Print on Demand One Week Results | $0 - $100k Challenge EP.1
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- This is my first week results from my $0 - $100k dropshipping challenge. I'm starting with Etsy and Printify print-on-demand dropshipping instead of traditional AliExpress + Shopify. I think it's easier to start on Etsy and it's cheaper, so that's the method I'm using. Let me know if you have questions!
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“Do one thing every day that scares you.” -Anonymous
Scare one thing you do every day
I ain't playing with cockroaches though! that's where I draw the line.
Kanye said that shiz
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I just want to say thank you for your channel. It's highly informative, especially for someone like me just starting out. I know, with the knowledge you're freely sharing, and my own hard work, I will be successful.
Hey, thanks for watching! You'll absolutely get there!! 😁
Hi Alek, thanks for the insight and whole series. It's great to see the progress and things as they grow rather than the same ol' "Here are N things I learnt from (theoretically or supposed to be) experience in blablabla"
Keep it up, love the content.
I am actually also looking in creating a shop on Etsy and your content was super valuable
Wow thanks! I'm glad it's useful.
Love that you’re doing this! I want to start my own channel and do a $100k challenge too!
That's great to hear! Link the first video when you get started!
Sara from the RUclips channel did a side-by-side comparison with Printful and Monster Digital which can be found on Printify. Monster Digital had higher quality prints over Printful. Brighter, wider spectrum of colors that pop a bit more, and sharper lines. I've ordered samples from Printful, Monster Digital, and CustomCat. I like Monster Digital for that ink that dyes the garment, and I like CustomCat if I want that plastic texture some prints have. CustomCat definitely wins for brighter, more vivid colors that seem to pop, sharper edges, and better fades. I use Monster Digital and Customcat depending on what style of shirt I'm going for.
Hmm that's great info! I also like the cost of Monster Digital 😅 Only about $13 after shipping.
Monster Digital prints designs very different sizes for different sized shirts and sweatshirts. Nightmare.
Very good video! Thanks for the good quality content!
Thank you!!
Lets go man, rooting for you!
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Fantastic, can't wait to see the challenge unfold!
Here i am - i am excited to follow ur journey - lets gooo dude
Let's goooooo!
A highly detailed step by step video requested. Hope it will be considered.
Any suggestions for highlights to include that I didn't cover that well in this video? I'll add this to my upcoming videos that aren't progress updates
@@alekSheffy no idea on how to include highlights !! That you might know best.
@@alekSheffy Can you talk more about your other shop and what you think led to its success? And how many listings you aim to have in your shop? As well as other strategies to grow a store? Thank you. :)
Thanks for making these videos Alek! I am about to start my own shop and hope for the best...
Of course! You got this!!!!
How is it going
@@immortalroshan Not well, only because I am being hella lazy and haven't been on my shop for 3 weeks. Completely my fault though lol.
Ugh, I'm inspired to start this up - and my Etsy account was "permanently" suspended as well. I set aside some precious time (I have 3 kids and a full-time job!) to get my shop set up, only to find out it was suspended, so needless to say, I was super frustrated. Can't believe that after waiting a week, you still didn't find out what you really had done wrong to cause it!
did u file an appeal? any updates?
Ok lets go , im now along for the ride just starting a few weeks late
Let's goooo!
I use Printful because I know the quality will not change. It's not just about the shirt, you have to look at the print as well. Beginners should not pay the Printful or Printify subscription until they're sales cover it each month. When I was at 30 sales a month I still don't pay for Printful.
Best teacher in world 🌍 love from Pakistan 💞
i had to learn the hard way with printful. they said i was allowed to sell my own products without a resellers license. i had a lot of upcoming orders and without any warning at all. they put the orders on hold for 30 days unless i spend money on a resellers license
That's super strange, are you in a state where that's mandatory? I haven't heard of that with Printify as long as you're collecting tax some way.
In new york, we have to collect taxes. but shopify and printful both said it is not required to have a resellers permit. so idk. my friend who does POD never had those issues he’s also in NY. and they never held his products from being fulfilled. it’s his own designs as well. mine are my own as well. two differnt stores selling similar designs yet one is allowed to sell and one isn’t. everything is different as well so you couldn’t even tell that we were selling similar designs. Same niche. Different personal designs.
Hope you do well. Following along to see the journey
♥
hi Alek great video the second video in the playlist need to be the first one, can you do a video on how you process orders when you get them from Etsy to Printify? and if you have custom photo product its better to work with printify or Gelato?
