How to Dropship Mugs at 200% Mark up on Etsy (Fully Automated with Software)

Published on: December 1 2022 by Bryan Guerra

How to Dropship Mugs at 200% Mark up on Etsy (Fully Automated with Software)

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How to Dropship Mugs at 200% Mark up on Etsy (Fully Automated with Software)

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00:00:00	00:00:04	in today's video we're gonna cover how
00:00:01	00:00:07	to drop ship print on demand mugs
00:00:04	00:00:09	on etsy so there's two main ways to
00:00:07	00:00:11	actually drop ship on etsy one is gonna
00:00:09	00:00:12	get you in trouble and eventually going
00:00:11	00:00:14	to lead to your account getting
00:00:12	00:00:16	suspended and the other is a little bit
00:00:14	00:00:18	more difficult to set listings up in the
00:00:16	00:00:20	beginning but once you actually do it
00:00:18	00:00:21	it's fully compliant with the terms of
00:00:20	00:00:24	service and you can build a long-term
00:00:21	00:00:26	sustainable business on the platform
00:00:24	00:00:29	what you're not allowed to do is take
00:00:26	00:00:31	listings from ebay or amazon for example
00:00:29	00:00:33	or any other website and list them to
00:00:31	00:00:35	your etsy store and have that person
00:00:33	00:00:37	drop shipped to your customers okay now
00:00:35	00:00:39	what you are allowed to do is create
00:00:37	00:00:41	your own print on demand products and
00:00:39	00:00:43	then have a print-on-demand company
00:00:41	00:00:45	print those designs for you after you
00:00:43	00:00:46	get an order and this is actually a lot
00:00:45	00:00:48	easier than you think we're going to
00:00:46	00:00:50	cover that in today's tutorial now one
00:00:48	00:00:52	of the benefits of drop shipping on etsy
00:00:50	00:00:53	is that once you spend a little bit of
00:00:52	00:00:55	time to actually go through and create
00:00:53	00:00:56	the listings
00:00:55	00:00:58	it's pretty much hands off and your
00:00:56	00:01:00	listings are going to sit there they're
00:00:58	00:01:01	going to bring you traffic and if you if
00:01:00	00:01:02	you obviously create good ones they're
00:01:01	00:01:04	going to bring you sales as well right
00:01:02	00:01:05	the company that we're going to use is
00:01:04	00:01:08	going to take care of everything from
00:01:05	00:01:10	the stok monitoring to the processing
00:01:08	00:01:12	the actual orders to shipping them to
00:01:10	00:01:13	the customer to storing the inventory
00:01:12	00:01:15	and even printing the designs and
00:01:13	00:01:17	inputting the tracking number after the
00:01:15	00:01:18	order is shipped the website that we're
00:01:17	00:01:20	going to cover and that i recommend
00:01:18	00:01:22	using is called printful as you'll see
00:01:20	00:01:24	in this tutorial they're super easy to
00:01:22	00:01:27	use they have a great reputation and i
00:01:24	00:01:28	use them myself they're also super easy
00:01:27	00:01:30	to set up an account with they're super
00:01:28	00:01:32	beginner friendly and they actually help
00:01:30	00:01:34	walk you through the entire process of
00:01:32	00:01:36	connecting printful to your etsy store
00:01:34	00:01:38	and keeping everything synced that means
00:01:36	00:01:41	that your inventory your designs your
00:01:38	00:01:43	sales your customer addresses your
00:01:41	00:01:45	tracking numbers etc it'll all be synced
00:01:43	00:01:46	together and that means that that's less
00:01:45	00:01:48	things that you have to do and less
00:01:46	00:01:50	things that you need to worry about all
00:01:48	00:01:52	you'll have to worry about once you set
00:01:50	00:01:54	this up is finding hot selling products
00:01:52	00:01:56	and then listing them on your store
00:01:54	00:01:58	printful will do the rest now this also
00:01:56	00:02:00	goes without saying but you obviously
00:01:58	00:02:03	need an etsy seller account too if you
00:02:00	00:02:04	haven't already set that up as well now
00:02:03	00:02:06	i won't be covering how to actually set
00:02:04	00:02:08	up an etsy seller account or how to set
00:02:06	00:02:10	up a printful account actually how to
