[PROVEN METHOD] Passive Income through POD Websites

Northerner said:

Designs from vexel/creative fabrica can be uploaded without copyright issues or getting banned?

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Ban depends on Platform to Platform... But you will not have any issues with Vexel and CreativeFabrica.

got to say great idea

It has been a long time since this post was written, and there have been many wishes to start a POD.
Can any of you share your experience between then and now?

jeronymo29 said:

It has been a long time since this post was written, and there have been many wishes to start a POD.
Can any of you share your experience between then and now?

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Pure bullshit. The vast majority of the sites listed by the OP give minimal traffic. Few exceptions. And the exceptions are sites that pay you $2 commission for selling a design YOU created and they sold for more than $20. Ridiculous.

Iuzzu said:

Few exceptions. And the exceptions are sites that pay you $2 commission for selling a design YOU created and they sold for more than $20. Ridiculous.

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I assumed. It seems that the most important thing for this is luck and some extra knowledge, beginners are probably less likely to succeed (it would be good if I was wrong).
Thanks for your information.
Let's see if anyone else comes forward.

Is this method still working properly in 2022? For sure, getting traffic is the most difficult part of the method…

I'm wondering why OP bought so many proxies (500K proxies with unlimited bandwidth)?
Is this to bring visitors to his shop by manipulating the algorithm?

hero76 said:

You make it sound like you can fart and get traffic! Literally the hardest part of this is getting traffic!

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Exactly this. I don't think anyone doubts that money can be made with affiliate sales or drop-shipping. But the vast majority of people will not make any significant income from this. Maybe some beer money, but nothing more than that. The earnings in those screenshots seem great, but is unattainable for most. If it really was that easy, nobody would be here on BHW reading/writing these types of threads on a weekly basis.

dandan594594 said:

The major problem that has been omitted is "copy cats" flooding the market with very similar design to any that make sales, and this happens almost instantly.

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Yeah. Remember the India-ban that OP was talking about earlier? That is exactly what that was about. POD is great, but these days it's hard to make any real money (maybe you can make some beer money, but not enough to live off) in POD because of all the low quality, crappy, copy cat BS that POD platforms like Redbubble get flooded with. Just look at this thread and you will see plenty of posts like "Get a designer of fiverr" or "where can I get bulk free designs".

I built my own POD site where I sell hoodies and t-shirts. I built the site specifically to try and get away from copycats. But if I Google the title of any of my designs there will be a copy cat out there. I have a t-shirt that says "Kalm soos 'n daggawalm", a phrase in my mother tongue, Afrikaans. There are only about 4 million people in the world that speaks that language, yet it's been copied endlessly.

The reason POD is dead, is because everything "marketers" (live at home digital marketers or entrepreneurs that work out of their bedroom) touch turns to crap, because they abuse it into the ground to make a couple of cents. And that my friends, is why they will only make cents for the rest of their lives: They are always looking for the shortcut and the short term gains, because they are too lazy to put in the work and win in the long run.

tetra0000 said:

It's a tough thread. I believe you because I've done it but when I tried explaining to people I'm making over £1000 a month doing nothing, selling stickers, they didn't believe me. I could barely believe it either. Hoping to claw myself up to that sort of number now on Merch by Amazon and Teepublic.

If I had to give anybody some tips to start it would be this;

1. Go on Redbubble
2. Search for a hobby of yours
3. Sort by 'best selling'
4. See the shite designs there that are selling well
5. Do better

If you upload 50 designs on Redbubble targetting a valid niche and don't make a sale then either with mediocore design skills then you're doing something wrong. I'm hesitant to share my main niche because I'm going to go back into it elsewhere but it's so easy to start and see yourself. I started a shop and was making £100 in my first month, 200 the next. You learn so much by just jumping in.

(Linked my blog here but have removed the link since it might be against the rules)

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Please DM me a link to your blog.

hatblack said:

I'm wondering why OP bought so many proxies (500K proxies with unlimited bandwidth)?
Is this to bring visitors to his shop by manipulating the algorithm?

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I was working on something else in Crypto Niche.

Just to bump this thread with updates, my initial post here that keeps getting replies and DMs is coming up to 2 years old. I no longer believe that POD on Redbubble/Teepublic is a reliable method of useful income to the same degree it was when I made that post, it is much harder now. People arguing about traffic for Redbubble/Teepublic juts don't know the sites; they have great organic growth, most people will use the internal searches, so long as you tag things correctly you'll get views.

As has been said in the thread so far; both TP and RB are flooded with low quality designs often. It's hard to stand out in a sea of shit unless you promote your work externally. As a benchmark; I only made just over £500 in the past year on my Redbubble site, and I make maybe $50-100 a month on my TeePublic sites now; all of this is organic traffic, I've never paid for anything. I believe the future of POD for big money is your own site; with paid advertising; using something like Shopify + an external print on demand service.

I am currently working on https://amazon.com.be/, & https://redbubbletools.com/redbubble-tag-generator, and i am at begining level, and thanks for you tips, its really helpfull for me, i appreciate your effort. i need more information