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title: 'How I Generated $90K Online Without Investment or Experience'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=XcXlNJL1r3o'
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date: 2026-07-14
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# How I Generated $90K Online Without Investment or Experience

> Source: [How I Generated $90K Online Without Investment or Experience](https://youtube.com/watch?v=XcXlNJL1r3o)

## Summary

Allison, a digital entrepreneur living in the US, shares how she built a print-on-demand business from scratch, generating $90,000 in sales within a year without any prior experience or investment. She details her journey from initial struggles to achieving significant monthly revenue, especially during the holiday season.

### Key Points

- **Starting from Scratch** [00:16] — Allison arrived in the US in August 2021, unable to work in person, with no experience in online jobs, imperfect English, and no money to invest.
- **Finding Print on Demand** [01:22] — After researching, she found print on demand (POD) as a business model that required no investment or experience, and many had succeeded with it.
- **What is Print on Demand** [01:52] — POD allows creating designs for products like shirts and mugs, which are produced and shipped by a supplier (e.g., Printify) directly to customers, eliminating inventory and machinery costs.
- **Design Process** [03:06] — She uses Canva for design and free sites like Placeit for product mockups. Designs can be sourced ready-made from free pages.
- **Selling on Etsy** [03:50] — She chose Etsy over Shopify because it has 20 million monthly visitors, reducing the need for marketing. Etsy is like Amazon but for handmade or designed products.
- **Supplier and Profit Margin** [05:11] — Using Printify, a mug costs $4.63 plus $4.99 shipping (paid by customer). Selling at $15.90 yields about $10 profit per mug.
- **First Months and First Sale** [06:22] — She uploaded 20-40 listings in December 2021. After 4-5 weeks, she got her first sale from a stranger, motivating her to continue.
- **Father's Day Success** [08:43] — A Father's Day design became a bestseller. By end of May, with 100 listings, she had 84 orders and $1,202 in sales.
- **Sales Dip and Recovery** [10:00] — After Father's Day, sales dropped in July. She pivoted to evergreen designs (birthdays, professions) and saw recovery in October.
- **November and December Boom** [12:17] — In November, sales skyrocketed: 1,465 orders and $31,682. On Black Friday, she sold 180 products in one day. December brought 2,235 orders and $48,103.
- **Year-End Statistics** [14:52] — Total for 2022: over 65,000 visits, 4,634 orders, 7% conversion rate, and $98,774 in sales (excluding taxes).

### Conclusion

Allison's story demonstrates that with dedication and strategic adaptation, a print-on-demand business on Etsy can generate substantial income without upfront investment. Her success hinged on creating seasonal and evergreen designs, leveraging Etsy's traffic, and scaling listings over time.

