Hey Shimmy, you are certainly a titan of the POD movement! So, could you please explain to us commoners that the traffic on those sites is actually people who sell their designs there and come to check their stores, only to see next to 0 sales every time. It is a big difference between visitors, unique visitors, and buyers. To be completely informative, you could get the data on how many t-shirts are actually sold on these platforms. Love and sells, man! :)
Thanks! I’m not sure how I would get the data on people’s individual sales on these platforms. Maybe Amazon and Etsy but all the others ones I don’t think that data is readily available
The list is: Redbubble Zazzle Teepublic Displate Fine art america Society6 CafePress Spreadshirt Threadless Bonfire Gear bubble Teechip Designbyhumans Teefury Teezily Viral Style
You flipped the script with this video Mr. Morris! TikTok was an eye opener! In terms of not thinking of that platform as a marketplace… for me anyway 😊
People could be spending a lot of time on the website not because they are captivated by the design, but because website is not easy to navigate and find exactly what you need. Or because of cross marketing they got distracted by other stuff (which is very likely), so time spend on the website not necessarily tells you how good the website for POD is. What you should look at - how many visits per store on average and visit to sale conversion ratio.
Yes, those scenarios have happened to me, before. I, either, get distracted by something else, or It takes me a while to navigate the website. I agree we need the conversion rates.
Yes, and knowing Amazon is the worst in term of distraction and ease of navigation, and is also too much loaded with information badly organized and not easily identified (probably on purpose) you tend to spend unvoluntarily much more time on an Amazon page.
I like your analysis and info gathering on this issue. Very interesting, you just got another subs. Correction regarding Etsy, they are a POD shop and marketplace at the same time, meaning one can get stuff made thru Etsy and sold there too. Congrats.
Love the video, Shimm! This is exactly what I needed! I've started selling on international marketplaces to take advantage of the usd value, as converting it to my local currency has proven to be highly profitable. But, recently began selling on local platforms like tiktok, lazada and shopee earlier this year after my side hustle took a significant downturn and I wasn't making enough money. Surprisingly, I've found that selling on these local platforms has been more lucrative for me than selling on the international level.
@@FallingRayne I don't need advertising on TikTok since listing the products on the TikTok marketplace alone brings me thousands of visitors every day. However, I still don't know how to sell to the international marketplace yet 🥲
@@azharkuzairy My advise: Don't rely on those plateforms as on the web in general. Things change rapidly at an impressive speed on Internat nowadays and more than ever. Think about a real life reliable business in case of thigs change to the worse.
@shimmymorris1 By the way, I always report the impersonating scammers on UA-cam, there's one in this chain, but UA-cam isn't recognising your channel url when I put it in their report form. This is usually to do with your channel settings. Is there any way you could fix that? I detest these scammers, ripping people off.
@@shimmymorris1 3rd video about the amount of traffic sites get? This is something I have never seen mentioned in the beatmaking community with beat selling marketplace sites. You gave me the idea to do so some years ago in a video you did. I haven't, but neither has anyone else, and its something I don't think beatmakers keep in mind with sites and why they don't sell. Seeing you revisit the topic a few times with POD kinda of shows how sites momentum can change.
every shop will get bad reviews at some point. Were those reviews recent, how bad were they, and can you avoid those issues? These are all questions you should be asking yourself if you see negative reviews
Hey Shimmy! I wanted to start a POD store just for fun and created a shopify + printful integrated store. I got one sale but quickly realized that I didn't want to use printful anymore due to the fact that I have to pay for the product cost/fulfillment. I searched for other POD sites and saw Teespring, Redbubble, and Teepublic. I saw that a lot of those sites are on a downhill trend and profits are VERY hard to come by. Do you have any alternative suggestions for sites like those that don't charge you for production costs and stuff?
Print providers would make no money if they didn't charge for their services...Printify is pretty good though and you can find codes that give you a month's membership for free.
Interesting that amazon is longer time than etsy bc at etsy sellers we are so trained to fill all our image slots and make nice images etc. amazon is basic images usually and so I’d think less time there.
Definitely check out Skillshare as the first 1,000 people to use the link will get a 1 month free trial: skl.sh/shimmymorris06231
Which one was Venezuela though?
