POD Man

 Diving In Lately, as Amazon  FBA has started to fall a bit, it always seems like a race to the bottom, no kidding there, I have started to look at PODs again as a viable supplement to FBA..or vice versa. Etsy has crossed my mind a lot this past month. As mentioned in an earlier article, I had a start on a store, tees, not niche related. This store was gaining traction but was time-consuming, so I put it to bed. As did I rest quite a bit with my other PODS. Looking over Etsy this past month, I see a lot of changes and possibilities that were not there before and a few I did not notice. Why Etsy                    Etsy is a very attractive platform, like Amazon it has a built-in trust factor and huge consumer base. Most users are women, looking for things they want or are attracted to in some way or another, in the "handmade" genre. It is scaleable, but there is a learning curve.  Custom...

Merch By Amazon Going Downhill Well, I decided to write this about things in the first two months of 2020 POD. While there seems to be a huge slowdown for Merch by Amazon, Redbubble stays pretty constant with sales every month. I don't follow the community anymore since they all went GURU, yes it happened, so I can only guess there is something new that is in the works or being implemented. Down by 90% since Dec 2019, I haven't seen this since the big throttle of 2018. End Of 2019                           The 4th quarter of 2019 by far was the best we (my wife's account and mine) have ever done sales- wise on Merch. All of our sales were actually generated by only a few designs, with both accounts doing well with pop sockets. Redbubble was as usual steady with no surprises. And definitely outperforming Merch by miles for the first part of quarter 1. Teespring and Teepublic wer...