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Print on Demand for Beginners: Ultimate 2024 Guide (Print on demand)

0h 21m video Published Dec 17, 2024 Transcribed Aug 1, 2026 V Victor Bigbro
Beginner 13 min read For: Beginners looking to start a print on demand side hustle, especially those interested in Etsy and passive income.
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"Genuine step-by-step guide, but the six-figure income claims at the start are unverifiable hype that inflate expectations."

AI Summary

This video is a comprehensive beginner's guide to starting a print on demand business. The creator walks through the entire process — from choosing a provider (Printify) and designing products in Canva to setting up an Etsy store and managing accounts with anti-detect browsers. It includes real sales data and tools such as ChatGPT for ideas and NodeMaven for proxies.

[00:02]
Income Claims and Passive Income Potential

The creator claims $3 million in revenue, $28,000 in sales, and $224,000 in total passive income, emphasizing that all the hard parts (production and fulfillment) are done for you.

[00:58]
Choose Printify as Your Provider

Printify is recommended as the print on demand provider because it offers 100% free product creation, over 1,000 products, and global delivery.

[02:08]
Two Design Strategies: Seasonal or Niche

You can create designs based on the current season or target people by interests/niches. ChatGPT can generate a list of niches for inspiration.

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Use Etsy and Alora for Research

The Alora tool on Etsy provides insights on product sales, such as a Merry Christmas shirt selling 180 copies and generating $5,000, or another product making $279,000.

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Create the Design in Canva

Canva is used for free to create designs. The creator demonstrates customizing a Christmas hoodie template, editing text, colors, and adding elements like Christmas trees.

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Upload Design to Printify

After designing, upload the image to Printify, choose a best-selling product, set the price, and see profit per sale (e.g., $14–$15).

[09:47]
Use Dolphin Anty Browser for Accounts

An anti-detect browser helps manage multiple Etsy stores and protects against account bans by using clean IP addresses via NodeMaven proxies.

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Create Your Etsy Shop

Steps include registering an Etsy account, selecting 'sell on Etsy', setting shop language/country/currency, adding a shop name (via ChatGPT), and adding Printify as a production partner.

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Complete Setup and Start Listing

Finish with email verification, payment setup, and ID verification. Then you can connect your Printify store and publish real listings. The creator warns that bad designs won't sell, so research is critical.

The core takeaway is that print on demand is accessible for beginners because production and fulfillment are handled by a third party; success depends on effective design research and appealing products. The creator encourages viewers to start with seasonal or niche designs and highlights the importance of avoiding generic designs.

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Tutorial Checklist

1 00:58 Sign up for a free Printify account.
2 02:08 Decide between a seasonal or niche design approach.
3 03:17 Use Etsy with the Alora tool to research top-selling products and validate demand.
4 05:00 Create your design in Canva using a product-specific template (e.g., hoodie) and customize it.
5 07:29 Download the design and upload it to Printify, selecting a best-selling product.
6 08:23 Set the product price and review your profit margin per sale.
7 09:47 Set up Dolphin Anty anti-detect browser to manage multiple store profiles safely.
8 11:04 Get a NodeMaven proxy with clean IP and configure it in your browser profile.
9 12:49 Create an Etsy seller account and start setting up your shop.
10 14:37 Generate shop names with ChatGPT and choose a memorable one.
11 15:19 Add Printify as your production partner with correct business details and address.
12 20:16 Complete email verification, payment details, and ID verification, then publish your first listing.

Study Flashcards (8)

What is the recommended print on demand provider mentioned in the video?

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Printify

00:58

What are two main approaches to creating a design?

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Riding the current season or targeting people based on interests/niches.

02:08

Which tool is used to get insights on Etsy product sales?

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Alora browser extension.

03:17

What is the first step in creating a design in Canva?

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Select a product type (e.g., hoodie) and search for templates.

05:13

Why does the creator recommend using an anti-detect browser like Dolphin Anty?

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To manage multiple accounts, stay organized, and protect against bans.

09:47

What proxy provider is recommended and what free tier does it offer?

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NodeMaven, and it gives 2GB free.

11:19

How do you get a shop name idea?

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Ask ChatGPT for 200 shop name ideas.

14:37

What important step must be completed after creating the Etsy shop before publishing?

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ID verification (upload ID and selfie).

