Making $70,000 Selling T-Shirts: A Teen's Success Story

At 18, nineteen, he made over $70,000 in months selling t-shirts using Teespring and Facebook ads targeting specific demographics.

### How I Made Over $70,000 Selling T-Shirts Online at 18-19 Years Old
* 💰 The speaker shares their experience of making **$73,363** by selling **6,136 t-shirts** in just a few months at the age of **18-19**.
* 👕 They used Teespring and Facebook ads to market the t-shirts, initially targeting people by their surnames, which had a **high conversion rate** until Facebook stopped this practice.
* 👨 They then shifted to job-related t-shirts, with **bartender t-shirts** being the **most popular** among various professions.
* 👨 The speaker also found success with a **viral Father's Day t-shirt**, which **outperformed all other designs**.
* 🎯 They provide a detailed example of how to **target specific audiences on Facebook for a Father's Day t-shirt**, suggesting it as a **current viable business opportunity**.
* 💻 The speaker emphasizes the **low financial risk** of this business model, as you only pay for the t-shirts when they are sold, making it **accessible to people of all ages**.
* 📈 They highlight the **potential for success in this business**, noting that the platform now offers a **wide range of products** beyond t-shirts, such as leggings, socks, and home accessories.
* 📹 The speaker offers to **create more tutorial videos on this topic if there is interest**, and encourages viewers to **subscribe for more content**.

seventy-three thousand six hundred and sixty-three dollars. Six thousand one hundred thirty-six products sold. I want to tell you how I was able to make over $70,000 at the age of eighteen nineteen in literally just a few months from selling t-shirts. This was my first real business that I created, and I want to tell you the story because it's just such a cool story. I'm gonna tell you everything from what t-shirts I did, what marketing I did, who I advertised to, and my best selling t-shirts, and you can even go and do this. It's still viable now. I only moved on because I want to start an Amazon business, but I want to tell you what I did, and it's really cool. So before I get started, please consider hitting that subscribe button because these videos are only getting better. I'm only doing them every single day, only every single day, and I feel like you're realizing this is all part of my 100-day content challenge. And if I talk very fast, let me know in the comments.

I'm gonna try and change that because I feel like I talk really fast. But anyway, I want to show you how I did that. And let it all starts when I was 18 years old. I was doing a gap year and I came home for a couple of days and my brother showed me this t-shirt. This guy called Don Wilson who had a course on how to sell t-shirts, right? And I took the course. I thought this is really interesting. I went back abroad in my gap year and I was watching this course, doing a bit of research and I came to just exit this because this is annoying. I can't you realization that if I wanted to do this and I wanted to make money on this, I wanted to take action straight away. So I left my gap year earlier. It was meant to be a year. I left after six and a half months. I came home and I focused all my attention on building this business up. I started. I've got my notes and my crew tomorrow is this where I'm looking. I started with a website called

teespring, right? I used Teespring, and I used Facebook, right? And I was advertising on Facebook my Teespring t-shirts. It just blew up really fast, like it blew up. I wish my YouTube channel will blow up as fast as my t-shirts blew up because that would be really cool. The first thing I did was name t-shirts. I said, If you saw this when it was a trend, but it said like I'm like team, so my name is Jimmy Morris, it would say like team Morris or something like that, right? Handle - they'll pop up on the screen here, but that is what it looked like, and you were able to advertise on Facebook in a very specific way targeting people by surname. Now, this was, I'd wanna say a hack, but it was a loophole at the time because Facebook had no idea that people were able to do this, and they didn't really mind, but then when everyone starts doing it, they stopped it. You were able to download a list of contacts on Facebook with a certain surname.

re-upload them as a custom audience, and then advertise them a t-shirt. Now, the reason this did so well is because the conversion rate was so high. So high because when you see your own name on a t-shirt, you're going to click it. When you see your own name on anything, you're going to click it. So, I made a whole bunch of money from that. But then Facebook went and said this, right, You can't talk to people by their name. This is a bit too, this is a bit too intimate kind of thing. So, they stopped that, right. They didn't let that happen anymore, and I had to kind of change it up a bit, which I did, right. I changed it up to job t-shirts, and that is still a thing. You can still do that, and I made some really good money, like bartender, electrician, technician, plumber, all these kind of t-shirts. Now, you're thinking, who wanted to wear a t-shirt with their name or with their a job on it, and you'll be surprised, a lot of people actually.

