I produce and sell my own ornaments, I don’t use POD. Fair warning, sample every POD ornament before you jump into this. Many of the POD suppliers do a poor job on the porcelain ornaments. I was not happy with print quality at all so I decided to keep making them myself with my own equipment.
I was going to say the same. Not sure if Heather ever got a sample, but when looking at POD companies I saw they all made a note to say that small details often can't be reproduced well and her ornament had a ton of small details!
I just started doing this and I have to say that of all the things I create this is one of the top fun ones! I am doing mine in different styles from hand painting to stickers, resin coated/natural wood, etc.. it's limitless and it's easy to profit because supplies are really minimal. It's a nice change of pace from creams & soaps, woodwork, resin, painting, candles and all the other stuff I do. Don't get me wrong, POD is fun too but at least for my local sales these ornaments are selling out faster than I can make them and I'm only 2 weeks in. I never dreamed this would be so popular.
Love your content. So informative as I am myself in the process of starting up with Printify and Etsy. Also, love your Amber glass lamp in the background... I have the same one 😊.
Thank you for another great video!! Could you explain a bit more about profit margins? Are you charging customers for shipping? On Printify I see that ornaments are $4-$6 but then with shipping they turn out to be about $10 -- with that and Etsy fees, etc. I'm wondering are you just keeping your price around $20 for profit or am I missing something? Thank you in advance!!
I love all your bloopers! And thank you for sharing. I never realized Etsy sellers did this. You were so informative and creative! Keep up the good work. Might try my hand at this. Were there any upfront costs for you?
Why do you blur the left side tools? Canva is free or you have to pay for pro. But it’s not a secret. Just curious because I’ve never seen anyone do that
I know this was posted a long while ago, but wanted to say thank you for explaining how to do personalized listings without using “hello custom”, not due to anything against them, but just wanting to get started doing things on my own without paying for another subscription. Also very much appreciated your thoughts on giftgiving at the end of the video. 💯!
I received samples of ornaments from Printed Mint. The glass was great. The ceramic seemed a little blurry. I have an ADU in my backyard, so I decided to create a print shop to do this myself to have the quality. The other factor is the lead time to produce the ornaments. From the time of my order, it took almost two weeks to receive the ornaments. The shop she is speaking of has a turnaround of either same day or next day as they produce in house. How they do the volume ordered, I simply cannot understand but it seems to be a multi-million dollar business for them.
I watched your video yesterday on Christmas ornaments. I just wondered if you print the round label and then apply that to the acrylic desk? And so please confirm it's just a label. Thank you so much!. Thank you for your video. It was really inspiring
Great video, Heather! Going into 2023 and per your experience so far in POD, What are your thoughts on focussing on a single POD vertical like apparels(t-shirts, hoodies, socks) and then creating designs for multiple niches like sports and outdoor enthusiasts designs, dog dad and dog moms, baby & mom tees for this single POD vertical ? Or would you suggest sticking to only 1 niche rather like a POD store for dog owners and selling different POD items like tees,mugs,stickers, hoodies etc for multiple breeds and multiple designs on this store? I believe going into 2023 it will be extremely important as a store owner to go all in on presence on social media channel due to increased competition on Etsy so I am thinking if I focus only on 1 niche then it would be much better for my social media strategies but would like to hear your thoughts on the above since you have years of experience in this POD space, thanks ahead of time!
If some one buys a product for a person as a gift through etsy but using printify to print item how do you include note in order for customer to know who gave it to them.
So the ceramic - 1 pack company ornament I like & I saw you use was from Duplium? Which is a Canadian company. Would it cost more if I had my buyers order from america to ship? I saw the American brand but it had low ratings.
Thank you so much. Would you mind sharing the video you made about “personalization”? I watched the end several times. Understood most everything except the very end about deleting the mock up and replacing. For some reason it just isn’t getting through. 🤦🏽♂️ lol 🤷🏽 probably the edible I ate earlier. 😵💫 Thanks, again! 💥👊🏽😎
Thank you! I'm searching how can I take my design on printify ornament and put it on nice mockups and I can't find how to. Would you please help me in that! Appreciated!
Heather, are you using Everbee for titles and tags as well? I've followed your sale samurai tutorial and love it, so do I have to use both software? I hope you can respond. Thanks!
How would we add this to our etsy shop? If this is not intended for etsy , how would we generate traffic to our printify page? I guess that's my fear- not generating large amount of customers.
Heather, the personalized ornaments: the shop owner designs the ornaments and sends their design to print on demand? Then when the ornament is ordered, print on demand prints it and ships it to the customer ? Thank you, Karen
Hi Heather! Thanks for this super helpful video! Question - on the final page of printify, the bill came to $14 but you said you could charge up to $14. I’m confused:) how would one make any margin on this?
Thank you. I made my first order in three days from this video. I did mess up on the first order by quickly hitting submit without changing the design. So, I canceled the order quickly and hit duplicate of the order, and put the design in to do a new order.
