Alek i thought maybe it was an option to dm you, but i just had a few questions for you. I have nothing going on right now but i just had a few personal questions about your business’ and your youtube channel.. anyway to get a hold of you? Been enjoying the videos, you are clear about every angle and the speed is on point. I understand i can ask questions over comments but really would like a quick conversation elsewhere maybe? Or even on youtube. Lmk
It took me 5 months but my shop just passed it's first $1000 in revenue!! The past three months, I've consistently pulled in over $230/mo and I've been SLACKING because I worked myself so hard to get it started!! So now it's turning into $200+ per month semi-passive! It feels 100% passive though, because the only real "work" I do now is to send a quick msg to buyers after each sale and replying to reviews. Takes maybe 15 seconds each time. YES it takes work upfront. I can't even tell you how many hours I spent designing my shop, figuring out the overall look, creating and editing graphics for my listings (currently I have 221 listings total), etc. but knowing that I have a steady flow of at least $200 extra per month for the foreseeable future is so freakin' worth it!! THANK YOU!! Your videos were the ones that got me here!!
Making money is not the same as keeping it there is a reason why investments aren't well taught in schools, the examples you gave are well stationed, the market crisis gave me my first millions, people shy away from hard times, I embrace them....
I'll suggest you create a diversification strategy because building a good financial-portfolio has been more complex since covid. Recently my colleague advised me to hire an advisor, surprisingly I have accrued over $120K under the guidance of my coach during this crash. he figured out Defensive strategies to protect my portfolio and make profit from this roller coaster market.
@Santa sani David jeffrey Herman is my portfolio-coach, I found him on CNBC where he was interviewed, I looked up his name on the internet. Fortunately I came across his site and reached out to him, you can verify him yourself.
What RU-vidrs Don't Tell You About AI Art: Approval required: To sell on most major Print on Demand (POD) platforms, you need to be accepted as a seller or artist beforehand, which can take a significant amount of time depending on demand. High competition: There is an immense amount of competition, and AI-generated art is not as profitable as it may seem, since the market is saturated and professional designers are earning their living in the same space. Clickbait videos: RU-vidrs who create videos with thumbnails displaying specific numbers like '$8848.39' are selling a dream and making money off your clicks. Passive income potential: Although AI art creation can be a source of passive income, you will need to produce a large volume of work and even engage in promotion to have any hope of selling anything, or else your pieces will be lost among the countless others.
You are right, every gold buissness is shit, if u don't pump to it a lot of your time and marketing. Only passive income is trading, obligations, apartaments etc.
Another very important factor that those promoting AI content often ignore, is that AI generated content can't be copyrighted. Someone could grab all the images and sell them themselves, because there's no legal ownership. This also means it isn't a solid business model. You can invest a lot of time and money into promoting this work and not get much from it
You work for 40yrs to have $1m in your retirement, Meanwhile some people are putting just $20k in a meme coin for just 2 months and now they are multimillionaire. I pray that anyone who reads this will be successful in life.....??
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@youtube.com341 Interesting, that's alot of profit you got there, I have a lump sum doing absolutely nothing in my bank account, i wanna get something started with it.
Thanks for this amazing information !! If you don't find a means of multiplying money, you will wake up one day to realise that the money you thought you had, has finished. Investment is key, I pray that anyone who reads this will be successful in life
@Jamie Janny I agree with you Investment is the key to sustaining financial longevity . And not just any investment but an investment with guaranteed return .
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Sweet lord. Just chiming in here... Great vid... Use artboards and a template. Create a blank project with an art board in each aspect ratio you need. Save as template. Then open template and add your pic to each artboards. Upscale and resize. Export all artboards as files. Batch exporting will save so much more time. And we know time is money.
Good news: I bet there is even a way to link the artboards so you only have to fill in the image and it will fill in all the artboards. Bad news: I have no idea how
@@flowstateofmind hahaha. You could create an action that did it for you. But that's too extensive to list here. But it's basically place the item, hit record... Do all the steps once. Stop record. Rename action. Call it a day.
