well it's that time of year again and graduation is upon us and it's time for us to make some money in this video we are going to cover some awesome designs you can get inspiration from marketplaces you should put your designs in keyword you should use in your titles and descriptions and different platforms to promote your designs every year between may and june this niche is huge and if you're selling in the uk this niche can actually go on to mid july and of course we want to get in on this action nice and early
so let's start by looking at a few popular designs seeing what they have in common and what we can learn from them this way we can see what's working and what we can do differently to really stand out in this niche okay let's discuss why they're good the similarities the fonts and the graphics that have been used so this is the first one i graduated can i go back to bed now i have checked all of these phrases on the uspto trademark search and they all have come back okay so that means we can use
them but potentially we would want to tweak it a little bit so that it's unique so this one i graduated can i go back to bed now it's just such a brilliant design i mean it's so simple they've kept the spacing absolutely perfect the font here is absolutely perfect and it speaks a very clear message they want to go to bed they're done with school and you know quite rightly so there isn't much to say about this design because it's so straightforward the reason why it's doing so well is because it's just a very very
good phrase the next one was i graduated kind of back to bed now another one but slightly different now this is a completely different design can you see it's still doing well okay but in my opinion i don't like it so much this would appeal maybe to a younger audience i would say years seven to nine or maybe even younger you know and then or maybe yeah maybe even younger and then this would you know appeal to a much older audience it's more grungy it's more adult-like but i mean they both work and you can
kind of see how someone has used the exact same phrase but made a completely different design you've then got this one happy last day teach love inspire motivate connect now this is a really really cool one because this could either be for a teacher or it could be for a pupil and what i like about this is i like the rainbow design that is a very very popular design within the print demand world but they've integrated some schooling stuff you know you've got the pencil here in the very classic yellow pencil and in terms of
fonts in terms of placement it's perfect i mean this font here of school goes that that curly whirly font goes with the whole vibe of you know the pink and the hearts and all of that and this happy last day font stands out so it's very very clear to read and it actually makes of school easier to read as well so a lot of thought has gone into this design and then this one this one stood out from all of them because it's just so different it's so incredibly different you've got proud dad of a
class of a 22 graduate now this is targeting a very very specific person and it does well they always do well and you've got proud mum you've got proud aunt you've got proud dad of a 2022 something else you know it does really well i'm not the biggest fan of this design though i don't like the gold and white gradient it looked very old but then again you would assume a dad that has a son graduating or a daughter graduating might be well it depends on what year they're graduating i guess but they they would
probably be a bit older but either way i mean it's a classic design and there are so many variations of this design that you could go for and then you've got this one i graduated now i'm like smart and stuff this is a brilliant brilliant design because again it speaks to the audience in a previous video i spoke about creating designs that share a message that someone will want to wear on their chest and this shares that funny side of things saying look i graduated i'm i'm now smart you know because a lot of the
time people when they're in school they're not taken seriously by adults which is a shame because they can be really really smart really clever but this is kind of like a giant fu to everyone in a way saying well now i've graduated you have to listen to me you know i'm now smart and that's really really good it's really interesting and it's really funny it's no surprise that this is getting lots of sales now some similarities i'm seeing between these five designs is this you've got this grunge-like font in this one and then you've got
this similar grunge-like font in this one so grunge fonts are very very popular and this is clearly showing that and as well as that we've also got the bubbly font that matches in this one and matches in this one now i think the grunge fonts appeal to an older audience and the bubbly fonts appeal to a younger audience and then you've got this one which is kind of its own thing but in terms of graphics well if we go through them there's not actually that many graphics right i mean this one has a cap here
this one has the rainbow effect and a heart but i wouldn't even really call that proper graphics because these are just templates you can download from anywhere really and then this one's got a couple of graphics you've got the scroll the heart and the hat and some stars but again it's not really a graphic focused tea it's a word focused tea and this one is just words so you could come in and make a heavily graphic focused tea with similar words you know maybe with ribbons and and and make it like really really graphic focus
graphic heavy and that could make you stand out because so far all of these top designs have very very few graphics in them now as well as that you could also use text-based only if you're not into doing graphics but i would suggest changing it up maybe try completely unique font so you've got a lot of grunge fronts here and bubbly fonts try something else you also got potentially a different saying you know i graduated can i go back to playing golf now i graduated can i go back to my game now you know something
like that there's so many different phrases hundreds of phrases you could probably use that would work really well here all right let's move on now once making your designs there are a couple of platforms you might want to put your designs on i've picked these platforms specifically because they come with a marketplace except for one and i know a lot of people like selling when there's a marketplace so they don't have to worry as much about promotion however i am gonna say if you want to scale your print-on-demand business from here to here it's going
