I have been seeing so many videos talking about the laziest side hustles or the laziest businesses to start in 2024 and although I can't really see any business being completely lazy if you want to be successful there are definitely business ideas that you can start that require less time and effort or that you could do from the comfort of your own couch for this video I signed up for what I believe to be amongst the laziest ways to make money online and in this video I'm going to be showing you a fully packed video of
information on how you can also start this side hustle now if you're new here you may not be completely familiar with my Etsy print on demand Series where I started it about a year ago and I have several videos on that specific subject I also recently released a free complete print on demand guide I'll have it linked in the description box down below but today I want to talk to you about something that's extremely similar to the Etsy print on demand but what I believe to be even simpler of a market to sell to in
my last video I talked about gelato and how I've switched to gelato for my print on demand service and gelato has just released an update that they've now partnered with Tik Tock shop to provide a really seamless integration into opening up a Tik Tok shop now one of the most compelling reasons that I found to sell in a Tik Tok shop is the high purchase intent amongst its users Tik Tok has definitely become more than just an entertainment platform it's a place where people discover new products now and make purchasing decisions now I've been reading
here in the past couple of weeks about Tik Tock shop and statistics about Tik Tock shop and they are predicted to continuously Skyrocket and popularity over the next couple of years and researchers do suggest that now is the time to jump on the bandwagon of opening up a Tik Tok shop if you want to get ahead of the game or if you want to get serious about making money online I was also reading some really interesting statistics concerning genzies and their purchasing habits and 97% of Jers use social media as their primary source of shopping
inspiration and I also discovered that 70% of all users discover new brands and products through Tik Tok for those reasons alone that's why I decided to start this so that I can give you guys a really thorough rundown okay let's go over some of the key benefits of using Tik Tok shop and partnering with gelato to do so so the first things first is that gelato has a really seamless integration with Tik Tok shop now so whenever I show this to you you're going to get a firsthand look at how really seamless and easy it
is for the two shops it's going to save you time and effort when you're creating your product gelato also offers a really curated catalog and it's specifically optimized for really fast fulfillment that fast fulfillment is going to make sure it meets tick tok's SLA requirements if you're not familiar Tik Tok release new requirements that it has to be shipped out within two business days so as you can see it's an important component that a lot of people may leave out or are not familiar with so that's one thing I want to make sure that I
had covered here for you this is also available to both us and UK Sellers and another great benefit of doing a print on demand business is that you do not have a need for inventory so you're not needing to store products you're not needing to purchase products in advance and have them at your house print them and send them products are printed and shipped on demand just like the name of the business so as the orders come in then the products are created and shipped the last last key benefit I want to point out is
that the Fulfillment from gelato local facilities really ensures quick delivery times in both of those regions okay now let's dive into starting your Tik Tok shop opening that up and then opening up your gelato and connecting them and then we're going to go from there this is going to be a free full guide I am going to have every single section in timestamps down below so it's going to make it very easy for you you can hop back and forth throughout the video to hear exactly what it is you need to hear rewatch what you
need to watch Okay so diving into signing up with Tik Tock shop what I did was I just went over here to the Tik Tock Shop Main web page and you're going to have to apply for a seller account so follow the prompts that's going to include things like personal information name of the shop part of the world you live in tax ID information verifying your shop and connecting your Tik Tok to your new Tik Tock shop account for me I didn't even have a Tik Tok so I created both the Tik Tok shop and
a Tik Tok once everything is completely set up you're going to start adding products however total time it took me to set up shop was around 30 minutes be patient during this time you're going to want to make sure that you're paying attention make sure that you have photo ID ready to upload cuz you're going to need to do that and I do have to say that Tik Tok does respond pretty quickly to everything so they approved me really quickly everything was quick once I filled out all the information but just be prepared to spend
about 30 to 35 minutes signing up for the Tik Tok shop okay now it is time to create that gelato account so that you can seamlessly integrate the two so that when you're creating product it'll go directly into your Tik Tok shop if you're new to signing up with gelato which I assume many of you are I'm going to give you a really quick way to do so all you need to do is go to my direct link in the description box down below it's going to bring you to this homepage when you get to
this homepage all you'll have to do is Select get offer or sign up for free either one and as you can see I've already created an account so it totally signed me in there will be an onboarding questionnaire and you will have to answer just a few questions when signing up for gelato make sure whenever you're selecting the option that says where did you hear about this make sure that you select from YouTuber or an influencer once you have your gelato shop set up you can connect it to your Tik Tok shop really quickly by
