10 Genius Marketing Strategies for 2025 (Increase ROAS)
so in this video I'm going to share 10 effective marketing strategies for 2025 some of these you probably have not heard of but can really provide a significant Roi for your business whether this is an e-commerce business that you're running a local service business this is going to really help you to determine some of the best marketing strategies that you could use in 2025 so let's go ahead and get started with this video right now now start off with one that I think has the most potential going into this year and that is going to be select Ive influencer marketing now what I mean by this is that when people think of influencer marketing a lot of people think they just need to go out and find a big influencer give them a bunch of money and then they're just going to get them tons of new customers but a lot has shifted over the years with influencer marketing it used to be a lot easier because people were not really sold to as much by influencers now things have shifted a lot and we have influencers that are always constantly promoting new products and people consumers have kind of gotten worn down from that a little bit so it can be more difficult and that's why I think the best influencer marketing is to realize that first of all followers don't really matter so someone could have a million subscribers but they might only get a few thousand views or Their audience might not even be in the Target demographic that you're looking for for example there's you know YouTubers that have 10 million subscribers and you know 98% of their viewers are not based in the US and maybe you're selling a product in the US it doesn't make sense to pay them a lot of money for viewers who were not even a Target demographic for for you so followers don't really matter big influencers I would say generally are not really worth it nearly as much and so if I was going to run an influencer marketing campaign in 2025 I would focus on micro influencers people who have a few thousand followers but can have the potential to put out high quality content paying them lower amounts but more of them as many as possible so thinking 10 20 30 different creators giving them some cash to promote your product can be extremely impactful cuz all it takes is one of those videos to go viral of those 30 influencers that you paid and it could basically you'll have power laws with that where it'll hopefully return the entire amount on the ones that maybe didn't perform as well so that's one that I think is really useful is selective influencer marketing even in 2025 it is absolutely incredible to do okay the second uh really important marketing tactic for 2025 I'm just going to say it running ads on Google Maps so if you have a service business you don't have to reinvent the wheel when it come to ad advertising this is something that everyone should be doing if you have a local business whether you have a barber shop or you have a lawn care company or you have a nail salon this is something that you can absolutely lock down and you know how much you're paying basically like fixed price almost for your leads and for your clicks on your Google search ads so we have a full Google ads tutorial on this channel it's absolutely free it's about half an hour long it'll show you how to set up those Google ads but you really should consider doing this even if you're selling products on online focusing on keywords of maybe your competitors so if you're like selling you know physical products focusing on keywords that your competitors are using is a really great one that you could do but Google search ads still are champion in 2025 they're really effective and what I do like about them is that you can avoid overpaying you know how much you're paying it's not absolutely free you're going to end up spending money if a customer is worth $200 to you and you can get them with Google search ads for $30 that's $170 margin right there and you can get you know almost endless customer from that strategy so that's one that I really would suggest you can hire people to run Google ads for you or you can figure out how to do it yourself in 2025 okay so the third strategy that's going to be really great is affiliate marketing for your products so what you can do is you can have influencers or blogs uh promote your product and you're paying them based on the amount of customers that you're actually getting to them so going back to the first example that I used of influencer marketing that is more so like you're giving them lump sum cash and they're promoting you but with affiliate marketing you are setting up an affiliate program through something like partner stack or on impact.com I'll leave links to those down below you can create an affiliate program basically like a referral program so that uh influencers or even just you know General people maybe who have 500 followers 1 th000 followers can promote your product on their own you don't have to deal with like a lot of compliance they can promote your product they can paste their link somewhere and anytime someone clicks on their link and they convert a sale for you you might give them a percentage of that Revenue that they got uh sent to you so this is a really great way to basically control your ca your cost of acquiring like new customers so if you're offering maybe like a $10 bonus for every new customer that's referred and you know you're selling a product for $100 you could really do pretty well with that and you once again you're controlling your cost with affiliate marketing and that's why I think it's really a great one for a lot of businesses especially if you're selling products online this is going to be very useful so the next one is email marketing now this is one that I feel like is overlooked but this is going to be one of your lowest cost strategies to keep up with your customers and then to inform your customers of all the new products that you're dropping or any sales that you might have this is absolutely crucial every business should have an email marketing campaign that they are running don't worry it's not too difficult you can use something like omnisend to set this up so I will leave a link to omnisend Down Below in the description so you can check them out but let me just tell you a couple things you can do with this look um so you can make an average of $73 for every $1 that you spend on email marketing especially if you're using something like omnis now there's a little as here because obviously this is going to vary based on your email campaigns but this has some of the best Roi potential for your business okay so with email marketing what we can do is we can build our list we can automate it and then we can just send campaigns so let's say that someone we are capturing your email when they buy our product or maybe they sign up for a newsletter or maybe they are yeah they're a customer and they end up on our email list now what we can do is we can create automations um it's super easy to do this with omnisend they have a lot of different features that will help you through this process of creating these email campaigns I remember back in the day like I tried using other email providers and it was so confusing uh to try to set things up this is why we really like omniscent cuz it's just it's so much easier to do this and so they'll help you to do all these things to build your list to automate and then send emails to your uh current customers maybe future customers people who are on your list but building your email list is really really important because you basically own your followers you own your list anytime you want to contact them you can send out an email uh easily with omniscent you know they also have other things as well like SMS so like if you want to text people and if you already run email marketing on a different platform you can easily migrate to omnisense so they will help you through this process they'll show you how to do it from you know MailChimp or from clavia or from other services as well and it integrates with so many different platforms so if you're running a store on Shopify or you're using WordPress or woocommerce or Wix you can integrate all of those in with omnisend for a seamless experience that you can have with the platform so I will leave a link to them down below in the description if you want to check out omnisend I really would recommend it it's going to be the lowest lift and The Highest Potential return on your investment when you do something like this and you can just look at the pricing here here it's really extremely reasonable so we have the free plan which you can do a lot with the free Plan and there's also the standard and the Pro Plan as well and you can toggle this based on the amount of context you have to see what the pricing might be and you can get some pretty good deals with this where you can be sending thousands of emails per month you have priority support 24/7 which is really great to have and you can also have some extra help from them from a success manager all right so I'll leave a link to them down below you can check them out I really would recommend it now let's talk about the next marketing strategy that is going to be really useful this year and that is Snapchat ads so people Overlook Snapchat ads they think they need to do Facebook ads Instagram ads YouTube ads Google ads yes those are all very effective but Snapchat ads is truly a sleeper especially in 2025 look there are still hundreds of millions of people who use Snapchat every single day and they are people who maybe they used to be kids but now they've grown up they have credit cards they're able to spend money or they have their parents credit cards you know they are consumers that are willing to spend money and so Snapchat is one that I really would consider I have a full Snapchat ads tutorial it's about also about half an hour long maybe 45 minutes long that shows you how to set up and run SnapChat ads in 2025 this is one that I would at least experiment with and I know that they do give you some ads credits when you sign up so uh once again I'll leave a link to that down below as well if you want to start running ads on Snapchat this year okay so the next strategy here that I think is is really interesting is LinkedIn inmail campaigns so I've seen people especially this is going to be useful for if you are running any type of B2B company where I've seen people just from LinkedIn inmail ads they've been able to land millions of dollars worth of sales contracts for some other different software companies that they are working on and lucky for you we also have a full tutorial on how to run ads on LinkedIn the great thing about these ad strategies is that they are pretty predictable in terms of like you know how much you're spending you can set budgets you can say I want to only spend $50 a day on LinkedIn ads and you will get to that budget and then it will stop so you don't have to worry about overspending and then what you can do is you basically split test so you try two different ads at the same time and then you see which one works better you take the one that worked pretty well and you start to tweak it you might tweak some wording on that and then you run it again both of them next to each other and see which ones perform better and you continuously tweak and improve Those ads 10% every single time until you have an ad that is absolutely performing extremely well could take a month or so to really get that up and running but it's a really great strategy it's called split testing it's a basic thing in marketing that I think everyone should understand another one that's really going to be great is SMS and WhatsApp marketing so you can actually do this also through omnisense so I talked about how they have SMS marketing but this is basically you're going to be texting people instead of emailing them people have notifications on their phone for email but more so they have it for text I know personally like when I get an email it my phone vibrates a certain way but when I get a text it does like a double vibrate and so anytime I get a text I look at my phone I open it so the open rate is a lot higher for SMS marketing you can also do things like WhatsApp marketing as well that can work extremely well especially outside the United States where a lot of people use WhatsApp instead of you know just like their traditional SMS you can do a lot of things you can do with email marketing but you can just do that SMS style as well you can automate these texts um you get some free SMS credits if you have the Pro Plan and it's pretty great right and omnisend also has an SMS pricing tool here on their site so you can see if you're sending 100 text or 1,000 text what that might cost based on the country in which you are sending those so it's pretty nice to be able to just toggle around with this and see what the pricing would be for text marketing but you know the ability to send out a thousand texts to a thousand different people all at the same time is pretty awesome all right so let's talk about another strategy that is really interesting I've only ever seen really one person do this and it worked super well it is handwritten letters to your customers or potential customers there's a Founder who I I I purchased something from I was thinking about investing in the company and so I was trying out his product and he handw wrote a letter after I purchased the product and said thank you for being a loyal customer and you know some other nice words in there as well kind of on like a postcard or it was in like an envelope on a card and I just thought that was a really great way to build a lifetime customer and trust with the brand so here's something that I think you should consider doing especially if you're first getting started and you don't have thousands of customers right now consider literally handwriting at least a handwritten note or maybe even a letter of followup not trying to sell them something but just thanking them for being a customer if you can sit down and maybe do 10 letters a day that's going to cost you what $5 a day in Stamps um and maybe some time your hand might cramp up a little bit but this can be a really great way of building a loyal fan base a loyal group of customers because people like to buy from people that they like um and that's something that is really if you can get personal with people they are going to like you forever they're going to be willing to pay more for your products CU they like you they like your customer service they like how friendly you are and just don't forget that in this year that if you are personal with your customers it can really go a long way in terms of pricing power in terms of repeat buyers it's just a great thing to keep in mind so number nine is also a little bit unique because I don't see a lot of people doing it but it is writing a book and using that as a lead funnel now this is great for certain types of service businesses for example let's say you have a Consulting business or you have a financial advisory firm this is really really great to do so I met a guy who he has over a billion dollars in assets that he manages as a financial adviser and I asked him how did you get all of those clients how did you find so many people who have money that trust you to invest money for them and he said that most of his customers came from a book that he wrote he wrote a book about how to build wealth how to invest in in the stock market and people who read that book they ended up building a lot of trust with him because you know they read hundreds of pages of him uh speaking about investing and wealth management and then at the end of the book or sprinkled throughout the book he mentioned like if you need help with this you can go to my website and we can help invest your money for you and so this book quite literally made him tens of millions of dollars for his asset management firm from a book so think about this like if you have any type of business that could potentially benefit and use be used as like a funnel for this I think of also someone like Alex horos a lot of people know him he wrote a book called like1 million offers or something like that and that book was incredibly valuable for him as a lead funnel cuz he got so many new clients from that book because they read it they built a lot of trust with him and then they reached out to him and they hired him for consulting or you know he bought part of their business so that is one that I think could really work especially for those styles of businesses and the last one that's really going to be effective and I'm obviously biased on this um it's going to do just organic social marketing so if you pump out content on Tik Tok on Instagram on YouTube for your product and around your brand it's it's just kind of a no-brainer uh the best thing about this is that there's no cost to it and if you can rank on Google or rank on YouTube whether this is through like a blog or YouTube channel or Instagram reals this is going to just be a great way to get customers basically for free um you know besides the part that you might have to be on camera talking to the camera like I'm doing right now getting customers at a low cost it's going to be just something that I think is kind of a no-brainer in 2025 so those are the different marketing strategies that I think can be super effective in 2025 if you have any questions if you have any thoughts or ideas leave them down below in the comment section don't forget to check out omnisend it's a great way to set up email marketing I think it has potential for a really solid Roi this coming year so thanks for watching the video I hope you found it valuable and I'll see you sometime in the future
Shopify Beginner’s Tutorial 2025 – Make A Pro eCommerce Store in 15 Minutes
hey my name is Mike and in this video I'll be showing you how to set up a beautiful and professional online store using one of the most powerful platforms out there Shopify and we're going to do this in just 15 minutes there's a lot to cover yes but I'm going to simplify it into just what you need to know so that you can make your store today and get started selling whatever you're selling this works for dropshipping for print on demand for local businesses getting online selling things that you made pretty much any kind of online Commerce that you want to do you can do with Shopify so with that being said I'll have some time stamps down below so you can revisit this video if you need to I recommend following along Click by click and maybe taking some notes as well if I move too fast for you or somehow too slow for you there are playback controls on YouTube just click the little gear icon and you can change to 75x or 1.25x to to find the right learning speed for you so with that being said let's start the clock and go over to my laptop I want to get started by going to Shopify now you can do this on your own but if you want to support the channel at absolutely no cost to you you can use our affiliate link it helps keep videos like this free so we don't sell any courses all the information you need is going to be in this video so if you want to support the channel sandral media.com Shopify that way we all start in the same place but you could also just go to Shopify separately if if you don't want to help the channel from here this page may look a little bit different depending on when you're watching this video Shopify likes to run these $1 per month promotions so I'm going to enter my email so you enter your email click next enter a password and now we have a bunch of questions here I'm just going to click on the bottom and say I don't want to help setting this up because we only have 15 minutes minutes to make this then they want to ask us which plan we're going to choose We could decide later but I recommend deciding now so if you try to set it up without selecting your plan there are a lot of things you just can't Implement you can't unlock your site you can't do any sample orders you can't set up payments so it makes sense just to choose our our platform now so I have a link down in the description that will help you decide which one's right for you based on your sales volume the real main difference is going to be the credit card rate so there is a threshold when you sell enough that it becomes worth it to get the more expensive plan if you just starting out though try the basic like the basic one's going to be perfect for pretty much everybody who doesn't already have sales volume then we enter our business address and that'll bring us to our Shopify dashboard from here you'll see that in the middle is kind of like your little homepage this will change over time based on where you are in your in your store career but on the left side this is what we're going to go through in this video I want to start off by making the actual site and then we'll add our products and we can build out everything from there so if you go down to online store these little sales channels are essentially the way Shopify sets up different places you can sell so you can sell on your site you can sell in person with point of sale you can sell through like uh Instagram or Tik Tok and you you can have those sales channels down here as well but let's start off with this online store if we click on online store another little submenu pops up don't worry about those just yet but you'll see a page that looks like this so we can choose a new theme right now we have one called Dawn that's perfectly fine but if we click on ADD theme we can click on visit theme store and from here there are a ton of different Shopify themes however many of them are paid if you want to spend like $300 be my guest wait let's click on browse themes you be my guest but there are 13 free ones that I find do just fine for most websites out there are a lot of great ones let's say for this video I'm going to be selling watches maybe I'm like a watch retailer so going down we can find one that would maybe make the most sense for me I think this one looks pretty good and any one that you like you can click on it it'll show you the website you can interact with it a little bit you can see the mobile site uh right there as well and I'm going to say try theme that is loading right here while that's happening we can remove the password all right so now we have that theme there many people get this wrong and they wonder why that theme is not their main theme even though they added it and the reason is because they didn't publish that theme so uh this is again if you're migrating your site you can customize this one if you're like changing your theme and whenever you're done then you publish it that's why they have this down in like your draft down here but I'm just going to publish it right now so we'll say publish and that way it becomes our primary theme that we're using on this site so from here let's just really quick I'm not going to customize it yet let's click on view and you'll see it didn't transfer all those soap pictures that we saw here it just has like dummy placeholders and this is the backbone of what our site is going to be once we have our products it really builds out a lot faster um so let's go and add our product now on the left side you'll see product we can click on products and from here we can add our first product if you have products already from woocommerce or big Commerce or whatever you can import them but I'm going to add one product at a time all right so we're going to start off with the product title and for this is a watch shop like I said so we'll start off with the uh just this watch here and of course in the description you can do a lot of normal text editing you can make things bold metallic underlined you could add links to things so if I say durable stainless steel maybe we have like a a page talking about how we Source our stainless steel we can click on the little insert link right here and add a link to either like a YouTube video or something else on our store then we can choose our media so I'm going to say upload new and so for this one I've got a bunch of images I'm just going to select all of these images right here and we'll say open and we can choose which one is our primary image based on which one is the largest one so on the left side your first image is going to be the primary one if you want to rearrange them you can see the little six dot array showing up on the top right you can just click and drag them left or right and that'll move them around you can have a lot of different images here as well I recommend having you know more than just three or four um but you know whatever you have is whatever you have we can also choose the category uh SO watches and jewelry sounds fine we can choose the pricing for this one uh so I'm pricing for this one let's say $4.99 the compare at Price maybe like $5.99 and we could have tax or no tax of course depending on uh where you're located and stuff like that cost per item this is for your own backend this is not going to be showing on the site but you know if you want to know what your margins are you could say maybe this cost you like $200 and that's your profit margin there we can track the quantity so I recommend doing that and you so you'll have your quantity on the left side you'll have your different locations so if you have more warehouses you can track you know quantity at each Warehouse which is very Advanced and it's nice that Shopify has that but let's just say we have maybe like 150 of these and when we are out of stock I don't want to continue selling but you could if you have you know back orders you can have that right here um and if you have an A skew or a barcode you can select this and it kind of helps with your stock keeping unit so I'm going to do that right here and call this one 10,1 uh and we could have a barcode I I don't have a barcode right now so we're going to scroll down this is a physical product so let's just say it weighs um like 0 uh 2 pound or something like that all right so for variance if we click on plus you have a lot of options that are relevant here because we did mention already Shopify knows that this is a watch so it's going to recommend like case color dial color band color uh you know Target gender things like that but typically this would be like shirt size or any kind of variables you have with your product so I'm just going to say for this one maybe it is the dial color maybe dial color is something we can change and maybe we have like a blue one and maybe we have a black one so I'll just leave those there and for each one by the way if you wanted to kind of add a custom one you could see add new entry on the bottom and that'll allow you to add your own details here if you have something that is not you know already suggested right there so I'll say done and uh let's go down and we can see here each variant is showing up with a new skiw it automatically adds one we can have different prices we can have different quantities being tracked and for each one I highly recommend you add an image for each specific product I'm going to add a new image uh this is not even the same watch but just to show you how the images Act I'm going to upload this one and we'll say done so now we have two different images there we can add some other meta Fields down here the watch material different things like that and on the very bottom this is incredibly important when you're showing up in search on Google this is what it's going to look like so it just has the name of the product uh you have the uh just a first sentence of the description and then the price right there so that's that'll be showing up on a lot of search engines but you can customize that and maybe you want the page title to be inclusive of your name so maybe sand trell watch shop or something like that so people know what it actually is you can also customize the meta description it doesn't have to be the same as the product description uh it could be anything that you want and typically you want this to be like 160 to 250 characters uh so obviously this is far too long right now and lastly we have the URL handle some people also call this the slug and that is at the end of your website so if you are like santell watches.com SL whatever typically you want it to be short memorable easy to type in as it is I'm just going to say save and we have our first product uh we duplicate the product if we have similar products and we want to you know make like a maybe a men's t-shirt and a women's t-shirt and they're just like really similar but you don't want to have them as different variants you want distinctly different products uh you could do that um but I'm I'm just going to make another second product right now so I'm going to say add product and this one I'm just going to populate really quickly and not waste your time but I want to have multiple products in this site now I used chat GPT before to generate the description you could also do that using the little autogeneration tool in uh Shopify so they have their own AI built in and you can choose the tone as well it could be like persuasive it could be playful it could be expert whatever um so or you could have a custom tone as well so now I have two products here we can put them in different collections so if I click on collections on the left side we just have one by default called home let's create a collection and this is going to be analog watches and if you have a lot of products it may make sense to make this a smart collection instead of a manual collection manual just add them yourself smart you're going to have some conditions and say if the tag is this if you have a price under a certain amount so we'll do price for this say if price is less than is less than $1,000 automatically add it to this this uh analog watches under $1,000 collection and we can add an image for this collection I have one I'm just going to upload right now and again you can change the search engine listing on the bottom I'm going to say save and that's essentially how you make collections really smart and manual is the big distinction I wanted to show you if it was manual you can go into each individual product and add them you know one at a time or select them when you make the collection and then we have gift cards this is pretty straightforward I'm going to click on ADD gift card product so we can listed on our website people can buy it and send it to relatives or whatever and this is going to be called santell we can add an image here and we can choose the denominations so let's add a zero to all of these and we can save the gift card product so now we have the product section pretty much done we'll talk about orders and customers and analytics later but the next logical step is to build out our website so let's go back down to online store you'll see it'll just show us the theme right now we're not changing the theme again don't worry but if we click on customize it'll bring us into the editor here so within the editor it kind of works like this the right side you have a section layout so everything outlined in a blue box is going to be one section on the left side you have kind of a a hierarchy chart of what's going on from the top to bottom so you've got your announcement bar you have your header you have the different sections in your main website and then you have your footer as well so if you if you collapse these you'll see these are all the sections we have maybe I want to add a section on the bottom and it's just going to be a featured collection uh or a featured product let's do a featured product so add a featured product and then with in that you'll see it kind of goes one level deeper so instead of the main hierarchy it goes into that section featured product and I can select what the product is so we'll select a product let's say it's the first watch we have all right so we have our featured product there I think this looks pretty good we can customize a little bit more about this section if you wanted to so you can change uh you know the media fit if it's going to be larger or smaller let's go back to this hierarchy here and within that if you wanted to customize just a text or just one thing you'll see this is collapsible but if you open it up you can click on text and within that uh you can change so right now it's just pulling the text from um I'm going to delete that we didn't name our store yet we will in a second but let's delete that and just say santell santell shop so you're going to add our own information there just to kind of show you how you'd go about adding things here now let's click on back you can do the same of course with the title the price you can add other information as well if you want to add a new block maybe you want to add the stock keeping unit I don't really think that's super valuable all right so I'm not going to spend too much time building out this entire website I just want to show you the the tools you have available and if you want to see more information I have a full like 2hour long video about the design aspect of a Shopify store um but otherwise the tools like I said you have the sections on the left side uh you can organize them up and down so if I want the featured collection to be below the featured product I just click on it and I drag it down and you'll see it rearranges it on the very top we have this section here and like I said Each one you can click on the little drop down and change uh for this one you're going to change slides sometimes you can change the text or the images anything within that section you can change by clicking on the drop down or if you just click on the section itself it'll bring you into those section settings so this is a slideshow I'm going to get rid of this I don't really want the slideshow at the top uh we could just have a product and that's perfectly fine or you can browse tons of other sections uh maybe just an image Banner on the top would be just fine uh so this image Banner I'm going to select an image so you can choose an image if there's a second image you can add that I'm just going to leave it as a little blank thing right there um you can have some opacity make it a little bit less opaque or more opaque uh with the back ground and if you want to edit that text again click on back and then in the drop down we can change the text here and I'm just going to delete these buttons so realistically I would rather have this text like built into that image right there so use Photoshop to do that but just you know again showing you how this works I'll slide that up to the top and this is like a you know two-minute website we just made that already looks pretty decent of course you can do the same editing with the header up here so if you click on header you can change things about that you can click on the drop down and change uh what's in the header so if you want to add more blocks in there same thing with the announcement bar you can choose what it actually says right there and you can have multiple announcement bars that cycle through so if you click on the little settings icon we have a lot that we can change here like the colors I mentioned you can change the different color schemes so each section you choose a scheme and you can choose what colors are in that scheme right here so if you want to make this like a red or a blue or whatever you can change those uh right in there we can also add our logo and that logo is going to show up on the top of our header so I'll leave it as text right now but you could add that favon this is really important you can see on the top if I slide my whole screen down you can see on the top there like the Shopify logo I would much rather have our logo there when somebody visits our website so you can add that typically a very small like 32x 32 pixels is a good size for that you can change your font you can change you know a lot about this I recommend scrolling through this and figuring out what you want to change on the design aspect of your website like I said though we only have 15 minutes so let's save this and continue with other aspects of our store there's some really important settings so I'm going to click on exit on the top left and it'll bring us back to this dashboard here let's talk about those important settings I mentioned a second ago if I go down to settings here we can first of all change the name of our store we don't want this to be called my store so we'll change this sandal watch shop I'll save that we can customize the order ID if you scroll down I think numbering is just fine then the next important thing to do is go down to payments make sure there is a way for people to actually pay us so we'll activi we'll activate Shopify payments we can also set up Paypal very easily I recommend doing both so there's more ways for people to pay so we'll activate Shopify payments we'll submit our details and it's going to ask you like are you a registered business and L LC an individual I'll go with individual for now and you want to make sure you choose the right details for customer bank statement so they actually recognize it and don't end up disputing charges because you have some obscure name that they don't remember paying for and once that's done that'll show up here and you will be able to accept payments we can also set up our shipping so if you're Drop Shipping you don't really have to worry about this otherwise you can set up manual or automatic things there's a lot in here you can set up uh so you can set up a new profile for example and say maybe all of our products or just our watch product um is going to be sh in this specific way we can call this one we'll call this one individual watches then we can add a shipping Zone and let's just say everything in the USA now we can add a rate for that and let's just say hey free shipping um and it's going to be standard 3 to four business day we'll say done and now we have our shipping Zone there so we'll say save and of course we want to get a domain so click on domains and we're going to say buy a new domain and our domain is going to be santell santal watchshop.com that is available $16 a year I'll say buy make sure your information's all correct and you to say buy domain now this is great you can buy it in other places and maybe save like $2 a year or so um but I find this is so much easier it also includes who is privacy and it's already connected to Shopify so it's so much less work and of course if we go down in settings there's so much more here but just the last main thing I want to talk about is policies uh there are a lot of policies that are kind of predefined by Shopify makes it a lot easier so terms of service you can look at a template so let's just say insert template they have one pre-made for us um so we can of course review this you should review this but also say publish if you like what they already have and you can do the same with your return policy two last things I want to talk about one is going to be in discounts if we want to add a discount we could just say like maybe this is going to be uh $10 off or maybe 10% off so we'll say discount code is going to be save save 10 and this could be 10% off and you can put this on like your banner on the website and it's a good way to get people to uh you know purchase and and obviously get those discounts right there you can have minimums on here you can have eligibility so maybe specific customers or specific segments of customers you can have it limited one per customer or how many total times maybe it's a sponsorship with somebody and the first 100 people get this discount and do you want this to be combined with any of the other ones maybe a shipping discount you can also combine it so we'll save that discount uh actually we need to add a collection let's say it's going to be all of our collections we'll say add and now I could save that discount and it applies to everything now so if we click on apps we can add a lot of different things to our store let's click on Shopify App Store on the very bottom instead of just those like nine recommendations there are a ton you can add Tik Tok on here you can add omnisend for emails on here um you can add you know so many different things you can connect with meta and set up your you know your Facebook pixel and things like that or your meta pixel rather but but Tik Tok for example is a pretty easy one to add so I can just click on install and it allows me to run Tik Tok ads and sync it up with my store or sell on Tik Tok through Tik Tok shop and I have full videos on you know that and omnison and many other apps you can add but that's where you'd go if you wanted to add apps to your Shopify store so hope you found this video helpful that's a quick rundown of how to set up a Shopify store in just 15 minutes I recommend next if you have any more questions or you're ready for the next steps I have a full tutorial that's about two hours long on how to use Shopify uh really in-depth and build a lot more out of your of your store but I hope this helped you to get your store up and running today thanks for watching I'm Michael Brian and I'll see you in that next video
23 NEW Business Ideas For 2025 – Make Money Online
hey everyone so in this video I'm going to share 23 different business ideas that have a million dooll potential for 2025 let's go ahead and just start with the video right now make sure you subscribe so you don't miss more videos like this this is all free info we don't have like courses to sell you here and I think these are going to be some pretty unique ideas that you probably haven't heard of in the past so let's go ahead and get right into it now now the first business idea that I think has a lot of potential for 2025 to make money is going to be an overseas recruiting agency so there are a lot of businesses uh say in the United States for example that they need to hire employees but they want to find employees that maybe are in different countries that are going to be a much lower cost than hiring people in their local area and so you can be someone who sources talent for these companies So I myself I've hired a couple of people through some of these agencies I'll show you one as an example uh there's one called like somewhere.
