Make $40,202 Per Month Selling Mugs With A.I.
This is the business model that allowed me to make my first $100k online, and since a lot has chanced since I made a similar video 9 months ago, I wanted to update you on the best strategies to grow a mug business in 2024. Enjoy!
How I Built My 7-Figure Shops ⌲ sixfigurestorefront.com
My Website (ALL LINKS) ⌲ aleksheffield.com
Product Uploader: www.sixfigurestorefront.com/d...
9 Minute Quick-Start Guide: www.sixfigurestorefront.com/q...
🫰 Try Printify: try.printify.com/alek
🤖 Discord Community: bit.ly/3nQgnEx
📷 Instagram: bit.ly/41v37CN
🔍 Research Tool Alura: www.alura.io/?via=alek
Please Note that the revenue and profit estimates in this video are just estimates by the Alura tool and myself (even tho my own mug business pulls similar numbers), and there may be inaccuracies.
If you have any questions or comments, leave them down below!
0:00 - Intro
1:10 - How it Works
1:56 - Process Overview
3:25 - How Much Money Can be Made (Profit)
4:10 - The 4 Components
4:27 - Open Shop in 60 Seconds
4:57 - Find Designs That SELL (Market Research)
05:13 - Design Strategy #1
8:30 - Design Strategy #2
10:07 - Design Strategy #3
12:36 - Design Strategy #4
15:40 - FREE Bonus #1
17:15 - FREE Bonus #2
17:40 - Marketing Strategies
18:25 - Free Bonus #3
Doing 1 jumping jack on the mars for every like this video gets 🙏
Are custom items the main way to successed on Etsy? Or can you without doing custom items?
This could be a good way to fund the trip! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Hey Alek, I love all these great videos you make but your making me want to switch my product all the time haha. Right now I’m doing Etsy images but eventually I will go into mugs and shirts once j have mastered this market
Would really like a video addressing how you manage the suspension issue, and why you think they suspend accounts?
I'm also interesting in this issue! Look forward to see your advice!
Thank you! This was helpful… thanks for sharing your experience.
This is a very solid and on point video I’ve seen in ages
No its an absolute lie, selling you false hopes in one of the most over saturated, low ticket niches around.
Thank you so much for another informative video. I would love a video tutorial going through creating designs in Midjourney. Thanks!
so much value here, Thanks
Very charitable of you to share, hope you keep doing well, awesome to see.
YYYAAAASSS!! Midjourney prompt videos!!!!🤞🙏❤
Dude you’re awesome!! Thanks for the refresher course
No he is BS false hope peddling charlatan.
Hi Alek, please do a full video on using Mid Journey for POD. Thank you in advance for all your amazing videos. They've helped me a lot.
Thank you as always for sharing your knowledge with us! Quick question - My mid journey prompt box STILL says “coming soon”. Any idea when they will be releasing to to others? TIA😊
Thank you Alek! Please do a full video on making designs in Midjourney
Awesome video! Thank you for the content! Is mid journey copyright free?
Great video! Learned a lot.
Yes!!!! Midjourney video guide for mugs etc would be GREAT!!!
"Stay dangerous!" That's the best advice of 2024 so far. 👍
Hi Alex thank you for such informative video. May you please go more indept on how to build out a customization store please? Thank you in advance.
I subscribed about week ago and I followed your 'quick start' guide and got my shop created and linked to Printify. I SOOOO need a tutorial guide on Midjourney design creation, proper staging and then product description so that I can use your bulk uploader and actually get the shop up and running. Your content is amazing, I just need more nuts and bolts.
Did you buy his (Alex) quick start? I couldn't find it
No it was offered for free in his video@@figo007tv
I say just get the shop up and running now. You can use his bulk uploader after. Put a few products in manually for now, you can perfect things later
Hey xan you give me like just 10 steps how you got started like first. Like step 1 do this, I het a bit overwhelmed. If you're not to busy... did you start with getting Printify and such? Is what I mean
Really great advice, thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
Didn't know where to start.This video was excellent & going to be looking at the rest of yours! Have a Great Year!
Great vlog as usual Alek. I would love to see more Midjourny content.
would love to see more videos on prompts, with some tips.
What you do is amazing and so kind. I'm excited to get started!
hey brotha love the content its helped a lot. can you do a video about the post order process? like what happens when someone orders something and how to make sure its fullfilled on both etsy and printify correctly including shipping settings and whatnot? Also, how custom products are completed after an order is sent in and how to edit the product on the printify side after. sorry if you have done a video like this before i just havent seen one anywhere from anyone or just didnt find it. thanks again for the help and content!
Alek thanks for sharing.
