Teespring CPA disaster

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Hi guys, I need help and critics on my CPA method.
So I started doing teespring ads now 2 months and I had 3 successful campaigns( sold 30, 50, 600 shirts) but lately it's not working so good for me.
In one huge successful campaign, I made OCPM ads with facebook. I started with $35 during 4hours as a test and when I got 5 conversions and a roi near 200% in this short period of time, I did another 4 hours ads and it worked.
The next day I spent another $150 during 12hours of the day and got enough profits and so it went up each day until I knew the niche is saturated and the profits started to drop. Results are around $5000 of pure profit.

Recently I wanted to have the same success with some campaigns but it didn't work. I'd have enough profit with the first $20 in 4hours of the day then I just scale up to $80 for the next 4 hours of the day and conversions will really drop.
Like with this campaign, I put $20 on FB OCPM ads, spent during 4hours, and get a ROI of 150% and 5 conversion then I decide to add $65 to my campaign and conversions dropped so badly so I stopped the campaign and decided to run it again the next day. In the next day I did put more budget but my roi just dropped near 10%. I just want to know what I'm doing wrong? How can I sell 5 t-shirts with $20 of ads then only $15 when I add $150 in budget?
This happened with alot of my campaigns where I'd see them as winners then I put more budget and it just drop so badly that I have to stop it.
Do I scale up in budget so fast? What about my method of doing ads just for 4hours on a $35 budget? If it's a wrong method then why it worked with one of my t-shirts and I sold over 600 tees with this same method?
Do I have to switch from tees to hoodies because summer is over?

I ask alot of questions but I'm new into making ads and I can't find what's really wrong with my campaigns and how I can't find a winner lately. Let's say there's nothing wrong with my designs as I'm a designer.

I'll really appreciate your help. Thanks guys
#cpa #disaster #teespring
  • Profile picture of the author Yearsleftbehind
    As I'm still a newbie and don't know much about what CPA CPM CPC exact meaning, I'd like to explain that I use facebook ads to increase conversions and I let facebook automatically optimize the price for each conversion. I saw alot of threads here about teespring and people uses clicks so can someone explains to me how some use CPC to sell t-shirts?
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  • Profile picture of the author Mr Lim
    I did a tricked with oCPM in the past with FB ads and it worked, but I tried it again this year, the trick do not work at all, it just eats the budget rather than neutralize the budget spending.
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  • Profile picture of the author Yearsleftbehind
    I made more than 10k since I made this thread. Thanks for your help, *******.
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    • Profile picture of the author FrederickSEO
      Great job, Yearsleftbehind! How did you resolve the problem? I am a newbie and planning to start my first Teespring campaign. Any more tips to share? Thank you VERY much!

      Originally Posted by Yearsleftbehind View Post

      I made more than 10k since I made this thread. Thanks for your help, *******.
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      • Profile picture of the author Yearsleftbehind
        Originally Posted by FrederickSEO View Post

        Great job, Yearsleftbehind! How did you resolve the problem? I am a newbie and planning to start my first Teespring campaign. Any more tips to share? Thank you VERY much!
        I changed my method. Before that I wanted to quickly start to get $500 ( Money is addictive) and after a while I just started to make $20 budget a day. I got a winner as my ROI was around 350%, next day I didn't scale up the budget as much as before. I just made the budget $40 during the second day then 3rd day went up to $225/day. Then I was gradually adding more budget and I guess it was good to get a very low % of repetition in my ads.

        The tips are to not judge a campaign from the get go. You may think a campaign is a winner because it got you enough profit in the first day but this is not a reason to scale up in budget the second day. You have to go slow.
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    • Profile picture of the author badboy_Nick
      Originally Posted by Yearsleftbehind View Post

      I made more than 10k since I made this thread. Thanks for your help,
      I like it - Congrats on getting Teespring to work as the T-Shirt market is definitely not an easy one to crack

      Keep on trucking mate!

      Nick
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      • Profile picture of the author Yearsleftbehind
        Originally Posted by badboy_Nick View Post

        I like it - Congrats on getting Teespring to work as the T-Shirt market is definitely not an easy one to crack

        Keep on trucking mate!

