How To Make Money Online With A Print On Demand Dropshipping Business 2024

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RJ Martinez walks through starting a print-on-demand dropshipping store with little upfront investment, saying the hardest part is marketing and driving traffic. Store options he shows are Shopify (with free trials), Etsy (with a listing fee), WooCommerce, Squarespace and Wix, most offering templates. He integrates Gelato as the print-on-demand provider via the Shopify app store, warning that paid apps can quickly add up to around $100 in subscriptions. He creates a poster as an example, noting Gelato offers many products (wall art, clothing, mugs, phone cases and more) fulfilled in many countries. For artwork he uses DALL·E 3 inside ChatGPT to generate a Bigfoot playing guitar design, using prompts like ‘sticker design’ to get an outlined image that is easier to cut out, asks the AI to remove the background, then uses vectorizer.ai to raise a low-DPI image — in his example from 123 DPI to 492 DPI — before uploading. He then picks mockups, adds a title and description, sets pricing by profit margin (showing 50% and 60% examples and whether shipping is included in the calculation), publishes to the storefront and places a test order, monitoring the pending order in Gelato’s backend. He stresses sellers still handle customer service and should warn customers that custom printed products can take a week to two weeks, sometimes longer, to arrive. He closes on niche and marketing: know who you are marketing to, ask your audience, and promote with engaging content on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest or blogs.

Key takeaways

• Stores can be built on Shopify, Etsy, WooCommerce, Squarespace or Wix; traffic/marketing is the hardest part
• Gelato can be added to Shopify as the print-on-demand fulfilment app, but watch accumulating app subscription costs
• AI image tools like DALL·E 3 can generate designs; ‘sticker design’ prompts help with outlines and background removal
• Upscale low-DPI artwork with a tool like vectorizer.ai before uploading it to a product
• You still own customer service — set expectations that printed-to-order items take a week or more to ship

Episode details: published January 13, 2024 · 17:13 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are RJ Martinez’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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