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…
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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…
[Continue Reading]Threadless explains
Just yesterday I wrote about why you might not see your designs on Threadless. And now I see that Jake Nickell, who is the founder of Threadless, made two videos that explain it better: They plan to post more useful videos, subscribe here.
[Continue Reading]Why you don’t see your designs on Threadless
You followed all the steps: Step 1. You opened your own shop on Threadless. Step 2. You made sure to set your store to Published. Step 3. You added your designs. Step 4. You made sure to publish your designs. And yet, when you go to Threadless main page and search for your designs you…
[Continue Reading]How to get a $250 gift code from Threadless
I have a lot of designs and all of them are uploaded to my Artist Shop on Threadless, and sometimes I submit them to Threadless competitions. Every once in a while Threadless selects one of the designs to add to their main store and then they send me a $250 gift code. What do you…
[Continue Reading]Don’t Panic
I see a lot of artists worried about low sales these past few weeks. Don’t panic! That’s completely normal this time of year. I’ve been a designer since 2012, and it has always been like that. February and March are just very, very slow months. Maybe this year is a bit slower than the previous…
[Continue Reading]Featured Tee of the Day
Threadless featured my design “This is a disaster” 🙂 Here is the design.
[Continue Reading]What do people buy?
I’ve written a lot about why you should open your own apparel store and sell your designs. But opening a store and uploading your art is just the first step. When I started, I rarely got any sales. Once or twice a month someone bought a t-shirt with my design. The more designs I uploaded,…
[Continue Reading]One more reason to sell your art on Threadless
It’s not a secret that I like Threadless. They are my favorite company, you can earn a lot of money, and there are even more perks. I’ve just noticed that for the entire month of March Threadless runs an additional promotion for artists. For every regular t-shirt sold in your Artist Shop, you get double…
[Continue Reading]Existing
Recently Threadless added one of my designs to their store. I wrote about that here. Now, Threadless selected another one of my designs: It’s a cat that has no motivation to get up. So, it’s relatable. It has already been for sale in my Artist Shop. Threadless adding it to their own store means that…
[Continue Reading]What is this madness?
One of my designs has been added to the Threadless store. Yay! I received an email a few hours ago. Now, what exactly does it mean that a design is added to the Threadless store? First, what you need to know is that there are two ways to sell designs on Threadless: One way is…
[Continue Reading]Learn from the best
I just stumbled on a 6 years old thread on the Threadless forum: Top 20 best selling designs. And if you scroll down the thread, you will see another slightly newer list of designs. This one caught my eye: It makes me want to paint something colorful too. But what surprised me most is that…
[Continue Reading]Make your first sale in the next 3 weeks
Tomorrow is Black Friday and after that the best 3 weeks for all the artists who sell their art online. Everyone shops for gifts and so artists make the majority of their income in November and December. Conversely, January and February are very slow months and I earn very little in those months. Good thing…
[Continue Reading]Can you make money on Threadless?
Artists often ask me: can you make money on Threadless? I’ve been selling my art on Threadless for 5 years. So I can answer that.
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