guys, if you want to start just start for god sake . The more options you have , the more videos you watch for guidance and more distracted you gonna be. Stop looking for the perfect winning product, the best POD suplyer or tbe best place to sell. Start it, work work work, no salles ? Work work work. Be blessed . The overthinking will come with burnout and procastination, after that anxiety. Believe me , i know what i'm saying
That's true, but also it takes a year minimum for shop to start even seeing 2-4k as he saying it's easy... No it's not easy also Etsy traffic is not enough to sell you need outside advertising like social media
@@mariuxxxx1 what i said is not about his video, you don't have to follow strictly what he or others says. Follow intuition, follow the dream, the passion until you succed or fail. Both ways you know you are a winner, because most of the people don't even achieve failure, because they give up
You have fired me up more than any other person. Seeing the stores out there for my own eyes gives me the belief in myself that I haven’t felt in a long time. Thank you for your insights, knowledge, wisdom, and help towards building my own business. I truly feel like many others who have watched, that we too can be very successful when following your steps!! Can’t wait for the day where I tell you I’m making $10k a month or more. 🎉🎉🎉
It's interesting how you slipped Printify in so it doesn't look like the sponsor. They are a good company. I didn't learn anything from this though. What I need to know is EXACTLY how you'd do SEO for at least 5 designs for each product that people actually sell. 5 T-shirt designs with full title and tags 5 mug designs with full title and tag 5 whatever designs with full title and tag Be the guy who actually gives useful SEO tips without glossing anyone over or pushing them to a course. Too many RUclips creators give only cursory tips on SEO. If it's that important and they are so good at ETSY and SEO then they should teach it more completely on RUclips.
Hello Alek, I just wanted to reach out and say ‘hi’! I’ve been watching lots of your RUclips videos and have a quick question for you, regarding setting up a Printify and Etsy accounts. You mention in the PDF something to the effect about the Etsy account setup, “If you do this, your account will more than likely be suspended..” I didn’t see that until I had already completed my account setup. Can you tell me what triggers Etsy, to suspend an account? My account was opened successfully on Friday, all the verifications completed successfully and my account was suspended the next day. When I filed an ‘Appeal’, they responded stating that they can’t tell me why but my account was suspended. Have you seen this before? Any suggestions? Thanks! Marty
You've mentioned on several videos that you must target your products toward Etsy buyers, the Etsy "avatar", for instance, instead of the ebay buyer. But you don't explain what this is. I'm just starting and I want to avoid this mistake but I need some definition. Thanks.
Do you have a separate bank account for each store front? No one ever talks about how they structure their PoD businesses. Do you have everything owned under one company name/LLC or do you split business ownership with the whole Brand company, Holding Company and Trust company model? If you do split them, do you have a different bank for each?
Hey Alek, gerat videos! Love all the detail and the easy layout we can all follow. What is your suggestion / how do you think I should reach out to Etsy Stores or people who want to do print on demand selling? I want to compete with Printful ( I own all the machinery to print tees) and help Etsy store owners make more money from their print on demand stores.
I started my Etsy shop in Feb 2024, have about 189 listings and have gotten 12 sales so far, so I am optimistic. I am just trying to wrap my head around the logic of 4000 listings: If I have 4000 listings live, I would essentially be paying $200 a month to keep those listings live on Etsy ($0.20 per listing per quarter, so $0.05 per listing per month). Would it be safe to assume that I could make more than $200 in profit (after all the Etsy fees, transaction fees, relisting fees, etc.) with that amount of listings? The reason I ask this is because currently I have 189 listings but out of the 12 sales, 9 of them have been from one design, which gets pretty much all the views and clicks. From the stats, pretty much all the others listings don't have views or clicks. What would be your guys' advice on this? This goes out to @Alek or anyone else. Thanks in advance :)
Analyse what it is, that is making that one listing successful. Is it the product type itself, the design or colours of it? Or is it your tags and description? Is it because it has a high search volume, and low competition? Try and replicate that same listing in different ways. Different colours, or use the design on other products, in different sizes, with different words? Replicate and test
when you make 50k and look back when you made 4k then it is/seems easy... 🤔🤷♂️ same thing when you learn cycling - seems impossible, but later when you do racing through the forests or mountains then you'd say "learning to cycle was soooo easy"... 😉
You are delusional that comparisson is nonesense to make consistant sales it takes one years minimum also etsy traffic not even enough you need social media traffic@@peteroz7332
Thanks for your content ! I don't if you have an idea about this : Are you aware of any ethical suppliers to create ethical products for a wellness healthy ethical brand ?
@@alekSheffyhey thanks for video and i agree... i have a redbubble shpp but have been having trouble finding a similar site .. mainly because of platforms not using UK bank details and i have aproblem with PayPal for some reason can you point me in the right direction... i dont have upfront cost.. any suggestions pls😊
Alek, Could you please help me? Is it possible to create almost 1000 vector files in an hour using Ai? It can be pencil art, outlines of flowers birds butterflies etc.