Comom basically you take this idea of sourcing talent for companies and you are getting a commission for that usually like a few months of their salary the company is paying you as like a head hunter fee you see this for a lot of different types of recruiting but I think this is a great business and you're helping the business you're helping the person get a job and I think it's overall just a great way to make money is connecting two different people so for example we hired someone in Ecuador we used a recruiting agency to do that and the recruiting agency made some money they made like a couple thousand dollar by helping us find that new employee for our company so I think it's a really good opportunity for a business that you can do on your laptop by connecting people now I know there's a lot of logistics behind that that we could go into but I just want to give you the idea there that you can look further into the second business opportunity that I think has a ton of potential coming up in this year is going to be a career training business there's one that I think of specifically called Wall Street Oasis and I think this is a great business I'll show you what it looks like right here so a career training business you're just teaching people how to get jobs in specific fields that might be very competitive so for example Wall Street Oasis I'm I'm going to guess that they're making millions of dollars they've been around for a long time but they have courses showing people how to use Excel they have courses showing people you know how to get into venture capital or how to do you know Investment Banking interviews so this is really useful for like college students who are trying to get a job and you can sell this for a couple hundred doar so basically what I'm saying here is if you have a job or if you have knowledge on a field that is a really highin field that people are willing to pay a couple hundred dollars to learn how to get a job in that space or how to train for a job in that space or even just how to interview for it that can be a business in itself you can start up a YouTube channel teaching people how to do that use it as a funnel to get people to buy your course showing them how to get a job in a specific field and even if you are not you know let's say you don't have any experience working on Wall Street you could potentially partner with someone who does have experience working on Wall Street they can make the course and you can focus on the marketing you can build a business around that I think it has a really great deal potential in 2025 okay the next one is a dating coach now at first when I thought of this you know this was something that I blew off but then when you think about the amount of people who are really struggling with dating they're not sure what they're doing wrong they're not sure why they're not getting people to respond to them or able to go on a second or a third date or even a first date and so being a dating coach can be really rewarding and also you can make money from this by helping people with their dating life I have a couple of friends that do this and I was surprised at how well they do I had a conversation with one of my friends who's doing well over $100,000 a year from her dating coach program and a lot of it's one-on-one Consulting but also has like you know an ebook and some other materials to help people in that process it can be really difficult you know if you're married or something you might not like have to think about this but a lot of people struggle with dating there's a really big Market out there for to help people out and also potentially you know make a little bit of money as well if you're actually providing them some value and helping them out so the next idea here is one that I think really is trending up big time and that is beef Tallow products if you know anything about seed oils and and the reason why sometimes seed oils can be bad for you beef Tallow is a really interesting product that is used in a lot of different spaces so I would suggest looking into it I know that you can make a considerable amount of money if you sell the right type of product for example here's this company called Masa and what they are doing is they've basically just taking tortilla chips but instead of cooking them in some type of seed oil like canola oil or vegetable oil they are using beef Tallow to actually cook these tortilla chips in and they sell them for a pretty a lot of money but I know that they're doing pretty well I've seen that you know they're doing at least hundreds of thousands of dollars per year in Revenue probably well under the millions of dollars and they're selling tortilla chips so basically if this is a space you already understand then you know what I mean by this on the amount of demand there is for products that don't have seed oils in them because there's a lot of you know data and and information showing that seed oils might not be so good for you I don't want to go down that rabbit hole right now cuz I could rant about that for an hour but basically taking a product that has seed oils in it that maybe traditionally didn't have seed oils like we used to use beef Tallow all the time like McDonald's fries used to have beef Tallow in them then they switched the recipe in the 1990s and now they use seed oils so finding a product uh putting you know beef Tallow back in it or some other type of more natural ingredient that is not inflammatory could be really interesting of a business model for you so I'm not saying you should absolutely do chips for example but some other type of product that incorporates beef Tallow I think is going to be a huge Trend in 2025 and Beyond especially going into 2026 I promise you that so the next one is a party tent rental business so think weddings birthday parties uh funerals any type of event where there's going to be large groups of people like a graduation party a lot of these people are going to want to have a big you know think of those big white tents that you see at these big events but nobody's going to go out and buy them so you can start a party tent rental company my high school teacher had one of these he would do this on the weekends which was perfect for him because he was available on the weekends he wasn't teaching on the weekends so he could deliver those party tents he he owned them and he would just rent them out every weekend to various different events and he made some pretty good money from this now I don't know if he made Millions from it but I think he did pretty well from it as sort of a side business that he ran and the great thing about this is that your expenses are pretty low like you buy the party tents you set them up for people and then you just get the party tents back after the weekend and you rinse and repeat and you do that every weekend so your costs are not exorbitant um you just have kind of some flat fee costs up front to buy your inventory to buy those tens that you can then go and rent out it's a pretty great business model okay so business idea number six is a ugc agency so what you're doing with this it's called un user generated content so you can go to businesses and help them to figure out how to create user generated content to Market their products so basically what you do with this is you create sort of an army of potential ugc creators maybe this is your friends your family it could literally be anyone it could be you yourself to help companies make basically videos that are generated by users that they can post online for marketing a company's product you go and you sell this as a service to companies especially like um go back to like this chip company for example if you approach them and said look I have a a ugc agency and I can help you to Market your products it's going to cost $5,000 a month we have 15 people that are going to post x amount of content per month on these various different Tik Tok accounts it could be owned by that company or you could do it out of house and do it that way but I think this business is really going to have some legs for it in 2025 as more people are using short form content vertical content and they want to feel natural connected to users it's going to be one of the best converting it is I know for a fact it is one one of the best converting ads strategies that you can have as a business is having user generated content around your product so I think there's a lot of potential there on that one and the next one there is a Tik Tok ads specialist now people always overlook this you know because maybe they've heard of it in like a different video but if you can build a skill around running ads on a platform there is tremendous value in this because not many people know how to do it they don't know how the Tik Tok ads platform works and so you can sell this as a ser to businesses and the way that I would consider doing this is you can either offer it for free so you can approach a business and say look I will run Tik Tok ads for you I won't charge you you'll just have to pay for whatever the cost of the ads are and then if it doesn't work out in a month you know we can go separate ways but I have a feeling it will and there's ways you can learn how to run Tik Tok ads we just posted like a 45 minute video tutorial showing you how to run Tik Tok ads in 2025 so if you want to learn how to do that I'll leave a link to that down below in the description but there's so many different potential ways to make money if you can just build a skill around running ads it's it's absolutely like the world is yours when it comes to this and you can get clients for three four $5,000 a month multiple clients running ads for them and have a service-based business where you don't have a big office of employees you don't have to deal with inventory it's just you running ads for them and helping them to get more customers and helping them make more money in return they're going to give you quite a bit of money for that skill that not many people have the ability to do okay so taking you on a little bit more off offline here on the next um idea and that is giving tours of your local area specifically history tours so if you live in a city this is a great way to do this like if you live in Boston or you live in New York or you live in Philadelphia DC San Francisco pretty much any big city or actually even a town you can offer history like history tours of your city and people love to do that I know like personally when I go places sometimes I will go on to like Airbnb experiences or I'll find them on a couple of different websites where people offer tours and you might have a group of like 10 people and they're paying $40 each and you take them around for a couple hours around your local city and you show them you know this is where George Washington signed you know this document and this is where uh Ben Franklin used to live over in this house and you give them a really cool walking tour of your city this is something I think is very fulfilling you're making people very happy it's something that you can set up on your own time you can decide what days you want to do it maybe it's like every Saturday morning you give a three-hour tour you make $800 it could be a pretty great business for yourself especially if you're willing to learn a little bit of history about your city and especially if you're you know a little bit of an extrovert or able to speak um and and have that kind of gift is really really great all right so the next business idea is having a free and a paid newsletter you can run this on beehive this is once again one of those types of businesses where there's really no downside you know you might have just have to pay like 20 or $30 a month for beehive subscription but you can build an email newsletter you can have a free version and then a paid version and what you're going to do with this is just write about things that you have knowledge on or thoughts on and then people are going to end up you're going to end up building a fan base they're going to send it to other people and you can make money off of this for example I pay for a couple of different paid newsletters where I might pay $20 a month one of them I pay $100 a month and it's people who are investors and they're writing up reports they're talking about companies that they're interested in they're doing an analysis on a couple different companies per month and they're sharing their insight and their thoughts on the stock market I pay for these and you know I'm paying some of these people $1,000 a year for their Insight on the markets and I'm probably never going to unsubscribe from them because they've helped me make money and they've provided a lot of Great Value to me so if you have any expertise and even if you're not like sure you don't have to have an NBA you don't have to be Warren Buffett in order to start your own newsletter you don't have to have those credentials you can just start it for free see who subscribes maybe you promoted on Twitter you promote it on Instagram you promoted on Tik Tok or some other platform to get some initial subscribers on that newsletter and then there's a million different ways you can make money with an email newsletter think of something like morning Brew they sold for like $75 million a few years ago and they were just an email newsletter like they were an email newsletter and they were making a lot of money so that is one that I really think there's so much upside and so little downside that I think everyone really should consider it this year okay so the next one is RV rentals now this is especially useful if you live in a place like LA or San Francisco where people can rent an RV from you and they can go to yuse they can go camping somewhere and the amount of money that people will spend to rent an RV is absolutely incredible so if you think about this people let's say that they are uh coming from a different country and they have this dream of traveling the US in an RV but they don't want to buy one it might cost some like $50,000 to buy one so you can rent it to them for $5,000 for a week uh quite literally you can get5 or $10,000 for renting out an RV and you can cash flow pretty well from this so I talked to a guy a few years ago who was running a business like this and he was uh doing Revenue I I think something like $85 or $90,000 per month from a couple of RVs like a small Fleet of RVs out west and was making really good money from this so I think his payback period on those RVs like he would buy one for say $50,000 and within the year he would make all of his money back on that RV renting it out and then from there it was just straight profit $5,000 per week per RV and it was absolutely incred incredible the numbers that he was doing from that RV rental business now you might need licenses on this make sure you look into your local area to see what you need to do for this but I do see people renting out RVs on things like Airbnb or on Toro which is another site that people rent out cars so you could definitely look into that all right so the next one is teaching a language this is going to be a universally great business that you can run if you speak multiple different languages I pay someone $80 a month for 1 hour a week to teach me Spanish um I I've just started I think like 6 months ago um but I love it as a user of it and so if you speak a different language you can find people who are willing to pay you to just talk like in in the Spanish class we we just Converse we just talk about whatever we're doing during our day and you can make money from that as a business okay number 12 here is a company that shuts down companies I know this sounds really weird but there's a whole business opportunity behind this so basically there's a lot of startups that were started Maybe 3 four 5 years ago and they're failing they need to shut down they need to give money back to their investors they need to basically file for bankruptcy and so you can create a company that helps companies shut down and you can make a lot of money from that I think there's one company out there that I've seen doing this I don't know how well they're doing but I think there's some potential there I know it sounds so weird but a company that helps companies shut down there are thousands of companies that are shutting down every single year they need to do paperwork they need to figure out how to return money to invest there's a lot of convoluted sort of confusing things for Founders to deal with and they don't know how to do it so they'll go to a company like you to help them shut down their company it's pretty weird but I think it um is one that I've actually considered myself starting as a business okay number 13 is fixing the water problem in the United States so a lot of tap water has a lot of contaminants in it it might have lead in our water we might have posos a lot of other different chemicals in our water and so you can create a company that helps fix this solution here and this is either through something like a filter uh company like a Water Filter company or going more in detail and finding some type of like reverse osmosis process to getting clean water I personally I have different types of filters sometimes I have to buy bottled water because the water in my local area has a lot of contaminants in it and i' I've researched it I've tested my water and it's not very good and so if someone came up with a solution and I know this is not like an easy option here like this is a very difficult business thing to solve but there are millions of people in the US and throughout the world who don't have high quality water and they are willing to pay a considerable amount of money to get water that is clean and not contaminated with a bunch of garbage and crap in it like my tap water is so that's one right there that I think you'd have to think on more but I know it's a serious issue that a lot of people face so another one here that I think is interesting is a dumpster business so a dumpster business is going to take a little bit more Capital to get started because you're going to need a truck and then you're going to need a couple of different dumpster that you can drop off at people's houses or at locations so they can fill the dumpsters and then you come and pick them up once those dumpsters are full and you charge them for that service and you obviously then take it to the dump and you have to pay a dump fee when you take it there but that is a business that I think can do pretty well it's a very like like standard straightforward business model where you are dropping off a dumpster they're filling it up you're taking it back and you're charging them for that for their waste removal maybe they're doing like a renovation on their house and they need to tear up their floor and they need to rent out your dumpster to do that or they're doing some other type of project on their house or just cleaning out like a hoarder's house or something and they need to throw out a lot of stuff these are all reasons why people would need a dumpster there's one like junk removal um uh companies that I think do pretty well I'm not sure on the actual Logistics of it on how much they're making but I think it is one that I would consider starting as well if you want a little bit more of a straightforward business you advertise this on Facebook on Craigslist uh even in your local newspaper you could probably get quite a bit of hits from that but that's one that I would really think about doing so the next one here is a Tik Tok affiliate marketer so affiliate marketing can work on a variety of different platforms you can build blogs we have blogs that make us money we have YouTube channels that make us money but Tik Tok shop affiliate marketing is really lucrative this year so Tik Tock shop what you're doing with this is you're just finding products that are available on Tik Tok shop you're promoting them and every time you make a video about them and someone clicks on that button and buys it on Tik Tok shop you're getting a commission for that for basically not having to do very much like you're not the one actually making the product and shipping the product to that customer you're just talking about how this product was useful for you and you can make a lot of money doing that like for example this camera lens right here right you could probably sell this on Tik Tok shop you could promote it and make1 or $15 every time someone buys it through your link on Tik Tok shop so I've seen people make hundreds of thousands of dollars per month using Tik Tok shop as a user just posting content about products that have helped them out in their life okay so let's talk about the next one and that is going to be any type of tutoring this could be math tutoring this could be you know history tutoring geography like whatever class someone might have this is obviously a business that's been around for a pretty long time you can do this both online and in person I know we've had a lot of advancements with chat gbt and AI but tutoring is still going to be very important for a kid or for anyone who is trying to learn something to have one-on-one mentorship helping them through learning how to you know do calculus it can be pretty difficult this is a little bit more of like a side business that you can do but it's one that I felt like was still worth putting on this list so going on a little bit further into this we have LinkedIn ghost writing and Twitter ghost writing we'll bundle these into one category here there are a lot of businesses or influencers who are willing to pay you $500 a month or $1,000 a month to write LinkedIn posts for them or to write Twitter posts for them so that you can get them more engagement and so you know I have experimented with this in the past and I know someone who runs an agency where he does this full-time he basically is a ghost riter for influencers for this type of content this is a pretty easy sale you can approach them and say look I'll write all your content for you I will post it for you or I will send it to you and you can post it yourself and it'll save you 10 hours a week of not having to think about what to write on LinkedIn um so this is one that is pretty straightforward and I think once you get a couple of clients if it does really well you can then sell that service and scale it up and then maybe even hire some of your own employees to write that content so that you're not the one doing it yourself now the next business idea is one that I really would like to see someone create and it's essentially a GPT rapper that will write emails for you so when I open up my email inbox I want to be able to uh when I click on reply I want an email to autofill from AI that has an autofilled response that I can use or at least build off of instead of having to write from scratch on my email I hope you understand what I'm saying there but basically want to be able to reply and when I click reply an email populates with a autogenerated reply that I can either just then click Send or I can modify it and fix it a little bit and add a couple of words of my own but that would save me a just an absurd amount of time because I spend so much time on email responding to everyone that would be super useful and I don't think it would be that difficult to build like an AI Chrome extension that plugs into your email that will autogenerate using AI I think it'd be pretty cool and I would actually pay for that myself if I saw that available on the market so there's one of those AI ideas that's a little bit more intricate a little bit more difficult to get started but could you know be a potential billion dooll business idea right there so the next one is a food truck now the reason why I think a food truck is much better than say a restaurant is because you can go to where the customers are so if you want to you know spend a weekend at a local festival and then maybe the next weekend you're in a different town at another event this allows you to go to where the customers are and it also allows you to decide how much you're going to pay for rent so I've seen people uh Park their food truck in shopping mall parking lots where they obviously you know have to talk to the owner of the shopping mall and ask them if they can you know park there and maybe pay them some type of fee for the month that they might be there but it allows you to negotiate your rent and go to wherever is cheapest and wherever has the most amount of people and so that's why I think food trucks are a pretty great business opport opportunity so another one here is a podcast producer now what you're doing with this is instead of you being on a podcast you're just going to go and find people who already have podcasts maybe they're small podcast and you're going to help them to build their podcast you're going to get them more guests you're going to get them better guests on their podcast you're going to maybe cut up and edit their podcast into short form videos you're going to post them for them you're going to produce podcasts for multiple different people you can get them on retainer or when I think is more interesting is you can do a revenue share with them so you can approach someone maybe this is like one of your high school friends that you noticed started a podcast they're putting out some episodes you think they have potential and so you can approach them and say hey look I will produce your podcast I'll get you guests I'll edit your podcast I'll post them for you uh just give me 25% of the revenue and I think we're going to you know take this to the next level if you let me be your producer now you can do that with multiple people and have 25 or 30% of like three or four or five different podcasts that you're running all at the same time you can build a business around this and make a lot of money in 2025 doing something like that so the next business idea is gutter cleaning now this is such a simple one but you can really go around especially if you have a neighborhood that you can go around and just hit up every single door knock on the door leave a note whatever you might want to do or do some mailers and just let people know that you know maybe you notice like when it was raining that uh their gutters were full and there was water overflowing and you're willing to go up on a ladder and clean out those gutters for them all you really need to do for this is have a ladder that you can buy for $50 probably on like Facebook Marketplace and you can make pretty good money from this just by going around to properties and asking if they need their gutters cleaned this is especially useful if like you're a kid and people want to see a kid succeed and they like when kids start businesses so this one I really would consider doing now another one here is growing coral and selling rare animals so this one is pretty weird but I know a guy who does this and he grows Coral in his aquariums and then he sells it for considerable amounts of money this also works for rare fish or rare snakes or other types of rare animals that if you have some of them you can make good amounts of money by selling them to other people okay and the last one is selling notion templates so I was watching a video where Thomas Frank uh was talking about how much money he's made selling notion templates and I think it was into the millions of dollars and you know he just created these templates on notion uh this is a software that you can use for workflows for automating things we use it for our business to basically run all the operations of our business and so you can be someone who makes templates for people to help optimize their business or optimize their life I know people who use notion for various things that have nothing to do with business or have nothing to do with work but just organizing their life and so I kind of view notion as like a second brain um it's like an extension of your brain that you can tap into and use and so any type of template around that if I can pay $20 or $100 to have a template that's going to save me so much time and a lot of headache then I certainly would be willing to pay for that as a consumer and this is one of those businesses that is very scalable as you can see with Thomas Frank as with his example he made some videos about notion and then he sold his notion templates and made a lot of money from them so those are the business ideas for 2025 let me know if you like any of them if you have any thoughts for businesses to start in 2025 leave them down below in the comment section I will leave some resources down below as well if you want learn how to run Tik Tok ads or how to build the newsletter on beehive I'll leave all those details Down Below in the description so thanks for watching the video and I'll see everybody sometime in a future video
