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I've tried 3 T-Shirt Campaigns on Teespring and they've all failed for me (didn't reach minimum thresholds). Any insight into what makes for the more successful ones? Is it just about the community one has, or does Teespring have a ready base of those interested in shirts from other campaigns?

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Hi Rex! As some other comments have pointed out, we don't actually have any significant discovery featured right now - so a large % of hitting your goal is your community!

That's something we hope to change in the near future though.

Always happy to talk strategy with you if you're interested, my email is walker@teespring.com.

Maybe you could OkCupid style analysis blog posts on t-shirt design, what's popular, what sells ets ... I'd imagine that could drive quite a bit of traffic/lead generation.

OkC doesn't do those blogs anymore, but you can read their old entries at blog.okcupid.com.

I loved those blog posts, that's a great idea. One of the craziest things we've learned is that dark shirts outperform light shirts by 2:1.

No one likes to separate their whites

Or more likely, doesn't like to do their laundry as often and dark shirts hide stains better.

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