How to Find Low Competition Print On Demand Niches (2024)

Finding Low Competition Niches for Print on Demand
The Importance of Research and Diversification in Print on Demand
Optimizing Your Print on Demand Accounts for Success
Utilizing Artificial Intelligence Tools for Idea Generation
Identifying Low Competition Sub-Niches Within General Niches
Evaluating Competition Levels with Merch Informer
Ensuring Copyright Compliance in Print on Demand
Customizing Designs with Commercially Usable Templates

Finding Low Competition Niches for Print on Demand

Hey, everyone. Welcome back to another video. In today's video, I'm going to be showing you the very important task of finding low competition niches for print on demand. Now, this is something that has become very important over the last couple of years as print on demand has started to get more popular. Essentially, the big general popular niches have all essentially filled up with sellers. So if you are getting into print on demand or if you've been in print on demand and you wanna keep growing your business, then you need to find these low competition sub-niches.

The Importance of Research and Diversification in Print on Demand

When it comes to this, there's kind of good news and there's bad news. Well, starting with the good news, there's literally tens of thousands of these undiscovered sub-niches that people are not selling in. However, the bad news is you need to know how to do this, and it takes a little bit of research. Don't worry though, I've been doing this for a while now, so I'll walk you through on the computer step by step how to do this, and once you see how to do it one time, you'll be able to just take over and start finding all of these for yourself.

Optimizing Your Print on Demand Accounts for Success

Now, in just a second, I'll switch us over to the computer and I'll walk you through this literally step by step. However, just a preface before we get into this. Once you start finding these sub-niches for yourself, my best recommendation for you is to make as many designs as you can in them. For me, that's typically anywhere from 10 to 40, if it's a really big sub-niche that just has a lot of ideas I can get going. And then once you've created those designs and you've uploaded them to your print on demand accounts, then just move on to the next sub-niche. It's kind of a rinse and repeat process, and what you're trying to do is diversify your accounts as much as possible by being one of the first sellers into all of these small niches.

Utilizing Artificial Intelligence Tools for Idea Generation

So the first thing that we need to do here is come up with ideas for sub-niches. Now, for some people, this can be a really hard part of the process. However, I've been using a tool that uses artificial intelligence just to help me with the brainstorming and it saves a ton of time. So the first website we're going to come to is completely free to use, it's called ChatGPT. And if you haven't used it before, it's essentially like Google where you can type in something down here, a search, and it will give you an answer back that is generated using artificial intelligence.

Identifying Low Competition Sub-Niches Within General Niches

Now throughout this process, we're actually going to use ChatGPT a couple different ways, I'll show you all of that. But to start out here, what we need to do is we need it to write us a list of different ideas. Now, from experience and selling print on demand for almost 10 years, there are seven different general niches that you can break into to find tens of thousands of sub-niches. I'll go ahead and put this up on the screen for you so you can screenshot it or you can write it down, whatever you like, but these are the ones that I would remember: Geographical and local nostalgia, occupational, hobbies and interests, educational, personalized and custom designs, environmental and sustainability, and health and wellness.

Evaluating Competition Levels with Merch Informer

Now essentially what you're looking at right now is a full breakdown of this into sub-niches, and then most importantly, it's going to tell you what is the competition within that sub-niche. This way you don't have to go check Amazon or check the other print on demand websites to see if other people have created designs in that. Plus, how are you going to come up with all of these ideas? I've struggled with this for years, so this makes it so much easier.

Ensuring Copyright Compliance in Print on Demand

One of the biggest mistakes you can make is using something that is already protected, either copyright or trademarked by someone else because once you upload that to the print on-demand platform, it can get removed as a copyright or trademark infringement. And if that happens to your account too many times, they just ban your entire account. So this is one step that you want to kind of be careful with. Although this tool is really impressive and creative, just make sure that you are double checking to make sure that it's not protected because that's one thing that can really hurt you in print on demand.

Customizing Designs with Commercially Usable Templates

Now a couple other things to know here is that this graphic that's in the middle, you can change that. So if you hit Edit, it's going to show you all different graphics that you can use. And remember, all of these are going to be copyright-free and commercially usable, so just like that, you're changing up the design kind of on the fly. This is a really cool feature and saves you a lot of time.