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💡 Key Takeaways

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Leverage marketplace data for product validation

Using Alora on Etsy to see actual sales and revenue helps validate design ideas before creating, avoiding guesswork.

03:17
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Anti-detect browsers for account safety

Dolphin Anty allows managing multiple shop profiles and reduces ban risk, which is crucial for scaling.

09:47
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Using residential proxies for IP cleanliness

NodeMaven provides clean IPs to avoid geographical restrictions and keep accounts safe.

11:04
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Using AI for business naming

ChatGPT quickly generates shop names, saving creative time and offering many options.

14:37
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Research beats guesswork

The creator emphasizes that bad designs yield no sales; understanding customer demand is critical to success.

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[00:02] a lot of money with print on demand $3 million in Revenue bringing in a couple hundred do a month 3 months ago you can see that we are now over $28,000 in sales over $224,000 $

[00:18] 69,8 in total passive income and why this is the best business to get started with is because all the hard part have been taken care of all you have to do is to create a design that people want and list it out and immediately people buy

[00:31] it you make profit so that's basically how easy this is now I'm going to walk you through step by step how to set this business up exactly how to create a design how to come up with ideas and exactly where to sell this product so by

[00:44] the end of this video you can go out there and start a print on demand you want to see pay attention cuz I'm about to show you some high level stuff right here okay so with that being said let's get started now first off if you

[00:58] you're going to be needing a provider and the one I recommend you use is printify so you can come over to prey.com or you can click on the first link down in the description now once you come over here you see the homepage

[01:11] it says create and sell custom products 100% free over a th000 plus products and Global delivery okay so as you can see these guys are the best they have a ton why this is important somewhere around this video okay once you here you can

[01:25] you can click on sign up on the top okay so basically once you click on sign up on the top is going to redirect you straight to the sign up page now I don't fill out an email and a password you can go ahead and do that click on sign up or

[01:39] account now once you do that you're going to get inside of Printery and once you are inside of print file is going to look something like this now this is how if you head over to their catalog you can see all the different product that

[01:54] they have you can click on any of these product let's say t-shirt for an example all the different products that they have now you don't just start creating a design from Tiner you get to do your research know exactly what's working and

[02:08] from there you can go ahead and create your design now basically there are two major ways of creating a design that works you can work with the current season or you can Target People based on their interest now when it comes to

[02:21] there are tons of niches okay if I come over to char PT right here and ask Char PT for print on demand niches what's going to happen is Char PT is going to spit out a bunch of print on the man niches okay you can just Target People

[02:36] based on any Niche you want to go into okay so as you can see it keeps coming up with a lot of niches now I'm not going to be going with niches okay you this video I'm going to go with the season okay at the time I'm recording

[02:50] season so I'm just going to walk with the season but in your case if you want to go with a niche you can actually do that as well and by the time I'm done explaining everything inside of this video you can apply that with whatever

[03:03] way you choose to go with your print on demand business okay so first off find the niche or you go with the season that you are currently in because I'm going little bit of research now for that we're going to be using ety now ET is a

[03:17] great place for selling so I've already went ahead and installed a tool right went ahead and installed a tool right here called allora doio and you can use this tool as well this tool is going to give you some insights on XY Okay so if

[03:30] I click on allora right here you see a bunch of stats to for example this Merry bunch of stats to for example this Merry Christmas shirt sold 180 copies and if I click on it you see how much they have generated with this one shirt okay so so

[03:42] far they just made $5,000 with this shirt and this is a small amount of money compared to what some products are making during the Christmas period okay so what I'm going to do is I'm going to close this all out and I'm going to go

[03:55] ahead and search for the keyword christm okay and I'm going to pull up allora once again so I can show you guys some starts real quick before I start picking the product I'm going to be working with inside of this video okay so let's click

[04:08] on this one as an example so far this product have made $34,000 and I'm going to click on another product so this month alone this product has sold 15,000 copies and if I click on it you see how much they have

[04:20] generated about $279,000 okay so there's a lot of potential inside of this site okay and what they selling as stens so they have generated rated over $200,000 so I'm not going to be selling stockings I'm going

[04:33] to be starting with this product cuz as you can see right here it's pretty popular right now at this period okay if I click over here you see what they have done with their product okay so what they have done is they made a hood and

[04:46] they just added a beautiful Merry Christmas design and that's what I'm going to replicate something like this now the site we want to use for creating designs is Cana okay so come over to Cana is literally free come over here