Out of all the online side hustle ideas this really seems like one of the most valid ones. I am going to give this a shot! Really appreciate how thoroughly you've gone through this process man. Cheers! Here's to some passive income!
stupid part is all AI generated art are limited in resolution, and if you want it to be printable for various sizes for wall art, the resolution needs to be VERY HIGH
@@alexarmani9209 There are a lot of programs that can do a great job increasing the size of the art. But sadly the art's not the hard part ... the hard part is the actually selling.
@@alekSheffy @alekSheffy should I crop the image by the Art/Photo size aspect ratio chart and not the Final frame size chart? Or should I do both? Thanks!
While its nice that you explained everything in detail, but so does every other youtuber who makes these types of videos. What I would want to see that nobody ever shows is actually making money from that same shop you created. Show your first sales, how long it took, what type of SEO you had to do, did you pay for ads on etsy etc. Its easy to follow this, create a shop and publish the listings, but actually getting your product seen and even getting the first sale is a far far different thing as the market is very very competitive and theres hundreds of these shops that do the exact same thing. Show me how you take this exact shop to making 834 USD a day, otherwise its just a clickbait
Thank you for taking the time to do a short step by step explanation. I’ve watched a lot of other videos that click bait on “how to” and don’t really go into detail of the steps. Appreciate your videos.
I don’t usually comment on videos especially ones about making money because they tend to be all clickbait and no substance. However you shook me with the step by step instructions and walkthrough. A great video alek definitely subscribed 👍🏻
This is the first video like this I've seen that's actually convincing. Everything seems doable, but not guaranteed to make you rich right away, and actually requires some work.
Tried this for the last month. Followed along step by step. Chose custom pet prints as this was a great niche. Got 0 sales in 3 weeks. So tried again, sold the same as is shown in the videos. Got 0 sales + 0 views in 3 weeks. So went against the advice and ran ads - 18 sales in 3 days! Good concept but you fail to mention that the sellers who are killing it are also the sellers who are killing you. The competition is so high in this niche that you don’t even get a look-in. Possibly ‘try’ these ideas for a month before promoting them as a ‘how to’ tutorial.
It's a good side hustle to tell people about possible side hustles. I can imagine this video was made with a lot of help by AI starting with the instructions on how to do this.
This is an add for photopea. Tried this guys technique and my images came out looking like blurry trash. No way could I sell it! You're going to have to invest some $$$ into proper image creating services like I did. No such thing as a free lunch.
The gag about you is you accept loss before trying. Everything is possible if you make it your priority. Yes it is hard initially but so does every thing else.
I gave this a try so far i haven't sold a single digital poster xD. What surprisingly has worked is digital printable items with utility i tried running Etsy ads at the minimum of one dollar per day and made an average of two sales a month. I was actually loosing money to the Etsy ads and the fees. First they bill you 0.20 cents per listing and once the item sells there are more fees you have to pay and they are not small if you ask me. If you want to make some money i recommend you spend a little extra work creating digital utility prints instead of art. And even with that you will need to create as many good designs as posible. It jas been moths and im still on the negative because i paid for adds. Now that i turned them of the traffic is supper slow. I know this sounds discouraging but 20,000 a month is not a realistic goal. When i average 100 dollar per month i will be celebrating 🤣🤣
You should do a new video about LBTNCRP300X ! I really like you’re mellow delivery and you seem like you’re very knowledgeable. I watch lots of influencers and you always seem very calculated and know exactly what you’re talking about and understand it. You’re better at explaining complicated things simply, than any other person on youtube keep it up brother!
Just watched this video... Over the years, I have seen a LOT of side hustle videos, and this was truly a great video and great job. Thank you for going through everything thoroughly and with just the right amount of proof, encouragement, and detail! Great job and can't wait to see your other videos!
