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How To Start Print On Demand For FREE & Actually Make Sales

Published on: November 29 2022 by Joe Robert

How To Start Print On Demand For FREE & Actually Make Sales

How To Start Print On Demand For FREE & Actually Make Sales

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00:00:00 00:00:02 hey joe it's folks here if you were
00:00:01 00:00:05 starting print on demand would you
00:00:02 00:00:06 rather spend all this money here on a
00:00:05 00:00:09 whole bunch of different things or would
00:00:06 00:00:11 you rather start for free what if we
00:00:09 00:00:13 were just like nope we're not gonna
00:00:11 00:00:14 spend any of this on our print-on-demand
00:00:13 00:00:17 business what if we just said we're not
00:00:14 00:00:19 even gonna spend a single dollar how can
00:00:17 00:00:21 we actually start print on demand for
00:00:19 00:00:23 free if you guys click the like button
00:00:21 00:00:25 on this video i'm gonna show you exactly
00:00:23 00:00:27 how we're gonna tok about where you
00:00:25 00:00:28 would actually go to start your
00:00:27 00:00:30 print-on-demand store we'll tok about
00:00:28 00:00:32 how to get free design and we'll even
00:00:30 00:00:34 tok about how to do some of your own
00:00:32 00:00:36 marketing without spending a single
00:00:34 00:00:41 penny so stik around if you want to
00:00:36 00:00:43 start for free this video is 100 for you
00:00:41 00:00:45 all right so in most situations you're
00:00:43 00:00:47 likely going to have to spend some money
00:00:45 00:00:48 on your print on demand store obviously
00:00:47 00:00:50 in this video we're toking about
00:00:48 00:00:52 starting for free if you guys want to
00:00:50 00:00:53 follow my journey with print on demand
00:00:52 00:00:56 i've been selling products on my own
00:00:53 00:00:58 store since 2016. this is a post that i
00:00:56 00:01:00 made inside of the pod ninja's facebook
00:00:58 00:01:02 group yesterday you guys should check
00:01:00 00:01:03 out the group but the link is down in
00:01:02 00:01:05 the description i also have a whole
00:01:03 00:01:07 bunch of print on demand product reviews
00:01:05 00:01:09 that i have uploaded into the group so
00:01:07 00:01:11 if you want to see up close photos and
00:01:09 00:01:12 videos of a ton of different
00:01:11 00:01:14 print-on-demand products make sure to
00:01:12 00:01:16 check it out like i said the link is
00:01:14 00:01:17 down in the description so what's cool
00:01:16 00:01:19 about print on demand is that this is
00:01:17 00:01:22 actually a business model that we can
00:01:19 00:01:24 start with just zero dollars this is
00:01:22 00:01:26 because we don't actually have to pay
00:01:24 00:01:28 for any of our products until we make a
00:01:26 00:01:30 sale which means if someone comes on
00:01:28 00:01:32 your store and buys something from you
00:01:30 00:01:34 you could eventually just use that money
00:01:32 00:01:36 to fulfill their order and have the
00:01:34 00:01:37 print on demand company you are working
00:01:36 00:01:40 with actually send it to them if you are
00:01:37 00:01:41 completely brand new to print on demand
00:01:40 00:01:44 i would recommend checking out this
00:01:41 00:01:45 video here on my channel where i walk
00:01:44 00:01:47 you through the entire process about
00:01:45 00:01:49 what this is and what you actually need
00:01:47 00:01:51 to do to get started in this video today
00:01:49 00:01:54 i'm going to give you the game plan that
00:01:51 00:01:56 you need to actually start your own
00:01:54 00:01:57 store without spending a single penny
00:01:56 00:01:58 we'll tok about where you should
00:01:57 00:02:01 actually start your store we'll tok
00:01:58 00:02:04 about getting designs and even how you
00:02:01 00:02:07 can use some secret super duper tactiks
00:02:04 00:02:08 to market your products for free after
