You always give so much value, Shimmy. Appreciate it.

You are the realist and this is why I pushed the Subscribe button, I feel like I’m having a chat with a friend in the same field. Love it

Appreciate the striaght-forward content and love that backwall lego collection!

Hey! Thank you for the video! I really like how genuine you are in this platform!

So glad to see someone being honest, this is far more helpful to everyone.

Yes, so much truth to this video! I’ve been a Shopify advocate for 9 years and still believe it’s the best platform for building a brand with print on demand. Great video!

I agree whole heartedly with everything you said! I'm new to POD and Shopify, but there's a lot of incorrect information on KZfaq, especially from the gurus.... I'm learning the hard way.

As a POD seller for the past two years, can confirm that everything said in this video is true 😅. It’s not passive, it’s not simple. The steps are simple, growing the business to be profitable (making it a full time income) is not so simple. I want to open a Shopify store but feel lost in terms of getting customers to that store. Etsy has the benefit of having those customers already so I feel like it’s a good place up get started. Now that I’ve done that with over 14,000 sales, I’d love up build a Shopify store for more control over my business and hopefully more profit. My Etsy store is general (many niches). Do you recommend picking one of those successful niches for a Shopify store rather than having multiple niches? I’m wondering what makes more sense since I’ll have to have a different marketing strategy.

I got many qualifications from your video. Thank you so much!

You knocked it out of the park again. Well done Shimmy!! 🙂

I agree with most of what you say, except about Etsy being a matter of chance. I put a lot of work into my listings, from product research to design to SEO optimization. There are some great tools out there to help with all these things. I also use tools to track the performance of my listings, just like I would with ads. So it's definitely not a matter of 'spray and pray' or luck! I would never blindly design and list a hundred designs. Another thing: I can never understand why people think that listing on Etsy is any more competitive than putting your modest ads out into the Metaverse, where you're effectively bidding for attention against big brands. What could be harder than that? Don't forget, Etsy doesn't just show your listings on Etsy - they're on Google too. The biggest difference between the platforms, imho, is that Etsy is mostly 'pay as you succeed' whereas Shopify/ads is mostly 'pay as you go', whether you succeed or not. The latter can be tough for beginners.

I’m in the process of building a POD business. I’m at creating design and it takes a lot of work. But after around 50 hours of learning and designing i’m starting to build design that are more creative and elaborated. Proud of that 😀 I stil have a long way to go, but more motivated than ever. Thanks to you and Chris 👍

Great vid. I think not everyone is built for entrepreneurship and that’s fine. Some of the concerns you mentioned never came to mind because that’s called running a business. I wished people get out of the mindset of “passive.” If you want “passive” but a stock or rental property. But even then there’s some leg work involved.

It seems to me that some "gurus", when they tell you how to make money from certain things you do online, those things are "outdated" and no one makes money, or they require a very long period to make a modest amount.

My main concern has been quality control. I’ve been back and forth with Printify for weeks. My designs are not uploading. I’ve tried everything they suggested and am still waiting on the tech team to get back to me. Printify on the other hand the designs published and uploaded to my website immediately. I like having control so I’ve decided to just upload all my designs manually to my website and then purchasing the requested product through Printify until we can figure out why the designs aren’t publishing. Printify keeps getting great reviews over Printful so I’ll work around them. Long story short I got even more excited when I realized I didn’t have to deal with Amazon, Etsy or anyone else. My customer is MY customer. Who could potentially become a fan!?! That’s worth the work to me.

Love it!

For Aussies it is about $59/month and if you pay for the full year it is about $525 for the year. Not cheap. I agree about reviews. I will shop on a website without reviews if they have everything else filled out properly. Eg their about page, contacts, etc. A lot can be said for a well put together website even without reviews. There is a lot of trust in that. Often reviews can be faked anyway.

Red bubbles new account fees also mean you will make a fraction of the initial fraction they were going to pay you

Shopify fees can be a good chunk of change in other currencies than USD and UK pounds. For example, Shopify's $29 USD monthly fee converts to about $75 per month in New Zealand dollars.

What do you think about spreadshop?

Im afraid of picking the wrong niche and messing this whole project up by that

Hello... do you have a video expo explaining how to set up an address in different country where you live, please. It would be highly appreciated ... thanks

Hey Shimmy, thanks for the info about My US. I was wondering how returns might work as I'm based in Ireland. I'm just in the research part of my quest to have a POD store on Shopify. I've read that in order for customers to trust a website you should have a phone number and a business address showing on your website. Do you use the My US address as your business address? Do you recommeond getting a US phone number or is conact via email suffient in your opinion? Do you find the time difference between the UK and the US affects customer serivce via email? Another useful video thanks!

Hi Shimmy, great info as usual. Just a quick question: what do you do in terms of taxes? Do you pay in both countries or how does it work? Thanks!

Do you have any information on doing print on demand for high-effort product? I’m starting an art business, so making 100 products would be extremely time consuming. I’m working on building a KZfaq channel as well, but 100 designs would take months (maybe even over a year).

Top Notch Content!!