[05:00] account you want to go ahead and put together your designs okay so this is basically the ca homepage once you here go ahead and click on print click on there and once you click on there you want to go ahead and click on this arrow

[05:13] and you want to locate where they have hoodies Okay click on hoodie and I want to go ahead and create a design right here inside of Kaa okay so we're going to allow it to load and we're going to go ahead and create a design okay so

[05:25] section I want to go ahead and search for ch okay and over here as you can see we're going to be presented with a bunch of Christmas templates okay so you can look at what they have here and find the one

[05:38] that you're going to be customizing for your designs okay I'm going to be working with this first one I'm going to drag it here and I'm going to go ahead and edit it a little bit okay so over here it says chilling with snowmies this

[05:51] sort of like snow and homies I'm going to change this to Merry Christmas okay so I'm just going to go ahead and do that okay so basically this is how it's looking okay now you can go ahead and edit the color so I'm going to make this

[06:03] red actually and I'm going to add some over to the element tab here and I'm going to search for Christmas I'm going to search for Christmas and I'm going to go ahead and

[06:15] find something to add here okay I'm going to do c all on the graphic section and over here as you can see we have some things that we can use to add here okay so I'm going to drag this here and I want to make it small drag it here

[06:30] I want to make it small drag it here duplicate and keep it here do that again do that again and do that again okay so this is how it's looking and I'm just this is how it's looking and I'm just going to add some Christmas trees

[06:46] things and I'm going to replace it with the Christmas trees okay I'm just coming up with this here cuz I don't want my design to look generic okay I'm going to keep this here it's not looking that good I'm just going to keep this bend it

[07:00] get rid of this one duplicate this and tilt this okay so basically this is how it look like now in your case you want to go ahead and edit this come up with something nice okay there are bunch of

[07:15] elements that you can work with when it comes to designing things on Cana right here okay there are a lot of things at your disposal so just go ahead and edit everything in your own way so it's going to look as good as possible okay but in

[07:29] my case I'm just going to walk with this okay and I'm just going to go ahead and download this okay so once it's done downloading I'm going to go ahead and create a shirt okay so I'm going to head over to pry right here and I'm going to

[07:42] go ahead and choose one of the products okay so what you can do is you can go ahead and go for the best seller the one that's proven to sell or you can work case I'm going to go for the best seller

[07:54] scroll down right here and I'm going to leave this as it is and I'm just going to go ahead and click on start designing right here and once I click on start from here I can go ahead and start uploading my designs okay I'm going to

[08:07] device and I'm going to upload the design I just designed right here okay uploading so basically this is how exactly it looks I'm going to cancel and if you want to add anything there you can just add it but I'm just going

[08:23] to leave it as it is and I'm going to go ahead and click on Save product okay to redirect me here and over here you can go ahead and customize your price it's very simple all you have to do is to go ahead and check one of these if

[08:38] you want to customize it for this size and go ahead and click on edit price and here if you want to sell it for 100 bucks or 50 bucks or whatever okay but I'm just going to work with the normal price that they left it at I'm going to

[08:53] can see your profit that you're going to get for each sale you make okay you're going to make in for $1 here $14 here $15 and if you need a mockup you can just scroll the way up and over here you can click on mockup library and that's

[09:06] going to send you to where you can go ahead and get a mo up so I'm just going to be needing it somewhere around this video you might want to download this with a transparent background and add a background to this so it's going to look

[09:20] natural cuz this really affects how people proceive your lised okay but okay we're just going to skip that part so I'm going to head back actually and I'm going to scroll the way down now you can save this as draft and also you can

[09:34] connect your store okay so I haven't connected my store I'm just going to already created a design here so we're going to come back for this now we're going to be selling this on X okay now what I recommend you do when you want to

[09:47] create your XC account is you use an anti- detect browser now what anti detect browser does is it helps you manage multiple account and stay organized now this will help you in case you want to do multi multiple niches at

[10:00] the same time and you want to manage multiple stores also you want to use this browser so you can stay protected from band cuz this band happen and when it happens it causes a lot of problems I'm going to pop up on the screen a

[10:12] use this so you're not going to end up like this people so when your account get banned you can proceed with your business and you're not going to have any issues that's why I use doing and it's a great tool so you can basically

[10:25] use it for your own business as well okay so just come over here sign sign up for an account basically I don't need to explain how to sign up for an account your own device and basically you don't have to worry they're going to give you