Hey, thanks for the comment! I will be sure to go into detail about how I fulfill orders soon!
I always use Printify, their print quality is usually great if you're using a good pint provider, and keeping everything in one place just makes it easy!
@@alekSheffy thanks men
Bro I subscribed you great content 👍
Thank you my man 🙏
Cool video I’m starting my shop now too!
Thanks! You can do it!
I'm waiting for my ipad to get here so I can start designing
I used wall-e-2 to make the designs and just made my store. i rlly hope that they sell.
Did you have any luck? :)
I’m trying to do this but I am under 18 and Etsy requires id for you to sell. Does anyone have some tips?
use parents id, of course ask permission or they can get unexpected taxes
Ask your parents 🫡
So motivating.
love u
I am with you... Lets go!!!
🙏
Great video!
Thanks!
Wonderful video. The information and guidelines you provide is super helpful. Subbed and liked the video.
A question about mockups though. If I were to use a mockup t-shirt how is it supposed to reflect the actual product which will be a POD from another company? Again, thank you for helping the community.
Week 2?
ITS COMING 🫡
You got this 👍🏻
Thanks Jacob! Great videos by the way! Valuable info
Question - if you just go in Etsy and duplicate the listing and change the pics/tags/name and stuff, won't that duplicated listing not be linked in Printify to whatever new product you listed? I am trying to do some POD shirts/hoodies/mugs and stuff, but not custom items, just all premade so it's passive income. Hoping you see this!!!
Would love to start an Etsy challenge too but unfortunately I can't create an Etsy store as Etsy is not available for my country 🥺
What country??
Why are so many people saying their etsy account was suspended, has me worried… what should we do to avoid this?? 😅
i dont get what mock ups exactly are, and why do i need to buy more than one of them? can i make my own?
How do you avoid people refunding wearable items when they chose the wrong size and want to blame the seller? We have all done this
You can either offer a replacement and eat the cost (this keeps you from getting bad reviews), or offer them a replacement shirt for JUST the product + shipping costs that you pay Printify.
I just noticed something. What's the difference if the products are uploaded to Printify first, then published to Etsy? In your example here, it seems that a mock will go Published in Etsy. If that's the case, how are orders processed? It took me a long time to figure how to set up an account on Printify and then link/publish to Etsy and had not noticed this before.
As always, thank you so much for the inspiration.
I'm really curious about this as well.
How do you have so much traffic coming in from "direct & other traffic" when you check your stats? Isn't that from posting a link somewhere?
hi alek, thanks for each video i just want to ask if i I live in Palestine and I want to set up my own shop on etsy, but the target group will be residents of the US and Canada. Is this possible?
Sorry. You skipped over how to buy the mock ups. I’ve been searching but can’t seem to find it.
here following you...
MUCH LOVE 🙏
Alek, do you have any video about business accounting, like taxes on sales and things like that?
Cool vid! Can you remind us why you had to buy a mockup vs uploading your own or even using a mockup provided by printful or printify?
The default ones hardly sell - using custom ones help me compete better
Golden keep it up!
Thank you!! 🙏
I haven't researched allot yet, but what about taxes, do we need a tax id# to start a shop..
Mate try placeit for mock-ups
An outstanding idea 🫡
I dont understand the part that you get suspended and still make sale.
How do you have all this experience with different customer service and such professional looking videos on the topic if you’re just starting out? 🤔
I'm starting off this store to share the process!! I've done POD before 😁
One more question - is it necessary to list an item right away when opening your Etsy shop? Or another way to phrase it... what are the advantages of doing so? Thanks Alek!
Hello, you are talking about 100k, if i can reach just 100$ i'll more then proud of my work hhhhhh, i started like 3 month ago but i gived up, and now i am starting again, i am gonna follow your path and see what it become, thank you for all your videos.
Hi Alek, when you say you were doing custom products, do you mean the customer would message you an image/text/font etc and then you would manually print it on the product for them or did you just create your own designs and sell them? P.S. this is one of the first, actually real and informative videos I've seen on etsy selling, so we all thank you for that! :D
and how did you manage to do custom products with printify if you did do custom products, because there is no feature to do so?
So I list a product on Etsy that basically says "Custom T-Shirt" etc. From there a customer can say "I want the shirt to say >Happy Birthday
@@alekSheffy Ah I see. Thank you very much!
@@alekSheffy Hi Alek, what do you do if the customer doesn't answer your request for approval? I've waited 24 hours and the customer didn't reply. Should I move it to production anyway? I wouldn't want to delay it any further. Thanks in advance.