00:02:07 00:02:10 we go through those three things i'll
00:02:08 00:02:13 tok about some things that could be
00:02:10 00:02:15 tough if you were to actually pursue the
00:02:13 00:02:16 game plan that i'm going to lay out for
00:02:15 00:02:19 you and then at the end of the video i
00:02:16 00:02:20 will outline a great budget for
00:02:19 00:02:22 beginners that are looking to start
00:02:20 00:02:25 print on demand and have a little bit of
00:02:22 00:02:27 money to invest in their store now most
00:02:25 00:02:29 people have dreams of starting a massive
00:02:27 00:02:30 print-on-demand store like this where
00:02:29 00:02:33 they offer a ton of really awesome
00:02:30 00:02:35 products for their niche a store like
00:02:33 00:02:37 this is built on a platform like shopify
00:02:35 00:02:38 which does cost money so in this video
00:02:37 00:02:40 we're not going to be toking about
00:02:38 00:02:42 using shopify in terms of starting print
00:02:40 00:02:44 on demand for free there is going to be
00:02:42 00:02:46 a couple of different options for you
00:02:44 00:02:47 one of the most popular that people tok
00:02:46 00:02:50 about in terms of free platforms for
00:02:47 00:02:53 print on demand is etsy however etsy
00:02:50 00:02:56 actually is not free if you read through
00:02:53 00:02:58 their fees and payments you can see that
00:02:56 00:03:00 there is actually a 20 cent listing fee
00:02:58 00:03:02 for every time you create a product on
00:03:00 00:03:04 your etsy store on top of that you will
00:03:02 00:03:06 have transaction fees and other things
00:03:04 00:03:08 like that now obviously those things are
00:03:06 00:03:10 going to happen no matter where you are
00:03:08 00:03:13 selling but the fact that etsy has a 20
00:03:10 00:03:15 cent listing fee makes it ineligible for
00:03:13 00:03:17 this video today because remember we are
00:03:15 00:03:19 starting with zero dollars not 20 cents
00:03:17 00:03:22 zero dollars that means we would have to
00:03:19 00:03:24 find a platform where we can start for
00:03:22 00:03:26 free one other option would be wordpress
00:03:24 00:03:29 now wordpress is something that you're
00:03:26 00:03:31 going to likely need some other plugins
00:03:29 00:03:32 on the store in order to actually have a
00:03:31 00:03:34 shopping cart and different things like
00:03:32 00:03:36 that where people will actually be able
00:03:34 00:03:37 to process transactions with you and
00:03:36 00:03:39 those might take a lot of setup for you
00:03:37 00:03:41 and i'm assuming if you're someone
00:03:39 00:03:42 that's looking to start for free you
00:03:41 00:03:44 likely don't know how to do any of that
00:03:42 00:03:47 stuff so for this video we're going to
00:03:44 00:03:49 be focused on starting a store on the
00:03:47 00:03:51 red bubble platform redbubble is a
00:03:49 00:03:53 print-on-demand service where you can
00:03:51 00:03:55 create a free account you basically
00:03:53 00:03:57 create your own design and upload it and
00:03:55 00:03:58 then it actually sells right from
00:03:57 00:04:00 redbubble's website so when you're
00:03:58 00:04:02 actually trying to sell the product you
00:04:00 00:04:05 send your customers to the redbubble
00:04:02 00:04:06 site to buy your product now most people
00:04:05 00:04:08 that are starting print on demand would
00:04:06 00:04:11 likely choose something like a t-shirt
00:04:08 00:04:12 to sell on their own store however
00:04:11 00:04:14 because we're starting for free we want
00:04:12 00:04:16 to choose something that's going to make
00:04:14 00:04:18 us some really good profit margin so i
00:04:16 00:04:20 would avoid things like t-shirts if you
00:04:18 00:04:22 want to sell apparel or other types of
00:04:20 00:04:24 clothing check out some of the other
00:04:22 00:04:26 stuff on here that redbubble has they
00:04:24 00:04:28 have a ton of different legging products