bought these t-shirts. My most popular one was my bartender t-shirt, right? I think that's like, I'm a bartender, what's your superpower? Just really basic. TV, I said that right. I went from the name t-shirts to the bartender t-shirts, and this is all happening really, really quickly. The name t-shirts, he just was doing for about a month, maybe a month and a half. Then I started doing the job t-shirts for about another months and a half. This whole process was probably about four to five months, not even maybe four months. And then after the job t-shirts, I continued doing those, and I wanted to try and mix it up, and I wanted to have one viral t-shirt. So I tried a lot of different things, and then I hit my viral t-shirt, and it was a Father's Day t-shirt. I released it just before Father's Day in June, and I did this twice. So I did this over two years, and I know I said all this money was made in a couple of months, and it was the following year.

that I released it. It didn't do as well as the first year, but at Father's Day, I released a like a top Dad t-shirt going off the spoof of like top gear, but it said top dad. And obviously, I did all the checks, trademark for those kind of things, and it was absolutely fine. But I didn't want to do anything that I wasn't allowed to be doing, but that t-shirt made a ridiculous amount of money more than any of my other t-shirts combined. This was crazy because I did all of this at the age of 18 or 19 at this point because I started when I was 18, and then I turned 19 in February, and I just continued, and it just it was mental. It was absolutely mental, and you can literally target these things to this day, and I'll show you. Well, I'll actually show you now how you can target. Let's go to Facebook Ads. I'm gonna show you how you can target by job title or the Father's Day kind of thing, how you can do this. So this is to screen

by the way, so they have a lot more products now. They've got teddies, they've got bags, hats, phone cases. When I did it, they literally just had t-shirts, and they were very, very basic t-shirts as well. So if you see, if you click start designing, you can see they make a whole range of things now, like leggings, socks. I might even get back into this. This is so cool. Yeah, they've got a lot of stuff. They've got home staff accessories. This is insane. Wow, they've really, this company is great. I meant when I started, this company was kind of new, right? It was kind of new, and maybe that's why I did well. Who knows? I got into it really early, but besides the point, they've got so much more to do it. So you can hundreds and do it. I'm on the wrong ads account. This one has been blocked. I'm actually making a video about why my ads account got closed. That's a really interesting video, so you're gonna want to check that out.

as well, but let's have a look. Create an ad. So, in terms of let's just do traffic, let's just continue, right? So, if you want to go to audience, okay, you want to do, create your audience. Let's do, right? So, you've got suggestions, all right, let's browse first. You've got demographics, we've got parents, or parents, parents, all okay. So now, let's make it men only, we're genders, here we go. Gosh, I feel like I forgot how to use Facebook. You've got, so now it's men, so it's fathers. And now, let's narrow the audience a bit and say, fathers who like punks. Okay, we have now got a small audience. Bugs, let's add more dogs at that one who will be chewy. Golden Retriever, right? We now have a father who likes dogs. And we can make this t-shirt just before June. I think Father's Day is Father's Day 2020. Do this in 2020, you will make a mint. 21st of June. So, I would launch this maybe in

May right the first week of May, I would launch this t-shirt. It's a great time to start buying your Father's Day gifts, okay? So, you can do a t-shirt targeting fathers who like dogs, and you can have something specific like a Father's Day thing with like a dog in balls, and you will make a killing. It's so targeted, you can make it even more targeted than that, but how targeted is that? You can literally target someone who is a father who likes dogs, and you can launch it just before Father's Day. Come on, do I need to convince you of this anymore? So, this is literally what I did. I did a bit of research, and I went into it. I didn't like that, and it made so much money, like so much money. So, if you wanna get into t-shirt, 100% I recommend you get into t-shirts. I actually think I might get back into it because they've got these cool leggings which I feel like I can sell. They've got socks I could sell. It got so much stuff now. It's so cool.

