How To Get Started With Print On Demand For Free
Create A Passive Income With Print On Demand For Free
The print on demand (pod) industry has been growing and expanding rapidly over the last few. Anyone can grow in the print on demand niche because it is very simple and there is a lot of money to be made. he great thing about POD is that you don't need any previous experience or any real skills to get started.
If you look up on Youtube about how to start POD, you will most likely here that you need to spend money to get started. There are other ways to get started without spending money but once you start turning a profit, you should reinvest it into your business to make more money and I’ll talk about that later in the article.
What Is Print On Demand?
Print On Demand is when you find a supplier like Printful and upload a design that you can then sell. This design can be put onto products like shirts, mugs, laptop cases, facemasks and many others. When someone orders a product from your store, the order will go through to supplier’s factory and they will then print the product, pack it, ship it and deal with customer support without you having to do anything.
The great thing about this business model is that you don’t have to do very much work. Once your design is on your store, it will be there forever and you will keep making passive income from it. The more designs you create the more passive income you can make!
The main problem is creating your designs because most people that want to get into this aren’t graphic designers. The option most people would go for is to hire a designer on Fiverr however this article is about how to get started with POD for free.
The Best Free Print On Demand Supplier
Earlier in this article, I talked about Printful how it was one of the POD suppliers but this platform isn’t free. While you don't have to pay to make a product until you make a sale, you do have to pay to actually make your store. Printful is a supplier and not a store host or marketing place, they only create the products and add them to your store that you have to make.
Because of these costs, we will be using a supplier called RedBubble for many reasons. Redbubble is a supplier and marketplace so when you upload your design to their site, they put it on products, add it to their marketplace, advertise it and supply the product. You also will never be charged because they work with a royalty-based payment system so you choose the price of the product and then when it sells you get paid a percentage of the cost.
Redbubble is also amazing because of its free advertising, you don't have to pay for any ads or do any form of advertising because they do it all for you. Redbubble have millions of people visit their site each month and because it is a marketplace like Amazon, people search for things so you can rank in their search results.
There is no limit as to how many designs you can upload and once they are there, they will continue to sell forever more so you have a passive income! You can really take advantage of this and reinvest your profits into a graphic designer but more on that later.
Creating Your Designs For Free
Like I said earlier, most people aren’t artists or graphic designers and because we have to do this for free, you are going to have to work out how to do this without a cost. I would recommend using Canva to create your designs because it is free, has some great graphics and is really easy to use.
The first part of the design process is to get some ideas, you may already have some but if you don't here is how to get some. I would recommend that you use mostly text-based designers as they are easy to create and they look great.
You should start your search on Etsy because everything on there is hand made or print on demand. You can type in a keyword like “Travel Shirts” and see what other people are creating. On this to remember is that you should never copy someone, you should take inspiration and create something unique as Redbubble will quickly ban you from their platform.
Once you have an idea, you should create a black canvas in Canva that is 5,000 px x 5,000 px so that you have the highest quality. Then type out your design, make the text large and choose a really clear but attractive font. You want to draw in a potential customer that may then want to buy your design. You should repeat this process as many times as you want because the more you make the more money you will make.
Uploading To Redbubble
Uploading to RedBubble used to be really tedious but recently they have been able to really improve the process. While it is not the easiest thing to do, you will work it out fast and once you do, it will become a quick process.
First, you need to click on the upload new art, select your file and then create a title and description. You should also add as many relevant tags as possible to rank in search. Once you have done that you can select what products you want to add your design too.
For each item, you can change the price, the positioning of this image and the and the item specifics. This will take a while the first few times but once you work out what options work and you will get much faster. If you find an item that you don't think the product looks perfect on then don't add it because it will only ruin the aesthetic of the design.
You should repeat this process for however many designs you have and keep adding to it whenever you can. Once you have uploaded your designs, you will never need to do anything with them again except claim the money at the end of the month!
How To Reinvest Your Profits!
Once you have made a few sales, you should re-invest the profits into your business to start making a lot of money. The first thing you should do is to hire an artist that can create you a lot of designs in bulk. If you buy in bulk then you can get some really great designs for a ridiculously low price.
Another thing that you could spend your money on is a virtual assistant that can upload your designs for Redbubble for you. This is a great way to spend your money because then you don't have to do anything and the money will start flowing in.
Conclusion
Print On Demand is a great business model to get into and it is 100% possible to get into for free. Once you have started there is almost no reason to stop because you will start to make a passive income. Once you have started to make profits from your business, there are some great ways to re-invest that money that can make this a 100% passive income source!
