Print-on-Demand Alternative: Passive Income GUARANTEED Masterclass

Hey there everybody in this video I’m going to walk through a strategy that’s not Redbubble because look Redbubble can occasionally ban a design or even ban your account T Public’s amazing except when your designs don’t show up in search merch by Amazon is awesome except when you can’t get approved to have an

Account or they do approve your account you’re stuck in a wimpy tier 10 for the next three years this Plate’s awesome except trying to get approved not great when they tell you to go jump in the lake so in this video I’ve got an alternate to selling print on demand

Designs and the key here is that you’re going to use the same skill sets that you would use for creating print on demand and now I want to point out if you use this method I guarantee that you will make money no I’ll throw a little

Tiny disclaimer in there you need to get approved first which is not hard to do and I’ll show you how to do that and number two you do need to upload designs you know I can I can get just only so far but if you do those two things I

Guarantee that’s right strong words I guarantee that you’re going to make some money let’s jump in okay the method is pretty straightforward and what it involves is selling digital download now there’s really two ways you can do this so I’m going to show you the marketplaces first and then you can go

To those marketplaces and you can see what’s being sold so the first one is Etsy if you go on Etsy and you type in the word SVG that’s a vector file stands for scalable Vector graphic and you’re going to see a bunch of etsy sellers that are selling things now look at the

Top these are typically ads so you’re going to want to watch out for ads here it says 3 million 3.5 million results including ads and you’ll see your ad by Etsy seller ad by Etsy seller so watch out for the ads because it’s not necessarily an organic search result but

If you go down here to this one for example dream on SVG open heart 10 instant downloads I’m going to click on that and I’m picking this stuff at random just so you can see that it you don’t need to be some major seller on here for years and years and years so

This is a pretty basic SVG file and it’s open heart 10 instant downloads in black and white it says over here 10 digital downloads zip contains two svgs two pngs which are transparent background files EPS which is like a type of Photoshop Vector dxf which is a cutting file and a

JPEG file now that might seem really overwhelming you’re like oh my goodness there’s five different file types I’m going to show you exactly how to make all of these in one program here in just a second check out something like this where you can see it’s a digital product

It’s an instant download they’ve basically made a vector they’re showing you in all of these pictures how you can use it coffee mugs t-shirts little baby onesies you can see here there’s almost 5 000 reviews for the item 320 and then reviews for the shop almost five

Thousand so what you can do here in Etsy is scroll down and you can see different items that this seller is selling so you can see here oh purchased item open heart tenants and downloads open heart tenants and downloads so I’m going to go to the seller’s store I’m going to click

On dream on design SVG and again I’ve picked this person totally at random they’re based out of Vancouver 84 000 sales congratulations to Elaine she’s making a fortune on here and we can see here there’s a whole bunch of SVG designs these are not super hard to make

And again no insult but it’s quite the opposite these are simple designs they’re elegant really nice thumbnails and you can see here nine people have this in their basket seven people have this in their basket 15 people have this in their bag basket I’m not saying

That’s a guarantee of a sale but I will say it does bode well that if people are interested chances are your it’s time well spent on Etsy now look there’s always going to be negative Nellie’s that go really a dollar Seventeen how am I supposed to quit my job with a dollar

Seventeen well I’m not suggesting you’re going to quit your job but what I am suggesting is with 84 000 sales and look this could be over a number of years I’m not suggesting this all happened last week but with 84 000 sales even with the fees even with the Wimpy price point

You’re making some pretty good coin here Elaine’s probably able to afford a nice steak dinner once in a while and I say good for her now the other way that you can sell digital designs is on a site here called creative Fabrica and if you’ve been on my Channel at all you’ve

Probably heard me talking about creative Fabrica in great detail now I’m going to switch gears here and I’m going to talk about selling on Creative Fabrica so here I’m on the creative Fabrica website and you can see at the top there’s a ton of fonts a ton of graphics and there’s

Crafts needlework works well all of this stuff is sold by regular people just like you and me so you can actually set up a creative Fabrica store and you could sell on Creative Fabrica so I’m just going to pop one of these open that are trending just as an example here so