How To Create Viral Ads on TikTok – Free TikTok Ads Course
so Tik Tok ads many people get it wrong and it's a huge part of a lot of businesses but in this video I'll be showing you a proven formula on how to make successful Tik Tok ads how can you be sure that you're actually optimized on the way you're running your ads and are you just wasting money putting ads out there that you're buying a lot of views and ultimately are not converting as well as they should be to paying customers so like I said in this video we have a lot to talk about I've studied countless ads on Tik Tok to analyze exactly what works break down what they say when they say it how they frame certain things and ultimately come up with a formula on how to make a successful viral ad on Tik Tok and I've noticed on Tik Tok in particular the overlap between successful organic content and successful ads is really quite substantial now this is stuff that many people would charge hundreds of dollars for in a course some people might charge you for Consulting calls ultimately I just want to put this in a free video a lot of people have been asking me about it in my DMs so I figured let's just make one huge comprehensive video completely all free information we're not charging for any of this and uh it's something that hopefully can help your business and help you find more success on Tik Tok or Instagram or meta ads or whatever ads you're doing with that being said I want to split this into several different sections I'm going to have them timestamped down below but I highly recommend you go through all of them because they add on to each other so each section is going to be a really important preface for the following section so I recommend taking out a piece of paper a pen take some notes as you follow along with this video and hopefully this is going to be helpful so now getting started with Tik Tok ads what we want to do is go to sandrell media.com Tik Tok or you can click the link in the top of the description or of course you could just copy and paste that link to a new tab it'll bring you to a page that looks something like this sometimes there are promotions uh you might find a Dollar match maybe spend some you know $30 get $50 or something like that uh this does change periodically so I recommend at least checking out the link to see if you can get any free money when you are signing up and using Tik Tok ads then you can click on get started and we are going to create our account here so for email I'm going to type in my email and make a password and then we want to make sure we select this box here and then I usually deselect this one uh just so there are no news and other marketing things and now we can set up our account it wants to know what the industry is so choose the best thing you can get I think e-commerce is going to be probably most of the viewers of this video and then I'm going to try to find uh if there's like Sports and Outdoor something like that would make sense I don't know we could just choose you know one that's somewhat relevant business name is going to could be uh let's select that right now and then of course enter your website and your phone number and that brings us into our Tik Tok dashboard I'm going to click on accept right here obviously read over that and then it brings us to essentially the the whole process that we're going to be going through on how to make a Tik Tok ad but we don't actually have the ad yet so now what we want to do is go and start talking about how to create the ad we're going to start off with a script we're going to go into different ways you can make it if you're filming it yourself or using AI to do that and then we are going to edit that and come back to here when we're done with that and we can upload the actual ad all right so let's start off section one understanding the Tik Tok algorithm I want to briefly go over what works on Tik Tok because like I said there is a lot of overlap between organic and ads right so on Tik Tok the algorithm works like this ultimately the goal of an algorithm is to serve the most interesting content the most captivating content to the audiences out there so how do you do that well on Tik Tok the feel generally is much more organic much less overproduced so I recommend not using you know crazy St stabilizers and Drone footage and everything like that a lot of times the content that works best on Tik Tok is going to be content that feels like you are on FaceTime with your friend it should be very very simple very kind of low-level produced it should feel a lot more organic and natural and ultimately that's the kind of content that works well it also tends to be very fast-paced being such short form content people have either a lot of cuts or at the very least they get to the point very very quickly so you need to start off with a really strong really captivating hope it doesn't have to be a verbal hook either this could be something that is shown on text on screen it could be something that's moving and happening but ultimately it needs to create a question in the viewer's mind it needs to be something that they see that and they're like whoa I need to know the answer to this and they stick around so for example this ad right here I don't even know if the the product is real or not but they have a fantastic hook on here we scanned the rental for hidden cameras they said we scanned the rental for hidden cameras that instantly creates a question in your mind of how many rentals have I been in that ad cameras How likely is it that they'll find one how do they find one where is it actually hidden it creates a lot of questions that you need to watch to see are they going to find a hidden camera in this Airbnb or whatever rental they have there so summarizing the Tik Tok algorithm you need to focus a lot on retention you need to tell a story you need to have it captivating and you need a really good hook it needs to feel very natural you can't have things very overproduced it needs to be very sharable and very interesting a lot of times a good product just naturally does that but you still need to tell the story of the product more so than that like technical aspects or anything like that so moving on to section two the elements of a viral ad right we have an idea of what works well on the on Tik Tok for the algorithm in general but what works really well for an ad well the first thing you need to really think about as with any kind of sales any kind of marketing it needs to be solution and emotion oriented this is something that a lot of people kind of the classic example is if you're selling a diary you can't talk about the quality of the paper you can't talk about the dimensions of it or how well it fits in your pocket or your purse or whatever you need to focus on what it actually does what the solution is that's provided by a diary or what the emotion is that you get with the diary so maybe rather than marketing the paper quality or the specs of it you could Market the memories that are saved from your honeymoon that you saved in your diary or maybe you could focus more on the fear aspect of what is what about all the memories that you could forget or maybe after you pass away somebody finds like you know you find your grandmother's diary and you read through it right and when I say emotions there's really four big motivators for people to buy things you have health you have wealth you have happiness and you have love or relationships so any one of those if you kind of focus in a little bit on that no matter what your product is ask which of those four you could really tie into and how could you just dial that up a little bit more right so whatever your ad idea is right now maybe you want to focus a little bit more on the the health aspect an example I gave in a previous video was something called the lar bottle it's a water bottle that has a little ultraviolet LED in the top and rather than just saying this is great because it keeps your water clean I wanted to focus more on the health aspect of it so you could really focus and say there's a lot of dangerous bacteria out there people get really sick they don't realize that a lot of things are in their water or if you're traveling you're almost guaranteed to get sick in foreign countries and this water bottle is the solution essentially keeping you safe keeping you healthy by disinfecting your water bottle every 10 minutes and I think you can understand just from that example right there that focusing on your health is so much more impactful than talking just about the specs of the product so remember that health wealth happiness and love or relationships all four of those are going to be very significant motivators for somebody to actually purchase something so I promise we'll get into the formula for what you have to say sentence by sentence for a Tik Tok ad but the first sentence is going to be your hook so element three of a viral Tik Tok ad or a successful Tik Tok ad is going to be a very very strong hook as I mentioned before it doesn't even have to be a verbal hook it could be on screen with text it could be something that just uh essentially is a non-verbal hook but going with the verbal ones there are a lot of good options out there all have some listed in the description down below but some that I like to go with a lot ultimately would be anything that creates an information Gap that's the whole purpose of the hook here so an example would be uh I can't believe more people aren't talking about this or uh I'm so I'm always so surprised that most people don't know about this when they're traveling or did you know whatever right so ultimately in the beginning you are establishing that you know something that they don't and you're going to share it in the Tik Tok that is really the most fundamental hook all right so for this ad let's just say we're going to talk about like a a golf simulator right just a rap SoDo mlm2 Pro it's a product I I like I bought one this summer it was fun but let's see how we can make this ad so the first sentence you want to have this is going to be your hook in essence you want to tell a story but you want to create that information Gap in the very very beginning so you could say like uh this summer I shaved 15 Strokes off my golf game with this one product right so that tell the story right it's a full sentence you you shaved Strokes off your golf game in the summer the information Gap when you said this is the product it's like all right how did you do it what's the product you know something you you achieved some level of success tell me what it is and then after that you want to tell a two sentence story it needs to be different from the first story but still tied into it just now two sentences long and in this one you really want to focus more on the pain points so before this summer I played golf for 2 years and I never made any significant Improvement and I felt like I was always going to the range but just not making the progress I wanted so that's one sentence and then your second sentence would be after I made this purchase I spent some time using this product and ultimately it made me way better to golf my friends were really impressed everyone's been asking me what I do differently so now you're deepening that information Gap and you're also telling a story that really resonates with a lot of viewers with those specific pain points then going into what is it sentence number 4 through 8 you want to tell a four sentence story here but generally you want to tell a slightly longer story here that presents the solution tion to the problem so you could say ultimately what I ended up doing was I purchased this product right here the golf the mlm2 pro and rather than driving 20 minutes to the range uh spending an hour there spending $10 a day there and then driving back and then like I'm late for dinner my wife doesn't like that instead I bought this product here I set it up in my garage and then every day I would go down there after dinner for 20 minutes no setup or anything swing my golf club a bunch of times and rather than just randomly swinging and not really practic in anything in particular I was able to playback every single swing and see videos of exactly what I did wrong with my swing and even zoomed in on the actual Club head itself and on top of that rather than just swinging and using it like a rangefinder to estimate how far I went I can actually play specific courses and learn how to play smarter Golf and manage different clubs figure out what my distances were and ultimately it was the biggest game changer going out and playing a game of golf now is just so much better so there you told the story of the product now this is offering the solution why you like the product and again notice that I'm not talking about the accuracy of the product I'm not talking about oh it has these lasers and these sensors and and it's going to be within like one degree of angle of where you actually hit it instead you're talking about it has a camera and it shows me what I'm doing wrong so the me aspect is really what matters there and then the very last sentence you want to add is going to be your call to action and the best thing is I found this on Tik Tok shop and they're running a promotion right now so if you want to fix your golf game I would buy one if you click the link below and enter code Mike you'll get $50 off so that's not a perfect ad I would definitely iterate on that that was all off the top of my head right now but but generally that's how I would set it up I would go with one sentence story two sentence story four sentence story and then summary and you want to of course make this within a minute usually if you can get it within like 40 seconds that would be great so sometimes you have to trim it down to uh like one sentence one sentence two sentences uh or something like that but generally that's going to be the setup that you would want to use for a spoken ad such as that one there so we have a pretty decent script right now it's not perfect I would iterate on this a little bit more but it's enough to really get started here I transcribed it as you can see right here and I did trim it down you know a couple sentences were taken out to make sure it definitely fits within 1 minute now as I mentioned before there are four ways we can make an ad using this script the first one the most straightforward one and the most cost- effective one is going to be filming yourself now many people won't want to film themselves either they're not comfortable on camera or they don't believe the ad will come out the way they want wanted to with themselves presenting or maybe they just aren't comfortable with the equipment they have maybe you have an older phone and the video quality is not up to par now whatever the reason is that may be ruled out for some people I'm not going to talk about that method too much in this video because if you are comfortable doing that awesome go ahead and do that I recommend everyone at least tries it uh kind of practices a little bit and you can learn a lot from making it and even if you don't boost it as a Tik Tok ad you can always put it on Tik Tok and kind of experiment with different script ideas and see what performs better than other things maybe you want to boost them as an ad to just like put a couple dollars behind them and see how they perform but ultimately that's going to be the most cost- effective but not always going to be the best one for everybody out there the second one is going to be a lot easier for anyone who doesn't want to be on camera and maybe doesn't like how their voice sounds or doesn't have the equipment to record that is going to be using AI to do this for you now trust me I am probably the biggest skeptic that AI can make good videos yet it's been improving a lot over the past couple years and I'm actually pretty confident in the tool I'm going to show you in this video of course like I said this is not sponsored by any means I've seen a ton of like i' trust me I get a lot of emails every day from a ton of AI ad makers a lot of them are total garbage this is one that I watched I was really impressed I I sampled a bunch of ads still very impressed I showed my brother he was very impressed and so this is like pretty well vetted for me in my opinion uh to kind of show you as a good option for you and that is called called Arc ads now I have a link down in the description so you can follow along but I'm going to copy this ad script over to here and just see what it actually comes up with so I have an account already but you could say login or sign up right here I'm going to sign in and I'll admit the dashboard is not the best looking but the product that it comes up with at the end the video really is quite impressive so from my dashboard right here yours might look slightly different but you want to see something that says add another product now you're going to add your product just give it the product name uh we are using a product that actually exists but I I'll call it something different so we're not like uh using a an actual company name there so I'm going to S I'm going to call it the map SoDo map SoDo M LS3 you know you kind of get the idea of what it actually is but just a total madeup word right there we'll say continue you want to have your logo in there of course as well and within the folders here we can click on plus and we are going to create new video so click on create new videos from here we can paste that script in so remember I copied this I transcribed the script over here I believe it was over in this tab right here just an edit pad copy this and over here I can paste it now we have that right there so we can generate some videos we have to choose some actors though so I'm going to click on ADD actors and I recommend going through these by the way they keep adding tons and tons of new ones and the newer ones a lot of times are better than the old ones let me mute this the way it works is like this some these are actually real people these are not AI generated people but they sign up to be voice actors and in essence what the AI is doing is using their voice to just put your script in there and it also like remaps their mouth somehow to make it look like they're actually saying what your script is which I'm just very very impressed I think it's probably the best way to execute AI generated ads now so they're not AI characters talking which obviously means they're more real because they are real humans and like if you just check out any one of these maybe this guy right here Adam let's see seems decent some of them are better than others like I said I like the one where this guy was walking let's see if we can find him again this guy Benjamin so I'm going to use that one right there I like that one and let's see if there's a couple others so let's just say I'm going to use Benjamin there's a couple different scenarios where he's kind of walking or talking or whatever so I'll use the one where he's in a garage lifting I'll use the one where he's walking and maybe this other one right here I can select these I will say next we have three actors you essentially pay by credit I have three credits right here so ready to go I can have each of these read the script we'll come up with all of them and then what I want to do instead of just having one long script where it's just like an AI guy talking and walking it will become detectable that it is AI but I think it's way less detectable if you have more B- roll on top of that and if you kind of mash together multiple different clips so we're going to try it like this we're going to see how it works I'm going to say generate videos we have 15 credits we need three for this I'm going to say generate all right these are generating I'm going to come back to these when it's done but let's talk about the third way you can actually make ads so if you don't want to do it yourself if you don't want AI to do it because you want it to be a little bit more natural than that maybe you don't want to do any editing at all the third option is going to be literally having other people do it and there's two ways to do this the first one is going to be using something called ugc user generated content this is incredibly popular in 2024 in 2025 everyone's talking about this and uh it's really a great way to make ads because you're hiring people who already have the equipment already have the experience and already do this basically as their everyday life like their livelihood to make the ads like this and yet they're doing it not through like a giant Ad Agency instead they're doing it in a much more natural environment because a lot of these people basically are just Tik tokers anyway so they already know how to make natural content now user generated content I want to split this into two subcategories one is going to be paid ugc which is going to be like you can see right here join Brands is a popular platform there are a ton of other ones out there but in essence all you do is say get started for free we're going to sign up as a brand uh I'm just going to sign up right now using my email and there we go now we are on the platform now in essence what you'll do here is you'll create a campaign or you could request demos as well and you can just go down and find shop around some different creators that you think would make a lot of sense it would resonate here of course you will have to get them the product they'll make the full video for you it's really easy to do but keep in mind this can be a little bit more expensive so let's just say create a campaign we could do this with images only starting at $15 again we're looking for a video had for Tik Tok here although carousels can work just fine for some people I'm going to go with videos so videos start at $60 I think a lot of times you'll be spending a bit more than that um so let's say this is going to be content only we'll say continue and the campaign name is going to be perfect putt video Perfect put video we'll say next and as far as the product delivery goes we could say are you going to send it yourself which if you have inventory is going to be the easiest or are you doing reimbursement so you could say hey go on my website order it you're going to be like a verified customer then which is one really benefit official if they're leaving reviews on there and two it's going to be possibly easier uh for you not to have to like if you're Drop Shipping for example it's going to be easier for you not to have to place the order and get their address and do that just reimburse them for their order so if you want to add your first product you can have an image right here the price of it and then down here we can choose the content type so is it going to be a how-to video where they just show how to use it is it going to be an unboxing video is it going to be a product review or is it going to be a product demo for example also the time of the video do we want it to be 15 seconds 30 seconds do we want it to be uh 3 to 5 minutes I'm really looking for about the 1 minute Mark but I'll say 30 seconds is probably going to be you know quite ideal for this so product demo should be just fine and then down below that do we want subtitles no subtitles I would just leave subtitles off if you ever do want to add that you can use cap cut as I'll show you later in the video to just add it there's it's literally one button and captions are automatically there don't spend $15 on that unless you're really trying to automate everything and then as far as the format uh definitely you want to choose portrait and then down here content brief uh you could either paste your script there or you could say like hey I want you to talk about this and kind of break it down in the way that I showed earlier in this video if you have references that's also super beneficial um to say like hey I like these other ads make it in this style and then you'll say next so let me actually populate this right now before we say next so I added the product in there and you'll see on the right side this shows you the cost per product so obviously if you are sending them the product which you do need to do for these videos it's going to cost you whatever the product costs so you added that up top $550 is the price I made up for this uh as well as $18 for the video duration $60 for the video and then $10 for shipping you're looking at about $628 per job doing five jobs here you're going to be spending about $3,600 for five videos so that is definitely not cheap most of that cost is obviously in the product itself if you're selling a cheaper product then that would be significantly less so let's just say the let's just say the product here is maybe like $10 just so you can kind of get a better idea not like a giant scary number there $10 and say save and then say shipping is going to be like $2 or something and just kind of you'll see $445 so you're still spending a lot of money even on a cheaper product to get five ads made but you're looking at about what is that $60 for the video so $78 per one that is created which again is very very cheap but these are 30 second ads I've seen a lot out there that are in the hundreds of dollars so let's see what we actually get out of this so then uh so then you'll finally add your credit card information your payment information you'll say create and uh you'll follow through and and you'll have your Jobs made through there now this is a method again just one of the many platforms for ugc I'll have some other ones linked down below uh but another option out there is if you already do have customers you can use the like the people who already purchase the product from you you don't have to reimburse people you can get people who already purchase it from you and start to kind of collect some some content from them and and you know possibly offer to reimburse them on some things or or send them promotions or whatever it might be and a good platform for that is called most that one links to Shopify so if you go to the link down below or just go to most.
