If you are a new Teespring seller and you're struggling to get the ball rolling
and starting getting sales really coming in,
then you really need to watch this video because it's one small thing on every Teespring account
that if you don't do it right,
it can dramatically hold your Teespring account back. Hi everyone. I hope you're all doing well.
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In today's video, I'm going to be walking through one very small thing on every Teespring account that if you don't do it,
it can dramatically hold your account back. So for all of you guys who have been following this channel for a while,
you know that when you are a new seller on Teespring, to get the full effect and all of their marketing
and really benefit from Teespring you have to get what's called a Trust Score.
Now the Trust Score is very simple
and I've talked about this many times on the channel before, but the main things you have to do are;
get a few of your own sales on your Teespring account,
you have to stay away from copyright infringement, and do not put spam in your titles and descriptions.
Those are the three core principles that you have to do in order to get a Trust Score.
However there is one more thing that you have to do on your Teespring account in order to get a Trust Score.
You may be doing all three of the other things but not doing this one little thing
and that may be the reason why you don't have a Trust Score on Teespring.
What this small thing is is verifying your payment information.
Now I know that sounds a little bit complicated, but it is very simple to do
All you have to do is click your email up in the top right corner
and then click on Settings and once you do that,
scroll down until you have your payment options. This is either PayPal or Payoneer.
All you have to do here is connect one of these
now when you type in the email address that you want to connect,
it's going to send out a confirmation email.
Now the other question you may be having is
what if I don't have a PayPal account or I don't have a Payoneer account
Well, no problem at all. You can go and you can create one of these completely for free.
You don't need a business version of any of these and for Teespring as a whole you don't need a business license.
You don't need anything special, it all goes through your personal income
and you can create a personal free account on PayPal or Payoneer.
The reason that they offer both of these options and not just one is because PayPal is primarily
focused on United States payments
and then if you're located outside of the United States that's where Payoneer comes in.
Again completely free and they pay to over 200 different countries in 90 different currencies.
So if you don't have an account on either PayPal or Payoneer
I recommend setting one up. And then the second thing is go over to
Teespring and connect it and verify your payment.
Now a common question that I often get in regards to Teespring Trust Score
is when do I know that I have a Teespring Trust Score. So to answer that question,
the Teespring Trust Score is an internal metric meaning that we cannot see it.
We cannot see what the score is, if we're in good standing, if we have any violations.
Now, I've definitely heard of people reaching out to Teespring and getting confirmation that their Trust Score is in good standing.
But I have never seen them give a specific number of what someone's Trust Score is.
With that being said, there is no direct way for us as Teespring sellers to see our Trust Score.
I really think this would be a cool feature for Teespring to add in the future and if you think so as well,
let me know down in the comments.
Maybe we can all get together and share this information with Teespring and hopefully this feature can come soon.
But with that said, the two indirect ways
that I recommend to people on how to see if your Trust Score has likely kicked in or not is;
one going over to the Analytics on the left side and then switching from Profits over to Views
and then you can see if your views are going up.
If they are generally higher than usual in the beginning before you have a Trust Score.
You're likely not going to have any views on your account.
And then once your Trust Score starts to kick in, you'll notice that your views organically go up.
Now, that's definitely an indirect way and that kind of gives you a general idea.
Just know that if you're driving your own traffic from social media,
you may see that your views are already going up before you have a Trust Score set.
So this is a very generalized indirect way of seeing, but the second way is going to the Teespring marketplace
and seeing if you can find your items.
If you do not have a Trust Score set on your account yet,
then it is very unlikely that your designs are going to show up in the Teespring marketplace.
Once you do get assigned your Trust Score
then it is very likely that your designs are going to be showing up in the marketplace.
So if you do a search and you find your designs,
that is a good sign that you have a Trust Score and it has been assigned for your account.
All in all, the main benefit of having a Trust Score is that all of the Teespring marketing is going to kick in for you.
Now if you're curious what all of that marketing is that Teespring does for you?
You can find that out by going to Settings along the left side and then scrolling down just a little bit and you'll see in
the Increase your Sales section all these should be toggle switched on
and these are all the different ways that Teespring is going to do marketing for you,
and remember all of this marketing that Teespring is doing is paid advertising on their end.
But we do not have to pay for it as sellers.
The way that Teespring can afford to do these paid marketing efforts is because
when they get a sale through their paid marketing efforts the ones listed here, they take a split of that profit,
but the cool thing is you will never get a bill.
So let's say that for their paid marketing efforts,
they take five dollars of a $10 profit sale if it cost them less than $5
to acquire that sale and they're getting $5 profit from that marketing.
They are still going to be profitable and then you didn't have to do anything
They did all the paid marketing for you and you still get to collect your portion of $5 from that sale.
Now, those are just general numbers to give you an example of how the paid marketing and Trust Score works on Teespring
But I hope that helps to clarify. So before this video comes to an end,
I just wanted to throw in one more piece of advice.
It's a big mistake that I've been seeing people make and it's kind of a big fail point that a lot of new
Teespring sellers are falling into and what that is is as they gather all this information,
stuff from here on my YouTube channel, from other YouTube channels, from Teespring's articles,
they're getting a lot of information and they're getting well equipped to start on Teespring,
but they can't pick a niche to start in. Now my advice is always just get started.
Even if you're starting in a niche that's oversaturated and extremely competitive,
you still may get sales.
Plus it's going to teach you so much about actually taking action on Teespring.
The hardest part is actually getting yourself started and taking action on these things.
So my best recommendation for you is even if you don't have the perfect niche to start with,
go with something you're passionate about or something that a keyword research tool says is pretty good,
just take a risk on it. There are no upfront costs.
There's only potential upside, but you can only get there if you're actually
going to start and take action.
It's always good to remember that any business that you ever get into is always going to
be a long-term learning process.
And two, three, four years from now, when you look back on this, you're going to say, 'wow'
I wish I knew back then what I know now.
So you're going to learn more along the way but just make sure that you actually get started.
If you guys enjoyed this video, I'm going to link up a couple other videos
that are related to Teespring and I think will be very useful for you.
If you Guys have any questions at all, feel free to let me know down in the comments
and if you enjoyed this video, I really appreciate the Thumbs Up.
Alright guys, that's it for this one. I've got a lot more coming for you. So I'll see you soon.