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The Side Hustle Show

520: Building a $15K/Month Print on Demand Business on Etsy

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

How To, Entrepreneurship, Business, Education

4.71.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

With her hours cut due to the pandemic and a new house to pay for, this week’s guest set out an action plan to make 6-figures in 2021. To achieve that, Heather Johnson of HeatherXStudio.com decided to start an Etsy store selling print-on-demand goods like t-shirts, mugs, and other apparel and items. Fast forward two years and Heather is now a former MRI tech who’s taken her print-on-demand side hustle full-time and is averaging $15k a month in revenue and $4-5k in monthly profit. How’d she do it? By following the trends with her own unique spin, putting 100s of products up for sale, and implementing some savvy marketing strategies you can apply in your own business. Tune in to The Side Hustle Show interview to hear: why and how Heather created a “high-volume listing store” how she evaluates competition and finds new creative ideas heather’s best practices for maximum organic exposure on Etsy Full Show Notes: Building a Print on Demand Business on Etsy Download Your Free Bonus: 100 Print on Demand Niches Get Your Personalized Side Hustle Show Playlist

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up? What's up, Nick? Oh, Loper here. Welcome to the side hustle show because it's

0:04.8

hard for people to buy from you if you don't have anything for sale. Today, you'll meet

0:09.0

the former MRI tech who's taken her print on demand side hustle full time lately averaging

0:14.8

15 grand a month in revenue and four to five thousand dollars in monthly profit. How'd

0:19.5

she do it by following the trends with her own unique spin, putting hundreds of products

0:24.0

up for sale and some savvy marketing strategies. I think you can apply in your own business.

0:29.2

You can follow along with Heather Johnson on YouTube or at HeatherXStudio.com, a couple

0:34.3

housekeeping items before we get into it. First, the service she's using or one of the services

0:39.3

she's using to fulfill these print on demand orders through Etsy is called printify sidehustlenation.com

0:45.8

slash printify is my referral link. So you can check out the full catalog of products

0:50.2

there. And second, if you'd like to give this business model a shot, I put together

0:54.2

a list of 50 print on demand niches to spark some inspiration for you. You can download

0:59.1

that resource for free at side hustle nation dot com slash Heather. Once again, for the

1:04.4

full show notes for this episode, plus that free list of print on demand niches just

1:09.1

head over to side hustle nation dot com slash Heather or follow the link in the episode description

1:14.0

of your podcast app. Now, Heather actually started her print on demand business early

1:18.2

in the pandemic when her work hours got cut back, but eventually put her shop on pause.

1:23.8

And in the late 2020 and early 2021, she got serious about growing her side hustle. And

1:29.8

that's where our conversation starts. Ready? Let's do it.

1:37.0

It was halfway through December. I started recreating designs. And then January, I started

1:42.4

posting designs. I told myself, and I remember I actually wrote down a piece paper. I was

1:47.5

like action plan to make six figures in 2021. But I wrote in that notebook, you know, post

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