I've been working on a business trying to make an income out of something fun for me, like designing things. My research lead me to a couple of cool sites to start selling my products, even almost like a year before I opened an online store to sell some old designs, and that was the starting point.
It was pretty easy to start, I already had like 12 or 15 designs to upload in a single strike to set up my store, at first it was fun and really addictive to track, when things started to keep really quiet it was a bit boring and I ended up quitting. A couple of weeks ago I made two sales and it has awaken my interest again, but this time is a bit different.
This one was the most important thing I implement this time to my online business, I read a lot and I did a lot of research to find what was the best strategy to start. I found a couple of sites besides the one I already was registered (Teepublic). I found Teespring, and Redbuble to complete the top there sites that works pretty much the same way. You upload an original design, the website is in charge to print and deliver all the products sold and you earn a part of the total pricing, I have listed my things on two of these three stores and I'm gonna talk a bit about them.
Here is a link to my store to see how it looks, also I'm starting to learn about google analytics so a bit of traffic is welcome for study porpoise :)
https://www.teepublic.com/user/quoter
This site is great, it have a couple of ups and downs but I can't complain, through this site I was able to made a couple of sales, not that much 9 sales in more than a year, but this last month was the beginning of a campaign, really amateur but at least is something. As I said I was learning about analytics, I also have an instagram, Facebook, Tumblr, and those are my ways to promote. This sites allows you to pick some colors, it includes hats, hoodies, mugs, pillows, and more objects to print your designs so you have more chance to sell them, the price is fix and your commission too, it pays you via PayPal or bank account, even 15 of each month.
My store. https://teespring.com/stores/swtch
This site lets you choose the price and you can have a bigger profit out of your work, it also have some kind of tool kit to help you promote your designs, and only pay the promotion when you make a sale, it makes sense but you have to think about it before picking a price to cover the tee spring marketing stuff. This site also have a very big list of objects to print, and it pays you via payoneer and bank account. I haven't made a sale in this site so I don't know nothing about payments here.
So far this is growing really really slow, I think its good and natural to have a slow and constant grow. Its pretty difficult to reach to your audience, and it takes a lot of time and effort to keep a line and create something original for people to like it. I have something like 4 to 8 visits per day to the site, its nothing but I think its a good start, lets see how I'm doing in marketing and analytics to start making something out of it.
And I almost forgot, I'm thinking a crypto store to offer an option to buy your shirt with crypto :)
More things to come, and thanks for the support and taking the time to read, this is not intent of publicity, is just my story about how I'm trying to create a small business.
