In January of last year I got into PoD (Print on Demand) and I actually happened to be quite profitable netting a couple hundred dollars in a few weeks time. However in march of the same year I got to learn about cryptocurrency and was immediately obsessed (which ultimately led to me slowly moving away from my PoD days). This year however I'm committed to building up a passive income through PoD.
Print on Demand
Print-on-demand (PoD) is a printing technology and business process in which custom items are not printed until the company receives an order, allowing prints of singular or small quantities. This allows creators around the world to make a passive income simply by uploading their artwork. Other than that they don't have to do anything. Companies like Rebubble and Teespring handle printing, shipping, customer service etc.
Redbubble
Redbubble operates as a global marketplace (primarily on the Internet) and allows its members to sell their art work as decoration on a variety of products. Products include prints, T-shirts, hoodies, cushions, duvet covers, leggings, skirts and scarves. An executive described the company as "a community of artists who upload their artwork in digital form." Membership to the platform is free and Redbubble allows creators to manage their own profitmargins and control the items their artwork is being printed on.
My Goal
My goal with PoD (Redbubble to be more specific) is to produce artwork on a weekly basis thus generating a somewhat 'passive' stream of income and possibly inspire other creative steemians as well. All the profits I get off of the Passive Income Journey posts, that I plan to put out a few times a week, will be invested directly into the journey (advertisement of my products, new equipment, etc.). So by upvoting you're directly supporting my journey. If there's enough support and interest, I will also put up simple tutorials to set up your own designs, generate traffic and sales.
Have you tried any other sites like Society6 or is Redbubble the best you’ve found?
Good question! I've actually only been using Redbubble as of recently but I'm certainly interested in other PoD providers such as Society6. The reason I'm starting off with Redbubble is the advanced editor. Redbubble allows you to put your design on a lot of items in a lot of different ways. Something Teespring for instance doesn't offer. I actually still have an active account on teespring that still generates sales (2 more yesterday).
Ok cool, I'll look into Redbubble, also I know a lot of people use saatchi online for european sales
Ten years ago I published my first book on PoD and it worked nicely specially because you don't need a publisher or agent etc., so it's pretty easy and economic. I sold it since over 4000 times via amazon. So I have no work to do, no hosting or advertising and that with very little costs.
Wow good to see that you've had a lot of success selling your book via amazon. My father recently published one on there as well. Amazon is really great. Easy to use, passive income and no costs whatsoever.
Exactly!
You got a 8.13% upvote from @edensgarden courtesy of @callmefib3r!
so this allows you to print on anything? so you can print designs on womens leggins and other clothing?
Yes! Leggings, skirts, duvets, heck even clocks.
do you care if i resteem this so i will have it on my feed? i may be in the market for some small quantity orders of stuff in the near future if you are up for it.
Yea sure please do so. I will continue to update my sales and designs over there so new posts are coming. If you need helo with finding your way around redbubble I can make a tutorial or two.
ok. will do. we do a lot of racing here in the midwest and have race shirts made every year but i have never seen leggins with a design on them so that may be something new for us to bring to the table. Are these more screen printed or how are they put on the shirts/ leggins?
I'm not sure how they put the designs on the leggings but I don't think they're screenprinted. The design is really incorporated into the legging like if you were to buy one in their store. But don't quote me on that though. You can always buy one as a test and request a refund or new product if something is wrong since redbubble works with a money back guarantee.
Oh wow. Thats awesome