You can't just drag such a low res image to enlarge to the print size. The resolution will look terrible, and will NOT be print quality. A recipe for many customers complaining about quality. Need to use an AI upscaler
Hi Alek, I don’t know if it’s going to be my life you are about to change but, I feel this is about to change someone’s life because of your help. Thanks for sharing this in a quick, easy to understand video. Take care brother
Hey man, great video. I’ve seen a couple of videos of yours now and they all seem valid. One thing I haven’t found is a detailed way of opening and running an Etsy shop. This image generation part is all good but I feel it’s the easy part and it’s not nearly enough to land you 20k/month, you need to understand Etsy business and SEO and actually sell, so it will help you credibility a lot if you did that and have a video doing it.
Hey Alek, just wanted to say thanks for this video. I've started a store following these exact steps and it's been going well! Would love to keep you updated on my progress
There has to be a space after your prompt and then the aspect ratio --ar 2:3. I can't tell you how long it took me to figure this out :) Also only version 3 of Midjourney allows different aspect ratios, version 4 will only do squares from my understanding. you can "/settings " to change to version 3
There are a number of shops almost identical to North Prints on Etsy, including one I spotted that was a year older. Some have a decent amount of sales, some not, but none of the ones I looked at had that amount of sales, and in such a short time frame. It makes you wonder what the more successful shops do differently to the others to get ahead. NP's owner does seem to be very active on social media though.
SEO, driving external traffic, use of sales and ads strategically. You don't list it and they will come. You list, drive traffic to get momentum. If new shop, you give free coupons to get reviews going. Set it as part of your promotional budget. Build relationships. Use email marketing
Hello Alek, Thank you for the Video! I am a cancer survivor since I was 14. My parents sacrificed a lot for me, they lost jobs and eventually we hit poverty line. I feel like I am responsible for my parents and younger siblings sufferings because I got sick. I am now 26, unemployed, and trying to get a college degree, even though I still have medical problems. Just recently my cancer came back and I had to get a thyroidectomy. I appreciate your video, and I hope I can have even a fraction of the success those other storefronts you showed off has. If I can get 100 sales per month, my family and I would be happy.
Great video. Would you have a different etsy store for each artwork niche, or would you do it all under the same store even if the styles are very different? Is there an advantage to having just one store with many different styles?
Great video once again. This channel provides alot of useful information that some of the more popular channels on these topics seem to miss. I'd like to see your take on a listing tutorial sometime (as it can be pretty painstaking).
Solid advice, my plan is to impact the market with big bundles, once i found my prompt for a catagory (I use photoleap not midjourney) I simply continue to generate high quality images. I want about 4-5 bundle packages because my in mind this seems to be the best way to sell complex digital art. Think of it as selling the convenience of an art gallery at their own home. Then while I generate images i track my prompts as I often experiment. Anything I see as a potential seller that doesn't fit a catagory will be listed individually. Once I am up and running my real bread and butter will be combining art with practical uses. Making planners, to do lists, and calendars up front, opening up a custom request for art. So far this has been very enjoyable just looking at cool art, very low risk and low investment without needing to advertise. Stop making videos please, let me get ahead first :P but really thank you, you had some solid advice in here. Good luck mate.
This is just crazy, I'm watching your videos over and over , started my store a few days ago and wasn't sure to start with this, or that, or the other one.. and now I'm starting to organize all and in the next days I'll try and use all the tips you gave us. It's all like "gold", I don't think that anyone who use all the steps and keeps in mind all what you say in your videos can go wrong with his shop. Many thanks!
@@Icedanon Well like Alek said, in the first days no one rushed even to see the shops, but everyday I try to make between 5 and 10 designs and publish them.. so I am sure that in the next month the sales will come as well.
Right? I mean I've been doing this stuff already on Redbubble and Teepublic and Society 6 and made $3000 but mind you that took me since February 2021 so not very impressive still it works to make something and first six months I made nothing because I didn’t know what sold but I guess on Etsy there's a much bigger profit margin?
Very informative. However, just want to get cleared on the physical aspect of selling them as physical prints. Can you explain it in brief how to sell the physical prints?
Man, just wanted to say thank you so much for the time and effort you put into your videos! I'm not making millions but I'm on the way to leaving my job...I can't put a value on that, truly. You have been amazing, thank you again for all your videos and extensive walkthroughs. You're a life changer man, please keep it up!
