Spreadshirt Success Story

Daniel has a post on his blog about the WhatTheFolk.net website which he works on and he mentions that WhatTheFolk.net’s Spreadshirt shop was the design on the month last month.  I am always happy when someone writes about something on the Spreadshirt blog.  Thanks Daniel.  I wanted to share a bit of his post here because he talks about one of the best features of Spreadshirt (which is the reason I use Spreadshirt for the shop on my blog, too).

Sherry had never wanted to make any money from the website, but a couple of months ago I convinced her to add some very basic Google ads so that we could recoup something for the huge amount of time and effort that we both put in to keeping the site running (well, she does most of the work. I just tinker and facilitate her work here and there when required ;). We also started selling some What the Folk! tshirts, which have been a HUGE success.

We pondered getting tshirts printed locally and then shipping them ourselves, but the up front cost and the lack of flexibility didn’t make this sound very appealing. Instead, we went with Spreadshirt. Spreadshirt lets you upload your own designs and put them in your own online store. They then do all the work printing and shipping the shirts, before paying you a commission (that you set) at the end. All you have to do is attract people to the store to buy them.

Spreadshirt have been excellent, and not having to worry about stock levels, and having the flexibility to quickly create and change and add and remove designs is great.

I’m not even close to a designer, and my skills with Adobe Illustrator are way down at the Zero end of the spectrum, but I did manage, with the help of a good friend (who is at the complete other end of the design spectrum to me), to complete couple of designs.

Daniel, thanks for the kind words about Spreadshirt.  Do you have a Spreadshirt success story? Please share with us!