You can say get started for free it'll link over to your Shopify store I already have a Shopify store logged in here so for me it says open otherwise it might say install and you can add that to your Shopify store but if I just say open that'll bring me over to the Shopify app this is all running within shop Shopify and as you can see here you customize your email template you send emails out to existing customers either new customers as they show up or you know previous customers in the past and you start collecting content from them it's going to be much more organic people already do Post reviews on Amazon for example so that kind of thing here if you're incentivizing people to make that for you that could be really really beneficial where you know maybe you say hey I'll send you another product like a second product for free if you send me an ad or you know not an ad but just like anything of you unboxing it or you talking about it something that is very very organic could be very useful in one obviously reducing your return so people can see other consumers using the product they get more answers that maybe you didn't think about maybe it's like just a 360 video of the product and they can see how it's used and things like that that that kind of stuff does really well obviously Amazon still uses it every single day so we could take notes from that of course on top of that it should be increasing sales lend your brand a a little bit more of a reputation which is nice and ultimately you could potentially you know work out some deals with those with those customers where you're allowed to promote that and run that as a Tik Tok ad so then finally the fourth way you can actually promote or create this ad is going to be using other actual creators so what I would do for this is go to YouTube you can also do this on Tik Tok but I'll show you how to do it on YouTube so if you go to YouTube and just look up golf or maybe something more specific golf simulator or something like that you can scroll down and you want to find channels that are going to be a little bit smaller uh so good good is like a gigantic Channel but maybe like golf sidekick let's check out his channel uh 302,000 subscriber so definitely a very sizable account but not going to be like a a gigantic you know Mega influencer this is somebody that may be interesting to us when we're getting started out if you're looking for more affordable content though you might want to go for somebody with a much smaller maybe 2 to 3,000 subscribers or somebody who's just getting started out but still making good content now whatever Channel you find browse around find good channels then you want to click on more on their Channel page typically as you scroll down you'll see view email address a lot of people have a business inbound email there you can click on view email address I'm going to blur it out on this video obviously um so I'm not just like doxing this person but you can go and find this for a lot of creators out there highlight that email address and then just go and send them an email and say hey look I'm interested in working with you I would love to sponsor a video and uh you can kind of work out a deal where either you sponsor a video on their Channel and make sure that you get the licensing rights for that so you can run that as an ad or maybe if you don't if it's cheaper if you don't want to do that you could also just get the licensing rights for a video that they ultimately never even publish it's something that I've done in the past on my channel as well where you know you make a you make a video for a brand uh they're allowed to run that as an ad but I never actually have to post that on my channel it's something that again a lot of a lot of creators do it either way the benefit of course if it does get posted on their account is that of course you get exposure to a lot of of potential customers who are already interested and already know this person so you might have a lot more leverage uh going through their account like that all right so now that we have the four methods pretty well understood the method that I'll be using for this video is the arc ads one just using the AI just to kind of see what we're able to do with that one I think it's the most approachable for most people it's going to be very cost effective it's also going to be something that you can really iterate quickly you can go and change the script and within maybe like 20 or 30 minutes this one wasin with like a couple minutes you get that version of the video back and ready to go so what we want to do now I'm still waiting for these other two to be created but we want to download a free software here this is actually called This is called cap cut so if you go to so if you just look up cap cut cap cut.com is where you can find it you'll say download it'll download it and we can install this software all right so I have some Boll Clips right here I have cap cut downloaded I have the arc ads videos right here I downloaded them so now we're just going to open up cap cut this is going to be a quick little segment showing kind of the basics of editing this is a free tool to use so uh I recommend a lot of people who are making ads use this cap cut is owned by the same company that owns Tik Tok bite dance so uh no surprise a lot of the tools here are going to be very optimized for Tik Tok and they may be very familiar as well so within cap cut I'm going to click on create project on the top um and then from here we can click on import I'll try to go kind of slow as well so you can follow along now I'm going to go over to I have Tik Tok ads right here and if you're doing this on Windows there won't be a whole lot that's different but I just want to make sure I am on the same folder here so here we have all the files I want to import I'm going to click import and you'll see they are all right here so now down here this is our timeline over here is going to be the player essentially showing us what the ad looks like at any given time these may be a slightly different speed of talking as well you can see 1 minute 1 second versus 56 seconds on this one and I think I probably want to start off with this one right here so I'm going to click on this you can click the Plus or you can just click and drag it down into your timeline right here and and um it looks like that is a weird aspect ratio so a weird scale rather so make sure oh it actually just jumped right to the full scale there we should be good so right about there that looks like the proper scale to me and then we can start adding some b roll on top of that so I'm going to click and drag this down and I want to drop it right above so you drop it right there and it says all right multiple audio tracks we're going to get rid of the audio track on this one so we're going to right click on this and we can say extract audio that'll be down here and just click on audio and delete that so now we just have this is going to just be b roll now we can move it left right in the timeline and you'll see this little bar right here this is our timeline so the video as you play through goes this way uh we put it right around maybe like the 10 10c Mark I would say so let's see what it looks like okay so I show the product right there let's see what this sounds like right now this summer I shaved 15 Strokes off my golf game with and then let's say this right here we'll do the same [Music] thing we'll write click we'll say separate audio no sorry we will say extract audio go down here and delete that one product before this I played so move that away drag it down so it's a little bit shorter and I'll bring this down into the second track there so from the beginning this summer I shaved 15 Strokes off my golf game with this one product all right so that's a good start right there let's say that is going to be essentially the first sentence that's the hook right right there now if we zoom in so right here you see a little zoom button if I click zoom in we can kind of zoom in to expand the timeline right here so now we're looking at from zero to the first 40 seconds and we can even go a little bit more than that we can go zero to the first 20 seconds or so okay so let's see what it looks like all right so that's where I want to cut it right there and we want to switch over to the second b roll maybe that would be a good time to switch over so from here you'll see a little split button right there split we'll say split and from here I want to drop in maybe the second clip right here so we can drag this one down and put it right there this summer I shaved 15 Strokes off my golf game with this one product so here I want to split this one split it right there and then click on this click delete and so now these two should flow within the same script the audio is going to be different which is expected but uh for something like this that might make it feel a little bit more natural and a little bit more like a mashup of multiple different viewers or users um who purchased this product so let's try this out right now see what it sounds like product before this I played golf for 2 years and struggled to improve it all ultimately what I ended up doing was purchasing the all right so now he's going to talk about what he's purchasing so we can click and drag the more Boll right here put it right there no more reminders for that I'm going to right click it I think you can remember what we're doing now we're going to extract the audio we're going to delete that audio and now more b roll right here I set it up in my garage and then let's get this right here some more Boll now I'm just going to edit Ed a little bit of this not waste too much of your time with this segment but you get the idea of how the editing tools really work here all right so now we have the video pretty much edited this is the first version here it's not perfect of course I would iterate on this a lot but just as like a general demonstration of how I might make an ad like this uh this is how it's going to look let's just play it back right here you'll see how I kind of stitch it together and again this is just a first version so let me know what you think this summer I shaved 15 Strokes off my golf game with this one product before this I played golf for two years and struggled to improve at all ultimately what I ended up doing was purchasing the rapsodo mlm2 pro I set it up in my garage and just practiced at home for 20 minutes a day and it is way more effective instead of just swinging a bunch and hoping to improve I could actually playback every swing and determine what happened using the swing playback and the zoomed in Ultra slow-mo impact vision and it was more fun than a range because I could use this in simulator mode to play all the local golf courses from my garage now I know my club distances I fixed my swing and I play smarter golf at the course and the best thing is I found this on Tik Tock shop and they are running a promotion right until this weekend so if you want to fix your golf game I would buy one if you click the link below and enter code mik you get $50 off all right so once you're done on the top right you can click on export uh we can name the file so this is going to be Tik Tock add one and then I I usually add an underscore and then the name of the product so WS we're going to call map SoDo map SoDo and we can choose where we're exporting it to choose the folder and then as far as the resolution the bit rate all of that I'm not going to change any of that I think that's all quite good and so we can export that right now but I want to show you another tool it's kind of a second version that we are going to export this this one's going to be with captions if you wanted to say cancel right here now if we wanted to add captions it's really quite easy to do especially on mobile but if we go over to text we can say autoc captions right here and we can choose generate it'll generate the captions and this does it again for free we have five uses here on mobile I don't think it actually limits you to five but on desktop it seems to do that unless you upgrade to Pro and who knows if this works very well for you maybe eventually you will upgrade to Pro um I'm just using the free version here and that usually works quite well for me so you'll see the captions right here if I click on them they pop up right there we can change how they look uh so if you click on them so like on the right side you can change the color you could change if you wanted to change the font size make it bold make it not bold different things like that and if you change one of them it should change all of them but let's leave it like that for now um just you know fairly subtle and you can see this automatically is based on uh you know what was said it transcribes the entire video so we could export this as a second version if we wanted to so you can click on export and get the second version like that all right so back to the Tik Tok ads manager I'm going to say accept you should be on this page right here if not of course just go to sandal media.com to enter your information you'll end up on something like this now there are three tiers to an ad on Tik Tok the first one is your campaign you can look at this as like a pyramid the very top you have your campaign underneath the campaign you'll have multiple ad groups and within each ad group you'll have multiple ads I'll explain what each of those are as we go through them but the highest level of campaign is generally going to be for this product for a smaller store that's usually the way I would set it up so for this campaign we can decide what our objective is I'm going to be saying web conversions uh because we do have a Shopify store I want to connect the Shopify store and I want to really make sure that every ad is optimized for the best conversions on this site right here but there are other options as well if you're making an ad for the purpose of reaching more people maybe that is like a political campaign for example if you're looking for traffic or video views uh kind of similar to like fundraisers and campaigns as well would make sense there maybe you're looking for Community interaction trying to like sign petitions or something like that or maybe you're trying to promote an app you're trying to generate leads for a you know small business um or of course product sales if you have your product on Tik Tok shop which is actually very easy to do if you have a Shopify store however for our Shopify store I'm going to be going with website conversion so over on Shopify you can also do this on many other platforms out there this is not essential that you have Shopify but I will be demonstrating it with Shopify we can go down to add apps now within ad apps you'll see there are a lot to choose from I'm going to click on Shopify by App Store and we're going to search for Tik Tok so I'm going to type in Tik Tok it's also right there but we're going to type it in anyway Tik Tok we'll find Tik Tok and we can say install this is adding it to our Shopify store and the reason we're doing this is because we want to set up what's called a Tik Tock pixel so let's click on install as I continue to explain this a Tik Tock pixel tracks the activity on your website and kind of uses that information to optimize the ads so for example if somebody goes to you know clicks on the ad they go to your site and they don't make a purchase but then somebody else you know clicks the ad and then uh you know goes to your site makes a purchase that feedback is going to tell Tik Talk's algorithm hey show the ad more to you know person B and less to person a because it's more effective uh with that second demographic there whoever that you know whoever whatever their interests are any similar audiences like that so here once we added the Tik Tok channel the Tik Tok app to to uh to Shopify here first I like clicking the little pin button there so it's easier to find in the future it'll just be write in your sales channels here and we have two options one is going to be selling on Tik Tok that's another video I made a video on that actually already uh Tik Tok shop and that's a very useful feature but kind of out of the scope of this video here we want to set up Tik Tok ads so I'll say set up now and this should really walk us through pretty much everything they make it very seamless here as long as you're signed into both your Shopify account and your Tik Tok account in the same browser so I'll say connect it's going to connect the Tik TI Tok account hopefully the one that is already signed in right here uh as you can see right there it already populated it it knows our user number we can confirm that over here on Tik Tok if you wanted to you can see that big user ID right there I'll say connect and then we can click connect again make sure that the sandal golf product shop that's the name of the store right here so that is correct and then data sharing there are several options we have for data sharing so again this is how much of the data is actually being tracked by that pixel I recommend just leaving that on maximum I will say confirm and then last year we have to enter our company information just generally like you know address and name of company and stuff like that so I'll say set up we'll say confirm Shopify already has that information so it should Auto automatically populate that and then we can say finish setup so now we have that it's pending account review so that may take a minute for that to actually uh you know populate and be ready to go um but we can always just refresh this it really should not take very long at all now back to the Tik Tok ads manager I'm going to click on website conversions we scroll down we can name this campaign so I'm going to call this one map so I'm going to call this golf simulator golf launch monitor campaign one uh any AD categories this is not housing this is not credit this is not employment so I don't have to declare anything specific there we can create split tests I'm not doing that right now we could do CBO campaign budget optimization uh which is going to essentially allocate budget you know you know with different bidding strategies throughout different ad groups uh just to optimize everything overall at the highest level a lot of AI built into that I'm not going to be doing CBO in this uh because I do want to do some Hands-On testing and I'll show you that in a minute and we could also set an overall campaign budget sometimes I do that just as like a fail safe in case I accidentally set the wrong budgets on the lower level so maybe let's say I want to spend no more than uh maybe like $300 a day for this business just like a a maximum fail safe never get more than that now we can say continue and the second level down remember I said level one the highest level is the campaign but below that you have ad groups so we're going to make our first ad group right here the ad group usually is going to be who you're marketing to who is the audience here you can see on the top it shows us the available audience it's very very broad right now but if you scroll down and we'll we'll edit this stuff in a second but I just want to kind of demonstrate this if you scroll down and say hey we only want people who are you know maybe 35 to 44 you'll see that the available audience decreases you know pretty substantially right there so I'll reselect those and we'll be you know we'll kind of play around with this in just a minute but going back up to the top let's choose a name for this ad group I'm going to call this one US primary and this is going to be uh audience audience one and then down here you'll see we should be able to connect our account right here our Shopify account should be very easy to connect so now if you did everything correctly you should see data connection right here and below that you should see your Tik Tok pixel so just click on that make sure that's showing up right there uh if you don't see it you may instead see a little box that says connect your your pixel and if you just click through that you should be able to connect your Shopify very easily but as long as we have the app installed on Shopify over here and we added the Tik Tok ads one specifically it should automatically populate the pixel now below that you see optimization event if we click on the drop down the one that we really want to optimize for is going to be complete payment now I believe because I didn't set up Shopify payments on this little sample store over here it's not allowing me to do that so on your Shopify store it should say complete payment that should be a regular black option uh I'm just going to stick with add to cart for now because that is what is already selected uh but that is essentially what you would want to optimize for right there scrolling down we can have automatic placement or manual placement I'm going to leave this on automatic placement but I do want to click the little Advanced setting dropdown and change a couple things here so I do not want to allow video download I don't want other people to download this video start selling the exact same product and then use my exact ad for their product so I'm going to disable allow download video but I will allow uh sharing of the video I think that's actually quite beneficial for for us and for our product gaining some more awareness right there we allow comments that's fine and I don't actually need to do a payle block list so I will leave it exactly like that scrolling down here you can choose a little bit more about uh the optimization or really essentially the audience you're going after I I really think Tik Tok does a great job of this on their own so there's not a whole lot you'll really need to do here but if you wanted to kind of get on you know the right track or if you know that for a fact this campaign is specifically marketing to male or female audiences you could easily select that down here and you'll see on the top right your available audience will become less and less broad as you start narrowing this down so you might want to say high spending power females uh you can see that's pretty balanced that's going to be a good audience to go after if you have it too broad it'll tell you so if I say all and all it should go up here and it'll probably say like very very broad or fairly Broad and uh that's not necessarily what we'd want so let's just stick for Now with uh I don't know male just say all genders High spending power uh you can actually estimate the household incomes as well and say hey maybe top 5% of zip codes in the US or something like that and then down here you can choose other things about interests uh that you want to include or exclude uh for your audience so again if you're doing like political ads this would be a really great way to Target a very specific group of people that are maybe interested in one thing or maybe not interested in something else down here we have our daily budget so I'm going to let's just say we're going to set this for $100 right now the start time and running continuously looks good we can choose day parting so if you want to have specific times in the day so maybe it's not running at night or maybe it is only running at night you can just select the boxes right here for when that is in fact running but I'm just going to say all day for now and then bidding and optimization I'm going to leave that as it is right now as you start to get more ads you will want to have a Target CPA you can really dial this in uh and kind of aim for a certain thing once you start you know really ramping up your ads and your ads spend here but now I'm going to say continue and finally we get to the third tier which is going to be the ad so the ad specifically is going to be pretty much exactly what you think it's the video that is being run as an ad this one specifically so I'm not using spark ads spark ads spark ads essentially use uh content that's already published on Tik Tok and you can promote it that way but we are publishing our own new video that we're uploading right here so I'm not going to change anything I'm not going to select that up here in the ad name we can just call this one I'm going to call it AI generated ad no captions one just kind of like specifics on this one so that when I'm running a bunch of ads I can kind of just look at the names of them and know which one's performing better and say all right maybe no captions was performing better than the captions one as we're AB testing all of those different variables in the ad scrolling down you can see do we want a single V video or a carousel you can have up to 35 images I swear that number keeps getting larger as well maybe it was always 35 but uh I I usually just go with the video anyway so we can go with the video we can upload the video right now so I'm just going to click to upload I'll select my ad right here and I'll say continue and while that's uploading right there we can modify the text down here we can also choose what the call to action is there are a lot that are available we can choose 10 of them so if we scroll down you can say uh read more interested visit store click to buy now all these make sense some of them might not make sense or some of them may be even better so if you have like a software thing or an ebook or you know music maybe download would make sense uh Tik tok's going to test all of these and see which one is actually the top performing one so right now I don't really see a need to change these I think these all make a lot of sense for what the call to action is going to be on the bottom down there we also have interactive add-ons so we can either choose from the library or we can create our own so if I say create there are a lot of kind of great options right here that are generally fairly pre-built so I can say okay and these are going to be things that maybe are just like a little discount that pops up uh maybe it's going to be just a stronger call to action so let's go with this one right here we can say create and based on this you'll see it will pop up so Shopify my store yes we want that product tagging you could choose a specific product that you wanted to link over to again I don't have a product on my store right now so I can't actually optimize for that and then we could say homepage right here so I could say confirm so looking a bit deeper at these the card is going to pop up on the bottom and as you can see the display card kind of just you know tells you a little bit more about it you have specific product tagging so if it's a video showing the product the product tag on the bottom makes it easier more clickable for somebody to go through that kind of a nice little call to action down there we also have the website info so you can say right there someone could just go to your website and buy it we can have stickers that pop up on screen so maybe like 15% off could be a good option right there if you want to kind of promote a discount or some type of coupon you have so let's just say maybe the gift code sticker if we wanted to add that we could say uh save save maybe save 10% with code and then here we could say code Mike we can make the sticker you know one of two colors we can say maybe the darker color is fine we can also change the size of it or the placement of it rather so we can move this all the way down so maybe it's going to be like right right there and we could say confirm so now we have that little thing popping up now that's not always going to be good for every ad but I'm just showing generally how you'd go about adding that uh if you wanted any of those stickers not everyone has to add them but they are interesting and it's something you can add now the destination you should go back to your store go back to your store and you want to find the link to your products so you click on products I currently don't have any products on this little demo store I just made for this video uh but generally you'd want to find your product you just want to you know view the product and then copy and paste the link on the top over there so I'm just going to kind of go to my store right now so if I go to online store I can then click on the little eyeball icon there so view your store right here I'm going to copy this but generally like I said you'll go to catalog you'll find your product you'll copy the link here and then go back over to Tik Tok ads manager select all and just paste it right there so we can preview that link I do recommend clicking that just to make sure it links over to the right page not some error not some 404 page that you know makes you run your ad a bunch and and doesn't have a viable Link in there definitely something you want to check on and then down here this ad does in fact create or contain I generate content uh so I will be selecting that but if you filmed it yourself of course you will not need to select that and we can authorize the ad to be associated with performance metrics and of course we want to make sure we have some text for this ad as well so for this ad I'm just going to say I'll say that right there and we can also set a custom identity by the way so uh if you wanted to show you know your logo and your name and everything instead of just this little like uh megaphone I'm just going to choose a logo so I could go down to if we have a logo of course obviously use that one I'm just going to use let's just say this image right here I don't know some image I have on my on my laptop here I'll just go with this image and we could say we could say golf shop we'll say create and that way that's going to be popping up right over there so somebody can see that custom identity uh even though it's not an actual account that's going to be how it's showing up on Tik Tok so now that we have that I can say publish all and by the way we don't have to go through this entire process for every single ad it's very easy to duplicate it and just change one variable at a time so what we have to do is we have to add a payment method of course CU we are running an ad you're going have to pay to run the ad for whatever your budget is so I'll choose I'll enter my card details and I'll hit submit on the very bottom and then this might take a minute maybe you get a popup to verify your account or something like that but uh generally you know it should pop up and say payment method added creating ad again it'll take a minute for this and uh then our ad will be ready to run so there we go it says congratulations now we can click on back to campaigns and this will bring us back to our our kind of dashboard here with all of our different campaigns and you can see on the top campaigns add groups and ads so campaigns right now the entire campaign is on if we don't want to spend any money if we want to shut off the entire campaign your kill switch is right here you click on this little button right here it toggles it to off and now this is no longer active you're no longer spending money on this it's no longer being run as an ad if we go over to the ad groups the same thing can be done right here you can toggle that off and then over on ads again well you can toggle this off if you wanted to but what I really wanted to show you here is you can make cop I of this so if you wanted to just have another ad running identical to this one but instead maybe change the text on there or the call to action or the landing page maybe it's linking to a slightly different product page on your site that maybe is the same product but just looks a little bit different uh what we would do is click on copy right here and we can choose is this going in the same ad group yes is it going in the same ad or campaign yes and how many copies do we want let's just say we were making two more copies I can then say copy and those will be populating uh right there but first is going to actually bring us in and allow us to kind of edit these you can see on the left side the first and the second copy right here so the first copy first things first you want to change the name of this one so I'm going to highlight that and in this one just going to be-2 then down here if we wanted to change anything so literally just like this text right here um maybe I'll say like you can or just say maybe just a subtle difference like that I'll say publish there or actually I should have edited both and then clicked publish all but essentially that's all you need to do it creates ads right there there and uh these will be then ready to run but if you want to go back and change something now so let's say we want to go and change the ad group maybe we want to change who it's targeting where it's being shown different things like that so let's go back to add group or you can do the same thing with campaign of course and uh you just click on edit and then from here if you wanted to scroll down and change anything uh for example the placements maybe you wanted to have manual placement instead maybe you wanted automatic placement or maybe you wanted to change your budget or anything else like that that is where you'll go about doing that so let's close out of this let's see so now now we know a lot about how to make campaigns how to make ad groups how to make ads and a lot of these tools are going to be identical across these three tabs if you wanted another campaign just clicking copy here is going to do the same thing we did with the duplicating of the ad so I'm going to actually just get out of this hit back but that's where you'd go to do that uh you can also look on the top so we have analytics over here you get some reports there's a lot of detailed insights as you start to run your ad and start getting some real numbers uh to see what's working what's not working where your money is being spent uh what ads are going to cost different amounts and a lot like that so I would say that is probably all you need to know for now on how to get started running Tik Tok ads I hope you found this video helpful I hope you found at least some tips on how to make better ads or at the very least how to set up your Tik Tok ads manager if you enjoyed the video which you watched it this long so I hope that means you did please consider subscribing to the channel and leave a comment below with any questions you have or any future video recommendations thanks for watching guys I'm Michael Brian with sandral media and I'll see you in the next video what
How To Sell Print On Demand on Amazon