00:02:08	00:02:12	connect that to your etsy seller account
00:02:10	00:02:14	because once you sign up for printful
00:02:12	00:02:15	it's super easy they'll walk you through
00:02:14	00:02:18	and hold your hand through the entire
00:02:15	00:02:20	process so the first thing that you want
00:02:18	00:02:22	to do is you want to find a proven
00:02:20	00:02:24	product now if you're creative and you
00:02:22	00:02:26	want to create your own designs that
00:02:24	00:02:28	works as well although the fastest way
00:02:26	00:02:29	to get sales on any platform but
00:02:28	00:02:32	especially etsy when you're creating
00:02:29	00:02:34	print-on-demand designs is to find
00:02:32	00:02:35	what's already working on the platform
00:02:34	00:02:37	and then kind of create your own
00:02:35	00:02:39	spin-off of that right so there's a
00:02:37	00:02:40	number of different ways to do this and
00:02:39	00:02:42	if you guys want more information on you
00:02:40	00:02:43	know tutorials on how to do this in the
00:02:42	00:02:45	future let me know down in the comments
00:02:43	00:02:47	section below and i'll create those
00:02:45	00:02:49	videos for you there's a number of ways
00:02:47	00:02:51	to do this you can go incognito on a
00:02:49	00:02:53	browser and simply sit like one of the
00:02:51	00:02:56	easiest ways is to see what's suggested
00:02:53	00:02:59	to you so obviously right now currently
00:02:56	00:03:00	it's 5 25 so it's may 25th and father's
00:02:59	00:03:02	day is approaching so you're going to
00:03:00	00:03:05	see a lot of different father's day
00:03:02	00:03:05	designs so if you're going after you
00:03:05	00:03:07	know
00:03:05	00:03:09	quick sales a lot of demand that might
00:03:07	00:03:10	be something that you want to touch on
00:03:09	00:03:13	although if you're going for more
00:03:10	00:03:14	evergreen sales and long-term sales that
00:03:13	00:03:16	you don't really need to constantly be
00:03:14	00:03:19	creating designs for you might want to
00:03:16	00:03:21	avoid holidays and stuff like that right
00:03:19	00:03:23	so for the sake of not you know the
00:03:21	00:03:25	creating evergreen designs and not
00:03:23	00:03:27	wasting you know valuable time creating
00:03:25	00:03:29	listings that are only good for a short
00:03:27	00:03:31	period of time until that holiday
00:03:29	00:03:33	obviously passes we're gonna skip that
00:03:31	00:03:36	but that's one of the easiest ways now
00:03:33	00:03:37	another easy way is to find a seller so
00:03:36	00:03:38	for example like let's find one of these
00:03:37	00:03:40	things that's popular right now so
00:03:38	00:03:42	daddy's little helper or i am their
00:03:40	00:03:44	father which is kind of a spin-off on
00:03:42	00:03:46	star wars obviously
00:03:44	00:03:47	you find out like one of the popular
00:03:46	00:03:49	ones right here
00:03:47	00:03:51	and you click it and then you reverse
00:03:49	00:03:53	engineer from that seller this seller
00:03:51	00:03:56	specifically has 4 000 sales
00:03:53	00:03:57	you go to them and you see what's
00:03:56	00:03:59	popular that they're selling and then
00:03:57	00:04:00	you figure out you know reverse
00:03:59	00:04:03	engineering and check those specific
00:04:00	00:04:05	products in there against etsy as a
00:04:03	00:04:07	whole see if there's demand but not
00:04:05	00:04:09	enough supply to fit that demand and
00:04:07	00:04:10	that's just one of the simple ways right
00:04:09	00:04:11	so there's a number of ways to actually
00:04:10	00:04:13	approach this and like i said i can
00:04:11	00:04:15	create entire videos on this but i don't
00:04:13	00:04:17	want to waste your time this tutorial
00:04:15	00:04:18	specifically is just how to create
00:04:17	00:04:21	actually go through the process of
00:04:18	00:04:23	creating the print on demand mug and
00:04:21	00:04:25	then uploading it using printful to etsy
00:04:23	00:04:27	okay but the first step is finding an in
00:04:25	00:04:29	you know an in-demand design that you
00:04:27	00:04:30	can create and kind of replicate i went
00:04:29	00:04:32	through a couple and i found some cool
00:04:30	00:04:35	ones like obviously back and body hurts
