ey everyone so here at wholesale ted there is a super common question that I am often
asked and that is this Sarah there are so many print-on-demand companies redbubble the spring
print I'm confused about which is the best and so today that is exactly what I am answering I am
doing a review of each of these print-on-demand companies and I am going to be reviewing these
four things one I'm going to be reviewing how each works because as you'll see they all work
very differently and some are super easy to use whereas others require more work two do they have
exclusive features that you might need in your business three I've ordered t-shirts from all
of these companies and I'll be putting them side by side who prints the best products that your
customers will love the most and four how much do each them cost which will leave you with the most
profit in your pocket because you see two things always make my day the first thing
is anytime that you take a moment out of your very busy day to give these videos alike and
to subscribe because seriously it genuinely helps my videos with youtube algorithms so thank you so
much for your support but the second thing that I love is when viewers also taking moments out
of their busy lives to tell me that my videos have helped them build profitable businesses
they now earn them money and if you read the comments you'll see different users chose
different print-on-demand companies to do so because you see here is the thing just like how
there is no best business or best way to make money there is no best print-on-demand company
there are just different ones to choose from and they all have their own pros and their own cons
and so my hope is that this video will help you choose the one that is best for you all right so
let's start off by reviewing redbubble the first thing I'm gonna do it as I said it explains how
redbubble works and that's important because as you'll see redbubble works very differently to the
other websites on this list and because of that it's gonna be the right print onto one company
for some people but not for others so redbubble is what I would call an all-in-one website it
does everything it does the selling and marketing for you because it has a giant marketplace that
rear bubble actively advertised that you can list your designs for sale on and all these
top selling t-shirts here were not designed by redbubble they were instead created by normal
random people like you or me I so this top-selling t-shirt here featuring a funny trendy slogan
was just made by someone out of their house so let's say that it was you that uploaded this top
selling design well each time a customer comes to redbubble and buys one of these t-shirts from you
redbubble has multiple print-on-demand factories that they own and run that handle the orders for
you they will collect the money the customer paid and remove the production fees they'll
then print your design onto a t-shirt package the t-shirt up and then ship it out to the customer
they'll then pay the rest of the profit from the money the customer paid to you as a commission and
as I said redbubble does the selling and marketing for you each month tens of millions of people come
to redbubble to buy products and that's because redbubble has actively worked to market their
the website especially with google and as you can see half of their traffic comes from search engines
like google but what they've done is they've made so many tweaks and modifications to their website
that now when people come to google looking for gifts like saying sarcastic t-shirts that redbubble
will show up on the list of the search results near the top bringing in lots of free potentials
buyers into the store to come and buy your products so basically they've invested a lot
into building up their marketing and their brand which means as a result redbubble sold over 400
million dollars with the print onto my merchandise in 2020 on behalf of users like my viewers here
which is pretty cool so I've talked a lot about the pros when it comes to selling on redbubble but
what about the cons well I'll get to those cons shortly now for me the cons do outweigh the pros
which is why I don't sell my designs on redbubble but for many people, I do understand why the cons
that I'm about to share don't matter to them the reason why for some people selling on redbubble
is the absolute best decision is because as I'm showing you right now it takes less than two
minutes to get a product selling on redbubble you just come to redbubble upload your design and then
choose which products that your design looks good on you can edit each product design placement too
to get it looking good and then you just enable the products that your design looks nice on and
disable the products that your design looks bad on and then you send the products to go live on
redbubble's storefront so uploading a design and creating your ripple products is really simple and
of course, once they're uploaded redbubble handles the advertising for you and so the only thing that
you have to focus on is just creating designs and uploading them but it's not just the fact that
it's simply that I know a lot of redbubble's pros will outweigh the cons for some people
I know from reading my youtube comments that a lot of you have very low startup budgets and
money is tied especially right now well redbubble never charges any fees or sell on here so it's 100
free and so for those people I know that regardless of what I'm about to say and
regardless of any cons that it has that redbubble will be the print-on-demand company that they will
choose and it will be the right one for them because it's free to start making money on
redbubble never charges you fees because they collect the money the customer pays and they take