Would you mind sharing which sweatshirts to use for youth and toddlers that do NOT have a hoodie? I would like to offer mommy and me sweatshirts but dont find the fitting kids sweatshirt.
Great video! But where do we find good mockups for ornaments? (Or any other product besides tshirts and mugs for that matter, lol!) I’m struggling to find good mockups and I feel like should I even bother with products that I am unable to have them for?
Personalization orders sounds to complicated, I thought the buyer enters their personal name during the order process as oppose to us doing it once the order comes in.
Sounds great, but by the time you pay all the fees and production($15 plus Etsy fees) then you are left with a small profit and you're priced high compared to competitors.
That's what I thought too - but then again if you sell a lot - and it gets people into your store - then they see other things you have for sale that might be better priced for you.
To stay within competition you would need Printify Premium and offer no free shipping. You could still compete by selling these for $15 to $20 and come out with a profit of $10+ [Breakdown is Printify Premium price for ceramic ornaments is 4.44 so if you sold for $14.99- $4.44 it'd be the 10.55 minus 1.174 (14.99 x .065= 0.974 + listing renewal fee of 0.20 which is total fees of 1.174) which is $9.38 profit in hopes the customer didn't have the processing fee, but still you'd come out with over $8+ profit per ornament. I've seen many sell for higher than $20 and I always give the advice that I would never sell the lowest in my competition nor the highest. I agree that this seller will win a good portion of competition but you can still sell many and earn a whole lot with just this one product. With that being said, I've sold many items that were $10 higher than my competition and make a full-time income off of my Etsy store so this long comment is just to say that I don't want anyone to be discouraged by competition and trying to have the lowest price. Many customers associate low price with low value and that is something I have found on my time on Etsy. There is a lot of marketing and pricing strategy that can still get customers just the same. The one thing to consider is that a store can have low profit margins and high sale volumes and earn 10K in profit, but another store can sell half the amount of items but double their profit margins and still earn 10K in profit. I would know this only because I've done that on product types, haha!
Hi Heather, excellent video as always! Where did you get the circle you added in Canva? Was it an element from Canva? Also what made you use 5000x50000 if Printify specifically listed the dimensions. I’m still new to figuring out what dimensions to use.
I think that 5000x5000 works too because it's a bigger square and the printify dimensions are 975x975 which is square too. If it's not a square, like a mug, it's better to use the same dimensions like in printify to size the design correctly.
I really wish you would do a video on sweater pricing. Specifically including shipping vs free shipping. I am really struggling with this for a couple weeks now on my Etsy shop.
Jessica I'm new too. I just typed up all my prices - because it's different for each color when you're doing sweatshirts using SwiftPOD. I first add up what is costs, plus shipping, plus the Etsy fees - and see how much the product is costing me - before I make a penny - and I figure my pricing from there - while trying to keep it in the range others are charging. T-shirts much easier to price.
@@cindyleinwand5062Thank you Cindy. So, you would suggest including shipping for your sweaters. The shipping is so high so I thought that was a good idea too. But my Mom thinks my prices are so high. I am pricing the sweaters at around $39.99. I have heard several other youtuber's suggest this price as well. I don't want to put a bunch of listings up though if there going to be too high priced.
@@jessicavogel6467 Keep in mind - the prices are different for each color as well. I have some sweatshirts that are over $40 - and some around $30. You don't have to offer every color - you can just offer the ones where the numbers work for you. I also include shipping. But I'm new to this too - so we'll see what happens. I don't want to go thru all the work this takes just to break even.
@@amymackenzie8507 well I did purchase a mock up but I can only use it for the ones where the image doesn’t over lap the hanging hole. So I use the ones from printify for the larger designs . I hope this helps!
I tried to do a custom order listing where I initiated it in Etsy and so that the customer could add their address and names and I would not have Printify fill the order before I added the customization, but under the shipping options Etsy no longer allows you to put "other" as the shipping company. What do you do in this case for the shipping profiles? I have reached out to both Etsy and Printify and neither seem to have a answer. Have you been able to find answers with this?
Hey Heather. Thanks for the great video. How in the world can we make any money charging only $10 bucks for these items??? Please respond - I'm an avid fan!
@Rachel Rae Laframboise, Those stores which are making money are selling them for about $25 each. Having said that, your net income will be less after subtracting the Printify and Etsy fees and the shipping costs.
Great video, but if its $6.50 for the product and $6.50 for shipping making it $14 there doesn't seem to be margin for profit. As the competitor you had shown is selling for $10. Where are they ordering from cause its not Printify.
Yes! I should've explained further the breakdown but I would sell higher. I have a different video about 'The Ultimate Pricing Guide' but my advice is to never be the lowest and still have a good profit margin.
