Give Customers Holiday-Ready Designs

Help your customers get in the holiday spirit with designs perfectly paired for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or any other yuletide occasion. It’s as true for the winter holidays as any other major holiday (St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, Valentine’s Day, the list goes on), people want to celebrate wearing holiday-themed apparel. Make brand-new designs this season, perfectly crafted for cozy apparel, that embrace your favorite (or least favorite) parts of the holidays. Create ugly sweater designs, cross-stitch or knitting inspired art,Read more

Is Your Product Lineup Complete for the Holiday Season?

The holidays are underway! With Thanksgiving almost over, consumers turn their attention to their holiday shopping lists. That means it’s time for you to turn your attention to your online store. Now’s the time to think through everything your customers need and are looking for during the holidays (so when they land on your homepage, they’ll start shopping).     One key component of your holiday prep is your product lineup. Making sure you’ve got everything shoppers have on their list (andRead more

Don’t Make These 6 Mistakes with Your Email Marketing this Holiday Season

Holiday email marketing sounds easy enough, right? You send frequent—but not too frequent—emails and write inclusive holiday campaigns. You offer some can’t-miss-them deals.  If only it were that easy! Your customers’ inboxes are filling up this time of year, so to keep your email list merry, bright, and subscribed, here are six top holiday email marketing mistakes. Going Off-Brand for the Sake of Holiday Banter We love a holiday pun and can’t get enough of well-crafted yuletide banter (just wait,Read more

Make Your Lifestyle Photography Festive for the Holidays

With the holidays right around the corner, it’s time to spruce up your lifestyle photography for the biggest shopping season. Making your product images seasonally relevant is a great way to give your sales a boost heading into the new year.  How do Seasonally Relevant Photos Boost Sales? Dressing up your online shop for the holidays is a proven strategy to boost sales. Seasonal sales and promotions influence 65% of shoppers’ holiday purchases, according to a recent survey by theRead more

How to Curate Your Instagram Profile for the Holidays

Time to carve the turkey, deck the halls, and make your Instagram grid look merry and bright. The holidays are an advantageous time to connect with your audience on Instagram with almost a quarter of holiday shoppers using social media to knock out their gift list. We’ve gotten in the holiday spirit and gathered a helpful guide for you to prepare your Instagram profile for Q4. Know Your Audience Instagram magic doesn’t happen in a silo—it pulls inspiration from platform-specificRead more

Update Your Product Pages for Holiday Shoppers

You’re getting your shop ready for increased holiday traffic and joyful holiday shoppers. But there’s one (very important!) element you’re likely overlooking: product pages. The individual pages for each product play a role in how easily your customers are able to find your products via search. You’re already aware of how you can drive more traffic to your shop with different search engine optimization tactics. But holiday shopping takes looking for the right online apparel to the next level. CustomersRead more

10 Ways to Prepare Your Online Store For the Holiday Shopping Season

It seems like the holiday season starts earlier and earlier each year (and if we’re judging by how early department stores swap the pumpkins for the string lights and ornaments, it does!) But when it comes to starting to prepare your online store for the holiday shopping season, the earlier the better. This is a HUGE season for the retail world, and it pays (literally) for you to be ready to make the most of it and make some sales!Read more

Going on a Holiday Road Trip? Listen to Our Podcast!

Going on a road trip for the holidays this year? We’ve got just the thing for you to get through those hours on the road: The Threadless Podcast! If you haven’t checked out our podcast yet, 1: we forgive you and 2: here’s the gist: we talk to creatives from all different corners of the creative world about art, creativity, and everything in between. From comic writer and illustrator Sina Grace to Bojack Horseman production designer Lisa Hanawalt to guitarist and founder of Bad Religion,Read more

Holiday Countdown: Your Artist Shops Holiday Checklist!

Getting ready for the holiday shopping season can be stressful enough for shoppers. But for online shop owners, between running promos, getting your shop ready, setting up ads, and getting your social media posts planned, it can feel downright overwhelming. So we’ve made it a little easier! Instead of having a big glob of “to-dos” piling up so high that you don’t know where to start, we’ve broken it down for you into five things you have to do for a successfulRead more

Holiday Countdown: Important Holiday Dates to Know

Ever noticed how department stores put out their holiday items earlier every year? Besides giving a new meaning to the term “Christmas in July”, from a sales standpoint they’ve got the right idea. Last year, eMarketer reported that by the end of October, “more than half of holiday shoppers have already begun buying gifts.” And according to the National Retail Federation, last year the holiday sale season represented almost 20% of total retail industry sales (!!). This is the time of year that people haveRead more

Holiday Countdown: How to Get Featured in a Gift Guide

Welcome to our Holiday Countdown series! While the vast majority of us don’t even want to start thinking about Christmas lights until the first snowfall, for those of us in the online store world ‘tis the season to start planning. Like, yesterday. The National Retail Federation reported that for some retailers, the holiday season can account for as much of 30% of the stores’ annual sales.We want your shop to be all prepped for the upcoming holiday shopping season by helping you plan ahead!  It’sRead more

Holiday Countdown: What Are the Top Selling Products in Artist Shops?

Welcome to our Holiday Countdown series! We want your shop to be all prepped for the upcoming holiday shopping season by helping you plan ahead. While the vast majority of us don’t even want to start thinking about Christmas lights until the first snowfall, for those of us in the online store world? ‘Tis the season to start planning. Like, yesterday. The National Retail Federation reported that for some retailers, the holiday season can account for as much of 30% of the stores’Read more