I’m thrilled to welcome Benny Hsu back to The Side Hustle Show!
Remember Benny from way back in episode 17, when we talked about dominating the app store?
In 2014, his app business took a backseat to a new side hustle: selling t-shirts through Teespring. I ran into Benny at Podcast Movement last summer, where I was proudly rocking my “Every day I’m hustling” tee, and we got to chatting about his new Teespring business.
Teespring is like “kickstarter for t-shirts” — each campaign you set up has a minimum order requirement before it “tips,” and the shirts get printed and shipped. You upload your own designs, set your own order campaign minimums, and set your prices. As the organizer, you earn the profit margin on your price above and beyond your cost of materials.
Teespring handles all the printing, payment processing, and order fulfillment.
How much money could there be in t-shirts? Well, according to some estimates, custom screen-printing is a $2 billion dollar annual industry, and I was blown away when Benny told me he’d netted more than $100,000 in less than 6 months!