Answering Your Print On Demand Business Questions Learn tips & tricks to grow and increase sales
In this video I'm answering your questions about print on demand let's go thanks for joining me on this video my name is Juna with Detour Shirts the channel all about helping you design and sell t-shirts online. If that's something you'd like to do don't forget to hit that subscribe button well i think i got a control over the camera for this video got some good light today uh hope everything works out today i'm gonna answer your questions for print on demand so i made a post on instagram recently where i asked you to ask me questions that i could answer on a video and this is it this is the video i'm not going to be able to answer all the questions that were submitted but i picked those that i think i could answer and that i think would help a lot of people so let's get into those questions you're going to want to stay till the end to hear all the questions and answers and of course another edition of trend credits so let's get started the first question is this what do you think about zazzle and spreadshirt so the best way to answer what i think about zazzo and spreadshirt is to look at zazzle and spreadshirt first all right so here we are on the internet on the homepage of zazzle and i have uh spreadshirt here let's talk about zazzle first to answer the question what do i think about zazzle and spreadshirt overall i think they're great uh they're great options for print on demand i wouldn't put them in my top five but i would probably put them in my top ten um and here's the reason why zazzle doesn't work for me particularly um you can see here when you go on their home page you can see kind of the products that they're pushing so for example zazzle look on here try and look for how many times you see a t-shirt and that's basically what i do i do a lot of t-shirt stuff but you can see here they're mostly pushing weddings baby shower invitations gifts clothing is here but clothing is everything it's not like the main thing and there's lots of different things in clothing right so t-shirts um sweatshirts and all that kind of stuff and you can see here even on their continue thing they have invitations and bowls and things like that so that's really what zazzle is kind of pushing so just be aware of that when you're on zazzle that's probably what they're going to be pushing if you're good at designing and want to design things other products besides t-shirts zazzle could be a good place but you can see business cards hand sanitizers tote bags they have a ton of products again here date mark the date invitations right so they have a lot more things than just t-shirts which is fine uh if you want to do that again so masks aprons right uh date cards those kinds of things so you can see here t-shirts is not like their highest selling thing so i don't get a lot of sales on zazzle for t-shirts and the next thing here is spreadshirt spreadshirt the names shirt you think they would do a lot more shirts and they do you can see uh best sellers stickers they're trying to promote that because it's new and you can see here t-shirts is one of their their main thing is on the site too the first thing is shirt but they also do stickers which they're trying to push more shirts here than zazzle does right and their products are really good i bought a spreadshirt one before and it prints out really well so i think these are great like any other pod shop though you're gonna have to keep adding more and more products more and more designs to more and more products so that you can get more sales in the marketplace it's simple as that and i don't upload enough to these two print-on-demand sites because i concentrate more on the ones that are making me more money which is merch by amazon redbubble t public those ones but these these are great i think some people do really well here and of course if if they're catering to the audience that is there they'll probably make a lot more sales all right so for the next question thanks for these questions by the way do you use any pre-made graphic if yes from where most of the time i don't do any pre-made graphics a lot of times i would say 95 99 of the time i draw my own stuff because i i'm a illustrator artist graphic designer that's what i did for a long time so the few times that i have used a graphic have been for videos or trying to show other people how to use it and there's three places that i've shown already on my videos and i'll show them right here right now so if you watched all my videos on youtube and if you did awesome thanks a lot but you might have seen some of these places um so here is creative market i've used that for a video on how to use graphics from creative market uh just search in here for what you're looking for i believe i did a leprechaun st patrick's day one so st patrick's day clip art is what you can do right here and then i think in the video i picked one of these things and made a t-shirt out of it and that's what you can do make sure to pick the right one it's not for personal use it's for commercial use uh the other thing is merchant former if i've shown this as well if you signed up for merchant former and they're having a great sale by the way but uh you can go here merch and former graphics and get free graphics i mean free for the subscription right so as part of the whole deal when you're subscribed you get these and you can see it goes all the way back you get all of these right so they started this back in november 2019 and so when you sign up you get all of these and they add a new one each month each month so in march we're going to get a march 2021 soon and you'll you'll get access to those too and lastly place it not only do i use it for mock-ups but i showed a way that you can design t-shirts on here and you can see designs t-shirt designs so it took a little while to load but you can see here lots of designs that you could use as part of signing up for a place that you can use these on t-shirts i wouldn't use this exact one i would use it as a guide to kind of create a new one because i mean how many people will sign up to place it and they can just download this and make it into a t-shirt so make try and use this to as a starting point to make yours just a little different than what's shown on right here so but those are three places this isn't an exhaustive list by any means there's lots of different places online but these are the three that i showed uh in videos if you look at some of my videos and go through it all right time for another question let's see this question tier 10 any advice please so the question is about