POD Man

Build Your Own Online Tshirt Business | Free To Start This is probably one of the best-kept secrets of all online business.  Yes, its true, you can start a great business selling t-shirts, or rather your design on tshirts. There are a great number of sites POD`s dedicated to selling anything you can print on, most are free. And all are scaleable. Is it saturated, NO, there are somewhere in the area of 3 billion users a year on the internet, half buy something, think those numbers through. Here we will talk about getting going and scaling. Get Started This is probably the most understated and most overused statement by the gurus, to get your money, but it is the most important too right. Take action and go with it, don't sit for a month and plot out this amazing course of action, then never take action, just get started. Do a little research into what sells. Look at :            ...

  Tiering Up Tips | Merch By Amazon One of the biggest challenges in MBA is the system of tiering your account up. Tiering is basically hao many live designs you can have at one time on the platform (Amazon) It's frustrating, mind-bending and at times so depressing you feel like just stopping and throwing the towel in. I decided to write this part because I remember how bad and how I felt it really was trying (and still trying) to get there. In this article, we will discuss a few tips and tricks that will help you navigate your way to higher tiers in Merch By Amazon (MBA) Some History          When I stared in 2017 it took me close to 8 months to get approved for my MBA account, then I threw up some designs (really bad ones) without thought and without checking for TM`s, I got very lucky with the trademark stuff, I knew enough to stay away from brand stuff like coke or Disney but did no...

Slow Sales Tees Are Not Selling | MBA This happens for everybody, no matter what you're into to. For retail its a fact of life. Most sales (not the rule by any means) happen during the 4th quarter. This is the period from October to December. In between all of the madness of the 4th quarter, you need to have a different strategy. But when you are new and nothing is selling it can get super frustrating. So we will look at a few things you can try. We will discuss POD strategy here, Organically, since we are still dealing with POD in the articles for now. Design This does help, when I say design I mean, what does that sucker look like on the thumbnails Amazon shows your shirt on. That's right, how many times have you stopped to look at a thumbnail ( not like your fingernails) because it caught your eye. The trick here is to make things: Big ( you don't see negative comments because the design was to big r...

The Merch By Amazon Community I know I go on about being careful, about guru`s and scammers, actually a lot :). But don't throw a blanket on all of the groups and people involved in the MBA community, there is a lot of the earlier groups,  (MBA isn't that old anyway) are really awesome and helpful. I am not endorsing or promoting anyone or any groups, there are a few I know I will miss anyway, just pointing out a lot of good resource and content. These are not typical if at all, gurus. FaceBook Groups                                   These are amazing for content and learning, most of the groups I know and am involved with, give as much free advice and information as they sell paid info. Most of the groups are youngish, compared to this old guy anyway, and have a really wonderful mindset, I myself am really taken with their friend...

POD There Are Negatives Too Though we don't think of it a lot or see a lot of problems they are there. Even though we may not have inventory and are using a non-dropship source we are still going to have problems. Problems come in all types and if you think you can make money, but not problems, well that's a problem.  I don't bring them up in my articles simply because I'm not selling anything,  I am not doing false reviews, I have zero affiliate links and am only trying to give back.  So just to keep things even, we will discuss problems we run into in POD. Problems With Printing  This is probably the most common, I think, one with new designers.          Some of the elements in your design may be unprintable. Sometimes (I have done this) we get in a hurry and forget to take things out that weren't supposed to be there. If you're like me, I have so many piece...

Teespring POD There are quite a few POD platforms out there, we are focusing on the older more established ones, so far anyway, except MBA which is a different animal being that its Amazon. In the series have touched on Redbubble, MBA, and Printful. There are so many now it would take a huge article to list them all. In this article, we will look another of the older more established platforms. Not that anything new isn't as good, I just don't know every one of them personally. Ok here we go: Teespring This is a cool POD that has a good setup. Easy to navigate and very easy to use upload or design on site and push to your store. Yes, you have a store. It's pretty cool, you, as usual, get a commission on the design, you set that up when designing. or Uploading your design. Price is set to a point, on what you want per design, product, starting I'm guessing at an SRP (suggested retail price) form wh...

Building Youtube For POD As one of the biggest search engines, getting 1.3 billion users. Over 5 billion videos watched every day Over 30 million visits a day.  That's something you can't ignore if you plan to use social media to push your POD business. What?  Yep POD is a little more than throwing a few designs up, you are always looking for new ways to promote old and new listings, or maybe you're selling yourself as a designer,  And other instances of possible software you developed for POD or a fully functional website offering tools for design and research. Here we will discuss the first steps into building that channel up. Start At The Start                        There are a couple of ways to do this, let's go on experience I have, for now, no I don't have a youtube channel, I'm not the type for that :)...

The Positive Mindset Don't underestimate this area, it is so important to carry you through rough times, and most people disregard it. A lot of successful people have this built in, many more have to learn to program themselves. If you think you are a loser, you will be a loser. In this article, I will discuss my personal journey (continuing) through this area and a few tidbits I have picked up along the way. I am by no means wildly successful...yet..but I am finally on the right path... "It takes 20 years to make an overnight success"                                                         Eddie Cantor What Do You Mean Mindset A mind is a powerful tool but it will also act as you train it. If you walk around always in a negative mood or with negative thoughts,...

Using Social Media To Grow Your POD Business This is a must in today's market place. whether you are in POD, Affiliate Marketing, Etsy anything, corporations and small business turn to social media. The amount of followers and interaction you receive helps with Search Engine rank and gives social proof to what you're doing as a business. Be careful as always positives can quickly turn negative, I am in no way an expert in this area, but understand some of the basics. There are even some businesses that do not have websites, simply running on social media platforms. Here we will show a super simplified look into social Media and let you draw your conclusions to POD applications. A Few Basics Today people are quite rightly so annoyed to no return with ads being shoved down their throats.  Just look at the platforms in Q4, especially in November/December. There isn't a post that happens without a few PPC ad ...