@@philosophy7469 I would've loved to, but the store I was talking about was based around Kobe Bryant and before the orders were fulfilled I got hit with copyright infringement and they terminated my accounts and store fronts 😭😭 so I made over 500 in one night and lost it all the next day. Can't be sad about it forever though, it's a learning experience!
Hi Greg. I just newly subbed. Thanks for the insightful content. A quick question pls. How do you verify (100 percent ) if an inscription / sentence is copyrighted or not? For example I was passing by a pizza shop today, and the owner wrote on an advert board ' Life is Sweet ..Pizza is Sweeter. This inspired a quote in my mind (for a chocolate T-shirt, for example) ; ' Life is Choco-licious ( ie; fution of chocolate and Delicious ). How do I verify if this has not been used by any one of millions of chocolate companies around the world? Thanks. I look forward to your response.
I love the straightforward informative style of your videos! First a short answer for those who already know, the the details. Honest and does not waste people’s time for likes. A long term honest strategy as you always advise.
Hello, Greg! Thank you for this useful video! You always create decent videos! Can I ask a question? Why I can’t see my products on TeePublic marketplace? Do they have some similar “Trust score” system? For example, RedBubble immediately starts showing your products on their marketplace, but why TeePublic don’t? Is it similar with the TeeSpring? Thank you in advance. Respect to you from the center of far Russia :)
@@hdd1977m7 Thank you so much for taking the time to write this.. I really appreciate it and as always if you have any questions at all, feel free to reach out anytime!
Hi greg, just wanted to share with you the great news that I just got my Teespring trust score in just about 2-3 weeks from initial uploading (confirmed as I’m now able to find my designs). Wanted to express my gratitude to you for your tips and for sharing your experiences. Pls continue the great things you do for the community. God bless and wish you more success! Cheers!
Excellent! Thank you for taking the time to comment and sharing the great news! I really appreciate it and as always if you have any questions at all, feel free to reach out anytime!
That's why it's a must to put in multiple platforms. When I upload on tchip it's almost instant. Teespring keeps it hidden until you can push a sale through. Not sure how others can find your product when you can't find it yourself. But uploading on more than one platform helps for sure. Thanks for the help
Agreed David :) Merch by Amazon and Redbubble are instant too. In the beginning for Teespring you have to send people to your designs. I recommend putting them into a storefront and sending that link out. I use niche specific Instagram pages to Niche specific storefronts. This video will explain if you're interested in learning more :) ruclips.net/video/-WrX6qD7G8U/видео.html
@@GregGottfried yes I have watched the video before. It was good. My niche instgra m s are split. Some on teepring and the newest is on tchip. And I am thinking the next niche will be on merch. Worried about having multiple Amazon account for different niche. And not sure if I want a general store on merch.
Keep in mind the niche storefront is just to be used in the beginning phases fo Teespring to get some of your own sales on your account, to get the Trust Score kickstarted, and all the free marketing started. Once you get a few sales on your Teespring account, you no longer need to use storefronts or Instagram at all :) With that said, I think you really only need 1 niche storefront and 1 niche Instagram page to drive traffic to Teespring. Merch by Amazon and Redbubble do marketing for you from day 1 so you dont have to do the whole Instagram strategy to get sales. If you did it for Merch, I could see the benefit as helping you get sales to tier up faster, but long run I dont think it's necessary at all (there's a point of diminishing return on your time spent) and your time is best spent creating and upload more designs. Also you can use the same "brand name" to create a niche store on Merch so you dont need to make multiple accounts. I hope that helps!
Glad you found it! There seems to be nothing on it out there :) Thank you for taking the time to comment and for the support! I really appreciate it and as always if you have any questions at all, feel free to reach out anytime!
Thank you! If you guys like the new thumbnail style, I will continue it :) Thank you for taking the time to comment and as always, if you have any questions at all, let me know anytime!
I know this is an older video, but thank you. I was wondering why I couldn't see what I consider to be my most sellable listing. And thank you for your videos. They have been very helpful.
Just thinking of starting a T-Shirt business and ran into your channels. Want to say Thank you. Your content is extremely helpful. Keep it up for I have subscribe to your channel and notifications for more help on this business. BTW appreciate the honesty (without the fluff), I think it's better when you go straight to nitty gritty
Thank you for taking the time to comment and for the support! I really appreciate it and as always if you have any questions at all, feel free to reach out anytime! More videos in the works :)
Hi Greg, thanks for all your great advice. It has really improved my game. My experience is vastly different from yours with regards to Teespring. Long story short, I have had several people ,complaining to me over the Instagram advertising I have been doing that they cannot buy the shirts I advertise on Teespring. I tested it, and they are right. Something weird is going on when they try to order anything that is not on the front page of the listing (eg. choosing a women's tee does not show up in their cart). I don't expect you to be an expert in this. I have contacted Teespring Support on several occasions, on this and other matters, and they seem to want to answer questions I do not ask, or only answer part of a question, and the easy part at that, I have an outstanding issue that defies logic, and have also received a number of "copyright" flags that were sequentially rescinded but cost me a lot of time to address. I have worked in small business and for companies such as GE, I am aware how to correspond with the over-worked people in Support. I have 3 unanswered emails going back two months. Silence. The metrics provided to me from small Facebook ads do not line up with the Teespring Analytics. I understand Facebook have a vested interest in inflating the figures, but they do line up with Teepublic and Viral Style metrics. I am getting sales on those platforms, but out of 150 designs on Teespring have yet to sell one, I strongly suspect the inability of customers to add items to their cart has something to do with it. I am done. I am pulling shirts from Teespring. I will continue to be a subscriber as you give fantastic content. I won't be watching anything you have on Teespring though. Something's rotten in Denmark. Keep up the fantastic work Cheers, Tony
I just found your channel like 2-3hrs ago and have been watching all your videos nonstop. Love your content I can tell it's good and honest and not like a lot these other videos like make $300 with one click. I think this is something simple that I can get into.
Thank you for taking the time to comment and for the support! I really appreciate it and as always if you have any questions at all, feel free to reach out anytime!
@@GregGottfriedI like creating things , I have a question if I upload hundreds over time like how much can I expect to earn can I get it up to like $500 a month. I have tested a lot of things that don't work not for lack of effort but because I get though outed stuff by fake gurus
It's average about $1/per active listing/per month (and that goes for Teespring, Merch by Amazon, and RedBubble). Hope that makes sense, for example 100 shirts on each site is about $300/mo total (or $100/mo from each site). Every time I make a sale, I get between $2-$10 depending on how big the margin is set on that product. The $1 I'm talking about it to give you a best average on my entire accounts earnings per month. You may have 100 designs live, but only make 20 sales that month. Not every design will sell every month. So if we are averaging between $2-10 per sale (and we got 20 per month) that averages $100 profit that month. With 100 designs, that comes out to about $1 per active design on the account. I hope that helps!
Greg I just wanted to say thank you so much for all your great content you put out! You’ve helped me so much and you are a great mentor to the world! Much Love ❤️💜
Thank you for taking the time to comment and for the support! I really appreciate it and as always if you have any questions at all, feel free to reach out anytime!
@@GregGottfried Thanks .Quick question, I got an I.G page up for my store, do I start by posting merch pics or something else to get the ball rolling. (Millennial here who used to think I.G was for the kids😂😂)
Same dude. 5 of my listing has been disabled till now due to some copyright issues!!! This was when I wasn't getting any sales. But yesterday, I got my 5th sale. Do you have any idea, whether 5 disable ac is fine or the whole ac is in danger??
Clear and transparency is what I appreciate most about your channel. And also the new video images are so cool. I suggest if you can make a small video like this for redbubble and merch. Thank you!
Thank you for taking the time to comment and for the support! I really appreciate it and as always if you have any questions at all, feel free to reach out anytime! I've got a new video on Merch coming soon ;)
Teepublic Designs not showing in search results? Why? 40 designs, profile picture, proper store front. Hello,so i setup teepublic account,there is 40 designs, proper store cover. My designs didn't show on search results. I contacted them through email. This is the answer i got from them. By the way i want to say that i seen peoples stores in search results with two designs only. What is the problem?? If it was copyrights they would took my designs down. Ithink also that quality of my work is not that bad. Seen much worse. First off, thank you for uploading to TeePublic. We appreciate how much work goes into each design, and we thank you! While TeePublic is an open platform where anyone can host and sell from their own storefront, our site's discovery tools is more curated. Due to legal or creative reasons, your designs will not show up in search or on the "new" or "browse" areas of the site. However, you will still be able to sell your work through the direct link to your page or to the individual product pages
Hi Greg! I have no trust score on teespring yet, thank you for making some things clear. I uploaded two designs with copyrighted keywords and they were taken down by teespring. Now I have three designs active and they're ok, but my history on the teespring is not good because of these two designs with wrong keywording. Should I maybe make a new account and make everything right? or if I make some sales at my current account, I will have a trust score anyway despite my mistakes? (sorry for my English) Thank you so much for the video!
