When you open an Artist Shop on Threadless, you will receive a bunch of emails with tips on how to: promote your store, prepare design files, customize the shop, and so on. Since I’ve created my new store, I’ve been getting those helpful emails too. One of them was titled “And the Best Selling Products…
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TRUFFLEPIG
Today, I opened my new store on Threadless. It’s called TRUFFLEPIG because I like pigs and it’s a funny words. There will mostly be cute and humorous designs there. The main reason why I had decided to start a new store is that my main store, Fox Shiver, has gotten too big and is a…
[Continue Reading]Is Threadless worth it?
I know how it is. Every few weeks, you hear about yet another website where you should be selling your designs. And you wonder, Is it worth my time? If you have ever submitted your designs to any Print-On-Demand websites, you know that it takes a lot of time. And sometimes, after all that effort,…
[Continue Reading]Sleeping cats
Did you know that when your t-shirt is selected by Threadless to be added to their catalog, you usually get a $250 coupon code? I use my coupons to buy hoodies and t-shirts for my family and friends. If you want your design to be added to the catalog, you need to submit it to…
[Continue Reading]For new artists
I’ve notices that Threadless published a useful article in their Creative Resources section: Get Featured on Threadless. One of the questions that new Threadless artists often ask is whether they should opt into the Threadless Marketplace. I think it’s really worth it to opt in — most of my sales come from the marketplace. If…
[Continue Reading]Act now
My design “Act Now” has just been added to the Threadless catalog. There’s a story behind the design. I was in a grocery store and behind me there were two guys buying beer. Guy 1: So how’s that postwoman of yours? Guy 2: … Guy 1: Have you talked to her? Guy 2: I didn’t…
[Continue Reading]Design Challenges
I was looking for a topic to write about and noticed that Threadless published a new video in their “Your Art, Your Shop” series, this time about design challenges. I have participated in many challenges but have never won any. However, my “Not Today” design was one of a few designs selected for printing in…
[Continue Reading]Sangie
This is Sangie, and she’s wearing my “Overthinking and also hungry”. She posted another photo of this shirt on her Instagram and wrote about losing hair. It’s scary how many young people have cancer. This design is part of my philosophical cat collection. As a side note, I’ve never met a stranger wearing any of…
[Continue Reading]New products, new colors
When Threadless adds new products everyone who has an artist shop should go through their designs and enable them on new products and colors. It’s what I do regularly. Threadless recently added Women’s Scoop-Neck Regular t-shirts which they wrote about. It also looks like there’s a new kind of hoodie: Classic Fleece. I don’t see…
[Continue Reading]It’s nice when my design is featured
Even after all these years as a designer it still brightens my day when I see one of my designs featured on the Threadless home page: It’s my Black Sands design that I made recently: I also always check other artists in Discover More section to get inspired and see what others are working on.
[Continue Reading]My art in the wild!
Threadless sent me the following photo: It’s Daniel Nguyen, you can view his Instagram profile. He is wearing my Space Painted design, I think it suits him 🙂 This is one more reason why it’s great for designers like me to work with Threadless. Every now and then they run various campaigns to support artists….
[Continue Reading]Double earnings for masks in April
Last month Threadless doubled royalties for regular t-shirts sold in artist shops. This month they are doubling royalties for masks. If you haven’t enabled them in your store then you definitely should because they still sell very well. Read the whole post that Threadless wrote about it, including an explanation of how to let Threadless…
[Continue Reading]Update your collections
Updating collections in your Threadless Shop is one of the items on my Store Maintenance CHECKLIST. Create collections and keep them up to date so that customers can easily find relevant items. I have my Ridiculous Cat Collection, Dogs, Space, Best Face Masks, Forest, a collection with Best Gift Ideas, and also my collection with Black and White Cat Designs. Now, I’ve…
[Continue Reading]Double Your Earnings
This video is a reminder from Threadless that during March you earn double for every regular t-shirt sold: If you want me to earn a lot of money you can buy t-shirts in my store 🙂
[Continue Reading]Can you get organic sales on Threadless
If you sell your designs on Threadless you can get sales in one of two ways: Organic sales from Threadless, e.g. Threadless promotes your designs in their Marketplace. Sales in your own Artist Shop that you have to promote yourself. I wrote about it before and Threadless made videos about it too. But can you…
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