Teespring campaign

Hi. Thanks for sharing your unique position- it makes it a lot easier to answer your specific questions.

First off, you used 17 total words for your campaign and both sentences are just generic statements. Your shirt is not a "must-have for entrepreneurs" because I certainly don't have to have it...which is why I didn't reserve one. If you would have told your story about being a professional photographer trying to start a company and saving up for a DSLR though, then hey...I might have thrown in my twenty bucks to support you. So give me an honest paragraph about you and why you're doing this.

Facebook advertising is RIDICULOUS though; why on Earth would you pay for leads on an unproven idea with bad copy? Now, I like the shirt...but this isn't about a t-shirt at all....it's about marketing yourself. And if you don't have a single friend, family member or co-worker who would buy a shirt from you, then why on Earth would I?

So my advice is to stop all paid advertising, scrap this campaign and go back to the drawing board with a similar idea. Before launching it though, reach out to everyone you know, tell them about the upcoming sale to support your dream, and print a shirt that makes us proud to be a part of your journey.

If you're a photographer, then I expect a sweet full color shirt with a cool design for around $25-34. Just don't try to limit yourself to just one niche when your ideal customer is your relatives.

I hope that helps.

Here's my honest opinion:

The quote is semi-decent, but the graphic is terrible. Would you wear that t-shirt? Would you spend $20 for two clip art hands shaking and a quote you likely heard while going to grade school?

Please don't take this as me being rude – I'm just trying to put things in perspective for you.

You need to know your audience. Maybe, MAYBE if the graphic was better and the shirt was more visually appealing people might be interested.

But that still begs the question: Who is your target audience?

What filters are you using in the campaign – who exactly are you selling to? This quote is way too general to even fit with a specific demographic so there's a huge problem right there.

Secondly, your copy is bad. Just "Limited Edition" as the title? All Tesspring t-shirts are "Limited Edition." You need to pick out better unique benefits if you want to convince people they need to buy your stuff.

Have you tried looking up the best selling shirts? Have you attempted to see what niches people are interested in? You need to do some market research before you just blindly start a campaign and have no idea what people want.

And honestly, the graphics do matter. People are wearing a t-shirt that has a message on it. If it's a poor graphic, they're not going to want to display it. They could likely find a shirt with the same quote or saying, with a better image.

Tldr; Conduct better research, know your market, improve your graphics and copy, and refine who you're targeting in your ad campaigns. You need to have a finely oiled machine, not just guesses. You will lose money on guesses more often than not.

Did you take down the shirt design? All it shows on the Teespring campaign is "Image Unavailable".

Thanks for all your oppinions, i toke the campaign down no point spending money on something that dosent work.

Okay so i did everything wrong, bad art work and typo with a generic quote, and the sales pitc needs to be better, With all that in mind i think i will stop trying and save what i can for the new dslr.

My hats off for those who can make money, its not an easy task and requires a unique mindset.

Its funny even now i still have a voice in my head telling me to keep on trying (you can do it) its hard to let go, but i fear my place is to be the one clicking the buy now button and not the one making the buy now button.

True giving up is what makes it a failure, So i made a new one, but im not running any ads for it, this is a test. hope you have the time for an honest oppinion.

Test Tee: Welders get full penetration | Teespring

Metal working is my full time job and photo shooting is my hobby as i mentioned, so making something related to what i know was the beginning of the Tee.

I know this is clipart but i dont know where i can get better and legal graphics, so im using what teespring is offering when i make the tee.

Now the sales pitch/copy is where i allways get stuck and dont know what to write but i think i came up with something personal and engagin.

But what do you guys and girls think? I can handel honesti

I actually was quite successful with tee spring. I think I posted some post about it like last year. So that was quite a while ago.

Ok the first shirt, won't work. That niche will not buy that one.

The second shirt has legs. Change "Welders get full penetration" to "Welders do it with full penetration".

I would also go to fiverr.com and get a designer to do up the design. Welders love skulls and black shirts. They won't buy that color. I know because I'm in that niche and have sold a lot of shirts in it. (including the phrase used here).

With tshirt sales, you have to connect to the audience and give them something they can't wait for their friends to see. Humor works well, so does "i kick ass" type shirts.

Design is important, but targeting is just as important. You didn't mention what you did for ads or targeting or budget. That's pretty important information.

Apparently English is not your native language and that's okay, but man, those spelling errors are no no. Please use spell check at least.

Teespring campaigns are mainly successful if the demo is passionate enough. The first one is too broad and no one will buy that. Second one is okay but again, the wording is wrong. Also, try darker colors like ppc coach said, black is your best bet.

Teespring is not easy at all. You need a lot of money to test a bunch of variations of a single shirt design along with campaigns. If it was that easy, every single person would quit their day jobs and work from home. There are too many variables and don't expect to get it right at your first try. That would be extremely optimistic. Some niches are tight, some niches are very picky, some niches don't have many enthusiastic buyers. Aligning passionate buyers with a rocking design is very very hard to achieve.

Hi, okay i toke a step back and began rethinking how i could use my facebook profile to get some sales from friends and family, and came up with this new design.

Many of them are self employed and do make money online so i thought this design would appel to them, but even if they all bought one i still wouldent raise enughf for the camera so im allso going to use facebook ads to promote it.

This is the design: Online entrepreneur or marketing expert? | Teespring

Im letting people know how they help me and what its for.

So is this better or still crap?

Now you need to make sure what is your goal?
To build a campaign that directly sell to your audience?


Or build a campaign that your audience which they are interacting with your cloth, making them interested in your cloth?


If you're a wanderer on FB, and you saw some marketing stuff POP UP on to your screen, would you buy in your first view?


What is the most powerful tool on FB? I guess you should have known.

Dbm811, I'm in the same boat. I tried three campaigns and failed. But I have that Irish stubbornness in me that will not let me give up until i find a way to succeed.! Failure is not an option! This is why I'm on this site, so maybe I can get some help and advice from some good people here.I understand about picking a niche, but i'm not sure if i'm placing my ad's the correct way with face book. I'm going after the christian market, and my Facebook page is called. Wearing Your Faith, with the whole Idea Is to create nice designs with christian themed t-shirts. My whole idea is to get people to spread God's word by wearing t-shirts. Thus the name, wearing your faith! I haven't had any luck yet, but I'm still trying! Good luck, and please don't give up.

It's not easy. 70 to 80% of your attempts will FAIL.

But the ones that do work, work well typically.

You have to have the following 3 criteria for it to work:

1.) You have to be able to find the audience on Facebook, (if you're using them).
2.) They have to have disposable income.
3.) The shirt has to be something that makes them laugh or hits an emotional trigger in them.

Hit all 3 and you've got a winner.