When I first started ‘entrepreneuring’, I jumped from idea to idea. It was rare that I’d stick to the same thing for more than a week. I’d be MASSIVELY motivated in the first 1 or 2 days, telling everyone what I was going to do and how awesome my project was going to become but shortly after that, motivation levels would reach zero.
Why? I don’t really know. In most cases it was because another idea would take it’s place and give me that ‘buzz’ that I’d be a millionaire very soon.
Most people that find out about Teespring know its potential. They’ve probably heard stories of people making a killing with Teespring and want to emulate that success.
That is no lie. There ARE people making a lot of money on FaceBook. Although I made 6 figures so far, there are people that have made triple my amount. No joke!
BUT, and there’s a big but, the people that got to that amount of $$, worked at it HARD. They didn’t just give it a week or two, in many cases, they gave it months, or even a year. I get people constantly emailing me with the following,
‘I tried FaceBook ads but they didn’t work’
‘I made a couple of designs and made no sales’
Well of course FaceBook ads didn’t work! They’re your very first attempt at a platform people spent months to figure out and years to master. Your very first attempts at anything aren’t supposed to work. They’re meant to get you somewhat familiar to what you NEED to do to make things work. It’s your 10th or 20th attempt you should be aiming to see results with.
The moment you realise this and approach Teespring or any other business with a whole lot of patience and room for failure, you’ll be on your way to success.
Make it a point to NOT get into anything unless you’re comfortable not seeing success for the first 1-3 months. In many cases you DO see success earlier then that, but take it as a bonus and not as a given certainty.
My approach to Teespring was to make 100 campaigns. I just knew that if I did that, I’d break through. It took me 50 campaigns, (half way), to get to that point. If I had stopped after 10 and gave up, it would have been a shame.
Even now I’m learning how to do new things in the Teespring business!
This is the realities of business, it takes time. When you accept and respect that, you’ll begin to see results, if not, you may continue on your merry go round.
– Mateen
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Hi Mateen,
Thanks for your great advice. Your advice is valuable to me as I failed many times on many internet things. I feel exhausted and fear that others will laugh at me on leaving my high income job for this (I left since I didn’t like it and stayed with it too many years) to work on my own. As I saw from your hard work, it reminds me to focus on one thing and do hard work. This is great advice for me & also ignite my heart to keep moving on.
Thanks again!
Great to hear!
Good luck Pete, as long as you prioritise hard work, you’ll get there.
Hi Mateen, I have been following your blog from last week and have watched almost all the videos you have on your YT channel. Thank you so much for your help through these contents. I am only a month old in Teespring and have done quite a few “campaigns-fb ad runs” but haven’t seen any success yet, Now I want to approach the way you are suggesting in this blog. My first question that comes in mind: Should I look for a proven ‘Message’ first and then try it out on different niches ? OR should I look for a proven niche first and then put a ‘Message/design’ for that niche to test ?
Thank you in advance, looking forward to your kind response.
Both are ok. With both approaches you already know SOMETHING works whether it’s the niche or the message.
Hi Mateen,
I just wanted to give your a huge thank you for all the awesome content you have put out here for Teespring! I found your page 2 days ago and I’m still reading through and absorbing as much as I can. I found out about Teespring in January of this year. At the time I was finalizing a divorce and the sole care giver for my son’s who were only 2 years old and 4 months old, trying to find how I could work from home and be with them. I ran one camp with Facebook ads then and it failed, and one with free marketing and it also failed. I had some engagement with my paid ads, so that was encouraging, but I didn’t have any more money for advertising. I did a few more camps since then, I think 6 total, 3 paid ads, and the last one I had was my best one yet, although no sales, many more views and shares. I’ve had a good feeling about selling with teespring, but in these past months I’ve let other things get my attention. I’ve made some money with my other affiliate endeavors but not enough to live on, which is the minimum I need.
I’m very encouraged after reading your posts. Each one that fails I learn more, and I’m going to keep trying until I get it right!
Great approach Mandy! I failed 50 before I made even 1 sale believe it or not. I’m not even exaggerating, it was legitimately 50 campaigns lol.
BUT, I didn’t have tutorials like this and it was all 100% experimentation. You’re right, with every campaign that fails you learn a tonne. The trick is to fail quickly so you learn quickly.
Good luck!
Hey Mateen,
First off, I appreciate you putting actual quality info out here for people to learn from. I can’t tell you how many videos I’ve watched on YT Just to find out nothing or that they are trying to sell some bogus course. Anyway I’ll get to the point. I can relate to the first section of this post almost exactly but I’ve told myself teespring will be the thing I stick with until I succeed. I have created a few campaigns and I’m getting like 2-4% click through rate using send to website, no purchases (spending like $8 over a few days). How do I learn from this? I actually have an active ts campaign that I have convinced a fairly popular instagram page to post for free 😉 got like 250 likes in about 3 hrs but still no purchases. How do I convert these likes to buys and what kind of test runs should I be doing on face book (ad type, amount, and timeframe) sorry for the length!
Thanks!
At the end of the day it all comes down to sales. All these likes, shares, comments are nice but don’t get distracted by them. If you spend $30 and you’ve got no sales then end it no matter how much engagement you have. Sometimes people are very socially active but they just don’t buy.
Hey Mateen
I think I already know the answer to this one but I and my friend recently did a design to the fishing niche. Outsourced quite a nice design and targeting got us as cheap as 5p PPE and the ad got over 500 likes, over 10 shares and with good comments so lots of positive feedback and in just 3-4 days. Cancelled the ad though as it just had 0 sales. Is this teespring just being teespring and even though everything in theory works out, sometimes things just don’t sell for whatever reason. The design got good engagement so not sure if maybe the fishing niche has just been done too much..?
Have you had similar campaigns to this?
Thanks
Matt
Matt, I’ve had 100’s of campaigns like this. Sometimes, I’d be in disbelief that I’d have no sales with 100s of shares. It’ just not a buy worthy shirt. If people like it enough to buy, they will buy no matter what.
Shares are generally a good indication but not always. Remember the main metric is profit loss. If you’ve spend $30 and no sales, 99% of the time, it’s best to end it and attempt another campaign.
and thank you again – nice to know in a way that you have been through the same situations 🙂 keep up the awesome blog Mateen