All of those negative months if you go back and look at the video you’ll notice that I wasn’t spending ad money or barely any. It’s weird how they only will really push it if you have ads I’m trying to find the best middleground
@@richarddwyermusic seriously thank you so much. I want to be different. I want to show everybody real transparency and I know that it can be scary for some people because they make a living off of helping people and maybe they might have to be slightly dishonest to do that but I don’t want to be that way.
Nice! You covered all your startup costs and still ended up in front in basically your first year. I hope I can do the same down here in Australia. I'll be starting with 4 basic printers and an A1combo. Etsy and eBay will be my focus to start with. Wish me luck. Cheers!
Happy for you sir!! Been following for a while on TikTok and now here....can't wait to see where you grow. I have a P1S in my garage just waiting for me to get the upgrades done in my how to set it up and get it working
thanks for the video, its nice seeing the breakout of what you had/made/spent and plans... we opened an etsy store on mid nov and have a handful of things up, but so far outside of family no ones purchased anything, debating if i need ads or is it pictures or just need to keep adding new sales... but its a learning thing so you vid is helpful for me to absorb and learn, so thank you
Absolutely! I do think ET ads is the answer. It’s a little scary at first, but I think you need to really balance Etsy ads with the number of products you have I would personally say if you have less than 20 products don’t use ads right now, but once you get above that 20 project threshold start adding SC ads and the more projects the more money you put towards ads, I think would be a good Strategy
@ I’ve been catching you for about a month. You seem to be a solid guy. I really appreciate your efforts to properly inform us. I utterly respect your kindness, especially to children who have nothing to give you for your wares.
dude would love to get in a live /video chat with you about expense sheets lol boring stuff but i love it to an extent , also for your events do you use any particular site to find all your events or just browsing FB
So I am going to make a video about how we find events but it will feature my wife since she is the one that does it but I know her main go to places are Facebook and Instagram . And with that live idea I am going to make a patreon in the near future so people can have 1-1 time with me :)
@Basically_Benski awsome man, sadly with tiktok going away having fun convos with fellow printers is gonna get harder. Best of luck and hope you hit that 70k chatgpt was saying you got this man
Man, my BEST market (we mostly have farmers markets where I’m at) this year I did around $550 selling toys and planters. I need to figure something out lol
I noticed you add more to the product than just printing and I think that is what will help you not look like being everyone else. Is all your labor figured into that profit? PS Those Etsy fees are crazy.
Yes, I only have a few things that aren’t 3-D printing related like the wallets and cutting boards but everything else is 3-D printed related. The big thing is that I do calculate how much each print cost me to make and that is factored into the final cost essentially what I try to do is make three times The cost of the print and what I’m selling it for, but I’ll have a video breaking down how I price all of my prints soon
You mentioned how much you made profit after advertising, fees, shipping, etc but did you also subtract filament cost, machine depreciation, energy consumption, labor, etc? Sorry if i missed it.
Great vid 👍 can you explain the shipping costs and how does it work. Do you send the items to etsy and they have an inventory and ship it or do you ship them by yourself? How are the shipping fees on etsy calculated? Thank you.
I can make a video about how I think that’s a good idea! But the short answer right now is I take care of shipping in my house? I shipped a few things keeping track of what the difference shipping costs were through Etsy from different states and different bag sizes and took an average and made that my shipping cost.
Great to see all this. And get realistic ideas for profitability. Kind of wild to me to see you bought a 5k macbook instead of something that makes any sort of sense, though. That would have bought a top of the line production PC, a CAR, shit you could have gotten any number of top tier gaming laptops and had 2.5-3k in cash afterwards to buy other things for the business.
I went with the Mac for a few reasons, I have quite a few close friends who are into building PCs work in cyber security and other IT departments. Going through all my needs of security, cad work, video editing, slicing softwear. The new M3 was just the only answer I had a buddy try and build a computer for me and it was coming out to almost the same price and a new M3. While i know there are other options out there this really was the best and yes i do already have a big Apple ecosystem so that was a plus but trust me i wanted a built PC to be the answer it just wasnt for what i wanted at least from a cost standpoint.
Thanks for the info's and the enjoyment but how can i earn as a designer? who designs 3d models for 3d printing what's the best marketplaces for me to go?
LOVE THIS. Ill make a longer video about this but the short answer is you need to look at patreon and setting up one that's where most 3ders go to get files and we pay a monthly fee to use them commercially
@Basically_Benski that's a great answer, and by saying that you mean any page that you can receive money from it and deliver the stl files to the buyer or your audience, better than a market place And i agree with that but we still need some advices and experiences and ideas from you We need you to talk free about it as usual not scripted text, the best thing about you is that you speak directly and from your heart and with a passion To be specific you're human not a robot I'm waiting for the video and other content from you Keep it up 🔥
I really appreciate how transparent you are in this video! Also, happy belated birthday!
Thank you so much! And thanks for the birthday wishes 😊 I want to make sure people know the true
Etsy seems like the real winner. I can't believe how much you spent on ads.
All of those negative months if you go back and look at the video you’ll notice that I wasn’t spending ad money or barely any. It’s weird how they only will really push it if you have ads I’m trying to find the best middleground
Best, most transparent video on making money with a 3d printer I have seen. Thanks for the great content!
@@richarddwyermusic seriously thank you so much. I want to be different. I want to show everybody real transparency and I know that it can be scary for some people because they make a living off of helping people and maybe they might have to be slightly dishonest to do that but I don’t want to be that way.
man this video Quality is AMAZING!!!
THANKS SO MUCH! Link in video description for my camera lol
Nice! You covered all your startup costs and still ended up in front in basically your first year.