You guys telling everyone to start listing hundreds or thousands of listing has totally RUINED anyone's chance at print on demand. It's is so flooded and over saturated with junk, it's almost impossible for new sellers to even be found. Ironically although you were probably trying to help, you guys ended up running it on etsy for everyone unless your shop is old and established.
Once anything is being spruiked on youtube, the niche has jumped the shark. I imagine Alek saw that there was a ceiling to potential earnings with POD and squeezed as much juice out of the berry as was possible. Had to diversify so it became about selling the knowledge and secrets. Diluting the market by encouraging tens of thousands to jump into the pool, would be bad business. Alek is a sharp cat and diversifying is the move.
Hello, ive been watching your videos along with others and have opend up shop. But before i start uploading my designs i wanted to know what happens if my bank account does not have enough money in it to front the cost of x amount of orders? Say i only have $100 and am selling products at $30. When 4 products have been orderd and cost $120, what heppends?
Alek, a sincere question. Why are you doing a youtube channel? You've made so much money doing your design work, so what's the point of doing this channel?? Serious question
@@danimotherofchickens479 According to Alek, who I think is amazing btw, he has made millions already. And if he has thousands of products already designed and "live" on shopify and etsy, then he is making some serious passive income. You'd have to make a lot of money doing youtube videos, which takes time and effort, to justify doing it. It doesn't make sense at all and I would love to be edified on this and how my perspective could be incomplete. But I suppose its just an additional revenue stream. If it's just to make more money, then fair enough. I guess it's a similar theory to the POD theory, creating a voluminous amount of content that sits here forever gaining views and consequently, subscribers as well as selling more product, courses, consulting and other serendipitous opportunities that come along as a result of the gravitational pull of all of this. Anyway as far as the content goes, like the POD, it all becomes passive income down the road.
Hey Alex using these photos from midjourney website for my t-shirt design would be ok I’m not violating any trademark also I’m interested on your printify uploader please send me a link
@@DelroyMorgan-cn4hb My experiences with Merchize are really good. I'm not fulfill doormat at Merchize but I know they have this products and I think that doormat have quiet good quality and you should check it out
Hey Alek, what if Etsy not available to living country. For my country Etsy not available but I want to start my own print on demand business. Can suggest any other websites like etsy to start this business. Hope you will reply
The biggest lesson I have learned from selling print on demand on Etsy is to find the right products. Personalized products or crafty products seems to do much better.
Thank you for sharing your printify uploaded tool, however I have some feature requests and bugs I want to mention. Letters like äöü cannot be in the title. The program throws an error. I’m from Germany and we use these characters. I cannot upload high quality images. The program also throws an error. The uploaded images are not correctly aligned. After uploading I have to manually adjust every image. (The image size is the same as the selected template. When uploading by hand on printify the image perfectly fits… I don’t know why it doesn’t fit when I use your uploader. I would like to have the listings, uploaded by your program, set to „hide in store“. The template I use does have this toggled but the uploaded listings (using your uploader) doesn’t.
Please give us more alternatives I was banned from etsy and my shop closed for no reason or explanation at all.Shopify is also expensive for beginners.
omg crazy synrnocity divine timing . was just thinking of this, my grandfather passed away 4 days ago, lived a long life until 91. seems like this was a sign from him .
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1 👍 = 1 ❤
guys, if you want to start just start for god sake . The more options you have , the more videos you watch for guidance and more distracted you gonna be. Stop looking for the perfect winning product, the best POD suplyer or tbe best place to sell. Start it, work work work, no salles ? Work work work. Be blessed . The overthinking will come with burnout and procastination, after that anxiety. Believe me , i know what i'm saying
That's true, but also it takes a year minimum for shop to start even seeing 2-4k as he saying it's easy... No it's not easy also Etsy traffic is not enough to sell you need outside advertising like social media
@@mariuxxxx1 what i said is not about his video, you don't have to follow strictly what he or others says. Follow intuition, follow the dream, the passion until you succed or fail. Both ways you know you are a winner, because most of the people don't even achieve failure, because they give up
Thanks for this trick. You are right 100%❤
Etsy keep suspending accounts...
@@EgoBlack07 depend on what you do, is a oversatured market anyway
Thank you so much, Alek! I hope you have a great weekend!
thanks for all the advice Alek 💕 slowly building it!!
You have fired me up more than any other person. Seeing the stores out there for my own eyes gives me the belief in myself that I haven’t felt in a long time. Thank you for your insights, knowledge, wisdom, and help towards building my own business. I truly feel like many others who have watched, that we too can be very successful when following your steps!! Can’t wait for the day where I tell you I’m making $10k a month or more. 🎉🎉🎉
It's interesting how you slipped Printify in so it doesn't look like the sponsor. They are a good company. I didn't learn anything from this though.
