$18,000+ made from selling t-shirts/phone cases

Have you ever lost $ on a T campaign? Is there a way to lose money? Never played with T spring.

Do Teespring create and ship the T's

The good thing about Teespring is that it's free. The only thing you really need to do is share your campaign. If it sells, then start spending money on it. I almost always wait until my campaign sells atleast 5 before spending a dime on it.

Yes both Teespring and Teechip create and ship the shirt, you simply design (or hire someone on Fiverr, Freelancer, etc.) and then promote it to sell.

Who did you sell to; your friends or random people?

Can you sell T-shirts without Facebook if so what would be the best method to promote them?

Great share I've never tried T-shirts but considered it when i saw youtubers doing it. Now I may have to revisit the idea.

I don't doubt the OP and have personally met a number of people doing very, very well with just Teespring and Facebook - we're talking quit your job, buy a house, and hire an assistant kind of money. I was inspired and jumped in. I have a background in marketing and am not a complete idiot.

Originally I found designers online and hit over a dozen very different niches on Facebook. Some sold a few pieces. Some sold over 10, but I still lost money after taking into account the ad spend. I studied and thought I was attacking the right way, breaking my ads up into demographics and then upping the spend on the demographic with the most clicks/lowest CPC. But I couldn't make money.

I then teamed up with a very talented t-shirt designer and agreed to split the profits. We hit maybe 10 niches on FB and the best we did was sell 13 shirts/hoodies.

So I don't know what to make of it. In the end I lost over $1,500, went through 20+ designs and couldn't make it work at all. I don't doubt that some people make it, but of course many more try and fail. I suppose it all comes down to finding the right design for the right niche, which is much easier said then done.

On a side note, one thing that really turns me off with Teespring are all the Gurus who have popped up selling courses to let you in on their secrets. I found this to be a lot of bull and of course, why are you selling your secrets instead of just putting them to work and quietly making cash?

I think this is an inspiring post but I will assume there are way more "failures" in this T-shirt business than successes. Great for those doing well however, and good luck to those not quite making it yet.

OP's point about selling at a higher price point does work in a lot of cases. I know that I've done this plenty with my own publishing biz and see some incredible profit margins... sometimes.
It's a balancing act, testing and tweaking to see where you can draw the line between units sold and making the most profit vs. nobody wanting to buy your stuff simply due to it being ridiculously priced.

You could have a yummy cheeseburger and offer it up to the highest bidder and chances are you'll get different offers within a range. There are buyers at just about every price point in many things.

Excellent share, will look over tspring shortly

Yes there are a lot of courses that come out about teesporing but realistically you do need to have a Big Budget to make this work. Also as I live in Australia the freight and the Dollar conversion makes this type of business totally not viable. I admire those that can make it work and have creative thought processes. I also agree that tshirts and products will sell for a higher price. I have a teenager that will not buy anything that is at a lower price and always opts for the most expensive items. Lets face it who wers tshirts the most... The trendy teenagers

Congrats! That's good money!

I lost money on Facebook Ads In all campaigns I started there.

And I sold t-shirts with no ads (nothing close to $18k). Anyway; every person has a different story.

The "wing and a prayer" marketing method!

I was wondering what you've been up to, Justin. Nice to see your doing well.

can you teach me? please

The site seems great, and the shirts seem great too. What's frustrating to the people who aren't successful is that there's only the top 12 people are featured in each niche. So all the 500+ other people scrambling to be on the featured page will not make nearly enough money as the people that are shown, unless they sell enough to be shown. And to get shown, you have to sell 50-100 shirts at $25 each minimum, which equates to about $500-$1000 ad spend if your acquisition cost per customer is about $10. And most people don't have that kind of money for PPC. And their networks simply aren't big enough to sell 50-100 shirts before their campaign runs out. That being said, looks like you did a slow build over time, so Kudos.

First of all congrats for your success, second of all,.. although Teespring is good.. it has one main flaw: You re not building a list.. So basically all your buyer list belongs to another entity..which is very very bad.
You spend money in design and traffic.. why shouldn't you enjoy the benefit of having complete control of your list?
This is why 90% of the people that were making real money with Teesping, left it, and migrated to Shopify..
Now this is great.. as you have free trial plans, you have a lot of stuff you can see if you want, you just need to find it, you have custom plugins..and most important you own the list!
You can even place a squeeze page if you want..or whatever!
I was never good with Teespring.. and it was something that i began to hate.. as last year everybody and their mother were selling shirts on Teespring.. but now is great. Beside my main business, i can do a store and sell what i want.. I went in a few weeks to hit a few hundreds of dollars per day.. and that is an awesome feeling
So, my advice would be to test Shopify.. you will like it

The real question is, who much did you spend to make that?

There were a couple of good points made on some posts here on how extremely difficult it is to even break even, much less make money with TeeSpring. My best advice is this: don't just jump in because you want to "make money" and you see someone else make $20k or whatever on it.

If you are a designer and love the tshirt business, or would like to move in that direction and this is you passion then go for it.

Only 1 out of 100 people make any money on such ventures. Quit going for the shiny object, and for the shiny cash that others talk about. And above all... quit paying large sums of money to these "gurus" that say are making a killing on TSpring and how easy it is.

Save your money, test it slow and learn as you go... but again, choose what you are passionate about! Not because some dude make a little bit of money in it.

btw, Justin,

whatever happened to your facebook gaming fan page? I remember reading about it a few years ago when you built it to thousands and thousands of page likes. =D

The Tshirt niche is very crowded with marketers & wannabe marketers wanting to make a quick buck now a days. People are starting to get fed up with Teeshirt ads. You need a mailing list to stay afloat.

Sounds like to science'd the heck out of this. How have you been driving traffic? I know there are a lot of people on Facebook Advertising target specific niches to TeeSpring campaigns.

Is that what you do?

I've been an affiliate marketer and always drove people to my landing page to collect a lead.

Let me know how's this going for you...

John Matos

What are the advantages or dis-advantages of usining Teespring vs, Teechip? Are you selling the higher price or cheap price shirts on Teechip. ?

Great work! Teespring is still a viable income source when you understand the best ways to attack the market.

would a tspring model work for candles? I have a high quality candle mfg that has inhouse capability of logo or 4 color photo labeling on nice candles. Any logo/photo/saying could be put on them.

Congrats, ur doing really well
What do you do on your ads to ensure you profit from the ad campaign?
Do you design your t-shirts or do you outsource it?