Thanks for sharing this invaluable knowledge. The detail you provide has motivated me to give this idea a try. You don't leave anyone guessing how to start. Thanks.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I haven’t made any sales yet. But I’m already creating art and setting up the store. I’m excited for another income stream!!!!
great idea yet again. the one thing i'm left wondering about is the last thing you mentioned... physical prints. what's that process look like? is it a print-on-demand/drop-ship type of thing?
10:24 After purchasing the print, the customer can click on the hyperlink which will take them to the Google drive folder with the images. The customer can then download the images and print them
Wanna think about something really crazy? An AI could quite easily do all these steps for you if it was given the right tools. The prompt would be as simple as "come up with a name for a new Etsy store, create the account, generate 50 pictures of palm trees and beach scenes and let me choose the best ones, crop each image with the following aspect ratios, upload the results to Google drive, create a PDF with a hyperlink to the Google drive, upload the PDFs as products on my store". Then just run that command a few times to generate new Etsy stores and see which one performs the best
Man, this is hilarious 😆 I’ve tried this since 2016. Tried everything except for midjourney. All listings are up. Five years Zero sales bro. You’re too naive with this “new idea”. The main business goal is TO DRAW TRAFFIC to your products, not “just create your products and put them on the listing”
Nice idea and might work in the future, but mid journey can only export max 2k res images so it’s not going to work if you wanna sell high quality large prints.
I don't see the Esty link mentioned with the 40 free listings (at 3:13) for a new shop. Did it expire or am I missing something? Thanks! Love your videos. They're very helpful and I've learned ALOT!
I think there is a major security flaw in the method used to distribute the digital files. When giving the customer the link to download basically anyone with that link can download the files, meaning that one person can buy it, then share the link and there's no profit. Alex, what's your solution for that case ? By the way, thanks a lot for the inspiration and greta videos man, really appreciate them!
One additional thought, even though Alek shows potential revenue streams in each of his examples, I would like to see what he believes net net revenue or actual profit is of running one of these stores is after all expenses are taken into account.I know he points out "before Etsy fees and ads" in his commentary. Just would like to see a bottom line number. Best Guess anyway.. Thanks for the great content!
I magine all those service fees to use some of those programs (minus the free ones of course), plus marketing money spent on ads (because otherwise your shop will just be lost in the sea of countless other shops), would all add up pretty quick and cut into your net income.
Thanks Alek. When I was watching your this clip first time I was assuming that at the end of it You will say something like ... '' join me on my course on how to do make x- amount with my secret method... bla bla bla''' but hey You are just explaining the process and that's it. Great inspiration.
Many thanks for this video, great tutorial ! But I was wondering : don't we need to upgrade the design's quality before using it for our creations ? I mean even after Midjourney's upgrading tool
I'm pretty sure you do. I am looking for an answer to this issue. I don't want to list an item that's 18x24 for example, and then it end up being poor quality for the customer. If anyone knows the best way to do this, please let me know x
@@rekensha7945 $99 with an expected return (not guaranteed) of 10s of thousands a month is a decent investment. But you have to know how to make the sales. My guess is this business will be profitable for only a short time until people realize they can just get any image they want from Midjourney and other future AIs.
Good question. I think the standard upscale is 1024 square, but I found no reference to the dpi. I use Gigapixel Ai. It's better with faces than with my abstract art, but it's better than not being able to use the image at all.
hi, firstly great video! 😁 im a noob when it comes to aspect ratios 😅 would you be able to list aspect ratios for landscape paintings or recommend a video source? thanks
You can't call it profit untill you take etsy fee and ads spend in account. Which is probable that they ran ads, which take a lot of time and effort to optimize and still after thats whats the ROAS here. It's generally 3x
I am following step by step - however -I'm stuck at the etsy level. It would be really helpful to do a step by step - guide on what exactly you are putting in your etsy shop - there's sizes and details I don't know what to put.
Hello Alek, thanks for the informative video :) You mentioned to target more niches, and I agree, my only question is, that would you create different stores for the different niches OR on store is okay for more styles?
