TeeSpring. What am I doing wrong?

The landmark clip art on shirt #1 might be considered touristy. I think the only way around that is a higher artistic value. But then there's the question of what "Feel the Bern" has to do with NYC landmarks anyway.

Shirt #2 is poorly designed.

The problem is with your designs -- amateurish. Even if I were in NYC, I would not get the whole BERN thing. And the Halloween shirts looks like it was designed by a 4th grader. Sorry. But you had the courage to ask, and if you learn from your mistakes and honest critiques, you'll soon be doing a much better job.

The problem with political shirts like #1 is people don't really buy these shirts because they want the cool shirt. They buy them because it is part of a donation to the political campaign.

Your sales copy says "Support Bernie Sanders" but it does not say how buying this shirt will support Bernie Sanders. And it is clearly not endorsed by the Sanders campaign.

Unless the subject is so overwhelmingly popular and hot that people are jumping on the band wagon in large numbers with great enthusiasm there is not that much interest in paying $26 for a T-shirt tied to a political campaign.

I would say a niche political candidate is a poor market for selling products that are not officially endorsed by the campaign. Unless the person is so incredibly popular that everyone wants a piece.

You might have more success marketing a shirt that would appeal to that demographic but not tied directly to the candidate: Think "No Nukes" not "Vote JFK".


As for #2. t's just a very ugly design that I would hardly call "sassy". "Your trick is my treat" makes no sense. What does that mean?

Hi,

I think if you are not getting any clicks, it could be the way you have set up. But I wanted to give you an update.

I was on craiglist for something and your ad was shown (Halloween sassy). It is consistant and showed it to me on the following sites today:

Home | Daily Mail Online
Fitnea – Stay Fit
Bon Appétit Magazine

The ad was good. Clean and simple. Just wanted to give you a a feed back. Are you getting more clicks and sales now?

Also, I saw the bern t shirt only once in craiglist. I know your target audience is NY. So, I am not sure why it was showing it in Toronto. May be it is just a one time occurrence.

Who or what are you using for ads? and how much is the cost?

RM

I think a better picture would be a caricature that vaguely resembles Bernie Sanders pointing a pistol at an over size Donald Trump like pig.

"All right capitalist pig, gimme your money... so I can give it to the poor!"

Merca, Your problem is that your design and your targeting for both are WAY too general. (besides just being a really bad design for the Halloween one. I didn't even look at the sanders)


First of all, you're way too late for Halloween; For Teespring the campaign has to end, print and THEN ship and the product can take up to two weeks to get there.


But to clear some things up, the people who have done seasonal stuff are not targeting that as an interest. You first need to have a specific niche and your design would be niche specific just with a seasonal twist on it.


You are too general on the design and too general with the targeting...


Here are my suggestions:
*Make a list of your interests and try to get your niches from there
*DO NOT jump into saturated niches like "nurses" and the like just because at one time a few people made a lot of money there.
*You can explore those later if you really want to, but learn your stuff first where it's not so competitive
*Spend time on target research, and then go back and spend even more time!!
*Audience Insights is your new best friend!
*And so is google to make sure AI has given you EVERYTHING!
- Let's say you were trying to target Chef's: That as an interest is too broad, pages like Rachel Ray are too broad, Recipe pages are too broad. Everyone likes those.
You are trying to find people who want to buy your shirt!
Where would you dig deeper? How about Culinary schools, Or certain brands of cookware ONLY chefs would use, brands of knive's, Commercial kitchen products?
Dig deep until you hit the super passionate people!
*THEN create a design. Find audience, KNOW them, THEN do a design, not the other way around.
* Need design ideas? Go see what's selling and popular among that niche on other websites; Pinterest, google image, ebay, wanelo, ect
*Get ideas from the above but NEVER ever ever copy
*Search for Teespring groups on Facebook, Join them, and stay updated on every single change, every day. Teespring News is one of them and there are more.
*Watch youtube videos when you need to clarify something more

When you are shown an ad like rainmaker is describing it's called retargeting. Yes it would be retargeting from Teespring. Since I clicked the link to your Halloween shirt, I may be shown that ad in other places now. You should look it up, because at some point you will be using retargeting yourself for your ads with a custom audience.


The thing with Halloween is that the actual day is all about costumes, not shirts. So for a Halloween themed shirt it should've been out beginning of the month-to be worn during.
If the campaign would have ended today, that means it doesn't get shipped today. They have to print your shirt, so add on days for that as well. And two weeks is just an estimate, I'm on day 17 waiting for one of my shirts from them. So always give yourself enough time.


I wouldn't concentrate too much on seasonal stuff for now, nail down a niche first. If you're interested in Christmas do an "ugly Christmas sweater" theme with the niche's taste, get a good designer-NOT on fiver. Just go into the groups on Facebook and ask for a designer and you should get recommendations to some that people have already used themselves.

Get in the groups on facebook, Lots of help for you there
Sending you some good luck vibes!

The designs are not the best...you should get your designs done on fiverr... The Halloween shirt it´s a bit late...

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i think the promblem that is your ads and your items. Your ads can not run or can not use money so it can not bring your ads to everyone. Your items, in my opinion, are not atractive or not enough attractive. For the Haloween shirt, you should design to be able to make the young of attractiveness.

Try looking at other popular designs and take reference on the "Standard" of design that you should be having. A properly targeted campaign is only half the battle won, having a good product is necessary when selling anything.