So, do you do the entire listing IN Etsy, and then when you get an order, manually order it through Printify? Because I set up the Printify account (with your affiliate link!) and they have the option to build the listing and export it back Etsy? I'm a little unclear on that part. Would that streamline the sale to production process? Thakns dude. You've inspired the hell out of me.
For custom orders yes, the order will show up in the "Other Orders" section. If you publish a product from Printify, it'll appear in your "orders" tab and you'll just click submit
Hi, Alek. Do you need an LLC for the store? Or what is the right way to sign up correctly on Etsy?
Did you ever get an answer or is this covered in the next video? I'm new to Alek and his YT channel, been looking at a few videos and so far no one is talking about the business-side of the house (i.e. individual vs business entity) unless this is covered in a future video. Thanks!
You mentioned that your first buyer bought because your product was on sale. How early into starting would you recommend running a sale and how often?
It seems your first video is for 7 months ago but in hihr your latest video, you mentioned you are doing POD for a number of years
Hiw does the country that i select of etsy affects my sales? Im from italy should i chiese italy or a country where the site is more active
How do you deal with customised packaging and invoicing ? Printful offers that option but I cannot find it in the Printify infrastructure
Hi Alek! Can you do a setup video? What do you use to film these vids.
I just use OBS and my Canon camera 😄
I don't quite understand. You made 20 something dollars in profit minus all those fees but the item in the video that sold, sold for 16 dollars. What am I missing?
Printify manufacturing, packaging and shipping cost
Total Revenue of over $30 from the sale ( don't remember the exact numbers ), minus fees, mockups, and product cost !
Spot on
Waiting for more content
MORE CONTENT ON THE WAY
I'm afraid to do the mock up and someone steals my design.
Hi ! Just wanted to know that what if customer returns the product? Does printify store that product for few days in their warehouses and wait for other customers to buy the same product or it completely destroys the product and charge us for that particular product?
Thank you for the information , i have question please do you use etsy advertising or no and thanks.
I don't!
HI Alek, thanks for the content, I have just a simple question, what is your advise to open an Etsy store as a company or as a person any pro-s and con-s? Thanks for the answer
I've started my journey. Thank you for your insight and journey. I have a question though. I'm confused how I can be profitable if I have to pay for the sale of the item upfront on Etsy before it goes to Printify?
I'm not sure if it was this video but did you say you had a link for Etsy to get 80 free listings?
what about other print on demand platform such as Redbubble, teespring, merch? Have you tried them or do think Etsy is the best?
Etsy is the best imo because you have the opportunity to "market" differently than on RedBubble or wherever else. You can make great listings and rank really well in SEO. I haven't seen many 7 figure RedBubble or Teespring shops
QQ, how do you manage all of your sales data profits or losses if any? Do you have to log into all of the different platforms to see your earnings and then place them in a spreadsheet?
Nobby question:
How do you fill the material section of the product? Or packing size? Since you don’t do it and printify do the work for you
If you're posting the product from Printify, it'll automatically fill out everything that's required for you. You shouldn't have to worry about those sections :)
@@alekSheffy thank you Alex 😁
Did you ever get a reason why your account was suspended? This happened to me, and as a first time seller, it completely screwed me up. Knocked the wind out of my sails... I've been waiting for a dang week to get started, and I'm so upset.
hi nice video :) one question how i can set price for my product so i have margin profit ? discount shipping and more
Did you create an LLC or a business when you started this up or are you running it as yourself selling these products?
I can't give advice on this, but from what I know having an LLC can offer some protection but it's not required
so, after watching this video. i thought i should try one more time. so, i created one more account on etsy with different details and vps and everything. they suspended that too. and now i emailed them to check it. They said wait 9 days
That's super strange. I'm guessing it's something with the AI just flagging accounts they things are suspicious. Did you get it back?
@@alekSheffy haven't. They asked to wait 9 days for the answer. It's been 4 now. in the meantime i have created some designs. if i ever get back my account.
@@alekSheffy I just got an email from them. It's permenantly suspended now. No reason at all. I had so many idea in the mind. But can't do anything.
Thanks for the motivation you showed into your videos.
@@arsalankamran6023 Did you have another account suspended from the same device? I had that happen and any time I would create a new account it would get suspended within minutes. I went to a family members home and created one and its still working now. Id recommend clearing all cache and tracking information from the device youre using if that is the case.