Hey Shimmy, you are certainly a titan of the POD movement! So, could you please explain to us commoners that the traffic on those sites is actually people who sell their designs there and come to check their stores, only to see next to 0 sales every time. It is a big difference between visitors, unique visitors, and buyers. To be completely informative, you could get the data on how many t-shirts are actually sold on these platforms. Love and sells, man! :)
Thanks! I’m not sure how I would get the data on people’s individual sales on these platforms. Maybe Amazon and Etsy but all the others ones I don’t think that data is readily available
The list is:
Redbubble
Zazzle
Teepublic
Displate
Fine art america
Society6
CafePress
Spreadshirt
Threadless
Bonfire
Gear bubble
Teechip
Designbyhumans
Teefury
Teezily
Viral Style
You flipped the script with this video Mr. Morris! TikTok was an eye opener! In terms of not thinking of that platform as a marketplace… for me anyway 😊
nice!!! happy you found something new :D
People could be spending a lot of time on the website not because they are captivated by the design, but because website is not easy to navigate and find exactly what you need. Or because of cross marketing they got distracted by other stuff (which is very likely), so time spend on the website not necessarily tells you how good the website for POD is. What you should look at - how many visits per store on average and visit to sale conversion ratio.
Yes, those scenarios have happened to me, before. I, either, get distracted by something else, or It takes me a while to navigate the website. I agree we need the conversion rates.
Yes, and knowing Amazon is the worst in term of distraction and ease of navigation, and is also too much loaded with information badly organized and not easily identified (probably on purpose) you tend to spend unvoluntarily much more time on an Amazon page.
I am interested in the bigger profit margins, good quality and fast shipping. Can't wait for the next videos.
awesome!! thanks
Great info. I'm eager to hear the next videos you mentioned. Thanks!
amazing! thanks
Wow what a very thorough video. Thank you for this content. Got a like and a new subscriber too.
wow thank you so much :D
Maybe its traffic from sellers not buyers
Yup 😊
that's why i picked sites with marketplaces as most that traffic will be buyers not sellers
Dude those data are amazing, thanks 👍🏻, keep up
Glad you like it!!
Hey Shimmy, Please we need a video about : How to work on ViralStyle POD company ?
I like your analysis and info gathering on this issue. Very interesting, you just got another subs. Correction regarding Etsy, they are a POD shop and marketplace at the same time, meaning one can get stuff made thru Etsy and sold there too. Congrats.
Love the video, Shimm! This is exactly what I needed! I've started selling on international marketplaces to take advantage of the usd value, as converting it to my local currency has proven to be highly profitable. But, recently began selling on local platforms like tiktok, lazada and shopee earlier this year after my side hustle took a significant downturn and I wasn't making enough money. Surprisingly, I've found that selling on these local platforms has been more lucrative for me than selling on the international level.
Right? I’ve gotta figure out TikTok
@@FallingRayne I don't need advertising on TikTok since listing the products on the TikTok marketplace alone brings me thousands of visitors every day. However, I still don't know how to sell to the international marketplace yet 🥲
@@azharkuzairy My advise: Don't rely on those plateforms as on the web in general. Things change rapidly at an impressive speed on Internat nowadays and more than ever. Think about a real life reliable business in case of thigs change to the worse.
@@azharkuzairywhat type of products do u sell?
A lot of these sites I had not heard of... 🤔 excellent video
thank you so much!
A very interesting and helpful video, with a lot of surprises! Thanks!
What struck me most about this is that I had never heard of most of them! Curious not to see Pinterest there.
Sshhh! Lol
that's awesome! I didn't add pinterest on purpose. The shops aren't that amazing.. but they'll be future videos with it
@shimmymorris1 I just got my merchant status on there so will see how it goes 😀
@shimmymorris1 By the way, I always report the impersonating scammers on UA-cam, there's one in this chain, but UA-cam isn't recognising your channel url when I put it in their report form. This is usually to do with your channel settings. Is there any way you could fix that? I detest these scammers, ripping people off.