going to stores over here on the left and then just come right over here at the top right and select Tik Tock shop from there you're going to select your region United States or the United Kingdom and then from there confirm to install the app hit acknowledge and authorize and then there is the shop right there and then from here I'm going to show you how to start creating your products okay for creating products or graphic designs for your products I'm going to be showing you all two ways again there's time stamps in the description
box so the first way I'm going to be showing you is through the gelato design editor and the second way I'm going to be showing you is through canva canva is a free resource tool it's free to get started I'm going to give you guys a little brief rundown on how to create designs with them as well okay let's begin first by designing those products in gelato you may be asking yourself how in the world do I create designs and which designs will I sell I'm going to place a really helpful article for you guys
for free in the description box down below that's going to give you some insight about designs for 2025 and great designs to focus on so definitely go check that out after watching the video now creating a design in gelato is very very easy and Begins by selecting the item you want to sell so first you're going to want to select add product to your shop up here on the right select single or multiple items I do suggest single items in the beginning especially when you're still learning so what I'll do here is go to women's
clothing I'm going to select what I want so for me I'm going to select a sweatshirt and as you can see they have many different options to choose from for me I'm just going to select this first one here the Gilden 18,000 unisc sweatshirt because they have tons of colors for this let's just select direct to garment and I'm going to show you over here on the left the first thing you could add was that text like Mom life you can move around the text by moving it up down side to side it does need
to stay inside this box here and then let's go down here to stickers let me show you all of the different stickers that they offer a really cute idea would be to add like maybe if a child is playing sports so for here they have some sports elements some sports Graphics I'm just going to click into that and let's say there's one kid who plays soccer one kid who plays baseball and then one kid who plays football but as you can see I'm just adjusting and moving these exactly where I want them and you can
change the font by going up here selecting the font and they have tons and tons and tons of free options that you can choose from I really like that one actually you can change the effects so you can give it a shadow you can offset the shadow you can change the color of the Shadow the designing of the product is something you're going to want to take just a little bit of time maybe a couple of hours really getting it down p hat and that way you have it and when you're moving forward in the
process it comes really easy and naturally to you you don't really have to think too hard about where everything is or how to move around the lettering things like that now let's briefly dive into canva let me give you a couple of minutes on how to design there as well once on the canva homepage you're going to want to go here where it says start a new design I typically just select the option for the size of like an Instagram post or you can go even go larger to make sure the design is going to
be high quality on your item either way once into the design tool a couple great features that I want to point out are the graphics what you would do is come over here to elements I'm going to type in sports and then under Graphics I always like to just select see all and then as you can see look at all of these Graphics I mean you can just keep scrolling and scrolling and scrolling and select a design that you feel really stands out to I would suggest scaling it as large as possible so it does
give it that full quality now to add text you just go over here to the text and add a text box the really cool thing about canva is they give you a lot of text options automatically that you could scroll through here and if you kind of like the way it looks you can just select it and then edit it from there so this is kind of cute for the idea that we're going for so you could just put it here then you could ungroup if you want to edit them separately and then you would
just select on them separately you can move around each specific lettering to how you'd want it you can definitely change it up here under effects they have different effects here you can carve it if you want when you're done with your design and you're ready to save it you would go up here and share download make sure you always select transparent background because once you're putting that on your item in gelato you're going to want to make sure that it doesn't have the white background so go ahead and select transparent background and then download uploading
this into gelato is going to be very simple it's going to be the same exact process you're just going to select add product single product go to the product that you want to upload the design you just did in Cana you're going to want to go over here to files choose a file and upload from your device and then as you can see I'm just scaling it around a little bit to make it the size that I want it moving exactly to where I would want it to be and then from there it's done and
all you would have to do from here to upload it into your shop is going to be continue to mockups okay once your product is completely designed you're done with a design product and it's on your product in gelato the next step is uploading it into your Tik Tok shop this step is very easy I'm going to briefly go over how to do it with you the next thing you're going to select is continue to mockups once that loads I want to point out something specific about mockups for gelato so mockups are going to be
