Malarkey. You cats just don't have any hustle in you. I did my first +200 designs myself, using GIMP and Inkscape, because I got tired of waiting on my punk ass brother, who happens to have a graphics degree, to create basic shyt for me. As I stated in a previous post, I just logged into my Merch account I never used, last November on a whim, and got started. The overwhelming majority of my designs are just text of bullshyt quotes I either made up or paraphrased from some work in the public domain. Hell, I've made some of those quotes from peoples posts on here. I've never put in more than two hours a day doing this shyt. If I see a font I like, I either pay for the license, if reasonable, or create my own font similar to the one I found.
A regular month of revenue for me is between $850 to $1.1K a month. I made $1.8K in November. This is my first Xmas season selling Merch and I've almost reached what I made last month and it's not even the half-way mark yet.
My only cost, in the beginning, was a monthly MerchInformer subscription at the Newbie leve. I upgraded to the Pro after I found a 75% discount code ($14.99) shared on Reddit. MI ran a campaign offering a lifetime Yearly Pro membership for $89.99 in April which I purchased. My only other cost is submitting a collection of all my templates, at the end of the month, to the US Copyright Office which costs me $55.
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