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There is a chance that you can make some money with Spreadshirt. You should first ask yourself this, "Is it worth it?." To save you some time I am going to say "No."
Now, I have received some payments from Spreadshirt but it was such a problem that it given me headaches. I wish I spent my time doing something more productive. There are many people making money off of Spreadshirt. However, most people do not.
Lets go through the good and bads. Maybe my experience might help some of you aspiring artists out there looking to turn your talent into cash money.
It may sounds a little easy right? You make a few nice designs, lay back and let the come money rolling in, right? Wrong. It is not as easy as it may sound. Using Spreadshirt sounds good when you think about it but it can turn into a huge mess. Everyone starts off with a standard shop. Here you can upload your designs for an inspection and wait for them to "pass" the regulations.
Somethings that you would need to learn how to create vector designs. Vector designs are unique as that can be resized to any size and yet still maintain their quality. Raster designs on the other hand would suffer from blur and pixelation if it were resized. When you upload a vector designs it would need to be inspected first in order to see if the plotting machine to accept the design. It is a good idea that when you have to do vector designs is to save them in .EPS format. You can upload a raster designs but they tend to look like crap most of the time because they get badly pixelated when resized. When creating a vector designs you are limited to use 3 colors, black and white of course counts as colors. This will quickly limit how your vision will come out.
So you begin by making a vector design using 3 colors, and exporting it into .eps. Okay, time to upload. Then you play the waiting game only to find that your design was rejected because the machine can't accept it. Aparently, some of your lines or curves are too close to each other, or they are too sharp of an angle for the plotting machine to cut. You can see how this can get irritating fast. After a couple of tries and a few days later, you design is accepted. Nice! Now you can put your design on products(t shirts) and publish them onto your shop. You will also have an option of publishing your design on the Spreadshirt Marketplace which is a huge mess. Another annoyance that you may encounter is that you are limited by the amount of designs you can upload. So you have to "upgrade" your account to get unlimited design uploads and a designer shop. The designer shop seems cool at first, but it's pretty much useless. It's like a gimmick in my oppinion. Real talk.
After you get your shop set up, it is now up to you to promote it. Meta tags and optimizing can only do so much. Google adwords can get expensive fast. After spending some money on adwords, I quickly realize that I was selling more from the marketplace, or rather other shops than my own. This made me realize what a waste of money the upgrade was. To best take advantage of the upgrade, I suggest you have your designs ready, buy 1 month of the upgrade and upload your designs all at once. If I had to do it all over again, I would've left my designs on the marketplace and left it at that. Hopefully, the designs do sell themselves and aspiring shop owners will use your design in their shops.
I consider myself an above average user on Spreadshirts and they admit that most shops that get started fail because of poor designs, layout, etc. Considering that I made some money on Spreadshirt I can not say that it was a complete failure. However, i do value my time and in all honesty, I believe Spreadshirt is a complete waste of time. If you are thinking about making money on Spreadshirt think realistic. To get anywhere, you will need to invest time and energy and a lot of it. Consider current events and trends. Right now the economy is at a low. People are going to tend to save and downsize. I am sure everyone at Spreadshirt are hurting, even the ones at the top.
From my personal experience you should my words in to consideration. Of course your's experience may be different. However, you should think about it before you spend time on Spreadshirt.
Now, I have received some payments from Spreadshirt but it was such a problem that it given me headaches. I wish I spent my time doing something more productive. There are many people making money off of Spreadshirt. However, most people do not.
Lets go through the good and bads. Maybe my experience might help some of you aspiring artists out there looking to turn your talent into cash money.
It may sounds a little easy right? You make a few nice designs, lay back and let the come money rolling in, right? Wrong. It is not as easy as it may sound. Using Spreadshirt sounds good when you think about it but it can turn into a huge mess. Everyone starts off with a standard shop. Here you can upload your designs for an inspection and wait for them to "pass" the regulations.
Somethings that you would need to learn how to create vector designs. Vector designs are unique as that can be resized to any size and yet still maintain their quality. Raster designs on the other hand would suffer from blur and pixelation if it were resized. When you upload a vector designs it would need to be inspected first in order to see if the plotting machine to accept the design. It is a good idea that when you have to do vector designs is to save them in .EPS format. You can upload a raster designs but they tend to look like crap most of the time because they get badly pixelated when resized. When creating a vector designs you are limited to use 3 colors, black and white of course counts as colors. This will quickly limit how your vision will come out.
So you begin by making a vector design using 3 colors, and exporting it into .eps. Okay, time to upload. Then you play the waiting game only to find that your design was rejected because the machine can't accept it. Aparently, some of your lines or curves are too close to each other, or they are too sharp of an angle for the plotting machine to cut. You can see how this can get irritating fast. After a couple of tries and a few days later, you design is accepted. Nice! Now you can put your design on products(t shirts) and publish them onto your shop. You will also have an option of publishing your design on the Spreadshirt Marketplace which is a huge mess. Another annoyance that you may encounter is that you are limited by the amount of designs you can upload. So you have to "upgrade" your account to get unlimited design uploads and a designer shop. The designer shop seems cool at first, but it's pretty much useless. It's like a gimmick in my oppinion. Real talk.
After you get your shop set up, it is now up to you to promote it. Meta tags and optimizing can only do so much. Google adwords can get expensive fast. After spending some money on adwords, I quickly realize that I was selling more from the marketplace, or rather other shops than my own. This made me realize what a waste of money the upgrade was. To best take advantage of the upgrade, I suggest you have your designs ready, buy 1 month of the upgrade and upload your designs all at once. If I had to do it all over again, I would've left my designs on the marketplace and left it at that. Hopefully, the designs do sell themselves and aspiring shop owners will use your design in their shops.
I consider myself an above average user on Spreadshirts and they admit that most shops that get started fail because of poor designs, layout, etc. Considering that I made some money on Spreadshirt I can not say that it was a complete failure. However, i do value my time and in all honesty, I believe Spreadshirt is a complete waste of time. If you are thinking about making money on Spreadshirt think realistic. To get anywhere, you will need to invest time and energy and a lot of it. Consider current events and trends. Right now the economy is at a low. People are going to tend to save and downsize. I am sure everyone at Spreadshirt are hurting, even the ones at the top.
From my personal experience you should my words in to consideration. Of course your's experience may be different. However, you should think about it before you spend time on Spreadshirt.
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