Just a quick question. I understand that you need to build a trust score on Teespring, but how do they expect you to make any sales to earn that score if they won't post it? Seems like a catch 22 to me. Thanks for all the amazing and informative videos.
No worries! That's where the video that I mentioned in this video comes in. There is a strategy to get your own sales. I'll link up the video here: ruclips.net/video/-WrX6qD7G8U/видео.html
Back up and running! Store is live and I'm SO excited - thank you Greg! I want to send you the link cause I'm so excited but not sure I'm allowed to do that in the comments! :)
Your videos have been very helpful. I am just starting with Teespring. I put up 4 store fronts only to have one of them pulled down. I had no idea that "bee strong" was anything other than be strong. So my question is will it be impossible to be successful starting out this way?
Thanks for sharing David! Hmmm... That's fun... I would venture to say that is a rare occurrence. I say that because I've never had a storefront taken down like that! I guess my recommendation would be to check Teespring, Google, and tmsearch.uspto.gov first :)
Am still a newbie - but already disenchanted. I never use copyright material, I always create my own ideas and designs. Loads of trouble uploading, and very poor response from so called support. In fact, as yet, not one reply to email has been answered. Aside from which, I think the whole site is very convoluted, however, I will persevere for now, but can't see it being long term unless issues drastically change.
I just started a week ago and I think I just got my trust score. I didn't know for sure, because currently I have 1 sale. I'm so happy. I really didn't expect to get a trust score with 1 sale.
Hey Greg - everybody! Soooo I'm embarassed to admit the following BUT I am always the first one to say "my bad" if I was wrong about something - I had followed all the steps Greg laid out including setting up a new email to use for TeeSpring. I had commented my frustration a few times on here and I have now figured out what happened, well somewhat. So first of all my apologies. They actually WERE responding to me and also sending me my paypal confirmation emails BUT there weren't showing up in my Gmail at ALL! I would get an email from them about every 3 days in my main inbox ( their answers still lack in substance but I digress ) the OTHER emails, including the paypal confirmation were all getting dumped into a tab I never checked when I set up the gmail account AND next to "important" where it dumped them there was not a number like X amount of emails, etc. So, I had no idea anything was there - somehow I found them by accident and went in and changed those settings but this caused me a huge amount of stress and it was all something new with Gmail I was unaware of. I guess that was a default I missed from the get go BUT I just wanted to number 1 say "my bad" and number 2 they still answered all my questions with basically repeating my issue, never a resolution however maybe they were confused because the automatic emails had actually been sent to me - I just never SAW them. They seem to send from a different email when answering you from "sellers@teespring" and the automatic emails from the system went to a hidden email tab...hope this helps someone. Unfortunately, I gave up and deleted the whole store I'd worked night and day on - and it looked great too. Maybe I'll start over (emoticon for scrunchy face). Get your stuff up for Mother's Day sales soon! :) Thank you Greg for teaching so well, sorry I am such a dummy!!! Much love, happy selling. J
@@GregGottfried Thank you! I probably will once I start making some sales. I learn a lot from your content and will for sure flow something back in some shape or form!
Hi Greg... was happy to see this video because I still haven’t been able to find our designs on Teespring, despite the following: * been selling for 4 months * have sold over 45 products * I know that sales have come from various states in the U.S. And even 2 from Canada. We still are not getting traffic from Teespring per the analytics. Do you have any additional advice? It’s been a bit frustrating. Thanks, Josette
Hey Josette! Thanks for the comment! It's likely just a matter of time now. I've seen the trust score taking about a month to kick in, and just this morning spoke with someone who is still waiting on his second month now! It seems to be unpredictable on how soon the trust score and marketing kicks in. I have a big feeling it's moving towards a manual account review once you meet the trust score requirements (and that's what's taking so long). I'd keep pushing forward and be sure to also be on Merch by Amazon and Redbubble for diversification and extra free traffic! I hope that helps and I'm here to help if you need me :)
My listings seem to have been completely removed or at least have broken links and I have no idea why. They were fine for a while but it looks like they've been deactivated possibly? All of my listings were completely original content so I don't know why this would happen? Is there something I can do to fix this or should I call support?
Love the new thumbnail, so a friend of mine made the second purchase on one of my listings, it's pretty gloomy for me being with teespring this long and not having no actual good results, granted I'm not very active, but patience is key i guess. Good value and thanks as always.
Thank you for taking the time to comment and for the support! I really appreciate it and as always if you have any questions at all, feel free to reach out anytime! I'd keep pushing forward, it's really easy to fall off during the beginning phases but I recommend going forward. Also, if you have time to put your designs up on Merch by Amazon and Redbubble, that will help a lot for free passive sales as well :)
@@GregGottfried tried redbubble and got blocked for a type of font that i used...so I'm reevaluating my options here, making another account or moving to another pod websites. thank you for all the help here in comment section, you're truly like no other person in this field, you got my vote all the way friend.
Hi Greg, I have been following your channel for a while now and I love it. Thank you for all the useful information. I do have some questions about Teespring. Why are all my shirts on mock-ups that are flat and some of the shirts on the main website are in more of a 3D look? Any info you have would be super useful, thanks for your time.
Thank you for taking the time to comment and for the support! I really appreciate it and as always if you have any questions at all, feel free to reach out anytime! In regards to the different item mockups, it's actually something that I've been not too happy with for some time now.. They redid some mockups and added new items so now some of the mockups are good and some are bad.. Not much we can do about this for the time being..
Hey Greg!Could you do a video about how and if you can transfer your teespring "business" to Shopify..?I have many bugs and complaints for Teespring and I am thinking of changing and go to Shopify where I have more options as regards the website,marketing and other stuff..So is it possible to go to Shopify without losing my designs?
Thanks for asking! Essentially, you will have to upload all of your designs, title, and descriptions again. Since they are separate companies, and frankly competitors, they do not have a transfer integration. I hope that helps!
Right on! Thank you for taking the time to comment and for the support! I really appreciate it and as always if you have any questions at all, feel free to reach out anytime!
Looking to launch my POD on Teespring/Printful soon. Should I registered my business and do I need a domain? Thanks for sharing your knowledge with the rest of us. Look forward to watching the rest of your videos.
Hi Greg so I had a trust score with one of mine storefronts and one of my storefronts I just created. I have a message saying that the links doesn't exist but still has my login info. I never had this problem before
"Why can't I find my shirts on Teespring?" Well I've been well over two hours here trying to upload my first design and their uploader is awful. All I am getting is the loading circle constantly. It can't even load previews. (I'm using their recommended Shirt resolution/dimensions). 😂😭😂😭😂😭😂😭 It is literally impossible to work with. Redbubble I found way more responsive, as in, it actually works! Maybe Teespring is having issues at the moment, so I will try again another day.
@@GregGottfried That dont work either did all the clearing cashe cookie s etc, maybe it cause im from the U.K but that shouldnt matter should it, i just find their launcher awfull!! for me anyway ;-(
Just the core 3. I used to regularly recommend Teechip until they had a quality issue with their prints. I've since stopped recommending them until they get it sorted. They have stated that it has been corrected but I'm giving it some time until I feel confident to recommend them again :)
Thanks so much for your clear, methodical explanations, Greg. I admit it, I'm a newibie, however not only are my new designs not in the Teespring marketplace, they do not appear in my own listings for editing. Of the 15 products I've launched, only 2 even offered the option for defining Public or Private listings. Also, Teespring suggests setting the Location setting in Listings to International for increased sales, but I never get that option in my very limited Listings page. Thank you for any explanation, maybe it's only because I only opened the account a week ago?
Do you know why I get an error message for some of my RUclips store links. My customers will click on the link to buy something and it goes to a teaspring error page. Other links work fine and the product can be bought easily directly from the teespring page. It's only the RUclips link that is weird. Please Help
Hi Greg, thank you for these great videos you're doing, they really are helpful! What still isn't clear enough to me though, is: once you create individual Teespring storefronts, Instagram accounts and Facebook pages for each niche, how do you keep them all under your brand? Moreover, in this video you say that once Teespring gives you the Trust Score, it is assigned to all your past, present and future creations. How can they even find out which ones belong to you, if they are all uploaded as individual storefronts? Thanks a mill and keep up the good work!
that's why Tee Spring has issues being the best at what they do Etsy I guessing is different but .20 does seem a lot until you have 25 items and may or may not sell
Greg 1 question. I uploaded some pictures and name like Gozilla and Pikachu. And it was taken down before it can be listed saying content issue. Does that lower my trust score?. But if i haven't received a trust score, how can it be lowered ?