00:04:26 00:04:29 as well and in addition to that they
00:04:28 00:04:32 have a lot of really cool items that
00:04:29 00:04:34 your customers could hang on the wall or
00:04:32 00:04:36 something like a bath mat or some sort
00:04:34 00:04:38 of bedding or wall clocks or shower
00:04:36 00:04:40 curtains or even blankets that they
00:04:38 00:04:42 could use inside of their house products
00:04:40 00:04:44 like these are going to make us a lot
00:04:42 00:04:45 more profit which is going to help us
00:04:44 00:04:48 because we're starting for free so we
00:04:45 00:04:51 want to be able to maximize our profits
00:04:48 00:04:53 with our first few sales next up is
00:04:51 00:04:54 design obviously when we're doing a
00:04:53 00:04:56 print-on-demand store the thing that
00:04:54 00:04:58 people are buying is the design so for
00:04:56 00:05:00 you you're likely if we're doing this
00:04:58 00:05:02 for free going to be making designs
00:05:00 00:05:04 yourself which means you're going to
00:05:02 00:05:06 have to use a software like canva or
00:05:04 00:05:08 or even photopia those are all
00:05:06 00:05:10 options that you can use to go and
00:05:08 00:05:12 create your own designs basically you
00:05:10 00:05:14 would go into redbubble and try to find
00:05:12 00:05:16 a template or find the dimensions that
00:05:14 00:05:17 you need to actually make your designs
00:05:16 00:05:20 once you make them yourself you would
00:05:17 00:05:22 upload them to your redbubble site now
00:05:20 00:05:23 i'm assuming at this point most of you
00:05:22 00:05:25 probably already knew a lot of the
00:05:23 00:05:27 information that i was toking about i
00:05:25 00:05:28 think the biggest thing that i could
00:05:27 00:05:31 really share with you in this video
00:05:28 00:05:33 would be a free marketing strategy that
00:05:31 00:05:36 you can actually use i am someone that
00:05:33 00:05:39 really recommends using paid traffic
00:05:36 00:05:41 toking about using instagram ads or
00:05:39 00:05:43 facebook ads to be able to scale winning
00:05:41 00:05:45 designs this is how myself and students
00:05:43 00:05:48 of mine have made a ton of sales over
00:05:45 00:05:50 the years but for us right now in this
00:05:48 00:05:53 video we are basically doing this for
00:05:50 00:05:56 free which means we cannot use ads so
00:05:53 00:05:58 how do we even get traffic from anywhere
00:05:56 00:06:00 to our redbubble site because we need to
00:05:58 00:06:03 make sales right of course people
00:06:00 00:06:04 sometimes will go on redbubble they will
00:06:03 00:06:06 browse through and maybe they'll buy
00:06:04 00:06:08 something but for what we're doing we
00:06:06 00:06:10 want to actively promote our products
00:06:08 00:06:12 and we want to do it in a way that
00:06:10 00:06:13 doesn't cost any money at all what i
00:06:12 00:06:15 would recommend for you to do is
00:06:13 00:06:17 something like this you can see this
00:06:15 00:06:20 instagram account here up at the top
00:06:17 00:06:22 they have 159
00:06:20 00:06:25 000 followers you can see that they've
00:06:22 00:06:27 created this instagram page for their
00:06:25 00:06:28 niche obviously it is in the trucker
00:06:27 00:06:30 niche their customer is someone who
00:06:28 00:06:32 drives trucks for a living you would
00:06:30 00:06:35 essentially do the same thing you would
00:06:32 00:06:37 create an instagram account for your
00:06:35 00:06:40 niche you would then put the link to
00:06:37 00:06:42 your stuff in the bio of your account so
00:06:40 00:06:43 when people click it they would go to
00:06:42 00:06:45 your redbubble listing and be able to
00:06:43 00:06:47 purchase your items now i know what
00:06:45 00:06:49 you're thinking joe instagram sounds
00:06:47 00:06:51 great but how do i actually get people
00:06:49 00:06:53 to follow my account and never see my
00:06:51 00:06:55 link well the answer is simple you