[10:38] more than enough to get started with this okay so I'm just going to go ahead and open my own dolphin account and I'm going to show you exactly how to do this account looks like now in your case yours is going to be 100% blank so you

[10:52] don't have to focus on all the complicated buttons okay all you have to profile on the top once you click on that you want to go ahead and name your browser profile so I can be like ET shop okay so basically after that I'm going

[11:04] to put the starts on new and I'm going to go ahead and grab a proxy now for the proxy we're going to be using this proxy provider called node MAV okay so as you can see they can give you clean IP addresses and when it comes to proxy

[11:19] that can give you clean IP addresses okay so just come over here create an I'm going to leave a link in the you create an account I'm sure we all know how to create an account so create

[11:31] an account and once you create an account you want to log in now this is how my own node Ming account looks like now they're going to give you free 2 gig this unlike a lot of companies that requires you to pay money upfront okay

[11:45] very simple to use come over here click on proxy setup and once you click on proxy setup it's going to redirect you straight to this page and once you're settings all you have to do is to come over here click on drop down arrow

[11:57] select your country now I'm going to go ahead and select my country and over region I'm going to do Lagos and I'm going to do Lagos now we're doing this so in case our accounts get banned can go ahead and create another account also

[12:10] let's say we want to create a shop for people that are interested in pent and people that are interested in self- Improvement we can run a bunch of shops okay so I'm just going to set this on one cuz I only need one proxy and after

[12:23] that's how this works okay so just go ahead and copy this and once you copy this you want to head back to do real quick and paste this in here okay after that check this to see if it's valid and as you can see here our proxy is valid

[12:36] on create profile and once I click on create profile you're going to see our profile right here and from this point I can go ahead and click on start right to actually launch a fresh new browser profile for me that I can use to start

[12:49] running my business okay so basically once it launches this browser profile I want to go ahead and create my XT account okay I'm going to head over to XT quick touch for that and I'm going to click on the results here and it's going

[13:02] to send me straight to Etsy and I want to go ahead and sign in right here okay I'm going to click on sign in click on register and once I click on register it's going to send me right here where I can register for an account okay so here

[13:14] address I'm going to fill that in real quick okay fill out my first name and I'm going to fill out my password okay and after that I want to go ahead and click on register so it's basically signed me up so what I'm going to do do

[13:29] profile here and I want to click on sell on X okay and once I click on there it's of Shoppers can't wait to see what you get started here and once I click on get started it's going to send me here okay

[13:44] so it's going to say welcome Victor and all of that I want to go ahead and click on let's do this and over here it's going to send me here okay so it's going now you can skip this question or you can click on next but I'm going to

[13:56] going to click on next and and see what they have next okay so is there anything you like help with I don't really need help with anything I'm going to go with skip this question and over here they're going to ask you now it's time for the F

[14:10] part okay start your shop want to click on start your shop and once we click on here okay so our shop language we going to leave that on English shop country we're going to select the United States shop currency we're going to leave it on

[14:23] on Save and continue okay and over here they're going to ask us to enter shop your shop you can just have char GPT do that for you okay so I'm going to open Char GPT here and I'm going to have char GPT give me a shop name okay I'm going

[14:37] GPT give me a shop name okay I'm going to be like give me 200 phone names idea to be like give me 200 phone names idea for my Etc shop okay and let's see what Char PT does okay so I like this name right here Timeless treasure I'm just

[14:52] going to copy this okay so I'm going to paste this here after that I want to go it's going to send me switch to the next are telling us about the listing I'm going to leave this on physical items

[15:05] and who made it so I'm just going to set another company what is it I'm going to they're asking us when was it made you going to click on this field here and you want to select here where it says me to order okay cuz it's not made yet

[15:19] click on that and after that you want to go ahead and click on ADD production Partners okay so over here they're going to ask you to create a production partner so just going to go ahead and copy print F details and paste that here

[15:31] so I'm going to open up their website here real quick and I'm going to copy their business name here printy whatever and I'm going to paste that in here okay printify about the production partner I'm just going to be like pry is a print

[15:47] on theand platform okay so over here is our location we're going to get PR F location right here let's scroll the way down want to click on on terms of service and I'm going to scroll the way

[16:01] here I'm going to click on privacy policy so basically this is the address actually got the address from the privacy policy Page by assessing it below here once you click on here you're going to see the privacy policy okay so