I’m going to go to this one here introducing Daisy bitmap font and PMG file so somebody has created their own font and this is what the font looks like it’s selling for three dollars and sixty cents and we can see here two thousand people have added it to their

Favorites and again that’s not an indication that it’s going to sell but it 2 000 people I mean surely somebody’s going to buy it at some point and I’m going to scroll over here to the right and I’m going to see no Boo collections I’m going to view the profile and this

Is like a seller on Creative Fabrica they’ve got almost 3 000 followers they’ve got almost 30 000 favorites and they’ve got 90 products in their store so I point this out only that you don’t need to have a million billion designs in order to have a pretty big following

This person has carved in Niche and what they’ve done is they’ve created a font that has Graphics built around it so here we can see Hello spring font has potted plants as part of the font I mean that looks fantastic right so if you know how to build a font you can

Basically sell you know for three dollars and sixty cents and again we’ve got 34 more people here have added this to the favorites and we’ve got keywords you can go into creative Fabric and you can reverse engineer how this is done okay so you might be getting a little

Overwhelmed at this point looking at hundreds of thousands of different designs so I’m going to really kind of simplify this and I’m going to show you a program here called inkscape now I have lots of tutorials on escape on my other channel crafty Stacks if you’ve never heard of that channel before I’ll

Put a link in the video description below inkscape is a free tool where you can create vectors and you can actually create all sorts of illustrations so I’m going to pop that open inkscape has a ton of features it can get complicated but I’m just going to show you how to do

A very very simple Vector Trace so what I’m going to do first inside of inkscape because you’re going to see menus along the left hand side on the bottom and on the right is on to show you two very simple ways you can create a vector

There’s a shape tool here on the left it’s rectangle and there’s also a circle I’ll pick the rectangle one totally at random there’s my shape I can also change the image down at the bottom the color of the image just by simply clicking on it and this is also

Basically a vector so you’ll notice I can change the size of it I can make it a rectangle a square I can make it larger smaller that kind of thing I can also add font and so over on the left hand side I’m going to click the little

Font button I’m going to make a nice big rectangle at the bottom and I’m going to type in my name so right there I’ve created basically an image now it’s not necessarily a vector this is not a vector at the bottom if I click on the edit path by node there’s no Vector

Inside the font but I could change it to a vector if I wanted so I know this is a pretty awful design because it’s just a square and some text but you get the idea and over on the right I could actually export this now as a design I’m

Going to click the export button it’s going to give me the option to export the page or I can select everything here I can select the box and my name and I can do selection you’ll see it comes up here I can change the DPI which

Is dots prints to 300 I could make the whole thing larger or smaller in fact I don’t even need to worry about that page option because the page option is irrelevant because I’ve got selection selected so now I’ve got 3190 pixels by 2987 pixels at 300 DPI and I can simply

Hit the export button I’ve already exported it once but I’ll click replace it exports and here’s my PNG now it’s got a black background because that’s how my computer’s set up but this is basically a transparent background you can put this on a t-shirt you could put

This on a coffee mug so the mechanics of using inkscape is actually pretty easy I’m going to show you one more example I’m just going to close this out that’ll bring us back to the beginning and I’m going to import an image okay so a site

That you could use just as an example and look there’s millions of websites on the Internet is pixabay pixabay is free to use there’s stunning free images and royalty-free stock photos so you can scroll on through here and find a great looking photograph I’m actually going to

Type in the word here cat and I’m going going to instead of just all the photographs coming up underneath images I’m going to click on illustrations this is going to give me back a bunch of different sort of drawings and I’m going to pick something here that speaks to me

How about this red cat here red background I’m going to click free download and now you could download it as a vector graphic but I’m just going to show you if you pick a random picture off the Internet how to actually create a vector from it so I’m just going to

Click the PNG file to start so if you’ve got an image this is how you would create a vector okay so back in inkscape now I’m just going to go file open and I’m going to open my image and when you select your image it’s going to ask you

To open a smooth or blocky or none I pick smooth that optimizes the quality and there’s my image so I’m just going to zoom out a tiny bit here and from here I can select the image you’ll notice you’ve selected it because there’s little arrows around it and I’m

