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Your designs are good. Nobody is seeing them. The Starter Playbook fixes the 25 orders you are missing.
You can design a shirt that people would wear. Your listings still sit at zero sales for weeks. The problem is not your art. It is that you have no plan for pricing, no listings that rank, and no routine that puts your work in front of buyers. The Starter Playbook is a 30-day plan written for hobby designers with fewer than 50 sales. Each day has one job you can finish in under an hour. Days 1 to 5: choose a niche with real buyers and check demand before you make anything new. Days 6 to 10: set your prices using the 40 percent margin method and stop guessing. Days 11 to 15: photograph products with your phone on a plain table near a window. Days 16 to 20: write listing titles and tags that match what buyers type into search. Days 21 to 30: run a short weekly email and social routine built to bring your first 25 orders. You do not need a bigger audience or a bigger budget. You need the sequence.
What you get
30 daily tasks, each under an hour
The 40 percent margin pricing method with worked examples
Phone photo setup for mugs, shirts and totes
Listing templates for titles, tags and descriptions
A weekly email and social routine you can keep up
What people say
I had 11 mug listings and zero sales for three months. I used the pricing calculator on day 3 and found out I was losing $1.80 on every mug. Fixed the price, rewrote two titles with the templates, and sold 9 mugs in week three.
Honestly I bought it expecting another PDF I'd never open. But the day-by-day plan made it dumb simple. Phone photos on a bedsheet by a window. That's it. My click-through rate on Etsy went from 0.9% to 3.1%. Order 25 landed on day 27.
The niche exercise was the turning point. I stopped making 'funny shirts' and focused on shirts for new plant parents. One caption template, one email to 38 friends and family, and I got 6 orders in a weekend. Two of them have already come back for more.
30-Day Launch Kit
$49one time
Everything you need to go from unsold listings to your first 25 orders. Most makers start here.
- The full 30-day launch playbook (62 pages, PDF)
- Pricing calculator spreadsheet set to a 40 percent margin
- 40 listing and caption templates for Etsy, Instagram and Pinterest
- Weekly email and social routine you can finish in 20 minutes a day
- Niche picker worksheet and phone photography guide
- Lifetime access to kit updates
Questions
Is $49 worth it when I haven't made many sales yet?
Do the math. The kit teaches you to price for a 40 percent margin. On a $24 mug that is about $9.60 profit per sale. Five sales and the kit has paid for itself. Most of the cost is already covered by fixing one badly priced listing.
I only have a few hours a week. Can I still finish the 30 days?
Yes. Each day is a task that takes 20 to 40 minutes, like shooting photos with your phone or writing one listing from a template. Total time is roughly 12 to 15 hours across the month. Miss a day? Pick up where you stopped. Nothing expires.
Will this work if my designs are not that unique?
Yes. Week one is about choosing a niche, because a plain design aimed at a specific group sells better than a clever design aimed at everyone. Think 'nurse mugs for night shift' or 'tote bags for plant swappers'. You will leave with one niche and 10 product ideas for it.
What exactly do I get for $49?
A step-by-step 30-day playbook, a pricing calculator that works out your 40 percent margin after fees and shipping, and 40 fill-in-the-blank templates for listings and social captions. It is a digital download, so you can start in five minutes.
Do I need Etsy, or does it work with Shopify, Printful or my own site?
It works with all of them. The lessons cover Etsy search, but the niche, pricing, photo and email steps apply to Printful, Printify, Shopify or a craft fair table. Pick one place to sell first and the kit shows you how to set it up.
I have no budget for ads or fancy equipment. Is that a problem?
No. The plan uses a phone, a window and a white poster board for photos. Traffic comes from search-friendly listings, a simple email list and 15 minutes of social posting a day. No paid ads are needed.
Turn your T-shirt and mug designs into a shop that sells every week.
Step 2 of 8 - Getcraftee Starter Playbook - the 30-day plan to your first 25 orders
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