How Terry Ng made a simple t-shirt design, marketed online, in 1 month made RM2,000 profit
Monday, July 14th, 2008Terry Ng of kineda.com mentioned that the design took him 30 minutes on photoshop. No too fancy stuff, just the line “There is No Charge for Awesomeness,” taken off the movie Kung Fu Panda.
Then he posted the design for sale at RedBubble.
So far, less than a month later, he’s sold 85 shirts for a profit of USD628.85.
He said you control the price and decide your level of profit. RedBubble doesn’t charge commissions but rather a base price of USD19.95 per shirt. Terry set his markup to 37% i.e. profit of USD7.41 per shirt sold.
He compared that with a local printing shop, where production costs would be lower. Still, selling via RedBubble entailed much less work. For every shirt sold, they’d send you a notification email.
RedBubble is not only for tshirts, you can also sell other art: photos, designs and illustrations in the form of framed prints, mounted prints, greeting cards or even posters.
Terry said it’s easy money, why not give it a go???
