. So I don't think you want to be mentioning that on your posts or on your actual clothing. So just keep that in mind and be aware. I did not think of that. Another example we have here is a mom tumbler. So a mom tumbler is simply just a tumbler or a cup with some mom sayings or anything that's related to mom. These are extremely popular for Valentine's Day and Mother's Day. And you can see that there's some that are extremely simple. So let me tell you right now which ones are print on demand. This one right here is print on demand. This type of printing is the type of printing that's done through POD or print on demand. This one over here, most likely this is not print on demand. This is somebody that's just adding the stickers on top of the cups. The reason I'm saying this is because this is a very common practice on Etsy. And a lot of people do this because it's pretty much easy money. Now scroll down a little bit more. You can see that this one right here. This one also can be print on demand. And pretty much this entire row right here can all be print on demand. Now, while they all can be print on demand, some of these can be hand printed by the sellers themselves. But again, lately, print on demand has been completely taken over. So the chances of that are kind of low. Now, as you just saw, I searched up specific keywords. So I looked up mom tumbler or I looked up Sunday shirt because I wanted to show you the importance of niching down. As you can see, there's literally a niche for almost anything. You can niche down to the most specific thing. And there's always going to be some sort of target demographic for it. So when it comes to print on demand, I highly suggest you niche down, not just with your overall designs, but with products as well. So what I mean is when choosing a design niche, go with something like dogs. Or if you want to be even more specific, go with something like Chihuahuas or Terriers, French Bulldogs. This is where you're going to start attracting a particular customer base and you're going to start finding people that are more interested in your specific products or in your niched products. Now that's on the design part. When it comes to the products part, I also suggest that you niche down. Don't just start selling absolutely everything. Don't have a store that has dog t-shirts, dog cups, dog floor mats, dog mouse pads. It's just too much. And honestly, some of these products won't even make sense. Imagine having a pet store where you sell primarily dog stuff and you have a shower curtain featuring dogs. It just doesn't go with each other. And most people that visit your store aren't going to be buying that shower curtain. Now, it doesn't just have to be one product. It can be a few different products, but just make sure that everything is relevant. So if you are niching down to pets or dogs, you can in fact go with different types of dog bowls because dog bowls are a print on demand item. You can customize these. There's a huge variety of different items you can choose from. Make sure that everything makes sense together. All right. So it's actually time to get down on dirty. And let's just go ahead and create a design and upload it to a hoodie. So let's go ahead and start. So I'm actually not very creative when it comes to coming up with things from scratch. So I'm actually just going to simply go on chat GPT and ask it for a few different text-based designs that have to do with pets or with dogs. So give me a couple of text-based designs having to do with dogs for a print-on-demand business. Okay. So pause and play. Home is where the dog is. A playful and vibrant design featuring colorful paw prints scattered around the text pause and play. Then the other one, create a heartwarming design with a cozy feel. Use a script font to write the phrase home is where the dog is with the outline of a heart. Okay. So I'm actually going to do a mix of both of these. So right now we are on Canva and I'm simply going to go to create a design. And down here, I'm going to go to custom size. I'm going to change the pixels to inches. And when it comes to print-on-demand and designs, you always want to have a big file. The bigger the better. That's what she said. Simply because the bigger it is, the more detail that's going to fit in it and ultimately the higher quality the actual image is going to be when it prints. Now, if you want to get technical, I highly suggest you start at a minimum of 12 by 12 inches or 30 by 30 centimeters and a 300 DPI or a resolution of 300. But if you can't do that, at least try to get the 12 by 12 inches. So let's go here with 12 by 12. Let's go ahead and add text. So I'm going to add a text box. My dog is not the dog. That sounds too generic. Okay. So let's go ahead and change this font. Let's see if we can find something a bit more playful. Okay. So home is where my dog is. Perfect. Now let's look for paw prints. And all right. Perfect. So let's go ahead and choose this one right here. Make it a bit small. And you know what we could do? Let's go ahead and actually lift this up and let's make these paw prints as if they're making a trail or they're walking to the text. Let's go ahead and rotate it a little bit. Put it down here like that. Okay. So now let's copy this control C and control V for Windows users. Okay. So I can't figure out exactly how to flip it for some reason. So I'm just going to make it as if the dog was walking towards the text and then walking away. Okay. So this is what I came up with. I kind of changed it up. I