00:06:53 00:06:57 simply scour the internet and look for
00:06:55 00:06:59 content to post on your account you can
00:06:57 00:07:01 see that if we go through some of these
00:06:59 00:07:03 photos the engagement that they have on
00:07:01 00:07:05 them is absolutely insane some of these
00:07:03 00:07:07 videos have over 10 000 likes some of
00:07:05 00:07:09 the pictures almost 2 000 likes and then
00:07:07 00:07:12 you can see that they have also started
00:07:09 00:07:14 to drop in pictures of their products if
00:07:12 00:07:16 we click one of them you can see that it
00:07:14 00:07:18 says get your shirt now tap the link in
00:07:16 00:07:20 our bio so if someone actually goes to
00:07:18 00:07:23 their page and does click the link in
00:07:20 00:07:25 their bio they will go to their
00:07:23 00:07:27 storefront and they can start buying any
00:07:25 00:07:28 product that they are selling you would
00:07:27 00:07:30 do the same thing you would begin
00:07:28 00:07:32 growing an instagram account for your
00:07:30 00:07:34 niche with a link to your stuff in the
00:07:32 00:07:37 bio and over time you would be able to
00:07:34 00:07:39 get traffic to your stuff this is a
00:07:37 00:07:41 strategy that i used when i was brand
00:07:39 00:07:44 new to print on demand i have a link to
00:07:41 00:07:46 this video here down in the pinned
00:07:44 00:07:47 comment of this video where i describe
00:07:46 00:07:49 how i made my first five thousand
00:07:47 00:07:51 dollars with print on demand and i did
00:07:49 00:07:53 it by using this exact strategy
00:07:51 00:07:55 essentially creating an instagram
00:07:53 00:07:57 account for my niche posting awesome
00:07:55 00:07:59 content that people in the niche would
00:07:57 00:08:02 actually like and then putting a link to
00:07:59 00:08:04 my stuff in the bio of the account the
00:08:02 00:08:06 goal here would be to do this for a long
00:08:04 00:08:07 time we're starting for free so you're
00:08:06 00:08:09 actually gonna have to work at this and
00:08:07 00:08:11 post content and really just put in the
00:08:09 00:08:13 time for this in order to make your
00:08:11 00:08:15 first few sales and hopefully begin kind
00:08:13 00:08:18 of getting a stash of money to use to
00:08:15 00:08:20 reinvest into your business before you
00:08:18 00:08:22 actually move on and begin using ads or
00:08:20 00:08:24 other things like that now earlier i
00:08:22 00:08:26 toked about how i was going to give you
00:08:24 00:08:28 a perfect budget for someone that is
00:08:26 00:08:29 going to want to get started with print
00:08:28 00:08:31 on demand and maybe has a little bit of
00:08:29 00:08:33 money to invest which i will do in a few
00:08:31 00:08:35 minutes i want to first tok about
00:08:33 00:08:38 something that could really derail your
00:08:35 00:08:39 entire plan with this whole strategy
00:08:38 00:08:42 that i walked you through what i'm
00:08:39 00:08:43 toking about is your designs when you
00:08:42 00:08:46 are creating a print-on-demand store one
00:08:43 00:08:48 of the most important parts is your
00:08:46 00:08:50 design and if you are someone that is
00:08:48 00:08:52 not a graphic designer you're likely
00:08:50 00:08:54 going to struggle with this if you had a
00:08:52 00:08:57 little bit of cash you would be able to
00:08:54 00:08:58 hire someone on fiverr or upwork for a
00:08:57 00:09:00 pretty small fee in order to actually
00:08:58 00:09:02 make you a design that someone might
00:09:00 00:09:04 actually want to buy now in the intro of
00:09:02 00:09:07 this video i toked about how there are
00:09:04 00:09:09 some free design options out there this
00:09:07 00:09:11 is uh inside of the subliminator print
00:09:09 00:09:13 on demand app this is a shopify app
00:09:11 00:09:15 though so you would actually have to be
00:09:13 00:09:18 using shopify to have access to this but
00:09:15 00:09:19 they have tons of free designs in here