## Transcript

In this video I will share with you how I sold 90 thousand dollars online in less than a year without investment and without experience. Hello ! My name is Allison I am a digital entrepreneur I have been living in the United States for about two years and today I want to share with you how I started my
online store from scratch without experience without investment and how you can do it too I will also be sharing what exactly I do And how were my first months until I was able to reach 90 thousand dollars? Lastly, I will also be sharing
my real statistics in my store and tips that I am very sure will help you when I arrived in August 2021 in the United States for personal reasons, I could not work
in person. That's when I decided to start looking for different ways to be able to generate money from home. I graduated in tourism management in my country. So when I arrived, I
had no experience with online jobs. My English was not perfect at that time, until now it is not, and thirdly, that I had no money to invest So I needed to find jobs that could
fit my needs at that time after searching a lot of information for a while and trying to try certain ways to make money online I found a business that I felt
was perfect for me I made sure it was 100% real, I didn't need an investment, I didn't need experience and I saw that there were many people who had already had success doing it
. less than a year and it is print on demand or in English better known as print On The man
for those who are not familiar with the term print on demand or print on demand is a business similar to dropshipping but not the main difference is that it allows you being able to create your own designs so that they can later be sold as polo shirts, cups, bags, among other
products, but instead of you taking charge of producing them, gases in machinery, there are companies with a website, such as the main one, which is the supplier with which I work They take care of
producing it and sending it directly to the customer, that is, you don't need to worry about anything at home, the inventory, you don't need to worry about buying machines, your work is
100% online, and you don't need to go to the Post Office to send it to the customer and you can offer it as if it was your own business because the designs are yours By the way the products are not brought from China They are products produced in the United States and you can
sell it to any state in the United States as well as even to certain countries abroad basically what I do is create a design beautiful in canva, which is a very friendly site
that you can use to design if you don't have experience designing like me, later I will show you more free pages where you can even get ready-made designs, that is, you don't even need to take the time to design and they are great at In this case, I am
making a design, for example, to give to a girlfriend. Most of them usually sell polo shirts or clothes. But this time, let's say that I will sell it in a cup. Something that I really like about this business is that you don't need to spend even to show how the product in your store you can enter
free pages like Play Sit and here you upload your design and I know your product is ready to sell. So once you have your design and you already have the model of your product I save it and upload it to
my store etsy you can sell your products on pages like etsy and even create your own website on shopify but personally I went for etsy because it is a very famous platform in the United States that has 20 million people who visit the platform every month
So no You need to spend on marketing and bring in your own customers. It's like Amazon, but mostly handmade products are sold there or where the seller has been part
of some part of the product process. In this case, for example, we are designing the product. So, we are allowed to sell on Netflix here on etsy we can see, for example, that there are mugs like this that have more than 300 reviews here, normally
the reviews represent at least a second or third of the amount that has been sold it means that this rate will have been sold at least 600 times here they are selling it for eighteen ninety and apart from shipping I would recommend selling it a little less if
they are just entering the market to have more competitive prices okay So let's say that a customer He bought me the design on the mug. The next thing I would do is go to the page of my supplier, which in this case is Printify. I enter the catalog, here you will be able to see, for example, all the products that
they offer. In my case, for example, this time it would be a cup So then I go to Mac here you will be able to see different rate models in this case I'm going to choose the classic one that sells the most netsy which is the 11-ounce one I go in and here you can see how much
the rate will be costing you in this In this case it would cost 4.63 and shipping would be four ninety-nine Obviously it is the customer who pays for shipping So let's say that I am selling my rate at
1590 I would be earning an average of 10 dollars I will be designing I will place the design here and here I can see more or less how it will look Even if you go to preview There you will be able to see
exactly how the design will look on the product you have chosen then I enter you modify what you have to modify you save it and it is ready to order it with main and
after This is basically waiting for them to produce it and send it to the client. I remember to create my main account, which is the supplier I work with, and etsy, which is the
store where I upload my products. In December 2021, that's where I started uploading. my first 20 to 40 listings in my etsy shop In other words, my first 20 or 40 products in my case, perhaps unlike
many, I did not have many acquaintances in the United States or relatives, and the few acquaintances that I had I preferred not to share for personal reasons from the first day my store so maybe if you have family friends and you would like to share your store Most likely it
will be easier for you to change the beginning I remember that four or five weeks after I had uploaded my products I had my first sale from a total stranger I was very happy
of course and I remember that this was what motivated me to continue I said if I have reached an unknown person I can definitely reach even more niches if I upload more products
but I remember that Right at that time, I had two months to organize my wedding because I was getting married in April. So, January, February and March, I practically had to leave my shop on the side
to be able to dedicate myself to my wedding and also to other earrings that I had, my wedding happened and after more or less two or three weeks, that is, the second or third week of April, I was able to be back.