hey my name is Mike and in this video I'll be showing you how to leverage Amazon's billions of monthly viewers to make more money for your business and we're going to be doing this using a new integration that allows us to use gelato for print on demand on Amazon so rather than just running a regular print on demand shop and hoping you can advertise and get customers which is a great route we now have the ability to also connect that store over to Amazon to access those billions of monthly viewers who are going on Amazon trying to buy things and you can put your product in front of them while still having all of the benefits of print on demand meaning you don't have the risk of having a lot of inventory you don't need to have space for all of your inventory you can iterate on your designs very very quickly try a lot of things find what works and really double down on that so this is kind of a win-win from the design aspect of being able to test a lot of things but also the marketing aspect of being able to leverage Amazon search algorithm as well to access an even larger audience there so with that being said there's a lot to cover in this video this is a beginner tutorial I'm going to show you how to set this up step by step and the good news is it's really not hard to do there are not a ton of steps to do this but it's important that you do it in the correct order which is why I decided to make this video and the best thing is we don't have courses we don't want your money there's no upsells at the end of this video everything that you need to know to do this is going to be included in this video so there are really four main steps to getting this listed on Amazon first we need an Amazon seller account Amazon Seller Central so we'll set that up Amazon's very particular about how you set that up so it's it's important that we do that in the correct way number two we need a supplier to actually do the print on demand there are a lot of suppliers out there I made comparison videos the one we're going to use in this video is called gelato uh you know a big selection a lot of great tools you can use a lot of personalization and different things I'll show you later on the video to make them a very good candidate here so once you have your store step three is going to be to connect them and again we have to do this in a very particular way so you don't end up running into problems with Amazon and then the fourth item to do is to make your products over on gelato and once you make them they'll automatically sync with your Amazon store and everything else is pretty much handled automatically when a customer places an order it'll go over to gelato it can go into production uh you know the payment works out like that you'll get paid gelato gets paid and then the consumer will actually get it shipped out directly from gelato so again the benefit of print on demand here is that you don't have to do any of that you're not doing the printing you're not holding inventory you're not doing shipping instead you can really focus your efforts on designing new products Design coming up with new designs that you think are going to be more relevant more interesting overall more purchasable by the end consumer and also focus more on the marketing aspect as well if you wanted to say link this to a Shopify store as well or or sell on other outlets besides just Amazon so those are the four steps we're going to start off by setting up the Amazon Seller Central account this is very very important that you set it up in the right way I'll have a link in the description if you wanted to go there you could just Google Amazon sell Central uh it'll bring you to a page that looks something like this I'm going to start off by clicking create your Amazon account then I'll type in my name my email and I'll make a password then we can click on next we'll enter the onetime password that was sent to our email and that'll bring you to this page right here we're going to click on get started the big kind of bluish button lower on the screen we can create our business so we're going to say we're in the United States we can save and continue what type of business do you have and so this is going to depend on your own situation do you have an LLC do you have are you just an individual I'm just going to say I'm just an IND individual for this video are you a government-owned business whatever it might be uh select the one that best applies to you and click on continue now I think most people are probably going to be individuals or maybe llc's who are watching this video so you'll say save and continue and and Amazon's very kind of strict about this stuff so you will need to really verify your identity uh with like recent bank statements valid government ID like anything that you have that can you know approve who you are the faster it's going to be that this gets approved now and this is something that could take a day or two to actually get this approved D um so I'm going to say agree and continue I'm going to upload those documents so I can enter my personal information country of birth uh country of citizenship all the information that Amazon's requesting and then like I said they're going to ask for your bank account information credit card information just kind of verifying your identity making sure that you are a legitimate business or a legitimate individual not just some bot trying to scam people on Amazon and then we have to enter our credit card information Amazon does have a $39.99 Professional Service subscription fee so I'll enter that information and go to the next page and here's where you can start to actually enter our store details so I'm just going to call it uh sand trellsky shops uh we'll have um we don't have a UPC and just kind of Select no on these things um unless they apply to you so we don't own a brand so we're going to say no brand right now then we can say next and here we can upload again driver's license or passport and of course uh like bank statement or like water bill or whatever something that proves who you actually are and then of course they want another layer you're going to have to take a photo of your face using your phone just to kind of match your ID they're kind ofan trying to verify that we'll say next and then we're almost through this there's really not a whole lot more here and then like I said it may take a couple hours up to a couple days to get that actually approved you will get an email saying congratulations you've been approved and you can come back to a page that looks something like this now from here we can go and click on where we are registering the business on the right so United States I'm going to click on United States down there and by the way this is you really pretty much have to do this in the US at least at the time of filming right now uh the gelato integration works in the US as the first place they have it set up so we're going to sign in Amazon wants us to set up two Factor authentication it's always a good idea to do that for most of your accounts anyway just to kind of secure them a little bit better so uh it's just going to be sending me a text message I can input my onetime password and then I can sign in so now that we have the account set up there are a couple kind of housekeeping items you might notice if you scroll down to actions uh anything that's readed here take care of that so adding tax information is one thing that I have to do uh deposit method typically is going to be the same credit card you used to pay for your Amazon Professional Services subscription and they have a new seller guide up at the top now we don't actually have to do any of that right now instead what we do need is a global trade item number or gtin exemption and the way we're going to do that is from your Amazon Seller Central account click on the top left little hamburger icon there go to catalog and go to add products and then from there we can go over to blank form you'll see blank form right here we can click on start and we can just go in say the first item name so before we even really have a design you can kind of just make one up whatever you think would uh be similar to what you're probably going to make so for me I know that I probably want to make like t-shirts uh graphic t-shirts and maybe they'll say something related to like some kind of joke or something funny um like like like Sunday filet is kind of something I've been I've been kind of I made a design in the past that was like that so we'll go with that one for this video so I'll say item name Amazon will kind of identify the product type they'll suggest shirt so I could say yes I can confirm that and then once you confirm that you can click on next on the bottom right or actually you don't even have to click next it'll just automatically bring you to the next page and for product identity we can then go and you know update the name if we don't want if we don't like that name we can add variations but really what we want to do is Select brand name and external product ID we need to make sure that those are both selected so that we do not have a brand name say no brand name and we do not have a product ID so once you have those again you can change variations if you want we don't have to worry about that yet we don't have the design we don't even have the specific product so don't worry about that we are just setting up the exemption right now uh so now we can click on next and if you need an exemption it will have you apply right near right here you can see UPC exemption approved so our exemption has already been approved which means we are ready to go on to the next step all I'm going to do now just to make sure that everything works out here I'll say acknowledge and then on the very bottom I'm just going to save this as a draft don't worry about the product description the bullet points or anything else right now we're just going to leave this on standby we have our exemption that's what we are looking for right now and we have our Amazon Seller Central account set up that is very important we have some you know pretty solid First Steps here now let's go over to a new tab so in a new tab you can either copy and paste the link from the top of the description or you can type in sell sandal media.com gelato this is an affiliate link it helps to support the channel and keep information like this free but if you're not comfortable that you could also Google it and find your own way to get here but we do have a a 50% off offer for your first purchase so it does kind of help you uh to also help the channel so I'm going to say get offer and uh you know the first purchase you make if it's like a sample for yourself or if it's just like an order that somebody else places you will be getting half off for that so we are going to now create an account you could do this with Google or Facebook or apple I usually like to just sign up with email I don't know maybe it's an old school way of doing things but that's how I prefer to do it I'll type in my name I'll type in my email and make sure we accept the terms of service and add a password so once you click create account you'll have to verify your email and when you click the link in your email that says verify uh that should bring you to a page that looks something like this and we can start to kind of go through these these kind of this setup process here it doesn't really matter what you click so I'll just say I'm going to uh you know I want to grow my business uh we could say I am a seasoned e-commerce seller and what platform are we going to sell on if you look at more options there are a ton that you can set up with gelato and the good thing is once you have your design and your product made it's very easy to kind of Link these different stores together and uh you know work everything out of one Central Hub that being gelato so I've made videos on Shopify we'll talk about that a little bit later on the video but Amazon is as you can see a you know a pretty top listing that is relatively new for gelato as well so I'm very happy to see that integration now existing so we'll click on that now wants to know the link to your store I'm just going to click on skip right here and we can choose what we're going to do again you can also it doesn't really matter all of this is just kind of a setup process to change your dashboard so I'm going to say clothing and uh currently we're not selling other products you learned about this from from influencer I guess say Sandell sandal media finish and finally that brings us to our dashboard kind of a little onboarding there I wish we could skip a lot of that um but it does help you know for new people to kind of customize what your dashboard is actually going to be and hopefully can help you kind of stay on track here and find the success you're looking for so quick crash course on how gelato dashboard is laid out so on the left side we have home that's going to be kind of like new offers uh different like tips or tricks that they're recommending some best sellers this will change over time below that we have the product catalog and you can see all the different categories of products so gelato has a lot of clothing obviously t-shirts hoodies different things like that but many people don't think about this but there are also a lot of other categories like wall art I know a lot of people do very well with wall art and that's it kind of makes sense for print on demand it's a good way to have that printed down here we also have of course like hats and phone cases and mugs and and other kind of accessories that you can get printed uh so if you're trying to sell like you know comical mugs that could be something something you're able to set up very easily here for this video we're probably going to go with t-shirts just cuz it's easiest to design on and uh I think it's a pretty common example that may be more relatable to more viewers below that we have orders uh you'll see orders as they're being fulfilled right here it'll kind of when orders come in you'll see they'll show up they'll be pending uh they'll be on hold maybe if something doesn't go right with the payment method they'll be in production and you can see when they're printed shipped and actually delivered to the end consumer so it's kind of a good way to see you know what's going on keep tabs on things I recommend checking out the orders every now and then as you start to grow your business down here we have stores so we should be connecting to Amazon uh we will be clicking on that in just a second but then below that uh we have some other really cool kind of gelato specific things personalization studio is a great way to have uh like a semi designed product that the end consumer can add the finishing touch on whether that is their name the date of their anniversary like a photo of them and their friends so if you have an idea and let's see some of the examples they show right here are usually pretty good ones um so maybe if you want to have maybe if you want to have like this right here like a mug with somebody's dog and then they can add the name of their dog on there kind of a nice little gift uh that could be like a stocking stuffer that somebody could very easily purchase through you below that we have templates not a whole lot to talk about there branded packaging we'll talk about that later in the video If you decide to upgrade to gelato plus which are plenty of benefits to doing that also like mock-ups are pretty good there as well once we start to grow the store more you we'll see a lot of analytics the orders uh the different countries the production like I said earlier this is almost entirely going to be in the US then of course we have mockup Studio billing and some other developer things down there we'll get to all of those later on the video but that's a crash course on kind of the layout of this right here so the first thing we want to do is go to stores click on Amazon click on North America and we are going to link that over to our Amazon account as long as you're doing this in the same browser like one tab next to another as I have it should automatically be signed into to your Amazon Central or Amazon Seller Central you can double check on the top that the name of your shop is showing up right there make sure it also says United States uh you want to make sure you're connecting it to the right one so we can say yes that's okay and confirm and that's going to authorize gelato to connect to your Amazon seller account so then that'll bring you back to gelato and you'll say we have to request a GTI gtin exemption on Amazon we already did that earlier so I should say complete setup we'll say complete setup and we should be good to go there all right so that should show you the page that looks just like this if it doesn't which in the past sometimes I've done this and it just brings me back to looking like this like you don't see the Amazon thing on the top just click on Amazon again go through it one more time make sure you refresh it it may take a minute for this to show up you should see on the very top stores the name of your store right there or kind of like a you know a bunch of characters that are your Amazon store and then add product we will be adding product in a minute but just to make sure nobody like orders the product by accident as soon as we put it out and and shipping gets messed up it's important to set up the shipping first and then we can go and start adding our products so over on Amazon Seller Central so let's go back to where we were so if you left off here and we said save draft we can then say back to drafts and that'll bring us back to a page that looks like this now no matter where you are if you just click on Amazon Seller Central on the very top it'll bring you back to the homepage right here your dashboard and from here we're going to click on the gear icon in the top right go to shipping settings then go to General shipping settings and from here you can see what the current Amazon shipping settings that by default they are going to be assigning to us what these look like uh so you can see the general fulfillment settings the cut off time for orders uh for different shipping default handling time one day um different things like that so we want to actually make our own shipping template we don't want to be using Amazon just in case you know they might have like you know premium one or two day shipping gelato doesn't offer that it's print on demand so Printing and getting it there the same day is pretty much impossible so instead we're going to click on shipping templates and we can click on create new shipping template we're going to say create a new one we can say okay we can select domestic Warehouse address say next it doesn't give us an option here we're just going to leave it as uh self fulfillment nonprime shipping settings so we'll say next and now depending on what you're selling you can select the shipping service that will be used to fulfill it uh so I'll just select this one here and say next so we can just choose delivery region we'll say all of them we'll say next we we can also select a premium service if somebody wants that say next and we can say confirm all right so once you get to this page right here we can choose a name on the top I'm going to call this gelato t-shirt D usa1 something pretty specific you want to make sure that you have per item or per weight based right there and if you scroll down you want to make sure you toggle each of these to item and not per weight and then we can change this later in gelato but we really want to make sure that we have a per order fee plus a per item fee because the first product they order is going to be kind of a little bit more expensive than adding more items if they add like you know three or four the same shirt obviously it's going to be a little bit cheaper to ship that versus in four separate orders to four separate people so we can manage that a little bit later on in the video we're going to choose numbers for now we can always come back to this and change it but at the top you want to make sure we toggle this off because if you scroll down right now you'll see we do have two-day shipping or two-day delivery enabled we don't want that that's like an Amazon Prime thing obviously uh and again gelato doesn't offer that so uh we're going to go up here and disable the SSA shipping settings so we'll say confirm and then as we can see that should now be able we should now be able to go down and deselect two-day shipping so we'll deselect no more 2-day shipping and instead we just have standard shipping free economy if you want that I'm going to disable that no free economy just standard shipping and expedited shipping and again this is something that you can customize uh based on whatever products you're selling looking at gelato uh what the shipping recommendations are from from gelato if you go on their own page there so so I'm going to say for standard shipping we'll say 5 to 8 days and we can have our price maybe it's going to be like $357 for the first order and again this is per item down here so every extra item is like $123 don't copy these numbers exactly again we'll talk about this uh later on in the video once we choose the items the specific things we're actually shipping uh but just for now so we have something in here I'm going to set this uh just like that so if you're going a little further maybe it's like $4.99 okay we'll leave those numbers there and same thing down here as well so once we have that we can click on Save and we will have our shipping profile set up so we now have our shipping profile there that's good and we want this to be our default so if we click on the drop down here we could save as the default template we'll say okay and this is now our main template for any products we list on here which is good now going back to gelato now we can actually start making our products to do that if you're not on this page just kind of revisiting it so say we're from gelato dashboard you go down to stores you'll see Amazon store is right there we can click on ADD product we can add a single product first you can add multiple products later if you wanted to and let's say we want to have like a gild in 5,000 shirt and add you know some design on it I'm going to go to Men's Clothing right here we can say t-shirts and it should be one of the first ones uh it's a very common shirt many people sell it there we go the heavy heavyweight unisex gildin 5000 shirt so I'll select that one and this brings us into the gelato editor now you can edit your entire design right here very very easily actually but typically what I've been doing in the past is editing on say canva for example or photoshop or somewhere else and then bringing the design into here but starting off with the first kind of Step you have to choose what color or colors you want for this product so uh the white t-shirt looks good but maybe we want to have like a light gray uh maybe we want to have like a light blue as well and you can choose the sizes so maybe this is not including like four or five XL I don't know you could you you know it's up to you it's print on demand so you can adjust the pricing accordingly there's really no reason not to include those and we can choose DTG so it's going to be printing as a as opposed to embroidery but you totally could embroider it if you if you wanted to have that instead however embroidering is going to typically be a little more expensive you typically want like a smaller patch like on the corner the like kind of the chest pocket so I'm going to go with DTG so we can print on the entire t-shirt so we have that now we want to go down to layers or you can actually just go to files if you want to just upload your file here but kind of showing you the tools we have available we can add some text on here um we can add a new layer that is either an image that is text or something like that and you can kind of you know kind of put different things on the shirt as you as you want you also have shapes down here some shutter stock images if you want to add you know just like this mountain for some reason if you wanted to add that uh you just click on it it'll add it and you can click and drag things over to your shirt or just click on the plus and it'll put it in the middle of your shirt if you wanted to undo something again very easy to do this little undo button right there and like I said what I'm going to do is just upload a design that I made in canva in essence if you go to canva.com we can log in and on the top we can just click on t-shirt or we can type in t-shirt and we could say t-shirt design we're going to search for t-shirt design and there are a lot of kind of pre-made teasure designs at least the the kind of the shape is really helpful I find uh so maybe we can look at these and say maybe this one is going to be a good place to start and you can just say customize this template and then within canva a quick crash course on how this works is an easy dragon drop editor where on the left side we have all of our Design Elements if you wanted to drag shapes over or graphics you can also search for all types of things so you could say like a hamburger if you really wanted a hamburger in there you could search for that and just click and drag anything over to your design you can also resize things here you can change uh elements about it so when you click on that you can change you know like if it's cropped differently if it's transparent uh if you wanted to flip it or some things you can actually just change the color as well as well as the font and different things like that so like I said I already have a design over here uh and I'm just going to be using this one so once you have a design you can say share on the top and then you can say download and you can customize these settings you want to make sure the size is correct based on the shirt that you're or the product you're actually you know trying to put on gelato uh so you can customize the size right here and I want to select transparent so it's actually going to look good on all of the colors of shirts not just on the white shirt and then we can click on download now I already have this downloaded so let's go back to gelato and from here I'm going to go to files choose file and I'm going to upload this from my device uh this one's a little bit larger so you have the correct uh pixel density you want to make sure it has at least 150 DPI it it'll tell you if it's not it'll show you like a little warning symbol on the bottom but it looks like we're good with this and if you wanted to resize it you could do that so maybe I want to uh hold down so maybe I want it to be like that size right there and then once we like it we can say continue to mockups so now depending on the product you chose there may be a lot of mockups available with different people wearing them and things like that uh I'm going to go with uh you know these are all fine right now going to choose that as the primary image but you can see you know all the different angles of the same shirt right there and by the way if you wanted to change anything else about the design you can print in more places than just the front so on the bottom here you can see back in neck outer neck left sleeve right sleeve so if we wanted to say maybe on the left sleeve we wanted to add like U I don't know like a word right there we can add text we'll say uh a sample so we can just add that right there and now we can say continue to mock-ups and you'll see these different mockups kind of make sense showing different aspects of the shirt in case you were wondering like why would you show the sleeve on these mockups the reason is because you are able to print on the sleeve uh for you know different products like that so now let's say continue to details you could download them as well if you wanted to say share them on Instagram or any of your socials and uh I'm not going to do that for now I think it's fine just like this we're going to be listing it on Amazon we can choose the name of this so we'll call this Sunday play we can add a description down there and we can continue to prices and the prices as you see we have a lot of different options here because we have all the different sizes and all the different colors and you'll see the easiest way to do this is just to set what your margin's going to be uh on gelato and it'll adjust all the prices accordingly as you can see I think like the the larger sizes are typically a little bit more expensive the 3XL for example is about $2 more uh than the other ones so as far as the margin we'll just say 50% you could also have a dollar amount as well so you could also include the shipping cost in the profit calculation if you wanted to and let's just say our profit margin is going to be 40% we could say update and then we now have prices set for everything but you can go in and change prices individually if you wanted to make this maybe like uh 25 uh 25.95 2595 if that's what you really want to do you can set it up like that so we can then say continue to review and we can review all of these make sure everything looks good and we can publish now this is going to publish all of these these variants and everything over to Amazon automatically so I can say publish product and this may take a little while keep in mind this is going to be more than just like 30 seconds could be several minutes or even longer uh until this actually is published over to Amazon but once it is published if we go back to Amazon so this is our shipping settings let's get out of this on the top we click on Amazon Seller Central we should be able to go to the little hamburger icon go down to inventory and say manage all inventory and once it is actually published here so it's not yet let's close out of this once it's published here you will see your listings all shown right here we can customize them we can save you know different descriptions different images we can really change a lot of things about it right there so let's go back to gelato and I want to start working on another product where I can show you okay so it's in review right now it's going to take a couple minutes until that actually shows up let's go back to gelato and go to stores click on stores I'm going to add a product here we're going to add a single product and I want to show you some of the mockups that are available uh using gelato and this is where it really makes more sense to upgrade beyond the free version of gelato so for this let's look at maybe mugs and bottles let's go with the ceramic mug right here again let's just drop in our image right here our same design just plopping it into this one kind of resize it so it fills that space a little bit better so maybe so maybe we'll put it on both Sid of the mug like that now we can continue to mockups and you'll see some of them are just like way better now you can see what it actually looks like when it's sitting on a table and these are just like completely uh like I don't know I think very very convincing very realistic if you zoom into that you can see like yeah that looks that looks like the mug is actually sitting there very very convincing and you can download them if you wanted to uh once you upgrade to gelato Plus for free now I'll talk about the benefits of that in a second but let's say continue to details we have ceramic mug and because this is a different class than we had before with the t-shirts we would have to go back to Amazon and do the same thing uh with the gtin exemption like I showed you earlier this time choosing ceramic mug uh as our category or just any mug like that we'll say continue to prices uh we can choose um what our price is going to be so let's say add our margin continue to review and we could publish that one and that one should be in review and getting published soon as well now talking about some of the other things we have available specifically uh gelato plus and if it's really worth it so so if I go to the top right click on my my little icon there and go to subscriptions we have gelato plus gelato gold and personalization Studio three things you could upgrade to so kind of just highlighting why you might want to do any one of those if you start selling more you actually get discounts on products uh using gelato plus and gelato gold so here's a good exam so here's kind of a good illustration of the differences there so if you upgrade to gelato plus it's $25 per month and you get 20% off product so that doesn't make sense when you're selling like just one or two products a month maybe in the very very beginning but because this is a long game eventually you should expect to scale well beyond that to the point where 20% should be significantly more than $24 a month making this easily worth it now not all products are 20% off but you can check some products are 10% 15% some of them are 20% off off right there we also have the ability to have premium mockups and mockup Studio again kind of nice features that you're getting with gelato plus and gelato gold and gelato gold then adds some other cool things like 30% off branded labels and packaging inserts so if you have more than one product you're selling adding branded label inserts could be a great way to gain reviews on Amazon which can help you rank higher in Amazon and get more more sales it could also help you get some repeat sales maybe instead of going through Amazon again uh anybody who purchased the first thing can just like scan a QR code maybe they get a discount and go through your Shopify store maybe save you some fees and stuff like that and there are a couple other perks as well but the third option that you saw back there the personalization Studio that's not something I'm going to be setting up on Amazon right now but you could set it up on a Shopify store so going back to Amazon if I refresh the page you can see we have 18 variations of the product it's listed on Amazon we're ready to go we can manage all of these very easily so if we just click on any one of them click on the three dots we can edit the listing for that product and this is going to allow us to change like the title uh to change the description to change you know the the price and some different things like that all of that can be customized in here within the Amazon Seller Central pretty cool if you wanted to uh customize anything like that so clicking on the logo on the top left Amazon Seller Central that's pretty much a crash course on how to set up print on demand for Amazon I hope you found this video helpful and to be completely honest because you already have the product set up you went through that half of the effort it really makes a lot of sense in mind my opinion to also set up some other outlets as well some other Integrations with gelato so if we go back to gelato like I said the main one that I would recommend setting up if we go to stores is going to be Shopify but Hey Etsy is a great option as well um and if you want to sell on Tik Tok shop you can also do that so a lot of options on how to set this up I have videos on how to set up you know Tik Tok ads Tik Tok shop Integrations and really the big one is how to set up a Shopify print on demand so I'll have those linked down below and actually like right on the side as well if I can make the the card pop up here so thanks for watching this video let me know if you have any questions and I'll see you in those videos next
How To Sell Print On Demand on Amazon
hey my name is Mike and in this video I'll be showing you how to leverage Amazon's billions of monthly viewers to make more money for your business and we're going to be doing this using a new integration that allows us to use gelato for print on demand on Amazon so rather than just running a regular print on demand shop and hoping you can advertise and get customers which is a great route we now have the ability to also connect that store over to Amazon to access those billions of monthly viewers who are going on Amazon trying to buy things and you can put your product in front of them while still having all of the benefits of print on demand meaning you don't have the risk of having a lot of inventory you don't need to have space for all of your inventory you can iterate on your designs very very quickly try a lot of things find what works and really double down on that so this is kind of a win-win from the design aspect of being able to test a lot of things but also the marketing aspect of being able to leverage Amazon search algorithm as well to access an even larger audience there so with that being said there's a lot to cover in this video this is a beginner tutorial I'm going to show you how to set this up step by step and the good news is it's really not hard to do there are not a ton of steps to do this but it's important that you do it in the correct order which is why I decided to make this video and the best thing is we don't have courses we don't want your money there's no upsells at the end of this video everything that you need to know to do this is going to be included in this video so there are really four main steps to getting this listed on Amazon first we need an Amazon seller account Amazon Seller Central so we'll set that up Amazon's very particular about how you set that up so it's it's important that we do that in the correct way number two we need a supplier to actually do the print on demand there are a lot of suppliers out there I made comparison videos the one we're going to use in this video is called gelato uh you know a big selection a lot of great tools you can use a lot of personalization and different things I'll show you later on the video to make them a very good candidate here so once you have your store step three is going to be to connect them and again we have to do this in a very particular way so you don't end up running into problems with Amazon and then the fourth item to do is to make your products over on gelato and once you make them they'll automatically sync with your Amazon store and everything else is pretty much handled automatically when a customer places an order it'll go over to gelato it can go into production uh you know the payment works out like that you'll get paid gelato gets paid and then the consumer will actually get it shipped out directly from gelato so again the benefit of print on demand here is that you don't have to do any of that you're not doing the printing you're not holding inventory you're not doing shipping instead you can really focus your efforts on designing new products Design coming up with new designs that you think are going to be more relevant more interesting overall more purchasable by the end consumer and also focus more on the marketing aspect as well if you wanted to say link this to a Shopify store as well or or sell on other outlets besides just Amazon so those are the four steps we're going to start off by setting up the Amazon Seller Central account this is very very important that you set it up in the right way I'll have a link in the description if you wanted to go there you could just Google Amazon sell Central uh it'll bring you to a page that looks something like this I'm going to start off by clicking create your Amazon account then I'll type in my name my email and I'll make a password then we can click on next we'll enter the onetime password that was sent to our email and that'll bring you to this page right here we're going to click on get started the big kind of bluish button lower on the screen we can create our business so we're going to say we're in the United States we can save and continue what type of business do you have and so this is going to depend on your own situation do you have an LLC do you have are you just an individual I'm just going to say I'm just an IND individual for this video are you a government-owned business whatever it might be uh select the one that best applies to you and click on continue now I think most people are probably going to be individuals or maybe llc's who are watching this video so you'll say save and continue and and Amazon's very kind of strict about this stuff so you will need to really verify your identity uh with like recent bank statements valid government ID like anything that you have that can you know approve who you are the faster it's going to be that this gets approved now and this is something that could take a day or two to actually get this approved D um so I'm going to say agree and continue I'm going to upload those documents so I can enter my personal information country of birth uh country of citizenship all the information that Amazon's requesting and then like I said they're going to ask for your bank account information credit card information just kind of verifying your identity making sure that you are a legitimate business or a legitimate individual not just some bot trying to scam people on Amazon and then we have to enter our credit card information Amazon does have a $39.99 Professional Service subscription fee so I'll enter that information and go to the next page and here's where you can start to actually enter our store details so I'm just going to call it uh sand trellsky shops uh we'll have um we don't have a UPC and just kind of Select no on these things um unless they apply to you so we don't own a brand so we're going to say no brand right now then we can say next and here we can upload again driver's license or passport and of course uh like bank statement or like water bill or whatever something that proves who you actually are and then of course they want another layer you're going to have to take a photo of your face using your phone just to kind of match your ID they're kind ofan trying to verify that we'll say next and then we're almost through this there's really not a whole lot more here and then like I said it may take a couple hours up to a couple days to get that actually approved you will get an email saying congratulations you've been approved and you can come back to a page that looks something like this now from here we can go and click on where we are registering the business on the right so United States I'm going to click on United States down there and by the way this is you really pretty much have to do this in the US at least at the time of filming right now uh the gelato integration works in the US as the first place they have it set up so we're going to sign in Amazon wants us to set up two Factor authentication it's always a good idea to do that for most of your accounts anyway just to kind of secure them a little bit better so uh it's just going to be sending me a text message I can input my onetime password and then I can sign in so now that we have the account set up there are a couple kind of housekeeping items you might notice if you scroll down to actions uh anything that's readed here take care of that so adding tax information is one thing that I have to do uh deposit method typically is going to be the same credit card you used to pay for your Amazon Professional Services subscription and they have a new seller guide up at the top now we don't actually have to do any of that right now instead what we do need is a global trade item number or gtin exemption and the way we're going to do that