What are /r/printondemand's favorite Products & Services?

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POD providers suck for mockups. I use a few different resources to make mine.
Creative Market: Great place to buy isolated object PNGs. You can enter the kind of T-shirt you plan on selling your designs on and someone has probably made transparent PNGs of all the colors. You can also find premade mockups there but they tend to be pricey.

PlaceIt: Tons of quality photo mockups. It's worth the subscription IMO for access to their many model and flat lay photos of various products.

Etsy: For many sticker and shirt mockups I just buy them on Etsy. Much cheaper than Creative Market.

Free photo sites like Unsplash.com, Pixabay.com: They have a lot of flat lay photos that you can use for free with no attribution.

Ok you know that "print at home to iron at home" paper? Have you seen or heard of it?

Its called "Iron on transfer paper"

click here to see example

Do you have any friends that can help you to print 200 and iron them on yourself?

Maybe give 4 friends 50 for each to do?

Does every single T-shirt have to be the same?

Can 10 of them have the large graphic printed on and others just have a sticker??

Maybe stickers are a good idea! Or custom badges...

OR get some people to order the T-shirt themselves and make it their own responsibility to get their own T--shirt printed.

I hope this helps

Alright!! I reposted my table (taking out the customer information) and I also added a tab that walks folks through every step of my posting process! It’s lengthy…like a small course…but I think it will help folks! https://airtable.com/shrGndMJlhyIsO1A0

If you want print quality, Printforia. They use Ovaljets rather than the usual Kornit printers. I have a bunch of Kornit printed shirts and the difference is noticable. They produced this, which IMO is accurate:

https://www.notion.so/printforia/Where-to-Find-the-World-s-Best-Decorated-T-Shirt-c49a45057d6149c88640fe9e7d6985fc

That said, their product/color selection is limited. Also, their prints on Gildan 18500/1800 fleece are just okay. They've been printing on Tultex hoodies for us and the quality is fantastic, but I don't see that as an option on Printify.

I don't work for Printforia, but the POD service I run (competitor to Printify) uses them for most of our apparel. I like PF and hope they grow.

The first one is the best as it has the most color contrast but I'd make her skin a bit more yellowish, for a consistent color palette. You can use websites like http://colormind.io/ to choose a color combination that looks more coherent. Very nice artwork btw!

Did Facebook provide any specifics on the ban? Facebook can be tedious when setting up the campaigns in the beginning. On one of my Shopify stores, my artwork for the T-Shirts contain dog breeds so naturally the titles of my products were: Dog Breed Name Unisex T-Shirt, around 400 shirts, and they were banned immediately because they said I was selling live animals. I opened up a support ticket and got that sorted. However, it gets banned every time I publish a new design and it's the same shit over and over. Facebook has really dropped the ball on many aspects, but I made good money when things were good and I'm waiting for things to hopefully get better.

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Traffic is key when it comes to Shopify. I was a Shopify Developer Partner for a few years but now I am too busy working on my brands. SEO takes time but it's crucial to have organic sales as your brand matures. PPC is immediate and can be scaled with simple math to hit your numbers.

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I now sell mostly on Amazon, Shopify and Etsy. Each one is so different. Your print on demand provider should be able to sync with Amazon. Running ads on Amazon is probably the best for me at the moment and it's where I focused the most this year due to Facebook Ads self-imploding.

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For SEO keyword research to sell on Shopify (Google Search) I use Moz and SEMRush

For keyword research on Amazon I use Helium10

For keyword research to sell on Etsy I use Erank

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If you want me to take a look at your Etsy store just send me a private message to see what would be the best way to build a brand on Shopify.

Cost is on the https://www.orbitkit.com website (scroll down to "Fulfill Orders At Shopify and Etsy"). Turnaround time is published live on a customer dashboard page, but here's the current graph of data for the last two weeks:

https://monosnap.com/file/tTUUZ5Zj068htRpIAMoSQGBWfUU4je

(if it's not obvious what that means, I can explain. 85% of orders are going out in 4 days or less)

What do you mean by "do their own fulfillment"? We're a bit like a fully automated Printify; we partner with several companies that do the actual printing, and we do all the order routing. These print companies generally do not work directly with merchants and do not integrate with Shopify, Etsy, etc.

We (OrbitKit, https://www.orbitkit.com) publish our realtime fulfillment times on a dashboard page inside our app. Here's a snapshot of the current graph (all orders shipped over the last two weeks):

https://monosnap.com/file/YnsacgDEbybsoWM0Vm1rzDtIFFnL04

Half of all orders are going out in 3 days or less, 85% in 4 days or less. You really need a graph like this, an average number is pretty meaningless.

Some things about production times:

The biggest problem in production is stock. The supply chain for blanks is still in rough shape, and all printers use the same distributors (there are only a few). If you're selling Heather Lilac, you are going to have major issues with any printer. Some product/color/size SKUs are extinct in the supply chain and have been for months.

Keep in mind that Printify is not a monolithic entity. Production behavior depends entirely on which printer you select.

Some things we've done with OrbitKit to keep our production times consistently low:

• We only offer products/colors that we are confident we can fulfill in a timely manner. We'd rather deliver well with a smaller offering than try to offer lots of exotic colors. Most 90% of everything in POD is sold on black anyway.

• We aggressively substitute products for you. With OrbitKit you sell a "Unisex Tee" or "Premium Unisex Tee" rather than a specific shirt blank like "Gildan 5000" or "Bella 3001". We have internal fallback rules based on equivalent quality, color, and availability. This is also part of why we offer limited colors.

It's been working very well, and is the reason we're comfortable making our real fulfillment times public.