Hi Greg, your oss videos are absolutely awesome! I'm going through them 1 by 1 as and just starting out in print on demand. I do have a question about T Spring. You said in one of your videos that you should not order T shirts on your own or have your family ordered them, what is the reason for that? I know the tea Spring could follow your own order but how would they be able to find out if it was from a family member or a friend? Thanks to the help and not only in this question but in all your videos!
Question: Suppose I made a design that sold really well. What's to prevent someone with a bigger reach from copying it and making much more money off of it than I, who is just starting out, could? Also, when is it a good idea to trademark your design?
Great question! If you made the design yourself, you technically own the copyright to it informally by being the original work creator. This means if someone copies your design, you can email the POD website and report it. They will look to see that you uploaded it first, and that it is in fact a copy, and they will remove it. If you wanted to go further, you can formally protect your designs for about $500 each with the government.. I've done it in the past and I dont recommend it.. The only difference is if you need to go to court (would not likely ever get to this point), you would be able to show proof of formal protection filed.
Hi Greg, more of a general question. Have you ever compared some of the products from various Print on Demand suppliers? I have heard the quality at Teespring was not always great. Wondered what your opinion on that was and if you have a video on comparing the pros and cons of Teespring and other companies can you point me in that direction. Love your videos by the way. Thanks
Greg, of course I have another question lol. I notice lots of shirts with celebrities photos or sketches on them and was wondering, Isn't that a copyright or something protected? I see sooo many designs, most recently kobe Bryant for example. Curious as to your thoughts on this. Thanks
Great question! It's a gray area again.. It comes down to Right of Publicity/Privacy rather than Copyright. Essentially, they have the right to stop us from using the "personal brand" that they have created to profit from. I'd shoot an email to sellers@Teespring.com to get their official written word on this.
Hey Greg. thank you for your videos and your guidance. I have one question related to thins topic. I've created my designs and uploaded them to the spring, redbubble, and other websites. I've successfully made my first sale. its a small sale, only three pieces. however, till this moment my designs are not listed in the marketplace. any ideas on how to solve it? I've checked your list for everything and these are no problems with my designs and it should appear on the marketplace but its not.
Hi Gregg, Thank you for great videos. For my designs I assign several t shirt models. I would like to decide which model to come up when you click on the shirt. Do you have video on this? Thank again for inspiring videos. Very skillful presentation too.
Hey Greg! I have a question. You said that in order to get a trust score, we need to sell at least an item. However, how can i sell an item if my items don’t even show until I get a trust score?
Hi Greg, Have a question for you. You explain in the video that if you are a new account or an account with no sells your designs/products will not come up in the market search. OK, so how will someone actually find you to make that first buy if you are not showing up in the actuall search engine or marketplace? will they have to type in your store/acount name to find you or is there something im missing? It may be a stupid question as I have not openned an account yet but as someone who is interested in this im concerned. Thanks in advance, Jason
Uhhhh,... How do I sell the one item needed to receive a Trustscore, if Teespring won't post my items to sell? - Did I miss something? (I'm having flashbacks on trying to get my first job, when no one would hire me until I had experience.)
Thank you for taking the time to comment and for the support! I really appreciate it and as always if you have any questions at all, feel free to reach out anytime! Glad this video helped clear it up!
Thanks Michael! Teespring is beginning to phase out tags so some accounts are losing tag abilities. This is not a good or bad thing for us. It just means they will not be using them in their sorting/ranking system anymore (the keywords in the description take their place). I dont believe this has been announced publicly yet, but that's the behind the scenes of what's going on.
hey Greg amazing info as per usual. I had a quick question if you happen to see this. I've met all 3 of these requirements and it has been about a month since I opened my storefront but no score available yet. do you know why this may be?
I have sold 3 items but still don't think I have a score on teespring. I was accepted to MBA but not sure about the process of uploading my designs and didn't see any videos. There was another girl looking for the same type of video. M/B a video you could do?
Hey Diane! Thanks for asking! Let me see what I can whip up for you guys :) In the meantime, use the standard single item uploader, not the multiple item uploader. Make up a brand name, just make sure it's not copyrighted, and you can reuse the brand name of same niche shirts to put them into the same storefront. Dont worry about key features and description. And lastly, and most importantly, you'll need to resize your design files to be accepted in the upload process. 4500 x 5400 px is what you need. You can go to bulkresizephotos.com and select all the designs you want to resize, then set scale to 100%, exact size on the left side, 4500 x 5400, expert mode at the bottom, png, then resize. Then you can upload those designs to Merch. I hope that helps! If you have any more questions let me know in a new comment (instead of a reply) so it goes to the top of my notifications :)
Thank you so much for this video. I wanted to ask an off topic question. If I have more than one POD shops, should I use same description and hashtags for the same design in all shops or It's better to generate more hashtags and descriptions?
Thanks for asking! Each of your shops should be about a specific niche. With that said, your design should likely only be in 1 shop. Also, the shops (storefronts) pull the title/description from the designs listing so it would be the same if you added that design listing to multiple shops. The hashtags are on the Instagram posts only and not in the actual storefront or design listings. I hope that helps answer!
I want to tell you how much I appreciate you sharing this model with us for a print on demand business. I am committed to giving this a solid go and see what happens. I have created accounts on all three platforms you recommended. I am really excited to start this but I am having troubles linking my designs to their respective storefronts on Teespring. The option is grayed out when it comes to linking with a storefront. My only option is to skip that step. Once done, I can't find where I can link my listing to a specific storefront. Super frustrating. Can you please advise? Thank you, Greg. You are an inspiration to many! I also don't know what I am doing wrong on Merc by Amazon. I followed their specs (or so I thought) in creating a PNG file in Adobe illustrator, but when I try to upload, I get e message that states "Please upload a valid PNG file". Do you have any tutorials on saving the files for Merc by Amazon? Their specs are very specific and created designs on PlaceIt won;t upload either.
Hello greg i watched almost every video of you on teespring . Thankyou for the valuable content for free . I have a question . i am unable to find my storefront link to share or how do i find it ? could u please reply me . thankyou
*can someone help me* When I create an item and list it then it takes me to some non existing shop named pancreatic cancer awareness. What do I need to do???
Hey Greg, Thank you so much for the videos. I'm very excited to start POD. One question, is it possible to use a small logo somewhere in my t-shirt designs? I mean design shirts and also create my own logo and put it on my t-shirts as well?
Hi Greg. My account is 5 days old and made 3 sales. Does that mean i should be on the way to having a trust score or i need to wait a month? Thank you for your informative videos. They helped
Thank you so much, Greg, for all your geat help in getting started with POD. I have a tee shirt design with my drawing of a piece of bread instead of a ghost in the ghostbusters logo. I drew the ghost hands and ooooh expression on the bread but it's not a ghost. Is this still copywrite infringement?
Ok. So how do people find your shirts to buy them if Teespring isn't listing them? Also. How does it work when I have say 4 different Niche? do I open 4 individual stores? Will they all have to get separate trust scores? Or will they all tie in together as 4 stores under one account? Any info you can give me would be highly Appreciated. Thank You!!!
Hi Greg. I have been creating and trying to sell through Teespring since December 2019. Not one sell yet, that’s ok. I ordered one of my shirts to check quality middle of January this year and it is Feb. 20th and No Shirt. I am glad I have not had any orders yet seeing it has been over 4 weeks and I still haven’t received my shirt. Can you please advise as to why it is taking so long? Is this the norm delivery time with Teespring? If it is, I don’t see how anyone could keep happy and returning customers. I have stopped designing for this reason and I am considering other opportunities other than Teespring. I have emailed Teespring and still no response. Please advise! Thank you.
Thanks for asking! I'd definitely reach out to them asap because it sounds like something is off with the order, it should have been there a week or 2 after ordering!
You have to use links to share your store/listing through instagram or other ways to share links. Teespring will trust you once you have a solid following which means you'll sell well. 😉 His other videos explain this a bit better.
is there any news of the teespring site hanging and crashing all the time,i had no probs till a few days ago,also what is happening now is i am uploading new designs and i am getting the emails saying its live,but the designs are not in my storefronts..messaged them loads of times but no response
Hello Greg, I am watching the full playlist to start from scratch, I have asked a couple of questions in your previous videos but for some reason that hasn't catch your eyes. Nonetheless, I like to ask one more question, I have sold 30 items on Teespring in the last 2 years, I really couldn't get the kick to start and that's why I got warning a couple of times to copy the logo of Assassins Creed Game, but my account is still alive, so the question is, is my trust score still working?