tier 10 on merch by amazon that's the first tier you start off with when you're accepted to merch by amazon and that's probably the hardest tier to be on because you only have 10 uploads that you can start with i have a merch by amazon four-part series tutorial on my channel if you want to look at that for all the tips but basically it boils down to this you want to upload your best designs for things that are going to sell because you only have 10 slots i would suggest trying to go after trends that seems to be the easiest way to get sales so my suggestion would be to make your best designs for trends and your designs have to be better than what's out there already so that people will pick yours and price yours really low only do it on standard shirts only do it on dark shirts 13.99 and see what happens if it doesn't sell in three weeks take it down and put something else that people want to buy amazon is the best place to get data so look at bsrs look at what's trending look at the results give yourself the best chance to make a sale don't just put up any designs and hope for a sale use the data so that you can have the best chance of getting a sale all right time for another question this question is society6 is better than redbubble question mark question mark question mark question mark so in order to give the answer for that one let's take a look at society6 so here we are on the society6 website this is also a print on demand site there's a lot of them out there if i were to make my top 10 i think society6 might make my top 10. it's pretty good but for me for t-shirts it's probably not the best you can see here like we've shown all the rest what they're pushing or what they're saying on their front page really tells a lot about the company and you can see here wall art home decor furniture bed and bath tabletop office tech apparel t-shirts is buried inside of apparel and bags right outdoor and lifestyle star wars collection so is it better than redbubble for me it's not redbubble is better than society6 but that's for me personally but if you do wall art or home decor or furniture or bed and bath you probably like society6 better so it all depends on your art style and what you what you do but for t-shirts i think it's probably not as good but you can see here if you do this kinds of stuff uh this is your art style then maybe yeah um you can see here a lot of good artists here as well patterns and you can see uh the things that they're pushing are posters mugs tapestries shower curtains and t-shirts very last so lots of different things here some really cool stuff that you don't see anywhere else i don't think i've seen a apple watch band printed before that's that's kind of neat they do covers as well what is this a yoga mat haven't seen that in a lot of places so they have some really cool products right acrylic tray things like that so i would say take a look if you want to do something other than t-shirts and want to look at some put your designs on other things that normally aren't in print on demand spaces then yeah give society6 a look it's a great place it's free as well so i i do sell some t-shirts here but it's not a main thing for them and it's not a main thing for me for selling t-shirts here as well but it's nice to have another print on demand site so that is society6 to answer the question again uh better than redbubble for me no but for other people maybe yes all right so let's keep it going here's another question how do you overcome creative block wow that's a great question i've heard this one a lot and so every artist out there every creative uh so writers as well as photographers i'm sure will have a creative block that means it's times where you don't know what to create you just are drawing a blank and this happens to all of us and the there's a couple of things that i do when i have creative block so the first thing that i do if i can't think of anything to draw or anything to design i usually go to the internet i like to go to my favorite t-shirt sites and that would be busted tees snorketees i also like to go to shertoyd they have a lot of different designs from other artists i'm there to look at trends to see maybe spark some ideas brainstorm pinterest is also a good place to do that there's lots of designs out there lots of ideas so that's one way for me to get over creative block is just to flood my brain with lots of different ideas out there so the other thing that i do to help with creative block is if i can't think of anything to do i actually do something else so i do the opposite so there's lots of other things in the print-on-demand business that that you can do besides uh drawing uh you can work on your uploading you can work on looking for seo words keywords you can do research on uh what things are trending so i just do some of those things in the meantime until my creative juices start going again so that's what i do when i have creative block i do one of two things i either go looking for more creative stuff to help my brain start thinking of creative things or i turn it off and actually do something that's non-creative until i feel more creative again so hopefully that was helpful for you those are the two things that i do that help me when i have creative block all right these are really fun hopefully these are helpful for you here's another question that i got how long did it take you to make sales i feel like dying and failing help please and this crying face wow um yeah i know in the beginning it feels like it takes a long time before you make a lot of sales and it took me a while before i got a lot of sales on merch by amazon as well you may have seen some of my other videos it actually took me about three months before i got out of tier 10 and so i i feel you it's it takes a long time it feels like it's forever and you just want to go you have lots of aspirations of of being in the top tiers and making lots of money so how long did it take me to get sales i actually got a sale in the first two or three weeks but that was my first sale but i needed 10 to get out of merch by amazon and so it took me almost three months to get those tent to get out on amazon if your design doesn't sell in three weeks on merch by amazon take it down and figure out why it didn't sell and put something else up that will have the best chance of selling you always want to give yourself the best chance of making a sale and that's by making a difference stand out and have something that people are looking for and want to buy hopefully that helps all right let's do another question here's a question how to organize your designs to not get lost between them