I’m in a ton of Etsy groups on Facebook, and something I see every single day is new shop owners asking what they’re doing wrong. Why don’t they have very many visits and no sales? Well, often they say, “I’m discouraged because I have no sells,” which is a rant […]
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This past few weeks since I posted about my POD revamp has been full of lots of miscellaneous tasks, some related to my business, many not, so I have not yet fully dived in (dove? Diven? I’m making up words here) to my system. One thing that’s taken some time […]
I’ve been doing POD on a regular basis for about 2-1/2 years. However, my approach has been very scattered at times, I’ve had too many other irons in the fire, and I have some health issues that make working long hours a real challenge. As a result, I have not […]
So Amazon has recently rolled out some more changes to the upload process (for many of us, not me yet at the time of this writing) as well as its Terms of Service. The hand-wringing in the Facebook groups has begun in earnest, things like “How am I going to […]
If you do print on demand and follow Merch Money, Design4Dollars, or Brianna Moller Greene on social media, you’ve probably been hearing about their Brandability course. I will tell you my experience with it so far. Late last year, when they opened it up for the first time, I was […]
In the field of print on demand, you’ve probably been hearing people talk about how important it is to BUILD A BRAND. Why is it important? First off, let me say that it’s not imperative for EVERYBODY. People do POD for a variety of reasons, and creating their own brand […]
As we near the end of 2018, we’re all thinking about what’s going to happen in our POD business next year. Many are not optimistic. If you’re feeling discouraged about sales, and they’re not even picking up as much as you’d hoped in Q4, here’s something to consider as you […]
They’ve actually been hot for a while, but I believe their peak in popularity is still ahead of us. There are lots of wide-open niches available on KDP (which recently merged with CreateSpace). It’s super easy to take your Merch or other POD designs and put them on journal covers, […]
If you sell on Merch by Amazon or other PODs where they take care of the entire transaction, you don’t have to worry about this. But if you sell print-on-demand items on Etsy, Shopify, eBay, Amazon, etc., you will be faced with tricky customer service issues from time to time. […]
This is a question asked time and time again among print-on-demand designers. If you make text or images partially transparent in your design, will it print properly? I often wondered this myself because I had heard it could have unpredictable results, but I hadn’t taken the time to order samples […]