the cost of production and marketing that they do for you out of that money and they pay you
the profit as a commission and it means that you can start selling effectively and marketing your
products like this t-shirt here without having to pay anything and getting this t-shirt up took
less than two minutes so yes the fact that you can start selling products and effectively marketing
your products for free is a pretty big pro but as I said I personally don't sell on redbubble
because it also has cons so here is the deal I recently bought this image on easy to print onto
a t-shirt as a gift for a friend well I decided to use this video as an excuse to try out different
print-on-demand companies and pick which company's t-shirt that I will use as my gift for my friend
and I'll tell you now I am not going to be gifting the shirt that came from redbubble that's for sure
this t-shirt featured an extremely washed out print of my image and even worse the print was a
a bit blurry to you can see the black lines aren't sharp they have blurry edges so the print quality
on redbubble is not very good it's interesting though because despite this average print quality
redbubble sales including repeat buyers keep going up and up every year they're getting more
and more popular and I genuinely think that a big reason for this is because buying from redbubble
is a pretty fun experience just look at this fun branded packaging the t-shirt arrived on
this is pretty cool I'll give redbubble that so customers get a funky buying experience while
getting an acceptable product while I wouldn't choose this t-shirt from the list gifting this
to a friend wouldn't be terrible it would just be acceptable so when you choose to sell your artwork
and designs on redbubble you have to also accept that it's going to be printed onto a lower quality
product something else you have to accept is that redbubble will earn you less money redbubble
charges 16.41 for a classic t-shirt and by default they add an extra 12.5 commission on top of that
which you earn bumping the product price to 18.32 now you can change this increase the margin but in
In the beginning, you probably won't want to since the average t-shirt price on redbubble tends to be 18
to 19 anyway, so the standard 12.5 commission rate puts you in the average product price of 18
to 19 so the profit margins you can expect on redbubble are around 10 to 20 now I know a lot of
new entrepreneurs are probably going to scoff at that and be like those profit margins are terrible
but actually a 10 profit margin and business is standard so there you go basically here's the deal
I think that redbubble can be a great place for beginners to get started if the idea of
setting up their own store and marketing your own products is overwhelming but as you'll
see if those things are not overwhelming to you and you are willing to do them there are higher
quality print-on-demand companies that can make better products for customers with higher profit
margins but firstly I just want to let you know that if you're enjoying this video and
you would like even more free training on print on demand then you should be sure to download my free
ebook the six steps that six-figure online stores follow to make over ten thousand dollars a month
and you'll find a link to download my free ebook in the video description below but anyway back to
the video and on to review number two and review number two is for printing and the way that
printfy works are extremely different from redbubble unlike redbubble which is an all-in-one website
print only handles one aspect of this business for you creating and shipping products on demand
so here's how it works firstly you need to have your own separate store already you can set up
a store on Etsy a popular online marketplace to sell print-on-demand products on most of these
t-shirts that you see listed here are sold through print-on-demand apps like prettify
but FC isn't the only place you could sell on you could set up a store on eBay or like me you could
choose to set up your own private store on your own private domain using an e-commerce store app
as my subscribers know my favorite app for this is Shopify which I use in my print-on-demand business
but no matter how you choose to do it once you've created your store adding products into it with
printing takes less than two minutes you just come to the printables catalog and then choose from
the different items that they have listed that you want to add so for example let's say you
wanted to add one of my favorite products which is this t-shirt here the super-soft Bala canvas
3001 t-shirt this t-shirt is really nice and my customers love it each time they receive it
because it is admittedly very comfortable well once you've picked which of the print-on-demand
factories that you want to work with which I will explain shortly so don't worry you just
upload either a funny or trendy slogan or a piece of artwork and create the t-shirt that you want to
sell and then print five will then store a digital copy of this t-shirt and your servers and you can
then push this t-shirt onto your store and add it and you can set the product title and description
and the product price and printing will then add the product into your store and customers
can start buying it immediately but yes I do get a lot of confused people and they say
but Sarah why do I also need my own store why can't I just sell directly on the printing
like I can with redbubble and the answer is because redbubble doesn't just create and ship
products they also have a built-in storefront on their website that you can sell-through
and printing does not have this and so if you want to sell products with printify then you
need to also have your own store set up separately to connect it with but because printify doesn't
