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I Tried and Tested Printful vs Gearbubble – My Verdict for 2025

Bogdan Rancea
Articles

I’ve been in the ecommerce and print on demand (POD) industry for over a decade, helping clients launch and scale their online businesses.

Over the years, I’ve tested just about every POD platform available, and I know firsthand how choosing the right one can make or break your business.

The wrong choice can lead to high costs, slow shipping, and frustrated customers, while the right platform can help you scale efficiently and maximize profits.

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I tried and Tested Printify vs ShineOn: My Verdict for 2025

Bogdan Rancea
Articles Print on Demand

If you’re serious about print-on-demand (POD) you’ve probably heard of Printify and ShineOn.

Both allow you to sell custom products without holding inventory—but the question is which one really makes you more money?

I’ve been in eCommerce and print-on-demand for over 10 years, working with hundreds of sellers, testing both platforms and here’s the real deal:

Printify is good if you want variety. You can sell T-shirts, hoodies, mugs and more. But the profit margins? Thin because of competition. ShineOn is a high-profit machine. They focus on personalized jewelry and gifts—products that sell for $50+ per piece meaning much higher profits.

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I tried and Tested Printful Vs ShineOn in 2025: Here’s My Verdict

Bogdan Rancea
Articles Print on Demand Print on Demand Comparisons

I’ve been in the print-on-demand (POD) business for over 10 years, helping sellers launch and scale their stores. If you’re stuck deciding between Printful vs ShineOn, here’s the quick verdict:

Use Printful if you want a wide range of products (apparel, home decor, accessories) with global fulfillment. Use ShineOn if you want high-margin jewelry with strong emotional appeal for gift buyers. Use Printify if you want lower product costs and access to multiple suppliers. Use Gelato if you need faster shipping for international orders with an eco-friendly fulfillment model.

Now, let’s break down the details so you can choose the best POD platform for your business.

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How to Scale Your Print-On-Demand Business (Step-by-step Guide)

Bogdan Rancea
Print on Demand

You found the best print on demand company. You’ve launched your print-on-demand store. You’ve sold a few t-shirts, mugs, or hoodies.

But now you’re stuck.

You’re thinking, How do I actually grow this thing? How do I go from $500/month to $5,000… and beyond?

Here’s the truth: Scaling a print-on-demand business isn’t about flooding your store with more designs or hoping one goes viral. It’s about getting the right systems in place, finding the right audience, and investing in what’s proven to work.

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Teespring vs Redbubble (2024): What You Need to Know

Rebekah Carter
Articles dropshipping Dropshipping Comparisons Print on Demand

Redbubble and Teespring are leading print-on-demand platforms that enable creators to sell custom products without handling production or shipping.

Redbubble operates as a large standalone marketplace established in 2006, focusing on artistic products, while Teespring offers a unique campaign-based approach with over 50 product options and comprehensive support services.

Print on Demand companies, like RedBubble and Teespring give business leaders the opportunity to create their own products to sell to customers, without having to worry about things like designing and shipping items themselves.

Both Redbubble and Teespring offer a fantastic platform to creatives, with access to tons of wonderful products.

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Shopify vs Shipstation: Which Offers Better Shipping Services?

Bogdan Rancea
Articles

On a broad scale, they’re very different solutions. Shipstation focuses exclusively on order fulfillment and shipping services, whereas Shopify is a world-leading ecommerce platform.

Shopify is one of my favorite platforms for sellers, offering extensive scalability, omnichannel selling solutions, and a host of business management features.

Since Shipstation doesn’t offer most of the features available from Shopify, I decided to take a more focused approach with this guide.

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12 Print on Demand Marketing Techniques for 2024

Rebekah Carter
Articles Print on Demand

There is a reason Print-on-Demand (POD) is the first stop for many first-time entrepreneurs and creatives testing out the ecommerce opportunity using in their own or third party’s designs. Like other forms of dropshipping, POD has a low barrier of entry.

A website and dropshipping supplier is all you need to get started. Such low startup costs have a downside though, not least of which is the intense competition. By default, any POD website is just one of thousands of others that provide the same service.

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How to Improve Your Conversions (Even if You Have None)

Rebekah Carter
Ecommerce Selling Advice

There are a lot of metrics that you will need to look at to determine how effective your website is, evaluate its performance and evaluate whether you are on a growth trajectory. Few of these metrics will be as important as the conversion rate.

The conversion rate is the proportion of visitors or users that respond to your invitation to perform a specific action – buy a product, join an email list, fill a form, click on a link etc.

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