so one thing i like to do is i like to just name my designs what they are something that i would call them usually my designs have words on them so i would type that so let's say i did a design with that sticker back there oh well right there i would title my design oh well and that would be it and so if there was another oh well i would name it oh well one ol2 and so when i look for those designs those are the only designs that are going to pop up right oh well oh well one or l2 and and so on if it's a color i would say oh well blue or well green those kinds of things that's kind of to help me see what the differences are if there are no words i kind of describe it so if there was a like you can see right here there's a cholula bottle i would write that chalula bottle or a mask right here this one i would say luchador mask blue and so i would just describe what it is if there's no words on there dumps fire 2020 right kawaii that kind of thing i just label it what i what i think i know that's not the probably the best way but i just do all that i put all of those in a folder uh in my finished folder and i can search on in that folder for all the things that i've made and it works out for me it hasn't hurt me at all whenever i need to look for a design i just type what i what i think it is and i'm writing it in the way that i think so probably not the best organized way to do it i'm sure there's lots of you that organize it a lot different but that's what works for me and it's been working since 2005 so no need to change it now all right that was fun so next question what is your price strategy on merch so my price strategy on merch is pretty simple i try to get less than a dollar for each product at first so for example my standard shirts right now are priced at 13.99 every time i upload them
and so when i get a sale after a sale on my 13.99 standard shirt i upped the price to 17.99 if i get a sale there i up it to 18.99 and usually stays right there which gives me above a 4.50 profit sometimes i mark it up to 19.99 but it's usually 18 or 19.99 is where i stand for standard shirts and the rest of the products follow the same kind of plan i mark it low for the first sale bump it up to a kind of a 350-ish profit for the next sale and then up to a 450 yes profit on the next sale and and continuing sales after that so i try to make sure that all my products on merch by amazon are bringing in 450 or more profit except for the pop sockets or the phone cases those are priced a lot lower so i make sure that at least i get 350 from those and that seems to work well for me and that's just for me i i've heard other people make sure that they get five dollars worth or some people mark really low but that's the strategy i'm working with right now i try to get a sale right off the bat and i might change it in the future but that's what i'm doing right now all right so here is another question from you guys this one says do we need to care about fonts if they are for personal use or commercial or our shirt yes you do have to worry about fonts they should be for commercial use if you're buying fonts off the internet make sure you're buying those for commercial use that's what we're doing we're selling t-shirts online so that's commercial use personal use is just for you to use and make things at home just for you and your family and maybe friends but if you're selling something and making a profit from it that's commercial use so there are some free fonts for commercial use so make sure you you look for that but overall if you're buying fonts uh two you need to look at what it is and if it's for commercial use do not use things for personal use for print-on-demand sites it's it's pretty simple so hopefully that answers your question all right so here's the last question i have today hopefully this video wasn't too long for you lots of good questions i'm sorry i couldn't get to all of them but here's the last one how to find trends niches for mba so there's lots of different ways uh that you can find trends for amazon there's lots of different apps so i'm not going to tell you all the different ways i'm going to tell you the three ways that i use or three of the ways that i use but of course this isn't an exhaustive list of ways to find trends on merch by amazon there's lots of different apps that will tell you and give you data i'm going to show you the three ways that i do it all right so here we're on the internet i'm going to show you the three ways that i do it so two of them are free one isn't free so let's do the free ones first so basically i've shown these on youtube before but here i'm going to show you the quick version so amazon here just type in a niche so let's say since mother's day is coming up mother's day shirts right so this is the big niche so you can see over 50 000 results that's too big you never want to just do happy mother's day on there i mean you could but it's that's going to be hard so you can see here this one says mom's favorite getting a low bsr i'm gonna do mom's favorite and you can see it's not pulling up anything when i'm searching so that's probably not a good sign that people are searching for it so i want to look for things that people are searching for up here let's say mom life look that's pulling up so that's a good indication that people are actually looking for mom life shirts and look mom life got me feeling like hey hey okay that's that's a good one we could look at that or mom life no days off so amazon is actually telling you what people are searching for that so that's one way uh no days off 200 results very low let's look if there are some competition here so no days off it doesn't say really say mom's life no days off but getting kind of low busy sorry i'm like to look for something under 500 000 so no this is a no we're not going to find it the first time but that's that's kind of what you do just go in here type in you know start looking as you as you search for some of those big niches and niche down you can do mom life um what was that got me feeling like hey hey i'm i'm guessing this is the bird that's why i didn't so heihei is the chicken from moana you can't use that chicken so that's why i didn't look that up but there may be some ideas here that you know you could do maybe it's uh i'm in charge here and do something like that so that's one way to find trends it's a long way to do it but if you got the time and you got ds amazon quickview which is free by the way you can see the bsrs that's one way to do it another way that i like to do it is to use this merch research and if you do us and t-shirt you can do other things here um but i'm going to