 How much money is needed to start a print-on-demand store or how to do it for free? In this video guys, I'm gonna show you how you can start a print-on-demand store We all want to do it people are selling t-shirts and mugs and towels and shower curtains Oh my god everything and guess what they don't have to print it They don't have to package it They don't have to ship it because these print-on-demand companies will do it all for you I'm going to show you how to do that in this video and how you can do it for free Hey, I'm JR Fisher Welcome to my channel if you're brand new on this channel We learn how to start run and grow online businesses because I've been doing this since 2009 I've sold millions of dollars of both digital and physical products and I'm here to tell you It's a great way to make a living and what I do is I share all of those techniques with you Heck I had my branded products on thousands of websites including Walmart So they're all over the place and I share those techniques with you so that you can get great results too Now at the end of this particular video, I have a free course. 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It's pretty cool Now in this video the best ways to do the print on demand I'm going to tell you are the paid ways However, there are also free ways and you can make money doing it the free ways first And then once you've made a little bit of money You can invest it in the paid services that help you do this a little bit easier So let's go ahead and jump right into this First off, number one, the free way is going to be Teespring They actually pay you a commission So let's go over to Teespring real quick and check it out Okay, I'm here at Teespring right now And you can see they are actually pushing this particular thing right here It's Pickle the dinosaur plush But here's how Teespring works basically We're going to go over here first and look at apparel And what do I want here? I want Animal Lover We'll pick Animal Lover We are all Animal Lovers in this household And we can kind of see what people are doing Now this particular one here is Rough Patch Rescue Mascot Okay, so you can see this t-shirt right here And it's a classic tee and they have the price on it right here And then if you pick the different ways they can print this Whether it's a v-neck or a pullover Those are the different prices for it Now, if you want to design your own t-shirt You go over here to start designing And then you're going to go ahead and log in right here And you can actually design whatever you want You can design apparel I'll go with women's t-shirts right here I'll click on Start Designing Now, here's what you can do You can buy it by designing and buying for myself You can create branded team products that type of thing Or you can sell You can list my design online for free And make money and add existing listing Okay, so all you do is you pull it up here I get my t-shirt here And then what I'm going to do is I would grab Any image that I had on my computer And we'll put up an image here I've got a sad dog I'm going to pull him up And boom, the sad dog is on here Now, if you notice, it's not filling this out So I've got to kind of stretch this around And you can actually add text now I can put text right here We're going to put this down here And we'll put sad dog Right here And as you can see I'm going to go ahead and preview it real quick And I didn't center this up, I should have centered it up But basically I've just designed a t-shirt Literally that quick Now, here's how it works What you do is you put a price on the products To be fulfilled from the U.S., okay And whatever price I put on there Is going to show me my profit So if I put $30 here for this t-shirt It's going to change my profit to $17.68, okay So you can easily do that on t-spring And get started for free And get a commission on these shirts And immediately start making money And you don't have to do anything I mean, just upload a design You can actually do text t-shirts too You don't even have to do a design or a picture You can just do it with a text Some people like that You can do the front You can do the back of the t-shirt Whatever you want to do You can do it on t-spring and sell your products And it doesn't have to be t-shirts It can be mugs It can be, you know, shower curtains It can be towels It can be whatever you want it to be Let me go back here real quick And I was in women's t-shirts here But let me go back Then you can see there's socks There's leggings There's pillows It's all there Now I also want to tell you about the other free way to do this And that would be Merch by Amazon Merch by Amazon is awesome Let's go over there real quick And I'll show it to you It works a lot like t-spring Okay, here we are at Merch by Amazon And basically it's the same thing here You're going to upload your artwork You're going to set a listing price They print when it's sold Fast shipping with Prime And you will earn monthly royalties Now you're not going to get paid as much here You're probably going to get paid maybe 20% Something along those lines But once again, you know, you're not advertising for these people You're not trying to get people All you're doing is uploading a design And sticking it there And you get paid when they buy And there's no cost for you to do that So if you want free ways of doing this You're going to give up a little bit of commission But you do have a free way of selling your products online Number two You can actually open a free print on demand store on eBay They're going to give you 50 free listings a month Which is pretty generous And then you can integrate They don't actually do print on demand on eBay I don't want you to think that But they do have a ability to let you list 50 free products a month So since you can do that You can actually integrate that with Printify And let's check that out real quick Okay, so I'm going to take you over to Printful Which is another print on demand company And show you how you can integrate it with eBay And actually sell your products on eBay Okay, so here I am at Printful right here And it says right here With over 180 million monthly visitors eBay is one of the few industry leaders With years of experience in e-commerce Printful's integration makes it easy to become a seller On one of the most popular marketplaces So all you got to do is go down here Connect your store And they tell you how it works There's a little video that plays But you connect your store You design everything on Printful And you can be up and selling On eBay in just no time whatsoever You create your