How I Made my First Sale on TeePublic?

In today’s blog I will share how I made my first sale on TeePublic.

I can’t remember when I started exactly in TeePublic last year (2024) but after uploading around 90 designs I made my first sale last December. After a few days, by January, 2025 I made a total of seven sales.

 

This made me convinced that I can be a t-shirt designer, and my sales certifies it. Like many others who got their first sale, I’d never been so happy.

So, how do I do it exactly? Here are the things that I’ve done:

• Create intentional designs. When I say intentional, it must be based on research. If you are like me who’s working 9-5 you have very limited time to create. At the maximum, I can create five designs a week. Sometimes, only one. In this case, I need to research what to create next. How I do that is another blog post, but for now, suffice it to say that I research everything to ensure that every design I create is something that can be found through SEO and something that’s proven to make a sale. I search Etsy, Amazon, Google and Pinterest. I screenshot all of the designs I like the most and out of them, I create my designs.
• Create 100 designs on set. I know you’ve heard it from the print-on demand gurus several times. I want you to know that this is true. You must have a hundred designs of different niches first before you will get a sale. From those 100 designs, you will know exactly which one is the best niche that clicks and what keywords work with you. Create and it will show you the next steps.
• Create different designs for different niches. When starting, you don’t know yet the niche that people want to buy. You need to experiment. You need to combine niches and find out what you like to design and what they want to buy.
• Check which design got the most views and create more of it. At first, when you have no sales yet, you have to rely on to the number of views one design is getting. If a design got 5 views and more, that means that there are people who are interested in it. In the long run, once you get a sale, that’s the real measure of what to create next because a product with more views but no sale means a failure in design.
• Ensure that your SEO is related to your designs. The more specific your SEO as it relates to the design, not just the product, the more chances that your design will be found. Subscribe to my newsletter below and get a lifetime access to a password protected page where I embark all of my giveaways monthly.
• Promote in social media. It so happened that I have a small following on Instagram and on Twitter so I am promoting my designs there. But I do not underestimate the power of my Facebook Page and Pinterest even when I do not have followers there. Data shows that most of my viewers come from Facebook and some from Pinterest. Capitalize on this even when TeePublic has their own built-in marketplace.

If you would like to ask me where to start for free in Print on Demand, I would highly recommend TeePublic next to Amazon. In fact, if you are not accepted on Amazon, TeePublic is your best POD. You will surely make a sale there if your designs are original and well researched.

I know, you are asking what is the design that I made sale with. It’s a design for a mother and daughter trip. The design is clean and vintage. It is a matching t-shirt design which I think is better for us to make because its sales are by two’s.

Now that you know what I did to get that first sale in TeePublic, it’s time that you try them too then let me know in the comments how you’re doing. Share this blog post also to those who are just starting out.

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