I honestly wish everyone starting POD could see this. No doubt some of them would ignore it 😂 but this is what I've always told people (private coach since 2011). If you want longevity, you want loyal customers, you want a social media feed people love to follow, you want something you can eventually do wholesale, find higher quality manufacturers... get a brand. The days of gambling on Internet visibility are over, you need to be a beacon.
As always I really appreciate your sharing your perspectives and time earned wisdom with us! And it's interesting that you talk about establishing a brand as thats something that's been in the back of my mind. I've only been doing this maybe two months and am still trying to figure it all out but I completely see where you're coming from and it makes perfect sense. Thanks again Shimmy, really appreciate you!
Thank you for sharing what pivoting looks like. I would love to hear more and how as a business owner you combat feelings of negativity when you realize you have to pivot again/more.
Great story. I can relate but add two more decades lol. Pod for me started in the early 90s and it was like working blind. I brokered printing and my niches were promotional items. Did this in between working full time. B2b mostly. I worked as a designer in printing. Later I owned a few companies in the sector. It was good memories but since 2015 I just do tees on Amazon and decided this month to make a pod website. design design all day. Always enjoy the vids podro!
Wonderful path you've been on. Ill add this - It NOT about sales but profit V your Living expenses, balanced with a Healthy, stress free enjoyable life of daily wonder of life's experiences unfolding... POD as a creative person is liberating and the barrier to entry is now very low to at least try and hopefully build a business that's a Lifestyle rather than an hourly job. No looking back :)
How to build a brand if you sell PoD on Amazon? You sell t-shirts of different quailty and different brands. And of course hundreds or thousands of designs. So how will people recognize your or my brand? With a logo?
Hey, When it comes to building a brand, is it better to use print on demand platform like printify, or to collaborate with a clothing manufacture that can produce slightly better quality products to sell in my Shopify store?
Thanks for the informative video. Im hoping i can get your advice shimmy, im looking to create a brand around parenting. I plan to sell matching parent/child POD shirts, wall art and more. Do you think its a good niche or too saturated? Thanks!
So I’ve come into some redundancy money and lined up a new job, and my design count is closing in on the 100 mark. I’m going to be signing up to your paid skool thing soon. Any recommendations on where to start when I do sign up, or is it straight forward once you’re in? Also did you start as a sole trader or a limited company? Is there support which covers that?
I got accepted to Amazon merch like over a year ago and never really did anything with it. I have 2 random shirts i made for myself. I tried Etsy and hated it. With Amazon, Like i don't want to make hundreds of tshirt designs, so should i just not even mess with it? I'm really having trouble finding the words to my question lol..
I've been on Amazon Merch since 2019 and have a niche that I've built up over the years and have done well with. But I always listed them under generic brand names related to the niche. To build a brand, should I go back and change the brand section to a brand name of my choosing?
Good job with the success on Amazon. You could do, but if they're getting sales I wouldn't mess with them. Building a brand is more of a thing if you're going to create your own site, for example on Shopify
I am here just to find a comparison of current POD companies since Spring's reviews have been terrible since the company was sold. What is a good alternative, I don't need the full bio.
How about an example or two or what you mean by "print on demand brand." Do you mean that we all need to find a polo player logo and print nothing but that? Do you mean that we need to niche down to find something like "one armed window washers"? Do we need to find a supplier that will print custom labels? What?
Somehow you always manage to find something negative with every one of my videos… why do you still watch them? I don’t mean you need a polo player. Niche down yes. One arm window washers… what?? 🤦♂️🤷🏼♂️ Labels in the T-shirts sure. Printify do that as do many others
Having a brand just means that your customers (and people in general) associate certain values and ideas with your business. It's like your business's reputation. It allows you to be known widely and stand for something in your industry.
Not intending to be negative. On the country, I loved your video but I wish you'd elaborated a tiny bit more on what building a POD brand roughly involved. For example, finding a good niche, setting up your own ecommerce website and growing things from there? Not terribly hard to figure out, but just a tiny bit more light on that from you would have been awesome.
thanks for the feedback. I didn't want to go over the same stuff I have done previously... but I'll take note on elaborating a little more in the future
@@shimmymorris1 I wasn't sure if your contents had something solid to learn. But hey, you got a sub from me now. I'll be here when you finally at 100 so we can be frds😂
Would LOVE to hear the whole story! Thanks for all your info!!
I’d love to hear the whole story sometime! Thanks for all you do for the POD squad!
You got it!
Congrats on 100k🎉
Thank you!!
YAY!!! Congrats on 100K!!!!!
Thank you! 😃
I honestly wish everyone starting POD could see this. No doubt some of them would ignore it 😂 but this is what I've always told people (private coach since 2011). If you want longevity, you want loyal customers, you want a social media feed people love to follow, you want something you can eventually do wholesale, find higher quality manufacturers... get a brand. The days of gambling on Internet visibility are over, you need to be a beacon.
I agree - Amazon is by far the worst business model to do. Stay far, far away.
Your transparency is epic! Thank you, I vote to hear more about your journey as an entrepreneur 🎉
thank you!!
Thank you! Really interesting and would like to hear more of the bits you left out.
Noted! Thanks
As always I really appreciate your sharing your perspectives and time earned wisdom with us! And it's interesting that you talk about establishing a brand as thats something that's been in the back of my mind. I've only been doing this maybe two months and am still trying to figure it all out but I completely see where you're coming from and it makes perfect sense. Thanks again Shimmy, really appreciate you!
thank you!! really appreciate this comment!
OMG OMG YOU’RE AT 100k!!!!! 🍾 🥳 CONGRATULATIONS 🎉 Really well deserved!
thank you so so much!!!