00:04:32	00:04:37	is a funny play off bath and body works
00:04:35	00:04:38	um in a mug here so it's a similar
00:04:37	00:04:41	design now you do need to be careful a
00:04:38	00:04:43	little caveat here when you are creating
00:04:41	00:04:44	like store designs or anything that you
00:04:43	00:04:46	know might potentially have an
00:04:44	00:04:49	intellectual property uh you know
00:04:46	00:04:50	component to it i actually um before i
00:04:49	00:04:52	actually realized this and i actually
00:04:50	00:04:53	knew this i don't know why i went ahead
00:04:52	00:04:55	and created it was just kind of like a
00:04:53	00:04:57	brain fart at the moment but i i made a
00:04:55	00:04:59	play off like um it was like half the
00:04:57	00:05:01	target logo obviously got an
00:04:59	00:05:03	intellectual property um i think it was
00:05:01	00:05:06	yeah ip complaint on that on my etsy
00:05:03	00:05:08	store is my first one and so you know
00:05:06	00:05:10	hard lesson there but you don't want to
00:05:08	00:05:11	use anything like that now this
00:05:10	00:05:13	obviously isn't using the bath and
00:05:11	00:05:15	bodyworks logo but it is kind of walking
00:05:13	00:05:17	that gray area and that fine line so
00:05:15	00:05:19	just be careful if you're going that
00:05:17	00:05:20	route if you want to be safe i would say
00:05:19	00:05:22	just completely avoid those and then
00:05:20	00:05:23	you'll be fine all right what you first
00:05:22	00:05:25	want to do is you want to make sure that
00:05:23	00:05:27	yes there's enough demand for this but
00:05:25	00:05:28	there's also not enough supply one of
00:05:27	00:05:30	the things that you'll notike is every a
00:05:28	00:05:32	lot of people on the platform use this
00:05:30	00:05:34	kind of mimic what's working and then
00:05:32	00:05:36	create their own design for it now
00:05:34	00:05:37	that's totally fine because if you get
00:05:36	00:05:39	in early and you start to rank that
00:05:37	00:05:40	product and you get enough sales then
00:05:39	00:05:42	you're gonna shoot to the top of the
00:05:40	00:05:43	page for that and you're pretty much
00:05:42	00:05:45	gonna be ranked there against you know
00:05:43	00:05:46	maybe five to ten other sellers and
00:05:45	00:05:48	you're gonna be siphoning off sales and
00:05:46	00:05:50	anybody that gets in late there when
00:05:48	00:05:52	there's already a lot of supply is just
00:05:50	00:05:54	to stay on the lower pages and never
00:05:52	00:05:56	really get there unless they're paying
00:05:54	00:05:58	for advertising keep that in mind but if
00:05:56	00:06:00	you copy back and body hurts mug and you
00:05:58	00:06:02	take it into etsy you can see that
00:06:00	00:06:04	there's a number of these listings here
00:06:02	00:06:06	already in both you know shirts as well
00:06:04	00:06:08	as mugs all over the place so it's a bit
00:06:06	00:06:11	saturated now you could take a shot here
00:06:08	00:06:13	if you want to again it only takes like
00:06:11	00:06:15	a minute or two to create a design on
00:06:13	00:06:17	printful um probably realistikally 30
00:06:15	00:06:19	seconds to a minute doesn't take long it
00:06:17	00:06:20	doesn't take that long to design it as
00:06:19	00:06:22	you get better and better at that as
00:06:20	00:06:23	well but this is a little bit saturated
00:06:22	00:06:24	so for the sake of showing you a better
00:06:23	00:06:26	one we're gonna go for a better one now
00:06:24	00:06:28	same thing here i found another cool mug
00:06:26	00:06:30	right here and i thought this was a
00:06:28	00:06:32	funny design like and here we go again i
00:06:30	00:06:34	mean good morning so if you take that
00:06:32	00:06:37	into etsy again to just check the
00:06:34	00:06:38	overall demand on the platform you can
00:06:37	00:06:40	see that a lot of people have created
00:06:38	00:06:44	this design and a very very similar
00:06:40	00:06:45	design so this is an example of a a very
00:06:44	00:06:47	saturated product that you don't want to
00:06:45	00:06:49	create because chances are you won't be
00:06:47	00:06:51	able to rank if we go into reverse
00:06:49	00:06:53	engineering another store and you can
