Hello Community,
I've been selling T Shirts (yes of course...) for about a year now via Merch by Amazon and all the other big marketplaces. I earn a decent extra income - but nothing crazy.
I'm pretty sure that's not a good business model. uploading and hoping. Quantity over quality. Throwing shit on the wall. No barrier to enter the market. Absolutely no control over your own brand, over your own products and you are absolutely dependent on the marketplaces.
So I have been building my own shop with Shopify+Printful. online since last week. Of course it is much more complex and you have to take care of your own traffic... But this is ok and actually it motivates me a lot that you can do a lot more than just uploading like a machine... You build something (if it works...). My niche is good and has an unique "twist", my shop is ok and I got my first sales... So far so good.
However... And that is my problem... I wonder if all this is really worth it? Doesn't every teenager and his dog sell T-shirts today? There are millions of T-shirts and brands...
But I also think that it is a really great possibility... If I imagine that i would have wanted to start such a business only 20 years ago... You need staff, storage rooms, machines... And today you can sell almost without cost and effort to the WHOLE WORLD...
i could branch out to other niche related products and see what is working.. so PoD could be a nice method of testing the water.
What do you think of Print on Demand? And T Shirts in particular?... After all, there are millions of people who wear and buy T-shirts...
Is anyone of you successful with PoD? Today? Not 3 Years Ago?
Thank you!
I've been selling T Shirts (yes of course...) for about a year now via Merch by Amazon and all the other big marketplaces. I earn a decent extra income - but nothing crazy.
I'm pretty sure that's not a good business model. uploading and hoping. Quantity over quality. Throwing shit on the wall. No barrier to enter the market. Absolutely no control over your own brand, over your own products and you are absolutely dependent on the marketplaces.
So I have been building my own shop with Shopify+Printful. online since last week. Of course it is much more complex and you have to take care of your own traffic... But this is ok and actually it motivates me a lot that you can do a lot more than just uploading like a machine... You build something (if it works...). My niche is good and has an unique "twist", my shop is ok and I got my first sales... So far so good.
However... And that is my problem... I wonder if all this is really worth it? Doesn't every teenager and his dog sell T-shirts today? There are millions of T-shirts and brands...
But I also think that it is a really great possibility... If I imagine that i would have wanted to start such a business only 20 years ago... You need staff, storage rooms, machines... And today you can sell almost without cost and effort to the WHOLE WORLD...
i could branch out to other niche related products and see what is working.. so PoD could be a nice method of testing the water.
What do you think of Print on Demand? And T Shirts in particular?... After all, there are millions of people who wear and buy T-shirts...
Is anyone of you successful with PoD? Today? Not 3 Years Ago?
Thank you!
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