Posts mentioning teelaunch, Shopify, ecommerce, print on demand, or TikTok Shop.
Imported October 2, 2026. This is a static archive. Posts follow their LinkedIn activity order; publication dates appear only when verified.
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I once fired my twin brother. Technically, twice. Now he's going back to Automattic, and I couldn't be more excited for him. Let me back up. A decade ago, Nick landed his first real job at Automattic. He did a little bit of everything, tra…
Read the post →You cannot sleep on this. Before I changed a single thing, my Shopify store had already made $918.70 from ChatGPT and the Shop app. No ads. No links. AI found our cards and sold them. So I had AI audit my store the way a shopping agent see…
Read the post →I'm not sleeping tonight. And I don't want to. 15 years ago we started teelaunch. Teespring had just shown up. Facebook ads were brand new. And we thought "target by interest" was the most next-level thing we'd ever seen. You could put a s…
Read the post →Your next customer might never see your website. They'll ask an AI agent to find the product, and the agent will buy it for them. That's not a prediction anymore. Meta's new AI agent, Muse, can now check out from Shopify stores with one ta…
Read the post →Their CEO, Rob Bigler, is leaving. So I did what any reasonable card shop owner in Sioux Falls, South Dakota would do. I started updating my resume. Here it is: Started my first business at 8 with my twin brother. Candy company. It failed…
Read the post →90% instant buyback sounds like a great deal. That's the problem. I sell Pokémon packs for a living, so I'm not anti-ripping. Opening packs is fun. The rip, the reveal, the chase. It's a big part of why this hobby is so great. But there's…
Read the post →Three people robbed my store this month. None of them walked through the door. Here's how it works on TikTok Shop: Every product you list is automatically tagged as a "refundable sample." No opt in. It's just on. A creator can grab your it…
Read the post →I sold my first Pokémon card 16 months ago. I'd never owned one before that. Last month we did our best month ever. Up 25%. Here's what nobody tells you about starting over in an industry you know nothing about at 40-something years old, a…
Read the post →10,000+ people showed up to our convention. Admission was $0. IZZISCON cost real money to run and I charged nothing to get in. Not for entry, not for any of kids activities. People in the industry told me I left a pile of money at the door…
Read the post →So excited to be making some amazing swag for a new project my brother is working on. Can't share the details yet, but trust me, it's good. When I left teelaunch a year ago, I was racking my brain about what to do next. Where to focus my e…
Read the post →I ran development teams for over 12 years. I loved building products. I hated the waiting. Then agentic programming changed everything for me. I can finally move at the speed of my own thoughts. Idea in the morning, live by the afternoon.…
Read the post →Three years ago I petitioned TikTok for a processing-time exemption for made-to-order and print-on-demand sellers. It's finally real. TikTok Shop is rolling out Custom Handling Time — 3 to 7 days instead of the standard 2 — for sellers who…
Read the post →I'm facing a problem I've never had in 20+ years of business. When my dad and I ran restaurants, we never hit a point where I couldn't buy pepperoni. When I built teelaunch, there was never a Gildan shirt shortage. Grow the business, order…
Read the post →I can't imagine a more exciting time to be in print on demand. I was there 14 years ago when it all got started — and I'll say it plainly: there has never been a better time to get in than right now. Which is why it confuses me that most o…
Read the post →Discovery is the toy industry superpower. TikTok Shop has become the most powerful toy discovery engine on the planet, and the brands that understood that first are rewriting what success looks like in our industry. Not just the global gia…
Read the post →The end of my print-on-demand career broke my heart. Now I think it was God clearing the path. For 14 years, I poured everything into building something that, in the end, wasn't mine to keep. The stress. The pain. The slow grind of fightin…
Read the post →As Harley Finkelstein just said in today's Q1 earnings: "No group benefits more from AI than entrepreneurs." And Sidekick usage tells the same story: • Weekly active shops using Sidekick up 4x year over year • 12,000+ custom apps were buil…
Read the post →My Little Pony mania is real — and I think KAYOU might be sitting on something massive. My best little friend Maizey came into the store and I showed her the My Little Pony cards. She had never seen the show before. She fell in love on the…
Read the post →The Kid Who Sold Baseball Cards at a Flea Market Before there was VeeFriends, there was a kid at a New Jersey flea market selling baseball cards to anyone who'd stop and listen. That kid grew up to be Gary Vaynerchuk — "GaryVee" — one of t…
Read the post →After leaving teelaunch, I thought my trade show days were behind me. However, I'm glad they aren't, as I am having a great time discovering new products and meeting new people.
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