 With digital personalization making an appearance in the e-commerce markets, the desire for print-on-demand products is on the rise. Hey guys, my name is Laura and welcome back to our YouTube channel. In this video, we're going to go through the top 12 print-on-demand products that you should be dropshipping this 2022. So stay tuned, quick intro and let's go! So what exactly is POD? Print-on-demand. While the POD venture allows us to offer one-of-a-kind products to our customers, we can sell these products on a per-order basis making it the perfect venture for dropshipping. Let's also keep in mind that dropshipping is a low-risk e-commerce model that enables us to start a business without the need of actually having a physical store. Therefore, dropshipping is the perfect avenue for POD since it works on a per-order basis. Because of this, we don't have to maintain any inventory or worry about unsold goods. So now that we know what POD is and how it ties in with dropshipping, let's take a look at what are print-on-demand products. So POD products are custom-made items that allows us to add digital arts to various goods and for us POD dropshippers, we earn a profit for our unique designs. Another thing is that POD allows us to work with white label suppliers so that we're easily able to brand our dropshipping stores. Because everything is already mass-manufactured by our white label suppliers, we simply just have to come in, provide our suppliers with the unique digital art designs and they simply print these designs onto the product themselves or the packaging when we place the order on behalf of our customers. So not only does POD dropshipping help to build brand awareness, but it also helps our business to stand off from the rest of the competition. Selling POD products is highly profitable because most of these goods are what people use on a daily basis. These basic goods are then turned into something valuable and special because of the unique digital art design that has been added. Examples of these POD products could be t-shirts, mugs, bags, but don't worry, we're going to get into all of that later on in this video. Dropshipping POD products is also a very straightforward process. As mentioned before, all you have to do is create these special designs and then upload them to your dropshipping store. Once customers place their orders, it's out of our hands and straight into our white label suppliers' hands where they handle everything from the printing to the shipping of the products. Let's now take a look at the six printing methods for print on demand. The printing process is a very crucial part of POD. Essentially, the printing process greatly affects the quality of the end product. Therefore, we must pick the most suitable printing methods that can produce top quality POD dropshipping products. So when choosing the best printing technique for our POD dropshipping products, we need to set standard criteria and these are some of the important considerations that we should keep in mind. The rates of efficiency when production takes place costs that come with the printing process and the suitability of the method to various materials. So now that we know what the standard criteria is, let's take a look at the most commonly used printing methods that can produce high quality custom items. Our first POD printing method is dye sublimation. This printing method is traditionally applicable to light fabrics, such as polyester. But today we can utilize this technique for ceramic, plastic and other materials. Our second printing method is DTG, direct to garment. Like sublimation, DTG produces full colorful prints for various materials. This printing technique is suitable for silk, cotton, wool, linen or polyesters. The next excellent POD printing method is laser printing. Overall, it's a cost-saving printing option and it's ideal for high-quality large print materials. Our next POD printing method is screen printing. So unlike the other printing methods that I've mentioned thus far, we can do screen printing by hand or with a machine. Aside from just fabric, screen printing is also compatible with wood, plastic or metal. Screen printing is also a very well-known method for customizing work garments, sports uniform or school uniform. Our fifth printing technique is vinyl cutting. So not only is vinyl cutting my personal favorite, but it's also favorable for both mass production and small-scale printing. Vinyl cutting is most common for logo printing. And as you can see, my shirt was done using the vinyl cutting printing method. Our final POD printing technique is heat press printing. This is another popular POD printing technique that provides long-lasting heat-resistant and water-resistant designs. However, it's very important to note that heat press printing is not advisable for materials that have low heat sensitivity or dark fabric since the wax is translucent. My customizable print was done using the heat press printing techniques and if I'm honest, it's also one of my personal favorites. Great! Now that we have a selection of efficient printing techniques for our POD dropshipping products, let's now take a look at the 12 best print-on-demand products that you should be dropshipping in your stores. Kicking off our list for the best POD dropshipping products are mugs. Whether it's for everyday use or for gift purposes, mugs are in-demand items. Therefore, dropshipping POD mugs will 100% bring profits to your online stores all year round. When selling POD mugs, consider ceramic, metal, glass, and plastic materials. You can also offer these POD mugs in customized shapes and sizes to suit your customer's preferences. Make sure to also offer these POD mugs in a variety of color and design options that your customers are able to choose from. During holiday seasons, make sure to offer special POD mug additions in