Now, let’s understand some basic terminology: We hate spam, you won’t get any of that here. The sales paled in comparison to Merch so I went back to the drawing board and hired a designer that summer to make new designs for Merch. In 2018 I opened my Etsy store and put some of my best designs over there. In October I did a few Halloween shirts that made me A LOT of money (and would eventually be my downfall, stay tuned.)Īll in all in 2017 for 8 months of work I made over $5,000. I “tiered up” to 25 shirts around July then 100 in September, and 500 by October. I uploaded 10 designs (the max you can start with) and waited for the sales to come. The person Nick was interviewing made it sound so easy: type up some words, upload the file to Merch, and watch the dollars roll in. I heard about Merch by Amazon in February of 2017 on The Side Hustle Show podcast. If you haven’t followed my 2018 Side Hustle Reports, here’s the rundown of my experience with shirts. Print-on-demand services stopped allowing new designs or stopped printing altogether.īut these services are beginning to allow people to sell t-shirts online again so this seems like a good time to talk about the good and the bad when it comes to starting a t-shirt side business. The trend has caught on and the market way over-saturated.Ģ020, in general, was not a great year to start a T-shirt side hustle. And what worked for most of us when we were getting started in 2016 & 2017 will not work today. In 2018 I made over $11,400 just from selling my T-shirt designs on Merch by Amazon and almost $12K with additional sales on Etsy.īut there are plenty of downsides too. Please read my disclosure for more information.Įveryone wants to jump on the bandwagon and sell t-shirts online because it can be super profitable with very little work.
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