Going to go up to path Trace bitmap now I can select update preview and you’ll see now it’s black and white and I can click apply now I can move this image out and you’ll notice it’s a transparent background basically the cat is now transparent and the image itself is now

Black I could change the color of this down below I could select blue for example or dark red purple what have you this is a vector I can go up here now to edit pass by note on the left hand side and I can see those are the vector

Points that make up the design it’s basically a mathematical formula so this is a pretty clean Vector but if I wanted to delete something inside the vector I could do so I simply clicked edit paths by node all of the different nodes now come up and I can either move or delete

Something so let’s say I wanted to have this eyebrow be a bit weirder I could make this now larger or smaller so let’s say I want to have a bit more of a weird looking eyeballs I could do that for example I could also delete out something if I wanted as well simply

Highlight over all the nodes click the delete key and that will just completely disappear I’ll click Ctrl Z done do so you could make for example cats with quite big eyeballs pretty easily here simply by adjusting around these designs you can make them a little more circular

For example you can move this out you could delete an individual node for example and then you could simply move these little designs around to make the cat’s eyes differently so it’s completely up to you if you wanted to change or just use it

As is now I’m going to push this back to black so I’m going to click the black button and I think I’m going to just run with this I’m going to make this now my vector and I think this would look really cool on a t-shirt because it’s a

Negative so depending on the color of your T-shirt you could have different colored kitty cat now you could export this pretty easily simply over on the right hand side click the little right arrow button which is export this document when I click that the export button pops up again changes to 300 DPI

And you could simply click on the export button and you’ll export this document now as a high quality PNG so you can sell this as a PNG you could go file save as and save it as an SVG scalable vector graphics so you could sell the vector itself and there’s all these

Different types inside of inkscape that you can sell the designs as dxf that’s the cutting plotter that’s the cutting machine like a qriket machine there’s also EPS which is is encapsulated PostScript that’s for Photoshop generally speaking you can even save it as a PDF file and to export it as a PNG

And the beauty of a PNG is the transparent background is you would click the export and then either the page or the selection if you select it you can go to selection if you don’t select it the page option will open up as well alright so I made a pretty bold

Claim at the start of this video and I said if you sell on Creative Fabrica I guarantee that you will make money and I stand by that claim so here’s just an example of a standard dashboard inside of creative Fabrica so this seller’s got 26 followers and 109 favorites on their

Designs they’ve made a total earnings of 66 dollars and right now they have 5.61 cents in their wallet that they can get paid out they need ten dollars in order to get a withdrawal they are actually making money and I I know this account and this account does not have a ton of

Uploads might have 30 40 uploads in it it’s not a ton so you don’t need to have hours and hours and hours a day spending working on this and by the way the reason that you can make money on Creative Fabrica is there’s really two main sources of income on Creative

Fabrica one is if somebody buys Your Design if they buy your design you get a portion of that sale the other way it works is the subscription so you’ll see here at the top it says 4.99 a month build is 60 a year well that subscription money is split amongst all

The designs whether you make a sale or not so I’m going to open up two different Studios this busy May studio and I’m going to open up this one here radzi type just I pick two at random so this seller I’m going to click on their store view profile and they’ve got 196

Designs this other seller I’m going to click on their store and they’ve got 60 designs so it’s safe to say this person would make about three times the amount of income every month as this person based on the subscription model not talking about individual sales talking about just the subscription now look the

Subscription money is not a lot okay if you don’t have a lot of designs up you might make between 30 cents a month and three or four or five dollars a month it’s not a ton but if you make a sale you’re going to get a pretty good chunk

Of that income so here we can see there’s little town winter compositions so this person is obviously a very talented graphic artist they’re selling non-vectors they’re just creating Graphics so these are PNG files you can see down at the bottom PNG files into 300 DPI and when they’re sold when you

Buy them you wouldn’t have a watermark on them so you could use these as backgrounds on websites you can use these on Christmas cards you can see this person’s got pretty nice thumbnails set up about how you would use Graphics like this so who buys on Creative fabric

