It’s been over 3 years since Teespring stormed their way into the affiliate scene. Many people think the custom apparel industry is saturated and even I’ve thought this from time to time.
I won’t lie, I used to find a profitable campaign every 10-15 launches. Nowadays I can go a whole 200 campaigns without profiting form any!
In fact, I’ve spent about $500 U.S in the last week and have made around $20 revenue. That’s a loss of $480 just testing Teespring campaigns. Scary thought for a beginner.
From experience the one or two gold mines I come across will cover my losses and give me a healthy profit in the bank but it takes some time to be comfortable with this.
The reason I still continue with Teespring every now and then is because I find monster campaigns still killing it! I’ll show you some in this article.
First of all, if you’re not researching or reverse engineering winning campaigns you’re missing a massive piece of the puzzle.
Use social sleuth to uncover trending campaigns and then check out their FB Pages. Every now and then you’ll come across something like the below,
First posted in September 2015 that’s about 3 and half months ago.
If trademarking wasn’t an issue you could try this for every football, rugby, basketball team in USA, Canada, Australia, UK. That’s around 50 – 100 variations right there.
Or a monster like this,
Doesn’t seem like much? Check out the social activity.
Almost 100k likes!!
That’s at least 2k+ Sales.
Custom sweatpants aren’t offered by many custom merchandise platforms but almost everyone where’s them!
I’m writing this to remind people to think out side the box. It’s up to you whether you want to keep going, keep trying till you find something or switch to another entrepreneurial adventure.
There are no guarantees in this harsh world of affiliate marketing. No one can guarantee you sales or traffic or a stable business. People can tell you what’s worked for them but often what’s worked for them is a result of 1000’s of failures that have come before.
Literally, 1000s. I’ve done over 2,000 Teespring campaigns and a large majority of those have flopped.
As for Teespring, even though I’ve left the scene for now, I still keep an eye out for opportunity. You never know what will revolutionise the affiliate industry or what angle it will come from. If it’s something in the custom apparel niche than at least I/we have the expertise to capitalise. There’s no right or wrong answer.
Just be brave enough to put your time and money to the test again and again. That’s what makes a successful affiliate.
Mateen
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I have probably spent $1000 on FB ads and yet to have a positive ROI but I am still not giving up. Currently I have a campaign with 12% CTR and 0.02 CPE…still no sales but I am still not killing my ads.
Spent $45 so far with 8k reach and 200 shares….is definitely getting tougher by the day.
Yeh it’s tough but there’s always that “what if this is the one” thought that keeps you going! Good luck Alex and great work on persevering
PPE might take a little longer to get sales, People share and tag there friends so you have to wait for their friends to go on FB and check it out if you getting that type of data i would rise the budget and leave to for a couple of days. Hope this helps
Hmm maybe. It’s a weird thing. I’ve sold a lot with PPE but sometimes the ‘clicks to websites’ suck!
I’m glad to read this, I haven’t read many Teespring successes recently, where as before there were several each day.
I purchased that software yesterday but he hasn’t sent me the login. It’s a bad service.
Social Sleuth?
Did you try contact them? Let me know if you don’t get it fixed and I’ll stop promoting them! Was working fine when I bought it last year 😮
Yes, I emailed them 2 times but haven’t got answer.
Mateen just a quick question. As a fellow Aussie teespringer
How did you structure your income tax? Did you set up a company?
Yes. A company was the best option in my case. (Am in Australia).
Hi Mateen,
Thanks for the 2016 posts!
If I am launching 100 designs and doing PPE on Facebook, should I post each of the on my FB Page and have a tons and tons of ad posts that I am essentially boosting?
I have read others say they only like to have one ad with some non-ad/ social posts at a time (hide others from timeline.) Obviously, this is not practical with many, many launches happening…
Ps Is your forum still active?
Thanks,
Anson G
Hey Anson,
I just launch the 100 campaigns on the one page. I don’t really care about social posts or that kind of stuff. If people want the shirt, they’ll buy the shirt – it’s as simple as that.
Then again, my approach is more just a hit and run. I don’t focus on building a fanpage and all that stuff. My core is just launch as many as I can,see what works and repeat.
Maybe guys that prefer building a fanpage and focusing on just one niche might run it with social content, (I’ve seen this work REAL well too!), but I just don’t do it this way.
THe forum hasn’t been active for a while now, I have no idea why! I still check it time to time to answer but no one posts anything. Maybe there’s an issue with the sign up process.