00:06:51	00:06:55	see that i found a store here that has a
00:06:53	00:06:57	lot of very very popular designs and
00:06:55	00:06:59	make make no mistake like popularity is
00:06:57	00:07:01	a good thing especially on etsy but on a
00:06:59	00:07:02	number of platforms because i would
00:07:01	00:07:04	rather go after a design that's super
00:07:02	00:07:06	popular that has a lot of competition
00:07:04	00:07:08	rather than a design that has no demand
00:07:06	00:07:11	at all but no competition because the
00:07:08	00:07:12	demand and the the competition there it
00:07:11	00:07:14	tells you that there's demand there and
00:07:12	00:07:16	that people are buying that right so i'd
00:07:14	00:07:18	rather compete in a space like that than
00:07:16	00:07:19	a space that has no demand at all so you
00:07:18	00:07:21	know you can still go after these
00:07:19	00:07:23	products i'm not telling you not to
00:07:21	00:07:25	create these designs but ideally you'd
00:07:23	00:07:27	find one with a lot of demand with not
00:07:25	00:07:28	enough supply to match that demand all
00:07:27	00:07:30	right just keep that in mind so this
00:07:28	00:07:32	person if you check all these and i did
00:07:30	00:07:33	obviously before this video a good
00:07:32	00:07:35	number of them this person would be a
00:07:33	00:07:37	great store to mimic and check out
00:07:35	00:07:38	because they have a lot of the top
00:07:37	00:07:41	designs and you can see that they're
00:07:38	00:07:43	doing that same exact strategy so if you
00:07:41	00:07:45	literally search beach not teaching on
00:07:43	00:07:46	etsy's catalog there's a lot of people
00:07:45	00:07:48	creating that design same thing with
00:07:46	00:07:49	this one same thing with this one same
00:07:48	00:07:51	thing with a number of these and that's
00:07:49	00:07:54	how i basically figured out that
00:07:51	00:07:56	one of the good designs here is my
00:07:54	00:07:58	second or friday my second favorite f
00:07:56	00:08:00	word okay so if you search that in the
00:07:58	00:08:02	actual etsy catalog you can see that
00:08:00	00:08:04	there's some here but not really right
00:08:02	00:08:06	like feminism is my second favorite f
00:08:04	00:08:08	word friday is but there's not a good
00:08:06	00:08:11	number of mugs that say friday my second
00:08:08	00:08:13	favorite f word okay and so there's not
00:08:11	00:08:15	a lot of competition when you actually
00:08:13	00:08:17	search for that on the etsy etsy catalog
00:08:15	00:08:19	and so we can go ahead and create that
00:08:17	00:08:21	now there is going to be competition on
00:08:19	00:08:23	you know that specific saying but you
00:08:21	00:08:25	can niche down with your keywords and
00:08:23	00:08:27	obviously get somebody that's searching
00:08:25	00:08:29	for that specifically on a mug and then
00:08:27	00:08:30	start making sales that way okay again
00:08:29	00:08:32	there's a number of ways to actually
00:08:30	00:08:34	approach this but i'm just trying to
00:08:32	00:08:35	simplify it for you in this tutorial so
00:08:34	00:08:37	we're going to go ahead and we're going
00:08:35	00:08:39	to move forward with this mug design
00:08:37	00:08:41	basically what we're trying to do now is
00:08:39	00:08:43	we found a design that has potential
00:08:41	00:08:45	that has demand but doesn't really seem
00:08:43	00:08:47	to have the supply on etsy to match that
00:08:45	00:08:49	and so but what we can basically do is
00:08:47	00:08:51	create a very very similar mug design to
00:08:49	00:08:52	this upload it through printful who's
00:08:51	00:08:54	going to do all the work for us and
00:08:52	00:08:56	obviously monitor the stok shipped to
00:08:54	00:08:58	our customer insert the tracking number
00:08:56	00:09:00	on in the back end of our etsy store you
00:08:58	00:09:01	know for us so once we create the design
00:09:00	00:09:03	it's pretty much hands off we don't
00:09:01	00:09:04	really need to worry about it so you can
00:09:03	00:09:07	either use photoshop that works very
00:09:04	00:09:08	very well or you can use canva which is
00:09:07	00:09:11	a free one that i actually pulled up
