Tratto da questo reel sul profilo Instagram di Aly 3D Prints.
If I only had $500 left 💸 and I had to start all over again, this is what I’d do…
Step 1: Buy the cheapest good 3D printer (BambuLab A1 Mini) - $200 🖨️. Spend another $100 on packaging 📦 and filament 🎨.
2: Find 3 products to sell (buy a commercial license for a few bucks 💵 or spend another $100 and hire a modeler 👩💻).
3: Take the best damn photos 📸 and videos 🎥 of the products that you can and list the items on Facebook Marketplace, Instagram, and TikTok Shop (all free! 🆓).
4: Post a piece of content about the product every day for a week 📅. Don’t discount 🚫, don’t pay for ads 🙅♂️, and definitely don’t follow accounts that sell what you sell - follow accounts that your ideal customer follows 👀.
5: Treat every customer like a king 👑. Ship it fast 🚚, throw in a little something extra if you can 🎁. Even a handwritten note ✍️ goes a long way.
6: Split test everything and follow the data 📊. You can’t decide if your product sucks or not until you’ve posted 50 videos of it online 🎬. The algorithms take a while to warm up 🔥. Once you have some data to work with (3 weeks in ⏳), drop your worst-selling item ❌ and find a new one ➕.
7: Narrow down on 1 to 2 niches 🎯 and focus all your resources on building a community surrounding that topic 🤝. If you can’t make content: steal it 👾 or pay someone who can 💰.
8: Refine your entire process ⚙️. Cut out extra costs ✂️ and figure out how to sell more items to the same type of customer base that you already have 👥. Bundle offers 📦 and give discounts at certain price breaks 🎉.
9: Leverage a suite of AI tools 🤖 to automate your entire process. Iterate constantly 🔄 and be aware of seasonality 🍂. Double down on what’s working ✅ and collaborate with other brands where there’s mutual benefit 🤜🤛.
I didn’t say it was gonna be easy 😅. But if you follow these steps, you stand a good chance at creating a serious income stream on a very part-time basis ⏱️💸.
I’m building a new generation of AI tools for the 3D printing prosumer market. If you want early access or free game on the 3d printing industry the links in my bio - and it’s all free 🤑
In un commento descrive il suo setup.
10-15USD per mask, 1.5h to print, 40 printers. But that’s just one of the many products I sell
Tra l’altro nei reels si vedono 12 Bambu Lab X1C (costo di circa 1.5k euro ciascuna) che sono un gran bell’investimento iniziale.
Il reel è un po’ click bait per le cifre descritte. Un business da 1M$ in sei mesi. Tra l’altro si parla sempre del fatturato senza considerare costi di esercizio e ammortamento delle macchine che vengono peraltro acquistate in momenti differenti in base all’aumento delle richieste dei prodotti offerti.
In un precedente reel vengono forniti dei dati di vendita dei primi 4 mesi:
| Mese | Importo |
|---|---|
| Nov | 6301,20 |
| Dec | 26742,80 |
| Jan | 8904,20 |
| Feb | 14308,15 |
Anche aggiungendo altri due mesi a 30k dollari al mese non si arriva ad “1M$ in sei mesi”.
Rimane comunque molto utile la lista dei passi consigliati per mettere in piedi un business con la stampa 3D.