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Merch and marketing.

Posted by Indigenous Bert on October 21, 2019 at 7:35am in BUSINESS & LOGISTICS

Wot ho my international brothers & sisters. I'm fairly new to this & I'm currently trying to set up some shops using print on demand websites so that I can sell some of my work. nowadays they call it 'merch' I believe. Does anyone here have any experience &/or advice in this regard? Thanks.

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  • Indigenous Bert March 2, 2020 at 8:51am
    Just to re-post something I said earlier. I had a piece of art stolen from my Redbubble site. Long story short, I gave them a 'take-down' email & they did so quickly. Anyway, in the course of all this I came across a site called Pixsy.com The way it works is that you upload the images you want to check and they search online for you. They then give you a list of possible matches which you can either ignore or take action. If you decide to take action Pixsy will help you. If you think it might be of use to you check it out. GOD bless
  • marcus hayden February 21, 2020 at 5:14pm
    Hi Bert. Great topic. Id love to learn more about this too. Recently cahtting to a comic creator on facebook who uses a site called drivethruRPG.com looks like a good site for selling comica online. Not sure if its POD
    • Indigenous Bert > marcus hayden February 22, 2020 at 6:18am
      Thanks for the response Marcus. I'll check that site out. My experience so far is that Redbubble works better for me than Teespring. However, even on Redbubble the ammount you make is very small. I know there are other sites out there but I've no idea where to go next. If you hear of any others please let us know. GOD bless
  • Indigenous Bert November 21, 2019 at 2:05am

    Hi Matt. I've only been on Redbubble since October. So far I've just sold a few Christmas cards to family members. What's your strategy, if you have one? I'm also on Teespring, but there's not much traffic on that for me at least. There's also Merch by Amazon, but I'm still trying to figure out how to format valid PNG files as some I create seem to work ok while others that I create in the same way don't. My Redbubble site is https://www.redbubble.com/people/indigenous-bert?ref=account-nav-dr...

    the Teespring one is https://teespring.com/en-GB/stores/indigenous-bert

    If you've already got some sort of following, you could try Teespring and send your folk there. If you hear any helpful tips or advice please let me know. GOD bless

    • Matt Baker > Indigenous Bert November 21, 2019 at 7:07pm

      I have no strategy at all, I really need one! At the moment my strategy is 'don't quit my day job'.

      I'll let you know if I hear of any other good sites or advice.

      • Indigenous Bert > Matt Baker November 22, 2019 at 4:52am

        Hi Matt. Good strategy, unfortunately my 'day job' quit me just about 8 months ago! As for other sites, I've heard of a few but haven't tried them yet. Printful, Printify, TeeFury, TeeRepublic & Qwertee are the sites that I've heard of. I think most of them just do T-Shirts but I know for sure that Printify does other stuff and is, I think, linked with Shopify. Might be worth a go eh. GOD bless

  • Matt Baker November 20, 2019 at 2:03pm

    I'm currently using RedBubble for merching my artwork:
    https://www.redbubble.com/people/artthatmatters/portfolio?asc=u

    It operates as a POD site, so my profits from each sale are small but the advantage is that I have to do nothing (apart from, you know, create the art and upload it and stuff). I've made enough sales through RedBubble for it to be worthwhile.

    I'd be interested to know of other sites/methods that people use!

    Matt Baker: Newest Art, Design & Photography | Redbubble
    Art, Design & Photography by Matt Baker
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