Make Money Online With Print On Demand Business

There are plenty of ways of making money online but the smartest way of earning money online starts with print on demand business. There are two types of Print on demand businesses, they are 

1. Third party print on demand business: This type of print on demand business is risk and cost free as it requires no upfront cost, no holding of inventory, no domain registration, no hosting plan. From printing to shipment of the products everything is done by a third party print on demand company. They even handles the refunds, exchanges and ensures customer services. All you have to do is to create a campaign by uploading your design/artwork, choose products that you want the design to be printed on, set price by adding your desired profit, give your campaign a seo friendly title and description and finally bring traffic to your campaign. If someone places an order visiting your campaign link, then that third party print on demand site sends the order to production and after producing the product they ship the product to the customer and seller gets the desired profit per sale.

 

2. Personal print on demand business: Unlike third party print on demand business, Setting up a personal print on demand business is quite expensive and requires time, skills and a whole lot of hard work as the owner have to do all the stuffs such as registering a domain name, purchasing a hosting plan, holding inventory, printing, packaging, shipping, dealing with refunds, exchanges and ensuring customer service and so on.

Let's see how to start a third party print-on-demand business:

Step 1: Choose a Perfect Niche For Your Print on Demand Business

Choosing a perfect niche is the first and foremost step of starting a print on demand business. To be able to choose the right niche for your print on demand business all you have to do is to research various pod niches and find out which niche has the most passionate audiences. The more passionate audiences the niche have, the more suitable for your business.

Step 2: Choose The Best Print on Demand Site

There are lots of print on demand sites online. It is important to choose the best print on demand site for your business as customers are most likely to purchase from sites that provide quality products with quality printing & great support. So choosing one from the top rated print on demand sites is essential. Here is a list of top print on demand sites:

• Redbubble
• Gearbubble
• Zazzle
• Cafepress
• Teespring

Step 3: Research Best Selling Product's Designs

Uploading any random design to your campaign and advertising that campaign is not going to get you even one sell let alone achieving your goal. If you want to get the best result then you have to research best selling products on various pod sites. Copy the slogan from that best selling product and change the font or at least manipulate the design a bit and change specific words so that it goes with your niche. 

Example: Suppose your niche is hunting and you have found a best selling t shirt design with a saying I'm a bike riding dad, just like a normal dad, except much cooler. Then simply change the bike riding part with hunting so the saying becomes 'I'm a hunting dad, just like a normal dad, except much cooler.

Here is a list of websites to research best selling product's designs-

• Wanelo
• Pinterest
• Teeview

Step 4: Choose Marketing Strategy

To get tons of sells, choosing an appropriate marketing strategy is a must. There are two types of marketing strategies for pod business, 1.free marketing and 2.paid marketing. Though free marketing doesn't require any investment of money but it requires time and perseverance. Having said that free marketing is still an effective way of selling pod products. As for paid marketing, one can get a successful campaign overnight just by investing 100$ or more (depends on ad copy, targeting etc). Then scale your winning campaign wisely and see the sells coming.

Conclusion: Print on demand business is a smart business and one have to be smarter enough to achieve success in this business. It is not like overnight get rich scheme or something. You might lose your money and time on a loosing campaign nevertheless you have to carry on and find the winning campaign as one winning campaign is enough to compensate your lose and help get your business going.