I gave up on Teespring, found it a waste of my time and I do not bother with it anymore since I have not made one sale. This was the 2nd time of trying and the same result, no money from it. I list on Redbubble and I make sales.
Thanks for the comment Dina! Did you get a trust score from Teespring? It's the only POD website that you need to actually drive your own first few sales before they start doing marketing for you (the same kind of marketing the redbubble and merch by amazon do). I really recommend trying to get a few of your own sales on Teespring and then seeing what you think once they start doing the marketing ;) Here's a helpful video if you're interested ruclips.net/video/-WrX6qD7G8U/видео.html
@@hozarius Hello, I do not reminder exactly how long it took to get my first sale on Redbubble, but I do remember it was not right away. It takes a couple of weeks at least. Plus the more you upload the better. I need to list more on Redbubble myself. I do not do TeePublic. I have listed on spreadshirt and I have had success on there. Hope that helps.
@@hozarius Hello, I do not remember exactly how long it took me to get my first sale, but it was not right away. It took me a couple of weeks at least. The more you upload the better. Plus on Redbubble you can add your design to other products that they have available. I need to list more on Redbubble myself. I do have not list on TeePublic. I have listed on Spreadshirt and I have had success on that platform. I hope this helps. Much success on your endeavors.
Hello Greg!! I'm bingo watching all the videos and finding them really useful. I got 2 questions though. If we want to use a phrase on a T-shirt, there is any free site where we can search if that phrase is trademarked or copyrighted? Also, if we quote a famous person that said a phrase, we can do it if we write their name under the quote? Thank you for the help.
Great questions! tmsearch.uspto.gov is the best and make sure you are checking that it is protected on clothing. In regards to famous people, it's a gray area but I stay away from it due to Right on Publicity/Privacy. This video will shed some light on this :) ruclips.net/video/zkABaud-EXo/видео.html
Hey Greg, I just checked out, I am able to find my designes when i search the Teespring Marketplace incognito, and I had a couple of sales last month. Does it mean my trust score is up, and I no longer need to do instagram marketing?
Hi Greg, I wished I saw your video before I started Shopify/Printify account. I now have bought domain and paid for shopify but have difficulty trying to make the site look good. I havent sold anything yet. I am wondering if I should just abandon Shopify and just go with teespring. Any advice?
Thanks for asking! Glad you asked now, and not a year later! I would start fresh with Teespring and use this video ruclips.net/video/SmWPAvywW28/видео.html to help with the beginning strategy (then consider Shopify down the road ruclips.net/video/DLprN6NQNI0/видео.html )
The countdown is a timer until the item would go to print. It's designed to create urgency for buyers and get them to place orders because they don't know if the item will no longer be available after the timer ends. According to their studies, it increases conversions by a large deal. The timer will reset and start from 3 days and countdown to the next print every time (so it never truly expires). If you did want to turn it off you c an do it in the settings page though!
I just shared mine on insta and put teesprings hashtags and after a while I tried to visit the teespring page again but unfortunately the items are not appearing. I don't know if it is copyrighted but I'm sure I don't have a buyer yet. This is sad for me.
hi... i saw no space for adding tags in listing on teespring... is using tags for listing is available or now it is tag free method ? just using keywords in title and description will do all the seo activity?
Great question! Teespring is beginning to phase out tags so some accounts are losing tag abilities. This is not a good or bad thing for us. It just means they will not be using them in their sorting/ranking system anymore (the keywords in the description take their place). I dont believe this has been announced publicly yet, but that's the behind the scenes of what's going on.
Why dont they just tell them what's happened instead of leaving them in the dark? Is keeping sellers the only good option? Do they provide a way for sellers to check if their design or wording is trademarked?
Hi Greg, thanks for these informative videos, it actually inspired us to start creating our own designs on Teespring! Question for you.... we recently made a design that tripped off the Teespring trademark protection. We got a warning email saying that this can happen sometimes and to be careful moving forward. Will this mistake set us back from being searchable on Google? We have been working at it for a month already and have had 6-7 sales so far. Any feedback would be appreciated!
Thanks Greg. Out of interest, do you know if Redbubble or Merch count personal sales toward your sales targets? So, if I bought my own shirts on those two platforms, would my accounts benefit from organic sales too? Also - Teespring - if a lot of sales suddenly happened in my city, would that help my trust score? Thanks again!
Thanks for the comment Robert! Great question (and timely because I just recorded a video today about this!). Yes, your own sales do count on Merch by Amazon. Redbubble does not have a system that requires sales so it is not applicable. Buying your own items of Teespring does not count. Buying your own items on Merch is just to "tier up" or move into the next tier that allows you to upload a higher total number of designs. Technically, yes you can make sales from your city on Teespring and have no negative impact of your trust score. If that's what's needed to get your first few sales on Teespring to get the marketing started, then I support it :)
We can use any download picture from Pinterest?? Only we can put some downloaded design in teespring? There have no option to draw something new or edit the picture. Only we can put some picture and write some text?
Hi Greg, first of all my Gratitude to you Greg. I created a storefront and two listings but some how could not put either listings to connect to Storefront. (I must of gone around in circles 10 times in Teespring). When I go to Storefront that has my Banner and select ALL PRODUCTS no T -Shirts appear. Any suggestions would be appreciated ?
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Yo Greg I just wanted to stop my because you are one of the reasons I started doing teespring and last night I made $500 profit😭😭
That is so awesome to hear!! Thank you for taking the time to come back and write this comment. As always, let me know if you need anything at all!
@@horsemaam6568 started on new years
Congrats!! Can you post a link to your store? Super curious to see it!
@@philosophy7469 I would've loved to, but the store I was talking about was based around Kobe Bryant and before the orders were fulfilled I got hit with copyright infringement and they terminated my accounts and store fronts 😭😭 so I made over 500 in one night and lost it all the next day. Can't be sad about it forever though, it's a learning experience!
Financial Charles aw man sorry to hear that! What a shame! I’m sure if you made it happen once, the second time would be even easier ;)
I hope this video helps clarify why your listings are not showing in Teespring! Let me know if you have any questions :)
Hi Greg. I just newly subbed. Thanks for the insightful content. A quick question pls. How do you verify (100 percent ) if an inscription / sentence is copyrighted or not?
For example I was passing by a pizza shop today, and the owner wrote on an advert board ' Life is Sweet ..Pizza is Sweeter.
This inspired a quote in my mind (for a chocolate T-shirt, for example) ; ' Life is Choco-licious ( ie; fution of chocolate and Delicious ). How do I verify if this has not been used by any one of millions of chocolate companies around the world? Thanks. I look forward to your response.
I love the straightforward informative style of your videos! First a short answer for those who already know, the the details. Honest and does not waste people’s time for likes. A long term honest strategy as you always advise.
Hello, Greg! Thank you for this useful video! You always create decent videos!
Can I ask a question?
Why I can’t see my products on TeePublic marketplace? Do they have some similar “Trust score” system? For example, RedBubble immediately starts showing your products on their marketplace, but why TeePublic don’t? Is it similar with the TeeSpring?
Thank you in advance.
Respect to you from the center of far Russia :)
@@moo2983 Great question! You can check it at tmsearch.uspto.gov to see if it is protected already on our use case (clothing). I hope that helps!
@@hdd1977m7 Thank you so much for taking the time to write this.. I really appreciate it and as always if you have any questions at all, feel free to reach out anytime!
I was actually looking for a question like this literally lastnight. I was getting frustrated. Thanks for this video.
Perfect timing :) Let me know if you have any other questions as you're going along!
Could you solve the problem?
Hi greg, just wanted to share with you the great news that I just got my Teespring trust score in just about 2-3 weeks from initial uploading (confirmed as I’m now able to find my designs). Wanted to express my gratitude to you for your tips and for sharing your experiences. Pls continue the great things you do for the community. God bless and wish you more success! Cheers!
Excellent! Thank you for taking the time to comment and sharing the great news! I really appreciate it and as always if you have any questions at all, feel free to reach out anytime!