I hope I can do the same down here in Australia. I'll be starting with 4 basic printers and an A1combo.
Etsy and eBay will be my focus to start with. Wish me luck. Cheers!
You got this!!! Those a1s are the backbone of my
Business
Happy for you sir!! Been following for a while on TikTok and now here....can't wait to see where you grow. I have a P1S in my garage just waiting for me to get the upgrades done in my how to set it up and get it working
THANKS SO MUCH what upgrades are you doing im looking at a P1S
@@Basically_Benski Upgrades in my office so It will fit in the house....LOL It's KILLING me not working with it yet
love the vids man! i just picked up the ams unit for my p1s and i cant wait to get the grind started!
@@FurFroo it’s seriously such a fun grind
thanks for the video, its nice seeing the breakout of what you had/made/spent and plans... we opened an etsy store on mid nov and have a handful of things up, but so far outside of family no ones purchased anything, debating if i need ads or is it pictures or just need to keep adding new sales... but its a learning thing so you vid is helpful for me to absorb and learn, so thank you
Absolutely! I do think ET ads is the answer. It’s a little scary at first, but I think you need to really balance Etsy ads with the number of products you have I would personally say if you have less than 20 products don’t use ads right now, but once you get above that 20 project threshold start adding SC ads and the more projects the more money you put towards ads, I think would be a good Strategy
Thank you for sharing with those of us who are back and forth on the idea of selling prints.
@@lg1355 absolutely I don’t want anyone to feel like it’s impossible, but I don’t want them to think that it’s gonna make money right out the gate
@ I’ve been catching you for about a month. You seem to be a solid guy. I really appreciate your efforts to properly inform us. I utterly respect your kindness, especially to children who have nothing to give you for your wares.
Dang man Ur killing it. How many printers do you have now?
@@ApocalypsesDawn currently 17
@@ApocalypsesDawn sorry 19
dude would love to get in a live /video chat with you about expense sheets lol boring stuff but i love it to an extent ,
also for your events do you use any particular site to find all your events or just browsing FB
So I am going to make a video about how we find events but it will feature my wife since she is the one that does it but I know her main go to places are Facebook and Instagram . And with that live idea I am going to make a patreon in the near future so people can have 1-1 time with me :)
@Basically_Benski awsome man, sadly with tiktok going away having fun convos with fellow printers is gonna get harder. Best of luck and hope you hit that 70k chatgpt was saying you got this man
@@133TLAIN thanks so much and I may be the only one on the. planet that doesn't think tiktok is going away but either way that's why I'm here now lol
happy birthday man!
Thanks so much!!!
Man, my BEST market (we mostly have farmers markets where I’m at) this year I did around $550 selling toys and planters. I need to figure something out lol
DnD is super popular our dice towers do amazing
I noticed you add more to the product than just printing and I think that is what will help you not look like being everyone else. Is all your labor figured into that profit?
PS Those Etsy fees are crazy.
Yes, I only have a few things that aren’t 3-D printing related like the wallets and cutting boards but everything else is 3-D printed related. The big thing is that I do calculate how much each print cost me to make and that is factored into the final cost essentially what I try to do is make three times The cost of the print and what I’m selling it for, but I’ll have a video breaking down how I price all of my prints soon
Great idea and video, can you share or point me to the link for the ams holder to put on top of my Bambi lab A1 ? Pleaseee
It’s on makerworld here’s the link makerworld.com/models/92486
@@Basically_Benski Thank you so much
You mentioned how much you made profit after advertising, fees, shipping, etc but did you also subtract filament cost, machine depreciation, energy consumption, labor, etc? Sorry if i missed it.
I did take that into account but YOU DID NOT MISS IT its just already in the cost per item but I want to do a video about that here soon!
Great vid 👍 can you explain the shipping costs and how does it work. Do you send the items to etsy and they have an inventory and ship it or do you ship them by yourself? How are the shipping fees on etsy calculated? Thank you.
I can make a video about how I think that’s a good idea! But the short answer right now is I take care of shipping in my house? I shipped a few things keeping track of what the difference shipping costs were through Etsy from different states and different bag sizes and took an average and made that my shipping cost.
Great to see all this. And get realistic ideas for profitability.
Kind of wild to me to see you bought a 5k macbook instead of something that makes any sort of sense, though. That would have bought a top of the line production PC, a CAR, shit you could have gotten any number of top tier gaming laptops and had 2.5-3k in cash afterwards to buy other things for the business.
I went with the Mac for a few reasons, I have quite a few close friends who are into building PCs work in cyber security and other IT departments. Going through all my needs of security, cad work, video editing, slicing softwear. The new M3 was just the only answer I had a buddy try and build a computer for me and it was coming out to almost the same price and a new M3. While i know there are other options out there this really was the best and yes i do already have a big Apple ecosystem so that was a plus but trust me i wanted a built PC to be the answer it just wasnt for what i wanted at least from a cost standpoint.
Thanks for the info's and the enjoyment
but how can i earn as a designer? who designs 3d models for 3d printing
what's the best marketplaces for me to go?
LOVE THIS. Ill make a longer video about this but the short answer is you need to look at patreon and setting up one that's where most 3ders go to get files and we pay a monthly fee to use them commercially
@Basically_Benski that's a great answer, and by saying that you mean any page that you can receive money from it and deliver the stl files to the buyer or your audience, better than a market place
And i agree with that but we still need some advices and experiences and ideas from you
We need you to talk free about it as usual not scripted text, the best thing about you is that you speak directly and from your heart and with a passion
To be specific you're human not a robot
I'm waiting for the video and other content from you
Keep it up 🔥