Hey Alex, Amazing content! I had same question because I have lots of ideas but wondering do I put them all under one shop or do more than one depending on style of art?
It’s funny that you say you can t use unsplash images but for midjourney it seems alright for you. You can’t own an Ai generated image, it has already been ruled out by several court of justice in the US. You cannot legally sell an image for which you don’t own the copyright, an AI cannot produce an image that you can copyright, and the legal notice on mid journey discord servers is a joke (they say you own what you do, but no you don’t)
It's incredible what a cess pool so much of youtube has become because of unscrupulous marketers. Not the content maker of this video, although I'm just SO tired of the constant head banging video style of rapid cuts and fast talking. It's enough to drive you batty.
Hey Alek, thanks for putting in the time for a video. Would love to see how it’s going in real-time for your shop, have you setup digital downloads yet? If so, would love to see bts, like how you did with the customized merch. Things don’t always go as planned, would love to see how problems get solved. Best!!
@@alekSheffy you missed the step of upscaling. By stretching the small 1500 PX image to 4x size it will be blurry when they print. You need to upscale to get a 4800+ PX image and then crop it down. It will be a better user experience due to print quality.
It takes about 10-20 hours to start to learn the AI but its' lots of fun! You can start by copying public prompts...yes it takes some work, as does anything.
I don't know if this video is serious or just don't care about customer's but midjourney pixel density of the generated images are not enough to print a poster. Maximum you can print is 8x10 but more than at the picture will look pixelated and very low quality.
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I see people in comments who like to complain. I have 10+ years of background in branding and my advice to all of you is this: differentiate. At this moment, 90% of markets are saturated. Guess who is winning? Exactly. So, study the competition and be better, be different and money will follow.
or whats worse, whats to stop one buyer from getting the link getting the downloads , and reselling those on the same site! ... i think if anyone wants to REALLY play it safe physical goods are the best safe way to do this...
@@lifewithnyx9979 Exactly. Who would buy a digital file of artwork that they themselves have to find a way to print out? I think ETSY sellers are shipping out the physical prints.
Instead of using a Google drive link, you can zip the files which should greatly reduce the file size so that it can be uploaded to Etsy or wherever you're selling.
Wow that was a lot of info but I heard stuff that others haven't talked about, all in one video. I will re watch it again. It makes me excited to try. I would be happy with $30/day at this point. Stay at home mom just wanting to help with the bills, but $10K/month would be even better haha
Question for you, what decided the specific sizes you picked for digital? And how does it translate to the suppliers from printify? The suppliers I've looked through for posters seem to not support most of these sizes, but the canvas suppliers do. Any input would be appreciated.
yeah... I've been working on this for a while... seems to be hard to get it right. especially using midjourney, the best dimentions you get using V4 is 1664x2432 pixels... from that it's very hard to transform the image into something bigger. Then using photopea it's best will be 1442x2132... not sure when customer will print that out it will fit the quality, I guess we have to print by ourselves in real to be sure... maybe even buy something from another shop to verify how they are sizing them. Another issue, I guess is the link in the PDF, this doesn't really look professional... I don't know what you guys think about it. I've been trying this technique for 3 days, no miracle yet, but I'm keeping trying and will see. anyway the idea is a good one, and nice for sharing.
Thanks for the info this video is GREAT! Question, in the size chart you show, what does Final Frame Size mean? does that mean if you crop an image at 5x7 it will be used for the 8x10? Or am I overthinking it and the 8x10 crop is the 8x10 version?
@Choppy_12 you were right the first time, the "final frame size" is the size of the frame. In the chart he gives you the frame size paired with the corresponding photo size. So, in other words, you only need to crop the art piece to the 6 dimensions he listed on the right under "Art/Photo Size". I hope this helps!
Great video but you missed one crucial step - all generated pictures from Midjourney have to be UPASCALED to be printable! Does Photopea upscale and create more pixels and better quality of the picture, when you enlarge it (small pic to 20x30)? I do not think so...
@@miriades No, it is, I use it. But anyhow quality art print (if you don't want to be "pixelated" or blurry) need much more pixels that Midjourney generate. That's why you have to use after all some upscaling program. Topaz gigapixel is the best but it's not free.
