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Year in Review – 2015

Garth Scaysbrook Year in Review

Wow, what a year.

Here is a list of some of things I learned about this year:

  • WooCommerce
  • Facebook Advertising
  • Teespring
  • Shopify
  • Amazon FBA
  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator
  • Affinity Designer

Teespring dominated my year. Last year it was writing books for Kindle. Here is the breakdown month by month.

January

In January I continued advertising one of my ecommerce sites. Struggled with learning Facebook Ads. Put the ecommerce site on hold as I was not getting enough sales from advertising.

February

February worked on new book. Did a lot of research and started draft but never completed it.

March

teespring

In March I started with Teespring. I joined every Facebook group I could find and watched every video on Youtube. Downloaded every course I could get my hands on.

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Here are some of the Facebook groups I joined:

T-ShirtBomb.com Members

ViralStyle Power Sellers

Teespring News

Teezily University -GLOBAL

Represent.com Mastermind

TAssKickers #AK Nation

TeeSpring University

The Dojo

Fabrily Insider

Tee Tycoon

AU/NZ Tee Sellers

GearBubble

Facebook’s Business Manager Help Community

Teezily University -UK-

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Here is a list of Youtube channels I follow:

youtube

  • Don Wilson
  • Fabrily
  • Kingpinning
  • Manie Amari
  • Matthew Schmitt
  • Teespring
  • Travis Petelle
  • Yousef Khalidi

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Here is list of online resources I learned:

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  • Teespring Domination by Nick Mansor
  • PiScaled by Matt Schmitt and Albert Leonardo
  • Tee Targeting Goldmine by Erica Stone

I suggest you you google all these and more.

April

Continued to launch Teespring campaigns. Nothing sold. Learned about importing products from startupbros.com. Looking for niches and trying new designs.

May

Continued to launch Teespring campaigns. Nothing sold.

June

Continued to launch Teespring campaigns. Nothing sold.

July

Finally had a profit from a Teespring campaign. My first profitable campaign made me $73.35 profit. Woo Hoo. I had launched about 50 campaigns before I found my first  profitable campaign. Started learning about Shopify from eCom Experts Academy. Learned more about Teespring from teeninja.eu.

 

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One of my favourite slides out of the course

August

Hit on a winning design and made $1692 profit in a week.

September

Continued getting profits from other designs to the same niche. $857 profit

October

Sales slowed and tried other niches. Broke even this month.

November

Lost money on Teespring campaigns.

December

Broke even this month from Teespring.

Summary

Total Profit for the year from Teespring was $2198. Overall I am happy with the result.

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Here is my Total Teespring Earnings.

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Here is my Facebook Adspend.

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Here is my top Teespring Campaings from 2015

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Excited about 2016. Going to continue with ecommerce in 2016.

I will be blogging more about ecommerce in 2016. Yes, I still rely heavily on Evernote. I will keep you posted on new tips.

Talk Soon

Garth

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Woo Hoo. What a Year!

I am so grateful for all the people in my life. Especially my wife Lorraine. Without her my life would be less. Love you babe.

Lots of ups and down this year.

Lorraine and I started our new business at the beginning of the year. My mum passed away in July, followed by the birth of granddaughter Macy.

Birthday’s, funeral, births, holidays, work. Just everyday life.

Summary

A quick summary of what happened this year

January

  • New Shopify Theme
  • Experiment with Nootropics Continues
  • Purchased Broad Targeting Formula 2.0 from Brad Stephens
  • Setup Vinyl Cutter, Heat Press and T-Shirt Carousel
  • Incorporated New Company
  • Learned How to Install New Facebook Pixel into Shopify Store
  • Started Crushing E-Commerce Course by Travis Petelle
  • Opened up new channel on Ebay
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February

  • Started Giveaway Campaigns on Ecom store
  • Reached 10,000 Notes in Evernote Milestone
  • Installed ActiveCampaign onto Ecom store
  • Launched new product idea to product testers
  • Experimenting with Lead Ads
  • Purchased SyncLeads
  • Setup Poli as a Payment Gateway
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March

  • Installed Conversio (Previously Receiptful) and Abandonment Cart Protector Apps into Ecom Store
  • Setup Facebook Business Manager
  • Install Loox Shopify App for Reviews
  • Purchased Commission Bubble by Ezra Wyckoff, Pedro Castillho and Mariana Silva
  • Setup Google Tag Manager
  • Setup Google Shopping and Facebook Product Catalogs
  • Setup Google Analytics
  • Purchased Eternal Scale System from JD Yarger

