Quick Hustle: How I made $2,000 on Teespring

[DeletedUser394]

Here they are, had to download them as they didn't even deserve to be saved to my computer. I told him to make a "F*CK ISIS" logo. I told him it will be used on t-shirts, so keep it simple and professional. Maybe incorporate characters into it or whatever he feels would be best to make it stand out. That was a mistake lol.

http://imgur.com/4xj5Pts,XEN4C9h

http://imgur.com/4xj5Pts,XEN4C9h#1

Once I received the first one I told him it was not good and I could've done that myself in about 45 seconds. He proceeds to give me the second one, and I don't understand why he put a map of the whole world on there and marked out AK47's. I have an AK47, I guess i'm ISIS . Also, in the first one he didn't even censor it like I specify. There are much better artist on fiverr, if anyone wants, I will link him on here. I've used him for a few eBooks.

that first one is hilarious hahahahahah holy crap.

 

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[JAJT]

You're not taking crazy pills, someone started a thread with a dollar amount and what seems to be a simple event. Everyone thinks they found an easy way to make a couple of grand. No work, no barrier to entry, no risk--results? A bunch of people now found a new shiny object to play with.

Took the words out of my mouth.

 

[AllenCrawley]

FYI. I removed all the affiliate links yesterday. The fact of the matter is the OP saw an opportunity to make some affiliate cash by sharing a way to make some 'hustle' cash. Something to note... It was 9 months since his last post on this forum and hasn't been seen since Monday.

You're not taking crazy pills, someone started a thread with a dollar amount and what seems to be a simple event. Everyone thinks they found an easy way to make a couple of grand. No work, no barrier to entry, no risk--results? A bunch of people now found a new shiny object to play with.

I'm sure some will make money, for others it's something to play business with.

You can make money on the side doing this. I do view this as a hustle the same as picking up items from auctions and craigslist and reselling. Who knows, maybe the OP was doing a test to see if there was enough interest in a 'how to' product before posting it as a WSO at the WF. After all, it does come across that way

 

[Emanuel]

Rep+

Thanks!

FYI. I removed all the affiliate links yesterday.

There's a couple more at the end of the first page.

 

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[AllenCrawley]

There's a couple more at the end of the first page.

The live link themselves are not affiliate links. You'd have to copy and paste in order for it to credit the affiliate.

 

[Milkanic]

This is about one notch above MLM. The people making money are the one's selling info products on how to make $10k a week selling t-shirts.

I'm tempted to start a site of all the shitty designs.

 

[Yeezy]

I'm tempted to start a site of all the shitty designs.

So, everything on teespring?

 

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[johnp]

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
Is this entire thread legit? It doesn't feel like it at all.
So all of a sudden EVERYBODY'S hopping on the idea?
Why?

haha I was thinking the same thing myself. This thread reminds me of when I was 17 years old and I thought that I would become a millionaire off of selling some custom T-shirts and Mugs that I made on Cafe Press.

 

[Blhhi]

You're not taking crazy pills, someone started a thread with a dollar amount and what seems to be a simple event. Everyone thinks they found an easy way to make a couple of grand. No work, no barrier to entry, no risk--results? A bunch of people now found a new shiny object to play with.

I'm sure some will make money, for others it's something to play business with.

This thread should be gold for having that post alone.

 

[Jonleehacker]

Why Teespring as opposed to Zazzle or Cafepress or the dozens of other customizable T-shirt companies?
What's the advantage?

I think the Kickstarter style target would create an incentive for everyone who likes your design to share on social media... therefore a good design has a potential to go viral that it wouldn't get with Zazzle or CF.

 

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[MJ DeMarco]

It is the infamous "t-shirt company" posts that transformed the Reddit/Entrepreneur subreddit into a low-rent cesspool of money chasing strategies.

Now there's Reddit/AdvancedEntreprneurship to counter the shift.

The thread gives me the idea to create a subforum here under "hustles" -- all in all, it sounds like a nice way for someone to get starting in marketing and perhaps make a little cash. I never have a problem with that, but do have a problem with BullShit click bait headlines which now I have reason to suspect.

 

[randomnumber314]

You can make money on the side doing this. I do view this as a hustle the same as picking up items from auctions and craigslist and reselling. Who knows, maybe the OP was doing a test to see if there was enough interest in a 'how to' product before posting it as a WSO at the WF. After all, it does come across that way

No doubt there is money in this, but like I said most are treating it as the newest shiniest object to pursue. You most likely have to spend a couple bucks on advertising and testing, which most will not pursue--once it gets tough, or "doesn't work" out of the gate, they'll move on.

