Comrade Luigi
Regular Member
- May 16, 2015
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I recall starting journey threads before only to abandon them. Something I learned is that you just have to commit to something and be consistent with it. I'm using this journey thread to hold myself accountable with committing to POD. In all the years that I've tried to do internet marketing the only thing that I got success in was in POD. So that's what I'll be focusing on.
Right now I make about 300-400/m from POD. Mostly from Merch by Amazon but some sales in Teepublic. My approach is quantity based uploads. Upload thousands of designs and some percentage of them will sell. The MBA account has 1000 designs. I was kind of slacking with the other POD sites that exist because I thought MBA was the best place to make money. I wasn't wrong but when my Amazon account got suspended I got fucked in the ass so to speak. I still collect royalties from it each month but not being able to edit or manage my account sucks.
When my access to the MBA account went down I was motivated to explore other PODs like redbubble and teepublic. It's good to diversify. The past few weeks I've been uploading the 1000 designs I had on MBA to Teepublic. Now I'm expanding on redbubble because why not. Fortunately, I was able to acquire a brand new amazon merch account for a small fee. I can start over again with that account. I'm already starting to upload designs there.
How am I developing the designs? I do my own keyword research and outsource the development to a design team. Sometimes I get ideas from the design team itself and I implement it.
So what will be my approach going forward? Finish uploading everything on Teepublic. I have about 800 listings on Teepublic and 50 on Redbubble. The bulk of my efforts is now focused on Redbubble. I'll also be uploading some stuff on spreadshirt because it looks promising. I placed a order for 500 designs from my design team so I have about 1500 designs to implement and manage.
I do have several goals in the future that I want to take with this.
1. Learn Adobe Illustrator so I can create my own stuff. (I have no design skills.) I've been procrastinating on this so hard due to laziness.
2. Try to do SEO on a listing and rank some keywords.
3. Open my own e-commerce shop by driving FB ads. I want to collect a bunch of sales data from what I sell on these platforms and use them to run paid traffic.
4. Grow my second MBA account.
There's a lot of grinding to this and it's quite frustrating. Some days I just want to give up and do nothing. I use a spreadsheet to keep track of all the designs to make things efficient. I'll do my best to keep on updating this journey as much as I can. If anyone has any questions based on my limited experience then I'm more than happy to do so.
Right now I make about 300-400/m from POD. Mostly from Merch by Amazon but some sales in Teepublic. My approach is quantity based uploads. Upload thousands of designs and some percentage of them will sell. The MBA account has 1000 designs. I was kind of slacking with the other POD sites that exist because I thought MBA was the best place to make money. I wasn't wrong but when my Amazon account got suspended I got fucked in the ass so to speak. I still collect royalties from it each month but not being able to edit or manage my account sucks.
When my access to the MBA account went down I was motivated to explore other PODs like redbubble and teepublic. It's good to diversify. The past few weeks I've been uploading the 1000 designs I had on MBA to Teepublic. Now I'm expanding on redbubble because why not. Fortunately, I was able to acquire a brand new amazon merch account for a small fee. I can start over again with that account. I'm already starting to upload designs there.
How am I developing the designs? I do my own keyword research and outsource the development to a design team. Sometimes I get ideas from the design team itself and I implement it.
So what will be my approach going forward? Finish uploading everything on Teepublic. I have about 800 listings on Teepublic and 50 on Redbubble. The bulk of my efforts is now focused on Redbubble. I'll also be uploading some stuff on spreadshirt because it looks promising. I placed a order for 500 designs from my design team so I have about 1500 designs to implement and manage.
I do have several goals in the future that I want to take with this.
1. Learn Adobe Illustrator so I can create my own stuff. (I have no design skills.) I've been procrastinating on this so hard due to laziness.
2. Try to do SEO on a listing and rank some keywords.
3. Open my own e-commerce shop by driving FB ads. I want to collect a bunch of sales data from what I sell on these platforms and use them to run paid traffic.
4. Grow my second MBA account.
There's a lot of grinding to this and it's quite frustrating. Some days I just want to give up and do nothing. I use a spreadsheet to keep track of all the designs to make things efficient. I'll do my best to keep on updating this journey as much as I can. If anyone has any questions based on my limited experience then I'm more than happy to do so.
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