to take a lot of your own marketing efforts don't rely on a website's traffic to get your business to you know all the way up here but either way these are the platforms you should sell your designs on etsy ebay amazon merch amazon fba if you can zazzle and like i said most importantly your own store if you have one and if you don't have one i highly highly recommend making one before we go and look at some keywords and look at analyzing what keywords work for other people and what keywords you can use for
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go back to bed now graduation t-shirt perfect gift idea for senior boys girls i graduated awesome gift for brother son daughter funnygrad2022 complete your collection of school accessories jacket outfit mug a whole bunch of keywords now let's see if this other design copies their keywords high school or college graduation gifts oh that's a new one um gifts to celebrate the class of 2022 for your so they put the keyword 2022 in there because they know that's what people are going to be searching for now gradually graduation gets for him class of 2022 so they've got
a whole separate section of keywords for girls and for boys that's really cool and they're pretty much the same except ones for girls and ones for boys and you've also got family where i graduated can i go back to bed now school kids school boy teacher university whole bunch of keywords this one's got last day of school teacher teachers summer sunglasses and speech design makes a fun end of year graduate design okay so they've got a whole bunch of keywords first grade second grade third they go through all the grades this funny last day and
then senior 2022 shirt for graduates from kindergarten middle okay so they go through all the high schools and this in these keywords all in the name of education buys a great gift for a teen girl and boys boyfriend and girlfriend's mom okay a lot of keywords and then finally funny graduation t-shirts quick graduation t-shirt keep okay so all of these designs have very similar but have a lot of good keywords we're going to put as many of those keywords as we can into the google keyword planner tool and see how well we're doing all right
i've reached the limit of 10 keywords these keywords just came from this listing so again if i do this for every single listing that we've found there's going to be a ton of different keywords that we can use but if we click get results we can have a look at what's out there so pre-k gets twenty two thousand two hundred junior sixty thousand five hundred cd you get seventy four thousand basically they get a lot of searches now we might wanna put even more keywords that are more specific in so i'm gonna get rid of
the super long one and i'm going to put another one in from this one so we've got perfect idea idea um let's do graduation t-shirt right now graduation t-shirt how does that do 1 900 searches and you can see how it's got an upwards trend over here at the moment you know so again around may it was super high obviously it dropped down because no one's graduating here but now it's about to go back up by april you know and as well actually may but it's going to probably hit around the 10 000 search mark
again in may which is really really good and the same goes for all the other keywords now i know it says only 1 900 but that's still a lot of eyeballs searching for this specific thing and this was only keywords from this design if we go and take keywords from this design this time this side and this side we could create a design that has the best keywords from all the different designs the best graphics the best fonts all of it and we can create some really good killer print on demand graduation t-shirts you want
to make sure that you're using these keywords in the titles and descriptions and if the platform you're selling on has bullet points you want to use them in the bullet points as well and sometimes you know platforms like redbubble will have an area where you can put tags in you want to use these keywords there as well these keywords are really important if you want to get seen and finally we've almost ticked every single box we just got one more box left to tick you've got pinterest tick-tock instagram facebook and youtube and these are just
a few with instagram and tick tock you want to focus on 10 to 15 second reels or tick tocks these reels or tick tocks can be so unbelievably simple they can be a collection of photos that you know go to the beat of the music [Music] so what you can do is you can find trending audios on either instagram by scrolling through and as soon as you see that arrow next to the audio you know it's trending or on tiktok you can just go straight to the trending audio page or you can sort by most
used audio and once you've done that you want to create a collection of pictures so once you create a design you could potentially use place it or canva or any other mock-up generator and you can create maybe 10 or 15 photos for a mock-up or however many photos that audio required and then you can just start posting reels and tick tocks try and post at least one every single day basically the amount of mock-ups that are available to you are in the thousands that means you will be able to create so many different reels so
many different tick tocks if you really want to and it's a great way to spread the word because you can get thousands and thousands of views especially if you're using trending audios as well with pinterest you basically want to post as often as you can with good keywords with good mock-ups and don't be scared to use pinterest ads to promote a pin if it's doing well facebook and youtube are the harder ones now facebook is great if you're planning on running ads if you're not planning on running ads then you can post like a status
update hopefully you know if you have a large enough following or enough friends maybe someone will buy it or if you have a group where you are the admin or you're allowed to promote something you can even potentially put it into in the facebook shop you know then maybe you can get some sales through facebook but i wouldn't rely on facebook because it's quite difficult the same goes for youtube if you have no audience it's quite hard just to make a youtube video and get thousands of views and actually get sales so the way you
could do that is actually get someone to promote the design for you who has a larger audience maybe someone who you know teaches or someone who helps educate high schools or middle class schools or something like that maybe an online tutor of some sort they'd be a really good pairing to actually promote a graduation t-shirt and there you have it that was the complete guide to finding designing and uploading and selling your graduation t-shirts this year definitely don't wait to do this get started with it straight away before it's too late and let me know
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