April

  • Learned about Bitgold
  • Wrote Blog Post on How To Install Latest Facebook Pixel into Shopify
  • Finished Mothers Day Promotion for Ecom Store

May

  • Built new website for client
  • 100th Order on Shopify Milestone
  • Continued creating new designs for Ecom Store
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June

  • Built new website for client
  • Setup Ecom store for USA
  • Installed Klavyio on Australian Ecom Store

July

  • Setup Xero for Ecom store
  • My mum passed away
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August

  • Started Keto
  • 1 Year Anniversary of Ecom Store
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Macy
Macy

September

  • Not much happening this month

October

  • Cruising the South Pacific – here is the blog post.
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November

  • Learning more about Copywriting and Direct Response Advertising

December

  • Learning about Clickfunnels

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My Ecom Journey

Learning so much this year. Sometimes I think I need to execute more than learn. Would have liked to be much further along with my Ecommerce adventure, but not so.

 Every step of the way is a problem. Each problem has to be overcome to move forward. Sometimes problems you don’t know to solve, so you have to work around them. Some of the problems I couldn’t fix, they are still there. This coming year I need to overcome problems faster and spend less time thinking about them.

 As you solve problems and move forward you realise their is more problems to solve, bigger problems. I think that I avoid the big problems because of fear. I have found that I have to develop new skills to move forward. Some skills I don’t want to develop, currently too scared.

 The skill of selling, personal selling, talking with people, I still have not learned yet.

Anthony Robbins talks about modelling successful people if you want to shortcut the learning curve. I have long believed this. I read books, watch videos, listen to podcasts, do courses of people I believe I want to model. As I learn more about success, while you can model after someone else, you must be willing to do what they did, and even then what they did may not work anymore.

 I invest a lot of money into education. I look for anything that could make the difference to me becoming successful. What I have found is that what people share that made them successful no longer works, unless they are they doing it right now, but they rarely share that.

 If I were “successful” would I share everything I did? I could share everything and someone could come along, take massive action and implement my strategies. Who knows, maybe they would become a competitor.

 Maybe I would share the general things to be successful. Is it even worth while sharing your journey? Others have shared their knowledge with me. 99% of them I don’t know personally. I have learned a lot though.

 Problem Solving is the key. Being able to see a problem and solve it and move onto the next in minimal time. And try and have fun while doing it. Business is about solving problems, hell, life is about solving problems. I need to better and faster.

 You need to know what problems to solve and what problems you don’t need to solve. I imagine this is why we have dreams and goals, a path, a direction. I am not sure of my path, not sure of my direction, not sure even about my dreams and goals.

 Struggled with not knowing the answers. Every step of the way I would say, “I don’t want I am doing”, but I would do something and see what happens. The results were not exciting.

 When I follow in the footstep of others success, I find that how they achieved success cannot be duplicated for many reasons. First one being, the technique or practise or method now has been banned or made illegal. For example, when I got into Teespring the pioneers scraped Facebook names and targeted them with t-shirts with their own names on them. People bought these t-shirts as they were highly targeted. Incredible amounts of money were made overnight. 12 to 24 months later and Facebook slowly closed the loop and you could no longer do this method. Also there has be something said for competition. They more people that get involved in a market, it drives up advertising costs, drives down margins and over time their is not enough money in it to keep going. Maybe one day I will stop following others and find my own path.

 In this pursuit of success I have learned skills though. Now when I see Facebook group posts or youtube videos showing how much money they made I know what to look for. 99% of them are telling you this so that they can sell you something. What is worse is what they are not telling you.

 Just how did they sell $100k this month. Was it because the sold counterfeit goods. Did they infringe copyright? Did they actually make any profit? I have discovered that many of them have a little success then turn around and sell you a course, telling you that you too can be successful.

 The problem with that thinking is when they are selling the course, the opportunity is over! I need to remind myself of that in the future.

 Now let’s be clear. If I didn’t buy courses I wouldn’t learn all the answers to the problems that happen along the way. So in fact buying courses, gaining knowledge does create a shortcut. Our store is doing $2000 per month revenue. Would I have this store if I didn’t follow the info I learned? Probably not.

 There are people out selling “how to make money”. People making money are too busy to write courses on how they made money. Back in the real world of normal everyday business. The local plumber does not tell all his secrets of how he is making money. If another plumber finds out, he has lost his competitive advantage. Maybe the plumber would create a course when he successfully sold his business. He has nothing to lose. He tells how he did it, but you will find if you tried it, there would be something that has changed and you could no longer use that method.