 

[evlttwin]

I made a shirt for the fun of it, just to try it out. If it makes money, cool...if not i got to see how the process works. It's free.

I accidentally hit the slider to 21 shirts that have to sell in 2 weeks or it will be a failed campaign. OOPS!

 

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[PopEmersen]

really just an experiment for me, so far I've only gotten one sale from about 112 USD in FB ads and 1 that looks to be sold organically.

 

[DennisD]

Every year around Christmas I make a few hundred bucks off of my Zazzle shirts:

http://www.zazzle.com/cherrycards/gifts?pg=1&ps=90
http://www.zazzle.com/thesavepoint
and about 2 other stores with different products.

It's not a ton of cash, but I spent a few days creating them a few years ago and they provide a nice little extra cash around christmas without marketing. If I stuck with it and did a shirt a day since then, I'd be making a fulltime living from it, I'm sure.

Stick with ANYTHING long enough and you'll excel.
Most people don't want to so they fail.

 

[Charnell]

Sure, haha.

http://teespring.com/catsanta

My Facebook Ad Campaign is "active" but it hasn't "reached" anybody yet.
I drilled down on Christmas, Xmas, Cats, some other christmas related movies and also by online purchases.

I think the estimated reach per day was something like 1,000 or so.
I'm interested to see how the numbers play out.

I could see people purchasing this shirt. But then again, I could totally see people not purchasing. Time will tell.

I just got Facebook slammed with your t-shirt.

http://i.imgur.com/cUZdber.png

 

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[satez]

One of the most successful and recent Teespring campaigns that I have seen using Facebook ads, is here:

:edited by Vigilante for:

 

[DennisD]

I just got Facebook slammed with your t-shirt.

http://i.imgur.com/cUZdber.png

Hahahahha me too!

 

[FastTyler]

I also trying now the TeeSpring campaign, Here is my campaign

:edited by Vigilante for:

 

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[MJ DeMarco]

Funny how this thread is now attracting SPAM like shit attracts flies...

Ugh.

 

[evlttwin]

Anyone ever eat those spam, rice, seaweed and curry things they sell at the ABC Stores in Hawaii? Delicious!

 

[DeletedUser394]

Hahahahha me too!

me three!

 

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[FastTyler]

Oh man I'm sorry about that I thought it is okay because I saw a link being posted in this thread. My Fault.

 

[Rinzler]

When the Giants won the world series I made a design the following morning and had it on Teespring with a Facebook Ad running and made 1 conversion in less than 30 minutes. The campaign got taken off due to "copyright" (Even though I didn't use any official logos, just the colors) but this goes to show how powerful Facebook can be for your Teespring Campaign. I have another design I worked on for the video gaming niche, but it's not doing too hot since I haven't thought of joining pages yet!

 

[Shdreams]

The live link themselves are not affiliate links. You'd have to copy and paste in order for it to credit the affiliate.

I just learned something new today ty lol

 

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[Shdreams]

I tried it. Learned how Facebook Adds work, Lost $30 and a couple hours of my time. stats on the adds were 25.000 people reached, 53 actual page hit's. I don't know what a good turn over is. But I assumed it was a fail. lol I liked teespring though. You just Need a great shirt/Have photo shop. And know where the most passionate customers are hiding.

 

[eqttrdr]

Yes, this was my first swing. None of the shirts made it to the featured page. You must be wondering how I marketed? I used targeted niche forums and Facebook (not ads - which suck - but i joined Facebook groups that matched my target market.) Groups with more than 3,000 people had solid conversion.

join groups???? then spam them with your t-shirts?? that will last about 1-2 posts before you get booted from the group...

 

[randomnumber314]

I tried it. Learned how Facebook Adds work, Lost $30 and a couple hours of my time. stats on the adds were 25.000 people reached, 53 actual page hit's. I don't know what a good turn over is. But I assumed it was a fail. lol I liked teespring though. You just Need a great shirt/Have photo shop. And know where the most passionate customers are hiding.

I think my point about people "playing business" is well explained in this " I lost $30 and failed" comment.

Listen people, it takes more than a couple of days and a couple dollars to validate/invalidate an idea.

 

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[Shdreams]

I think my point about people "playing business" is well explained in this " I lost $30 and failed" comment.

I don't want to sell T-shirts for a living. I want to learn how internet marketing works. I want to stretch my ability to grind at a god damn computer all day on a Sunday every night reading MJ's book and researching until 1 AM. chatting with website designers,manufacturers, Tax lawyer. Without going outside and smashing my Lap top. Your ego driven comment lit a massive fire under my A$$. While you sleep tonight think of me grinding and chipping away at my own success....

 

[Shdreams]

To many keyboard warriors in this place for me. It's been fun take care!