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People are making thousands of dollars in passive income every month selling products that don’t even exist, until someone places an order...But, is this actually a realistic side hustle, and possible for anyone to do? Well, as an experienced millionaire businessman, I’m going to put this to the test myself, by making & selling my own ‘print on demand’ product.
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People are making thousands of dollars in passive income every month selling products that don’t even exist, until someone places an order...But, is this actually a realistic side hustle, and possible for anyone to do? Well, as an experienced millionaire businessman, I’m going to put this to the test myself, by making & selling my own ‘print on demand’ product.
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People are making thousands of dollarss in passive income every month selling products that don't even exist until someone places an order: $34,000 per month. The realistic earnings: I've been able to make with Print on Demand well over a million dollar $63,000 $21,000 per month Multiple six figures in Profit: $21,000 But is this actually a realistic side hustle and possible for anyone to do well as an experienced millionaire businessman? I'm going to put this to the test Myself by making and selling my own print on demand product as this is a side hustle challenge. I'm setting myself the usual rules. Rule one: I must sell under a fake name.
Rule two: I can't spend more than 0 and Rule three I must launch the business within 24 hours Start the timer. The first thing on my plan is to find a supplier with easy to use software for anyone who doesn't know how print on demand. Works Here's a very quick breakdown. You make a design and partner with a company and in return they print and ship your product when someone buys it.
This means if we execute everything correctly, then all we have to do is collect our paycheck. So I'm just going to make a free account with gelato as they seem to have fulfillment centers all around the world and from what I can see have the most straightforward software for me to use. right? So now we need to decide what kind of product we want to sell. There are lots of different products perfect for print on demand, such as t-shirts, mugs, and bags.
but instead of just guessing I'm going to do some market research to find out what's actually selling well. I like to use Tik Tok for this kind of thing as lots of people are using it to promote their print on demand stores because they have an integrated shop feature. You've probably seen the little Banner that pops up at the bottom of some Tik toks giving you the option to buy what's in the video. Honestly, my son's girlfriend has bought so much on Tik Tok Shop I'm not just looking for one-off videos I Want to find an account that consistently sells the same product.
If some someone is investing their time in creating multiple videos, it's safe to assume that the product is selling well, right? I Think I found the perfect product Wall Art: Firstly, based on what I've seen on Tik Tok there's a large Market of aspiring entrepreneurs who love putting motivational artwork on their walls to keep themselves motivated and working hard. Secondly, wall art is very cheap to make, but it seems from my research that I can sell it for a high price as it's more of an impulse purchase. This means that my profit margins will be very good as I'll make more money per sale. And thirdly, there are so many different ways I can scale this business.
Just think if I grew it big enough, I could even Branch out into premium artwork look wealthy people can hang in their Mansions imagine how much I could sell those for. but I'm getting a bit ahead of myself here. First, we need to make some designs right. I've got a confession to make and I'm not proud of it. Actually, you know I'm under a time limit here and I don't really have enough hours left to make my own designs and do everything else on my list. If I was a bit younger then I could probably use an AI tool like mid journey to create the wall art for me. But you guys know I'm a boomer so it would take me a little while to get the hang of it and time isn't something I have lots of right now. That doesn't mean I'm about to die by the way.
So long story short: I've ordered five different wall art designs from three different sellers on Fivera. I Sent them all this brief: I Would like you to create an entrepreneurial poster that could be framed and used as wall art. Please come up with your own quote, idea and theme. I Think something entrepreneurial and motivational would be best I intend on using the poster size 30 by 40 cm.
that's 12 in by 16 in for all our American viewers. I Look forward to seeing the design. This is going to be pretty interesting as I really don't have time to make any changes and I'm kind of leaving my fate in their hands while we're waiting for those designs to come back. Let's use this opportunity to make an online store.
I've decided I'm going to sell on Etsy as it's relatively simple and has a low barrier to entry. Platforms like this are great as they already have an established customer base for you to tap into. The downside is that it's often a race to the bottom as your product is nothing but a commodity and it's only compared on price. Although my designs are unique, there are still a lot of people selling similar products.
If you want to build a business that stand a test of time, I suggest heading over to something like Shopify and creating your own store. So it's the next morning and I've been sent some designs to review. I haven't looked at them yet so let's look at them together actually. I Quite like this one.
The design looks pretty cool and the quote is very true. I'll tell you what, if I had a penny for every time someone said My Success was due to luck and not hard work then I'd be rich. Oh wait, I am this next guy seems to have made five different designs. Let's take a look.
Honestly, these designs do look pretty basic and the quotes are just sta in the obvious. The only one I really like is the last one and even that looks like something I could have done in 2 minutes. Okay, so it's all riding on this last seller. This is actually my favorite design so far.
This next one I'm not so keen on but I can see is at least try to play with the text a little bit. Maybe this will appeal to the girls is it's got that sort of swirly font I think they like that sort of thing right now. We've got to upload these designs onto gelato since this is a print on demand product. I don't have to pay for anything until a sale is made, so this is great if you're starting out with $0 So I'm just going to go to the menu on the left hand side and select product catalog. As you can see, there are a lot of different options here, but I'm of course going to select wall art. This pulls up a selection of different types of posters. Now I'm going to pick uh, wooden framed posters. I'm then going to go with the premium matte paper option as I can see that this is the best seller and to be honest I don't think people will really be able to tell the difference between this and the museum quality one, but my profits certainly will.