The niche issue is what is hardest for me to wrap my head around right now. If I pick a Shopify store name for a particular niche and it doesn’t go well, can I transfer my Shopify account to a new domain name? Can I test different niche ideas under one Shopify account?

You say Shopify is $29/month, but how much do you spend (or would you spend if you weren't a partner) for Shopify extensions (add-ons)? I'll guess about $150 to $200/mo for a simple store. A lot more to get fancy. It may be much less than what it'd take to start a brick-and-mortar store, but people are looking at starting online businesses because of the relatively inexpensive startup cost.

Do you have to have multiple companies to have multiple shops on Etsy?

Hi Shimmy, I am part of your unpaid membership and was wondering when will you be accepting another set of paid persons. Let me know soonest plz.

thorough......

In broader terms, what you're conveying is that it's better to sell on YOUR OWN ecommerce website, and not strictly Shopify, right? I know Shopify comes ready with all the tools, plugins, hosting, payment gateway, etc, but if you can set those up yourself elsewhere, then you're in as good a position as someone with a shopify store. Am I right?

I have been declined a Merch account 6 times now, should I buy one? Will I lose it? How long will it last? Is it worth it??

You mentioned the colors of the shirts you print and sell. You didn't include White. Is there a reason for that?

I'm sorry but 2 sales??? Since when is the average profit margin on pod products $15 to$17? What merchant are you using? The average Pod sellers margins is around 8-12 if you sell shirts hoodies etc en most sellers are seing those items.

See I tried printify and printiful. And the cost was a nightmare. Don’t know how you make 17$ a sale. I have to sell a cup for 25$ to make 4$ and the fact that after I buy a cup to test. It’s good and cheap. Then my customer orders a cup. It’s out of stock and a way more expensive one is sent with triple shipping! It’s crazy how much print on demand charges!

I'm in Europe and I wanna sell PoD in US. But I don't understand return policy. If I use Printify or any other platform, don't they solve the refund issues? I mean, most refunds are not realted to design, but rather issues with the merch (small print, wahsed out colors...). So if they return it to US address which then send it to me, what do I do with it? Since it's Printify who needsmthat back to ne able to print correct merch and send it again?

To get Shopify for $29 a month costs $348 up front. By the month payment is $39. Also you stated you make $15-$17 profit per print on demand sale. How is that possible selling POD t-shirts?

Hi Shimmy, I wanted to join your free private community but not sure about the Skool app. I prefer just to provide email but think it needs to also have some type of access to my FB profile. Can you please advise further.... Many thanks.

Why do you like Printify more than Printful?

I would say Shopify is not only 39$, it's 39+ your marketing budget. Otherwise you don't have sales. And the marketing budget could be 300-400 or more... especially if you are just starting ads

I think you could shorten it so "Gurus on KZfaq are lying to you." :P

If you can't comprehend to show your Shopify store which I utterly and complete understand, So how about this: Since you are highly experienced in this field, could you consider to show us only one of your ad & design that is not on the listing but neither it is a subtle, What I'm asking you is make a winning design & ad but completely different than your nieche and enlighten us with your knowledge. That way we would acknowledge the details of how you actually get things done when it comes to this particular buisness model. I'm waiting for you Please kindly respond.

Like your videos but the audio on this one seems pretty low.

Thanks for the reassurance. For me, after years of being at Ebay's whim's in another biz, I swore I'd never use a platform again. I want to own my own biz. Period.

Too many ads in the video

What would be the benefit/difference between a Shopify where your only traffic efforts are ads, and an Etsy shop where you advertise via their Promoted Listings and Offsite Ads? I would assume Etsy is better; you only pay per sale on OSA, promoted are PPC but enables a v small budget, you still get insight into your keywords, and the bonus of organic traffic, plus Etsy's position in Google. I don't know much about Shopify or ads, I assumed the best traffic for that would be Social feed? Otherwise yeah Etsy is a tyrant and getting worse. 😠 Also not surprised that people would buy from a Shopify with little 'proof' - my Dad will buy from literally anyone online even if it's not even in English LOL

Profit margins 15-17 dollars are you sure about that? Can I see your store?

Whats your daily budget for your ads, homie?

Are those Lego in the background?

How about a link to your 20k store with 3 reviews ?

Wish you could guide us ok freelancing because i have found you kost honest

Teespring or Amazon ?

What is confusing is putting out this video and then also putting out a video that your POD store sales just exploded ??!!

Youre one of them...dont be fooled folks....

The lies mentioned : 1) Shopify is expensive - your response, well yeah sortof but $39/$29 a month shouldn't be expensive to you if you are running a good business, if that's expensive do something else. 2) There's no Traffic - your response: well, yeah that's true, but I mean, it's your business, not Etsy so it's your traffic 3) Shopify is too complex - your response, well yeah, that's fair it is more complicated -- I stopped watching here. Shimmy, I think you have valid information -- but a question: Isn't using a clickbait line like "Print on Demand Gurus are lying to you" and then it turns out in the video that you say to each "lie": Well, yeah that's true, but .... then I guess it's not really a lie, is it? And I guess it means that your title is technically ...... a lie. Like you say in other Print on Demand videos about other youtube content makers, I like your content Shimmy, I just don't like lies.. seem familiar?