25,000 SALES on Displate: 5 Print-on-Demand Tips

I was happy to see the other day that I surpassed 25 000 individual sales on disk plate and so in this video you know my hope is to inspire you if you think like oh print on demand is too hard and I can’t do it I’m living proof that anybody with

Enough time and energy can get some pretty good results so in this video I’m going to share with you five tips on how you can get more sales on disk plate but also just more sales and print on demand in general so let’s jump in tip number

One is Niche marketing I’ve said it before I’ll say it again you must be able to compete in a niche that either has really crappy designs or just not very many designs so here’s a great example of a niche that is just a ton of competition this is gaming so if I go

Into browse posters and I go into gaming we’re going to see down at the bottom there’s 125 pages of stuff if I go to the top and I search so here’s a great example gaming kids room gets back 496 results that’s not that many considering how popular of a genre this

Is now of course there’s going to be trademark stuff display does have licensed displays but there’s also lots of stuff here like cats there’s a goose there’s just some text there’s all sorts of neon and fluorescent designs there’s really simple stuff too that you could have and the opportunities really are

There the trick is to find these niches and then make designs in these niches 496 is just not that much for a niche that’s really based on gaming and kids tip number two is to use some sort of texture to make your design stand out so

I’m using Kittle for example to make a display just a heads up if you like what you see on Kittle I’ll put a link in the video description below it is an affiliate link that just means if you purchase something on Kittle I would receive a small commission so here’s the

Way it works we’ve got our octopus design he’s playing drums we’ve got our retro stripe we’ve got our background this looks good because it’s a disc plate it’s going to be sitting on a wall and so one idea is to add in texture so I’m going here to the left hand side

Texture grunge texture and we can see that that really makes the design quite a bit different instantly so texture is a really common thing that people can use now if you don’t necessarily like that much texture you can also down the opacity on it you can just have it very

Subtle so that’s a more subtle effect you can also clip the contents that it only sticks on the actual design the Retro stripes and the octopus you can see when I move it the actual grunge design is sitting kind of underneath it but it’s not sitting on the blue so it’s

Your choice if you wanted to have the grunge design all over the display or if you want to have it just on the actual images either way I do think that a lot of really good selling designs have some sort of texture on them and I think it

Looks great so tip number three is to incorporate some sort of background so so here I am on a site called raw pixel I’m looking for free textured or metallic background here’s one it’s a Concrete background I think we can use this concrete texture free public domain

I’m going to download this I’m going to download it as a large the largest file size it’s 5472 by 3648 300 DPI that will work for a display I’m going to click free download so here’s a relatively boring design that probably won’t get many sales let’s see if we can use our

Concrete background to make this design better I’m going to place my background okay there’s my background I’m going to just stretch them out now to be the size of the display template I’m going to rasterize the layer and then we’ll push the layer down to the bottom and now I’m

Simply just going to make these into soft light now I’m using Photoshop but you could do something similar and if you think it’s a little bit too light you can just duplicate the layer and when you duplicate the layer it just adds in a secondary layer which makes it

A bit darker so there is just instantly I think that looks a hundred times better someone would hang that up on their wall because it looks now like it’s a photograph of a piece of graffiti art off of a wall you could imagine this on the side of a building versus just a

Metal plate you can also just embrace the graffiti element the street art element here I’ve got coffee was here and here’s an example of where I would just lean into the whole graffiti concrete element and I think that that looks even better because you’re really just now playing on the whole graffiti

Artwork element tip number four is to use public domain assets it’s like a free brand world-class brand yes the best things in life really are free here’s the Mona Lisa this is on Wikipedia and look at the biggest file size it’s 74.79 by 11 146 pixels this thing is absolutely huge

It’s actually going to take on my computer which is pretty robust a few seconds to load in the graphical design on this thing is absolutely spectacular look at that so I would recommend that you check out things like masterpieces paintings Renaissance things and then there’s also this website this is called comic book

Plus and I’m just going to go here to categories I’m going to go to romance and there’s six pages of romance Comics you can go in here and you can find comic book covers you can go inside the comic book these are old vintage illustrations that are in the public

Domain there’s all sorts of retro pop art sitting inside the pages of comic book plus so don’t forget about masterpieces don’t forget about public domain assets don’t forget about comic books tip number five is to really put some thought into why people are buying displates and then match that need so

Here I am back on Kittle and I’ve just got a wolf design sitting on sort of a metallic red background and you might think oh this would be a great gaming design or this would be really good and there’s nothing wrong with this but if you’re not making sales and you’re

Wondering what you can do to take it to the next level what I would suggest is ask yourself why would somebody buy a disc plate with this picture on it so here’s a very simple example just by adding danger keep out you can imagine now a kid would put this on his door

This could be popular in a dorm room a college setting so just by adding a few words I’ve radically changed the use of this design here’s another idea man cave designs are very popular this one would be sitting in the basement when you walk into the basement bar or the basement

Man cave so by adding a bit of text you can radically change the way the design is purposed I really hope you found this walkthrough helpful I love display this plate has been very good to me over the years and I highly recommend using these

Tips to try to get more sales you can do it I know it’s intimidating some of these artworks look spectacular and you think oh my goodness how can I compete remember these tips and use me hopefully as inspiration I don’t want to come across as braggy braggy I simply

Mentioned that anyone can do this if you put in the time and the energy I believe in you here’s another video on how you can supercharge your print-on-demand journey thanks a lot for watching foreign