have its own storefront and doesn't advertise products like redbubble does it also means that
it's a lot cheaper as you saw this t-shirt cost me just eight dollars and five cents to buy with
my printed five premium subscription and remember redbubble they charge sixteen dollars for their
cheapest t-shirts so print fly is literally half the price and the reason for that is redbubble
has to charge more since you know think about it they also have to add in the cost of running their
giant online storefront and advertising costs as well with printify you're just paying for
the base costs of the t-shirt to literally print and ship the items so with the money you save
you can invest it into setting up your own storefront and running your own advertising so
you know the pros and cons are depending on how you want to run your print on demand business
but yes once you've added an item into your store and a customer comes and say buys this t-shirt
from you, printer5 will see the order and go yep we'll send this order to the factory the print
the on-demand factory will print your design onto the t-shirt and then package the t-shirt up and ship
it out to the customer automatically and then they send the customer their tracking code now remember
unlike redbubble printify, I never collect the money that the customer paid because they do not
control the storefront you do so printify can't remove their production fees from
the money the customer paid so instead what they do is they charge the credit card or debit card
that you have on file with them the base cost of the t-shirt and as you can see it usually cost me
dollars and five cents to buy t-shirts from printify and I usually sell them for 29.95
which would be impossible to do on redbubble since everyone is competing for price
and the t-shirt quality is not very good whereas the t-shirt quality that I ordered from printify
well the quality was, to be frank absolutely fantastic and customers are willing to pay higher
prices for it see I ordered this t-shirt here from one of printf's factories monster digital
and this is important to note printify is just an app unlike redbud will have their own in-house
factories that make the products that customers buy printify I don't have any in-house factories
instead what this app does is connects you to external print-on-demand companies and factories
that sell their products through printify all these businesses here are entirely separate from
one another and so well since all these are different factories and businesses
unsurprisingly some print products are better than others so whenever I read comments like this
that says I bought a product from printify and the quality wasn't very good I always find these
comments a little frustrating because printify doesn't actually print any of their products so
that statement isn't really true you have to specify which factory you bought from within
5 since the quality will differ from factory to factory and if you're looking for a good factory
for clothing which is the most popular type of print on demand product, I strongly recommend
monster digital so on a product that they sell scroll down and select them from the list
most people ignore them and write them lower than other factories because they are more expensive
but I think that their expensive price is well worth the cost because the quality of their
t-shirts are extremely high and you can tell that their printing quality is extremely high
by comparing the printify monster digital shirt next to the redbubble shirt unlike the redbubble
shirt the printify monster digital t-shirt had very sharp black lines the print quality
wasn't blurry at all and the colors were much more vibrant and more accurate which I hope will show
up on the camera once I render this youtube video but in the printify, I monster digital t-shirt at
the top the orangey-red color of the first m is printed as-is onto the t-shirt whereas because
the redbubble t-shirt below it is faded it prints more like a purple which is not what it is at all
it is an orangey-red color alright so we know that monster digital's prints are great but what about
the other suppliers at printify as I said they very drastically and to highlight that I ordered
a t-shirt from this supplier here in my locker is one of the worst-reviewed printify
factories and frankly when you see the image quality it should become apparent it is terrible
it is extremely blurry in fact if you compare it to the redbubble t-shirt it makes the redbubble
The t-shirt below look extremely sharp and here is my locker on top next to monster digital below again
I hope that the camera shows a difference but wow just wow the most digital t-shirt is gorgeous
whereas my locker t-shirt is an embarrassment and so print's quality isn't inconsistent
the issue is most people misunderstand and think they are ordering from printify
when in actuality printify is just letting them choose a print-on-demand factory to work with
which is honestly a pretty easy mistake to make but yes monster digital's quality is often even
better than my main go-to print on demand supplier printful sadly monster digital selection is
smaller than printables but they sure print great t-shirts so my thoughts are that if you open up
your own store and sell on your own brand like me then printify's monster digital is a great choice
not only are they half the cost of redbubble but the quality is far superior they are my
backup supplier and my customers always love the shirts that they receive and if you would like to
learn how to set up your own print-on-demand store using Shopify and printer 5 monster digital it is
something that I teach inside my premium training program the econ clubhouse if you're interested
in seeing if this is right for you I'll have a link to my course in the video description below