is from your Amazon Seller Central account click on the top left little hamburger icon there go to catalog and go to add products and then from there we can go over to blank form you'll see blank form right here we can click on start and we can just go in say the first item name so before we even really have a design you can kind of just make one up whatever you think would uh be similar to what you're probably going to make so for me I know that I probably want to make like t-shirts uh graphic t-shirts and maybe they'll say something related to like some kind of joke or something funny um like like like Sunday filet is kind of something I've been I've been kind of I made a design in the past that was like that so we'll go with that one for this video so I'll say item name Amazon will kind of identify the product type they'll suggest shirt so I could say yes I can confirm that and then once you confirm that you can click on next on the bottom right or actually you don't even have to click next it'll just automatically bring you to the next page and for product identity we can then go and you know update the name if we don't want if we don't like that name we can add variations but really what we want to do is Select brand name and external product ID we need to make sure that those are both selected so that we do not have a brand name say no brand name and we do not have a product ID so once you have those again you can change variations if you want we don't have to worry about that yet we don't have the design we don't even have the specific product so don't worry about that we are just setting up the exemption right now uh so now we can click on next and if you need an exemption it will have you apply right near right here you can see UPC exemption approved so our exemption has already been approved which means we are ready to go on to the next step all I'm going to do now just to make sure that everything works out here I'll say acknowledge and then on the very bottom I'm just going to save this as a draft don't worry about the product description the bullet points or anything else right now we're just going to leave this on standby we have our exemption that's what we are looking for right now and we have our Amazon Seller Central account set up that is very important we have some you know pretty solid First Steps here now let's go over to a new tab so in a new tab you can either copy and paste the link from the top of the description or you can type in sell sandal media.com gelato this is an affiliate link it helps to support the channel and keep information like this free but if you're not comfortable that you could also Google it and find your own way to get here but we do have a a 50% off offer for your first purchase so it does kind of help you uh to also help the channel so I'm going to say get offer and uh you know the first purchase you make if it's like a sample for yourself or if it's just like an order that somebody else places you will be getting half off for that so we are going to now create an account you could do this with Google or Facebook or apple I usually like to just sign up with email I don't know maybe it's an old school way of doing things but that's how I prefer to do it I'll type in my name I'll type in my email and make sure we accept the terms of service and add a password so once you click create account you'll have to verify your email and when you click the link in your email that says verify uh that should bring you to a page that looks something like this and we can start to kind of go through these these kind of this setup process here it doesn't really matter what you click so I'll just say I'm going to uh you know I want to grow my business uh we could say I am a seasoned e-commerce seller and what platform are we going to sell on if you look at more options there are a ton that you can set up with gelato and the good thing is once you have your design and your product made it's very easy to kind of Link these different stores together and uh you know work everything out of one Central Hub that being gelato so I've made videos on Shopify we'll talk about that a little bit later on the video but Amazon is as you can see a you know a pretty top listing that is relatively new for gelato as well so I'm very happy to see that integration now existing so we'll click on that now wants to know the link to your store I'm just going to click on skip right here and we can choose what we're going to do again you can also it doesn't really matter all of this is just kind of a setup process to change your dashboard so I'm going to say clothing and uh currently we're not selling other products you learned about this from from influencer I guess say Sandell sandal media finish and finally that brings us to our dashboard kind of a little onboarding there I wish we could skip a lot of that um but it does help you know for new people to kind of customize what your dashboard is actually going to be and hopefully can help you kind of stay on track here and find the success you're looking for so quick crash course on how gelato dashboard is laid out so on the left side we have home that's going to be kind of like new offers uh different like tips or tricks that they're recommending some best sellers this will change over time below that we have the product catalog and you can see all the different categories of products so gelato has a lot of clothing obviously t-shirts hoodies different things like that but many people don't think about this but there are also a lot of other categories like wall art I know a lot of people do very well with wall art and that's it kind of makes sense for print on demand it's a good way to have that printed down here we also have of course like hats and phone cases and mugs and and other kind of accessories that you can get printed uh so if you're trying to sell like you know comical mugs that could be something something you're able to set up very easily here for this video we're probably going to go with t-shirts just cuz it's easiest to design on and uh I think it's a pretty common example that may be more relatable to more viewers below that we have orders uh you'll see orders as they're being fulfilled right here it'll kind of when orders come in you'll see they'll show up they'll be pending uh they'll be on hold maybe if something doesn't go right with the payment method they'll be in production and you can see when they're printed shipped and actually delivered to the end consumer so it's kind of a good way to see you know what's going on keep tabs on things I recommend checking out the orders every now and then as you start to grow your business down here we have stores so we should be connecting to Amazon uh we will be clicking on that in just a second but then below that uh we have some other really cool kind of gelato specific things personalization studio is a great way to have uh like a semi designed product that the end consumer can add the finishing touch on whether that is their name the date of their anniversary like a photo of them and their friends so if you have an idea and let's see some of the examples they show right here are usually pretty good ones um so maybe if you want to have maybe if you want to have like this right here like a mug with somebody's dog and then they can add the name of their dog on there kind of a nice little gift uh that could be like a stocking stuffer that somebody could very easily purchase through you below that we have templates not a whole lot to talk about there branded packaging we'll talk about that later in the video If you decide to upgrade to gelato plus which are plenty of benefits to doing that also like mock-ups are pretty good there as well once we start to grow the store more you we'll see a lot of analytics the orders uh the different countries the production like I said earlier this is almost entirely going to be in the US then of course we have mockup Studio billing and some other developer things down there we'll get to all of those later on the video but that's a crash course on kind of the layout of this right here so the first thing we want to do is go to stores click on Amazon click on North America and we are going to link that over to our Amazon account as long as you're doing this in the same browser like one tab next to another as I have it should automatically be signed into to your Amazon Central or Amazon Seller Central you can double check on the top that the name of your shop is showing up right there make sure it also says United States uh you want to make sure you're connecting it to the right one so we can say yes that's okay and confirm and that's going to authorize gelato to connect to your Amazon seller account so then that'll bring you back to gelato and you'll say we have to request a GTI gtin exemption on Amazon we already did that earlier so I should say complete setup we'll say complete setup and we should be good to go there all right so that should show you the page that looks just like this if it doesn't which in the past sometimes I've done this and it just brings me back to looking like this like you don't see the Amazon thing on the top just click on Amazon again go through it one more time make sure you refresh it it may take a minute for this to show up you should see on the very top stores the name of your store right there or kind of like a you know a bunch of characters that are your Amazon store and then add product we will be adding product in a minute but just to make sure nobody like orders the product by accident as soon as we put it out and and shipping gets messed up it's important to set up the shipping first and then we can go and start adding our products so over on Amazon Seller Central so let's go back to where we were so if you left off here and we said save draft we can then say back to drafts and that'll bring us back to a page that looks like this now no matter where you are if you just click on Amazon Seller Central on the very top it'll bring you back to the homepage right here your dashboard and from here we're going to click on the gear icon in the top right go to shipping settings then go to General shipping settings and from here you can see what the current Amazon shipping settings that by default they are going to be assigning to us what these look like uh so you can see the general fulfillment settings the cut off time for orders uh for different shipping default handling time one day um different things like that so we want to actually make our own shipping template we don't want to be using Amazon just in case you know they might have like you know premium one or two day shipping gelato doesn't offer that it's print on demand so Printing and getting it there the same day is pretty much impossible so instead we're going to click on shipping templates and we can click on create new shipping template we're going to say create a new one we can say okay we can select domestic Warehouse address say next it doesn't give us an option here we're just going to leave it as uh self fulfillment nonprime shipping settings so we'll say next and now depending on what you're selling you can select the shipping service that will be used to fulfill it uh so I'll just select this one here and say next so we can just choose delivery region we'll say all of them we'll say next we we can also select a premium service if somebody wants that say next and we can say confirm all right so once you get to this page right here we can choose a name on the top I'm going to call this gelato t-shirt D usa1 something pretty specific you want to make sure that you have per item or per weight based right there and if you scroll down you want to make sure you toggle each of these to item and not per weight and then we can change this later in gelato but we really want to make sure that we have a per order fee plus a per item fee because the first product they order is going to be kind of a little bit more expensive than adding more items if they add like you know three or four the same shirt obviously it's going to be a little bit cheaper to ship that versus in four separate orders to four separate people so we can manage that a little bit later on in the video we're going to choose numbers for now we can always come back to this and change it but at the top you want to make sure we toggle this off because if you scroll down right now you'll see we do have two-day shipping or two-day delivery enabled we don't want that that's like an Amazon Prime thing obviously uh and again gelato doesn't offer that so uh we're going to go up here and disable the SSA shipping settings so we'll say confirm and then as we can see that should now be able we should now be able to go down and deselect two-day shipping so we'll deselect no more 2-day shipping and instead we just have standard shipping free economy if you want that I'm going to disable that no free economy just standard shipping and expedited shipping and again this is something that you can customize uh based on whatever products you're selling looking at gelato uh what the shipping recommendations are from from gelato if you go on their own page there so so I'm going to say for standard shipping we'll say 5 to 8 days and we can have our price maybe it's going to be like $357 for the first order and again this is per item down here so every extra item is like $123 don't copy these numbers exactly again we'll talk about this uh later on in the video once we choose the items the specific things we're actually shipping uh but just for now so we have something in here I'm going to set this uh just like that so if you're going a little further maybe it's like $4.99 okay we'll leave those numbers there and same thing down here as well so once we have that we can click on Save and we will have our shipping profile set up so we now have our shipping profile there that's good and we want this to be our default so if we click on the drop down here we could save as the default template we'll say okay and this is now our main template for any products we list on here which is good now going back to gelato now we can actually start making our products to do that if you're not on this page just kind of revisiting it so say we're from gelato dashboard you go down to stores you'll see Amazon store is right there we can click on ADD product we can add a single product first you can add multiple products later if you wanted to and let's say we want to have like a gild in 5,000 shirt and add you know some design on it I'm going to go to Men's Clothing right here we can say t-shirts and it should be one of the first ones uh it's a very common shirt many people sell it there we go the heavy heavyweight unisex gildin 5000 shirt so I'll select that one and this brings us into the gelato editor now you can edit your entire design right here very very easily actually but typically what I've been doing in the past is editing on say canva for example or photoshop or somewhere else and then bringing the design into here but starting off with the first kind of Step you have to choose what color or colors you want for this product so uh the white t-shirt looks good but maybe we want to have like a light gray uh maybe we want to have like a light blue as well and you can choose the sizes so maybe this is not including like four or five XL I don't know you could you you know it's up to you it's print on demand so you can adjust the pricing accordingly there's really no reason not to include those and we can choose DTG so it's going to be printing as a as opposed to embroidery but you totally could embroider it if you if you wanted to have that instead however embroidering is going to typically be a little more expensive you typically want like a smaller patch like on the corner the like kind of the chest pocket so I'm going to go with DTG so we can print on the entire t-shirt so we have that now we want to go down to layers or you can actually just go to files if you want to just upload your file here but kind of showing you the tools we have available we can add some text on here um we can add a new layer that is either an image that is text or something like that and you can kind of you know kind of put different things on the shirt as you as you want you also have shapes down here some shutter stock images if you want to add you know just like this mountain for some reason if you wanted to add that uh you just click on it it'll add it and you can click and drag things over to your shirt or just click on the plus and it'll put it in the middle of your shirt if you wanted to undo something again very easy to do this little undo button right there and like I said what I'm going to do is just upload a design that I made in canva in essence if you go to canva.com we can log in and on the top we can just click on t-shirt or we can type in t-shirt and we could say t-shirt design we're going to search for t-shirt design and there are a lot of kind of pre-made teasure designs at least the the kind of the shape is really helpful I find uh so maybe we can look at these and say maybe this one is going to be a good place to start and you can just say customize this template and then within canva a quick crash course on how this works is an easy dragon drop editor where on the left side we have all of our Design Elements if you wanted to drag shapes over or graphics you can also search for all types of things so you could say like a hamburger if you really wanted a hamburger in there you could search for that and just click and drag anything over to your design you can also resize things here you can change uh elements about it so when you click on that you can change you know like if it's cropped differently if it's transparent uh if you wanted to flip it or some things you can actually just change the color as well as well as the font and different things like that so like I said I already have a design over here uh and I'm just going to be using this one so once you have a design you can say share on the top and then you can say download and you can customize these settings you want to make sure the size is correct based on the shirt that you're or the product you're actually you know trying to put on gelato uh so you can customize the size right here and I want to select transparent so it's actually going to look good on all of the colors of shirts not just on the white shirt and then we can click on download now I already have this downloaded so let's go back to gelato and from here I'm going to go to files choose file and I'm going to upload this from my device uh this one's a little bit larger so you have the correct uh pixel density you want to make sure it has at least 150 DPI it it'll tell you if it's not it'll show you like a little warning symbol on the bottom but it looks like we're good with this and if you wanted to resize it you could do that so maybe I want to uh hold down so maybe I want it to be like that size right there and then once we like it we can say continue to mockups so now depending on the product you chose there may be a lot of mockups available with different people wearing them and things like that uh I'm going to go with uh you know these are all fine right now going to choose that as the primary image but you can see you know all the different angles of the same shirt right there and by the way if you wanted to change anything else about the design you can print in more places than just the front so on the bottom here you can see back in neck outer neck left sleeve right sleeve so if we wanted to say maybe on the left sleeve we wanted to add like U I don't know like a word right there we can add text we'll say uh a sample so we can just add that right there and now we can say continue to mock-ups and you'll see these different mockups kind of make sense showing different aspects of the shirt in case you were wondering like why would you show the sleeve on these mockups the reason is because you are able to print on the sleeve uh for you know different products like that so now let's say continue to details you could download them as well if you wanted to say share them on Instagram or any of your socials and uh I'm not going to do that for now I think it's fine just like this we're going to be listing it on Amazon we can choose the name of this so we'll call this Sunday play we can add a description down there and we can continue to prices and the prices as you see we have a lot of different options here because we have all the different sizes and all the different colors and you'll see the easiest way to do this is just to set what your margin's going to be uh on gelato and it'll adjust all the prices accordingly as you can see I think like the the larger sizes are typically a little bit more expensive the 3XL for example is about $2 more uh than the other ones so as far as the margin we'll just say 50% you could also have a dollar amount as well so you could also include the shipping cost in the profit calculation if you wanted to and let's just say our profit margin is going to be 40% we could say update and then we now have prices set for everything but you can go in and change prices individually if you wanted to make this maybe like uh 25 uh 25.95 2595 if that's what you really want to do you can set it up like that so we can then say continue to review and we can review all of these make sure everything looks good and we can publish now this is going to publish all of these these variants and everything over to Amazon automatically so I can say publish product and this may take a little while keep in mind this is going to be more than just like 30 seconds could be several minutes or even longer uh until this actually is published over to Amazon but once it is published if we go back to Amazon so this is our shipping settings let's get out of this on the top we click on Amazon Seller Central we should be able to go to the little hamburger icon go down to inventory and say manage all inventory and once it is actually published here so it's not yet let's close out of this once it's published here you will see your listings all shown right here we can customize them we can save you know different descriptions different images we can really change a lot of things about it right there so let's go back to gelato and I want to start working on another product where I can show you okay so it's in review right now it's going to take a couple minutes until that actually shows up let's go back to gelato and go to stores click on stores I'm going to add a product here we're going to add a single product and I want to show you some of the mockups that are available uh using gelato and this is where it really makes more sense to upgrade beyond the free version of gelato so for this let's look at maybe mugs and bottles let's go with the ceramic mug right here again let's just drop in our image right here our same design just plopping it into this one kind of resize it so it fills that space a little bit better so maybe so maybe we'll put it on both Sid of the mug like that now we can continue to mockups and you'll see some of them are just like way better now you can see what it actually looks like when it's sitting on a table and these are just like completely uh like I don't know I think very very convincing very realistic if you zoom into that you can see like yeah that looks that looks like the mug is actually sitting there very very convincing and you can download them if you wanted to uh once you upgrade to gelato Plus for free now I'll talk about the benefits of that in a second but let's say continue to details we have ceramic mug and because this is a different class than we had before with the t-shirts we would have to go back to Amazon and do the same thing uh with the gtin exemption like I showed you earlier this time choosing ceramic mug uh as our category or just any mug like that we'll say continue to prices uh we can choose um what our price is going to be so let's say add our margin continue to review and we could publish that one and that one should be in review and getting published soon as well now talking about some of the other things we have available specifically uh gelato plus and if it's really worth it so so if I go to the top right click on my my little icon there and go to subscriptions we have gelato plus gelato gold and personalization Studio three things you could upgrade to so kind of just highlighting why you might want to do any one of those if you start selling more you actually get discounts on products uh using gelato plus and gelato gold so here's a good exam so here's kind of a good illustration of the differences there so if you upgrade to gelato plus it's $25 per month and you get 20% off product so that doesn't make sense when you're selling like just one or two products a month maybe in the very very beginning but because this is a long game eventually you should expect to scale well beyond that to the point where 20% should be significantly more than $24 a month making this easily worth it now not all products are 20% off but you can check some products are 10% 15% some of them are 20% off off right there we also have the ability to have premium mockups and mockup Studio again kind of nice features that you're getting with gelato plus and gelato gold and gelato gold then adds some other cool things like 30% off branded labels and packaging inserts so if you have more than one product you're selling adding branded label inserts could be a great way to gain reviews on Amazon which can help you rank higher in Amazon and get more more sales it could also help you get some repeat sales maybe instead of going through Amazon again uh anybody who purchased the first thing can just like scan a QR code maybe they get a discount and go through your Shopify store maybe save you some fees and stuff like that and there are a couple other perks as well but the third option that you saw back there the personalization Studio that's not something I'm going to be setting up on Amazon right now but you could set it up on a Shopify store so going back to Amazon if I refresh the page you can see we have 18 variations of the product it's listed on Amazon we're ready to go we can manage all of these very easily so if we just click on any one of them click on the three dots we can edit the listing for that product and this is going to allow us to change like the title uh to change the description to change you know the the price and some different things like that all of that can be customized in here within the Amazon Seller Central pretty cool if you wanted to uh customize anything like that so clicking on the logo on the top left Amazon Seller Central that's pretty much a crash course on how to set up print on demand for Amazon I hope you found this video helpful and to be completely honest because you already have the product set up you went through that half of the effort it really makes a lot of sense in mind my opinion to also set up some other outlets as well some other Integrations with gelato so if we go back to gelato like I said the main one that I would recommend setting up if we go to stores is going to be Shopify but Hey Etsy is a great option as well um and if you want to sell on Tik Tok shop you can also do that so a lot of options on how to set this up I have videos on how to set up you know Tik Tok ads Tik Tok shop Integrations and really the big one is how to set up a Shopify print on demand so I'll have those linked down below and actually like right on the side as well if I can make the the card pop up here so thanks for watching this video let me know if you have any questions and I'll see you in those videos next
Affiliate Marketing Website Tutorial 2025 (Step by Step)
hey everyone welcome back to the channel so in this video I'm going to show you how to build an affiliate marketing website I'm going to take you from the beginning all the way to a successful affiliate marketing website showing you every step of the process how to get the basics of this how to figure out which domain that you want to use how to name it uh and then going all the way to actually building out the sites the specifics of it putting in different plugins to really streamline your affiliate marketing website so that's what we're going to talk about in this video here today just a couple of things to mention before we get into the video this is going to be a bit longer you know I'm sure there's distractions you could go scroll Tik toks right now if you wanted to but I think this video really will provide a substantial amount of value we don't have a course here to sell you on affiliate marketing this is all free you can learn everything about affiliate marketing and how to do this successfully for absolutely free and we've been making money thousands of dollars per month with affiliate marketing with these methods I'm about to show you we've been doing this for years uh almost 10 years now with a marketing so I've learned a lot over this time I'm going to share some of those pointers with you uh throughout this video as I show you how to build this website so let's go ahead get started with this feel free to skip around um throughout the video I will leave some timestamps down below as well so uh that might be helpful as well as some resources and some notes in the description below in this video so if you're new here don't forget to subscribe to the channel we're trying to get to a million subscribers we're almost there so we really would appreciate that but let's go ahead and get started with it right now now okay so I'm going to assume that you already understand what affiliate marketing is you're basically just marketing products for other businesses and they're giving you a commission or like a percentage of that sale for getting them new customers right and so one of the best ways to uh do affiliate marketing is to have a website now there are websites out there that are making hundreds of millions of dollars per year with affiliate marketing the one that I always use as an example is something like nerd wallet or bank rate for example or the penny hoarder is another one and these are affiliate marketing websites that are making quite literally tens of millions or in some cases hundreds of millions of dollars by just creating blog articles that people will search uh they'll find them on Google or maybe they'll find those blog articles from Instagram or even like from watching a YouTube video or a Tik Tok and then they end up reading that article and then purchasing things through those affiliate links that are embedded inside of those affiliate articles right so here's you know talking about cash app and all these different things I don't if they actually have an affiliate Link in this specific article but I'm just giving some examples here okay let's talk about how to actually build your site this is why you came here for this video so the first thing we have to do is figure out where to build our website as an affiliate marketer now there are a lot of options for building a website you've probably heard of some like you might think of Squarespace or of Wix or of WordPress you maybe have heard of that um so I'm going to give you my honest opinion right here building on Squarespace it's pretty easy but it's gotten really expensive in the past few years we used to recommend people build websites on Squarespace but now it's just like it's too expensive to get started with that and so that's why I suggest building a site using WordPress that is built with hostinger so I'll explain all this and show you exactly how to sign up but basically hostinger um you can build a website and have this running for just a few dollars a month um and so this is a much better price than you're going to get anywhere else and it's also a higher quality website for your affiliate brand so the beauty of this is is that you know you're spending a few dollars per month for a website that's kind of the only cost associated with affiliate marketing you might have some other like software that you might use if you want to use like some SEO tools to rank your your blog articles on Google you might pay a little bit of money for that but for the most part affiliate marketing is such a great business because you don't have to spend a lot of money to get started like you really don't it's such a minimal upfront cost to it I will leave a link to hostinger Down Below in the description or you can just go to sandr media.com hostinger and I'll just put that right here so you can type that in so you can follow along in this tutorial as I build an example website so you can build one alongside me here cuz I do understand it can be kind of confusing when you're trying to build out your site right now we're coming up on Black Friday so they have a special deal I don't know if this deal is going to be around when you're watching this video so just click that link down below and you'll find the specifics on what the pricing is right now but it should come out to like3 or $4 a month at the most uh in a lot of cases okay so I'm going going to click claim deal I also got a special coupon code for you you guys if you want to use the coupon code uh Sandell or I believe it's Sandell 10 then you can get 10% off on your hostinger order when you use that coupon code so we have three different options for our website with hostinger we can get the premium plan the business plan or the cloud startup plan now I really would recommend the business plan the Premium plan can work but I do think you get quite a few other features with the business plan for not much more money here so I mean you're looking at extra dollar per month right now during this Black Friday sale and so with that you're getting free CDN you're getting a free email with that you're getting a 100 websites you can have on this so you could literally be running a hundred different affiliate websites for a few dollars a month this is why we really like hostinger and the quality is great like we run our websites using hosting here so I'm going to going to go with the business plan here we also get things like a free domain for the first year when we sign up uh for hostinger so let's go ahead and do that now I'm going to click on choose plan all right and then we have a couple of different options for the length that we would like our plan to be so I think that the 48 month plan is absolutely going to be the best option here because with that we're locking in a low rate for 4 years that gives us a lot of time to get our site off the ground get it up and running and then we don't have to worry about any expenses for the next four years on it now you can go lower like if you want to go 12 months you're going to see that the price goes up per month quite a bit so you know really I think it's going to be worth it to do the 48 month plan on this uh and then we can continue on here now I do have a coupon code for you so if you type in that coupon code sandrell and click apply you are going to save some money on that so now with my coupon code that I just gave you it comes out to like $314 a month that's pretty awesome let's go ahead and just click continue here and then I'll show you how to build out this site okay so I am creating an account with hostinger and it's just going to take a minute to load here and now I'm going to have to enter in some of my billing information and then we'll move on to the next step okay so I just submitted my pay and now it's going to take us through a series of questions to help us figure out what type of site we want and it's going to try to help build the site for you now we're going to have some different routes we can take here so I want you to pay attention closely as we go through this because I don't want to lose you here and then get confused on on where you are okay so who's this website for it's for myself or for my business I'm going to click on next also you can skip through this if you want to but I really do recommend this do you want to create a new website or do you want to migrate a website so if you already have a website on like wix or you already have a website hosted on like blue host or something or on Squarespace you can migrate that site over to hosting ER they are really great with helping you to do that so that's why I really do love them but we're going to create a new website from scratch and then we're going to go and click on next okay so now we have two different options for how to build our website this is a very important step here so we can either use WordPress and basically custom build this site ourself or we can use the hostinger website builder now they launched this hostinger website builder at least a year or two ago and it's really pretty great um so I think what we're going to do is I'm going to show you how to use the hosting or website builder this basically the use AI where you will describe your website what you're looking for and then the hosting or website builder will create it for you and then from there you can just fill things in you can change things up but it helps get a basic setup for your website so you don't have to do really much heavy lifting and I would say that overall if you're using traditional WordPress and you're building this from scratch you don't have to code but it's probably going to take you all day at least to get a decent looking website whereas the hosting or website builder you can probably get a pretty good-look website in more like 20 minutes or 30 minutes so there's a big difference there both are great we do have tutorials showing you how to do the full WordPress so you know I'll leave a link to that below if you want to watch that but the hostinger website builder is going to really help us out a lot to get the site set up so click on this here hosting a website builder it's going to save you a lot of time okay so now we're picking a domain name for our website now the main pointer that I'm going to give you here is that you want your domain name to be as short as possible so the domain name is what's going to what someone's going to type into their browser in order to find you so for this example I'm just going to say that I really want to make an affiliate brand around aquariums and raising fish as pets and creating that ecosystem I used to have an aquarium when I was little and I kind of want one again and so I think it's an interesting topic there's a lot of people who love aquariums and I think we can build a whole affiliate brand around that so for our domain name let's do aquarium guys and see what comes up there now is going to be still probably the best option but for the purpose of this video I'm actually going to go withn net you can also use.org if you are a nonprofit I would just be careful like using some of these really long domain names like aquarium guys.