so so cool. I got shower curtains, so much stuff. So I would hunch that recommend doing that. This is what I did when I was literally 18, 19. I made a lot of money. It was something like $70,000. Let's have a look and go listings. I haven't done this in a while. Let's just go to all-time. Something like, what is it? It's just loading. $73,363. $6,136 products sold. That is insane. And saying that is that is insane. Come on, you can definitely definitely do this. And if you want any help doing this, let me know in the comments down below. Maybe I'll make more videos. I could make a whole tutorial video on this if you want me to. But let me know in the comments down below. I'm happy to make a video from the process of researching, creating a t-shirt, advertising it on Facebook, and getting sales like that. And it's just brilliant. And you only, you don't have to pay for anything right.

it's crowdsource, so you only pay for what you sell. So you obviously have to pay for your ads. Yeah, hi, thanks. You obviously have to pay for your ads, obviously. That makes sense, but you don't have to pay for the t-shirts upfront. So it's a brilliant business model because you don't have... you don't have to put your skin in the game in a way. Like, you don't have to spend thousands on stock of t-shirts. When it's crowdsource, so you only sell them, you only pay for when you sell one. So it's just a genius idea. Let me know in the comments. And if you've heard of Teespring, give this video a like. But let me know in the comments for me to make more videos like this. And I'll happily make a full tutorial for you. I'm not gonna make a course about this, but happily gets all this information to you for free. Just let me know in the comments if you want it. Yeah, I thought it was pretty cool. I thought it's a good.

video to make literally if I was able to this at 19, there's no age limit. You can do this at 12. You can lose at 30, and you could do it at 15. You could do this 60. There is no age limit to doing this. You don't have to get on video. You don't have to show yourself. You can literally just be behind a computer, make some cool designs, and these designs can say anything. Like how basic my designs are. I basic this design is, right? It's just really, really basic. And they of course are also mammal ants, right? This sold thousands. And this is it. This is a t-shirt. This is the website. Like they do the whole thing for you. If you want to buy, you should click Add to Cart. You have to pay for any of this, and it's that easy. It's really, really that easy. And I highly recommend doing it. It's also good fun. And if you don't have to design, there are websites like Fiverr that you can get designs on there.

are websites like 99 designs. But to be honest, there are so many designs. But let me know in the comments if you want me to make videos about this in more detail and actually give a step-by-step. So, thanks for watching and I will hopefully see you into my video. If you haven't subscribed, hit that subscribe button. [Music]

How I Made Over $70,000 With My Print on Demand Business in a Few Months

Shimmy Morris

Success Story: Making Over $70,000 in a Few Months Selling T-Shirts

A teenager made over $70,000 in a few months by selling t-shirts, using Teespring and Facebook for advertising.

He capitalized on a loophole by targeting people with specific surnames, which led to rapid success.

His story is a part of his 100-day content challenge, aiming to inspire others to pursue similar entrepreneurial ventures.

Successful T-Shirt Marketing Journey: From Names to Jobs to a Viral Father's Day Shirt

A high conversion rate was achieved by using personalized names on t-shirts, but Facebook later prohibited this practice.

Shifting to job-themed t-shirts, like bartender and plumber, also proved to be lucrative.

The most remarkable success came from a Father's Day t-shirt, which generated an unprecedented amount of revenue, despite the initial challenges faced with targeting and Facebook's restrictions.

Expansion of Product Range for a T-Shirt Business

The t-shirt company has expanded its product range to include teddies, bags, hats, phone cases, leggings, and socks.

The expansion now offers a wide variety of options for potential business opportunities.

The company's growth and increased product diversity present the potential for selling a range of items, such as Father's Day-themed t-shirts targeting fathers who like dogs, providing a lucrative and highly targeted marketing opportunity.

Tips for Successful Online T-Shirt Business with Teespring

Generating over $70,000 in sales, the speaker recommends using Teespring for a low-risk, high-reward business model.

With Teespring, sellers only pay for the production of t-shirts after making a sale, eliminating the need to invest in upfront costs.

The speaker is open to creating a tutorial video for the process and encourages viewers to comment if interested.

The Ageless Opportunity of Making and Selling Designs

There is no age limit to making and selling designs, whether you're 12, 30, or 60.

You can do it behind a computer, with simple designs, and still achieve success.

It's easy to get started with websites that help with the whole process, and it can be a fun and rewarding venture for anyone.