Well there’s print on demand people like you and me but there’s also lots of Crafters who use things like this to purchase crafty items like for example they’re using Christmas cards or they’re making some sort of paper goods or it’s crafting Goods that they are using for themselves or they’re themselves selling

On Etsy so this is a 10 item and if they were to sell this item they would get a portion of that for this for themselves now this seller on the other hand who’s doing very well has 60 up 60 listings and you can see there are fonts so if

You know how to create a good looking font then this can be a great Niche for you now if you don’t know how to create a good looking font don’t worry it’s not the end of the world go to creative Fabrica and look at the top menu items

These are all fonts if you’re not into fonts move on to the next one the graphics there’s a ton of different Graphics in here there’s logos KDP Interiors there’s product mock-ups so I’m going to click on product mockups because if you have a camera you could actually sell product mock-ups on

Creative Fabrica so here’s a nice looking lady with a sweatshirt here’s another nice looking lady with a t-shirt here’s a lady holding the coffee mug people buy these because if you’re selling on Etsy or if you’re selling on your own website you don’t want a cookie cutter thumbnail you want a thumbnail

That includes original unique really cool stuff now look it’s competitive like every genre like on print on demand here there’s 42 000 results but I will say that’s a heck of a lot less than on Redbubble when you type in funny cat and you get back 3.5 million billion

Trillion so I would strongly recommend looking through the different graphics on Creative Fabrica and seeing is there a niche that you could be part of here’s one that’s teaching materials for example now I say only thirteen thousand again some people are going to immediately dismiss it and say well

That’s way too many but think of all the grades in school and think of all the different subjects in school there’s math there’s English there’s geography so if a teacher is drilling down you can see right here at the top there’s first grade second grade third grade all the

Way up to 12th grade so you can segregate out by grade so instead of 13 000 result because I clicked on second grade now there’s 225 results that’s way less and how many subjects are there in grade two at least 10 I would think right there’s

Math there’s English and so that’s not a lot of competition if you’re good at creating pages in KDP well it’s just as good to create pages to sell here on Creative Fabrica so that’s an option as well okay so hopefully you’re seeing the value in excelling on Creative fabric I

Want to point out this is not an affiliate video I am an ambassador for Creative Fabrica I’m not putting a link down below because I’m not getting any commission if you sign up to sell on Creative Fabrica if you want to sell on Creative fabric up go for it I think

It’s an awesome tool I absolutely love Creative Fabrica these are wonderful artists all over the world that are making some pretty good money doing something they love and that’s a really cool way to live your life now if you’d like to apply on Creative Fabrica to

Sell then what you want to do first and foremost is get a decent digital portfolio and what you can do is go to a site like behance okay and be hands is a just a free you can set up a free website where you can then create and

Upload digital design lines to Showcase how good you are at different things so here’s just an example of somebody who’s got digital portraits they’re very high quality and this is what you would use you know you’d submit something like this to create a Fabrica to show them

That you can use Photoshop or Affinity photo or inkscape or something to create designs now these are way nicer than I can create I want to point that out so if you’re looking at these going holy moly who is this guy I have no idea who this seller is but there’s lots of

Different ways you can showcase your skill set so here’s these are different digital designs this person’s created I don’t know what program they’re using but hey it looks pretty good so you can just upload designs into behance create an account for free upload a bunch of designs and be hands and then submit

That to creative Fabrica so down at the very bottom there is a link here that says open store it’s kind of hidden down at the very bottom of the website create a fabric or you click open store and then from here you can click open your

Shop now you’ll need to apply but you can see here create a Fabrica list you can earn up to 75 on each sale and then you earn recurrent revenue and that’s the money that you would accrue for the subscriptions every month so the more people who subscribe the more money

Every artist makes now again I want to point out it’s pennies but if you have a couple thousand designs uploaded you’ll eventually start making some nice passive income and that’s the whole point so I do want to point out there is a bit of work involved here but if you

Were to set up a shop on Creative fabric that the rewards can be huge I really hope you found this video helpful I’d love to hear your comments down below if you have a question I’m happy to help out I’m really a big believer in helping enable artists to make money doing what

They love so I hope you enjoyed this master class here’s another video on how you can supercharge your print-on-demand skills thanks a lot for watching