order to fit the occasion. Taking the second spot on our trending POD products list are drawstring bags. This top product idea is easily customizable so it makes it great for large quantity orders. For drawstring bag materials, we can offer eco-friendly and biodegradable options. Other bag materials that we could also offer are canvas, cotton, mesh, nylon, and polyester. Dropshipping POD drawstring bags requires different bag sizes and string lengths. You could also offer your customers design variations such as printed or embroidered options. Next up is the ever-popular print-on-demand product, baseball caps. Not only is this POD item a convenient way for customers to support their favorite sports team, but they are also trendy accessories to match outfits of the day. With that being said, selling the right POD baseball caps will most likely pull sports enthusiasts and fashion lovers to our online stores. Because of that exact reason, we can add variations such as snapback, fitted, or adjustable baseball caps. Baseball cap materials that we can design include brush, cotton, wool blend, color dye, and so much more. You should also offer these baseball caps in a wide array of colors, sizes, and designs for your customers to choose from. During baseball season, we can add pre-designed baseball caps for each season so customers will easily find their relevant teams that they support. Fourth on our trending POD product list are children's t-shirts. Who doesn't love wearing or rocking up to pre-primary school with a one-of-a-kind t-shirt? Children definitely do. With this in mind, selling top quality t-shirts with unique prints for kids can help us gain huge sales. Remember to offer different t-shirt sizes and colors for kids of all ages. Since we are talking about the young ones, don't forget to offer hypoallergenic material options in your stores. You can also utilize kid-friendly design templates in order to attract parents to your stores. Children will 100% appreciate those over the top designs so that they can stand out from the crowd. A quick tip, don't forget to include size charts so parents are able to select the right t-shirt size for their kids. Our fifth in-demand POD dropshipping products are notebooks. So keep in mind that the market competition for customized notebooks is fairly tight due to their year-round demand. So in order to step ahead of this competition we must make sure that we're selling exceptional designs at reasonable prices. So notebooks can also be fully customizable from their covers to their inside pages. Meaning we can offer options such as ruled, grid, dotted or plain pages. We can further personalize notebooks by incorporating unique images or quotes of the day on every page. Notebooks also come in various sizes, colors and page quantities so make sure to add viable options. To stand out from your competition you can also provide your customers with several notebook binding options such as stitched, sewn, glued or spiral. Coming in at number six on our trending POD product lists are tote bags. Tote bags can be an everyday use item for running quick errands or even to make a quirky fashion statement. Because of their versatility tote bags are profitable items to dropship. Usually people use tote bags for promotional purposes or party giveaways therefore we can sell them at competitive prices. Tote bags also come in various styles such as tote bags for zippers, tote bags with magnetic snaps or tote bags with buckles. Tote bag designs can also be made from perforated leather, denim fringe, canvas prints and many more other creative options. When adding these tote bags to your dropshipping store make sure to offer them in a variety of sizes and colors for your customers to choose from. To improve the functionality of the tote bag you can offer choices worth money pockets, bottle compartments or key holders. Our next trending POD dropshipping items are magnets. These personalized products are common purchases for travel souvenirs or event freebies. In general magnets are customizable items that we can form into numerous shapes and sizes. This feature allows us to offer the perfect match for our diverse customers. We can also create endless design ideas using tics and images on these magnets. Magnets are also made from various materials such as metal, rubber, acrylic, glass and ceramic. So make sure to offer these magnets in their various materials in order to bring more customers to your dropshipping stores. Coming in at number eight on our trending POD dropshipping product lists are coasters. Another home or workplace essential is definitely customizable coasters. Whether the coaster is used for hot drinks or cold drinks, the use of the coaster is essential in order to protect countertops from moisture or scratches. You're able to add customizable designs to wood, ceramic, silicone, leather and other high-quality coaster materials. If you're wanting to stand out from the crowd you can ditch the standard circular or square coaster shapes and instead add irregular coaster shapes. You should also consider adding coasters in various sizes. This is so that you're able to accommodate different cups or bottles that come in various shapes and forms. Lastly coasters are relevantly compact and low cost. That means that you're able to sell them in bundles at discounted prices. Coming in at number nine on our top POD dropshipping products lists are keychains. Apart from keychains being souvenir finds, they do offer other functionalities thus making them in demand. Keychains can serve as key organizers, name places, accessory holders and so much more. That means that we're able to personalize keychains according to our customers needs. Keychains come in various designs, colors and shapes and they're mainly made of rubber, leather, wood and metals. So keep those variations in mind so that you're able to