Forget Dropshipping… Try This Instead!!

Bryson Oppermann entered one of the most competitive industries and launched the successful print-on-demand clothing brand, Got Funny? all within a year.

The key? He built a loyal audience utilizing social media and grew a combined following of 140K followers across TikTok and Instagram.

Bryson originally studied video production, but he shifted his focus to social media, graphic design, marketing, and ecommerce over the last three years. His combined skills led him to start a print-on-demand business, putting humor-based artwork on hoodies and t-shirts after receiving positive feedback from friends and family. And after teasing his designs on TikTok and engaging with his audience, Bryson realized he had a full-blown business right at his fingertips.

In this episode, see how Bryson took the ultimate leap, how he curated the perfect design production strategy for his print-on-demand business, and the pivotal lessons learned as a young entrepreneur.

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Start
00:52 - Meeting Bryson
01:43 - Background
02:12 - Childhood
03:08 - Initial months
04:44 - Startup costs
05:38 - Revenue
07:00 - Customer reviews
07:56 - Average daily sales
08:34 - Biggest sale in a day
09:08 - Converting viewers to buyers
09:55 - Story behind designs
10:39 - Fan blitz
12:09 - A belief to disagree with
13:33 - Biggest challenges
14:07 - Most profitable SKUs
14:30 - Best-selling Design
15:16 - Why use Printful?
16:20 - Staying ahead of trends
16:56 - Building a strong brand identity
18:22 - From idea to product
19:31 - Paid vs. Organic marketing
21:02 - Advice on standing out
21:47 - Hiring customer service
22:42 - Handling refunds
23:23 - Automated email setup
24:24 - Habits of success
25:22 - Outro

#printondemand #printondemandbusiness #printondemandshop

[nestorinchina]

E-commerce is one of the best ways to get rich nowadays. With social media as the perfect partner, it's mostly about finding the right product people want and offering it in a smart way.

[Kingthatsme]

I will be a successful entrepreneur someday, & I’ll be a guest on this channel

[pixiemoon]

You pretty much have to have your personal brand and a stack of followers already. Then you can sell ice to the eskimos, as it were. If they like you, they’ll buy into whatever you’re selling. If you already have graphic design and marketing skills and understand demographics and how people *need* to be part of a trend, you’re already half way there. The average person who doesn’t get their “personality” all over TikTok and other platforms, won’t be anywhere near as successful as to sell $800k to $1mil in t-shirts a year!

[juanplease]

He is the only of maybe one of few got interviewed with realistic numbers, i feel like most entrepreneurs like to exagerate their numbers when they get interview, but this one is free flowin and i dont sense any of that. he only gets 30-40% of that mil

[hopeallisbest]

When showing the shirts quickly in between shots I feel like they disappear from the screen before I can read them completely. If you flash photos on screen please leave them a second or two longer…I had a hard time even rewinding the video and to stop the screen in time to read the shirts completely.

[EasyMerchMoney]

I need to start my pod business again this time with organic promotion. Let's go.

[sledgehammertyb]

Upflip, you never disappoint. Thank you.

[JavieAngie]

how much did all of those machines cost? how much does it cost to pay all those employees? how much goes into your business? how much is the overhead for a big ole warehouse like that?

[thenext]

just came from a dropshipping upflip vid, to this FORGET drop shipping lol. Which is it.

[carrieallen]

Good info! Feel like this fella is my spirit animal or something.

[grandgala]

thanks for this interview. very insightful.. till next time....

[KatMandew]

How does he get such great margins? My "COST PRICE" for a cheap Gildan 5000 single side printed T-shirt with Printify is $40 CAD ($29 USD) including delivery. No custom tags or anything...just a single print on the front of the shirt. To make even just one dollar or so profit with all the fees and after taxes these basic quality t-shirts would have to sell for nearly $50 CAD/ $36.50USD each..To clear only a dollar or 2! ...Is PRINTFUL that much better than PRINTIFY? Maybe it's just the Canadian Printify partners making it near impossible to profit?

[ChrisSwafford]

Happy for the guy but Printful is the only one getting rich - off of people like him. Their product cost is WAY too high.

[NN-peip]

Props to this guy, I would never be caught dead with one of these ironic hipster gen Z shirts but he knows his market and is killing it.

[arturo]

I´ve would like to know, how do they handle the Charge backs

[Business-fgji]

Great video Upflip, you never disappoint. Thank you.

[runacreevey]

Love the Motivation. In N.Z. I need this.

[candymorrison]

This is brilliant! 🎉 Thank you for a brilliant video. 😃🥇

[TheMediaMachine]

1. You need a lot of followers already. I mean alot.
2. These are followers that engage too. Not bots or you bought the traffic like a farm, which is waste of time and can get you later banned.
3. Other alternative is you pay for advertising to attract targeted traffic which is costly.
4. Or your setting yourself up to failure. You got to have numbers i.e. followers first. So build that first if you want this to succeed.
5. Make sure you own your list of followers. Maybe lead them to subscribe optin form. Lead them to your website cause if for some reason socioal media shadow bans you for whatever reason or you lose all your content, you will then lose all your followers and have to start again. Having built your email list means you don't start all over again.

[ChristopherPagan-rg]

Less than 10% of clothes in the USA is produced domestically