Print-on-demand passive income introduction.
Print-on-demand for a passive income is an excellent content design and marketing strategy for working from home. But first, you must choose a popular topic. Then base your print-on-demand image designs on that.
This is done by searching for trending topics with Google Trends. This print-on-demand for a passive income strategy will require that you find trending topics.
Basic steps for a print-on-demand passive income.
It comes down to four basic steps as listed below. But it also involves quite a bit of work from your side. Using print on demand and combining it with your “trending targeted topic” is the key to a passive income.
- Get Images With Midjourney.
- Create Your POD Shops.
- Upload And Scale Images.
- Publish And Sell Your Digital Art.
You will shortly be introduced to Midjourney, whom you need to connect to on Discord to be able to use the image design AI. But this print-on-demand for a passive income strategy is pretty simple to follow. The best part is, you own all the images you create on Midjourney.
But this AI graphic design image strategy itself is no secret because it is widely suggested by many online professionals. Truth be told, I came across some strategies involving “stickers”. Then found that the keywords warriors, angels, medieval, and knights to be rather trending.
So I ventured a little further with this print-on-demand strategy and added some writing skills to the mix. Driving traffic to both my RedBubble and Zazzle print-on-demand online shops for a passive income. You need to create your free accounts with these print-on-demand sites.
You must create your online shops with RedBubble and Zazzle, or just go with one. With this particular print-on-demand demonstration, I will be using Zazzle. There are countless tutorial videos on how to set up stores for both sites.
Getting started with print-on-demand images and legalities.
Will this print-on-demand for a passive income strategy cost you money? Yes, a whole $10 for a month’s membership or 3 hours and 20 minutes of design and download time on Midjourney. At some point you need to understand that being professional sometimes costs money, that’s just how things work!
All you need to do is create your subscription with Midjourney. Then put this print-on-demand strategy to work. Once your subscription time runs out, you can decide to purchase extra “time” at $4 per hour. We spent around $50 for over 200 high-quality images with Midjourney!
Simply follow the prompts, connect with Midjourney on Discord and start designing your images. You do not design images through Midjourney directly, you must connect on Discord to use the Midjourney AI design bot. Once done, inside Discord, go to “Midjourney”, and then the hashtag “newbies-23”.
As illustrated below, this is where you enter your search prompt starting with “/imagine” (forward slash – imagine). You will then see a window popup and click on “prompt”. This is the search phrase that must describe the kind of images you are looking for.
Leveraging search phrases with print-on-demand designs.
Be extremely descriptive with your “prompt”, but play around with different prompts and work with that. For this demonstration, a good “prompt” might be something to the ring of. “detailed dark warrior angel medieval knight in full armour with medieval war background in full colour”. But please, don’t just jump into this particular topic because it is trending. Find your own trending topics, if you choose to go with Warrior Angels. It is a pretty trendy topic.
As usual, I am providing you with the basic guide and leave some research up to you. Admittedly, it took us a while to “figure out” Midjourney, Discord, and creating print-on-demand shops. This is important because when you “do the learning” part, it stays with you.
Get the best results from your print-on-demand design.
However, for best results with print on demand, especially with wall art and T-shirts. You want to “Upscale (4x)” on Discord. That way your image will display with much higher resolution and clarity. That is the only “secret” with this print-on-demand strategy to leverage your writing skills with YouTube videos.
We mentioned earlier that you “own” the images you create. As long as you do not upscale and use other people’s work on Midjourney. So, pay attention to the feed, you will see what we mean once inside Discord connected with Midjourney.
You will also see U1, U2, U3, and U4 below your designs, with V1, V2, V3, and V4. The “U” part is each image individually, while the “V” part includes more designs. So you have 4 images and 4 different designs to choose from with each search. But as mentioned earlier, we leave the research and learning up to you.
2Copyright and the legal side of AI image design. In case you are wondering about the legal side of using these images. You own the images you create, and when you own content, you can do with it as you choose. It is yours and many people are using Midjourney for print-on-demand digital designs.
As illustrated above, a screenshot of your content rights with the images you create on Midjourney. Now you know why we said, pay attention, so you don’t upscale and use someone else’s design. Be sure you only upscale and download your own images and designs.
This is one of the best methods or rather AI tools, we have tested to get high-quality designs for print-on-demand shops. And as mentioned earlier, it’s no state secret. Having unique high-quality digital designs is next-level print-on-demand.
You own the image so you can use it anywhere.
Once your images are designed and downloaded with Midjourney, you can start uploading them to sites like RedBubble and Zazzle. However, there are several print-on-demand sites that you can choose from. You already have the most important part, being unique digitally designed art.
From there you can create print-on-demand designs, and your own memes for example. The options are endless when you “own” the content and I have even used it to create TikTok videos! For video creation, however, I prefer using Canva.
Print on demand for a passive income conclusion.
Now you have the basic guide on how to use this print-on-demand strategy. It all comes down to 6 basic steps.
- Get Images With Midjourney.
- Create Your POD Shops.
- Upload And Scale Images.
- Publish And Sell Your Digital Art.
For this strategy to work best, you use Midjourney, and Canva to create all your content. When used correctly, this print-on-demand concept can be a powerful and effective content marketing strategy.
But please, do take your time, there is no rush. You must target trending topics, and that is the only “catch” to this content marketing strategy. Creating a passive online income requires time, repetition and persistence
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