Thank you for sharing what pivoting looks like. I would love to hear more and how as a business owner you combat feelings of negativity when you realize you have to pivot again/more.
awesome idea!
Wow Shimmy I did t know you were that young. Keep up the good work I’d like to see some of your designs.
@@seanparola thanks! Yea started at 18/19
Congratulations fir 100k. And we will love to hear whole story ❤
Thank you! Noted.
Congrats with 100k 🍒
Thank you 🙌
Thx 4 sharing, please bring the whole story.
Awesome! More to come
Great story. I can relate but add two more decades lol. Pod for me started in the early 90s and it was like working blind. I brokered printing and my niches were promotional items. Did this in between working full time. B2b mostly. I worked as a designer in printing. Later I owned a few companies in the sector. It was good memories but since 2015 I just do tees on Amazon and decided this month to make a pod website. design design all day. Always enjoy the vids podro!
Great video. Always enjoy watching your content
Thank you so much!
Wonderful path you've been on. Ill add this - It NOT about sales but profit V your Living expenses, balanced with a Healthy, stress free enjoyable life of daily wonder of life's experiences unfolding... POD as a creative person is liberating and the barrier to entry is now very low to at least try and hopefully build a business that's a Lifestyle rather than an hourly job. No looking back :)
100%
How to build a brand if you sell PoD on Amazon? You sell t-shirts of different quailty and different brands. And of course hundreds or thousands of designs. So how will people recognize your or my brand? With a logo?
Hey, When it comes to building a brand, is it better to use print on demand platform like printify, or to collaborate with a clothing manufacture that can produce slightly better quality products to sell in my Shopify store?
Great story; thanks for sharing. I would like to hear more, especially for brand-building tips.:)
Awesome!!! Can’t wait to share
Thanks for the informative video. Im hoping i can get your advice shimmy, im looking to create a brand around parenting. I plan to sell matching parent/child POD shirts, wall art and more. Do you think its a good niche or too saturated? Thanks!
if i use gelato and print inner neck label will the gildan tag not be made anymore on my shirt and only what i chose to print will appear?
Hi Shimmy, Thank you for making this video! I have a question: Is there any provider that offers branded packaging services?
I'm using Merchize. They can help you build your brand by printing your logo on packaging and more.
Interesting! Thank you for sharing.👍
You’re welcome! Thanks for watching
You’re so close to 100k now!
i knowww! it's crazy. It's been 8 years! mental
So I’ve come into some redundancy money and lined up a new job, and my design count is closing in on the 100 mark. I’m going to be signing up to your paid skool thing soon. Any recommendations on where to start when I do sign up, or is it straight forward once you’re in? Also did you start as a sole trader or a limited company? Is there support which covers that?
Hi its ezer congrats on hitting 100k u gotta let me hold ur play button 😅
🎉
I got accepted to Amazon merch like over a year ago and never really did anything with it. I have 2 random shirts i made for myself. I tried Etsy and hated it. With Amazon, Like i don't want to make hundreds of tshirt designs, so should i just not even mess with it? I'm really having trouble finding the words to my question lol..
I just subscribed, hoped I would be the one to change sub count to 100k. That didn't happen, but hey at least I'm here.
thank you!!! Everyone counts towards it!
I've been on Amazon Merch since 2019 and have a niche that I've built up over the years and have done well with. But I always listed them under generic brand names related to the niche. To build a brand, should I go back and change the brand section to a brand name of my choosing?
Good job with the success on Amazon. You could do, but if they're getting sales I wouldn't mess with them. Building a brand is more of a thing if you're going to create your own site, for example on Shopify
@shimmymorris1 oh ok, that's why I wanted to ask. Wasn't sure. Thanks 😊
Dang. Nearly 10 minutes to get to the Brand idea...
It was a pretty interesting story of all the changes that POD has gone through in the past
I am here just to find a comparison of current POD companies since Spring's reviews have been terrible since the company was sold. What is a good alternative, I don't need the full bio.
How about an example or two or what you mean by "print on demand brand." Do you mean that we all need to find a polo player logo and print nothing but that? Do you mean that we need to niche down to find something like "one armed window washers"? Do we need to find a supplier that will print custom labels? What?
Somehow you always manage to find something negative with every one of my videos… why do you still watch them?
I don’t mean you need a polo player. Niche down yes. One arm window washers… what?? 🤦♂️🤷🏼♂️
Labels in the T-shirts sure. Printify do that as do many others
Having a brand just means that your customers (and people in general) associate certain values and ideas with your business. It's like your business's reputation. It allows you to be known widely and stand for something in your industry.
Not intending to be negative. On the country, I loved your video but I wish you'd elaborated a tiny bit more on what building a POD brand roughly involved. For example, finding a good niche, setting up your own ecommerce website and growing things from there? Not terribly hard to figure out, but just a tiny bit more light on that from you would have been awesome.
He does that in loads of other videos on his channel.
I know that. That's why I said a 'tiny' elaboration would be great just for the sake of completeness.
thanks for the feedback. I didn't want to go over the same stuff I have done previously... but I'll take note on elaborating a little more in the future
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Agree
100k!
woohooo!
You're close to 100k but I'm yet to subscribe. Should I make it a 100 mate?
hahaha! it's so close... but why haven't you subbed! :(
@@shimmymorris1 I wasn't sure if your contents had something solid to learn. But hey, you got a sub from me now. I'll be here when you finally at 100 so we can be frds😂
Hey shimmy i got in 1st~! (>'.')^ woo hoo
nice!!! enjoy!
Well, build a brand become huge. Ok... be the next gym shark. What's your next video, learn to code be the next Microsoft...
Yes… that’s exactly what I said. Please don’t ever think big…
2nd
woohoo
Can you create a video about Amazon and Printify POD. How it Work 🎉 😊
100K
Yes! So happy