00:09:18 00:09:21 that you literally just click publish
00:09:19 00:09:23 and it goes right to your store there
00:09:21 00:09:25 are pages and pages and pages of these
00:09:23 00:09:26 it goes on and on and on you can see on
00:09:25 00:09:29 the bottom here that it goes all the way
00:09:26 00:09:31 to nine pages of free designs you can
00:09:29 00:09:33 also check inside of the printify app
00:09:31 00:09:36 which again is another shopify print on
00:09:33 00:09:37 demand company they have free designs as
00:09:36 00:09:39 well essentially what i'm saying is if
00:09:37 00:09:41 you want to start print on demand for
00:09:39 00:09:43 free and not invest anything you're
00:09:41 00:09:44 likely going to have a tough time with
00:09:43 00:09:46 designs if you are someone that is not a
00:09:44 00:09:47 graphic designer you would be much
00:09:46 00:09:49 better off spending a little bit of
00:09:47 00:09:51 money on some good designs and then
00:09:49 00:09:53 using some of the free marketing methods
00:09:51 00:09:55 that i toked about today in this video
00:09:53 00:09:57 all right so what is the recommended
00:09:55 00:10:00 budget to actually start a print on
00:09:57 00:10:02 demand store in the year 2022 and beyond
00:10:00 00:10:04 for me i'm someone that really likes
00:10:02 00:10:05 shopify because you're building your own
00:10:04 00:10:08 store with the free method that we
00:10:05 00:10:09 toked about today that is on redbubble
00:10:08 00:10:11 that is building their brand you're
00:10:09 00:10:13 selling under their logo and not your
00:10:11 00:10:16 own you don't actually own the store
00:10:13 00:10:17 that you're building with shopify you
00:10:16 00:10:19 own it you're building your brand you
00:10:17 00:10:21 own your traffic you can collect the
00:10:19 00:10:23 email addresses you can communicate with
00:10:21 00:10:25 your customers it is the best all-in-one
00:10:23 00:10:27 platform for print on demand in my
00:10:25 00:10:29 opinion and if you do want to start
00:10:27 00:10:31 shopify check out the links down in the
00:10:29 00:10:33 description i do have a free
00:10:31 00:10:35 step-by-step course to show you how to
00:10:33 00:10:37 actually start your store and get
00:10:35 00:10:39 started with creating products literally
00:10:37 00:10:42 today if you start following it shopify
00:10:39 00:10:44 is going to cost you 29 so in our budget
00:10:42 00:10:46 we're gonna have some money for that
00:10:44 00:10:48 secondly i would recommend you to hire a
00:10:46 00:10:50 designer if you are not a designer
00:10:48 00:10:52 yourself i would recommend if you're
00:10:50 00:10:54 starting a shopify store to have at
00:10:52 00:10:56 least four designs on the store when you
00:10:54 00:10:59 launch on average you'll likely pay
00:10:56 00:11:01 around 25 per design so we'll say we
00:10:59 00:11:03 have about a hundred dollars in designs
00:11:01 00:11:06 here on our beginner budget what i would
00:11:03 00:11:08 also do is go and try and find an
00:11:06 00:11:10 instagram influencer someone in your
00:11:08 00:11:11 niche with a large following on
00:11:10 00:11:13 instagram that you could contact and get
00:11:11 00:11:16 them to actually promote your products
00:11:13 00:11:18 for you you could just simply pay them
00:11:16 00:11:20 or you could send them a free sample and
00:11:18 00:11:22 get them to post a photo with the
00:11:20 00:11:24 product with a link back to your shop
00:11:22 00:11:25 whether you pay them or not or if you
00:11:24 00:11:28 just send them a sample we're likely
00:11:25 00:11:30 toking about 50 bucks here to send them
00:11:28 00:11:33 a sample or to pay them or both so we're
00:11:30 00:11:35 going to add 50 into our beginner budget
00:11:33 00:11:37 as well next up is paid marketing which
00:11:35 00:11:39 sounds scary i'm sure if you're someone
00:11:37 00:11:41 that hasn't really ran an instagram ad
