T-Shirts via Teespring

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Remember those Mosquito T-shirts we were selling via Teespring?  To date, despite our inept marketing, we have a net profit of about $60.00 from them.  Not too shabby, but certainly in no way positively impacting our standard of living.

As $60.00 in online sales is a large amount, (at least for us), we decided to attempt to repeat our success.  In honor of the stupid Coronavirus that we're all hiding from, (unsuccessfully, IMHO), we created another T-shirt, and a Mask, to also sell on Teespring. 


T-Shirt Front

T-Shirt Back

Mask


These two products we have been mostly using the youlikehits.com website to promote.  The jury is still out over how successful this will be.

As I've written before, marketing is easily my Achilles heel.  No matter how I try, I always feel slimy when promoting a product, even a product I think is great, and fully believe in.  This being the case, trying to sell stuff on the internet is probably not such a great pursuit for me, as I will always be going against the grain of my personality.  Bummer!  

I really, really want to believe those guys who pitch their "$5,000 profit a day with five minutes of work!" programs, but I know, (and you should too!), that this is just bullshit.  

Sigh ......  There are no shortcuts to success.  As Peter Tosh once said, "Live clean; let your works be seen."


Those mean ol' affiliate links managed to sneak into this post. If you can't fight 'em, join em?

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