One thing I absolutely hate about the world of making money online, is that there are so many darned ways to make money, and it looks like the low hanging system is going to be another big distraction that I should not follow! It's definitely not a scam but it's messing with my head as it's yet another thing that I can't wait to get started on!!!
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How the Low Hanging System has Ruined my Plans
Over the last few weeks I've quit my job and rented my flat out and was busy preparing for my 3 months in Thailand. My plan was at last to start focusing on my affiliate website and finally getting around to some decent link building activities.
I really want to build the website up and more than anything, I want to prove to myself that I can actually make money through an affiliate website, because so far I've read an awful lot, taken a lot of action, but haven't got to the monetisation stage yet. It feels like I just need to dedicate some more time to this.
Great plan, so what happened?
A friend from the Matched Betting group that I'm in (this group is awesome by the way) sent me a message the other day saying I need to get into the Merch by Amazon programme, so I signed up for this and have spent the last week getting my head into the concept and listening to all of the podcasts from Merch Entrepreneur
The whole thing really appeals to me as there is basically no investment, fulfilment or customer service required and it relies on you creating catchy slogans and designs. This is something that I've always been interested in and am actually quite good at so I am super excited.
I've been writing ideas down for T-shirt designs all week already and my head is exploding so much that I'm waking up in the middle of the night to write them down.... so much so that my girlfriend thinks I'm having an affair and sending texts to my lover in the middle of the night!
Sounds amazing, so what's wrong with this?
In order to get started on the Merch by Amazon programme there is a whopping 2 month waiting list, maybe less, but probably even longer than that. I am soooo excited that I can be waiting around for 2 months for this and besides this, I'll be in Thailand with time on my hands.
This is when I heard about the Low Hanging System by Rachel Rothe, which was recommended on the Merch Entrepreneur programme and gives you something to do with your over active brain whilst you wait for Amazon approval and also gives you another massive potential revenue stream.
So what is the Low Hanging System?
From what I've looked at this gives you heaps of tips and tricks about getting set up on 2 main reseller sites: Gearbubble and Etsy.
Gearbubble is a print on demand service where you can upload your designs and get them printed on a range of products from mugs and necklaces to pillow cases. The beauty of this, however, is that there is a direct integration with Amazon (and eBay), so your products will be automatically listed on Amazon when you list on Gearbubble.... and there is no waiting or approval time!!!
The second site Etsy is America's equivalent of eBay for handcrafted and custom made products, so this course also shows you the best way to use this as a portal to sell your print on demand products.
Other than this it seems that there are heaps of tips and ticks about Facebook traffic, how to get traffic to your Amazon listings, outsourcing your business and where to source the best designs amongst other things.
Am I going to sign up for the low hanging system?
To be honest, I'm really torn at the moment, because if I get involved in this then it's really going to blow my other goals out of the water and put the affiliate sites on the backburner again.
However, this feels like this is such a massive opportunity and exactly the type of business that I'm looking to set up, that I really don't think I can pass on the opportunity.
The course is great value at $297 but I'm pretty sure that this is something you're going to get back in no time at all if you follow the steps and have a little bit of creativity about you.
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2018 Update
I signed up to the course and have been using it to add products to Amazon, eBay and Etsy successfully over the past year. It's taught me loads about Print on Demand and how to create successful designs, so I'd totally recommend this investment for the training and great motivation from the really active FB community.
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Weekly Goals
Last Week's Goal was to add 3 articles to my affiliate site. I didn't achieve last week's goal as I only published 2 articles, but a lot of my time this week has been taken up by Merch by Amazon excitement instead, so I don't think that's the worst trade-off.
This Week's Goals
I've finally managed to get my first product related article back from one of my writers, which has taken him an age to complete. He pitched himself as an expert product review writer, but I don't think that's actually correct.
I'm either going to have to drop him, or coach him a little more with the next set of articles. He's actually from the UK and is only getting $10 every 1000 words so I can't really complain.
Anyway, now that I've got this article, I need to try to knock off one of my month's goals and set up the Amazon Affiliate account and get my first article published with affiliate links.
It's the Bank Holiday this weekend, so I'm not going to have a huge amount of time but I'll give it a good crack.
Hi there.
I’m in a similar position to you with this LHS. I’m with Wealthy Affiliate University, which I think is the BEST affiliate training group around. (OK, I’m biased)
I just watched the promo video for LHS and was searching to see if there were any negative reviews on it. Yours seems to be the closest I’ve seen so far.
Like you, I’m also a bit worried about this just turning out to be another distraction from my affiliate sites. My posting schedule is suffering at the moment.
Thanks for posting this, it’s all food for thought, hey?
Nice-looking site by the way.
Cheers, Thomas.
Hi Thomas,
Yes, to be honest the LHS programme is worthwhile if you are getting into a Print on Demand business, however, it is no silver bullet by any means. There’s a lot of work involved with it to research the niche and find ideas, but if you get a design that takes off like Rachel did, then you can earn the big money. However, I don’t see lots of people rushing out quitting their day jobs after doing this.
In my opinion it’s a good way to learn about this business model, and is something you can relatively easily outsource, but is most likely going to provide you with a bit of extra cash rather than a full income stream!
cheers,
Martin
Seems there is quite a lot of negative reviews regarding gearbubble. Just do a google search and see what I mean. Pretty bad really. A lot of unhappy people.
Hi there,
Just curious if you decided to continue with LHS and Gearbubble dropshipping after your first year since the $297 purchase is only for 1 year.
Thanks!
Jay
Hi Jay, I ended up buying the lifetime integration so am continuing to do this. However, to be honest I haven’t made any money out of LHS. I think maybe if I had focused on this as my sole thing, then I could have made something out of it, but I’m selling maybe 4 products a month and that doesn’t even cover my Amazon PRO fees.