 I think in business you have to find breakthroughs. The breakthrough may give you advantage for 6 months before others find out about it. Eventually others do find out about the methods and competition enters the market.

 The challenge is always to be solving these problems, creating breakthroughs for yourself.

 On my journey so far I have come across many people who have had success in the past, but it was short lived. Maybe 12 months, 2 years. But over time they don’t evolve and competitors enter the market taking their share. Sooner or later the business dies.

 This year will be working on getting faster at solving problems, doing things that are uncomfortable and enjoying life more.

 

What will you do this coming year?

 

Garth

 

 

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Year in Review – 2015

Wow, what a year.

Here is a list of some of things I learned about this year:

  • WooCommerce
  • Facebook Advertising
  • Teespring
  • Shopify
  • Amazon FBA
  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator
  • Affinity Designer

Teespring dominated my year. Last year it was writing books for Kindle. Here is the breakdown month by month.

January

In January I continued advertising one of my ecommerce sites. Struggled with learning Facebook Ads. Put the ecommerce site on hold as I was not getting enough sales from advertising.

February

February worked on new book. Did a lot of research and started draft but never completed it.

March

teespring

In March I started with Teespring. I joined every Facebook group I could find and watched every video on Youtube. Downloaded every course I could get my hands on.

[themify_hr color=”black” width=”100%” border_width=”5px” ]

Here are some of the Facebook groups I joined:

T-ShirtBomb.com Members

ViralStyle Power Sellers

Teespring News

Teezily University -GLOBAL

Represent.com Mastermind

TAssKickers #AK Nation

TeeSpring University

The Dojo

Fabrily Insider

Tee Tycoon

AU/NZ Tee Sellers

GearBubble

Facebook’s Business Manager Help Community

Teezily University -UK-

[themify_hr color=”black” width=”100%” border_width=”5px” ]

Here is a list of Youtube channels I follow:

youtube

  • Don Wilson
  • Fabrily
  • Kingpinning
  • Manie Amari
  • Matthew Schmitt
  • Teespring
  • Travis Petelle
  • Yousef Khalidi

[themify_hr color=”black” width=”100%” border_width=”5px” ]

Here is list of online resources I learned:

1559603

  • Teespring Domination by Nick Mansor
  • PiScaled by Matt Schmitt and Albert Leonardo
  • Tee Targeting Goldmine by Erica Stone

I suggest you you google all these and more.

April

Continued to launch Teespring campaigns. Nothing sold. Learned about importing products from startupbros.com. Looking for niches and trying new designs.

May

Continued to launch Teespring campaigns. Nothing sold.

June

Continued to launch Teespring campaigns. Nothing sold.

July

Finally had a profit from a Teespring campaign. My first profitable campaign made me $73.35 profit. Woo Hoo. I had launched about 50 campaigns before I found my first  profitable campaign. Started learning about Shopify from eCom Experts Academy. Learned more about Teespring from teeninja.eu.

 

dojotraining
One of my favourite slides out of the course

August

Hit on a winning design and made $1692 profit in a week.

September

Continued getting profits from other designs to the same niche. $857 profit

October

Sales slowed and tried other niches. Broke even this month.

November

Lost money on Teespring campaigns.

December

Broke even this month from Teespring.

Summary

Total Profit for the year from Teespring was $2198. Overall I am happy with the result.

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Here is my Total Teespring Earnings.

teespringearnings2015

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Here is my Facebook Adspend.

facebookadspend2015

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Here is my top Teespring Campaings from 2015

topteespringcampaigns

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Excited about 2016. Going to continue with ecommerce in 2016.

I will be blogging more about ecommerce in 2016. Yes, I still rely heavily on Evernote. I will keep you posted on new tips.

Talk Soon

Garth

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Year in Review – 2014

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Well has been an interesting year. This is the first time I actually have done a annual review. So I thought to myself I would go back and look through my diary to see what happened during the year. But I don’t have a diary. I don’t even have a journal. How I remember what I did during the year. Thank goodness I had Evernote.

Open Evernote and searched for “created:20140201 -created:20140228“. I was looking for all notes in February. Did not have Evernote installed in January.

In February I was looking for a product to create. I decided that I was going to write a book. I had looked at some of the books on Evernote and thought to myself I could write that. So from that moment forward I started writing my first Evernote Book. Then I used Evernote to research the book. While I was Googling the research from my book I used Evernote web Clipper to clip the web pages straight into Evernote.