How important is it to create multiple variations of each ratio? For example, ratio 2:3 - the largest size (in inches) I can see people selling is 20x30. You also have 16x24, 12x18 & 8x12. Is it recommended to create all of those or just the larger size which could print on the smaller sizes anyway? Or, because the images are scaled down to the smaller sizes, do they not print as well as when creating them to the specific sizes in Photoshop?
Hi thanks for the video , really inspirating One question: are the output images big enough to de directly upload to etsy for print ? or should you use a upscaled version: because i ve tried and etsy is telling me that images should be at least 2k pixel wide which is not the case in midjourney , even after i ve upscale with the midjourney option it seems. maybe i m doing something wrong ? Also is there a way to automate the export in multiple ratio some way ? :D thanks for the feedback
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Hi Alek, love your videos, I have a quick question about resizing method. I used Photopea to resize and make images the proper DPI. Properties tell me that each image is properly sized and has the right specs where DPI is concerned, but I do this by dragging the image into Photopea, clicking 'Image Size' and adjusting from there [to the required measurements and DPI]. The method is slightly different, but the results seem to be the same. My question is if this method is okay?
What settings are you using for listing details (handmade) and production partners? Nobody making these AI Etsy videos discloses this and it's a major factor in not getting a shop suspended.
Awesome! You've inspired me to go down to the local Food Bank - get some free hampers of donated food - and re-sell them at our local farmer's market. Shouldn't be long before I'm rolling in dough. Wish me luck.
Great video Alek. I'm confused about the download work you did though. I've seen other creators explaining they just create a a zipfile with the designs along with an explanation document about how to print them and that's the file that they upload to Etsy and Etsy does all the rest regarding customer downloads. Why do you go into the more complicated route of having a Google Drive download link - is there some advantage to this? Thanks
Wanted to ask this too, I've never seen this method before. I thought the zip file was standard practice. Also a download link on a pdf makes it look kind of suspicious
What people don’t know is there are 100m products on Etsy listed from 5.4m sellers and the average seller only makes $2.1k pa and that’s revenue not profit…….to make it work you need to put in so much time
Hey you're only supposed to crop the image by the Art/Photo size aspect ratio. The Final Frame Size is just there to show you what sized frame goes with a particular photo size. For example, according to his chart an 8" x 10" frame pairs well with a 5" x 7" photo. I hope this helps!
Thanks, @Alek. Great ideas. Question. Who's the target customer on Etsy buying the digital art? People looking to resell as physical products? Or just individuals for personal use? Just curious. Thanks!
@@alekSheffy Do they print them at home or need to go to a store to print for the bigger sizes? If so, Where should you recommend the customer to go? an art store or a larger chain like Fedex or Office Max? (By the way great video, thanks!)
Hey Alek. Can you do this video again ? More information and details on the process would be awesome. This is great video and I would like to see more video of this topic. Thanks 🙏
Thanks @Alek - this is great info. Quick question, when exporting your jpeg out of Photopea, do you set the quality at 100%? Photopea defaults to 71%, which I suspect is not enough quality for a digital print file. But 100% makes a huge file? Is the right amount 90%? I look forward to your thoughts/comments. Thanks @Alek!
funny- i am at the point you were 3 months ago and as surprised about exporting to a jpg as opposed to a png (which maintains the original quality). i plan to export to 100% to maintain as much quality as possible and will see how it goes.
So you use the ar 2:3 command for all designs and then create the different size prints for download in Photopea (eg 8x10, 11x14)? What are the other aspect rations for then like 3:4 4:5 etc?
its funny that etsy dropped an announcement today - and the only update I wanted was the ability to import master sku lists from printify for custom variations! haha manually entering 12 skus for birth month flower mugs 12 times blows
I don't really understand the ratios. I created some 2:3 pictures but if I crop them in, let's say, 8 x 10 or 16 x 20, parts of the image will be cropped off. In his example it's not making a big difference but with my images it's not really possible. Not sure what's the best way to crop and resize if you don't want to lose any part of the image...
