How to sell Print On Demand products on Amazon for Beginners from shahzaib986's blog

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You will find so many ways to offer things on Amazon. I see lots of my friends successful utilising the retail arbitrage method. Many people also find local products near their property and send them to Amazon.

I've never done that before. I'm not the type of individual who likes to source something, pack, and ship it by myself.

That's too tiring for me.

When I decided to be an Internet Marketer, my goal was not just to produce money. I wanted to possess more time, too.

So, I've been selling products on Amazon since 2017, but every one of my goods are print-on-demand.

I love selling print-on-demand products because all of the goods are uniquely designed and have less competition in comparison to other kinds of products.

Also, all of the production processes are done by the suppliers. I don't need to produce or ship anything by myself.

I have now been selling tens and thousands of coffee mugs, but I never see the products I sell.

There are numerous articles about selling products on Amazon in this Tiny Marketing Lab, but I recently seen that I never wrote a basic article on how best to get going on doing all this.

So, in this informative article, I'm going to exhibit you how to make money on Amazon from print-on-demand products (POD), even if you are a beginner.

The procedure is easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy!

Let's enter it.

A Print-on-Demand product, or POD, is simply a tailored product on which you may print a design. The supplier will produce that and print the style onto it for you.

There are numerous kinds of POD products on the market, such as for instance t-shirts, coffee mugs, shot glasses, travel mugs, tumblers, pillows, phone cases, etc.

Whenever you sell a POD product, the supplier will charge you some money, make the product and ship it to your customer automatically.

The great thing about POD is that you can begin doing it for a suprisingly low up-front cost. No stock is needed. You merely buy that when you make some sales.

Additionally, there are many suppliers – such as GearBubble, Teespring, Teelaunch, Printful, etc. ¬– you can find on the internet.

For my print-on-demand business, I have now been using GearBubble for many years. I'll inform you why later in this article.

Selling print-on-demand products on Amazon is very easy. Allow me to show you the method so you may get started quickly.

Open an owner account at Amazon Seller Central. You will find individual (free) and professional (monthly fee) accounts. If you intend to get it done seriously, go for pro, because you can list many products per month and you should use the Amazon Marketplace Web Service to integrate with POD suppliers. You can check the comparison here.

Open a GearBubble account. GearBubble is just a supplier who can make that and ship it to your customer. You can even try Teelaunch, Teespring, or Printful as well. There are numerous POD suppliers out there.

Create a design, and use it the product in GearBubble or some other POD services you choose.

Upload the product to Amazon.

• If you have GearBubble Dropship Integration, connect your GearBubble account to your Amazon account. You can upload the product to Amazon easily through their user interface. When there is an order, Amazon will send the order information to GearBubble, and GearBubble begins making that and ship it to your customer automatically.

• If there isn't GearBubble Dropship Integration, fine. But you will have to produce the product in Amazon by yourself. Copy the product image from GearBubble and copy it to Amazon. When there is an order, you will have to place an order manually in GearBubble. There's no fee because of this option.

Optimize the product title and keywords to produce your product visible to people.

Relax and watch for sales!

That's it!

The procedure is super easy, right? Just create a design, upload it to GearBubble, and then upload to Amazon. There's no upfront cost if that you don't use their integration. If you use it, the monthly cost is not too expensive. No stock, low cost, easy to get started.

Okay, so you know the print-on-demand concept and how to begin selling POD products on Amazon.

The following thing to take into account is – what should you sell on Amazon? To learn that, you need to do some product and market research.

What kinds of quotes do people like? What kinds of people will purchase a mug or t-shirt? Do they purchase it as something special, or for themselves?

From my statistics, most print-on-demand products will soon be used to represent who owns the item.

Let's think of a t-shirt or even a coffee mug, for example. When we choose a t-shirt to wear or a mug to make use of, the style onto it will soon be something we like or are related to, right?

You can check out the top-selling product in GearBubble here: Top Selling Products.

A lot of the items will include a specific design, like Donald Trump, mother, father, an expert, etc.

They're something that represents the master, or something they like.

People will buy it for themselves, or for someone they love.

Ok, let's take a look at another example. This time we'll look at the Best Selling Novelty Mugs on Amazon.

They're the same, right? These mugs are related to family members, or to individuals who support Donald Trump.

Additionally, there are many mugs related to professions. Let's search Amazon utilising the keywords “Engineer Mug&rdquo ;.

You will see that there are many products reviews on these Engineer mugs. This means there are many people buy the Engineer mugs.

I've sold many coffee mugs, but few people submit reviews of the products. From 100 sales, I only got about 4-5 reviews. Items which have 100 reviews must sell well.

It is rather easy to find niches to produce a print-on-demand product.

When I actually do my product research, I mostly find a popular quote that I can use within many niches.

For instance, if I'm creating products for niches related to professions, I'll find a quote that can be used for any profession, and produce a product for it.

You will find thousands professions you can make products for. I've over 70,000 products for greater than a thousand niches. I've had many sales in niches I never thought I really could sell to.

But there isn't to target only professions. You can even sell products related to dog breeds, cat breeds, hobbies, etc.

To be successful in this business design, we will list as much as products on Amazon as we could, see what sells, and scale from there.

Another thing you might notice about top-selling products is that many of them don't feature a beautiful design.