alright so now it's time to review a very strange and odd print on demand company in my opinion
teespring I say it's strange because on the surface it looks a lot like a red bubble
but it's secretly really different in the way that it works if you come to teespring you'll
see that you can search for t-shirts such as sarcastic t-shirts and all the t-shirts
that you see here just like with redbubble were uploaded by users like high rye not teespring
and so like with redbubble teespring has its own inbuilt store functionality you don't need
to connect it to another website like printify you both create the products on teespring and
you sell them on teespring simplifying the whole process of setting up a print-on-demand business
once you've chosen which of the items that you want to sell in your catalog you then just upload a funny or trendy slogan or a picture or whatever you want to be printed onto their product and you add a product page title description and you set your product price you can then save it and teespring will then store a digital copy of the product and your database and something nice about teespring is that it's also free to sell on where you set your product price and whenever a customer buys one of the products you've created teespring collects the money the customer paid and removes their production fees and pays you the difference as a commission no credit card or startup money is required at all however there is one big catch because you see unlike redbubble teespring does no marketing for you inside their faq you'll see teespring has alittle clause here is the trust score clause you see on redbubble if you come to the search bar
and search for sarcastic t-shirts redbubble will show you all of the sarcastic t-shirts
that all of their users have ever uploaded even brand new users that have just opened a
redbubble account but teespring doesn't do this instead teespring only shows you the sarcastic
t-shirts from sellers that have developed a trust score and the way that you get that trust score
is by advertising the products yourself and getting sales by driving your own customers
yep the way that you develop a trust score is you need to market the products yourself to customers
and get enough sales only once your items have enough sales will they appear in teespring search
results and to me, I just think that for most people it's not going to be worth the time and
money that you're going to spend advertising the products that you create on teespring because they
just aren't very good the t-shirt they printed for me was almost as faded as the red bubble t-shirt
although I'll give teespring one thing the black lines were way sharper than red bubbles lines
so the design is far less blurry and if you put the red bubble t-shirt below the teespring t-shirt
you'll see the teespring t-shirt actually prints the red and orangey color of them
unlike red bubble which prints it more purple due to it being more faded however if you place
it sides by side with printify it's like night and day it's difficult to capture on camera but
trust me the printify print is rich and deep in color and the teespring one looks far more faded
and so in my opinion teespring just doesn't make a whole lot of sense you know
because it just doesn't do anything great because yes while redbubble has the worst t-shirt prints
they instead have a funky brand that adds value from the cool buying experience and
they get lots of high-quality traffic from people directly looking to buy products on google
compare that then to teespring which gets way less traffic that's also way worse in quality
from social media websites rather than people on google directly looking to buy specific gifts and
so I'm just gonna be frank if you're a beginner and you want an all-in-one print-on-demand website
to start selling on then in my opinion redbubble makes way more sense and if you instead wanted to
set up your own store to maximize profits and scale a big business rather than use teespring
which charge 10.57 cents for their worst quality t-shirt why not instead set up your own store and
Etsy or Shopify for a bit extra and then sell printer fires cheaper yet much higher quality
super soft t-shirts with better prints for eight dollars and five cents instead which will result
in way more repeat customers since they'll like their t-shirts that they get better to do you see
my point here teespring kind of sits in limbo trying to do everything but excelling in nothing
but despite all of this negativity from me, there is a good reason why somebody might
choose teespring as they print onto one company and that is if you have some form of traffic and
want to sell print on demand products to your audience but you don't have enough extra spare
cash to set up your own print-on-demand store on Etsy or Shopify and absolutely need a free place
to set up a store on and that is what this big Facebook main page here engineer memes did they
had a big fan page with lots of traffic but wanted a free place to sell merch on and so they set up a
teespring store so you know teespring is the right option as a print on demand supplier for some
just not many people and I know but that is pretty harsh so if you disagree with me feel free to let
I know in the comment section below so then which t-shirt will I give to my friend well
here is my final ranking from worst to best my locker from printify was easily the worst
bleh after that comes red bubble which while an enormous step up is still not as good
as the teespring t-shirt however the absolute number one clear winner of this video for print
quality was easily monster digital the quality is incredible it is an extremely vibrant sharp print
that I am proud to both give to my friend as a gift and to sell to my customers so did my video help
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