The idea of operating a “business” where you can be basically shut down at any time didn’t sit well with me. CPA was that kind of business. So, when the realities of CPA instability hit me hard, **I started selling t-shirts on Teespring. **For good reason, too.

For starters, I had control over my products. I could determine the availability of products. I didn’t have to sleep every night with my heart in my mouth expecting that the CPA advertiser might send me a bad-news email.

So, I started selling t-shirts and boosting my sales using Facebook Ads. It was a lot of fun. More importantly, I made good money from it! I was promoting my own products using my Facebook paid traffic.

You see, working with CPA leaves you at risk of being stranded overnight. It’s high-risk. One time, I was enjoying massive traction on a particular ad.

I was already saying to myself, “If this ad stays up for about 3 months, I could be earning 6 figures!”

Guess who didn’t make 6 figures in 3 months? This guy!

And it was simply because the owner of the offer removed it a couple of weeks later. That’s how it is with CPA. It’s erratic. One day, you’re making lots of money and the next, all the revenue disappears.

This is why I found Teespring to be a better choice. For one, you’re the owner of the product, and you can promote it for as long as you want.

Anyway, after I started using Facebook Ads to sell tons of my t-shirts for a while, I found that Facebook Ads weren’t stable, either.

Facebook Ads fluctuates. There is no steady flow of traffic. One day, it could make you many sales at a very low cost. The next day, the cost to make a sale goes through the roof and you might end up recording a loss.

I thought that it was risky to bet all of my business on Facebook Ads. Don’t get me wrong. Facebook Ads is the top traffic source you can use to make lots of money.

But the problem is that it’s too risky. So I started checking other ways to sell the t-shirts with less risk.

Luckily, I discovered that I could sell t-shirts and other Print-on-Demand (POD) products on marketplaces with better traffic and lower risks.

That was my *‘eureka!’ *moment.

So, I decided to add to my income stream by selling POD products on Amazon and Etsy.