Enjoyed your video. Question: I see you suggested pricing the ornament in the mid range ($14 or so). Makes sense. But your image of printify billing shows they're charging $7.05 for shipping. So do you add that amount to the customers charge on the Etsy page? As an aside, I actually bought a ceramic ornament like this for a relative at the local mall years and years ago. It was $25 back then and the saleswoman hand wrote the address with marker on the ornament (which was in the shape of a highly sculptured ceramic front door).And she didn't do a good job, either. The house number and street name weren't centered. It was awful, but I felt sorry for her and didn't say anything and took it.
This is a great question! I think the answer lies in your product, niche and design. If those three do not work in unison, then you can spend thousands on ads and still not see a sale. I've grown organically with my store but I know others who do the ads route. I prefer to start organically to do my own market research. If I can't sell organically then thats a good indicator ads won't work. Organic methods are definitely sloth speed to analyze your results so if you have the budget to test your listings, it may be much faster but also more riskier(and can cause burnout if you do not see sales). I like to say there are multiple ways to be successful and some it's ads and others it's organic methods. For me, organic works best because I'm a low risk person(hence why I do POD). Others are willing to have high risk with ads which I think is great- I wish I had that haha! I think it can't hurt trying a mix of both though. Short answer to the question though: I think it has a smaller role in very successful stores. I think the largest role is product validation and Etsy Ads just amplify what sells. I've ran Etsy ads most of this year and out of my 160K in revenue under 10% has been from Ad spend. 90% has been organic and that's why I'd like to think ads aren't as impactful on Etsy.
Hi, I have a question and when other people buy it, do I have to keep making new copies or can I use that one for other buyers? or would it affect the SKU of the previous order?
Thank you Heather💜do you send a proof to each customer? i had my first sale now🥳and the customer did not respond to my message with the proof. so i was afraid that i would not be able to meet the stated production time. How do you handle this? Thanks for all your work!
Hi, Heather, I am new to Ecommerce Business. I have been following your tutorials and loving all of the information you share to help us grow as well Thank you I appreciate you very much. I have a Question about Sales to other countries Should I just sell to the USA or is it ok to sell to all the countries that Printify gives you on the Shipping Template for the Ornaments, t-shirts and Sweatshirts. What is the best thing to do for me since I just began selling ? Have you had any issues with shipping with other countries?
Great video! I have a question though. How sustainable is the example shown in this video? Just watching one ornament being made, it all looks super simple, but I can imagine that if there is a high demand (say during the holiday season), it could become more difficult to essentially create a new order for every new customer. Is this something that can be done while still working another job, or would it take a lot of ones focus to stay on top of something like this.
As a new store starting out, you don’t have to be so worried about too many orders. Also If it gets to much you can use AnywherePOD which automates the process for you.
Thank you for the video! Two questions. Does changing to manual impact all orders or is there a way to target that preference to only personalized products? Second, when you are creating the duplicate design with the customer's request, do you hide that product? I assume you do not publish it, correct? Thanks!
When she put the design onto the ornament, the “C” in “Christmas” lined up where the hole for the string on the ornament was. So you just have to play around with the design and the placement/sizing to make sure the finished product looks exactly how you want.
Hi, @20:47 total bill amount is $14 which is insane. It looks like printify gets the whole profit. This is not even covers etsy fees. With that high prices i would assume anybody who like to sell ornaments from at least $30-35. Im not sure who will be interested to buy an ornament from that price 😔
Since this was 9 months ago and a few other print providers have began offering this at much lower costs. Imagine Your Photo is 5.76 with Printify Premum and 4.44 with Printify Premium. A lot of shops in this niche do not offer free shipping so you can price competitively with no free shipping. Hopefully this helps!
Heather, this is a fantastic video! Thank you. Do you have a favorite research software? Question1: I know you've spoken about Everbee and Sales Samurai. I'm switching over from Erank and am looking for something that is easier and simpler to use. Thanks so much! Question 2: What are all of the books in the stack behind you? I'm adding inspiration to my reading, and would like to add a few of what has inspired you. Thank you, Heather!
Hi Chris, Everbee is one of my favorite tools and I've liked Erank as well! The books stacked behind me are Tools of Titans by Tim Ferris, Rocket Fuel by Rickman and Winters, The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman, Good to Great by Jim Collins, Traction by Wickman and the Science of Self-Discipline by Peter Hollins. As far as recommendations, The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy is incredibly insightful, The 4 Hour Workweek by Tim Ferris, and Atomic Habits by James Clear are all a must for business and life! Those 3 books are gamechangers!
@@itsheatherstudio I’m obsessed with Atomic Habits by James Clear, at the moment. I have it in audiobook format, and listen to it when I put my makeup on. Makes a great start to the day. Love what you’ve shown us here. - So much to learn!
When you give outsized, big, expenisve gifts to people. You are often times not being kind to them. You are in fact, in many cases, making them feel inadequate. You should graciously accept gifts in return to give that person the joy of giving. Gifts should be equal to the depth of your friendship and social status to make the process equitable.
Etsy is garbage. We were top sellers and had a whole team that created designs. They banned us for the wrong reasons and wouldn't hear our appeal. They should be sued.
