Earn on selling merch $100 daily
Merch (merchandise) is a slang term for various kinds of products with certain symbols and or attributes. The word merchandise means “goods, products”, and merch is its shortened, slang version. It can be anything: mugs, caps, socks, t-shirts, hoodies, sneakers, pillows, scarves, phone accessories, and at least the whole office, in general, everything you can think of and print your own print on it.
Be prepared for the fact that this type of income at the beginning will require you to maximize the investment of time and effort, and in the process, as a rule, support. The method of earning that will be discussed in this article is called Print on demand. Its main advantage is that it can be fully automated.
Your only task will be to come up with an idea that will sell well, without even having to get traffic from social networks or set up ads.
There is such a service as Printful, it prints anything. It takes over the production, logistics to the client, and all that is needed from you is to create a design (sometimes you don’t need to have a lot of creativity to make a stylish inscription or peek somewhere).
It is a pleasure to work with this service, everything is very convenient and understandable. If site does not allow you to register because of your location, use simple proxy or residential (will show your presence in the allowed country).
The working model is very simple:
1)We create a photo of the design for the merch, so that the client would like to buy it.
2) The service will print it out and deliver it after the customer buys.
You can make not only T-shirts, but also mugs, aprons and so on. Prepare in advance all your design options by collecting them in a separate folder to make it easier to work when uploading them to the platform. Upload each picture separately and place it on the product you need (if anything, T-shirts are best bought). You write tags, look at bestseller title designs, and write similar descriptions for each product. You can fill your account with products for an infinitely long time, but they will not be bought, so you must use the selection of keywords and prescribe tags for each product — this way it will be found in the right categories. For convenience, you can use Keywordtool.
Because it can be integrated (embedded) into such popular services as Etsy, Ebay, Amazon or even into your personal store, for example, through Shopify.
As soon as information about the order arrives on your site, it immediately goes to Printful, they start printing it, packaging it, and if necessary, put your own brand logo on the packaging, and deliver accordingly. You are not involved in these processes.
You don’t need to invest money. Because you are essentially selling something that doesn’t exist yet. Here’s an example for you, such simple T-shirts on Ebay are sold in large numbers, gaining popularity due to the efficiency of just such helper services, and since people write reviews there, Ebay itself gives traffic and recommends to buyers. That is, you do not need to, for example, invest in traffic.
Where to get ideas and inspiration?
To find prints, you can sort by “best selling”. Using them, you can determine what is in the greatest demand and we can already start from what color schemes are in fashion, what topics (for example, space), and now the topic of the crypto world is very popular, as well as T-shirts with wise or contradictory phrases. For example, cats/dogs are always in trend, that is, for example, a dog in a spacesuit, in principle, can go in well.
Another great option for ideas is to borrow them on Instagram. Then let’s go to the Canva website, the account is shareware there, but there are enough functions to make something attractive without buying templates. It has a lot of fonts and templates, paid and free. Similarly, you can still use the site with Crello templates.
The higher the design resolution, the better to do, for example, set 4500x5500 to save without a white background.png (this is available in the pro version). But you can use the Onlinejpgtools service.
Then, in Printful, add your design, which has no background.
Tip: to stand out from the competition, at the level of presentations of our t-shirts, we take templates from the Placeit website.
You can start without adding up, as already mentioned, by registering on Ebay and creating your ads on various topics, even if the text is clickbait.
We also go to Amazon and let’s say if you like dogs, write in the search, we find top top t-shirts with dogs, at the same time look at the design of the card. For example, we note that there is a short promo video with a model and there are other photos with models with emotions of happiness/joy/fun. Through JungleScout, we can calculate how many sales a particular seller of a particular product made per month, and then we calculate how many goods he sells per day on average, and from here we can conclude whether his picture works or not.
The number of sales will begin to grow immediately after the first purchases and feedback from your customers, as the promotion of the product card and recommendations in similar categories will begin.
Test, change the background, change the dog, change the text and see what gives the greatest response, that’s all, the rest, remove the cards and work like that until you get bored. They changed the dog — they left the text, they changed the text — they left the dog.
In addition, you will earn more if you sell in addition to Ebay and Amazon on your own site, you can do it on Shopify by connecting Printful to it. It will cost a maximum of 30 dollars a month (if you control it yourself).
Everything is very easy to integrate into Shopify, and this constructor is simple and intuitive as much as possible.
There are probably a lot of questions left, according to the same Ebay — how to register correctly, how to create ads, and in general how to warm up an account in order to earn more (yes, there are limits on volumes). You can also hire a person in the team who will do your work for a fee, then you will only need to put them on the site and that’s it.
Do not forget one indisputable fact about working in this direction — traffic from buyers can be set up for free, using content on social networks that have algorithms. Such as: Instagram+Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Pinterest, Facebook.
To increase your sales from the start, increase your customer base and get the first reviews for your product — make merchandise on a hot topic in a stylish and playful, casual way (you can peep in Google images). In general, be in trend.
By the way, the New Year holidays are coming soon, and on such days the stores are always “sold out” when nothing is left on the shelves, so keep in mind as future sellers.
You can also use the same principle to work with the Redbubble service. The service has its own huge loyal audience and a powerful website with a simple recommendation algorithm through keywords in titles, tags and descriptions (it has its own search engine).