messed with it. Typically I would actually put a little bit more work into this one, but it's not too bad. Okay. So now that we have our image designed, the next thing that we need to do is download it. Now when it comes to downloading it, there's a few things that you need to keep in mind. And these are actually extremely crucial. So the first thing is you need a PNG. The file you download has to be a PNG. Do not download it as a JPEG. The reason for this is because a PNG allows for transparency in the design itself. So one thing we don't want is this white background because if we upload the white background to one of our products, then the white background is going to be printed as well. And that's going to look absolutely horrendous. In this case, when we go ahead and download it, unfortunately in order to download with a transparent background, we're going to have to have Canva Pro. Now you can either sign up for the free trial and download it that way with a transparent background or you can do the following. So PNG or JPEG. Always go for PNG. Typically it's also going to be the higher quality one. So go ahead and download. This is what it looks like. So you see how you have the white background? We don't want that. That's going to look bad when it prints because it's going to be a big square. And again, that's going to look bad. For this, we're going to go to remove.bg. Now you get your first one free and then after that you need to buy credits. Quick hack, just create different emails. I do that all the time. Well, not anymore because I actually use Photoshop, but whenever I did need to use the service, I would create different emails. Guilty. We all do it. So we're going to go ahead and upload our image and it's going to remove the background. So we can either download it in HD, which is the one that you actually need the credits for or you get the first one for free or you can download the very low resolution. My suggestion, don't go with this one because when you print it, it's not going to look good. Go with the download HD, but I'm just going to go with the top one so you can see what I'm talking about. So this is our original image and this is our image without the background. You see how the whole white square is gone? This is what we're looking for. Transparency in the background. Now obviously if you zoom into this, it is going to be pixelated and it's going to be blurry. That's because I did go with the free download but if you do download the HD version, then you're going to have a high quality image that you can use. Now as a professional tip, if you have a JPEG or a JPG, even if you remove the background and you save it again as a JPG, that white background will be automatically applied back. A JPEG will never have any transparent parts. Any transparencies that you see in an image, if you save that file as a JPEG, those transparencies are going to turn white. Always keep that in mind. This is extremely crucial. All right, enough of that. Let's go ahead and start having some fun and let's upload this to a t-shirt or a hoodie. So for this, we're just going to simply go to OutoDS.com. Now for this, you are going to need to be signed up for OutoDS and if you do want to sign up and have a trial period, you can sign up right now for just $1. Now continuing on, once you sign on, this is the first screen that you're going to see. A bunch of different trending dropshipping products but that's not what we're here for. We're going to go over here to print on demand. Now on here, you're going to have an insane amount of different products that you can print. Let's quickly look over them so you can more or less understand what you're looking at. So the first few items up here are going to be basic shirts or basic hoodies where you're going to have a spot print. So this spot print is going to be just one print either on the front or the back or both. You can do both as well. But that's pretty much all it's going to be. It's just going to have the print in the front or the print in the back. So scroll down a little bit. You see there's tons of different options. You're also going to see a few different models over here. That just means they're different t-shirt models. So you're going to have a few different brands. You're going to have Next Level, Gildan, Bella Canvas. The difference really is going to be the difference in qualities. But the most economical is always going to be Gildan and the most expensive one is typically going to be Bella Canvas. So as you can see, you have different types of sweaters too. You have some crop top hoodies, different types of shirts, some tie-dye shirts. Now here, this is where it starts to get interesting. So these are all over prints. So instead of just having a simple image on the front, you can print on the entire garment. So you can print on the entire shirt, on the entire hoodie, on the entire pair of shorts, whatever it is. So you can also do things like phone cases, jerseys, hats, mugs, stickers, the possibilities are endless. And if you want to know how to be able to upload to some of these, you are going to have to have a little bit of Photoshop experience. If you don't have any, don't worry about it. You can find somebody to help you out. Just go on Fiverr. You're going to find tons of people there. Or you can also find Ready to Print Designs or Pre-made Designs on Etsy. But for this, we're keeping it simple and we're going to do this t-shirt right here. So Edit Product. Now, once we click on Edit Product, this is the screen