so recently I set myself a challenge could I create a new source of passive income in just 6 months by starting a new store iny that took basic clipart from Cana and then sold it onto print on demand products lots of people told me it's not possible Sarah they said that Etsy is too saturated now to make money with a new store so I put it to the test 4 months ago I quietly posted this video showing I had started a brand new store in my spare time back then I was making about $200 a
week but well the sales just keep growing and now it is earning $3,000 to $4,000 a week passively and the products I sell in it are honestly super simple firstly I use the cross idea formula to choose basic clip art from canva that will be easy to sell and then I just uploaded onto print on demand products and then list them for sale on Etsy for a profit so let me show you the process first up you need to choose a popular product to sell yes as basic as this sounds if you want to make
money you have to actually sell a product that people want to buy and so here's how to find one first come to a print on Demand app like Printery Printery is a website that has tons of blank products that you can resell you just pick one and upload a picture onto it then you can sell it for a market price on a Marketplace like ity and each time that somebody buys it printer 5 print shop will print your picture onto the product package it up and ship it out to the customer while you keep the
difference as prodct it I love it because it's super passive I just had to put the product up on itsy and that's pretty much it so to find Printery moneymaking products just open up their best sellers page these products here are all super popular and they're in high demand with customers so you can pick pretty much any of these products to sell t-shirts are however the number one top selling print on demand product of all time so I will be using this as my example product for this video so now that we've got a super
popular product to sell we need to use the cross idea formula to find unsaturated product ideas so here is how I did it first I just came to YY and did a search for a generic phrase like funny t-shirts on Etsy when you search for products the algorithm will prioritize showing you products that customers have bought recently and so you just want to search through these and find a popular product that uses simple graphics and don't worry popular products are very easy to spot because when you open up the listing YY will abs abolutely tell
you if a product is popular take for example this t-shirt featuring simple Graphics it's had 37 sales in the past 24 hours now I've got to be honest I absolutely love animals and so I eat a mostly vegan diet however even I can see that this t-shirt idea is funny and clever it's an example of a double on tandre with the picture of the deer having a double meaning plus it's also a good example of dead pan humor now here is the exact point point that most people who are trying to make money online go
wrong and why they seem to think that it's impossible to make money it's because they do this they copy look how many people on ety have copied this exact same t-shirt now you just think about it right if you're opening a brand new store on Etsy copying another popular t-shirt is a really dumb idea because look how many reviews the store has had now if I asked you would you like to buy a t-shirt from a store that's got thousands of positive reviews or buy that same t-shirt from a store with no reviews which are
you going to choose obviously you're going to pick the store with thousands of reviews so instead of copying others I used the cross idea formula to come up with a new product idea that no one else was selling so what I did was after I had found a clever idea that worked with basic clip art I then started looking at other popular niches that I was interested in such as animals to see if anybody had taken this idea and applied it to those niches and so using this example here if we take a look at
funny parrot t-shirts guess what none of the t-shirts on YY are using dead pen double on tandr now let's think about it funny parrot t-shirts are popular with people that own parrots and double on tandre t-shirts are also popular too so guess what we can do we can cross idea these two things together to create Something New by doing this I was able to use data to help me create popular hyperv viral products that stood out even though I was a brand new store and by the way if you would like more of my tips
and tricks for creating products that stand out and get customers to buy even if you're a new store then you should be sure to download my free print on demand ebook the six tips at six figure online stores follow to make over $10,000 a month you'll find a link to download my free ebook in the video description below so so then let's actually go ahead and make that new store and to do that you're going to need to open up a free Etsy account and a free Printery account I have a free tutorial video that
already shows how to do this step by step so I won't go in depth into it in this video but I will link to this in the video description but honestly it's pretty simple in the video description you'll find a link to open an Etsy store with 40 free item listings click on it and follow it a step-by-step process of filling in your store info like choosing your name and settings it takes less than 30 minutes then come on over to Printery and sign up for a free account and within your Printery account select to
connect to your Etsy account and now you can add products directly into it so then now we need to actually create our products using basic clip art and doing this is a two-step process firstly we're going to go ahead and create our cross idea image using clip art and then we're going to upload that image onto our popular Printery product so let's get started with step one and to do this I'm going to be using canva canva is a Drag and Drop graphic design app and it's really easy to use canva has a crazy amount
of pictures installed in it they have millions of clip art photos shapes backgrounds textures you name it all installed within your library you're allowed to commercially use these and designs that you create to print onto products for a profit which is why I chose to use canva they have a free account and I have a pro account that costs $13 a month for this tutorial video I will be using the pro account if you don't have a canver account I'll have an affiliate Link in the video description where you can get a 30day free trial