00:11:39 00:11:43 or a facebook ad in the past but i would
00:11:41 00:11:45 recommend you to try and spend about 100
00:11:43 00:11:46 bucks and get your feet wet and try to
00:11:45 00:11:48 promote your products if you know what
00:11:46 00:11:49 you're doing and you have good products
00:11:48 00:11:51 you can start to make some sales with
00:11:49 00:11:53 just 100 bucks an ad spend and that
00:11:51 00:11:56 would eventually allow you to scale up
00:11:53 00:11:58 and invest more into your business so
00:11:56 00:12:00 recap here we're toking 29 for shopify
00:11:58 00:12:02 we're toking 100 bucks to get four
00:12:00 00:12:04 custom designs made toking maybe fifty
00:12:02 00:12:07 dollars for an influencer and then
00:12:04 00:12:09 another one hundred dollars for your
00:12:07 00:12:10 actual paid ads that you're going to be
00:12:09 00:12:12 running to promote your first few
00:12:10 00:12:16 designs if you add that all up we are
00:12:12 00:12:18 under 300 to start your print on demand
00:12:16 00:12:20 business which is enough to start one
00:12:18 00:12:21 thing i think is really important to
00:12:20 00:12:24 understand here is that you're just
00:12:21 00:12:26 starting your business with this amount
00:12:24 00:12:28 this amount is not necessarily going to
00:12:26 00:12:30 be the only amount that you ever invest
00:12:28 00:12:32 in your store of course if you build an
00:12:30 00:12:34 awesome looking store and your designs
00:12:32 00:12:35 are awesome and people want to buy them
00:12:34 00:12:37 and you invest this money into it you're
00:12:35 00:12:39 going to make sales and you're not going
00:12:37 00:12:42 to have to reinvest more into it in the
00:12:39 00:12:43 future now on the flip side maybe you
00:12:42 00:12:45 don't create a good store maybe you
00:12:43 00:12:47 don't make good designs and maybe your
00:12:45 00:12:49 influencer is no good or maybe the ads
00:12:47 00:12:51 that you've ran are no good either that
00:12:49 00:12:53 means you essentially spent all that
00:12:51 00:12:55 money and didn't make any sales so the
00:12:53 00:12:57 key here is make good products make a
00:12:55 00:12:58 good store find a good influencer and
00:12:57 00:13:00 know what you're doing a little bit
00:12:58 00:13:02 before you start with facebook ads
00:13:00 00:13:03 because overall if you don't have good
00:13:02 00:13:05 products or a good store then nothing is
00:13:03 00:13:06 going to work and that applies too if
00:13:05 00:13:08 you're doing this for free you still
00:13:06 00:13:09 need a good store and you still need
00:13:08 00:13:11 good designs so let me know what you
00:13:09 00:13:13 think down in the comments about what
00:13:11 00:13:15 your overall sense is in terms of how
00:13:13 00:13:17 successful can you actually be with
00:13:15 00:13:19 print on demand if you are starting for
00:13:17 00:13:21 free in my opinion it's going to be
00:13:19 00:13:23 tough if you are someone who is a
00:13:21 00:13:25 designer and knows how to use various
00:13:23 00:13:26 graphic design software then you're
00:13:25 00:13:27 going to have a big advantage because
00:13:26 00:13:29 you can make your own designs and you
00:13:27 00:13:31 can basically just create unlimited
00:13:29 00:13:32 things that have the potential to sell
00:13:31 00:13:34 but if you're someone that's jumping
00:13:32 00:13:36 into print on demand you have no money
00:13:34 00:13:38 and you don't know how to make designs
00:13:36 00:13:40 you're likely gonna have a long road
00:13:38 00:13:41 ahead of you because you're not gonna be
00:13:40 00:13:43 able to create anything yourself that is
00:13:41 00:13:44 actually going to sell so let me know
00:13:43 00:13:46 down in the comments what you guys think
00:13:44 00:13:49 thank you for watching and i will see
00:13:46 00:13:49 you in the next video

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