00:09:08	00:09:13	here they have the entire mug like like
00:09:11	00:09:15	template that you can just pull up it's
00:09:13	00:09:16	super easy to use and then all you
00:09:15	00:09:18	really want to do is you just mimic the
00:09:16	00:09:20	design right like you can you don't want
00:09:18	00:09:21	to copy it 100
00:09:20	00:09:24	but what you basically want to do is you
00:09:21	00:09:25	want to take the the main elements of
00:09:24	00:09:27	this and then create your own kind of
00:09:25	00:09:30	spin-off with like a little bit of flare
00:09:27	00:09:31	and and your own personality in that
00:09:30	00:09:32	okay so maybe you add something maybe
00:09:31	00:09:34	you slightly change something there
00:09:32	00:09:36	you're going after friday period my
00:09:34	00:09:38	second favorite f word that's going to
00:09:36	00:09:40	be very very easy to recreate so all we
00:09:38	00:09:42	really need to do here
00:09:40	00:09:45	is we're going to find some cursive
00:09:42	00:09:47	writing move that sideways
00:09:45	00:09:48	make it a little bit bigger
00:09:47	00:09:50	so we're going to go friday
00:09:48	00:09:52	and you can see right here like when you
00:09:50	00:09:54	drag they're literally telling you where
00:09:52	00:09:55	the actual box and print kind of the
00:09:54	00:09:57	middle of the mug is so you kind of want
00:09:55	00:09:59	to stay within that we'll throw the
00:09:57	00:10:01	little heart in there as well
00:09:59	00:10:03	and now we're going to use this template
00:10:01	00:10:05	didn't mean do that and then we're
00:10:03	00:10:08	simply going to add some text here
00:10:05	00:10:27	my second
00:10:29	00:10:34	and so in about a minute and a half
00:10:31	00:10:36	really easily it took me to create and
00:10:34	00:10:38	kind of replicate this design all i
00:10:36	00:10:41	really did was i switched the text
00:10:38	00:10:42	around slightly very very slightly added
00:10:41	00:10:44	the little heart and added the little
00:10:42	00:10:46	wine symbol for friday
00:10:44	00:10:48	and you can see that this design right
00:10:46	00:10:50	here is very very similar to this one i
00:10:48	00:10:51	think it's slightly improved again i
00:10:50	00:10:53	didn't take that much time for the sake
00:10:51	00:10:54	of showing you in this tutorial i just
00:10:53	00:10:56	want to show you like the overall
00:10:54	00:10:58	strategy behind this and then leave you
00:10:56	00:11:00	to creatively design whatever you want
00:10:58	00:11:02	to do but the key element here is we're
00:11:00	00:11:04	not just creating random designs you can
00:11:02	00:11:06	go that route although most of the time
00:11:04	00:11:07	in my experience it doesn't really work
00:11:06	00:11:09	like if you have an idea and you're like
00:11:07	00:11:11	wow that'd be really cool if you're
00:11:09	00:11:12	first to market like yes you're taking
00:11:11	00:11:14	shots in the dark and it potentially
00:11:12	00:11:16	could blow up but but the majority of
00:11:14	00:11:17	the time it's never going to hit because
00:11:16	00:11:19	there's not going to be that demand
00:11:17	00:11:21	there so in my experience you want to go
00:11:19	00:11:23	after proven things like this and then
00:11:21	00:11:24	replicate it and pull your own spin on
00:11:23	00:11:26	it all right so now that we have the
00:11:24	00:11:28	design we're going to keep this listing
00:11:26	00:11:30	up because we want to use their seo and
00:11:28	00:11:32	a lot of the keywords in their listing
00:11:30	00:11:34	because clearly this listing is super
00:11:32	00:11:36	popular and something's working for them
00:11:34	00:11:38	okay now that we have the design we
00:11:36	00:11:39	simply just want to download the design
00:11:38	00:11:42	right so we're going to download the
00:11:39	00:11:43	design as a png now that we have the
00:11:42	00:11:45	design we're going to take it into
00:11:43	00:11:47	printful and so in printful what you
00:11:45	00:11:49	want to do is you want to go to your
00:11:47	00:11:50	store and then add a new product once
00:11:49	00:11:52	you get there you'll see all these
00:11:50	00:11:54	designs down the side right like you can
