it might be hard to believe but there are people making $462,000 per year doing a side hustle that only takes them about 20 minutes per day what and that side hustle is selling print on demand candles this person right here brings in over $462,000 per year just from selling print on demand candles another example is this person here they've made well over $1. 4 million or around $223,000 per month selling candles on both Etsy and their own website and if you look at the candles that they're selling you can see that they all match the print on demand candles from a site like printify printify is a print on demand website that offers candles and so we know for a fact that they are indeed using print on demand to sell their candle and in this video I'm going to show you exactly how to do this step by step with very little money and a small amount of time and I'm actually going to build my own print on demand candle business in this video to show you just how easy it is to get started I'll show you how to build both an Etsy shop but also your own dedicated candle website with a unique and Powerful online domain name this will make your site stand out as both legitimate and trustworthy even though you're a brand new business so if you haven't done so already drop a like down below for the video it helps the channel out so much you're amazing let's get started now before we start talking about how to sell candles I first want to briefly talk about what print on demand even is print on demand is a very popular e-commerce method that allows you to sell certain products only when somebody buys them in the case of selling candles instead of making a whole batch of candles before anyone orders them the print on demand company only makes them when somebody places an order this way you never have to waste money or hold on to any inventory plus you won't be tempted to burn your own Supply this is basic rug dealer 101 never burn your own Supply this is a really big match and that's basically what print on demand is it allows you to start an e-commerce business with no upfront money and very little work so how can you get started there's basically three simple steps and the first step is we need to come up with The Branding of the candles if we go to Etsy and then search for candles and look through all of the candles that are being sold you'll get a really good idea for the type of branding that might do well for your candles and when I say branding I'm specifically talking about the actual label on the candle what does the label look like some people choose to go for a more simple and minimalistic look others go for a vintage look some people even opt for a very um offensive look but there's no shortage of label design ideas you just have to go with what resonates with you the most it's also worth mentioning that a big part of your candle branding is how you choose to actually Market the scents themselves for example you might create a candle that has a cinnamon vanilla scent but just because that candle's scent is cinnamon vanilla doesn't mean you have to put cinnamon vanilla on the candle label you can get as creative as you want and so perhaps the scent is called Autumn evenings or cozy winter blanket right if you went with a candle in the scent of white sage plus lavender same thing you don't have to put white sage plus lavender on the candle label I mean you certainly can if you want to and I'll actually be using this scent as an example later but what I found from my extensive market research is that the candles that have more clever or just funny names tend to sell significantly better you'll notice that most of the really successful candle sellers will have candle names that don't include the actual scent of the candle instead it's something that will make you feel good or bring back a memory or something that's funny or clever and so when you're deciding on The Branding for your candles and the names of the candles to put on your labels just keep this in mind and to design the labels we're going to use a free website called canva. com so from canva after you create a free account simply search for the term candle label and you can see that there are over 4,500 different templates that you can choose from for your candle labels and I would actually recommend picking just one label template and just using that template for all of your candles taking a look at this shop right here again you can see that all of their labels for all of their candles look the exact same minus the actual name of the scent on the label so from canva just scroll through these label templates and and go with the one that resonates with you the most for me I really like this one right here to go with this label I'll just select it and then click on customize this template from here I'll update the name to match my candle brand name and the easiest way to come up with a name for your candle brand is to go to chat GPT and ask the AI to give you a list of candle brand names you can even specify things like give me a list of candle brand names based on my name Joshua and you would replace your name with my name unless of course your name is also Joshua in which case back on canva now and you would basically just bookmark this template because every time you create a new candle scent you'll come in here change the name of the scent and then export this label to be used on your candle and we'll talk about exactly how to create the candles soon but I don't want to get ahead of ourselves because now it's time to set up both your Etsy shop and your website and then connect them to Printery and luckily doing all of this is actually very simple to set up your Etsy Shop simply head over to etsy.
com and then at the very bottom of the website within the footer click on sell on Etsy and then just follow the steps the whole process should take you less than 10 minutes or so but on top of your Etsy Shop you should also have your own dedicated website to sell candles all of these successful candle shops on Etsy share something in comment and no it's not that they all sell candles but noticed is that most of the successful candle shops on Etsy also have their own dedicated website sure they sell their candles on Etsy but Etsy is just one sales Channel they also have their own website though that they direct people to either from Tik Tok videos or PID ads or even directly from their Etsy Shop the advantage of having your own dedicated website is that you don't have to pay any of the fees that Etsy is taking away from you every single time you get a sale on your Etsy shop and what ends up happening is the people who buy candles from your Etsy shop on a regular basis will end up just buying the candles directly from your website because not only will you have your website linked throughout your Etsy shop but whenever someone buys a candle from you on Etsy the automated thank you message that sent to the buyer can include a brief message about your website now I know what you're thinking but Joshua I don't know how to build a website but surprisingly it's actually incredibly simple to do because we're just going to use an easy platform called Shopify and the reason we'll use Shopify is because we'll be able to easily connect it to printify printify is the print on demand platform that we'll use in the next step to create your candles but also to automatically complete orders on both your Etsy shop and your website now I left a Shopify link Down Below in the description of this video using that link will give you Shopify for 3 months just for $1 per month but 3 months should give you more than enough time to get your print on demand business up and running and start getting sales so after clicking on the link down below you'll land on Shopify from here just enter your email address and then quickly go through these prompts until you get to the Shopify dashboard and the first thing we need to do is set up a domain name for your website because right now if someone goes to your website they'll have to type this into their browser and this looks horrible and so we need to get you a domain name that will help your business to stand out but also easy to remember and personally I'm a huge fan of these online domain extensions the domain extension is the part of the domain name after your business name and you can see here for my candle business my domain name is Wick and wax. online now the reason that I prefer theonline extension for my website is because online is the world's second largest new domain extension Plus it has the added advantage of having the word online literally in which perfectly describes your website to be your Brand's online identity and to be honest I think that having aonline domain extension makes way more sense compared to anything else especially if you're running an online business such as a print on demand candle business nowadays it's extremely difficult to find a com that's available for your business I tried searching for wian wax. com and obviously not to my surprise it wasn't available but online has a vast inventory of domain names available and you are much more likely to get a domain name that matches your business name now in terms of where to buy a DOT online domain name you can buy it basically anywhere you want GoDaddy name cheap or just buy it directly within Shopify but for a limited time I've managed to get you a very unique offer where you can buy a DOT online name for just 99 Cents for the first year to take advantage of this offer just click on the link in the description and use code Joshua and once you Pur purchase your domain name we need to quickly connect that domain name to your Shopify store and this is actually very easy to do first make sure you're logged into your online domains dashboard from here click on manage orders and then list SL search orders and then select your new domain name next you'll scroll down until you see an option that says DNS management and you'll click on manage DNS then you should see this button here that says add a record click that button and then add this number into the field that says destination ipv4 address and just make sure that you enter this number exactly how you see it I'll also put this number down in the description of this video if you would like to copy and paste it but once that number is in this field here that's it click on ADD record next we'll need to add the cname record to do this click on the button that says cname records up here at the top then select add cname record in this first field right here you're simply going to type in www and then in the third field type type in this URL again I'll leave this down in the description of this video so make sure that you copy and paste it exactly how you see it and just make sure that your Fields match the fields that you see on my screen exactly as is otherwise this won't work and then click on ADD record next we'll head into your Shopify dashboard click on settings down here at the bottom then select domains and then select connect existing domains and you're just going to type in the name of theonline domain name that you just purchased for me I'll type in Wick and wax.