The next thing I use Evernote for was drag-and-drop. I would find PDF documents on my computer and drag-and-drop them into Evernote. This was fun. I installed Evernote for iOS and I would take photographs in Evernote, these seamlessly appeared in Evernote. At one stage during my work I used Evernote to do a stock take. Then I found another use for Evernote, using the iPhone to scan documents. In my job as a fleet controller I was responsible for collecting pre-start vehicle checklists. Originally I would take these pre-start checklists and scan them into my computer. Then I tried a different way. I used Evernote on my iPhone to take photos of the pre-start checklists and then synced them into my desktop account. I then tagged those documents using the Rego number and archived them. This new method save me so much time and effort.

In the middle of February I discovered Scrivener. It was on my wish list. By the end of February I had collected a lot of information about Evernote. I was using Evernote to help me do my business activity statements. Because everything can Evernote is indexed it made sense to scan all my important documents into Evernote. By this stage, every piece of paper that past me went into Evernote in one way or another. Contracts, receipts, tax invoices, anything related to work. In March, and discovered how useful it was to scan business cards, as I had a big pile of them on my desk. I discovered using post-it notes, scanning them into Evernote on my iPhone. I love the simplicity of post notes, you can only put so much information on them. One idea at a time. Next I moved on to something will be more personal. I love food. So I downloaded Evernote Food and started putting the recipes in it. I finally purchased Scrivener on 29 March. I began to learn scrivener fast as I could and started writing my first Evernote book. On 30 March I purchased my domain name for garthscaysbrook.com and setup my website using WordPress.

In April and May continue to write my book. The middle of May got back my book cover designs from fiverr. I got about three people to do design work for me on fiverr, so that I can get some ideas. One of them was that good that I decided to use that as the cover of my book. On 24 May I released my new book on Amazon. I was excited. In the front of my book I had an option for readers to subscribe to my newsletter. I knew the importance of building an email list. I invested in Mailchimp and Leadpages. It was probably the best thing I could have done at the time. I now have over 400 email subscribers.

The first list is for my website garthscaysbrook.com and the second list is for my readers of my Evernote Wow book.

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In May to June I made $46.38 in royalties.

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In June I decided I was going to write another book. I started researching and knew there was demand for it. In the meantime we moved house it was difficult and exciting same time.

In August, just after moving, my wife and I changed jobs. It was scary at the time. But looking back I am super happy with the decisions we made. I made Best Seller in Education Research on Amazon in August too.

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August was an awesome month for book sales.

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June to August Book Sales (longer time frame)

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In September I released all three WordPress books. Now that I am writing this in December I realized that even though people wanted to know how to use WordPress, the information on the net was available and not hard to find. Now that being said, gathering the information together in one book does make a big difference, because you are saving time looking for it on the web. The sales of these books never really took of. What was funny, is that these books were far better quality than my original book. But quality account for nothing when there is no demand. But all is not lost. The content has been created and will re-purpose this over the course of the year.

This screenshot is from today. Waiting on $2000 cheque from Amazon. You will notice that I had some failed payments. This is an ongoing saga of Amazon unable to pay me via bank account, even though Australian payments were paid successfully. Some of you may also see that I am only paying 5% Withholding tax. This is because I submitted my EIN form to the IRS. That story is an entire post itself.

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Now it is at the end of December and I’ve just finished my fifth book. This time I went back to Evernote and and answered some questions that I didn’t answer in the first book. Hopefully this book will help some people get started with the basics of setup

Pretty excited about making $2000 from Amazon. Do you know how much money you have to have in the bank to make $2000 royalties? You will need $62,625 with interest rate of 3.2% not accounting for tax. Amazon Kindle Publishing is a serious way to make money. Now $2000 is not going to replace my full-time income but the way I treat it, is this is an asset worth $62,625. All I need to do now, is keep growing my asset, keep creating new books.

Summary of what I have achieved this year:

  • Moved house
  • Changed jobs
  • Wrote 5 Kindle books
  • Created 10 websites for clients and myself
  • Started my first e-commerce website
  • Started my first Amazon FBA Store
  • Learned more about Evernote, FBA, Scrivener, Leadpages, Mailchimp, Todoist, Sunrise, Toggl, Dragon Naturally Speaking, RescueTime, Screenflow, Camtasia and many more.
  • Completed Amazon FBA course on Udemy, currently learning Facebook Advertising
  • Acquired new tools: Toshiba Satellite laptop, 13″ Macbook Pro, Audio-Technica ATR2100 microphone, Rode SmartLav+ microphone, Joby GripTight Mount

Next year is going to be awesome. I am going to focusing on helping people as much as I can. Looking forward to it.

If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to comment below or send me an email.

All the best

Garth

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