Alek, You sir, are what the internet needs more of. Thank you. 🙇♂️ Would love to see a mini series of vids on you working with a newbie and their new shop (mentor type thing) and giving feedback on how the newbie implements your ideas. Kind of looking over their shoulder type relationship so the internet sees what unforeseen issues a newbie runs into. Vids for example could be a weekly or bimonthly 10~15 min chat with the person discussing what they did right, did wrong, what's to next, etc... Thank you again. 👍
Really the internet needs more shitty AI art?
The internet needs more false hope peddling lairs, telling you waste countless hours in the most over saturated, low ticket hustles around. Lets see, meet back here week to week month to month. I absolutely know with 100% certainty none of you will get more than 5 sales in 6 months. And its so much work doing all these designs (That are that same trash products that 10000000000000000000000000000000 other people are also doing) Let's see. You will see I am 100% correct and this is weasel POS charlatan selling people false hopes while he farms you all for clicks and views. A
My three favorite channels: Alek, Stock Brotha, & How Money Works. Make my week complete! 🔥 🔥 🔥
i like how money works its not like all these other finfluencers
Lol 😂 copy paste
Do you do images for both sides of the mug when not doing wrap around design? Are there any fonts/font packs that you would recommend for beginning designers?
Wow! Fantastic information! Question - would you mind creating a demo and/or clarifying how customization and POD work in more detail? Would that customized order be created manually by myself for the customer? Or...? I'm not sure I understand. Thank u!
Hi Alek, thank you for this wonderful video. what was the prompt to create the clip art of bear?
Just found your channel & was interested in getting into this "passive" income ecomm. I work 60+ hrs a week so I was just looking for another stream of income. My only hesistation with doing ai work on etsy is all the underlying fees & the legal aspects which seem to not get talked about a lot from all these gurus that make it seem so easy. Are there any realistic guided videos for a beginner like myself?
Yesssss! Please do a mid journey video!!!!
Wow! I just binge-watched this series. Awesome - thanks for the transparency! Still planning to start a shop on Etsy tomorrow - I've marked myself "unavailable" all day so I can get all the first steps (Etsy shop, Printify account, etc) all set up and get 30 designs loaded.
You will see he is talking utter BS, you will know he is when you waste so much time creating so many listings for 3 -5 sales over 6 months.
God bless you Alek, thanks for sharing this wonderful information. I am desperately seeking a change in my life and looking at ways to where I can have a good work-life balance. much love man and keep up the good work
Dude don't be fooled this is absolutely not a way out, this guy is absolute charlatan, I been down this road selling 100's a month + 100 of T-shirt sales they are such low ticket for the amount of effort you put in, you will have to sell ridiculous amounts to get anywhere close to changing your life with this. This area is so fkn saturated with others who thought of this long before this video, and even those that sell 1000's a month are still not making enough to change their life. at around $2 - $4 dollars per sale do you realise how many you need to sell in a completely red ocean over saturated market. Don't take this wrong way I am trying to help you. Don't get your hopes up and waste your time.
@@RoniBliss I appreciate all you have to say, but honestly I will try just about anything to make a change in my life. and if this works out, great. if it doesn’t, great, I’ll just go to the next thing. but thank you anyways
Hi Alek! I’m in my fifties, single income lady, looking to starting my own POD shop for financial security. Currently in healthcare but it’s expensive to keep paying for professional dues, CEUs, and books for my job. I’ve decided to start investing more into myself than I do in organizations that aren’t all that beneficial for getting me to my goals. Recently found your channel and sub’d. Looking forward to purchasing your course. Thank you for being open and transparent. Most ppl I’ve watched focus on how successful they are without really being honest about the time it takes nor give helpful information. I’m now binging your videos and taking notes. Appreciate you so much!
Make sure you give your shop lots of time to develop. Be patient with it. I started my first Etsy shop as a side hustle but now Etsy is my full time income. I just helped my mom open an Etsy store to supplement her income now that my dad passed away too. It’s totally doable. I wish you the best of luck!
@@alexisidorou4334 Thanks for the encouragement!
Hi. Thanks for your videos, always very very interesting I wanted to know if I make a new shop with customs products can I mix it with pre-made products Or is it not advised? Thanks again you are of a. Great help
Wow, talking about giving value! Thanks so much, Alek.
Love your videos, thank you! Yes please a tutorial on how to generate those type of images would be great... if you could use the the free-tear of Leonardo or other free AI image generators it would be even better. Thanks heaps in advance
Thank you for this video and your linked guide. I've been looking to jump into selling on Etsy for quite some time and this is helpful. FYI, your guide has an error which makes things a bit confusing where you say: "Doing this would could get your shop temporally shut shown" Obviously the sentence is not correct English and I'm not quite sure what you are referring to as you don't specify what it is that could get our shop shut down. If you could clarify that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I have a question. But first - thank you. Great information as always. I sometimes struggle with small technical issues. Thanks for the wrap dimentions. However, I have many designs that are sayings that get printed on both sides of the mug. Is there a standard display area for the front and back of mugs that leaves some blank space in the middle (opposite the handle) and a prompt that tells the AI to print it on the right of the handle and on the left of the handle on the mug surface?