I do think, however, that the course is pretty good and if I had only bought the basic course and not the holiday jumpstart programme, then I would have been a lot happier and not wasted so much money. IT’s also a good way to learn about Print on Demand, and selling products in general.
I think print on demand is getting more and more competitive and you really need to niche down to find the right products to sell, but you can still make money out of it. The only thing with LHS is that you need to upload tons of products and hope that they sell and it doesn’t seem that a lot of people in the groups are making really good money from this.
I still love making the mugs and doing the designs, but would like to recoup some of my investment on this…
My plan is to try to automate this a bit more so my VA can do a lot of the work for me, including the research, but I just haven’t had time for briefing her yet and Q4 is almost on us!!!
Bought the package last year and not one month broke even. This end November 2018 I started to see one sale a day at amazon.ca. But the printing is terrible. One customer cancelled after 9 days wait and today two more are over 12 days waiting for shipping and nothing but promises and rude support. They believe we are all imbeciles. In a way we are. From Rachel’s (LHS) and Don’s (Gearbubble) presentations and emails we learned that they are our (regular hopeless clients of Gearbubble) COMPETITION. That is: they run the printer for free so they pay almost nothing for products and they prioritize the printing, of course, in their favor. Then they tell you that you should use free shipping and very low prices. Really? Frustration and the sentiment of being mugged (pun intended) are taking your sleep away. Or you have to care less, but what about the money you spend?
In fact most of the sellers in their Facebook group are selling FBA so NOT LHS anymore. Not sure where they print because Gearbubble… And the dishwasher safe lie: wows! they are not even hand wash safe!!
I regret deeply that I didn’t know all this scam competition before. You stand zero chance in Low Hanging System. If you are not family or friends of the deceiving gurus please stay away!
Thank you for your review I was getting ready to buy the $2000 package , I’m so glad I read this first ! Are you doing something different now I would like to hear if your having any success
Hi Mary,
I think you need to be careful about reading different people’s reviews, because at the end of the day, you get out of something what you put into it.
In response to Cris points:
– Shipping times of 9 – 12 days are not unusual, especially at a busy point of time in Q4. What you need to do is make sure that your handling and shipping times are updated accordingly in Amazon… I always set mine at 14 days during Q4.
– The FB Group is actually really helpful and there are some cool people in there who are always willing to give you advice and help out. Not sure where the point about FBA comes from though.
– The final point about calling this a scam is pretty harsh and I don’t think this is a con at all. What it is, however, is a lot of hard work before you start to see returns. I’m talking about creating hundreds if not thousands of mugs, researching them and writing the product listings, which all takes time. I am also personally paying for the Amazon integration and the Amazon account fee each month so am making pretty much 0 money on this. However, I think if you perserved at this then you could start to make money out of it, but you need to upload consistently and don’t give up. There is definitely no silver bullet to this one, but I would still recommend taking the $297 course, which gives you some useful insights into Print on Demand in general, rather than taking the greater risk of $2k, which personally I didn’t think was worth the extra money.
WOW! I am sooo glad I read these comments.
I just spent two hours watching the LHS webinar and was seriously considering investing in their $2,000 package! Then in my search for reviews about the LHS I came across this here and was rather confused to see that there is a $297 package (it seems the only difference us that the $2,000 includes five cases of mugs that they will print on and send to Amazon to sell FBA for you.
But still, with my limited budget I would have to use a personal line of credit to afford $2,000!
And then to see here comments from some who say they had very few sales of their LHS products even on Amazon is very discouraging to me!
I realize that in order for me to start up any ecommerce business I am going to have to invest some money, but I wonder if even spending the $297 is worth it, or maybe I should invest it into another ecommerce model?
I would not mind spending up to $2,000 as a start up ecommerce investment, but I want to invest into a business model that has a very realistic prospect of appreciating substantially, even if it takes a year or so (I am retired/disabled on a fixed income, so I have a relatively modest budget for this, but I do have plenty of time to attend to it).
Any recommendations?
Hi,
Thanks for your comment and taking the time to read the article. My personal advice would be that if you are short on cash but have time available then you shouldn’t spend the $2000 on the package, as I honestly don’t think it’s worth the extra money. You get to attend some webinars with Rachel, and can ask your own questions, but to be honest you can ask these in the facebook group anyway. You also get 5 boxes of mugs included in the package, however, until you have proven that some of your mugs will sell, then this is really a waste of money and just a lucky guess… especially as you have to place the order within a certain amount of time.
When I did this I was pressured into sending out 5 cases of mugs and pretty much none of them have sold, as I had no track record of sales for these in the first place.
However, I still think the $297 course is good value, as this can teach you the basics of print on demand and get you up and running fairly quickly.
I think that you can make money from this method but you really need to stick with it, continually upload and get thousands of mugs listed. I think the trick is that once a few of your mugs sell a few times, then you can order a case and sell these more easily via FBA, which is where more of the money comes in.
It doesn’t sound like a lot of people are making large amounts of money from this method, and the market is somewhat saturated, however, if you stick with it you should be able to make a good enough side income from this, although this isn’t something I’ve managed to do yet.
Instead I opted to go with Merch by Amazon and focus on that… again that takes a lot of time and continual research.
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There is no profit when you have to sell at such a high price point. competition sells for 9.99 and less…I have to sell for 18.99 to make a $1. Then you have to pre pay credits to cover the cost of the product or the automation does not work. The only people making money is gearbubble and the low hanging system gurus.
today 14 of my listings got flagged by amazon for intellectual violations. None are infringing. I refuse to waste any more time resouces on this.
Late shipments always put my account stats at risk.