100,000 subs? No problem for you, Shimmy. Great video as always…but the whole time I was trying to read what was in your shirt 😂😂
I'm curious, which one is the site that shows the most popular country Venezuela?
it was Teezily and i meant Vietnam.
viralstyle looks like it will be a good company to work with, hope you do a video on them soon
that's the plan
I have heard some not so good things about them, but I haven't checked into them, yet.
I desperately need someone to make videos on viralstyle so thank you for talking about it.
Thanks so much for the free trial with skillshare! I love learning new things. ❤
awesome!! good luck with it!
looking forward to your Viral Style and Design By Humans videos!
Thank you for the research.
You’re welcome!
Great video Shimmy..thank you!!
thank you so much for watching
Thank you 🙏🏼
You’re welcome 😊
Great video and thank you for your all your effort.
you're welcome!!
where is the next video?!
Very good info. Especially about the amount of traffic. This is like your 3rd?
Thank you! What do you mean my
3rd?
@@shimmymorris1 3rd video about the amount of traffic sites get? This is something I have never seen mentioned in the beatmaking community with beat selling marketplace sites. You gave me the idea to do so some years ago in a video you did. I haven't, but neither has anyone else, and its something I don't think beatmakers keep in mind with sites and why they don't sell. Seeing you revisit the topic a few times with POD kinda of shows how sites momentum can change.
shimmy always putting us on game!!
thanks!
Good video dude
Appreciate it
Thank you for this 👍🏻
Nah, can't do it on merchAmazon bec they don't make this available for third world countries
Thanks for the video
What is the best software or site for finding niche products to sell on Google??
my favourite is prettymerch. I consult for them and help them make the best possible app
which POD has the best quality tee? which POD has it all?
Great video ❤
I heard bad reviews from viral style. I was going to try and post my stuff there but some people said its iffy.
every shop will get bad reviews at some point. Were those reviews recent, how bad were they, and can you avoid those issues? These are all questions you should be asking yourself if you see negative reviews
What do you think of BigCartel?
??? Shimmy, It would be interesting to know how much traffic these site get related to clothing, i.e. image based clothing etc.
that would be super useful to know. I don't think I'd be able to access that info though
Hey Shimmy! I wanted to start a POD store just for fun and created a shopify + printful integrated store. I got one sale but quickly realized that I didn't want to use printful anymore due to the fact that I have to pay for the product cost/fulfillment. I searched for other POD sites and saw Teespring, Redbubble, and Teepublic. I saw that a lot of those sites are on a downhill trend and profits are VERY hard to come by. Do you have any alternative suggestions for sites like those that don't charge you for production costs and stuff?
Print providers would make no money if they didn't charge for their services...Printify is pretty good though and you can find codes that give you a month's membership for free.
I'm starting a Pod as well and I was gonna use redbubble but they started charging artists for every sale they make
@@amandarose4399I understand where your coming from but they alread make money from us as artists because they get revenue
Interesting that amazon is longer time than etsy bc at etsy sellers we are so trained to fill all our image slots and make nice images etc. amazon is basic images usually and so I’d think less time there.
it's because you can get lost on amazon searching for new things
@@shimmymorris1 good point
1:41 the "TIER5: INSANE" change to "TIER4: HIGH" 🤫
Why?
@@shimmymorris1 no I mean, there is a mistake in that moment where the " TIER5...." change to "TIER4..."
It is not something big, i just want to say it to you, but it's totally fine 😊
@@yassineelkhayt4143 ohh right, oops!
@@yassineelkhayt4143 thanks for letting me know
make a detailed videon doing print on demand targetting german audience? What kind of dedsigns they like, etc.
what are the websites your talking about ? you never did say, so disappointing:(
What do you mean? The websites are in the video… that’s what the whole video is about.
You missed wallmart maybe 😅
i did, i'll look into them a little more
What about teespring??
Teespring doesn’t have an integrated marketplace so website traffic makes no difference
Sua resposta me ajudou na dúvida que tinha, sobre se as plataformas tinha market place integrado.
Obrigado.
❤❤❤
get to the point please, tell us what yer gonna tell us soon OK
feel free to skip elements of the video :D
Why are you wearing lipstick??
ermm.. i'm not...
@@shimmymorris1 don't take it seriously, I am just kidding
You got beautiful lips..
Detroit Michigan 48221. Thank you very much. I sub, liked and commented : Video paid for.