Tech or. click some of them can just look kind of tacky so I would be careful with it I would stick with either.net or.org although org is really for nonprofits now diio can also be pretty good that's like kind of like a tech vibe to it but I'm going to go with net just for the purpose of this video the whole point on this is that you want to make sure that your domain name is nice and short it would be really foolish to create a domain where it's like aquarium guys are cool something something something.com and ends up being this long nobody can remember what it is they're not going to be able to find it it looks kind of weird it looks like malicious or like spam and people don't even want to click on it cuz it just looks too long so having a shorter domain name really does help in a lot of instances so I would recommend keeping that short so aquarium guys.net looks pretty clean I wish it was.com but you know for the sake of this video I'll leave it like that just to show you the important part which is actually building your website so now we're going to register our domain for aquarium guys.net I'm just going to fill this out here I'm going to click on Next Step I'm going to enter my contact details Okay so now I am registering my domain this could take a little bit of time so you know it's probably going to take about a minute so let's just fast forward here all right and so now hosting or AI is going to help build our website so what we have to do here is enter in our brand name so aquarium guys and we just have to describe our website what are we looking to do for this website now I can fill this out or I can just go over to chat GPT and ask it to help me create a description for this website so let me do that now all right so I just had chat GP make a quick description of our affiliate website because I was too lazy to do that and then I'm just going to paste that in here we can also go to personalization settings and you know say like what we want our color palette to be so maybe I want our color palette to be blue cuz it's you know think about fish right and maybe uh that that looks pretty good for there we can also have a just surprise me there and we can add an online store to our site as well if we would like that we don't need that though cuz this is an affiliate website so I don't really want that there actually you know what I'm going to leave that there cuz I can use the online store as an affiliate connection to Amazon products I'll show you how to do that all right so aquarium guys I filled out this description here and now all I have to do is click on create a website and hosting your AI is going to take the rein here this could take some time you know maybe 5 minutes at the most and they're building it out for us now once hostinger builds out this site for us we're going to be able to customize this exactly how we want they're just kind of giving us like an example or like the basics of it so that we can now change it up like this is pretty cool uh they just made all this for us for this site we have our blog we have our guides that people can go through right and I can change all of this it's super easy to customize so I will show you how to do that right now okay so for building out your website here's a couple of things that I would recommend first of all I think it's important to get out at least at a minimum 10 to 20 different blog articles so that when someone does come onto your site they can go and they can find other resources and so the easiest way to do this is to use AI to help help us to create these articles now back even just a few years ago if you watched a video that I made on this I would tell you to sit down and just write these articles yourself and this is what we used to do uh and this takes a lot of time and this is why things with affiliate marketing are moving a lot faster you can build this today um with the help of AI rather than having to do it all yourself okay so let's say that we want to change some of these things maybe we don't want this Nemo looking goldfish on our homepage here as a video so all we have to do is we can click on it we can click on edit section and then we can change this maybe we don't want the video we can replace the video and we could choose something else or we can decide that you know maybe we just want an image um and maybe that'd be a lot simpler so we can replace that image and they even have free images here for us so we can just type in fish and see what comes up and so we have some other options here for our aquarium maybe we actually want this to be more about koi fish which are really cool fish right so let's say that this one looks pretty cool and I can just add this to the page and so there we go that was really easy and they already had the photos there for us we can also you know include our own photos as well if we would like to we can just upload that as an image here by just clicking upload files from your computer they also have ai images available with hostinger another reason why I love this website builder because it's just it makes it that much easier this is all new compared to just a couple of years ago and so we can change the wording here by just clicking on it we can double click and then we can change this to maybe the number one aquarium resource and then we can change some of the font there and we can change this button maybe we don't want it to be uh shop but we can have it say something else like learn more right and we can change the web address on this as well we can change the style we can change the animation and the color of it as well so it's really easy to do all of this as you can see here now we can go through and just continue to edit this we can you know swap out these pictures we can generate a new image if we want maybe a koi um fish eating food and let's just see what it can create from that see what it comes up with here it's going to take about 15 to 20 seconds to generate some images for us you know maybe I really like this one it looks pretty cool and I can just import that right there and I can have aquarium Essentials we can change this from shop to maybe something else learn more or free guide or like buy now right so we can change that if we would like to and maybe I just want to totally delete this section here cuz it's kind of like shopping and you know maybe the AI Builder just went too hard on it so I can just delete that entire section if I would like to and you can see just how quickly like I'm doing this in like 5 minutes here but you can see how quickly all of this comes together for us for our website so that's how you edit the basics on the homepage if you go to the upper leftand side I want to show you some of these features here so we have this option to add an element so if you click on this you can add text you can add shapes or a map or your Instagram feed which is really cool you can connect that there so let's say that we wanted to put our Instagram feed as a section below this one we just click on ADD element we click on Instagram feed and we can put our feed right inside of there by just connecting our Instagram account to our website so I'm going to just go and delete that now I just want to show that as an example other things we can do as well we can add a subscribe button so maybe you want to capture people's email to read your newsletter you can do that very easily as well and just having it right here to capture that and we can Center it very easily by just dragging and dropping it we can create some space there if we want some space for it to have right so we can just pull that down we can put that right there we can say you know subscribe to our email newsletter so you can learn more about uh how to really create the best aquarium out there right so these are all the different things we can have we can even put in an AI assistant um that hostinger helps us out with so when someone looks up or they use the AI assistant that pops up on the right hand side and we can just preview this here on how it would show up see here on the bottom right if people click on this and they say um I'm I'm really trying to figure out like what type of um aquarium size or like should I get a 5 gallon or a 10 gallon aquarium for my fish and then the AI assistant will help to direct to your specific blog articles that outline all the things or questions that they might have so this is really awesome and once again another thing that you used to have to at least pay for to have like a chat bot on your website but now it's totally free when you use the hostinger Builder so you can see just how the site's already coming together here just from doing a couple of things now you also I want to recommend going and clicking on the upper right corner here you'll see the desktop and then also the mobile option you want to make sure that your site is optimized for mobile a lot of people are going on to websites on their phone not on their computer so don't just do desktop make sure that your site looks good on mobile as well so just togg go back and forth from time to time to make sure that it looks good now I'm going to go back to editor here and we're going to continue want I want to show you some of these other things you can do let's talk about pages and navigation so you see these things up here at the top we have home we have shop we have guides we have blogs and then we have the store that the AI Builder made for us as well and so we can move these around we can say maybe I want to delete the shop I don't want the shopping feature on my affiliate website so I can just easily click on delete right there and it would completely get rid of that there now maybe we want to add a page here maybe we want an about page we can easily put that in there or maybe a contact page would be something important for like affiliate brand deals you might want that so let's put one right here and we can just add that as a contact page click save and now we have a full contact page that we can go through and we can edit so maybe I wanted to be a man hanging out with the hundred different aquariums that are full of fish and we can have that as our contact us image so maybe this is a good one here and we can just put that in there and uh we can put in our information we can put if we have a physical location we don't so I I don't want people showing up to my house so I'm going to just delete that there and yeah so that's a contact page let's go back up here on the upper left hand side so we can see pages of navigation if we want to maybe reorder these we want to put our blog before our guides all we have to do here is just click and drag this above guides and there we go we just reorganize that so Blog shows up before guides okay that's the basics of the different pages now let's talk about website Styles maybe we want to change the font maybe we want to change the buttons we can do all of that pretty easily on here so if we want to change the entire font we can do that a lot of that is pretty straightforward if we want to change the style of the buttons we can do that very easily as well right here and then also we have animations so when someone enters onto a new page how do all of the photos and the text actually show up so if we click on fade you can see it fades in slide it slides up and scale it kind of just zooms up like that I actually really like scale I think it looks pretty clean so I'm going to use scale here as one of the options now don't forget also to go up and click on save from time to time they do have autosave on but I still would just recommend making sure just in case something happens you don't want to lose your site the other option here is we have ai tools so they have an AI writer they have an AI image generator for us um they have an AI blog generator for us now these are all pretty great tools but I still would recommend another tool to really up your game on creating your blog articles so let's go ahead and let's make our blog articles here I want to make at least 10 to 20 different articles I'm going to utilize multiple things here so I'm going to use koala AI to write articles that will help set up for embedding affiliate links into the articles but also I'm going to use chat GPT just to help give me some article ideas for this website so I'm going to go to chat GPT all right so I typed in a really basic description here for chat GPT I just said come up with 50 different blog article ideas for our affiliate marketing website called aquarium guys we teach people how to raise fish and maintain Aquarium so I'm just going to click enter there and now chat GPT is going to give us different blog article ideas and then what we're going to do is we're just going to go over to koala Ai and we're going to have koala actually hash out these ideas and make them into articles right so here's a perfect one right here beginner's guide to starting your first aquarium right so I can just copy that and then I can go over to koala AI I will leave the link to koala Down Below in the description here so I'm going to create an account on koala let's just look at the pricing here it's really affordable for the amount of time that this is going to save you it's definitely going to be worth it so we have the essentials plan the starter plan or the professional plan where we can have 12 or 1.2 million words per year written with this article writer I think it's absolutely worth it it's an investment that I think everyone should really consider when they are creating their affiliate site just based on the amount of time that it's going to save us now we also have the Boost the growth and the elite plan um where we're getting you know 12 million words per year this is if you're really taking it seriously and you're trying to pump out thousands of Articles using AI right now I'm just going to go with the professional plan because with this I'm getting AI powered editing I'm getting AI models and I have just a lot more features available inside of there with the professional plan but even just with the essential plan you're getting some of the basics here like it's using gbt 40 and Claude 3.5 and you're getting SEO optimization which is super important if you just have chat gbt uh write a blog article for you it's not going to be nearly as good as koala because koala is all about creating blog articles that will rank on Google for search engine optimization and look like they written by human so it's very important here to use something like this so let me just sign up for it here and I'll show you how to use it so let me do that now okay so we are now inside of our koala writer and so what we're going to do here is we can make saved presets but let's just call this project we're going to call this our aquarium and then I'm just going to click on create there okay so this is going to be our project name we can use different models here for the writer so we can use GPT 40 mini we can use GPT 40 we can use Claude 3.5 Sonet and so I actually really like Claude um a lot of people use GPT but I'm going to go with Claude here it doesn't really matter which one you use you're going to notice some slight differences and then this is going to be a blog post okay and then for the Target keyword I'm just using the first one here right which is beginner's guide to starting your first aquarium and I'm just going to paste that right there and then we have SEO optimization so we can manually do this if we wanted to do something very specific talking about specific related keywords like koifish for example we could do that or we could just have the default option selected as well which I'm going to let koala take care of and then automatic internal linking so we have this option as well uh this is really helpful and then article length how long do we want this to be now I would recommend having articles somewhere between 950 and 18870 words it's up to you it depends on the type so for this one for example this is going to be a longer one because it's a full guide on how to start your first aquarium so for this one we're going to do it a bit longer I'm going to have this 1350 to 1870 words it's going to be SEO optimized we can choose the different style so it can be formal it can be casual it can be humorous this is just really awesome to have all these things available to us obviously the language the country in which the article is going to be targeting and then the point of view third person is going to be the best option for this for a guide okay and so once I have all those parameters set all I have to do is Click create article and koala is going to create this article for us okay so what we've done is we've used koala to create an article for us we included images in there so these are AI generated images for our article it looks really solid as a beginner's guide to creating your first aquarium so all we have to do now is just click on copy um and then we go back to our website to our blog and we can start to add these blog posts in here so we can either um just add them to these existing posts here or we can actually just click on ADD section and we can add a Blog section here for all of our articles so let's say that we like this layout right here and we want to just add more in there so we can do that very easily and it's going to help us create new articles and then what we want to do here is just click on edit post and now I'm just going to edit this entire blog post so for this section here I'm going just going to delete that photo I am going to change some of this text here I'm going to move this up I'm going to move it over I'm going to make it wider like that and now I'm going to just simply edit that text there delete that go back to our article that was just written click on copy go back here and just paste it so there is our first article it's working on loading those images for us it could take a little bit of time you can also manually post those images in there as well or if you want to download it and then upload it into there that could work a little bit better as well and then we can change up the title here for this section edit the blog header actually change some of the wording on here to make sure that it looks properly right so we can just change the blog Title Here paste that in there and we can change the description and we can make sure that um we have the domain properly set up and then just click on Save and then all we have to do from here is just basically rinse and repeat so I'm going to click on Save but then we just go back to chat DBT we go to our second article we copy this we go back to koala and then we just go and we create a new article here on koala we you know do the same thing Claude 3.5 or whichever one you want to use our Target keyword we paste that in there and then we just rinse and repeat and we do this for at least 10 to 20 different articles is what I would recommend for the first week and then finding some way to maintain that where you're putting out about one article per day is a good way to start for the first few months and then trying to rank four specific keywords on Google Now how do you actually find keywords to rank for on Google that's a whole another video I have a video on that where I show you how to do that but one of the best ways to do that is to literally just go on to Google and search for things so using Google here and seeing what pops up as a suggested search is really useful for finding blog article ideas as well if you want to do things outside of chat GPT for these article ideas so going back to our website this is going to be the basics of it whenever you are ready to launch your site all you have to do is go to the upper right corner and click on go live and so we can go live now and our site is up and live aquarium guys.net let's view the site right here see how it looks and we can of course go back and change anything that we want to at any point with our site oh and one other thing I forgot to mention in this video is that you do have to make sure that you verify your email address in order for your site to actually be able to go live so that's just something important that you're going to want to do for that so just go into your email click on verify so that your site actually goes live so let's go back to our site here to make sure that it went live I'm going to click on refresh and now our site is live so here's our blog it's looking pretty good you know this is something that just took me like 20 minutes if I spend all day on this it could really look high quality and this is what I recommend you do as well now remember with affiliate marketing it's not all just about creating a Blog you need to create a game plan for other platforms and other outlets to get people to your website now Google search Trends are going up are searching more on Google every single year but it's getting harder to rank on Google as well and so it's important to not only just rely on search engine optimization on Google but also to maybe create a Tik Tok account or an Instagram account to funnel viewers to your website so a great example of this would be to create Tik toks about aquariums you don't even have to be on them you can use AI video generators like video gen to create those Tik toks for you showing people how to you know make the best aquariums or or some aquarium tips funneling them to your blog or funneling them to your affiliate links for your affiliate marketing Journey now when you are writing these articles as well what I would recommend doing and this is a very important thing that I didn't mention yet in this video is just embedding your affiliate links inside of these blog articles okay and so when we're talking about essential equipment and supplies what you can do here is just hyperlink some of these so if we click on edit text and we're talking about some of the essential equipment and supplies for a filter right we can link to a filter by just you know adding a link right here and we can put a web address here just like that and we can enter in our affiliate link for a filter for an aquarium so this is exactly how I would recommend doing affiliate marketing it's very subtle but you just include it inside of your articles wherever it seems fit Whenever there is a product that you want to include in your articles now as much as we can lean on AI for generating articles you still should read them and find ways that you can incorporate and include affiliate links inside of those I would recommend having at least three to five different affiliate links embedded throughout every article that you are writing and posting on your site this is going to be how you're going to make money on this site as an affiliate marketer okay so like fish food for example we can link to fish food on Amazon if you have an Amazon Associates account which we have a full video on Amazon affiliate marketing you can link to that right here for fish food and you can just put your your custom Amazon affiliate link right there there and make money whenever someone clicks on that and then buy something on Amazon within the next 24 hours so if you want to learn about some of the best affiliate programs we have videos on that as well I would suggest one of the basic ones is just using Amazon Associates uh which is pretty much any product that's sold on Amazon you can be an affiliate marketer for and you can embed it into your blog articles so that's one that I would recommend other affiliate programs really just go on to any website and go to the bottom of their page and you'll find an affiliate page to become an affiliate for those uh different companies so for example like let's say you are at PetSmart and you want to you know sell a specific product that is being sold on PetSmart they probably have an affiliate program somewhere so just go on to Google let's say like fish or aquarium aquarium affiliate programs and we can find some right here here's like the glass Aqua affiliate program this is for some of their different things that they're selling on here right and so you can become an affiliate for them so that's just one example there but just you know Google is your friend when you're trying to find different affiliate programs for your specific Niche so that's just a tip that I wanted to leave there for you so if you have any questions if you have any issues when you're going through this process of creating your affiliate website feel free to leave the comments Down Below in the comment section I'll try to respond to you if I don't respond to you there you know send me a DM on Instagram I'll try to help you out there as well I can't promise that I'm going to respond to everyone I do my best um sometimes I get a lot of messages and it's hard but I still want to help you out as much as possible on your affiliate marketing Journey just remember you're not going to make a million dollars in the next week it's going to take time I would set a low goal for yourself of maybe say you want to make $500 a month from your affiliate marketing journey in the next six months right and then eventually build up from there it takes years you know for us it took 10 years but we're still making more money every single year from affiliate marketing because we learn a lot about it thanks for watching the video I hope you found some value in it don't forget to to subscribe for more videos like this and I'll see everybody sometime in a future video
TikTok Dropshipping Is Finally Here
so Drop Shipping on Tik Tok shop is finally here like legitimately here and this is a way that combines two very lucrative businesses that a lot of people do Tik Tok shop being one of them one of the fastest growing online businesses and of course Drop Shipping and in the past you couldn't really do them both because Tik Tok has this little terms of service conditions saying you have to have inventory in the service region where you are in order to actually do any kind of Tik Tok shop stuff so until now you just couldn't do it because Drop Shipping would have warehouses all over the world but finally a certain company that I'll show you in this video figured out a way to set this up so that when you're Drop Shipping you actually do have inventory where you're selling it and that way you can do Drop Shipping on Tik Tok shop like I said combining two of the most powerful tools on the internet Drop Shipping something that a lot of people have been doing for a while and has really been evolving a lot and of course one of the fastest emerging online businesses Tik Tok shop allowing you access to a huge huge amount of people who could be potential buyers and reducing that barrier so they don't have to click to go to your store and then make a purchase it's now on Tik Tok shop and with that you can actually have other creators promoting it you can have Affiliates through there there's a lot you can do with Tik Tok shop so with that being said there's a lot to talk about in this video I'm going to keep it as clear and as concise as possible so I recommend you follow along Click by click and at the very least take out a pad of paper take out a pen and take notes throughout this video so the first thing we want to do is set up our Tik Tok shop shop we need to have a Tik Tok shop account that is set up that is verified so to do that I'm going to go to Sandell media.com shop so santal media.com shop hit enter and it'll bring us over to the sellers Center for Tik Tok so you can see it look like this it might look a little different Tik Tok does change this from time to time but we'll see a button on the bottom that says sign up now and that should bring us to a page that looks like this let's enter our email address of course you can also continue with Tik Tok if you have a Tik account and want to set up with that or you can continue with Google if that's easier so you don't have to remember a password but I'll sign up with an email right here and then we'll create a password we'll say continue and that'll bring us over to this page right here now it's going to ask us some questions about our business if you don't have a business setup now that's not a problem at all you can do this as an individual if you have an LLC setup you could set it up as Corporation down here or sole proprietorship depending on how you set have a set up also Partnership if you have a partner uh I'll just go with individual for now we're going to go with individual and for this we have to verify our identity in a minute using our driver's license uh or you know passport or whatever ID you might have you'll also need your social security number and you'll need your address um to make sure that it's actually validated of course if you have a business those documents will be a little bit different you'll need like your EIN for example um of course depending on where you are in the world so let's go with individual we'll say next and from here we can we can verify let's just say with state ID or let's say driver's license so I'm just going to go through all this click next and then we'll meet up after that and then finally that'll bring us to the page where we can choose our shop name so for this I'm just going to make up an arbitrary shop name but choose one that would make sense for you depending on what you think you might want to sell of course keep it kind of generic you don't want to pigeonhole yourself too much it really is just a shop name but we'll just call this santrell santrell um sandrell goods for sale I don't know something like that and we can add a shop logo so I'll say add now we can upload the file here this could be something you make in canva very easily or can make you know just take a photo whatever you want your logo to be you can make this you know I wouldn't think about this too much but just make a quick and easy one then we can choose the primary product so maybe this is going to be like Sporting Goods Sports and Outdoors there we go Sports and Outdoors that's probably what I will be selling in this video um but you can choose you know obviously any category that makes sense then enter your phone number right now you'll need to confirm your information and then that'll bring you to this page here now this is going to take up to 24 hours in my experience it usually take significantly less than that but in the meantime we can get everything else started that's why wanted this to be step number one just so that while this is happening we can then go and do product research and find the product that we want to sell now we can add tax information we'll do that in a minute as well but for now let's go to a new tab so now let's go to a new tab and in this new tab we're going to go to our supplier so if you already have a Shopify store that's great you can totally use that if you wanted a Shopify store I have other videos on how to do that but in this video I'm doing it in the simplest most concise way possible as I mentioned before which is directly linking your supplier to your Tik Tok shop so you don't actually need to use Shopify here if you don't want to there are plenty of benefits to using Shopify you can sell in other places but for this like I said we're doing the simplest one possible so the supplier we will be using I believe is the first one to offer this or at least one of the first few to offer Tik Tok dropshipping and this is Zen drop so we have an affiliate link down below we don't charge for courses there's no information withheld in this video and the way that we make our content for free is through those who just voluntarily use our affiliate links right it costs nothing extra to you helps the channel so we would appreciate it if you use that link and if you want to you just type in sandal media.com sandal media.com zendrop or you can click on the link in the top of the description or you can just copy and paste it over to a new tab now if you go through our link you also get some benefits so kind of a win-win you get rewarded because not only do you get the 7-Day free trial but you also get 50% off for the first three months uh you get $200 in order credits that's there free money that you'll get that you wouldn't get if you didn't go through our affiliate link at the very least kind of helping you get your business off the ground here and a couple other perks like xandr has uh some coaching calls some little master classes and stuff like that just to you know make sure that you understand the platform and it works as well as possible for you so with that being said let's start off by typing in our name our our first name last name and our email address and then I'll click on next so starting off Mike Mike if I could spell my name right that'd be great and then we can enter our credit card information again this is a 7-Day free trial if you decide it's not fore you totally just cancel it super easy to do um so let's enter my credit card right here then click on start free trial and uh it should load might take a second for this to happen but that'll bring us into our dashboard so that brings us to a page that looks something like this now do not click on this we do not want this we want something else so it only works if you do this the right way if on the bottom you click choose another platform we will be clicking on Tik Tok but we can't do that just yet there's two things we need to do before setting up this store to make sure that it actually works well doesn't get blocked doesn't get deactivated by Tik Tok and make sure that we are following all of their terms of service correctly so the first thing we need to do is we need to find a product so if we go to find products there are a lot of options on the left side that help you search for products uh find products is the easiest one