ChrisWP

I find it best to raise prices only when other people in your niche/sales avenue are doing the same. This way you never get undercut. You want to still be affordable without undercutting yourself but you also don't want to have too many other people charging less.

This works surprisingly well around the holiday season which is coming up. I was talking to someone I used to work with who is now a full time entrepreneur and he said this is his one secret to boosting holiday sales!

I have heard of people using AI to train AI so I don't see why not. I am just not as versed on how to do this. I have heard of this before and it does make sense to take this approach. You don't want to end up making low-quality AI stuff yourself!

You can do YouTube shorts. I know someone that did that for their shop. They made creative videos and just linked back to their store at the end with a link in the description and it worked fairly well. The videos have to be able to grab attention though.

That is actually a really solid idea you have there! I think the best approach would be to start somewhere like Etsy. That may be the best platform for it as they offer digital sales and they don't take as high of a percentage as other places. If you gain some traction, you can start adding tags to the digital blueprints that tell people to go to your own website and offer special blueprints there that aren't on Etsy.

Hmm I would have thought other ones would have been performing better. Thanks for actually listing off some more niche topics. AI makes sense since that is what people are all obsessed with at the moment. Same with those weight loss drugs.

I was looking into print on demand places and these are both recommended as the top two for keeping the most revenue. I dug a bit further and it would appear they are owned by the same people/group? But they still offer different features and platform difference. My question is what are the differences between the two? I want to know which is better in 2026. I find older things from 3+ years ago talking about it but I want some current information and data from people that have used the platforms.

Would you mind sending those to me as well? I want to see what you found and play around with some videos for advertisement purposes. I was looking into promotional videos and they all recommend using font like this now.

There are plenty. I was messing around with this 3 or so years ago and learned how to set it up watching YouTube videos lol I ended up moving away from the platform because they changed a feature that I was making use of.

It just means you are triggering for an invalid certificate or it is expired. This can sometimes happen at random and self-correct itself but it is rare. If you recently transferred your DNS to Cloudflare, I have heard of that giving people trouble too.

You could end up spending a lot of money doing this. Some domains are quite expensive depending on the words used and these prices seem to go up year after year. I personally wouldn't do this because the way the internet works now, everything auto-corrects.

Can AI do these well now? Last time I tried was maybe 3 or 4 years ago and they were all terrible. lol Maybe things have changed now. I will have to see what it can do. I would imagine paid ones are better than free.

It seems AI is very much the future but how much of it will we be using? I am not sure. I know they used to say the internet would never catch on and here we are. They were wrong about that. People are saying the same thing now about AI but all the money is painting a different picture. Just like back when the internet was new, big names were putting all sorts of money into it. I am seeing the same thing with AI. So I am wondering how can someone like me stay ahead of the trends and know where things are going?

Filmora and Canva. I think @dannydobbs is right though about people using paid options. I don't see any that are free that don't either limit your use or put watermarks on the video. You might be better off finding an AI platform you like that can do this and more and just paying monthly for it.

I have had to hire people before but for temporary work. It was more or less getting some websites set up, custom code and that. Stuff I would not be able to to myself. I am not sure I would ever be in a position to hire people full time but I think the "right time" is different for everyone.