for a pro account so first up let's come into canva and create a canvas the same size as the printing area of the T-shirt then we're going to come on over to elements and do a search for parrot silhouette pictures and it turns out that Cana actually has a lot of different clip art pictures for us to choose from now here is something you need to know legally Cana is absolutely fine with you taking your free clipart pictures and and then printing them onto products that you sell for a profit however you must combine it
with at least one other visual element to turn it into a new design which is fine because for this cross idea we're adding text to it too so I just added in a text box and then selected a trendy font from one of canvas pre-installed fonts and so now we need to come up with our double on tandre and surprise surprise I just used cat GPT to help me do this yes to help me come up with ideas I asked cat GPT what are some funny and annoying things that parrots do to the owners and
one of the things chat GPT told me was that parrots will sing at the crack of dawn waking their owners up so I changed this text to be alarm clock and I changed the text color too and boom just like that we have our t-shirt so now we need to save it as a print ready file when you're printing images onto products you want to make sure that they're in really high quality so here are the export settings that I use I just come over to share and click download then I dial the image size
all the way up to the max then I make the background transparent and I make sure that PNG is selected and I save it it'll take a few moments so just be patient now for the next step in this video I'm going to show you something that's pretty cool but it is optional but I think you're going to want to try this because as you will see it will make your t-shirts look amazing and that is adding a free distress texture to it so if you go back and take a look at that popular t-shirt
design that we found before and you take a closer look at it you'll see that the design has a distressed vintage look to it well adding in that distressed vintage look is optional but it's an easy way that I make my t-shirts look way more professional so first up you will need to actually get a distress texture image I love this one that you can download here for free on Crea of Fabrica if you get a free trial account with them I'll have an affiliate link to get a free account with them in the description
description below plus we also want to use photopia which is a free Photoshop clone you can use this for free in your internet browser so you don't even have to sign up for an account so add in your product image and place a distress texture on top of it right click the texture layer click rasterize then hide your T-shirt design layer next click select and choose color range set it all the way to 200 then with your T-shirt layer selected click edit and then select clear now you can unhide your T-shirt design and delete the
texture layer and that's it your T-shirt design has gone from looking like this to now looking like this which is much better so next up you just need to upload it to printy and add it into your Etsy store it's pretty simple just open up the popular product you're going to sell with Printery and upload your design onto it and place the image in it where you want it to print then next you will need to give your product a title and you want to give it a product description and you also need to give
your product a price and here is an important trick you see for my new store my products have a profit margin of anywhere from 30% to 40% depending on the product and the reason why I make such a good product margin is because I used a profit calculator to help me choose my product price printful has a good one you just enter in the price that you plan to sell your item for and the price that you will charge for shipping and then you set your goal so for me that was to make 30% profit
then you come down and you enter the price that Printery charges per item and the price that it's going to charge for shipping and you can then make sure that you're reaching your profit goal even after itsy's transaction fees and don't worry I will have a link to that free profit calculator in the description of this video so now we just need to let the sales come in and for me I make my sales from two different sources now the day is not over yet but so far the new store has made $370 the biggest
source of those sales are just people who are browsing Etsy searching for products who see my products and click on them because Etsy recommended them and if you want Etsy to recommend your products you're going to have to optimize your listings I actually have a video on this channel which explains the process I'll have a link to this video in the description but here is an example of a pretty good listing you can see that this mug has made over $200 in the past 24 hours having 11 sales it has lots of great keyword in
the title like cat feline gift girlfriend Cottage core and very importantly it has an amazing photo having an amazing photo is super important because that is what is going to get customers to actually click on your listing when Etsy recommends it and you can get amazing photos for print on Dem mind products for free on place it you just upload your picture onto one of their photos and it will turn it into a great product photo for you they have a free free account with free photos that you can use and of course I will
have a link to them in the description but the other source I use is Itsy ads now they are of course optional but as you will see if you do it right it's basically like printing money case in point I spent $25 today but I made $142 back and YY ads are pretty simple if you turn them on YY will just start recommending your products and their search results when people start searching for products similar to yours so when I first chose to turn on ads I set my ad budget to just $5 but you
can set it to as low as $1 a day then what I did was I just slowly let Etsy spend $10 per product on ads and then after it had spent $10 I checked to see if the ROI was at least three times so for this one here the ROI was 4.57 so I kept the ad running what this means then is that for every $1 that I spend I make $457 back it's an amazing deal it's B basically like printing free money but for the products that did not have a return of three or
more I just turned Those ads off and now thanks to that initial investment I now have a bunch of ads running for products where the return on my money is so high that even after cost they are still making me passive profit every day so there we go challenge complete and if you'd like to learn how you can quickly design 30 t-shirts in Just 4 hours with canva I'll have a link to that video here on screen I'll see you in the next video