00:11:52	00:11:55	create water bottles you can create
00:11:54	00:11:57	t-shirts you can you know pretty much
00:11:55	00:11:59	put your logo or your design on a number
00:11:57	00:12:02	of different products obviously we're
00:11:59	00:12:04	going after a mug here so you want to
00:12:02	00:12:06	find a mug you can even search for just
00:12:04	00:12:08	mug and then right here you have three
00:12:06	00:12:09	different options for mugs we'll go with
00:12:08	00:12:11	this one it's the cheapest we're going
00:12:09	00:12:14	to drag our design or just upload your
00:12:11	00:12:16	design in there so upload a new file and
00:12:14	00:12:18	bam there you go now you want it to kind
00:12:16	00:12:19	of stretch as much as possible because
00:12:18	00:12:22	you want that design
00:12:19	00:12:24	to be you know really fill up the
00:12:22	00:12:25	entirety of the mug that you can kind of
00:12:24	00:12:27	see now if you want to be more in the
00:12:25	00:12:30	middle you can drag it down a little bit
00:12:27	00:12:32	i would say if you're you know worried
00:12:30	00:12:34	about it like overlapping a little bit
00:12:32	00:12:36	use caution there ideally with t-shirts
00:12:34	00:12:38	and especially mugs as well you want the
00:12:36	00:12:40	design to fill out as much of it as
00:12:38	00:12:42	potentially possible but if you're
00:12:40	00:12:43	worried about it being overlapped
00:12:42	00:12:45	slightly then go on the safer side go a
00:12:43	00:12:47	little bit smaller it's still going to
00:12:45	00:12:49	look half decent now you can use
00:12:47	00:12:50	lifestyle mock-ups like this where you
00:12:49	00:12:53	can kind of see the person holding the
00:12:50	00:12:55	mug or you can kind of use like mock-ups
00:12:53	00:12:57	for you know a specific holiday season
00:12:55	00:12:58	for example if this was like you know
00:12:57	00:13:00	for christmas for example well then you
00:12:58	00:13:02	could use a holiday mock-up for
00:13:00	00:13:04	christmas or valentine's day or father's
00:13:02	00:13:06	day or whatever um in my experience and
00:13:04	00:13:08	this is just anecdotally like mock-ups
00:13:06	00:13:09	for t-shirts work very very well because
00:13:08	00:13:11	people want to see the t-shirt on
00:13:09	00:13:14	somebody and kind of imagine what it
00:13:11	00:13:16	looks like on them as well for mugs i
00:13:14	00:13:18	found more i found more success with
00:13:16	00:13:20	mugs just with the white background now
00:13:18	00:13:22	that just me might be an aberration but
00:13:20	00:13:24	for me and my specific experience mugs
00:13:22	00:13:25	work better with the white background in
00:13:24	00:13:27	my experience but again if you're doing
00:13:25	00:13:28	t-shirts then it is slightly different
00:13:27	00:13:30	because most people want to envision
00:13:28	00:13:31	themselves in the t-shirt before buying
00:13:30	00:13:33	and now you're basically just going to
00:13:31	00:13:35	put the seo in there right so you can
00:13:33	00:13:38	use your own kind of seo you don't want
00:13:35	00:13:39	to copy someone's listing word for word
00:13:38	00:13:42	but you do want to use the seo that was
00:13:39	00:13:44	successful for them and kind of mimic it
00:13:42	00:13:47	off that same thing right so friday my
00:13:44	00:13:48	second favorite f word color accent mug
00:13:47	00:13:50	metallic glitter mug so we're gonna say
00:13:48	00:13:52	and this is like i would spend a little
00:13:50	00:13:53	bit more time here kind of maybe even
00:13:52	00:13:55	researching a little bit of seo for this
00:13:53	00:13:58	looking at a number of listings that all
00:13:55	00:14:00	have this actual you know design in it
00:13:58	00:14:02	and have ranked well on the platform if
00:14:00	00:14:03	there's a couple of those pick a bunch
00:14:02	00:14:04	of the best keywords out of those but i
00:14:03	00:14:05	don't want to waste your time in this
00:14:04	00:14:07	tutorial i want it to be quick but
00:14:05	00:14:09	that's the best approach and then kind
00:14:07	00:14:11	of put your own spin on it but again use
00:14:09	00:14:13	the majority of their seo because that's
