Building a T-Shirt Business: Week 3 Artist Shops is a platform associated with creatives, designers and artists, but it can be used for anything. What I’ll be attempting in this series is to build a t-shirt business from scratch within the limitations of 30 minutes a day. Expect a lot of hacks, automation, and stealing to get this done. Read the rest of the series here: Week One & Week Two Day Eleven Social Promotion It’s time to get a couple social media accounts created. I’m going toRead more
14 Ways to Make Your First Sale
If your online shop is awesome, but no one is around to see it, does it make a sale? After taking all the time you need to set up your store, it can be easy to hit a brick wall when you get to the whole how-do-I-sell-this-stuff part. There’s no magic “That Was Easy” button when it comes to making your first sale, but there are a ton of tips and tricks that can help you get there. Here are some 14 tips to help youRead more
How to Sell T-Shirts For Charity
Remember when your college wardrobe consisted mainly of tees that clubs and causes were always selling on campus? Well those booths had the right idea! Whether people buy tees because they’re passionate about a cause or they just like the design, choosing to sell t-shirts for charity is a great way to raise money and awareness for your cause in a way that reaches a worldwide audience. We’ve seen more and more causes and charities open Artist Shops lately. Since we take care of the manufacturing and order fulfillment, charities and organizationsRead more
5 Ways to Make More Money in March
SO: you’ve got new mugs, notebooks, & phone cases in your Shop, you’ve got your “About” Page all filled out, and your Shop’s looking good. It’s a perfect time to run some promotions and make more money! Between spring break season and the weather warming up in many parts of the world, March is the perfect time for some promos. And we’ve got a little extra incentive for you: every week in March, we’ll be challenging you to promote a different, specific product each week. If you sellRead more
Introducing Mugs, Notebooks, and Phone Cases in Artist Shops!
Your Shop just got a little more awesome! Introducing three exciting new products to add to your accessories lineup: mugs, notebooks, and phone cases! We’re super excited about these additions to Artist Shops. They’re super giftable, fun essentials that everyone should have in their daily toolbox. Not to mention, they give you three new ways to rock your own designs wherever you go! Learn all about the brand new products, the styles they come in, and how to add them to your Shop below! . . . MugsRead more
Increase Traffic to Your Artist Shop With Your “About Page”
“I love filling out bios on social media!”, said no one ever. Whether you’re filling out 160 characters or less about yourself on Twitter or in the seemingly infinite bio box on Facebook, there’s something about the question “tell us about yourself!” that makes us forget our names and everything about who we are. So when you saw that Artist Shops now has an “About Page” you can fill out, your brain may have pulled an anxious record scratch. IRead more
Sell Art Prints Online
As an artist, selling your art IRL is awesome, but it’s also a double-edged sword. On the one hand, who doesn’t want to see their work featured in a gallery, sold in a brick and mortar store, or killin’ it at an art festival? But on the other hand, these places limit you to 1: whatever area they’re being sold in and 2: to customers who actually decide to walk into the gallery or store. That’s where having an online store comes in! While the internetRead more
How to Use Keywords for Your Online Store
We’ve touched a little on keywords when talking about what SEO is and how to use it to attract more customers. But keywords and their usage is one hefty topic that shouldn’t be limited to a few measly bullet points; there’s a lot that goes into keywords, finding the right ones, and how to use them to get the most out of them. Here’s our guide on how to use keywords for your online store! . . . What areRead more
New Year’s Resolution: Start an Accessories Business
With a new year comes new resolutions! And with new resolutions comes…well, new ways of breaking those resolutions. We all do it. But instead of breaking resolutions in 2017, we want to break that trend by helping you achieve your new year’s resolution goals. The second resolution we’re focusing on? How to start your own line of and sell accessories! Have you ever wanted a new pencil case or travel bag, looked at the options, and gone, “man…I could make one so much cooler than that.”Read more
How to Build an Email List
In almost any article you come across about how to build your audience or up your sales (including in ones on this blog), one of the suggestions is always simply, “build an email list.” Which is understandably followed by one question: well how?! Luckily, from the recent Artist Shops update that allows you to see the email addresses of customers who have purchased from your Shop, to hosting a giveaway or contest, there are lots of ways of going about it. Here are a few tipsRead more
New Year’s Resolution: Start a Home Decor Business
With a new year comes new resolutions! And with new resolutions comes…well, new ways of breaking those resolutions. We all do it…after all, setting that “finally start a business” resolution is a great idea that quickly sounds too ambitious to actually tackle. But instead of breaking resolutions in 2017, we want to break that trend by helping you achieve your new year’s resolution goals. And the first resolution we’re focusing on? How to start a home decor business. Starting your own decorating business isn’tRead more
How to Build a T-Shirt Business: Week 2
Building a T-Shirt Business Week 2 Artist Shops is a platform associated with creatives, designers and artists, but it can be used for anything. What I’ll be attempting in this series is to build a t-shirt business from scratch within the limitations of 30 minutes a day. Expect a lot of hacks, automation, and stealing to get this done. Look for the other parts? Want to read the other parts? Week One & Week Three Day Six Design Currently I’m using Affinity Designer when designing, but Photoshop has a great tool toRead more