How Long It Took Me to Get My First Sale on Spreadshirt
Recently I got my first sale on Spreadshirt, so I am going to share my story with you and some tips.
For those of you who don’t know what exactly Spreadshirt is, Spreadshirt is a print-on-demand platform to sell your art/designs on different products, and when someone purchases that product, this company will print that product and ship it to the customer on your behalf and you will receive a commission for every product you sell.
I started with Spreadshirt back in early 2021. I don’t remember the exact month as I was trying many new platforms and seeing whether it worked or not. I uploaded a few designs, and soon I received an email from Spreadshirt talking about their new tier system, just like Merch by Amazon. You are only allowed to upload a few designs until you make some sales, then you would be able to move to the next tier and upload more designs. Similarly, they were allowing me to upload only 200 designs on Spreadshirt on their current tier, so I finished uploading all 200 designs and then I received a message you can't upload furthermore. If you want to, then first get some sales to move to the next tier and you can only upload more designs.
So I just left the platform for the month and I uploaded my last design in June 2021 and left the platform like that for months, until I received an email a few days back stating I made my first sale on 28th Feb 2022 and I received that sale email in the first week of March 2022, so it took me almost a year with 200 designs to get my first sale like after June 2021. I didn’t even sign on my Spreadshirt account to check the status.
So what if I could do things differently to get my first sale fast, the answer is yes I can but since it wasn’t convenient with their new tier system which is limited to only 200 designs, and I didn’t like their uploading process much, I didn’t put much effort apart from uploading designs, adding title tags, and description.
Now I will share some tips if you want to get started with Spreadshirt.
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Don't Expect Too Much
It's a weird one but bear with me, since you are only limited to a certain amount of designs, that means you have a limited chance to be found on their marketplace so you don’t have much control apart from uploading really good designs in good niches so that’s why don't expect too much.
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Be Open to Experiment
Try to use the general shop concept apart from the niche concept because you never know which niche or design can get you sales but first it helps to try to upload more in that niche then upload multiple different niches trending or evergreen or mix.
LASTLY, want more tips and more in-depth explanation, check out my YouTube video. Click here to check it out.
HOPEFULLY, if you find this article useful, let me know. You can also check out my online course here.
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