to kind of just filter through these so you want to say ships from the US you can look at all categories or maybe specific categories as far as suppliers we could say just zendrop us or Zen drop fulfillment you can look at price range here and all of that uh is you know just another way for you to filter and research and find what products are actually available for you so you can browse through these there are certain things I've talked about in previous videos that will make for better or worse products right you don't want something that has a lot of high returns a lot of liability like you don't want electronics that could break and and injure people obviously that's that's a very bad idea for a product but most of the stuff that's on zendrop right now is pretty well curated uh like body cleanser a belt like pretty basic things that will probably have a very low level of returns uh As Long As You Are marketing it correctly now other than that we also have the ability to browse other products down here with trending products and you can and you can just kind of look at what's trending right now at the very least to get an idea of what kind of products are working and so if we look at these and say Hey you know like this water bottle like we know those bottles are very popular right now maybe this little like uh strap or what do they call this thing carrier a water bottle carrier uh maybe that's something that might be interesting it cost $227 for you and you can maybe sell that for I don't know 105 $20 something like that and you'll get a pretty substantial markup even after accounting for the shipping down here you see the shipping cost is $5.39 in the US so definitely a pretty substantial shipping uh to product cost ratio there you're looking at about $766 so I would want to sell this for really no less than like $15 uh and even that's going to be some pretty tight margins all right this is kind of cool right here some things you might just find interesting to yourself and you have to really kind of differentiate what you think is interesting and what an actual customer might think is interesting sometimes there's a lot of overlap and when that happens that's great it makes it a lot easier for you to Market because you are the customer and you know what the customer wants so something like this you might say okay a lot of people who are interested in music or guitars or uh classic rock um anyone who's like really identifies with like a fender amplifier and think that's a cool thing is going to potentially like this now maybe they'll get that and their spouse will not like it right so you have some risk of return there but for the most part this is is like a fairly cheap product this could be a very easy impulse buy somebody's on Tik Tok late at night they see that and they're like oh that's so sick they order it and then you know who cares they're out like 20 bucks and and they get something that they might end up liking if we scroll down you'll see it's $15 after you account for shipping so again shipping is pretty substantial here as well you can do like a two set here um or just one so you're going to have to sell this for a little bit more I don't know why it say as cheap is $155 I guess that's for the keys only um but if you're selling that for like $30 it's going to be a little tougher as an Impulse buy something like this could sell really well at like you know 20 to $25 so let's kind of keep browsing I'm just going to pick one kind of at random just for demonstrating in this video and something that's cool about this product Library as you're scrolling through you'll notice a lot of them might be products that you recognize so some Brands like Dove for example uh we've got that one we've got Nexcare we have a lot that are like legitimate brands that people know of and so that's going to make it easier to sell as long as again it's going to be a little more competitive then when you start doing you know those type of products things that are not really novel or new or interesting like if you're just selling deodorant people are like you have to compare the price then to your local you know CVS or whatever if you're buying that so something like this if it's $16 for one maybe not everyone's going to be buying that um so I'd rather find something that's a little bit more novel a little bit more interesting and different and unique and easier to sell on an Impulse rather than like an everyday thing that you need that you could otherwise buy at Walmart all right so for the sake of this video I'm going to go with this uh anchor Outlet right here it plugs into your car um it's you know USB type c and USB type a port I could charge a lot faster I think a lot of people are charging with like those little old like 5 watt or three watt Chargers that literally can't even keep up with your phone like it's dying while the map is up whereas this 36 Watts it'll charge your phone you know substantially faster so I think that could be somewhat easier to Market uh cheaper impulse buy most people don't have a good one in their car or at least they don't have one that has two like that um a lot of newer cars do have USB type-c and they have car plan stuff but still there are probably a good amount of people out there uh like myself included who just don't have carplay so that could be something that maybe would be very interesting to them um just to have that faster charging so we're just going to say add to my products and once we have that over in my products you'll see right here my products before we review and publish that we're finally ready to connect our store if we go back to the first tab you'll see we do have our business account set up it was approved it's great I actually also added the tax information you just click on that it's a W9 if you're in the US you type in like you know your information the same stuff again just to make sure that you are taxed complet client uh in your local region so we have that good we have Zen drop we have a product now all we do is connect the two of them and we'll be able to start listing products on Tik Tok shop so if we go to connect my store again do not go with this you don't want to do that you want to click on the bottom choose another platform this is very very important you do that and on the right side we have to go with Tik Tock us we'll say continue and then we want to say I would like to build my own store and then we'll say I have a store connect it so we'll say continue that should open a new tab and as long as you're in the same browser and you signed into Tik Tok and into zen drop it should automatically bring you to this right here and you can just confirm install uh you have to enter your contact email address then read everything say authorize actually check that box then say authorize all right and there we go that brings us back to Zen drop it tells us that it is enabled you can disable the uh constant autof fulfillment if you wanted to but I'm going to leave it enabled for now we'll say got it we can choose our warehouse so now this is the next thing we have to do we have to make sure that we get our warehouse correct so we need to create a Zen drop Warehouse on Tik Tok and then select it from the drop down so let's go back to Tik Tok from here we're going to go up to our account on the top right I'm going to go through this slowly because this is a very very important step we'll go to my account we'll go to account settings then from here click on Warehouse settings now we're going to add a pickup Warehouse we'll say add Warehouse the warehouse name we're going to type in zendrop Warehouse then the contract person then the contact person we will say BL L the warehouse phone number you can just copy this 754 217 5134 just copy that phone number exactly that's what you want just trust me on this this is based on Zen drop's website this is what the warehouse that they want us to add in here so that we are compliant with Tik Tok then for the address you can just copy and paste this right here it's in Miami Florida so you just click on that address again I'll have a link in the description is by the way uh so you can actually see it it's on Tik tok's website all this information um but it's just easier if you if you type it in as I am typing it in right now so once we have all that let's double check it zendrop Warehouse BL that's the phone number we've got the address Miami Florida and then we can say save so we'll say save and now we have that warehouse there we go Warehouse is ready there then we need a return Warehouse we're going to say add warehouse and let's select same as saved Warehouse address that is a zendrop warehouse it's the same as the first one we can say save and now both of our warehouses should be populated make sure both of these are listed there that looks good it says we're reviewing our documents okay actually that's that's from before we already are approved that's not a problem I think we should be good here this looks right now there's more to this now on the left side we want to click on orders and then we want to go down to fulfillment settings and click on shipping and delivery then click on switch option click on seller shipping all right now from here before we click on okay let's click on view templates it should open a new tab and show us this blank page right here on the top we can click on Create and we are going to create a new template we'll say confirm and from here we going to name this zendrop template one we can say Quantity based and then we can scroll down and select maybe free economy free economy shipping right here and maybe the express shipping might be like $3.99 that's that's maybe the shipping that we want to do right here we could also offer express shipping if you wanted to but let's just say those are the options we have I'm going to say submit oh actually we need a warehouse we're going to select our warehouse up there sorry I forgot to do that now let's click on submit we'll say save and now we have have that template saved so now if we go back to that previous tab where we were again sell or shipping is what we want we can say okay we can say okay again and now we are all set and ready to go all right so everything's looking good here let's go back to Zen drop on this tab right here this is where we left off remember so all we have to do now is choose our warehouse and you might need to refresh this page if it doesn't show up but it should show up right there Zen drop Warehouse so click on zendrop Warehouse then we can click on apply all right so now we should be mostly set up you'll see right here create a ship template from Zen drop order fulfillment okay if we click on that we should already have that I don't know why it's prompting us right there um we should have uh a shipping template okay please confirm you created one yes say confirm we have one good okay so let's confirm everything that we have here if we go back to the seller center we have our shipping temp template good we do have our fulfillment through Zen drop uh let's just double check that make sure we have that right so if we go to my account go to account settings go to Warehouse settings yes Z drop house there we got the shipping okay so everything set up correctly on that side and on zendrop side we have our product if we go to my products this one is ready to review and publish we'll say review and publish and we can publish to my store let's publish to the store uh it wants us to choose a collection we can call this collection uh phones and electronics sure we'll just go with that for now say published to my store and we should get a little green button right there a little green icon once it gets published all right so now all we have to do is always wait a couple minutes until this turns green it'll tell us that it is connected right now it just says publishing it may take a couple minutes for this to actually turn green but that's essentially all you need to know to connect your Zen drop here with all the products and you can have multiple products connected to that store as well over to your Tik Tok shop and when you're on Tik Tok shop you can manage everything over here you can see your orders uh you can see products all of that will be populating uh once we have that connected once this actually goes published once this actually gets published and uh from there you're able to run some ads you're able to make content on Tik Tok and tag the product uh you're able to search for that product and find it and find your store and uh you know really just go from there so I recommend next you watch my video my video on Tik Tok ads so if you search for Tik Tok ads sandal media on YouTube You'll see this one right here actually I'm working on a newer one so there may be even a newer one than this I recommend watching that one next so you can start promoting uh promoting the product that you now have listed on Tik Tok shop so if you enjoyed this video consider subscribing and I'll see you over in that next video
5 Best Email Marketing Platforms for 2025
in this video I'm going to share five email marketing platforms that you can use in 2025 so each one of these five different platforms are going to have different benefits or different use cases depending on the type of business that you are running so uh we're going to go ahead and get into this video but let me just say that email marketing has some of the best Roi in the game now if you look at different types of marketing email marketing can be extremely cost effective yet most people don't use it at all or if they do use it they're underutilizing it and they're not using it properly and so I really would urge anyone who is running a business to use email marketing because you own your distribution you own your audience your followers your repeat customers you can reach out to them very easily like that and so let's go ahead and talk about these five different platforms the first one is going to be the best email marketing platform for e-commerce which is omniscent now omnisend we like this platform for a number of reasons we personally use it ourselves but this is arguably the best platform for e-commerce because of the different features that they have available for example let's say that you are running a store on Shopify or you're using woocommerce and you want to send out emails to your potential customers or already existing customers on omniscent they already have templates available for you and they kind of hold your hand through this process of creating different designs for sending out emails um you can have automatic coupons for reaching your customers and I think most importantly if you're you're running a business you want to be able to track how well your email marketing is converting for your products right and so that's one of the best features of omnisend is that you can actually look at how those emails are affecting your sales and you can see which ones are driving the sales you can track all of that inside of omnisend so that is something that is really incredible now let's just look at pricing as well because that is very important for a lot of people and it turns out that omnisend pricing is very reasonable so they even have a free plan for people who are just getting started so if you have 500 contacts on your email list you can send 6,000 emails a month all for just $16 a month which is extremely reasonable so this is a really great platform especially for people who are running e-commerce marketing they have SMS marketing as well so if you want to send text messages directly to your customers or potential customers who land on your page you can do that very easily and so all you have to do on this I'll leave a link to it down below we also have a full tutorial showing you how to use omnisend so that you know don't get confused on any of the steps there but building your list automating the process sending campaigns it's super important and it's something that you can set up uh pretty easily today with omnis I will leave a link to them down below if you're using some other email marketing platform that you're not happy with you can also migrate to omnisend and they help you out with this process so let's say that you're using MailChimp they have a full page dedicated to helping you migrate from one of these other platforms over to omnisense so I'll leave a link to them down below if you want to get started with that and also the tutorial on omnisend to help you out and just one more thing you know this is great for e-commerce people who are selling products like on Shopify or on woocommerce it plugs directly into those platforms but also if you're just running like a service business or some other type of business and you're not selling e-commerce products it's still very useful it's really great for all business owners okay so let's talk about another email marketing platform and that is Constant Contact now constant contact deserves a spot on this list because it's been around since 1995 that's about 30 30 years in business of email marketing so because they've been around for such a long time they're kind of like this just grandfathered into it where they really do provide a great service I would say that the best features of Constant Contact or kind of what sets them apart from some of the others is that you have this ability to do social media marketing on Constant Contact so let's say that you are posting on Instagram and on Facebook and on Tik Tok if you connect your accounts you can actually schedule content to go live on these different platforms using constant content that's in addition to email marketing and SMS marketing and you know a variety of other products that they have inside of Constant Contact let's just take a look at pricing real quick cuz I know that is important for a lot of people it generally does end up getting a little bit more expensive than something like omnisend so you could end up spending you know $80 a month for the Premium plan so that's up to you if that's something that you would want to spend some money on but I will also leave a link to it down below in the description it's very reliable it's kind of like Old Reliable we used to use contstant contact we don't use it anymore but I can still vouch for it and say that it's a pretty good platform to use okay now let's talk about the next one uh which is going to be very specific for people who are looking to connect with their followers or users but maybe not necessarily selling them something every day and so that's going to be beehive now this beehive is the best platform for people who are looking to run something more of like an email newsletter which is still constitutes as email marketing and the thing I like about beehive is that they seemingly have new features rolling out like every week I see the founder on Twitter posting that they just launched new features like I swear it's every single week there's something new that comes out but beehive a lot of your favorite newsletters that you read whether this is like morning Brew or we actually have a newsletter called the neural Frontier that's all about Ai and we run that on beehive where it's just coming out every week people are reading it for their news and honestly I think most newsletters that you read that come out on email are actually probably run on beehive it's a very fast growing company and they also an ad Network inside of there so like if you are running a newsletter you can put ads directly into your newsletter into your emails and make money inside of beehives platform I know we have made a good amount of money from that yeah it's it's overall just a great company we've been using them for a pretty long time for our newsletters and also pricing is very affordable as well if you have a lot of subscribers like if you have 50,000 people on your beehive email newsletter you're paying about between $200 and $300 a month which could be expensive but for the amount of people on there and having the ability to send you know hundreds of emails if you would like to it's probably worth it for you so I'll leave a link to them down below as well okay let's talk about another one that I think is really great for pricing especially and that is mend so as you can see on moen's website they have a lot of different features not only do they have email marketing but they also have these AI features and marketing Automation and then also tracking lots of reporting and analytics inside of their dashboard as well so if we just click on marketing animation it show you kind of some of the things that they have here available for us but if you want to set things on autopilot right like say user onboarding or like abandoned cart right and also by the way Amin does have most of these as well but like if you have an abandoned cart then you know say like a user adds something to the cart you can have its whole process where it waits today and then if they haven't purchased you can have an automatic email that gets sent out to that person that says you know I noticed that you left something in the card and then tries to convince them to go and buy it so you know you can have all these different things on here when you're using mend it's not really my favorite platform I just think it's not as smooth as something like omnisend um but it is still one that I think is worth looking into and the pricing is also pretty attractive as well so like if you have say like between a th000 and 2,000 people on there it's about $15 a month for using moose end but there are some hidden costs in there as well so like if you want to send out more emails you're going to end up paying more for that when you're using something like moose head so overall it's it's a pretty good platform it's not my absolute favorite but it is one that's helpful and they do have a lot of resources on their site as well to help you through the process of setting up your email campaign now now I was talking about the last one here which is called brevo now brevo is I would say probably best for people who are sending infrequent emails and that's because they generally don't charge you to just maintain like an email list I know for the longest time I was using MailChimp and MailChimp was charging me a lot of money like hundreds of dollars a month just for having an email list even though I wasn't sending emails out so that was kind of a ripoff and that's why I think brev which used to be called send and blue is a pretty great platform and we have used this in the past as well so I can vouch for it personally but whether you're doing marketing or you're trying to sell products it's pretty great and overall very low cost for the amount of features that are available for it so if you want to do like WhatsApp marketing you can do that on brevo if you want to have like set up sales pipelines as well they even have like some CRM features that are available inside of brevo so you can kind of use this more of like an all-in-one business platform outside of just email marketing which is why I think it deserves a spot on this list so those are the five different email marketing platforms that you should check out going into 2025 let me know if you have questions specifically about each one of them we've used all of them in the past so thanks for watching the video and I'll see everybody sometime in the future
5 Best Email Marketing Platforms for 2025
in this video I'm going to share five email marketing platforms that you can use in 2025 so each one of these five different platforms are going to have different benefits or different use cases depending on the type of business that you are running so uh we're going to go ahead and get into this video but let me just say that email marketing has some of the best Roi in the game now if you look at different types of marketing email marketing can be extremely cost effective yet most people don't use it at all or if they do use it they're underutilizing it and they're not using it properly and so I really would urge anyone who is running a business to use email marketing because you own your distribution you own your audience your followers your repeat customers you can reach out to them very easily like that and so let's go ahead and talk about these five different platforms the first one is going to be the best email marketing platform for e-commerce which is omniscent now omnisend we like this platform for a number of reasons we personally use it ourselves but this is arguably the best platform for e-commerce because of the different features that they have available for example let's say that you are running a store on Shopify or you're using woocommerce and you want to send out emails to your potential customers or already existing customers on omniscent they already have templates available for you and they kind of hold your hand through this process of creating different designs for sending out emails um you can have automatic coupons for reaching your customers and I think most importantly if you're you're running a business you want to be able to track how well your email marketing is converting for your products right and so that's one of the best features of omnisend is that you can actually look at how those emails are affecting your sales and you can see which ones are driving the sales you can track all of that inside of omnisend so that is something that is really incredible now let's just look at pricing as well because that is very important for a lot of people and it turns out that omnisend pricing is very reasonable so they even have a free plan for people who are just getting started so if you have 500 contacts on your email list you can send 6,000 emails a month all for just $16 a month which is extremely reasonable so this is a really great platform especially for people who are running e-commerce marketing they have SMS marketing as well so if you want to send text messages directly to your customers or potential customers who land on your page you can do that very easily and so all you have to do on this I'll leave a link to it down below we also have a full tutorial showing you how to use omnisend so that you know don't get confused on any of the steps there but building your list automating the process sending campaigns it's super important and it's something that you can set up uh pretty easily today with omnis I will leave a link to them down below if you're using some other email marketing platform that you're not happy with you can also migrate to omnisend and they help you out with this process so let's say that you're using MailChimp they have a full page dedicated to helping you migrate from one of these other platforms over to omnisense so I'll leave a link to them down below if you want to get started with that and also the tutorial on omnisend to help you out and just one more thing you know this is great for e-commerce people who are selling products like on Shopify or on woocommerce it plugs directly into those platforms but also if you're just running like a service business or some other type of business and you're not selling e-commerce products it's still very useful it's really great for all business owners okay so let's talk about another email marketing platform and that is Constant Contact now constant contact deserves a spot on this list because it's been around since 1995 that's about 30 30 years in business of email marketing so because they've been around for such a long time they're kind of like this just grandfathered into it where they really do provide a great service I would say that the best features of Constant Contact or kind of what sets them apart from some of the others is that you have this ability to do social media marketing on Constant Contact so let's say that you are posting on Instagram and on Facebook and on Tik Tok if you connect your accounts you can actually schedule content to go live on these different platforms using constant content that's in addition to email marketing and SMS marketing and you know a variety of other products that they have inside of Constant Contact let's just take a look at pricing real quick cuz I know that is important for a lot of people it generally does end up getting a little bit more expensive than something like omnisend so you could end up spending you know $80 a month for the Premium plan so that's up to you if that's something that you would want to spend some money on but I will also leave a link to it down below in the description it's very reliable it's kind of like Old Reliable we used to use contstant contact we don't use it anymore but I can still vouch for it and say that it's a pretty good platform to use okay now let's talk about the next one uh which is going to be very specific for people who are looking to connect with their followers or users but maybe not necessarily selling them something every day and so that's going to be beehive now this beehive is the best platform for people who are looking to run something more of like an email newsletter which is still constitutes as email marketing and the thing I like about beehive is that they seemingly have new features rolling out like every week I see the founder on Twitter posting that they just launched new features like I swear it's every single week there's something new that comes out but beehive a lot of your favorite newsletters that you read whether this is like morning Brew or we actually have a newsletter called the neural Frontier that's all about Ai and we run that on beehive where it's just coming out every week people are reading it for their news and honestly I think most newsletters that you read that come out on email are actually probably run on beehive it's a very fast growing company and they also an ad Network inside of there so like if you are running a newsletter you can put ads directly into your newsletter into your emails and make money inside of beehives platform I know we have made a good amount of money from that yeah it's it's overall just a great company we've been using them for a pretty long time for our newsletters and also pricing is very affordable as well if you have a lot of subscribers like if you have 50,000 people on your beehive email newsletter you're paying about between $200 and $300 a month which could be expensive but for the amount of people on there and having the ability to send you know hundreds of emails if you would like to it's probably worth it for you so I'll leave a link to them down below as well okay let's talk about another one that I think is really great for pricing especially and that is mend so as you can see on moen's website they have a lot of different features not only do they have email marketing but they also have these AI features and marketing Automation and then also tracking lots of reporting and analytics inside of their dashboard as well so if we just click on marketing animation it show you kind of some of the things that they have here available for us but if you want to set things on autopilot right like say user onboarding or like abandoned cart right and also by the way Amin does have most of these as well but like if you have an abandoned cart then you know say like a user adds something to the cart you can have its whole process where it waits today and then if they haven't purchased you can have an automatic email that gets sent out to that person that says you know I noticed that you left something in the card and then tries to convince them to go and buy it so you know you can have all these different things on here when you're using mend it's not really my favorite platform I just think it's not as smooth as something like omnisend um but it is still one that I think is worth looking into and the pricing is also pretty attractive as well so like if you have say like between a th000 and 2,000 people on there it's about $15 a month for using moose end but there are some hidden costs in there as well so like if you want to send out more emails you're going to end up paying more for that when you're using something like moose head so overall it's it's a pretty good platform it's not my absolute favorite but it is one that's helpful and they do have a lot of resources on their site as well to help you through the process of setting up your email campaign now now I was talking about the last one here which is called brevo now brevo is I would say probably best for people who are sending infrequent emails and that's because they generally don't charge you to just maintain like an email list I know for the longest time I was using MailChimp and MailChimp was charging me a lot of money like hundreds of dollars a month just for having an email list even though I wasn't sending emails out so that was kind of a ripoff and that's why I think brev which used to be called send and blue is a pretty great platform and we have used this in the past as well so I can vouch for it personally but whether you're doing marketing or you're trying to sell products it's pretty great and overall very low cost for the amount of features that are available for it so if you want to do like WhatsApp marketing you can do that on brevo if you want to have like set up sales pipelines as well they even have like some CRM features that are available inside of brevo so you can kind of use this more of like an all-in-one business platform outside of just email marketing which is why I think it deserves a spot on this list so those are the five different email marketing platforms that you should check out going into 2025 let me know if you have questions specifically about each one of them we've used all of them in the past so thanks for watching the video and I'll see everybody sometime in the future