POD Beginner Questions

sadbruhmoments · Dec 16, 2019

I was thinking to start a POD business as a side hustle

1. Having no experience and budget at all in building a website, is it a great idea to start with Teespring? Then maybe in the near future move to an appropriate website?

2. I wanted to analyze other brands but I can't really find any doing my way. How do I find competition? Do you have any advice?

Thanks in advance

godknowseverything · Dec 16, 2019

Start with Etsy + Printful or Merch by Amazon.

This site has lot of useful info - https://ryanhogue.com/home/

JordanSam · Dec 16, 2019

If you are a beginner start with Merch by Amazon you will get a lot of free traffic .

Pridelord · Dec 17, 2019

sadbruhmoments said:
I was thinking to start a POD business as a side hustle

1. Having no experience and budget at all in building a website, is it a great idea to start with Teespring? Then maybe in the near future move to an appropriate website?

2. I wanted to analyze other brands but I can't really find any doing my way. How do I find competition? Do you have any advice?

Thanks in advance

Basically, it depends on how you plan to sell your stuff and in what country do you live. There is no equality here.

1. Teespring isn't great if you have no budget for ads or no source of free traffic. At least, you must consider growing social media profiles. Moving to your own website store running a printful+etsy can be complicated and expensive if you are not from t1 country.

2. Search brands and ideas on IG, Pinterest, Etsy, and Amazon.

3. Apply to Amazon Merch.

4. Check my journey Road to 1k POD designs. I described an upload-and-forget method and some tips. Already earning without paid ads, social media, websites, amazon merch and so on.

Roger Marquez · Dec 17, 2019

sadbruhmoments said:
1. Having no experience and budget at all in building a website, is it a great idea to start with Teespring? Then maybe in the near future move to an appropriate website?

You´re pretty much answering your own question here.

If you don´t have any experience nor budget to run an online store powered with Shopify + Any POD app like printfull (you need to fulfill de orders) then yeah, you pretty much don´t have many options but to enter POD using a platform like Teespring, Redbubble or Teechip.

You pretty much all you need is to upload the design and do the marketing, they take care of the rest (you don´t have to fulfill any orders.

sadbruhmoments said:
2. I wanted to analyze other brands but I can't really find any doing my way. How do I find competition? Do you have any advice?

What do you mean by brans? Like Teespring alternatives?

youtube1001 · Dec 17, 2019

Thanks for the resource. It is interesting to see he has published posts on Dec 26, 2019.

Thanks,

godknowseverything said:
Start with Etsy + Printful or Merch by Amazon.

This site has lot of useful info - https://ryanhogue.com/home/

NFT · Dec 17, 2019

Use Pinterest so you can see what is trending and perhaps give it a twist for your niche

sadbruhmoments · Dec 17, 2019

Pridelord said:
Basically, it depends on how you plan to sell your stuff and in what country do you live. There is no equality here.

1. Teespring isn't great if you have no budget for ads or no source of free traffic. At least, you must consider growing social media profiles. Moving to your own website store running a printful+etsy can be complicated and expensive if you are not from t1 country.

2. Search brands and ideas on IG, Pinterest, Etsy, and Amazon.

3. Apply to Amazon Merch.

4. Check my journey https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/journey-road-to-1k-pod-designs.1170553/. I described an upload-and-forget method and some tips. Already earning without paid ads, social media, websites, amazon merch and so on.

My main plan is to actually grow social medias profiles, that's why I was considering Teespring, also I have myself some ways to gain free traffic.
Anyway, I'm considering to aim for t1 traffic rather than traffic from my country.

Roger Marquez said:
What do you mean by brans? Like Teespring alternatives?

No, I literally mean other brands doing POD. I found one on Instagram doing t-shirts similiar to what was my idea, but however, I seriously have no idea on how to find competition.

Pridelord · Dec 17, 2019

sadbruhmoments said:
My main plan is to actually grow social media profiles, that's why I was considering Teespring, also I have myself some ways to gain free traffic.

Go for it.

sadbruhmoments said:
Anyway, I'm considering to aim for t1 traffic rather than traffic from my country.

I mean, it doesn't matter what countries you target, there are some limitations on business opportunities if you live in a not that good place.

Well, for now just go with Teespring. Pretty safe and easy bet.

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