@@TheRiddlePanda I used VPS. its actually another setup computer located in different country. it wasn't the issue of IP. its just idk mate
Hi Alek, thanks for video. You did not show some of details because as you said people would copy them. How is copyright protected in this business? I would think it is done automatically but it seems I am wrong. Do you have any knowledge about copyright in print on demand?
It's done manually on Etsy, and I don't currently have the time to go through and take down a bunch of listings if people are copying me 😅 You'll see everything once I hit my goal!
it always happens to new accounts seems to be a thing it happened to me
How do you start and set up. Do you have to have a shop first and how do you do it step by step lol for dummies
Quick question, I have an Etsy store now and a Printify account and store, where do I place new products? on Printify and they will also appear on Etsy or the other way round ?
Dude where did you find a link to even email them? My account got suspended before I even finished setting up my store, and their support page is just a hate loop of links with no way to actually contact them. Didnt even get an email explaining why either. Seriously demoralizing and makes me reluctant to use their site at all. Cant believe people still sell on there when they have no support chat.
Shoot that sounds terrible! I don't know where I found it online, but they answered me in about a week. Here's the email I used: support@etsy.zendesk.com
@@alekSheffy Thank you!! I'll have to try that. And thanks for making these videos, theyre super helpful👍
Its ligal when you upload your designes on etsy and on amazon or redbuble ?
How did you sync your etsy and printify?
Next week coming?
COMING SOON
Did you
Create a new business account? Where do you recommend
Off topic but question for you, what editing software are you using to edit your videos?
I use premier mostly!
@@alekSheffy appreciate it!
Can you make a video using Canva instead of Figma? I’m more used of using Canva.
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sorry bro,Can you tell where did u get the mockups for the listings?
umm new vid when?
NEW VID SOON
@@alekSheffy letsgoooooo
@@bigboiy4458 Thanks BigBoiy ;)
Hello Alek, are there any other great websites I can use other than Etsy? It's banned in my country unfortunately
Where's your store, Aleks? The only site you have is an affiliate link site. You're so full of it.
Can we customise our packaging with Printify like they do with Printfull ?
Or Merchize with competitive price
You've left the item number in there bud... Might want to blur that bit out as I've just found your store using that. Just a heads up
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So my store also got suspended within a few hours after opening it up. Is the appeal process the same as emailing them like you talked about? I can’t find their customer service email anywhere. Thanks for your help.
This same thing happened to me. Did you ever find a customer service email?
Hi Alek, thank you for your videos. Do you do shop reviews by any chance? We started our shop in September and think we are doing everything by right with listings/mock-ups and keywords and tags but aren’t seeing the growth we’d like. It would be nice to get some insight if possible. Thanks!
Sure! Can you DM me your shop name on IG?
@@alekSheffy Yes! Just DM you! Thanks so much!
Wait, did you actually dox your store in the first video?
My friend how do you do your Etsy SEO research ?
Would be nice if by making this video you would specify steps what you need to do in order to set up a store, because now its more from a hype point of view “look im gonna make 100k on Etsy” instead of usefull information for people. I checked Etsy and printify out and I need to dig the internet to find info how to do all, so for me your video will be more like to see revenue results and that all as you dont actually give usefull info on setting up everything
What's hard about setting up an Etsy shop? I thought that getting the sales would be the hard part not opening the shop. That's what my videos focus on
@@alekSheffy setting up is more complex for people without experience. And as for sales it is pretty simple , make tons of designs, use top sellers as references, use similar to theirs tags. And it will be the same month after month, but those little details about setting everything up would be much more usefull
Nice
Quick question, how do you connect your Etsy store to printify with custom products? Is there a setting where printify won’t automatically complete an order until you fill in the custom design? Sorry if it’s a stupid question, I’m new to this
It's a normal connection except custom orders show up in the "other orders" section so you can manually fulfill them
@@alekSheffy ooohh okay, so you still make the listing on printify and shoot it over to Etsy and just update the customization when you go to approve it? Also thanks for these videos, they’re super helpful!
Hey Alek,
What equipment are you using to film your videos? :D
A canon R and OBS to record it
Alek can i use bigcartel as an alternative for etsy and shopify?.
I cant use etsy un my country.
Hmm what country? BigCartel is great since there's no subscription.
I've heard that you can start an Etsy store without a physical United States address, just by using a "Digital Address" like a website. It may not be true, but worth looking into.
@@alekSheffy hey alek thanks for responding.
I'm from Venezuela, can't use etsy payments here.
It’s been 3 weeks now man
I realize this 😅
How many visits usually equals your first sale
@helpline22531 how do I get my first sales with no feedback and now sold items?