Passive Income: How I Started Print On Demand with $0 (STEP BY STEP)

people are making thousands of dollarss in passive income every month selling products that don't even exist until someone places an order $34,000 per month the realistic earnings I've been able to make with print on demand well over a million dollar $63,000 $21,000 per month multiple six figures in profit $21,000 but is this actually a realistic side hustle and possible for anyone to do well as an experienced millionaire businessman I'm going to put this to the test Myself by making and selling my own print on demand product as this is a side hustle challenge I'm setting

myself the usual rules rule one I must sell under a fake name rule two I can't spend more than 0 and Rule three I must launch the business within 24 hours start the timer the first thing on my plan is to find a supplier with easy to use software for anyone who doesn't know how print on demand Works here's a very quick breakdown you make a design and partner with a company and in return they print and ship your product when someone buys it this means if we execute everything correctly then all we have to

do is collect our paycheck so I'm just going to make a free account with gelato as they seem to have fulfillment centers all around the world and from what I can see have the most straightforward software for me to use right so now we need to decide what kind of product we want to sell there are lots of different products perfect for print on demand such as t-shirts mugs and bags but instead of just guessing I'm going to do some market research to find out what's actually selling well I like to use Tik Tok for

this kind of thing as lots of people are using it to promote their print on demand stores because they have an integrated shop feature you've probably seen the little Banner that pops up at the bottom of some Tik toks giving you the option to buy what's in the video honestly my son's girlfriend has bought so much on Tik Tok shop I'm not just looking for one-off videos I want to find an account that consistently sells the same product if some someone is investing their time in creating multiple videos it's safe to assume that the product

is selling well right I think I found the perfect product wall art firstly based on what I've seen on Tik Tok there's a large Market of aspiring entrepreneurs who love putting motivational artwork on their walls to keep themselves motivated and working hard secondly wall art is very cheap to make but it seems from my research that I can sell it for a high price as it's more of an impulse purchase this means that my profit margins will be very good as I'll make more money per sale and thirdly there are so many different ways I

can scale this business just think if I grew it big enough I could even Branch out into premium artwork look wealthy people can hang in their Mansions imagine how much I could sell those for but I'm getting a bit ahead of myself here first we need to make some designs right I've got a confession to make and I'm not proud of it actually you know I'm under a time limit here and I don't really have enough hours left to make my own designs and do everything else on my list if I was a bit younger

then I could probably use an AI tool like mid journey to create the wall art for me but you guys know I'm a boomer so it would take me a little while to get the hang of it and time isn't something I have lots of right now that doesn't mean I'm about to die by the way so long story short I've ordered five different wall art designs from three different sellers on fivera I sent them all this brief I would like you to create an entrepreneurial poster that could be framed and used as wall art

please come up with your own quote idea and theme I think something entrepreneurial and motivational would be best I intend on using the poster size 30 by 40 cm that's 12 in by 16 in for all our American viewers I look forward to seeing the design this is going to be pretty interesting as I really don't have time to make any changes and I'm kind of leaving my fate in their hands while we're waiting for those designs to come back let's use this opportunity to make an online store I've decided I'm going to sell on

Etsy as it's relatively simple and has a low barrier to entry platforms like this are great as they already have an established customer base for you to tap into the downside is that it's often a race to the bottom as your product is nothing but a commodity and it's only compared on price although my designs are unique there are still a lot of people selling similar products if you want to build a business that stand a test of time I suggest heading over to something like Shopify and creating your own store so it's the next

morning and I've been sent some designs to review I haven't looked at them yet so let's look at them together actually I quite like this one the design looks pretty cool and the quote is very true I'll tell you what if I had a penny for every time someone said My Success was due to luck and not hard work then I'd be rich oh wait I am this next guy seems to have made five different designs let's take a look honestly these designs do look pretty basic and the quotes are just sta in the obvious