That's why it's a must to put in multiple platforms. When I upload on tchip it's almost instant. Teespring keeps it hidden until you can push a sale through. Not sure how others can find your product when you can't find it yourself. But uploading on more than one platform helps for sure. Thanks for the help
Agreed David :) Merch by Amazon and Redbubble are instant too. In the beginning for Teespring you have to send people to your designs. I recommend putting them into a storefront and sending that link out. I use niche specific Instagram pages to Niche specific storefronts. This video will explain if you're interested in learning more :) ruclips.net/video/-WrX6qD7G8U/видео.html
@@GregGottfried yes I have watched the video before. It was good. My niche instgra m s are split. Some on teepring and the newest is on tchip. And I am thinking the next niche will be on merch. Worried about having multiple Amazon account for different niche. And not sure if I want a general store on merch.
Keep in mind the niche storefront is just to be used in the beginning phases fo Teespring to get some of your own sales on your account, to get the Trust Score kickstarted, and all the free marketing started. Once you get a few sales on your Teespring account, you no longer need to use storefronts or Instagram at all :) With that said, I think you really only need 1 niche storefront and 1 niche Instagram page to drive traffic to Teespring. Merch by Amazon and Redbubble do marketing for you from day 1 so you dont have to do the whole Instagram strategy to get sales. If you did it for Merch, I could see the benefit as helping you get sales to tier up faster, but long run I dont think it's necessary at all (there's a point of diminishing return on your time spent) and your time is best spent creating and upload more designs. Also you can use the same "brand name" to create a niche store on Merch so you dont need to make multiple accounts. I hope that helps!
@@GregGottfried agreed thanks
Thanks
So helpful! I was searching for this information for at least an hour. Glad I found you!
Glad you found it! There seems to be nothing on it out there :) Thank you for taking the time to comment and for the support! I really appreciate it and as always if you have any questions at all, feel free to reach out anytime!
Love the new thumbnail designs and added pics and texts throughout your recent videos. Thanks for the value man. Love and respect from Jamaica 🇯🇲
Thank you! If you guys like the new thumbnail style, I will continue it :) Thank you for taking the time to comment and as always, if you have any questions at all, let me know anytime!
It is incredible how these videos are free for everyone. So much value
I know this is an older video, but thank you. I was wondering why I couldn't see what I consider to be my most sellable listing. And thank you for your videos. They have been very helpful.
You're very welcome! I'm glad you found the videos to be helpful!
Just thinking of starting a T-Shirt business and ran into your channels. Want to say Thank you. Your content is extremely helpful. Keep it up for I have subscribe to your channel and notifications for more help on this business. BTW appreciate the honesty (without the fluff), I think it's better when you go straight to nitty gritty
Thank you for taking the time to comment and for the support! I really appreciate it and as always if you have any questions at all, feel free to reach out anytime! More videos in the works :)
Hi Greg, thanks for all your great advice. It has really improved my game.
My experience is vastly different from yours with regards to Teespring. Long story short, I have had several people ,complaining to me over the Instagram advertising I have been doing that they cannot buy the shirts I advertise on Teespring. I tested it, and they are right. Something weird is going on when they try to order anything that is not on the front page of the listing (eg. choosing a women's tee does not show up in their cart). I don't expect you to be an expert in this. I have contacted Teespring Support on several occasions, on this and other matters, and they seem to want to answer questions I do not ask, or only answer part of a question, and the easy part at that, I have an outstanding issue that defies logic, and have also received a number of "copyright" flags that were sequentially rescinded but cost me a lot of time to address.
I have worked in small business and for companies such as GE, I am aware how to correspond with the over-worked people in Support. I have 3 unanswered emails going back two months. Silence.
The metrics provided to me from small Facebook ads do not line up with the Teespring Analytics. I understand Facebook have a vested interest in inflating the figures, but they do line up with Teepublic and Viral Style metrics. I am getting sales on those platforms, but out of 150 designs on Teespring have yet to sell one, I strongly suspect the inability of customers to add items to their cart has something to do with it.
I am done. I am pulling shirts from Teespring. I will continue to be a subscriber as you give fantastic content. I won't be watching anything you have on Teespring though. Something's rotten in Denmark.
Keep up the fantastic work
Cheers,
Tony
I just found your channel like 2-3hrs ago and have been watching all your videos nonstop. Love your content I can tell it's good and honest and not like a lot these other videos like make $300 with one click. I think this is something simple that I can get into.
Thank you for taking the time to comment and for the support! I really appreciate it and as always if you have any questions at all, feel free to reach out anytime!
@@GregGottfriedI like creating things , I have a question if I upload hundreds over time like how much can I expect to earn can I get it up to like $500 a month. I have tested a lot of things that don't work not for lack of effort but because I get though outed stuff by fake gurus
It's average about $1/per active listing/per month (and that goes for Teespring, Merch by Amazon, and RedBubble). Hope that makes sense, for example 100 shirts on each site is about $300/mo total (or $100/mo from each site). Every time I make a sale, I get between $2-$10 depending on how big the margin is set on that product. The $1 I'm talking about it to give you a best average on my entire accounts earnings per month. You may have 100 designs live, but only make 20 sales that month. Not every design will sell every month. So if we are averaging between $2-10 per sale (and we got 20 per month) that averages $100 profit that month. With 100 designs, that comes out to about $1 per active design on the account. I hope that helps!
@@GregGottfried Thanks a lot.
Greg I just wanted to say thank you so much for all your great content you put out! You’ve helped me so much and you are a great mentor to the world! Much Love ❤️💜
Thank you for taking the time to comment and for the support! I really appreciate it and as always if you have any questions at all, feel free to reach out anytime!
You read my mind, been driving me crazy😂😂 I deleted a whole listing and redid it again thinking I had messed up somewhere.😥.
Perfect timing! Hopefully this saves you some frustration lol :) If you have any questions down the road, let me know anytime!
@@GregGottfried Thanks .Quick question, I got an I.G page up for my store, do I start by posting merch pics or something else to get the ball rolling. (Millennial here who used to think I.G was for the kids😂😂)
Lol I agree! I've got the perfect video for you :) ruclips.net/video/-WrX6qD7G8U/видео.html
Same dude. 5 of my listing has been disabled till now due to some copyright issues!!! This was when I wasn't getting any sales. But yesterday, I got my 5th sale. Do you have any idea, whether 5 disable ac is fine or the whole ac is in danger??
Clear and transparency is what I appreciate most about your channel. And also the new video images are so cool. I suggest if you can make a small video like this for redbubble and merch. Thank you!
Thank you for taking the time to comment and for the support! I really appreciate it and as always if you have any questions at all, feel free to reach out anytime! I've got a new video on Merch coming soon ;)
Nice useful video.. im 13 years old and i started listing on teespring because of you...👍
Right on! Nice job getting started early, you will be thanking yourself later :)
Yeah i havent got any sales yet but i will be on the grind.
@@johannesalander9877 have u got any sales...
Dude, I'm binge watching this playlist! 🏁
The scrub is totally working! 👍
Teepublic Designs not showing in search results? Why? 40 designs, profile picture, proper store front.
Hello,so i setup teepublic account,there is 40 designs, proper store cover. My designs didn't show on search results. I contacted them through email. This is the answer i got from them. By the way i want to say that i seen peoples stores in search results with two designs only. What is the problem?? If it was copyrights they would took my designs down. Ithink also that quality of my work is not that bad. Seen much worse.
First off, thank you for uploading to TeePublic. We appreciate how much work goes into each design, and we thank you! While TeePublic is an open platform where anyone can host and sell from their own storefront, our site's discovery tools is more curated. Due to legal or creative reasons, your designs will not show up in search or on the "new" or "browse" areas of the site. However, you will still be able to sell your work through the direct link to your page or to the individual product pages
Hi Greg! I have no trust score on teespring yet, thank you for making some things clear. I uploaded two designs with copyrighted keywords and they were taken down by teespring. Now I have three designs active and they're ok, but my history on the teespring is not good because of these two designs with wrong keywording. Should I maybe make a new account and make everything right? or if I make some sales at my current account, I will have a trust score anyway despite my mistakes? (sorry for my English)
Thank you so much for the video!
Thanks, Greg. Super helpful. I got a couple of sales and my items showed up in the marketplace.
Great to hear- congrats & keep it up! 😊
Just a quick question. I understand that you need to build a trust score on Teespring, but how do they expect you to make any sales to earn that score if they won't post it? Seems like a catch 22 to me. Thanks for all the amazing and informative videos.
No worries! That's where the video that I mentioned in this video comes in. There is a strategy to get your own sales. I'll link up the video here: ruclips.net/video/-WrX6qD7G8U/видео.html
Back up and running! Store is live and I'm SO excited - thank you Greg! I want to send you the link cause I'm so excited but not sure I'm allowed to do that in the comments! :)
Right on Jenni! Excited for you :)
Your videos have been very helpful. I am just starting with Teespring. I put up 4 store fronts only to have one of them pulled down. I had no idea that "bee strong" was anything other than be strong. So my question is will it be impossible to be successful starting out this way?