that we're going to go to. All you have to do here is choose whether you're going to print on the front or the back. And then simply click on Upload Design. So we have our design here. Let's go ahead and add our image. And this is what it's going to look like. Now, obviously it doesn't look too good because it's white. It's a white shirt on a pretty light design. So let's just go ahead and change the color of this. Let's add a lime color and see how this looks. So let's see how this looks like through a preview without the grids and the lines and all that stuff. And that's what it looks like. So it's not that bad. It actually looks pretty good. I like how it looks. So from here, all we're going to do is simply click on Save. Now, one thing I do want to note really fast is right here, you're going to see print quality, great. If it says print quality poor and this is red instead of green, unfortunately, you're going to have to choose a different design. You are going to need high quality artwork to have good products. Now, I did swap out the Canva print. What I ended up doing is I actually saved it myself and I removed the background myself. So I did make it a little bit higher quality. If you want to learn more about designing for print on demand, then make sure you hit that Subscribe button because we're going to be covering a lot more in some future videos. So if that's something that interests you, make sure to hit that Subscribe button. So from here, the next step that we have to do once we approve it is simply Save. And that's pretty much it. Now it's going to go to our draft section and there we can make any necessary edits to the title, the description, the pricing. Then after that, once we're done making all the edits, then that's all there is to it. The listing will be live in our store within seconds, whether that be Shopify, Etsy or eBay. Now, let's quickly cover pricing your products. So obviously you're going to have to price your product competitively if you want to make sales. The good thing is that's not that hard to do. AutoDS has some pretty good prices on their different products and people are typically selling these products for a decent markup. T-shirts are typically going to run about $25 to $30. Tumblers are typically going to run about the same, $25 to about $35. Hoodies, that's where the money is at. You could sell those easily for about $60. But if you want to validate your pricing and you want to make sure that you're not overcharging, simply go on Etsy and look up the different products that people are offering. So let's say you're offering a dog mom tumbler. See what people are pricing them at. And don't be scared to price your products a little bit higher than others. It's okay. So looking through some of the different ones, you can see that this is a simple mug that's running for $20. These different tumblers, again, are running for $31.96. Typically $45. $25 on sale from $50. That's a huge discount. So as you can see, you can make some pretty good money with tumblers. Now let me give you a pro tip. You see how all of these are on sale? Always mark up your prices and then put your listings on sale. Whether that be on eBay, on Shopify, or on Etsy, this is a very common marketing tactic. And as you can see, pretty much everyone is doing it. Now after you have everything set up, after your store set up, after you have your products stocked up and you're ready to start making some sales, one way that you can start getting in front of the eyes of some new customers is by running different ads. If you're selling on your own store, if you're running on Shopify, then your best bet is gonna be TikTok ads, Facebook ads, organic marketing, and things like content creation. Now if you're on Etsy, you don't need to run ads, but you can. So Etsy does have Etsy ads where you can set a budget of maybe $1 or $2, maybe even $10, $15 a day. What this does is it'll just help you get in front of the eyes of new customers and it'll pretty much just put you at the top of the listings. Now if you want more information on any of these different ways of marketing, then I highly suggest you go ahead and check out the cheat sheet on there. I'm gonna have everything that you need to know and everything that I'm covering on this video. All you have to do is go ahead and comment down below. Hashtag start POD and let me know what your takeaway was from this video. Once I see that you went ahead and commented that, I'll reply back with a link to the sheet. And from there, that's pretty much it. The next thing you need to do is really just focus on your scaling and the way you're gonna do this is, one, by simply adding more products, and two, one of the best ways that you can do it is try opening up new stores, open up more stores in different niches with different products, and see what works best for you. And that's everything that you need to know on how you can get started with print on demand. Huge thank you to everyone for watching, especially if you made it all the way to the end. Remember, if you're interested in more print on demand videos, make sure you hit that subscribe button. Make sure you smash that like button. And let me know down in the comments below what your takeaway was from this video for access to the cheat sheet. Huge thank you to everyone for watching again, especially if you made it all the way to the end. Make sure you smash that like button, smash that subscribe button. And with that, my name is Mario with AutoDS. I'm going to catch you guys next time.