Running a successful online business requires strategy. It’s not a set-it-and-forget-it endeavor. If you’re continually focused on improving your customer experience, from the way your brand’s expressed on your homepage to the kinds of products you offer and the frequency with which you add new art, then you’ll likely see repeat shoppers and increased traffic over time. We’ve gathered the latest Artist Shops hacks artists are using to ensure their brands stand out, their art’s well represented on each product,Read more
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Want to know how about the latest Artist Shop features? The latest products you can sell your designs on? Updates on celebrity couples? Here, we can help you with two of those three things! Whether you own an Artist Shop and want to know about new features you can use in your Artist Shop, or you’re thinking about opening one and want to know what cool new stuff you can do with them, we’ve got the latest features & announcements right here. We’re constantly adding to this ecommerce platform and creating new ways for you to use an Artist Shop, new canvases for you to sell your art on, and working on ways to make Artist Shops better. Check in to see the latest Artist Shop features and announcements, and all the new ways you can sell your products.
Activewear Alert: Add Performance Tees to Your Artist Shop
Nothing’s more motivating when you’re hitting up the gym than an energizing outfit. Activewear is stylish, fashion-forward apparel that’s been optimized for athletic performance. It looks good while you’re working out and transitions well to other activities throughout the day. Welcome to our catalogue brand-new, exclusive to Artist Shops, short and long sleeve performance t-shirts. Your fans will finally be able to sweat in style, sporting your designs on the treadmill, trail, court, or anywhere else they like to workout. Finally,Read more
New Products Update: Magnets and Buttons Are Live
Sharing your art just got easier. Magnets and buttons are available to include in your Artist Shop, and we can’t contain our excitement for these likable, wearable, and magnetic products. Fans will delight in scooping up your designs to stick to their fridges and lockers or pin on their tees, jackets, and backpacks. Both products are an excellent item to add to a shopper’s cart in order to reach shipping minimums. It’s great to have several cart-building products like theseRead more
New Product Update: Include Cut & Sew Tees in Your Artist Shop
Ready to wow followers with brilliant designs that use every inch of the shirt as your canvas? Then cut and sew tees are the all-over print apparel of your dreams. This new product means you can feature large format designs or repeat patterns fluidly across the entire garment—and our new Artist Shops feature allows you to easily see the exact design placement from the largest to smallest-sized t-shirt. The superior quality of the t-shirt material, printing inks, and cut andRead more
NEW PRODUCT: Skateboards Are Now Available in Artist Shops
Skateboards are the latest addition to the Artist Shops product lineup and we couldn’t be more excited about this epic CCS collaboration. Offering skateboards to your customers is a great way to grow your sales. With spring upon us, and summer not too far behind, now would be an ideal time to launch an Artist Shop or update your existing Shop and add skateboards! About the productYou are able to offer 5 variants of this new style in your ArtistRead more
Sound the Alarm: Add Backpacks and Duffel Bags to your Artist Shop!
Hey, dig this! Backpacks and Duffel Bags are the latest extensions to Artists Shops’ product lineup. We all travel from A to B, especially as Spring approaches. Packing a Backpack and stuffing a Duffel has never known the sweet designs that you offer. Now is the time to add these winning products to your Shop for all your shoppers to Discover. A differentiated Shop will gain you more exposure and these products will help set your merch apart. Here areRead more
Introducing Collaborators – A New Artist Shops Tool
When you upload a design to your Artist Shop, the earnings from every product sold are automatically paid directly to you. That’s great, right? It’s about as easy as it gets. But what if you collaborated with someone to make a design and you wanted to share the earnings? Perhaps you have a great design idea but need to hire an artist to help execute. Maybe you want to donate your earnings to a non-profit or you have comic bookRead more
A Decade Of DTG Printing Quality Improvements
The evolution of digital apparel printing at Threadless Threadless has been printing T-Shirt designs submitted by our artist community since November of 2000. From 2000-2011, we relied 100% on screen printing to produce our products. We started researching more about digital printing in 2007 as the technology began to show a lot of promise. It wasn’t until 2011 that we felt the quality of direct-to-garment (DTG) printing was ready for primetime. In 2011, we began experimenting with offering some ofRead more
Out with the Old and in with the New: Our 2018 Year in Review
Oh hey 2019. NICE TO MEET YOU. We hope you all had an amazing new year’s celebration and that you’re well on your way to chasing your 2019 dreams. 2018 was certainly a fun ride. Threadless turned a legal voting age (what’s up, 18!!!). Artist Shops launched Bucketfeet, so now truly anyone can become a shoe designer. We added a neat hi-5 feature in Discover for folks to show their appreciation for new products launching across our Shops network. OurRead more
New Product Alert: Add Stickers to Your Artist Shop!
Have you heard the news? Stickers are the newest addition to the Artist Shops product lineup! Stickers have been at the top of the must-have list for Shop owners for a long time, and the wait is finally over. This new product is already starting to pour into Discover. And with the holiday shopping season inching closer and closer, now would be a great time to add this product to your Shop. Here are some details: Available in four different sizes:Read more
T-Shirt Guide: What Sets Apart the Different Styles of T-Shirts in Artist Shops?
Tees on tees on tees! If you’ve been keeping up with the new product additions in Artist Shops, you already know that we’ve added some awesome new tees to the lineup: extra soft, premium, and heavyweight! There are lots of different styles of t-shirts for you to add to your Artist Shop, and – trust us – tees sell! But from the regular vs the premium to the tri-blend vs the extra soft, what makes each of these styles of t-shirts uniqueRead more
6 Ways to Get Your Shop Ready for Fall
It’s official: fall is here! Running promos during this in-between season can be as overwhelming as trying to dress for it (one day it’s hoody weather, the next it’s tee weather). When you’re thinking about promos, you have to turn on your marketing brain and think ahead. And there are lots of ways you can get your Shop ready for scoring some earnings this season while also preparing your Shop for an awesome holiday season, too (which is creeping up fast). Time toRead more