Thanks for sharing David! Hmmm... That's fun... I would venture to say that is a rare occurrence. I say that because I've never had a storefront taken down like that! I guess my recommendation would be to check Teespring, Google, and tmsearch.uspto.gov first :)
Am still a newbie - but already disenchanted. I never use copyright material, I always create my own ideas and designs.
Loads of trouble uploading, and very poor response from so called support. In fact, as yet, not one reply to email has been answered. Aside from which, I think the whole site is very convoluted, however, I will persevere for now, but can't see it being long term unless issues drastically change.
I learned this the hard way, lost out on free traffic because people couldn't find my store on Teespring, really sad about it.
I just started a week ago and I think I just got my trust score. I didn't know for sure, because currently I have 1 sale. I'm so happy. I really didn't expect to get a trust score with 1 sale.
That’s awesome- congrats! Keep it up 👍🏼
Hey Greg - everybody! Soooo I'm embarassed to admit the following BUT I am always the first one to say "my bad" if I was wrong about something - I had followed all the steps Greg laid out including setting up a new email to use for TeeSpring. I had commented my frustration a few times on here and I have now figured out what happened, well somewhat. So first of all my apologies. They actually WERE responding to me and also sending me my paypal confirmation emails BUT there weren't showing up in my Gmail at ALL! I would get an email from them about every 3 days in my main inbox ( their answers still lack in substance but I digress ) the OTHER emails, including the paypal confirmation were all getting dumped into a tab I never checked when I set up the gmail account AND next to "important" where it dumped them there was not a number like X amount of emails, etc. So, I had no idea anything was there - somehow I found them by accident and went in and changed those settings but this caused me a huge amount of stress and it was all something new with Gmail I was unaware of. I guess that was a default I missed from the get go BUT I just wanted to number 1 say "my bad" and number 2 they still answered all my questions with basically repeating my issue, never a resolution however maybe they were confused because the automatic emails had actually been sent to me - I just never SAW them. They seem to send from a different email when answering you from "sellers@teespring" and the automatic emails from the system went to a hidden email tab...hope this helps someone. Unfortunately, I gave up and deleted the whole store I'd worked night and day on - and it looked great too. Maybe I'll start over (emoticon for scrunchy face). Get your stuff up for Mother's Day sales soon! :) Thank you Greg for teaching so well, sorry I am such a dummy!!! Much love, happy selling. J
Thank you Greg!
Just what I was asking about the other day. I am already in the process of implementing your suggestions!
Excellent! Perfect timing!! Let me know if you need anything!
@@GregGottfried Thank you! I probably will once I start making some sales.
I learn a lot from your content and will for sure flow something back in some shape or form!
Thank you, dear Greg, for explaining this topic. I' m new in "Teespring" and follow your videos. Hope I'll do all right, Thank you.
Ironic how it is called a "Trust Score" when they are evasive about this information. Smh.
Hi Greg... was happy to see this video because I still haven’t been able to find our designs on Teespring, despite the following:
* been selling for 4 months
* have sold over 45 products
* I know that sales have come from various states in the U.S. And even 2 from Canada.
We still are not getting traffic from Teespring per the analytics.
Do you have any additional advice? It’s been a bit frustrating.
Thanks,
Josette
Hey Josette! Thanks for the comment! It's likely just a matter of time now. I've seen the trust score taking about a month to kick in, and just this morning spoke with someone who is still waiting on his second month now! It seems to be unpredictable on how soon the trust score and marketing kicks in. I have a big feeling it's moving towards a manual account review once you meet the trust score requirements (and that's what's taking so long). I'd keep pushing forward and be sure to also be on Merch by Amazon and Redbubble for diversification and extra free traffic! I hope that helps and I'm here to help if you need me :)
Thank you for explaining this! I was wondering for so long about this
Glad it helped! Thanks for commenting :)
My listings seem to have been completely removed or at least have broken links and I have no idea why. They were fine for a while but it looks like they've been deactivated possibly? All of my listings were completely original content so I don't know why this would happen? Is there something I can do to fix this or should I call support?
Hey thanks for asking! Yes, I would recommend shooting a quick email to ipescalations@teespring.com to see why they are not active.
Love the new thumbnail, so a friend of mine made the second purchase on one of my listings, it's pretty gloomy for me being with teespring this long and not having no actual good results, granted I'm not very active, but patience is key i guess. Good value and thanks as always.
Thank you for taking the time to comment and for the support! I really appreciate it and as always if you have any questions at all, feel free to reach out anytime! I'd keep pushing forward, it's really easy to fall off during the beginning phases but I recommend going forward. Also, if you have time to put your designs up on Merch by Amazon and Redbubble, that will help a lot for free passive sales as well :)
@@GregGottfried tried redbubble and got blocked for a type of font that i used...so I'm reevaluating my options here, making another account or moving to another pod websites. thank you for all the help here in comment section, you're truly like no other person in this field, you got my vote all the way friend.
I hope Redbubble gets sorted if you try them out again! Merch by Amazon and Teespring are really solid options, both bigger than Redbubble anyways :)
Hi Greg, I have been following your channel for a while now and I love it. Thank you for all the useful information. I do have some questions about Teespring. Why are all my shirts on mock-ups that are flat and some of the shirts on the main website are in more of a 3D look? Any info you have would be super useful, thanks for your time.
Thank you for taking the time to comment and for the support! I really appreciate it and as always if you have any questions at all, feel free to reach out anytime! In regards to the different item mockups, it's actually something that I've been not too happy with for some time now.. They redid some mockups and added new items so now some of the mockups are good and some are bad.. Not much we can do about this for the time being..
Hey Greg!Could you do a video about how and if you can transfer your teespring "business" to Shopify..?I have many bugs and complaints for Teespring and I am thinking of changing and go to Shopify where I have more options as regards the website,marketing and other stuff..So is it possible to go to Shopify without losing my designs?
Thanks for asking! Essentially, you will have to upload all of your designs, title, and descriptions again. Since they are separate companies, and frankly competitors, they do not have a transfer integration. I hope that helps!
Love your videos, really informative to new people trying to achieve passive income
Thank you so much for the comment and the support! As always, let me know if you need anything at all!
This was just what I was looking for! Nice timing. Thanks!
Right on! Thank you for taking the time to comment and for the support! I really appreciate it and as always if you have any questions at all, feel free to reach out anytime!
Greg Gottfried thank you, will do! Have a good day.
Looking to launch my POD on Teespring/Printful soon. Should I registered my business and do I need a domain? Thanks for sharing your knowledge with the rest of us. Look forward to watching the rest of your videos.
Hi Greg, could you explain how you can check if you have had a listing deactivated? Many thanks!
Thanks for asking! You can shoot an email to ipescalations@teespring.com and they can check it out for you :)
@Greg Gottfried Thanks for the reminder to be patient and do what you can to drive your first sales! Wish I would have started this 4 years ago! 🧐😊
Thanks for the comment Beau! I just shot you an email ;)
Hi Greg so I had a trust score with one of mine storefronts and one of my storefronts I just created. I have a message saying that the links doesn't exist but still has my login info. I never had this problem before
"Why can't I find my shirts on Teespring?" Well I've been well over two hours here trying to upload my first design and their uploader is awful. All I am getting is the loading circle constantly. It can't even load previews. (I'm using their recommended Shirt resolution/dimensions). 😂😭😂😭😂😭😂😭 It is literally impossible to work with. Redbubble I found way more responsive, as in, it actually works! Maybe Teespring is having issues at the moment, so I will try again another day.
lol Try using Chrome or another internet browser :)
I totally agree 100% im having the same problem so slow!! Redbubble never any problem's smooth and responsive, Tspring still like this by the way,
@@GregGottfried That dont work either did all the clearing cashe cookie s etc, maybe it cause im from the U.K but that shouldnt matter should it, i just find their launcher awfull!! for me anyway ;-(
I haven't sold a shirt in 5 years ....now I know why. i'm done and glad I never took that scholarship to CIA.
The url doesn’t show up is that what you mean that’s my problem
Very helpful. Thank you! 🙏🏼
Great video as always! I have a question: do you recommend using Teechip too or only the 3 core? Thanks!
Just the core 3. I used to regularly recommend Teechip until they had a quality issue with their prints. I've since stopped recommending them until they get it sorted. They have stated that it has been corrected but I'm giving it some time until I feel confident to recommend them again :)
@@GregGottfried thank you so much!