What I need to know is EXACTLY how you'd do SEO for at least 5 designs for each product that people actually sell. 5 T-shirt designs with full title and tags
5 mug designs with full title and tag
5 whatever designs with full title and tag
Be the guy who actually gives useful SEO tips without glossing anyone over or pushing them to a course. Too many RUclips creators give only cursory tips on SEO. If it's that important and they are so good at ETSY and SEO then they should teach it more completely on RUclips.
Hey Alek!
In your Quick Start Guide do you recommend a personal or business google account?
You're awesome! 😎
I really enjoy your videos. No hype, straight to the point, very educational and instruction-oriented. Thank you for making quality videos.
My three favorite channels: Alek, Stock Brotha, & How Money Works. Make my week complete! 🔥 🔥 🔥
Hello Alek, I just wanted to reach out and say ‘hi’! I’ve been watching lots of your RUclips videos and have a quick question for you, regarding setting up a Printify and Etsy accounts. You mention in the PDF something to the effect about the Etsy account setup, “If you do this, your account will more than likely be suspended..” I didn’t see that until I had already completed my account setup. Can you tell me what triggers Etsy, to suspend an account? My account was opened successfully on Friday, all the verifications completed successfully and my account was suspended the next day. When I filed an ‘Appeal’, they responded stating that they can’t tell me why but my account was suspended. Have you seen this before? Any suggestions? Thanks! Marty
You've mentioned on several videos that you must target your products toward Etsy buyers, the Etsy "avatar", for instance, instead of the ebay buyer. But you don't explain what this is. I'm just starting and I want to avoid this mistake but I need some definition. Thanks.
Do you have a separate bank account for each store front? No one ever talks about how they structure their PoD businesses. Do you have everything owned under one company name/LLC or do you split business ownership with the whole Brand company, Holding Company and Trust company model? If you do split them, do you have a different bank for each?
Exactly!!! I''m wondering the exact thing!!!
It's best practice to have each entity you want to be separately protected separate.
@@alekSheffy
Could you do a video on what best practices you put into place for your business set up?
Hey Alek, gerat videos! Love all the detail and the easy layout we can all follow. What is your suggestion / how do you think I should reach out to Etsy Stores or people who want to do print on demand selling? I want to compete with Printful ( I own all the machinery to print tees) and help Etsy store owners make more money from their print on demand stores.
please can you make a video on how to use figma totally on designing product designs.thank you
I started my Etsy shop in Feb 2024, have about 189 listings and have gotten 12 sales so far, so I am optimistic. I am just trying to wrap my head around the logic of 4000 listings:
If I have 4000 listings live, I would essentially be paying $200 a month to keep those listings live on Etsy ($0.20 per listing per quarter, so $0.05 per listing per month). Would it be safe to assume that I could make more than $200 in profit (after all the Etsy fees, transaction fees, relisting fees, etc.) with that amount of listings?
The reason I ask this is because currently I have 189 listings but out of the 12 sales, 9 of them have been from one design, which gets pretty much all the views and clicks. From the stats, pretty much all the others listings don't have views or clicks. What would be your guys' advice on this? This goes out to @Alek or anyone else. Thanks in advance :)
Analyse what it is, that is making that one listing successful. Is it the product type itself, the design or colours of it? Or is it your tags and description? Is it because it has a high search volume, and low competition? Try and replicate that same listing in different ways. Different colours, or use the design on other products, in different sizes, with different words? Replicate and test
I thought you said Printful in another video now you’re saying printify are you freaking kidding me?
Why does none of your platforms have a link to your etsy shop? Suspicious
2-4k a month is not easy that's already bad point
when you make 50k and look back when you made 4k then it is/seems easy... 🤔🤷♂️
same thing when you learn cycling - seems impossible, but later when you do racing through the forests or mountains then you'd say "learning to cycle was soooo easy"... 😉
@@peteroz7332 you didn't get the point it will take a year minimum to reach that amount your comparison is stupid
You are delusional that comparisson is nonesense to make consistant sales it takes one years minimum also etsy traffic not even enough you need social media traffic@@peteroz7332
Alek, what's your experience with Printful?
Thanks for your content ! I don't if you have an idea about this : Are you aware of any ethical suppliers to create ethical products for a wellness healthy ethical brand ?
What type of software did you begin with and graduate to? I feel this is important since we are creating and saving digital products
I started with Canva/Figma and I still use both but mostly Figma
@@alekSheffyhey thanks for video and i agree... i have a redbubble shpp but have been having trouble finding a similar site .. mainly because of platforms not using UK bank details and i have aproblem with PayPal for some reason can you point me in the right direction... i dont have upfront cost.. any suggestions pls😊
@@alekSheffy and what about your hardware
Alek, Could you please help me? Is it possible to create almost 1000 vector files in an hour using Ai? It can be pencil art, outlines of flowers birds butterflies etc.