Printful account You add and sync your products to your store And you set up your shipping It's really that simple Now some other things they tell you right down here You may want to read It's free to create an account on eBay They don't charge subscription fees But they do charge 10% on every single sale Made from the platform As well as a 35 cent listing fee Now eBay will give you 50 free listings So keep that in mind eBay does not support live shipping rates Flat rates only So you're going to have to know up front What these things are going to cost You're going to have to kind of guess at that You can only use fixed price listing format Is supported You can't do auctions And new users have a limit of 10 variants And a total of $500 in retail value Okay And then they show you here All the reasons for it It's easy to set up Get notice free Sell right from your phone Automatic fulfillment Reach millions And you can white label everything And then they got some examples down here So it's super, super easy to do Now the next place you can actually sell Is Etsy Etsy was originally known for Original artwork type items And handcrafted items But they've gotten to the print demand business also So you can actually integrate Your printful store with Etsy on there And if you notice Let's go over to Etsy real quick And check it out You're going to see that A lot of people are already doing that Okay Here I am over at Etsy right now And we can look at some of the shirts Well, let's type in a subject We'll put in there a chef Okay, everybody's into cooking nowadays They got all these cooking shows And all that good stuff And you can see They've got aprons They've got hats They've got all kinds of different things in there We'll put Chef Funny And let's see what people have come up with And all these people are doing guys Is they are actually integrating Their printful store with Etsy That's all they're doing on here And you can see a couple examples right here Sexy tennis man Sexy football man And you can see these look very similar Sold by the same person here You can check that out But the other cool thing on here Is when you go to list something And you're not sure what you want to do You can look at the number of sales Because they actually give the sales right here There's 1300 All this and I can cook So that's not a really hard thing to do You can grab a couple of fonts And do this and upload that To your printful store That's integrated with Etsy And you can sell from here Now, number four is to use your own Shopify store Instead of a third party So that you make more money And you don't get upsold to other people's products Understand if you're putting your products on Amazon merch Something like that Or you're putting your products on eBay You're not going to be able to upsell these people You're not going to be able to sell them More products at the checkout time If you build this out on Shopify Which you can also integrate with printful Then of course When they go to the checkout If you have an upsell And you're selling an apron And you want to sell them a jacket Or a hoodie Or whatever it is You can offer them your products And you're going to make those customers more profitable to you If you're putting them on something like Amazon Yeah, it's easier to do Which you're going to get a much lower profit And you don't have control over the customer You're not going to be building a mailing list None of that on something like Amazon But the ease of use is there So it's really dependent upon how much work You want to put into it And how much money you want to get back Now, if you use something like Shopify You're going to need your own domain name I highly recommend Bluehost I will put a link in the description below Where you can get a Bluehost account And actually if you buy your hosting from them You can actually get the domain for free If you use my link down there So that is our affiliate link But make sure you use that Because that will save you some money All right, so let's run over to Shopify right now And what I want to do is show you some of the plans Now, we started off this video With the free ways of doing it Now we're showing you a few ways That cost a little bit of money Not a lot of money, but a little bit of money So if you can afford that fine If not, start off with the free plans And then work your way up to these Understand the plans that you pay for You're going to end up making more money Because you're going to have more control You're going to do more with the customer So let's go over to Shopify Okay, here we are at Shopify right now And it's trying to grab my email There we go We're at Shopify right now And it says you can try Shopify free for 14 days No credit card required So you can actually get in here And kind of, you know, kick your way around Look around, see what's going on For the basic Shopify stores All you're going to need in the beginning It's $29 You're going to have two staff accounts in here And you're going to get the online store Unlimited products, $24.7 support And they really do have good support, guys Sales channels in here Manual order creation Discount codes Free SSL certificates Abandoned card recovery You get a lot The only thing you don't get Is the gift cards, professional reports Advance Builder And all this other stuff down here Now you're going to have shipping discounts Up to 64%, which is not bad guys On USPS, UPS, or DHL Express You can also print your shipping labels here You can't do the priority cubic pricing In the basic one, but that doesn't really matter Fraud analysis And then they have your credit card fees here Which really are the same across the board Doesn't matter what plan you have And then you're going to have an additional fee On all payment providers that Other than Shopify payments, okay But it drops down here They're very small fees And then you're going to have the Shopify Point of sale app The only thing you don't get is register shifts It looks like hardware peripherals You don't need any of this You just don't need it, okay You're going to have third party POS apps And then only one store location But for the 29 bucks That's exactly what you need to get started Now, number five How much does it cost To create these print-on-demand items Basically, it can cost you Free one up to whatever you want Now, I say free Because you can go to Canva You can use a free account in Canva They have all types of templates They have images They have fonts in there If you don't know how to use Canva Go on over to YouTube Watch some videos on YouTube Learn how to use Canva Once you've