pretty big of a deal whenever it comes to Tik Tock shop I know that Jers a lot of people really want to see things that are hip and style and unless you're really well known having a mockup that's just a blank white canvas and a T-shirt and just an average shop may not do the best so I do want to kind of emphasize the importance of good mockups and gelato does have a couple options for that when you sign up with my link in the description box down below you're going to get access to 50%
off your first order so what you could do was order product that you could have in your house you'll be able to see how the product looks and feels firsthand then you can also create mockups with those photos so you can take a picture of the product how it looks on you can do the modeling yourself if you'd like to do it that way and that way you can have high quality pictures for your store for your social media and also use them as mockup gelato also offers an upgraded plan in which you can purchase
more higher quality mockups or mockups of individuals that are going to look more hip or that are going to look more in style or in fashion so just keep in mind that that is an option as well doing these things is going to be a timesaver in the future whenever you're creating your product for your shop because you're going to have all of that out of the way and uploading those designs and then actually putting them into your shop is going to become much easier so spending the time in the beginning getting all this out
of the way is going to really make it much easier as you move into actually starting your shop after you've selected your mockups what you're going to want to do here is go to continue to details after you continue to details you're going to be able to change title and description it does give a base of a description continue to prices here you can go over pricing you can adjust that exactly how you'd want it continue to review and then select publish once published this is what it would look like in your shop if you
want to edit anything in your Tik Tok shop it's really simple to do all you'll do is go here into your product select edit and then edit what you want to edit something else I want to talk really briefly over that I've learned about whenever I upload into the Tik Tok shop is their listing quality guide with this tool you can see right here it's telling me that my original listing here is ranking as fair and whenever I click into it it's giving me suggestions for how to optimize the listing to reach more buyers to
make more sales and just about all platforms nowadays are going to offer this new AI in their uploading process I do recommend that you take advantage of it click into it spend a little time in the beginning learning about your new business all right now let's talk about a really important component when it comes to selling anything and especially selling anything online and being able to actually generate sales and that is advertising or marketing your product Tik Tok shop does make it really easy for you one of the best ways that I've recently discovered to
advertise product and Market product is through shoppable videos and Tik Tok does provide this for you so one of the great options of ordering your first order for 50% off getting a couple T-shirts or getting a couple bags or a couple phone cases or whatever it is you plan to put in your shop ordering it and actually making shoppable video with those products because when it comes to marketing I actually just made a video about this shoppable videos are one of the most profitable ways to Market your products so if you want to start out
by making short videos for your Tik Tok shop that is going to optimize your shop automatically get the marketing material out upload Tik Tok and advertise your product that way I'm also going to be placing a really helpful article for you guys for free to read in the Des description box down below that's going to have material in it concerning updated marketing strategies and how to generate leads in your Tik Tok shop I would definitely suggest spending a little bit of time on your couch reading about this stuff like I said the great thing about
this is you can do this in your bed or on your couch just spend the time learning about what it is you need to learn about to get that knowledge about how to actually sell your product how to promote your product or Market your product to Pivot off that the very last thing that I want to talk about here is the Tik Tock shop Academy that they offer and when you sign up for the platform they also offer you the new seller growth campaign with Tik Tok so in this campaign here they give you all
types of free resources tips and tricks to growing and selling with your Tik Tok shop and this is a free resource through Tik Tok overall my experience with launching my Tik Tok shop with gelato was very simple and smooth keep in mind I've been doing print on Demand with Etsy using gelato so it's been very simple for me because I already have the resources that I need I've already spent that time and invested my time what I suggest mostly here at the beginning if you're new to this is just investing your time the best thing
is that gelato makes it really easy and the new integration with Tik Tok shop makes it really seamless I want to mention again for you guys to make sure that you understand that you can start for free with gelato and then you can also get that 50% off your first order if if you're using my link in the first 2 days of opening up your shop so take advantage of that as always if you find you have any questions drop them in the comment section down below I'll be happy to get back with you with
the most accurate answer that I can find as always thank you so much for your support and I look forward to seeing you guys in my next video bye-bye