offer them to your customers. Taking the tenth spot on our best POD dropshipping products lists are the all overprint hoodies. Not only does this product idea protect shoppers from the cold but it also allows them to fit into current fashion trends. When dropshipping all overprint hoodies remember to include sizes for all ages and genders. You can also sell these customizable hoodies with all over text, graphics or a combination of colors. Keep in mind that these hoodies are made in fleece, nylon, polyester, cotton and many other comfortable materials. You should also consider adding zipped, buttoned or closed hoody options. You should also include customers pockets and draw strings so that your customers have more stylish options to choose from. Our eleventh best POD dropshipping product is bed sheets. There's no doubt that all of our customers will value high quality customizable bed sheets. When adding this product to your dropshipping store make sure to add them in single, double, king and queen sizes. Don't forget that there are also various bed sheet types, quilted, fitted and flatbed types. So make sure to offer these options to your customers. You should definitely add excellent bed sheet material variations such as satin, microfiber, linen and flannel. You can upsell your bed sheets by offering matching pillowcases or comforters. And lastly on our top POD dropshipping products list we have fanny packs. These trendy fashion accessories are great for attending parties or for simply just going on a stroll. Besides them being a huge fashion craze at the moment, fanny packs can securely hold belongings while keeping them close to one's body. Since fanny packs are so versatile, it's a must that we offer variations that fit a variety of users. You can add unisex designs so that you're able to cater for all customers regardless of their age or gender. You can also customize the number of pockets or strap adjustments to these fanny pack bags. When it comes to the general design of these fanny packs you should offer them in different sizes and holding capacities. You can also offer water resistant plastic materials or other conventional fabric options. So now that we're aware of the best POD products to be selling in our dropshipping stores, the next question is where would we find these best selling POD products? First it's very crucial to stay up to date with the current market trends. This way we're able to offer products best of customers current needs and that way we can make more sales. To help us discover the best in demand POD products we can utilize the AutoDS product research tool. This product finding tool is an excellent feature which assists you in finding best selling and high quality POD products. The AutoDS blog can also help us score our next winning POD items through its updated product finding contents. With these resources in mind you can easily source best sellers and continuously optimize your POD dropshipping stores. Let's move on to our last topic which is how to source these print-on-demand products. First things first we need to find reliable print-on-demand dropshipping suppliers. Remember that our POD dropshipping suppliers handle the manufacturing, printing and shipping of items. Therefore it's very crucial that we work with outstanding POD service providers. Here are some of the features that we'd want to see in a reliable POD dropshipping supplier. Dropshipping friendly, wide product categories to choose from, top quality POD items to selling your stores, outstanding customer service, very very important, efficient shipping provided with tracking updates, great customer feedback, peer return and refund policies. With that being said printify, printful, custom cats, SPOD and T-POP are among the best POD dropshipping suppliers out there in the market. Our second step is to find a POD dropshipping selling channel. In case you didn't know a selling channel is a platform where you're able to market your POD products. Additionally it's also where customers find and make purchases from your online store. So let's take a look at some of the factors that determine a good selling channel. The first one being organic traffic. How many customers does your store reach without utilizing paid advertising? The second one being store customization. Are you able to design or customize your store according to the way you want it to look? The third one being sign up requirements. What is required of you in order to utilize the selling channel? The fourth one being subscription plans. Do they offer various plans that suit you and your budget? The fifth one being listing limits. How many products are you able to upload to your dropshipping stores? This is very crucial. The sixth one being business policies. And the seventh one being are you able to use various marketing methods on these selling channels? Some examples of really good selling channels would be Shopify, eBay and Wix. To choose which selling platform best suits your POD dropshipping business they should meet all the requirements that I've just mentioned. And finally to continuously scale our print on demand dropshipping business we need to market our online stores. With the right marketing strategies in place we can make our dropshipping stores more visible to consumers which will result in more significant sales. And that's it from me dropshippers. Thank you so much for tuning into this video and if you enjoyed the valuable information don't forget to give it a thumbs up and subscribe to our YouTube channel. If it's your first time dropshipping POD products let me know in the comment section how it goes. I wish you all the luck and success. And right now I'm just trying to decide between these two customers' bullmugs which one I'll be having my coffee out of. Looks like it's going to be this one. See you next time dropshippers. Bye for now.