00:14:11	00:14:14	what works to rank on the platform now
00:14:13	00:14:16	you want to keep the majority of this
00:14:14	00:14:17	stuff in here i always delete the last
00:14:16	00:14:19	one that says it was made in china you
00:14:17	00:14:21	also want to make sure that like all
00:14:19	00:14:23	this specific stuff is you know crucial
00:14:21	00:14:26	to the actual listing if it's not take
00:14:23	00:14:27	it out now right here i keep that
00:14:26	00:14:29	because this will you know whether it's
00:14:27	00:14:31	dishwasher safe and they always kind of
00:14:29	00:14:32	have a little caption there but again
00:14:31	00:14:34	you want to go back to the original
00:14:32	00:14:36	listing and figure out okay is there
00:14:34	00:14:38	anything in the actual description here
00:14:36	00:14:39	that you can take that fits your like be
00:14:38	00:14:41	careful because you want to make sure it
00:14:39	00:14:43	fits your design and your specific
00:14:41	00:14:45	manufacturer's mug or your specific
00:14:43	00:14:47	manufacturer's t-shirt if it's a t-shirt
00:14:45	00:14:49	in there right so for example like if
00:14:47	00:14:51	they say it's an accent or it's like 12
00:14:49	00:14:53	ounces or whatever it is like they might
00:14:51	00:14:54	be using a different supplier than you
00:14:53	00:14:55	and so their item specs might be
00:14:54	00:14:57	slightly different and you want to make
00:14:55	00:14:59	sure that that also applies to you but
00:14:57	00:15:01	if they have anything in here about the
00:14:59	00:15:04	specific design of the mug again look at
00:15:01	00:15:06	their seo figure out what works for you
00:15:04	00:15:08	and what works for them and then copy it
00:15:06	00:15:10	based on that again for the sake of not
00:15:08	00:15:12	wasting your time in this tutorial i'm
00:15:10	00:15:14	not going to do that but best practike
00:15:12	00:15:16	would be for you to do that okay again
00:15:14	00:15:18	you don't want to look off theirs use
00:15:16	00:15:19	theirs as a template but use a couple of
00:15:18	00:15:20	other ones because those other ones have
00:15:19	00:15:22	ranked on the platform and you can
00:15:20	00:15:24	combine the best elements of every
00:15:22	00:15:27	single one put them into your listing
00:15:24	00:15:28	and ideally create a better listing now
00:15:27	00:15:30	you're also going to want to create tags
00:15:28	00:15:33	here so put some tags in there that you
00:15:30	00:15:35	think fit it again same thing applies
00:15:33	00:15:36	like look at the other listings come up
00:15:35	00:15:39	with good keywords and then put them in
00:15:36	00:15:40	there on the tags okay now's the fun
00:15:39	00:15:42	part where you actually figure out what
00:15:40	00:15:44	you can make on this and what to set
00:15:42	00:15:45	your price at now
00:15:44	00:15:47	you want to look at the other people in
00:15:45	00:15:49	the actual you know in the space and
00:15:47	00:15:51	figure out what their prices are and
00:15:49	00:15:53	pretty much base your price off theirs
00:15:51	00:15:54	kind of in the median now if you are
00:15:53	00:15:56	brand new and chances are if you're
00:15:54	00:15:58	watching this tutorial you're brand new
00:15:56	00:16:00	you want to go on the lower side even if
00:15:58	00:16:03	you're barely making any profit the
00:16:00	00:16:04	lower side of those prices because your
00:16:03	00:16:06	your beginning goal when you're actually
00:16:04	00:16:08	starting isn't to make a lot of money
00:16:06	00:16:10	it's to rank your listing it's it's to
00:16:08	00:16:12	rank your store and get reviews okay
00:16:10	00:16:14	once this listing ranks and you'll
00:16:12	00:16:15	you'll rank it better by creating a
00:16:14	00:16:17	lower price
00:16:15	00:16:19	once it's ranked you can raise the price
00:16:17	00:16:20	and it will still be ranked on the
00:16:19	00:16:22	platform and you'll be ranked higher
00:16:20	00:16:24	than other people that are that are even
00:16:22	00:16:26	lower with their prices right but to get
00:16:24	00:16:28	this ranked in the beginning you want to
00:16:26	00:16:29	keep your price relatively low so that