Thanks so much for your clear, methodical explanations, Greg. I admit it, I'm a newibie, however not only are my new designs not in the Teespring marketplace, they do not appear in my own listings for editing. Of the 15 products I've launched, only 2 even offered the option for defining Public or Private listings. Also, Teespring suggests setting the Location setting in Listings to International for increased sales, but I never get that option in my very limited Listings page. Thank you for any explanation, maybe it's only because I only opened the account a week ago?
Do you know why I get an error message for some of my RUclips store links. My customers will click on the link to buy something and it goes to a teaspring error page. Other links work fine and the product can be bought easily directly from the teespring page. It's only the RUclips link that is weird. Please Help
Hi Greg, thanks a lot for your very helpful videos. Please tell more about sales count and its influence on sales
Hi Greg, thank you for these great videos you're doing, they really are helpful! What still isn't clear enough to me though, is: once you create individual Teespring storefronts, Instagram accounts and Facebook pages for each niche, how do you keep them all under your brand? Moreover, in this video you say that once Teespring gives you the Trust Score, it is assigned to all your past, present and future creations. How can they even find out which ones belong to you, if they are all uploaded as individual storefronts? Thanks a mill and keep up the good work!
that's why Tee Spring has issues being the best at what they do Etsy I guessing is different but .20 does seem a lot until you have 25 items and may or may not sell
Greg 1 question. I uploaded some pictures and name like Gozilla and Pikachu. And it was taken down before it can be listed saying content issue. Does that lower my trust score?. But if i haven't received a trust score, how can it be lowered ?
Hey greg, how do i sell my items if they dont show up on the marketplace
Thanks Greg, thats great information, much appreciated
Thanks Bobby- glad to hear that🙂
Hi Greg, your oss videos are absolutely awesome! I'm going through them 1 by 1 as and just starting out in print on demand.
I do have a question about T Spring. You said in one of your videos that you should not order T shirts on your own or have your family ordered them, what is the reason for that? I know the tea Spring could follow your own order but how would they be able to find out if it was from a family member or a friend?
Thanks to the help and not only in this question but in all your videos!
Question: Suppose I made a design that sold really well. What's to prevent someone with a bigger reach from copying it and making much more money off of it than I, who is just starting out, could? Also, when is it a good idea to trademark your design?
Great question! If you made the design yourself, you technically own the copyright to it informally by being the original work creator. This means if someone copies your design, you can email the POD website and report it. They will look to see that you uploaded it first, and that it is in fact a copy, and they will remove it. If you wanted to go further, you can formally protect your designs for about $500 each with the government.. I've done it in the past and I dont recommend it.. The only difference is if you need to go to court (would not likely ever get to this point), you would be able to show proof of formal protection filed.
Have you done a video on Mark up? And what you think is best %
Great question! I've tested a few and continue to see 20% yielding the best profit overall.
Hi Greg, more of a general question. Have you ever compared some of the products from various Print on Demand suppliers? I have heard the quality at Teespring was not always great. Wondered what your opinion on that was and if you have a video on comparing the pros and cons of Teespring and other companies can you point me in that direction. Love your videos by the way. Thanks
Greg, of course I have another question lol. I notice lots of shirts with celebrities photos or sketches on them and was wondering, Isn't that a copyright or something protected? I see sooo many designs, most recently kobe Bryant for example. Curious as to your thoughts on this.
Thanks
Great question! It's a gray area again.. It comes down to Right of Publicity/Privacy rather than Copyright. Essentially, they have the right to stop us from using the "personal brand" that they have created to profit from. I'd shoot an email to sellers@Teespring.com to get their official written word on this.
Hey Greg.
thank you for your videos and your guidance. I have one question related to thins topic.
I've created my designs and uploaded them to the spring, redbubble, and other websites.
I've successfully made my first sale. its a small sale, only three pieces.
however, till this moment my designs are not listed in the marketplace. any ideas on how to solve it?
I've checked your list for everything and these are no problems with my designs and it should appear on the marketplace but its not.
Hi Gregg, Thank you for great videos. For my designs I assign several t shirt models. I would like to decide which model to come up when you click on the shirt. Do you have video on this? Thank again for inspiring videos. Very skillful presentation too.
Hey Max, the model photos can not be uploaded to the POD sites themselves, they are just for our use for marketing on Instagram :)
Hey Greg! I have a question. You said that in order to get a trust score, we need to sell at least an item. However, how can i sell an item if my items don’t even show until I get a trust score?
You have to market your items first by yourself preferably on instagram. Greg has a video about this.
Hi Greg, Have a question for you.
You explain in the video that if you are a new account or an account with no sells your designs/products will not come up in the market search.
OK, so how will someone actually find you to make that first buy if you are not showing up in the actuall search engine or marketplace? will they have to type in your store/acount name to find you or is there something im missing?
It may be a stupid question as I have not openned an account yet but as someone who is interested in this im concerned.
Thanks in advance, Jason
Nice information vlog episode 👍👍
Is there any problem if I insert photos from google into the TEE shirt
I made two sales with one storefront on teespring, does that mean teespring will now show all my other designs for other store fronts?
nvm you answered it lol! ty
How is it going now ?
Uhhhh,... How do I sell the one item needed to receive a Trustscore, if Teespring won't post my items to sell? - Did I miss something? (I'm having flashbacks on trying to get my first job, when no one would hire me until I had experience.)
Thanks for this video, I wondered where my items were.
Thank you for taking the time to comment and for the support! I really appreciate it and as always if you have any questions at all, feel free to reach out anytime! Glad this video helped clear it up!
Great information as usual Greg. What happened to the keywords on Teespring? Do we not need to add them anymore?
Thanks Michael! Teespring is beginning to phase out tags so some accounts are losing tag abilities. This is not a good or bad thing for us. It just means they will not be using them in their sorting/ranking system anymore (the keywords in the description take their place). I dont believe this has been announced publicly yet, but that's the behind the scenes of what's going on.
@@GregGottfried perfect thanks. Figured you would have the scoop. Makes the titles and descriptions even more important!
hey Greg amazing info as per usual. I had a quick question if you happen to see this.
I've met all 3 of these requirements and it has been about a month since I opened my storefront but no score available yet. do you know why this may be?
I have sold 3 items but still don't think I have a score on teespring. I was accepted to MBA but not sure about the process of uploading my designs and didn't see any videos. There was another girl looking for the same type of video. M/B a video you could do?
Hey Diane! Thanks for asking! Let me see what I can whip up for you guys :) In the meantime, use the standard single item uploader, not the multiple item uploader. Make up a brand name, just make sure it's not copyrighted, and you can reuse the brand name of same niche shirts to put them into the same storefront. Dont worry about key features and description. And lastly, and most importantly, you'll need to resize your design files to be accepted in the upload process. 4500 x 5400 px is what you need. You can go to bulkresizephotos.com and select all the designs you want to resize, then set scale to 100%, exact size on the left side, 4500 x 5400, expert mode at the bottom, png, then resize. Then you can upload those designs to Merch. I hope that helps! If you have any more questions let me know in a new comment (instead of a reply) so it goes to the top of my notifications :)
Thank you so much for this video. I wanted to ask an off topic question. If I have more than one POD shops, should I use same description and hashtags for the same design in all shops or It's better to generate more hashtags and descriptions?
Thanks for asking! Each of your shops should be about a specific niche. With that said, your design should likely only be in 1 shop. Also, the shops (storefronts) pull the title/description from the designs listing so it would be the same if you added that design listing to multiple shops. The hashtags are on the Instagram posts only and not in the actual storefront or design listings. I hope that helps answer!
I want to tell you how much I appreciate you sharing this model with us for a print on demand business. I am committed to giving this a solid go and see what happens. I have created accounts on all three platforms you recommended. I am really excited to start this but I am having troubles linking my designs to their respective storefronts on Teespring. The option is grayed out when it comes to linking with a storefront. My only option is to skip that step. Once done, I can't find where I can link my listing to a specific storefront. Super frustrating. Can you please advise? Thank you, Greg. You are an inspiration to many! I also don't know what I am doing wrong on Merc by Amazon. I followed their specs (or so I thought) in creating a PNG file in Adobe illustrator, but when I try to upload, I get e message that states "Please upload a valid PNG file". Do you have any tutorials on saving the files for Merc by Amazon? Their specs are very specific and created designs on PlaceIt won;t upload either.
Thank You for this video Greg..
Hello greg i watched almost every video of you on teespring . Thankyou for the valuable content for free . I have a question . i am unable to find my storefront link to share or how do i find it ? could u please reply me . thankyou
I can no longer find tags in the description, area. There is no longer a duplication option of the images when creating a listing. Please advise.
