Print on demand is deceptively simple to start and easy to lose money at. This series is the honest version: what actually sells, the design rules that keep an account alive, the base-cost maths most beginners skip, and the pipeline that makes it all run hands-off. You have already met the method — the free worksheets and calculators are lifted straight from these pages. The books are the why behind them.
Book 1 · BasicsGet one product listed safely, and know its real margin
For: you have never sold a print-on-demand product — maybe not even a design idea yet. You finish with: one original product listed for sale, safely and compliantly, and the plain arithmetic to know — before you spend an evening — whether any product is worth making.
Nine chapters: the base-cost shock, the two checks that keep an account alive, finding a design a real buyer wants, making the file even if you can't draw, setting up the platform-and-provider pipeline, the honest margin sum, a clean listing, going live compliantly, and reading a quiet start without quitting.
Comes with, free: the two-test safety checklist, the setup + cost sheet, the listing and review-loop worksheets, and the live profit and pricing calculators.
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Book 2 · IntermediateOwn a niche the same buyer comes back to
For: you have one or a few designs listed and measured, and no shop a buyer returns to. You finish with: a coherent niche range for one kind of buyer, a compounding free-traffic channel, and a repeat-purchase engine running live.
Turning one product into a business: reading who actually bought, building a range off one idea, the keyword and listing craft Basics deliberately left out, and the shop that reads as a brand.
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Book 3 · AdvancedPut money where the margin is, and make it durable
For: you have a catalogue that sells with repeat purchase, and growth has flattened. You finish with: a premium tier that holds its price, paid acquisition that pays back, a catalogue run by contribution per design, and a durability audit of what you actually own.
The ceiling: the fully-burdened ledger, a premium product priced against a pre-declared rule, a CAC ceiling for thin POD margins, and the reallocation that funds winners and retires the rest.
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The foundation the whole series is built on — one product, listed safely, its real margin known. Intermediate and Advanced follow, each closing one gap and handing the next book the next one.
Get the free worksheetsThe books aren’t on sale just yet. The free worksheets and calculators are ready now, and they use the same methods the books teach.
Why trust itThe research, checked
Every figure carries the status of its evidence: a checkable fact is named with its source, a practitioner's own number is flagged as a report rather than a rule, and a rule of thumb is called what it is — a starting point you replace with your own data. Provider costs and platform fees are dated and re-checked, because they change faster than a book can. That is the whole promise: not hype, not somebody's "secret" — the ecommerce research, checked, and handed to you in a form you can act on.
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