00:16:28	00:16:31	you're getting sales so it builds up the
00:16:29	00:16:33	search results and it moves up the pages
00:16:31	00:16:35	on those search results once you do get
00:16:33	00:16:36	sales raise your price that's the the
00:16:35	00:16:38	general strategy that's worse worked
00:16:36	00:16:40	best for me and what i've seen kind of
00:16:38	00:16:41	recommended across the board i think
00:16:40	00:16:43	it's smart it works pretty much on every
00:16:41	00:16:45	platform but especially here when you're
00:16:43	00:16:47	doing print on demand mugs and t-shirts
00:16:45	00:16:48	on etsy so we're gonna put both designs
00:16:47	00:16:50	here it's gonna tell you what your
00:16:48	00:16:52	printful cost is here
00:16:50	00:16:53	it's when you set the price to it's also
00:16:52	00:16:56	going to calculate on the right over
00:16:53	00:16:58	here what your actual profit margin is
00:16:56	00:17:00	expected to be after the cost of the
00:16:58	00:17:02	actual product after the uh the fee from
00:17:00	00:17:04	printful and after the shipping fee okay
00:17:02	00:17:05	so you should be able to see that on the
00:17:04	00:17:08	right and there you have it now it's
00:17:05	00:17:09	good to go as soon as it's done all you
00:17:08	00:17:12	really need to do is go back into your
00:17:09	00:17:14	etsy store make that listing active set
00:17:12	00:17:16	your shipping template and then you're
00:17:14	00:17:18	good to go printful will handle all the
00:17:16	00:17:20	rest of it right so they're going to
00:17:18	00:17:22	obviously keep the mug in stok like the
00:17:20	00:17:24	blank mug once you get an order they're
00:17:22	00:17:25	going to print that that design on the
00:17:24	00:17:28	mug they're then going to grab the
00:17:25	00:17:29	actual address from the order because
00:17:28	00:17:31	they're connected to the back end of
00:17:29	00:17:33	your actual etsy store
00:17:31	00:17:34	ship the mug with the printed design to
00:17:33	00:17:36	that customer and then input the
00:17:34	00:17:38	tracking number as well in your etsy
00:17:36	00:17:40	store so you don't need to do anything
00:17:38	00:17:42	unless you get a message about it or
00:17:40	00:17:44	something like that right so this is one
00:17:42	00:17:46	of the easiest ways to get started with
00:17:44	00:17:48	drop shipping online it's also within
00:17:46	00:17:50	the terms of service on etsy so you can
00:17:48	00:17:51	build like a long-term sustainable
00:17:50	00:17:53	business doing this you don't need to
00:17:51	00:17:56	store any inventory you don't need any
00:17:53	00:17:57	upfront money obviously minus the 20
00:17:56	00:17:59	cents that it takes you to create the
00:17:57	00:18:01	etsy listing and if you don't have 20
00:17:59	00:18:02	cents per listing to get started like
00:18:01	00:18:04	chances are you shouldn't be starting a
00:18:02	00:18:05	business level in an online drop
00:18:04	00:18:07	shipping business where you need to
00:18:05	00:18:09	spend money to make money but the best
00:18:07	00:18:11	part about drop shipping is like again
00:18:09	00:18:13	you don't need the inventory but you
00:18:11	00:18:14	also don't need to spend the money until
00:18:13	00:18:17	you're guaranteed the sale and the prop
00:18:14	00:18:20	so in a nutshell that's how you drop
00:18:17	00:18:21	ship print-on-demand mugs on etsy within
00:18:20	00:18:23	the terms of service now if you'd like
00:18:21	00:18:25	more etsy drop shipping tutorials let me
00:18:23	00:18:26	know down in the comments section below
00:18:25	00:18:28	and i'll go ahead and create and if
00:18:26	00:18:29	you'd like to check out a tutorial on
00:18:28	00:18:31	how to drop ship print on demand
00:18:29	00:18:33	t-shirts on etsy you can click the link
00:18:31	00:18:34	up in the right hand corner right now
00:18:33	00:18:37	that video will walk you through the
00:18:34	00:18:38	entire process in about 15 minutes i
00:18:37	00:18:40	hope you enjoyed the video if you got
00:18:38	00:18:43	any value from it whatsoever please give
00:18:40	00:18:46	it a like i genuinely appreciate it
00:18:43	00:18:46	until next time

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