So I'm going to select 30 by 40 cm as I think this is the bests siiz poster for most houses and it seems to be the size most people select. then I'm going to pick vertical and a black frame color as that's pretty sort of gender neutral and ready to hang because not a symol ain't nobody got time for that? I'm just going to repeat the steps with all my designs including the ones I didn't like. after all, I've got nothing to lose and who knows I might even sell some now. I've got all the designs uploaded.
I'm going to go over to the menu and select stores. This is where you can link your gelato account with your Etsy store if if you don't want to sell on Etsy. As you can see, there are lots of different options right? I Could just upload the designs from Fiverr right onto my Etsy listing, but to be honest, they don't look very premium. So I'm going to use the built-in mockup Studio by clicking here.
This tool will help me bring the posters to life. First we just have to set the dimensions for our file size. Oh, they have actually on here an Etsy preset so I'm going to just select that. but you can also set custom sizes if like to create mockups for things like Instagram stories.
Now we need to select a scene for our mockup. Oh now that one looks good so let's go with that. You can zoom in and move around the scene by just double clicking on it. so I'm going to adjust it to make the scene a little bit bigger so there's more focus on my poster design.
Next let's select our poster size. I'm going to set it to 30X 40. As I said before, most poster designs are this size. these are looking pretty pretty good.
Now the last step before we can sell our wall art setting a price. I've just taken a quick look at the price Navigator tool and in here it lays out exactly what the product costs, how much shipping will set us back, and even the total profit per sale. Looking at all of this, I think a good price would be $49.99 This is a bit High compared to most competitors on Etsy which will definitely impact sales. but I'm willing to take a bit of a risk because I always think a nice profit margin is around 50% right? So I'm over in Miami on business, but I've been keeping an eye on our side hustle Challenge and I'll tell you what. I've got some results, but before I share them with you, check this out! I actually ordered a couple of our products and got them shipped to me over here in the USA and I think they're pretty good and the quality as well is absolutely fantastic. I think I'm going to keep these actually. I'm really impressed with the shipping time as well. it took 3 days to get these.
TOS Which is far better better than the Chinese drop shippers and that should give us an advantage. I'd actually always recommend ordering your product before you start selling it because reputation is everything and you don't want customers speaking negatively about your product. So I've left it just a few more days because things were going nicely. Now for the moment you've all been waiting for: Did we make any sales? Well, yes and no.
Some of the posters generated a few sales and some didn't even catch a bite. Overall, we generate did 11 sales which led to 5498. but of course this isn't all profit. First, we had to pay for designs on Fiver which was 0.77 Then Etsy take a small cut of 6.5% on each sale which came to 35.74 And let's not forget the product and shipping cost which came to 37169.
By the way as I use gelato a lot in this video, I reached out to them and asked them if they could give you guys some kind of discount on these fees. They agreed. So with the link in the description, you can get 50% off your first order with all those expenses deducted. It leaves us with a grand total of 81 69 considering that I accomplished all the setup within 24 hours and now have the designs I'd Consider this a success.
This means I can continue selling these products over the next few weeks with minimal additional expenses. If you guys would be interested in seeing a part two where I allow myself more time to revamp the business and see how far I can take it. Let me know in the comments: if you want to know how to sell blank books on Amazon then I'm going to leave that video right up there. but don't click on it just yet.
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Part two would be great! I think I'm going to do this for the challenge! 💪🏻
part 2 would be great
I want to see a follow up video on this as well as the Amazon books
Would love part 2
Was there some sort of advertisement or was this from etsys customer base
Thank you for sharing your attempt with one of the Print On Demand models! Gelato and Etsy appear to be a good combo for the business.
I like Print On Demand, although it does take time to build up; the income potential and its passiveness are such hidden gems!
Yes to a part two!
A part 2 would be great
I like these build a business from scratch videos, keep it up!
This looks fun, il try it🙌
yes. I would be interested!
So you broke rule no. 2 and lied in the title by spending money on fiverr.
Great video though.
Looking forward to part 2, great video.
Great vid, look forward to a part 2. Like these entrepreneur low barrier to entry walk through videos. Keep up the good work.
Part 2 please! This is great, thanks for sharing!
Nest video after 60 to 90 days would be a great second video🌴
Part 2 Please
I need more details. Like how you describe these products on your Etsy page and keywords used, title of listings, etc
Hey Mark, question for guidance.
Who did you use to produce the frames and print the posters?
Was it Gelato that printed it for you?
I needed this video! thank you so much, I can't wait to watch the Part 2 🙌
Great video!
Did you use advertisements on your listings?
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You could also use canva for mock ups
I have a question
How will you get paid ?
maybe give it a month and see what profits you make.
part 2 would be awesome
I agree, I want to see a part two and how you approach growth of the business.
You said $0 spend but you paid someone on Fiverr for the designs… fail!🙄
It good video but you are in a very competitive market wall art is like clipart.
yes please can we have a part 2
Part 2 would be amazing! Yes please.
I love this video. I myself am building my own etsy company, though i use printify. And im lwwrning everything on the fly. So far i havent had the luck you have but seeing someone be successful with their stores in a limited time fills me with hope that if i tweak my store then i too can have a successful business