*can someone help me*
When I create an item and list it then it takes me to some non existing shop named pancreatic cancer awareness. What do I need to do???
Hey Greg,
Thank you so much for the videos. I'm very excited to start POD.
One question, is it possible to use a small logo somewhere in my t-shirt designs?
I mean design shirts and also create my own logo and put it on my t-shirts as well?
Hi Greg. My account is 5 days old and made 3 sales. Does that mean i should be on the way to having a trust score or i need to wait a month? Thank you for your informative videos. They helped
Thank you so much, Greg, for all your geat help in getting started with POD. I have a tee shirt design with my drawing of a piece of bread instead of a ghost in the ghostbusters logo. I drew the ghost hands and ooooh expression on the bread but it's not a ghost. Is this still copywrite infringement?
Ok. So how do people find your shirts to buy them if Teespring isn't listing them?
Also. How does it work when I have say 4 different Niche? do I open 4 individual stores? Will they all have to get separate trust scores? Or will they all tie in together as 4 stores under one account? Any info you can give me would be highly Appreciated. Thank You!!!
Hi Greg. I have been creating and trying to sell through Teespring since December 2019. Not one sell yet, that’s ok. I ordered one of my shirts to check quality middle of January this year and it is Feb. 20th and No Shirt. I am glad I have not had any orders yet seeing it has been over 4 weeks and I still haven’t received my shirt. Can you please advise as to why it is taking so long? Is this the norm delivery time with Teespring? If it is, I don’t see how anyone could keep happy and returning customers. I have stopped designing for this reason and I am considering other opportunities other than Teespring. I have emailed Teespring and still no response. Please advise! Thank you.
Thanks for asking! I'd definitely reach out to them asap because it sounds like something is off with the order, it should have been there a week or 2 after ordering!
Hey how can i sell my first tee-shirt when my designs doesnt appear in the market place
I'm struggling with this too! Have you heard an answer to this?
You have to use links to share your store/listing through instagram or other ways to share links. Teespring will trust you once you have a solid following which means you'll sell well. 😉 His other videos explain this a bit better.
is there any news of the teespring site hanging and crashing all the time,i had no probs till a few days ago,also what is happening now is i am uploading new designs and i am getting the emails saying its live,but the designs are not in my storefronts..messaged them loads of times but no response
Hello Greg, I am watching the full playlist to start from scratch, I have asked a couple of questions in your previous videos but for some reason that hasn't catch your eyes. Nonetheless, I like to ask one more question, I have sold 30 items on Teespring in the last 2 years, I really couldn't get the kick to start and that's why I got warning a couple of times to copy the logo of Assassins Creed Game, but my account is still alive, so the question is, is my trust score still working?
I gave up on Teespring, found it a waste of my time and I do not bother with it anymore since I have not made one sale. This was the 2nd time of trying and the same result, no money from it. I list on Redbubble and I make sales.
Thanks for the comment Dina! Did you get a trust score from Teespring? It's the only POD website that you need to actually drive your own first few sales before they start doing marketing for you (the same kind of marketing the redbubble and merch by amazon do). I really recommend trying to get a few of your own sales on Teespring and then seeing what you think once they start doing the marketing ;) Here's a helpful video if you're interested ruclips.net/video/-WrX6qD7G8U/видео.html
Hi Dina! How much time was it needed to have a first sale on the RedBubble? And do you use something similar to RedBubble? TeePublic, for example
@@hozarius Hello, I do not reminder exactly how long it took to get my first sale on Redbubble, but I do remember it was not right away. It takes a couple of weeks at least. Plus the more you upload the better. I need to list more on Redbubble myself. I do not do TeePublic. I have listed on spreadshirt and I have had success on there. Hope that helps.
@@hozarius Hello, I do not remember exactly how long it took me to get my first sale, but it was not right away. It took me a couple of weeks at least. The more you upload the better. Plus on Redbubble you can add your design to other products that they have available. I need to list more on Redbubble myself. I do have not list on TeePublic. I have listed on Spreadshirt and I have had success on that platform. I hope this helps. Much success on your endeavors.
Dina J such a good answer! Thank you! Wish you a good luck in all your activities!
This video explains why you should sell your designs on RedBubble or elsewhere.
Hello Greg!! I'm bingo watching all the videos and finding them really useful. I got 2 questions though. If we want to use a phrase on a T-shirt, there is any free site where we can search if that phrase is trademarked or copyrighted? Also, if we quote a famous person that said a phrase, we can do it if we write their name under the quote? Thank you for the help.
Great questions! tmsearch.uspto.gov is the best and make sure you are checking that it is protected on clothing. In regards to famous people, it's a gray area but I stay away from it due to Right on Publicity/Privacy. This video will shed some light on this :) ruclips.net/video/zkABaud-EXo/видео.html
thanks for this video mate
As always, thank YOU for the comment and support!
Hey Greg, I just checked out, I am able to find my designes when i search the Teespring Marketplace incognito, and I had a couple of sales last month. Does it mean my trust score is up, and I no longer need to do instagram marketing?
Hi Greg, I wished I saw your video before I started Shopify/Printify account. I now have bought domain and paid for shopify but have difficulty trying to make the site look good. I havent sold anything yet. I am wondering if I should just abandon Shopify and just go with teespring. Any advice?
Thanks for asking! Glad you asked now, and not a year later! I would start fresh with Teespring and use this video ruclips.net/video/SmWPAvywW28/видео.html to help with the beginning strategy (then consider Shopify down the road ruclips.net/video/DLprN6NQNI0/видео.html )
Hey Greg, I'm a small RUclipsr! But what does the countdown mean? Will my merch delete? How can I keep it placed without it counting down
The countdown is a timer until the item would go to print. It's designed to create urgency for buyers and get them to place orders because they don't know if the item will no longer be available after the timer ends. According to their studies, it increases conversions by a large deal. The timer will reset and start from 3 days and countdown to the next print every time (so it never truly expires). If you did want to turn it off you c an do it in the settings page though!
@@GregGottfried omg you are so helpful Greg thank u so much 😭😭💜💜💜
I just shared mine on insta and put teesprings hashtags and after a while I tried to visit the teespring page again but unfortunately the items are not appearing. I don't know if it is copyrighted but I'm sure I don't have a buyer yet. This is sad for me.
hi... i saw no space for adding tags in listing on teespring... is using tags for listing is available or now it is tag free method ? just using keywords in title and description will do all the seo activity?
Great question! Teespring is beginning to phase out tags so some accounts are losing tag abilities. This is not a good or bad thing for us. It just means they will not be using them in their sorting/ranking system anymore (the keywords in the description take their place). I dont believe this has been announced publicly yet, but that's the behind the scenes of what's going on.
Why dont they just tell them what's happened instead of leaving them in the dark? Is keeping sellers the only good option? Do they provide a way for sellers to check if their design or wording is trademarked?
Hi Greg, thanks for these informative videos, it actually inspired us to start creating our own designs on Teespring! Question for you.... we recently made a design that tripped off the Teespring trademark protection. We got a warning email saying that this can happen sometimes and to be careful moving forward. Will this mistake set us back from being searchable on Google? We have been working at it for a month already and have had 6-7 sales so far. Any feedback would be appreciated!
Thanks Greg.
Out of interest, do you know if Redbubble or Merch count personal sales toward your sales targets? So, if I bought my own shirts on those two platforms, would my accounts benefit from organic sales too?
Also - Teespring - if a lot of sales suddenly happened in my city, would that help my trust score?
Thanks again!
Thanks for the comment Robert! Great question (and timely because I just recorded a video today about this!). Yes, your own sales do count on Merch by Amazon. Redbubble does not have a system that requires sales so it is not applicable. Buying your own items of Teespring does not count. Buying your own items on Merch is just to "tier up" or move into the next tier that allows you to upload a higher total number of designs. Technically, yes you can make sales from your city on Teespring and have no negative impact of your trust score. If that's what's needed to get your first few sales on Teespring to get the marketing started, then I support it :)
@@GregGottfried thanks Greg. Great information!
We can use any download picture from Pinterest??
Only we can put some downloaded design in teespring? There have no option to draw something new or edit the picture. Only we can put some picture and write some text?
Is there still a marketplace on teespring?
Hi Greg, first of all my Gratitude to you Greg. I created a storefront and two listings but some how could not put either listings to connect to Storefront. (I must of gone around in circles 10 times in Teespring). When I go to Storefront that has my Banner and select ALL PRODUCTS no T -Shirts appear. Any suggestions would be appreciated ?