Version three of my workflow was built, and it worked. Products went up fast, so the next move was the next product type, and after t-shirts I had a few lessons to carry into it. I picked tumblers. They seemed close enough to mugs that my mug designs could
By the time t-shirts were posted, version two of my workflow was proving slow for me. That is where version three started, and it is a different kind of upgrade from the ones before it. I had run version two on mugs, then on t-shirts. Around the second
Version two gave me a consistent workflow. For around six months I ran it on one product, mugs, and just kept posting. Then I expanded to my first new product type: t-shirts. The workflow carried over almost untouched. What didn't carry over was everything I hadn'
The last post ended with my accounts back. What didn't come back was the catalog. If you haven't read it, I got banned, and the full story of how is here. During the ban I wiped my whole catalog, because I couldn't afford one
Every article I read said the same thing. When you're banned on Amazon and Etsy, at that point, you don't get the account back. I got both back. If your Amazon appeal has been rejected more than once with the same reply, this is what the
After scaling the three side bets back, all of my energy went into Amazon FBM. The workflow was running, and now it was the only thing running. That's when it started to improve properly. I kept testing new things and upgrading the pieces one by one, and nothing
4 months into Amazon FBM, my workflow was running. Not perfect, but running. So I tried to expand, three ways at once: an Etsy shop, personalized products on Amazon, and a plan to move my products into FBA. Should you sell print on demand on more than one platform? I
Once the workflow was working and I had products posted, the next thing I added was ads. Amazon ads aren't required for any of this. But the way I run them, lottery ads, is a bet I think is more likely than not to bring in sales, and
After impressions, the next two jobs were getting people to click and getting them to buy, so that's the part I upgraded next. The design, the keywords and the price all mattered. If your products are getting seen but not clicked, or clicked but not bought, this is
Do more listings mean more sales? In my case, more listings meant more impressions first, and without impressions nothing else in the business can happen. My first 50 products got nearly none. That batch took an unscalable amount of time, and the result wasn't just no sales. Nearly
My first print on demand listings went live on Amazon in June 2024, and they were nowhere near perfect. Every title typed by hand, the same bullet points on every listing, one plain product image each. Slow and not very effective, but it got the batch to the end point,
If you're reading this, you're probably starting print on demand, or thinking about it. So here's why I started it myself: it was the first business I found that let me fail 99% of the time and still win. What I tried before print
Etsy
If you've opened your Etsy finances and found a charge for ads you never set up, that's Offsite Ads. You didn't miss a setting and you didn't get billed by mistake. Etsy runs it for every shop, and the money only leaves
Etsy
Yes. Etsy is still worth it in 2026. That isn't the answer you keep running into. Most of what you'll read says one of two things: Etsy is oversaturated, or Etsy quietly stopped sending traffic to small shops. If your views dropped this year, both of
Print On Demand
Validating your niche matters. It is worth doing, and skipping it is how you end up designing for a group that was never going to buy from you. It is also not the whole story, and that is the part that catches you out. You can run every check, land
Print On Demand
Most of the work that keeps my print on demand store running, I don't do anymore. The research runs on its own. The mockups get built by a tool. The listing copy and the keywords come out of a prompt. Almost all of it sits on systems I
Amazon FBM/FBA
Featured Offer eligible: Yes. A few weeks later, the same page: No. Nothing on the listings had changed. Same shirts, same prices, same supplier. But every shirt in my store had gone from an Add to Cart button back to "see all buying options," and I had to
Amazon FBM/FBA
My catalog is past 300,000 listings. I get 1 or 2 buyer messages a week. That is the whole answer to "how do you handle customer support at that size." I don't have a VA, I don't pay for a helpdesk tool, and
Etsy
On Amazon, nobody ever asked me who prints my products. I opened the account, listed, and that was the end of it. Etsy asks. It asks before you sell anything, and it asks again on every listing you put up. If you're moving print on demand onto Etsy,
Amazon FBM/FBA
I raised the price on my own product, and Amazon took the listing down for it. No complaint, no trademark problem, nothing wrong with the product. The listing went inactive with a flag called a potential high pricing error, and the "error" was a price I had planned
Etsy
Etsy closed my shop twice. I got it back both times, and the same shop has now run for 2 years straight without another suspension. If you sell on Etsy, or you're about to, there's a real chance this happens to you at some point: the
Print On Demand
If you want products selling this Christmas, they need to be live in August. Not because August is special. Because a new listing takes time to get found, and Amazon will not push something it only just met. The products that sell in December are the ones that have been
Amazon FBM/FBA
Amazon raises your listing limit when you start selling. That is the whole mechanism, and no number anywhere tells you how many sales it takes. There is a second route, and it is the one that actually worked on my account. I asked them to lift it. My catalog is
Print On Demand
Every word and every picture you put on a product belongs to somebody. Most of the time that somebody is you. Sometimes it isn't, and the only way to find out is to look it up before you print it, not after. That's the whole job.