In the Low Hanging System business design, the Ugly Designs Win!

The designs of top-selling products are mostly just text-based, with funny or meaningful quotes.

“I'm a Proud Dad of a Freaking Awesome Daughter. Yes, she bought me this mug.”

“No matter how hard life gets, at least there isn't ugly children.”

People buy these materials due to the quotes.

Every one of my top-selling goods are text-based designs.

You will find so many ways to source permanently designs to offer:

The free method – Create designs by yourself. It's only a text-based design. You can make it easily in Photoshop. But the drawback is that it is extremely boring – and believe me, you can't do this all day.

The LHS business design requires consistency. You'll need to list new products each day to find winning products fast.

If you believe you can make new designs each day by yourself, go ahead. But I can't do it.

The $4.99-9.95 method – Another way to do this a bit faster is by utilizing tools like Canva, WordSwag, Phonto, etc. With this sort of app, you simply insert a quote into this system and it will create the quote in a lovely font for you.

You will find usually fees connected with the app. I'm unsure about this, but it's usually no more than $4.99.

This way is good, too. You can make a design fast, however, you still need to do it by yourself. I prefer etsy print on demand course the next method.

The investing method – Nothing beats hiring people to complete a job for you. To be successful in the LHS business, you need to list services consistently. Hiring people will help you achieve that.

When I obtained started, I tried to complete everything by myself. But after doing it for a while – like creating 15-20 designs and uploading 30-40 products every day – I quit to complete something else.

It's easy to be distracted when doing this sort of job. You've to create designs for a lot of quotes, then upload these designs to GearBubble and Amazon. While looking forward to the merchandise to upload, I went along to Twitch and watched game streaming for hours…

This was not productive, and I couldn't do it consistently.

So, I decided to create a team and let them handle everything for me.

There are lots of places you can hire people to create designs for you. They include such easyoutsource.com or onlinejobs.ph. The cost of hiring is not too expensive. You can negotiate with them. I've two employees who have been working together with me on this project for over couple of years now.

I also have a design service, Go Grab Design, where you can obtain access to my graphic designers at an inexpensive price. They'll create text-based designs for you personally the exact same way they do it for me. So, that you don't need to locate a designer yourself.

They're few methods you need to use to source good designs. Again, the designs don't have to be complicated. Only a text-based design is enough. Most top-selling products consist of simple designs.

This is another reasons why selling print-on-demand products on Amazon is very easy. There's not only a low upfront cost and no stock needed; the designs can be created easily.

Because there isn't to make the product on your own, the upfront cost is very low. Let me breakdown the items you have to get started:

Here's things you need:

• Amazon Seller Account – $39.99 per month.
• GearBubble Account – Free
• GearBubble Dropship Integration (optional) – Starts at $27 per month.
• Design cost – Less than $1 per design, or free if you do it by yourself.

If you use the free method, you need to cover only Amazon $39.99 monthly to list the products. After you've made some sales, you can create a plan in GearBubble and order the merchandise by yourself.

That's an effective way to have started. But in the long run, I recommend that you place up a team and let them do everything for you.

It's better still when you yourself have a budget and will start hiring quickly the bat. Your company will grow faster compared to others.

That's about the cost.

Next, let's read the profit you'll be able to make per item.

I sell a coffee mug at $14.95, plus $4.95 for shipping. The full total revenue I earn is $19.90.

You will have an Amazon fee at $2.99. Amazon will calculate this fee from the purchase price you define.

Then there would be the cost of the coffee mug ($4.95) and shipping ($4.95) from GearBubble, for an overall total cost of $9.90.

So the sum total profit you will get from selling 1 mug is $7.01.

For other products, like a shot glass or travel mug, the costs are a bit different. You can log in to your GearBubble account and check the production cost in there.

I have already been doing this since late 2017, and I now have over 70,000 products in my own account.

Most of my sales happen during the vacation season like Q4, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Amazon Prime Day, etc.

I also make many sales in general niches. I've products in significantly more than thousand niches in my own account. These small niches have almost no competition, so I will make many sales passively.

This can be a one-day result I'd in the previous month (not Mother's Day sales).

The great thing concerning this business is that I've a team that handles virtually all the job for me. All I do each week is choose the niche markets to list products in. My team does the rest.

Also, if you have an order, GearBubble will become making the item and ship it to my customer.

I've published a write-up about doing eCom in one single hour a week. It's about the hiring process I personally use with this particular business model. If you haven't read it yet, make sure you do.

To sum up, this can be a enterprize model that is very easy to get going with a suprisingly low initial investment. If I remember correctly, I made my first sale after I'd listed 15 products in my own account.

I genuinely believe that was a fluke, because the 2nd sale came a couple weeks later.

The important thing to be successful at selling products in Amazon in this business would be to list services consistently, and to help keep checking so what can be sold and create more products for that niche.

If you have many winning products in your account, you'll be able to make steady passive income from Amazon.

That's all I've to express about the selling process for print-on-demand products on Amazon. It hasn't been this easy.

You don't need to really make the product by yourself. There's ZERO inventory to stock. If you lack money, you certainly can do this utilising the free method I showed you above.

If you have any questions, feel liberated to ask me in the comments. I'll make an effort to answer all you have. All the best!