done that You can go back to Canva And you can create all these you want But keep in mind, keep it basic Don't try to do a bunch of fancy designs The best selling shirts Are usually with some simple words on there They're funnier that way You know, some of the images can actually distract If you want to do that on down the road You certainly can But, you know, words that are more targeted Towards a group Work better than anything else So, you know, really niche down on that And those people will notice those shirts They probably won't have access to them So that's something you could do Now, if you want another freeway You could use Photoshop And you're going to go, Wait, JR, Photoshop That's $10 a month I can't spend $10 a month That's way out of my budget Okay Well, if you don't want to pay the $10 a month Sign up for a free trial You can get a seven-day free trial And if you get the seven-day free trial Guess what? You could do a lot of work in seven days If you just sit down and get to it Number seven would be You could go over to Fiverr And you could actually hire a designer Let's go run over to Fiverr real quick And I'll show you what I'm talking about Okay, here I am at Fiverr right now And I'm going to put in T-shirt design What do we get? What do we get? There we go There's a bunch of T-shirt designers on here Lo and behold, there's a bunch of them And look at this This one here starts at $10, guys $10 So if you don't want to design it That looks pretty fancy I don't know if that's a $10 one But for $10 you get the source file Initial concept High resolution Double-sided marketing tools Enhanced detailing And you could use it for commercial use Now, they've got other packages here They've got a standard and then they got a premium I mean, the most expensive one they got is $30 So if you don't want to create your own You can certainly use something like Fiverr There's a lot of great designers there And that's just this one person There's thousands of people on there That will design these things for you So you've got a way to design your T-shirt You can't use that for an excuse Now, number eight How much money do you need for marketing? Well, you know, that's entirely up to you You know, if you use some of these sites That are a destination platform Like eBay or Amazon You really don't need to market at all If you want to drive your own traffic I would suggest using Facebook ads for T-shirts They work great You want to be careful, though You want to read all the terms and conditions On Facebook, believe me, I know I've been a victim of this But you want to make sure you know what you should And shouldn't put on Facebook on ads Because if you violate one of those things They will just shut down your account They will not communicate with you They will not tell you what you did wrong So, you know, don't go on trying to scare you Or anything like that But if that's the route you want to go Facebook ads are really good Especially if it's a niche item Like, you know, pets are sewing or teaching Or whatever it is It's a really niche item where they can't find shirts That match what they like I would highly recommend you do in Facebook ads How much? I would never spend more than $5 a day to test things out $5 a day will do it But what you want to do is you don't want to test one item You want to test 10 items, okay Or 15 items at $5 a day Now you say, oh my gosh, you know, 10 items at $5 That's $50 It is $50 But if you're going to market You're going to have to spend some money You can go to one of these other sites And make a lesser amount Or you can spend some money And, you know, you can make a larger amount Either way, you're really paying for marketing You're either going to be paying Amazon and eBay Or you're going to be paying, you know, Facebook for ads But either way, you're paying Now, if you don't want to pay at all And you want to use these platforms You can certainly do so You could use Twitter You could use Facebook and create a group Or create a page You could use YouTube and create videos There are free ways of going about this too Without having to buy ads Instagram You could do that and post, you know, Information there about whatever your niche is And then every now and then post a t-shirt People can see that t-shirt once you've built your following So there are free ways of doing this too Okay, a couple things I want to tell you When people get started Maybe they run ads and maybe they do well And maybe they get a lot of sales But you've got to remember You're not getting your money immediately Okay, you're not getting your money immediately You know, something like PayPal Can take up to three weeks before you see your money So if you need money And you're running these ads And you can't afford to pay for your product It's going to shut you out of business, okay You've got to pay for these shirts Then you sell when you sell them, okay They're not going to let you pay them At the end of the month or anything like that Now, the flip side to that is If you've got a credit card If you do happen to have a credit card Generally, you're going to have about a 30-day lag Before you actually have to pay that bill So you could actually use your credit card To pay for your t-shirts and your ads And then once you get that money rolling in Then you could pay off the credit card And keep the difference But keep in mind there is that lag A lot of people get caught up And they go, oh my god, I'm running this ad And I just sold $1,000 for the shirts Or $20,000 for the shirts And then they realize they got to pay for all that stuff And they don't have the money to do it Because they spend it on the ads So make sure you've got some type of backup To pay for this product Because you may be using that one credit card You got just on your ads And if you use up all of the available credit on it You don't have anything to pay for the t-shirts So make sure you factor that in Now, of course, in the beginning I told you About the commission-based sites Like Teespring and Amazon Those particular sites are going to pay you A commission on the shirts you sell there So you don't actually have to pay for the shirt They're going to give you the leftover money So if you don't have a credit card And you don't have that extra money That's the best route to go Okay, guys, that's pretty much an overview Of how you can sell these t-shirts online I've given you a lot of ways to do it I want to hear your comments Please put your comments below Let me know what you thought of the video Give me a thumbs up, right? 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