[16:16] long but I don't want to come over here and excite you with all the numbers done okay I'm going to paste the location there it's enter location so it pasted the location so I'm just going to come over here and copy this and paste

[16:32] that in here so let's go ahead and match the location so this is the location here I'm going to leave it at that cuz that's the actual location of Printery about the partnership why are you working with this partner okay I'm going

[16:47] to put this on order and I'm going to be like because they are a print on theand like because they are a print on theand company and they process all the

[16:59] Pro others okay so over here I says what's your role in the design process design everything myself and over they're going to ask us what is this I'm going to click on this drop down arrow and I'm going to leave this on

[17:13] they do everything for me and I'm going to go ahead and click on Save right here and I'm going to click on done it seems we did not add our category so I'm just going to go ahead and add that real quick okay I'm going to be like t-shirt

[17:26] and I'm going to go ahead and click on Save and continue and over here we can go ahead and add more details to our shop okay so what I recommend you do is you add a random detail here because our product has not been yet published cuz

[17:41] connect our store in order for us to publish our product okay if you come back here you see that our product is not yet published and we need to connect product so we're going to put in random details in here and when we connect our

[17:55] store we can fill out our actual product okay so let's go ahead and fill out and for the pictures I'm just going to upload one of this description section I'm going to fill test and for the personalization that's

[18:10] going to be like $2 and quantity I'm going to do three okay so if you have multiple variations you can go ahead and click on ADD variations here and add different colors size and sleeve lengths so I'm going to do cancel here cuz I'm

[18:24] not really uploading our product and over here is the attribute sections okay for the closure I'm just going to fill out something random here full deep okay primary color I'm going to do black it's not really black black again okay after

[18:36] to click on this drop down arrow us letter and I'm going to go ahead and want to scroll down add the sustainability section you can go ahead click on drop down arrow and I'm going to fill out something random again I'm

[18:51] the tags I'm just going to fill out something random I'm going to be like Christmas and I'm going to be like hoodie after that you can go ahead and be fast with this I'm just going to skip all the part that's not required okay so

[19:05] has the required field Mark like this okay so at the Dil section we already going to leave that as it is and at the category section it's on hoodie okay and want to go ahead and select an option okay so go ahead and click on select

[19:20] profile here and click on create one and over here is the shipping prices leave recommended and after that you want to go ahead and fill out the address okay going to grab the zip code of printify okay cuz they are in charge of all the

[19:34] ahead and copy the ZIP code from here actually and I'm going to paste that in the processing time so I'm going to leave this on one to two days and after apply okay the rest of the field is not actually required so you can go ahead

[19:49] and skip that part okay so this is the weight I've went ahead and fill that my item weight and the size okay next I want to screw down so over here is your renewal option now I'm going to leave this on manual after that I want to

[20:02] click on Save and continue so basically now I'm on this page I can go ahead and to leave this as it is and I'm going to click on do this letter okay now our email address haven't been verified so we can go ahead and do that letter okay

[20:16] now it's going to redirect me straight to where I can set up my payment okay so so I just going to go ahead and do that real quick and I'm going to get right filling out all the details and in your case you want to fill out your actual

[20:30] details okay so once you're done with that just go ahead and click on Save and continue right here okay so once you click on Save and continue it's going to redirect you straight to the next page and this page is exactly where you fill

[20:42] out your ID so I'm not going to actually do that cuz the last time I did that on the video the video got taken down okay you want to go ahead and fill out this them a picture of your ID and also you want to pose and get a selfie and after

[20:55] that you want to finish setting the shop so once you are done done creating your account you can go ahead and start listing your product now this is not going to be all flowers and butterflies because a lot of people not tell you

[21:07] this but if you end up creating a bad design that no one cares about you're to make any money okay so if you want to see success with this first off you want to research what people want okay you want to get in their head and research

[21:19] inspiration is by looking at what's already selling after that you want to people want okay so basically I'm going to wrap this up here okay if you want me where I challenge myself to make money with this print on the man you can go

[21:35] ahead and leave that in the comment section below and I'm going to go ahead I'm going to challenge myself to make anywhere from $200 to $500 per day with this uh business model so with all of

[21:48] sub to the Channel smash Thumbs Up Button if you got value out of this video and I'm going to talk to every single one of you guys in the next video

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