the only one I really like is the last one and even that looks like something I could have done in 2 minutes okay so it's all riding on this last seller this is actually my favorite design so far this next one I'm not so keen on but I can see is at least try to play with the text a little bit maybe this will appeal to the girls is it's got that sort of swirly font I think they like that sort of thing right now we've got to upload these designs onto gelato since this is

a print on demand product I don't have to pay for anything until a sale is made so this is great if you're starting out with $0 so I'm just going to go to the menu on the left hand side and select product catalog as you can see there are a lot of different options here but I'm of course going to select wall art this pulls up a selection of different types of posters now I'm going to pick uh wooden framed posters I'm then going to go with the premium matte paper option as I can see

that this is the best seller and to be honest I don't think people will really be able to tell the difference between this and the museum quality one but my profits certainly will so I'm going to select 30 by 40 cm as I think this is the bests siiz poster for most houses and it seems to be the size most people select then I'm going to pick vertical and a black frame color as that's pretty sort of gender neutral and ready to hang because not a symol ain't nobody got time for that I'm just going

to repeat the steps with all my designs including the ones I didn't like after all I've got nothing to lose and who knows I might even sell some now I've got all the designs uploaded I'm going to go over to the menu and select stores this is where you can link your gelato account with your Etsy store if if you don't want to sell on Etsy as you can see there are lots of different options right I could just upload the designs from Fiverr right onto my Etsy listing but to be honest they don't look

very premium so I'm going to use the built-in mockup Studio by clicking here this tool will help me bring the posters to life first we just have to set the dimensions for our file size oh they have actually on here an Etsy preset so I'm going to just select that but you can also set custom sizes if like to create mockups for things like Instagram stories now we need to select a scene for our mockup oh now that one looks good so let's go with that you can zoom in and move around the scene by

just double clicking on it so I'm going to adjust it to make the scene a little bit bigger so there's more focus on my poster design next let's select our poster size I'm going to set it to 30X 40 as I said before most poster designs are this size these are looking pretty pretty good now the last step before we can sell our wall art setting a price I've just taken a quick look at the price Navigator tool and in here it lays out exactly what the product costs how much shipping will set us back

and even the total profit per sale looking at all of this I think a good price would be $49.99 this is a bit High compared to most competitors on Etsy which will definitely impact sales but I'm willing to take a bit of a risk because I always think a nice profit margin is around 50% right so I'm over in Miami on business but I've been keeping an eye on our side hustle Challenge and I'll tell you what I've got some results but before I share them with you check this out I actually ordered a couple

of our products and got them shipped to me over here in the USA and I think they're pretty good and the quality as well is absolutely fantastic I think I'm going to keep these actually I'm really impressed with the shipping time as well it took 3 days to get these TOS Which is far better better than the Chinese drop shippers and that should give us an advantage I'd actually always recommend ordering your product before you start selling it because reputation is everything and you don't want customers speaking negatively about your product so I've left it

just a few more days because things were going nicely now for the moment you've all been waiting for did we make any sales well yes and no some of the posters generated a few sales and some didn't even catch a bite overall we generate did 11 sales which led to £ 5498 but of course this isn't all profit first we had to pay for designs on fiver which was £0.77 then Etsy take a small cut of 6.5% on each sale which came to 35.74 and let's not forget the product and shipping cost which came to

£ 37169 by the way as I use gelato a lot in this video I reached out to them and asked them if they could give you guys some kind of discount on these fees they agreed so with the link in the description you can get 50% off your first order with all those expenses deducted it leaves us with a grand total of £81 69 considering that I accomplished all the setup within 24 hours and now have the designs I'd consider this a success this means I can continue selling these products over the next few weeks

with minimal additional expenses if you guys would be interested in seeing a part two where I allow myself more time to revamp the business and see how far I can take it let me know in the comments if you want to know how to sell blank books on Amazon then I'm going to leave that video right up there but don't click on it just yet make sure to subscribe if you want to grow your wealth okay I'll see you over there