The 7 BIGGEST Etsy Print On Demand Mistakes | Watch This BEFORE Starting A Print On Demand Store

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Note: this video’s caption track is in Arabic, summarized here in English from that track. The creator, who claims over $1.5 million in Etsy sales and over $1 million in profit over about seven years, lists seven print-on-demand mistakes that slow new shops. 1) Misplaced designs: too high near a shirt collar or too low, too small to read on mobile, only a corner visible on a mug mockup, or inconsistent sizes across mockups. 2) Too-generic designs like ’live, laugh, love,’ ‘blessed’ or just ‘mama’ — a new shop with no track record cannot beat a market leader with the same bland design. 3) Terrible fonts that ruin otherwise good concepts; instead Google ‘Canva font duo’ or ‘blogger font duo’ for proven pairings, try changing the font on a failing listing, and avoid offering 6-8 similar font options that paralyze buyers. 4) Standard white-background mockups and using the same mockup style shop-wide instead of testing styles to improve click-through. 5) Wrong color priority: choose the best-selling blank/background color first (e.g. sand, white, black) and design to work on it, rather than letting design colors block popular blanks. 6) Focusing on a product type (only shirts or only mugs) instead of a customer group, which also enables multi-item orders. 7) Not optimizing for mobile — and Pinterest — even though over half of customers may shop by phone.

Key takeaways

• Place designs consistently and legibly: not too high, low or small, and show the full design in mockups so mobile shoppers can read it.
• Avoid generic phrases and bland designs; a new shop cannot outrank an established leader with the same ordinary design.
• Use proven font pairings from searches like ‘Canva font duo’ and limit font choices so buyers are not overwhelmed.
• Do not rely on standard white-background mockups or one mockup style shop-wide; test different mockups to raise click-through.
• Pick best-selling blank colors first, build around a customer group not a product type, and optimize every listing for mobile.

Episode details: published May 18, 2023 · 8:36 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Dylan Jahraus’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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