Hi why you don’t recommend eBay platform for POD ?
You guys telling everyone to start listing hundreds or thousands of listing has totally RUINED anyone's chance at print on demand. It's is so flooded and over saturated with junk, it's almost impossible for new sellers to even be found. Ironically although you were probably trying to help, you guys ended up running it on etsy for everyone unless your shop is old and established.
Once anything is being spruiked on youtube, the niche has jumped the shark. I imagine Alek saw that there was a ceiling to potential earnings with POD and squeezed as much juice out of the berry as was possible. Had to diversify so it became about selling the knowledge and secrets. Diluting the market by encouraging tens of thousands to jump into the pool, would be bad business. Alek is a sharp cat and diversifying is the move.
Honestly though, I wondered what happened to Etsy. This makes sense why so much garbage is on there now.
Hello, ive been watching your videos along with others and have opend up shop. But before i start uploading my designs i wanted to know what happens if my bank account does not have enough money in it to front the cost of x amount of orders? Say i only have $100 and am selling products at $30. When 4 products have been orderd and cost $120, what heppends?
Alek, a sincere question. Why are you doing a youtube channel? You've made so much money doing your design work, so what's the point of doing this channel?? Serious question
POD youtubers make more talking about print on demand, then from their stores
@@danimotherofchickens479 According to Alek, who I think is amazing btw, he has made millions already. And if he has thousands of products already designed and "live" on shopify and etsy, then he is making some serious passive income. You'd have to make a lot of money doing youtube videos, which takes time and effort, to justify doing it. It doesn't make sense at all and I would love to be edified on this and how my perspective could be incomplete. But I suppose its just an additional revenue stream. If it's just to make more money, then fair enough. I guess it's a similar theory to the POD theory, creating a voluminous amount of content that sits here forever gaining views and consequently, subscribers as well as selling more product, courses, consulting and other serendipitous opportunities that come along as a result of the gravitational pull of all of this. Anyway as far as the content goes, like the POD, it all becomes passive income down the road.
Hey Alex using these photos from midjourney website for my t-shirt design would be ok I’m not violating any trademark also I’m interested on your printify uploader please send me a link
Link to your product uploading tool?
Thanks for all the advice Alek. Appreciate the info. By the way, any thoughts on the best POD provider for doormat?
Merchize could be good choice
@@sunnyinyourarea Never heard of them. I'll check it out, thank you
@@DelroyMorgan-cn4hb My experiences with Merchize are really good. I'm not fulfill doormat at Merchize but I know they have this products and I think that doormat have quiet good quality and you should check it out
@@JoeChristina-e4g Agree with you. I have fulfilled doormats with Merchize. They even support in producing photos and videos for advertising.
Question, Can I use the mockups from printify? or should I use AI to generate the mockup templates if I want to do it for free?
Printify mockups don't convert that well
Hey Alek, what if Etsy not available to living country. For my country Etsy not available but I want to start my own print on demand business. Can suggest any other websites like etsy to start this business. Hope you will reply
Shopify (store) and Printify (printer). You'll have to drive the traffic to your store via digital marketing.
The biggest lesson I have learned from selling print on demand on Etsy is to find the right products. Personalized products or crafty products seems to do much better.
I've set up my own website to do POD. But I can't get sales! What do?
Sounds like you need to do some marketing
You understand for your own website you need advertising like Facebook? Or Instagram....
Could you please make the sound higher/ more powerful?
Thank you!
Thank you for sharing your printify uploaded tool, however I have some feature requests and bugs I want to mention.
Letters like äöü cannot be in the title. The program throws an error. I’m from Germany and we use these characters.
I cannot upload high quality images. The program also throws an error.
The uploaded images are not correctly aligned. After uploading I have to manually adjust every image. (The image size is the same as the selected template. When uploading by hand on printify the image perfectly fits… I don’t know why it doesn’t fit when I use your uploader.
I would like to have the listings, uploaded by your program, set to „hide in store“. The template I use does have this toggled but the uploaded listings (using your uploader) doesn’t.
That's good to know thanks
Please give us more alternatives I was banned from etsy and my shop closed for no reason or explanation at all.Shopify is also expensive for beginners.
omg crazy synrnocity divine timing . was just thinking of this,
my grandfather passed away 4 days ago, lived a long life until 91. seems like this was a sign from him .
Step one to sucess : don't listen to this guy
why?
I heard if you say your idol name 3 times he will pin you
1. Alek
Sell a $500 dollar course on how to sell on Etsy with no success verification, problem solved!!! It's all about margins! 🤣
have to watch this again, was completely distracted by the huge arms!
followed you on insta