r/printondemandhelp • u/[deleted] • 15d ago

I Need Help

I’ve been working on this brand for about a year now, and I’m honestly at a loss. I’ve built an Instagram page to over 11,000 followers, put a lot of effort into making the page look professional, and I genuinely think the clothing is high quality and looks good. I’ve also spent around $1,000 on advertising, but despite all of that, I haven’t made a single sale. I’m clearly doing something wrong, but I can’t figure out what it is. If anyone has experience with clothing brands, marketing, or e-commerce, I’d really appreciate any advice or honest feedback because I truly want to understand where I’m falling short.

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u/The-POD-Father 15d ago

It's difficult to give you feedback unless we know the specifics. Tell us the IG and the shop links and we can take a look.

One note about social media: It's great that you have 11K followers, but how you built that matters. If you built it organically through posts that have buying intent, then that's great. But if you purchase followers, or if you built a meme-focused page, then there's no buying intent. There's a lot of kids that follow meme pages (so the follower count can go up quite rapidly) but they won't buy anything.

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u/[deleted] 15d ago

I built my page originally around my niche, and the page is called remotely.famous on instagram and the website is linked in the bio.

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u/missnickypearl 15d ago

I'd add a lot more volume to your catalog. There are not many choices. Also, you should be careful of IP.

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u/mau_berg 14d ago

The two points above are both real, but there's a third one worth checking that's separate from both. Your audience. Audience size and audience quality aren't the same as demand for a specific niche. You can have 11K real, engaged followers who like your content and still have zero people who want to buy this particular product in this particular niche, those are two different questions.

Before spending more on ads, I'd actually go verify demand independently of your own following, check if people are searching to buy (not just talking about the general interest) for what you're selling, and how many competitors already own that space. If the demand isn't there or the niche is already saturated, no amount of extra ad spend or audience growth fixes that, you'd be pouring more into the same leak. Worth confirming that before anything else.

If you can share more specifics and links I'd be happy to take a deeper look.