If I was going to start a brand selling t-shirts, I would not just go and get some designs drawn up, go order a thousand units from China and send them to Amazon and hope they start selling.

I would test my designs with print on demand.

And then if my design sells, then I would bulk produce it at a much cheaper cost, put it up on my website. Put it up on Amazon wherever.

And then sell it because I've proven that the design sells before investing in a large

quantity.

What's up guys?

You're listening to another episode of Selling on Amazon with Andy Isam.

In this episode, we're going to talk about testing designs with print on demand before launching on Amazon.

This is a strategy that can work really well for you if you are selling a design-based product.

Now, the initial types of products that come to mind are textile products. So think about

a clothing, apparel, clothing, I don't know, bedding, towels, blankets, anything where you're

printing a design on a product. And again, it doesn't have to be a textile product, but those are probably the most

common products when we're thinking about doing this and testing with print on demand. But here's the

reason why I think print on demand is a great way to test your products, to test your designs,

I should say, before mass producing them to sell on Amazon. The clothing,

apparel, design niche, and again, this covers all sorts of cross niches like we're talking

about home decor, we're talking about clothing and apparel. So there's like, you know,

some crossover with all that kind of stuff. But we're just talking textile design-based

products.

It's very competitive. In most of those categories and most of those sub-nishes, it's very

competitive. Design plays a huge factor in the success of a product. And we've seen this

actually happen with our own products. We have some designs that sell

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