        Nick
        Thanks. Unfortunately no one helped me when I needed help.
        This market is not so easy at all, especially for someone with no marketing knowledge. I still feel that I'm mainly selling due to my ability to make catch-eyes design than my ability to target but I will get there and be a good marketer one day.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Tran
    Originally Posted by Yearsleftbehind View Post

    Hi guys, I need help and critics on my CPA method.
    So I started doing teespring ads now 2 months and I had 3 successful campaigns( sold 30, 50, 600 shirts) but lately it's not working so good for me.
    In one huge successful campaign, I made OCPM ads with facebook. I started with $35 during 4hours as a test and when I got 5 conversions and a roi near 200% in this short period of time, I did another 4 hours ads and it worked.
    The next day I spent another $150 during 12hours of the day and got enough profits and so it went up each day until I knew the niche is saturated and the profits started to drop. Results are around $5000 of pure profit.

    Recently I wanted to have the same success with some campaigns but it didn't work. I'd have enough profit with the first $20 in 4hours of the day then I just scale up to $80 for the next 4 hours of the day and conversions will really drop.
    Like with this campaign, I put $20 on FB OCPM ads, spent during 4hours, and get a ROI of 150% and 5 conversion then I decide to add $65 to my campaign and conversions dropped so badly so I stopped the campaign and decided to run it again the next day. In the next day I did put more budget but my roi just dropped near 10%. I just want to know what I'm doing wrong? How can I sell 5 t-shirts with $20 of ads then only $15 when I add $150 in budget?
    This happened with alot of my campaigns where I'd see them as winners then I put more budget and it just drop so badly that I have to stop it.
    Do I scale up in budget so fast? What about my method of doing ads just for 4hours on a $35 budget? If it's a wrong method then why it worked with one of my t-shirts and I sold over 600 tees with this same method?
    Do I have to switch from tees to hoodies because summer is over?

    I ask alot of questions but I'm new into making ads and I can't find what's really wrong with my campaigns and how I can't find a winner lately. Let's say there's nothing wrong with my designs as I'm a designer.

    I'll really appreciate your help. Thanks guys
    Maybe I think the problem in your advertising account. In the past time, FB's updating to fix some problems and that affect to many people on the world. I lost much money by automaticcally optimize prices. For the personal account or normal account, their product is so hard to approch exactly targeting what you want - if it is an agency account, you'll get some showing priority and anything else compared with personal account. You should reduce the sphere of targeting and bid price ( don't use automatically optimize price, it will take your money that it just happen in the moment) by manual- because FB,in this time, is not updating yet ,. You should use automatically with large budget, > 50-100$/perday and it's the agency account of fb
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  • Profile picture of the author QtoBrooklyn
    love it when people comment without reading the whole thread
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  • Profile picture of the author Yearsleftbehind
    His comment was a way out but in the same time I wonder if it's better to bid price and not automatically optimize it. I always let facebook optimize it and it works but maybe bid price will get me much more?
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  • Profile picture of the author QTeeKitty
    Congrats on your winning campaigns Years!

    Right now I believe the best way to go is auto bidding. Of course there is never definite yes or no answer until you test.

    It looks like you already found out from testing that you fixed your previous problem with raising budget. Raising more than 40-50% messes up the optimization so most of the time staying within 20-30% a day is working right now. If you want to increase a lot, duplicate the ad and on the new ad set increase the budget on the new one.
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      • Profile picture of the author EricBernard
        Congrats on figuring it out man! 10k is impressive for just a few weeks.
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  • Profile picture of the author Yearsleftbehind
    I have a question here. I started a campaign 4 days ago and the niche is 400K and in the first day, I reached 1000 people for $6 then the next one I reached 1000 people for the average of $7 and now I have to pay $10 to reach 1000 people. There's pretty much no repetition (1.20) and there's enough people to reach but I just can't get any profit now as it cost me so much to reach them. What I did wrong? First day was $40 in budget and got 80% ROI. Second day the budget was $100 and got 300% of ROI but now I barely get any profit with a $300 a day budget. Do I have to create a similar ad within this campaign to start again and reach them for only $6 ?
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