From Pen to Profit: Writers Strategy to Thrive by Selling Branded Merch

The idea is that you as a writer sell your own merch using, in the first stage “Print On Demand”, you only create the art, the design (using a digital tablet or artistic tools, or using Generative AI), and use a service to print, and ship, you only focus on promoting your clothes on every story and you leverage the earnings by selling merch to your fans, and with the earnings empower your journey!

My first women's and men's t-shirts were created using Spring a US Based Print on Demand Company

These are my first designs for merch LINK to my SPRING STORE: https://my-store-f1bd46.creator-spring.com/

Strategy

Sell merch and with the earnings buy books and courses to improve and serve better your community, and your readers. The idea is to create a business around your writing.

Okay, so for the last 3 days, I tried to research for about 10 hours all the videos about selling Merch online and came to the acknowledgment that if you have little or no money “Print on Demand” is the option.

Top 4 Players for selling Merch with Print on Demand

Amazon Merch on Demand: Free you must apply and be accepted, you will start with a Tier with a very low quantity of items you can create, but scaling your sales can be huge. Shopify with Printful or Printify: You own the store, and your domain, and you pay monthly for the store hosting and a fee for every sale. You use Printful or Printify for POD. Etsy with Printful or Printify: You own the store as same as Shopify you pay for listing and a fee for the sale. Teespring: Free, create your store for free and you keep all the profit. Printful is used to sell Merch they will handle the printing and shipping you will only create the traffic to your store to generate the sell

Top organic ways to promote your merch and store

Pinterest. Create a daily merch design and create your unique Pins to promote them.