do just usn t-shirt and this is just merch.com slash merch dash amazon listings this is free by the way you don't have to have merchant former to do this and you can just hit search and now it's just searching all the merch by amazon shirts you notice none of these are the other shirts you can see all the shirts kind of look the same layout because these are merch shirts now and you can search by feature this is going to show you what's the most popular merch by amazon shirt but what i like to do is go here and look at the newest arrivals and sometimes you can get a good idea of the newest arrivals because some people know what the trends are and are putting those as their newest arrival and i like to look at the low bsrs here so let's say this is one i eat meat but i identify as a vegan so i'm gonna type that in let's see if it pulls up i eat meat no oh i eat meat shirt but what did we see before that i eat glitter for breakfast that's kind of cool right so that's how you do it you just kind of type it in here get some ideas look for low bsrs and so on so i didn't find any in those quick three minutes there but you could keep going until you find those things it has to show up here it has to have low results and it has to have low bsrs and that's what i look for for trends low results doesn't necessarily say it's a trend you could have a trend that has high results but low results are just for competition so i want to look for low competition something that's showing up something that people want to look for and buy and low bsrs means it's selling right so this is telling popularity competition results and people want to buy it so last thing that i'm going to show you is through merch informer so if you i've shown this before it works really well you go to keyword research then keyword cloud and do a search and then just look down here you look at some of these words and stuff and you can find usually find something really good here either this one or or the trending phrases too they're both kind of the same so i'm gonna look at trending phrases here so you can see here all these uh words and stuff so all you have to do is just click on one of these so let's say we did mother's day already let's do one of these autism awareness let's just do that and you're going to see all the t-shirts and gives you some ideas so in april we wear blue that could be one there's another april we wear blue peace love i wear blue for my son autism mom so then go back into merch by amazon after finding these and do that same thing again type in the search and see if these are are trending if it's pulling up and and you can use these again and again right so um let's see uh don't do disney that's just pulling up um maybe it's a girl who loves just a girl who loves sketching an anime anime and ramen uh loves cats right so look for these you can see this shirt is selling 42 designs but it may just be for that shirt so that's why i go back on amazon and see if other shirts like this are selling then that means that's a trend if you only see one shirt that's selling like that that could be ads that could be something else that could just be somebody that really knows the audience and it can drive traffic to it if you see a whole bunch of just a girl who loves cats maybe you see 10 of them and they all have low bsrs then that means that's a trend that people are buying and looking for those things and buying those things okay so that's how i do it these are the three that i use for finding trends all right so that's all the questions i had for this video thanks so much for staying all the way to the end and hopefully all these questions were helpful for you i had fun answering them let me know in the comments if you like this kind of video if you want me to answer more of your questions i'm sure there's lots more questions out there i just wanted a way to i could give back and answer as many questions as i could in one video i know a lot of times my video is kind of one centric one just answering one thing so i wanted a video where i can answer multiple things and especially from all of you who have been supporting me this long time uh i did it on instagram i might do it again on some other platform but instagram has been just really good for me in the past few years and i know a lot of you have come in from instagram uh got a huge following there and a huge following on youtube because of it i'm sure so thanks so much for your questions and for your support and your reward for this video for staying till the end is another edition of trend credits Thanks for staying to the end for the trend credits here is your trend, "Dear math grow up and solve your own problems". So you can see here, first of all just like I said in the video when you type in here you can see it is auto completing there's both a women's t-shirt and just the one that I'm showing right here in fact let's click on that so you can see it's the same one um next results um 500 results which isn't the greatest but it's pretty good it's under a thousand I like to have something above 200 and around two to five hundred this is just a little over than i'd like but it's still good and then looking at bsrs you can see some of them are really low sub five hundred thousand so there it is there it is again um there's some there's some other ones so and some higher ones so the reason i think these are trending right now is because it's recently been pi day so you can see pi right here 3.14 right um
math uh you can see here on Merch Informer it's getting an A. Lots of people selling these you can see 51 sales on that one and and so on so math humor math puns those kinds of things are going to do really well right now and if you don't have Merch Informer I have a link in the description for Merch Informer they're having a big big sale right now so probably one of the bigger ones of the year so if you don't have it now is the time to get it again here is your trend dear math grow up and solve your own problems a lot of text on this one but i would suggest adding a little bit of graphics you can see how these have some graphics and not just text and they do pretty well so that is your trend for today thanks so much for watching don't forget to like and subscribe if you like this video and it gave you some value make sure to give it a thumbs up and if you're not subscribed already hit that subscribe button i have one right here in the bottom right corner you can do that right now if you want to thanks so much for watching again and as always guys keep creating and keep learning i'll see you on the next one bye
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