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Free registration at the forum removes this block.The first time ever I hear of teespring and that some guys made so much money out off it.
No wait, thats not true!
I read a post a few days ago that talked about scraping fan pages and groups to target them via a custom audience on facebook. It was named "How to steal the fans of your competitors". The article explained how some people scraped the Facebook IDs of persons with specific lastnames and then created an ad calling them by their name and selling them a Tshirt with their lastname. Know that I think about it, it was probabl teespring. (Btw facebook prohibited this kind of advertising now).
I think its great that you share your experience and see it just as that: An experience. Probably great to learn something about facebook ads, but nothing more. Its to late to make money with that as already too much people have thought about it or tried it for their self.
I have been loosing a lot of time with these kinds of siteprojects, becoming excited about the idea and dream. But it was every time exactly that: lost time. I would go for sideprojects that really can teach you something
Here's my question.
The average CPA on Facebook is $20-30
How are you going to make money selling t-shirts?
One more piece of advice. If you're KNOW you're going to spend $100 (or $50) on a campaign/ad set, I'd rather have that data in ONE day then a little bit of spend spread across a week. Gotta fail fast.
I read a lot of the above, skimmed through a bit so apologies if I missed anything.
You're targeting for the dog shirt was spot on, those interests are HUGE fans of dogs.
Your 90s shirt appeals to people who are 25 and under. These guys wear things that are cool so your shirt has to look good! If you won't wear it chances are no one will buy it.
For those around 40 and above, you can usually get away with boring text designs.
JasonR is right, you want to fail fast, prioritize data collection. The more you throw out there, the quicker you learn BUT the more you'll spend. I've had days where I test 20 designs, lose $600, (none are profitable), BUT I learn a lot about 20 different niches. At this stage however, you want to refine your process so I would suggest keeping it to 2-3.
great work with downloading Gimp and doing your own designs. Your SPOT ON about having a template and just varying it here and there so you can make different designs quickly. this has been a big thing for my business. One design I varied up about 40-60 times, 5 of them did real well and bought in over 40k collectively in revenue.
You NEED to be able to design yourself or at least a local, in-house designer who can put out designs ASAP. You don't want to be depending on someone to be getting back to you all the time for small design mods, etc.
Anyway, you're doing things right, just keep going.
Also, work on creating a quicker process. ei,
- Have one generic description you can copy paste between teespring camps
- Be posting on the ONE facebook page, only branch out when camps are successful
As you get quicker, the process will become less frustrating so keep going through the hurdles.
~ Mateen
One more piece of advice. If you KNOW you're going to spend $100 (or $50) on a campaign/ad set, I'd rather have that data in ONE day then a little bit of spend spread across a week. Gotta fail fast.
Like, do you think I run a risk of advertising with $30 for a day on Tuesday and failing, whereas if I had run it on a Sunday it may have been successful?
Anyways, I can't help but think, are you tripping over nickels when you she be chasing 100 dollar bills with this t-spring stuff?
Do you mind if I PM you?
Anyone know what the best TeeSpring forums are?
I've been studying teespring & facebook for 10 days so far. I still need to learn more and find some niches to try out. I'll begin campaigning in a couple of weeks more or less. I heard one guy had a successful 1st campaign (19 sales) and then he had 40 fails in a row before he got another success. I also heard another guy had a 15/1 fail/success ratio when he was a beginner, and now he has a 5/1 ratio. So yeah I'm taking my time learning this stuff first. I want to have a reasonably solid foundation before I begin campaigning. It looks to me like the experienced guys spend about 10% of their profits on ads. All these Teespring & Facebook mechanics are very new to me. Once I have a good grasp of the mechanics I should do pretty well, unless something is terribly wrong. Most of the shirts I've seen on Teespring are pretty bad and it looks like most people don't know what they're doing (as usual).
Congrats on printing, now maybe you can get a few more, become profitable, throw some more into the marketing and have it roll.
Question for the more experienced FB marketers:
What are my options for deleting or hiding bad comments? A few people have posted things like "cool, but I'm not paying $xx for a shirt". Am I able to delete that, and should I? If I click hide does that hide it from everyone or just from myself? Thanks.
EDIT: I clicked hide and it's only see-able to the person who posted and their friends. That should work.
I'm going to continue running the ads tomorrow and see if the profits overtake the ad spend.
Are you using the tactics from the link I sent you in the PM? Think that would help with scaling/profitability.
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