Alek if you were to start today on Etsy selling what would you start with? I have watched your videos that say start with one product. Thanks Julie
please do a full video on Midjourney thank you so much!
Excellent video!!!! I love this channel !Alek why can't I download the uploaded in windows? He tells me it's not safe and won't let me see it. There has to be some way... Thanks!!!!
great video Alek thank you - can explain in more detail how the custom products work - after the customer makes the purchase and includes their custom info how do I get that info printed for them or is it done automatically?
hey Alek great video, what was the prompt for the bear, giraffe and the fox?
Hi 👋 Alek, love your videos! Please do a full comprehensive video on Mid Journey. Thank you
full video on how to make designs on Midjourney please! Do it also in a free platform please
Hi Alex, thanks for sharing this, also I have one question, do you have good alternative for Etsy as it doesn't work with my country? Where can I sell these?
This is an amazingly information dense video for being free, much appreciated
How to get to Midjourney Alpha? I can't get to it. I dont like going through Discord if possible. Also, how many listings can I add at the Etsy store? Thanx
Hi, is there an upfront fee once a customer order in Etsy? For example, do you have to pay fees, prior to shipping to customer, and any hold of funds prior to delivery and after delivery
Thanks for this inspiring video! I've created my Etsy shop and connected it to Printify but I'm not seeing how to actually use that part. Do you have any videos detailing this part of the process? Thanks again!
How many have you sold? I can bet with 99.999% certainty its not more than 3. Nobody here will get more than 5-10 nsales in 6 months and you will realise this guy is a false hope peddling charlatan, telling everybody to chase a few dollar ultra low ticket, ULTRA over saturated market, saturated with trash AI designs, while you sit on page 100000 of search wondering what you re doing wrong, while this snake farms you all for clicks and likes, you think he has a 1 dollar profit mug store making,000+ a month yeah suuuuuuuure! No he has a KZhead channel where he farms BS and makes money from your clocks and likes.
Love Love Love this video! Thank you SO much, Alek! And PLEASE!! More help with Midjourney's prompts!!! I really appreciate you and your helpful nature!
Great info and you're nice to look at :-) Have you any idea why Etsy keeps shutting down my digital art (first a download then POD)?
Sorry, I've got to ask, how does the Personalized work with Printify? can you set it up so that it will add the photo and text? or is it something that I have to do yourself
good form. thanks.
The listing process on Etsy is what I find takes the longest. Even using your uploader , (thank you !) not every listing can have the same keywords , titles and descriptions. Can you make a video about this? 🙏
If you choose to do the customized option for mug designs, do you have to manually edit all the designs yourself, or is this process automated in some way?
bro do you have completely separate shops by type of products or niche? like in your mug shop its just mugs that's it absolutely nothing else gets in the mix?
Hello, I enjoyed your video, thank you.. However, i observed something about your product downloader...before i can complete the sign up process, it ask that i accept your terms and conditions.But the T&C isn't available for me to read. Is that a glitch or done on purpose?
Alek, another awesome video. Question: How can we type in ratios if we don't have access to Midjourney Alpha yet? (I'm at 225 images and it says it needs 1000) Can you type it into Discord instead of the web? And what about other things besides a mug?
Hello Alek, the poduct uploader works only with PRINTIFY? And could you make more bulk design videos and maybe a video how to use mockuop createor if you sell other products, like tumblers, not mugs and tshirts
honestly, thank you so much for these videos, POD/E-commerce seems like a great option for increasing my income and not having it confined to 1 country and you've really done well to explain all the steps and more importantly give us the facts debunking the get rich quick schemes that are so prevalent in this space.
I honestly feel so sorry for you, you are about to waste so much time for nothing all because of this snakes BS
thank you Alek but how can be used the Figma mockuping for Mugs? if they are not Flat designs?
Hi. Your uploader is amazing! I was trying to upsaYl too large file size so i upscaled through Imagine Ai. Thank you. What Upscaler do you prefer?
I used the one right inside of MidJourney
Sweet!!
It is really interesting that the mug didn't sell for over a year then took off. Puts a bit of perspective to the advice that if it doesnt sell in 2 renewal terms remove it! Thank you so much for great videos.
Hey Alek, could you do a video about avoiding scammers when setting up Etsy shops? I was just scammed hundreds of $ by scammers pretending to be ETSY needing to verifying my account just as I freshly started my Etsy store … within mins/first hours of setting up my store.
