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
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.
Here are some of the Facebook groups I joined:
Facebook’s Business Manager Help Community
Here is a list of Youtube channels I follow:
Here is list of online resources I learned:
- 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.
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.
Here is my Total Teespring Earnings.
Here is my Facebook Adspend.
Here is my top Teespring Campaings from 2015
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