I remember that at that time I said ok. Now I am going to give my 100% in this . Because of YouTube I started to create more designs to put it
especially on poles and mugs So I started doing mainly for Father's Day that was about a month and a half away from Mother's Day I felt it was a little late So I preferred to concentrate on what was Father's Day, since there was still time to
make sales after more or less two or three weeks of starting to make a lot of designs by then I already had about a hundred listings on etsy and I saw to start working
I began to have sales more or less one or two sales per day and I was very happy because I felt that it was working then there was a specific design almost at the end of May it began to
sell very often very often obviously this design was Related this product was related to Father's Day so by the end of May I had a hundred listings in my store I made
84 orders and earned $1,202 for me it was Wow because since I arrived I had not generated that amount of money so I said ok I'm going to take advantage keep making more designs and that's when I
realized that that design that was selling often began to sell much more often and when I realized my product had become a bestseller for those who don't know it's
when it exists, it puts a type a besseller badge because it is a product that is selling a lot on the page so That was my first best seller during the first three weeks of
June I was a bit busy Because this was all new to me Anyway I kept learning and I started to have sales much more in a row So by the end of June I realized I had 120 listings I managed to place 244 orders and generated 3849 dollars
I remember that at that moment I said Wow this could definitely become my full time job but I didn't count on what would happen in the month of July and it happens that as I mentioned
almost all my designs were for Father's Day So like so As naturally I was going to have to spend Father's Day later my sales started to drop at that moment I said Okay then it's time
to get into action and start making designs that can be sold not only on a specific date but throughout the year year for example birthdays professions among others so in the
month of July as I tell you my sales went down but I managed to make more listings I was getting ready for months to come So I managed to make 160 listings 92 orders and I generated 1982 dollars money that anyway
I was Very grateful for the month of August and September December I continued to make more designs, especially I sold polo shirts and prices plus design I was preparing myself for the months to come So for the month of August I had 220 listings I managed to make one hundred and sixteen orders
and I generated three thousand and twenty five dollars later for the month of September Sorry for the month of September I had 250 listings I managed to make one hundred and six orders And I generated two thousand seven hundred eighty
four dollars then we reached the month of October and I began to see that although I was making more designs my new designs were starting to sell the ones I had done in August September
started selling in October and I was happy because for a moment I thought no that they were not having success but in October they did start selling regularly So by the end of October
I already I had 310 listings I placed 272 orders and made five thousand nine hundred and forty nine dollars in sales but it was in November where there was a total change in my store really the
designs that I was selling in October about five or ten times a day in November it started selling 20 30 times a day and I was surprised and there was a specific day that was Black
Friday and November 30 if I'm not mistaken I managed to sell 180 products in a single day I couldn't believe it by the end of November I realized I had 350 listings
I made one thousand four hundred and sixty-five orders which was practically triple the sales that I had been making During the last months and I managed to make $31,682 in sales
this was already something that I had never experienced in my life I was somewhat tired because obviously The more sales You have more clients who are asking you questions about whether you can make
any changes to a design or people who are interested in buying your designs, which is totally normal, it's part of the business, but I did it Happy and happy Although I was tired, I was happy because I really I was generating money that I had never made in my life
and when I thought that in December it was going to go down, it got even better because my sales were no longer below 200 per day. So by the end of December, although it is true,
I continued with 350 listings because I didn't have time to make a single listing during that month I managed to make 2,235 orders and I generated $48,103.
I never imagined that I would be able to make that amount of money in my business But I was definitely very happy and grateful with what was happening to me in those moments
and Well before I show you my real statistics in my etsy shop I would really appreciate it if you could like this video if you are liking it if it is helping you in something and consider subscribing it really is totally for free you would help me a lot I will continue
uploading videos about online jobs savings tips that have helped me a lot here in the United States among other personal finance topics okay For those who are new to etsy in this part of here you will find you will find
your statistics stats and here in this case, for example, I set it to teach me from January to December 2022, here it shows you how many visits I had, in this case I had more than 65,000
visits 4,634 orders in total throughout the year seven Seven percent conversion which is very good they told me that when you already passed 3.5% it was excellent and in profit 98,774 which
does not include taxes paid by customers among other small glasses So this is practically what I generate in total sales and Here are my statistics regarding orders for example
what I told you in May 84 orders June 244 92 which dropped a little in July in August 116 September 106 and You see more or less a notable rise 272 and as you can see here it already went up it was an
abysmal change from 272 to 1465 And in December I ended up with 2,235 orders in terms of profit in May
122 in June 3,849 July went down a bit then rose September 2784 October 5949 November 31,682 and
December 48,103 So that was my earnings throughout the year but as I told you basically I started in April May that I began to take myself seriously and well I hope this video
has served as motivation if you want to create your own business without the need to invest I leave you the links that you would need in the description and if you have any questions, you can leave it
in the comments I will be happy to help you in any way I can see you in a next video bye