Alex can you do a video just about marketing
Thanks for letting us know how to make money. I’m going to look into doing this. More people like you should let more people know how to make money from businesses. I thank you sir!
Did you do It?
Alek, do you know of a way to determine if ads are driving the sales?
Thanks bro just I have one problem witch is etsy don't except some country like Algeria so do you have a solution for this
Alek, would mugs be the absolute best place to start for beginners to Etsy and POD?
Do you recommend providing free shipping? Etsy shipping fees can weird depending on weight/size, so I've just opted for free shipping, ONLY shipping to the US. Makes everything very quick to post and I can focus on the quality of the product. Thoughts? Do you think customers would more likely shy away from a bigger price (shipping included in total price so that I can list for free)? Or do you think that they would be intrigued by free shipping & product display?
Midjourney video guide would be GREAT.
So with Design strategy #4 (custom art and text), is there any way to automate that or will it all have to be done manually? Asking for efficiencies sake.
This is a God Send. My career is ending due to health, and starting something new is a bit overwhelming. (the idea of sitting around doing nothing is insane to me) THANK YOU SO MUCH for showing us newbies how it's done. Having fun and learning AI techniques is a plus. THANK YOU Alek !
Isn't there a LOT more involved if you personalize it? Don't you have to add the customizations in Canva first, then go over to Prinitfy and upload the image to the mug, then create the order for the customer?
Thanks for another great video and some much needed information. A little while after watching your previous video on this topic I started my own Etsy store selling mugs (through Printify). Admittedly, I only have 52 mug designs so far, but I've still not made a single sale, lots of views but that 's it. I don't have a budget for marketing, I do have a Placeit account and I do use AI for my designs. However, I do feel I am missing something, so the question is "Am I missing something?".
It sounds like you're missing a lot of listings. 54 isn't enough unless you're paying a decent amount in ad spend.
Great dude so your 50+ shitty AI images aren't selling. Want a hint? The market is saturated with this AI crap. People like you are making it hellish for real creatives. People probably aren't buying your stuff because it looks uncanny and it's soulless.
@@alekSheffy Is there an average quantity you recommend starting out with for mug designs?
50 mug designs isn’t enough? If no one’s buying one out of 50 then wtf
@@alekSheffy 54 tacky stolen pieces of art not enough? I noticed all the comments I've left about how unthetical this technology is have all been deleted. You realize in some areas is 9/10ths AI art on etsy right? The reason no one is buying your stuff is that the market is saturated already
literally sat on my computer now having just opened my first etsy store.... ooo the excitment
Have you had any luck selling? I just stumbled upon this video, and having design background it got me excited to try!
Hi.. can I ask what is the font you use on the I'm retired.. I see it a lot but cant find what it is.. Thanking you T
Nice video, everything is easy, but etsy doesn't support my country. What do you suggest now?
When people purchase your mugs, do you have to pay Printify before you are getting paid by Etsy?
Midjourney prompt videos please's thank for the video and tips
Hey Alek. Love your work. I'm trying to find the video of digital downloads. Probably the first 1 I watched, but it's eluding me. You got free pics and made them a bit clearer then upsized. Just minimal landscape or is that all been replaced with midjourney now. I find it unusual you would take it down, but can't find it anywhere? Thanks
I haven't taken any videos down, so whichever one you're thinking of is still there
I’ve been doing a lot of research. My problem, and it’s a very, very big problem, Is that the print on demand companies charge an arm and a leg for their products. The products cost way more than things people can purchase on Amazon and also the shipping time is way longer. How can this business model be competitive?
In design 4. How does Printify know to not print the Your Photo Here? When you add personalization do you need to do something manually in Printify?
PLEASE do create a video tutorial for Mid Journey!
DO it, Midjourney prompt guid would be great..
I'm new here 🎉thanks for this great inf 🎉you are the best
So when you said making multiple listings for the SEO, are you saying to make duplicates of the same listing in order to push the algorithm? 18:26
I'm new to Midjourney, How do I get the UI that you have for making images? It looks like you aren't using discord.
So how do you actually get your designed mugs able to be shipped and ordered, would you have to find a manufacturer and if so what would be the best way to go about that?
WOW. My head is spinning. Is one required to have a business (sole propieter/LLC) if following your tips?
Midjourney prompt videos!!!!🤞🙏❤
$574/day =$40k/month?.....that math ain't mathin
😂😂😂😂
Should a etsy store stick to 1 niche? Should I make a seprate etsy store for each if I want to sell mugs, shirts, art?
@alek what is the midjourney site you're using?
What extension are you using to check the sales of the products?
For some reason my windows laptops only saves my mid journey images as a wb something file, there are no png or other options to save as. Any advice for this?
You make it sound so easy Thanks for making this