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Here are a few of Spreadshirt's features:. Best to save as a. PNG transparent file. Vector graphics are something that still playing around with. Tough guidelines. Anyway, thanks for your Hub many great points. You have a great fb page and I love your models! That's an interesting path that you went all digital. When I was doing this years ago, spreadshirt, in their wisdom, recommended vectors.
I'm glad you proved them wrong. Thanks for the words. I've abandoned spreadshirt years ago. To your credit, it is your hard work, not them, that you are successful. With your drive, business plan, and skills, you have carved a nice niche. I'm sure you would be just as successful with zazzle, cafepress, or any other vendor. Good luck! We've been up for 3 months, have over products and just via Facebook and Twitter and my Tumblr, we generate sales. Also I have forbidden spreadshirt to use my designs in the marketplace I love that option personally and am glad they offered it because if it's not being bought at my shop and being associated with my brand, then I don't want the sale.
My partner and I he studied business and I'm a design student thought long and hard about every available option. Spreadshirt is not just "a way to make a quick buck" for us, but we intend for it to eventually fund something larger and run our shirts from the ground up. Also the bulk of our designs are Digital Direct prints and all of the designs are made in the max size spreadshirt will accept of x pixels at a high resolution and we have zero issues with the shirts being printed blurry.
We just did a photo-shoot for our main website to showcase some of the products for our local promotional materials and only 1 shirt didn't look write and it's more because of a printing error with spreadshirt than us, so we sent it back. They all look great and I don't do a damn thing in Vectors. I feel Spreadshirts vector stuff is very limited and the people who are buying from us like images with LOADS of colors and brightness. I see the things you're annoyed with, but if you had the time and the energy, you can work around them.
I have not signed up with the site, so I wonder about a few things I've not seen directly addressed and was hoping people who've used the site could give me some feedback. So, if you dump your designs straight to the marketplace, not having a shop, when you sign into the site, is there an interface to see all the designs you've uploaded, and links to the pages on which they are being sold?
Or, are you just throwing the designs down the well and waiting to get paid if someone actually buys something? If they give you links to the marketplace pages where they're being sold, I can easily make a shop page on my own site with links to those pages. Or, would I need to create one of these "shops" on their site to actually have reliable linking to my products?
Hey, I just want to say that to a large extent, I know what you mean with Spreadshirt, it is difficult trying to draw people to your shop, especially since you have to pay a fee to have the spreadshirt logo and links removed from your shop. I think that if ONE thing needs to be changed, it's that they need to junk the premium partner version, the links make the shop look amateurish, which won't help sales at all.
If shops are to have any hope in hell of making money, those things need to be removed, now, or at the barest minimum, moved to some tiny text at the bottom of the page. I did not find Spreadshirt through a link in another shop, I was googling for services where you could sell t-shirt designs.
There is now an automated bot which checks your designs for compatibility, and suggests adjustments, which you can just approve online, if your design is just out by a tiny bit. I uploaded a heart design and a flock of geese just a few minutes ago and in less than a quarter of an hours, I have them on shirts.
If you have a sec, can people check out my shop and suggest any improvements? Bear in mind I'm changing all my stuff up so there aren't as many products as there ought to be. Marketing is how u sell not just spreadshirt. Philip, I approved your comment just so I can rebuke you. As a note to others, please refrain from spamming your shop. Digital prints are undesirable because they fade or "peel" in the wash. Flock printing is very durable and lasts much longer.
Your "Gold Lion" prints have the dreaded "non-transparency" black background and you're saying I don't know how to work with graphics? I've purchase my own flocks and other designers' digital prints to test quality. There is no comparison. Digital prints are of lower quality and if I recall, even spreadshirt says this. You are right, designs don't have to be in vector EPS format. Just don't expect great quality. I have to agree with you. I don't use vector but I was very satisfied with digital printing.
The problems are:. That's not much for the time invested. After I questioned the reasons why some designs were refused First reason : copyright issue but when I proved that the picture used for my derivative work was CC and allowed this use, they changed the reason to "not original enough, we want original designers".
Thanks for the compliment and have a look at your marketplace. Thanks also for wasting my time , I got kicked out of the forum forever :D.
Spreadshirt should seriously improve its customer service! Right now, they think they can be successful without the little guy. Well, that's a mistake. Just look at how many "little men and women" gave up Spreadshirt. It adds up. The bad PR doesn't help either. They are losing customers, not only partners. I started out designing shirts at spreadshirt as a hobby and to make nice t-shirts for myself. After a while I started to get e-mails from SS that someone had bought one of my designs and I got some cash for it.
I thought I'd give a go for real and I spent a few nights creating scripts that basically automated the entire process. For me it has been totally worth the effort, but if I needed to do everything manually I probably would agree with you To get other shops to feature your design, they have to find it. If the marketplace was what I remembered, then this may be a problem. Say for example, I run a very successful shop that sells only "cat" shirts.
In order to find new shirts to list, I would probably search the shop every month or so with the keyword "cat. This can help you or hurt you. Say you do add tags. These tags have to be relevant to what the shop owner is searching for. So for me to find your design, I would have to search for the string, "push for verbal abuse" which is in the title. If you have added tags, say for example, "abuse" or "funny", you design may show up. I say "may" because, you are also competing with other designers for these search results.
When I was using Speadshirt, there was no other way to get shop owners to reach my designs or even see it without adding tags. Even if shops featured my designs, there was no way to contact them this might have changed. Sorry to tell you, you do have to market your designs.
This is the main problem I had with spreadshirt. Lets say you play the "tag game" and tag all your products. You will notice design spammers uploading the same exact designs 10 times for a keyword but change 1 color. Now you have to figure out a way to compete. If you do decide to build your own niche, an "I'm All That" theme or whatever, you will be on your own.
This is by far the most difficult thing to do. Do note that there is a limit on how many tags you can put on each design. I don't know the exact number. Thank you, your response has been very helpful indeed! Since I posted on here, I have only submitted one design whilst waiting for your reply : My first and so far only submission was accepted overnight, so no issues there, however I can quickly see it becoming a problem If I was to create an image any more complicated than a stick-man Now, talking about getting your designs featured in shops I understand, but how do you get your designs noticed in the first place?
Is it merely from the shop owners stumbling upon your designs in random searches, or are they directed on my number of sales? Or, as I fear, do I have to advertise my designs my self somehow?
Once I overcome this issue of getting my self noticed, given that I am not profit-driven to say the least I don't think I will have any issues with this site at all fingers crossed. So thank you again for your help, I do understand the process a little better now, and your advice from the main article will NOT be forgotten whilst I am using this site! I would be glad of any further help or recommendations, though don't feel under any pressure seen as you've already helped me once!
NewGuy, this was written in 09, which is ancient by internet standards. Luckily, comments like yours have kept this article fresh for would-be go-getters like yourself. I have not been on spreadshirt for a while so take my advice for what it is. Unless I hear otherwise, they still use the same method to approve designs.
Each design is manually approved by a person and each can be accepted or rejected for various reasons. If you go this route, prepare to get designs rejected for technical reasons. For example, the plotting machine they use to make the prints cannot handle sharp angles or small details.
This is a limitation of the cut and not the designer. If you are a patient person, go for it. It's hard to define "enough. I have gotten multiple payments from them but the work put in did not equal the rewards I got back time. Your last question is hard to answer. If you are going for the marketplace approach, then your goal would be to get your designs featured on as many shops as possible.
This is entirely up to chance but from my experience, "edgy" designs tends to attract more shop owners than generic ones. So, the more edgy or funny designs you submit, the better the chances they get featured on a shop.
Getting featured is the hard part as most successful shop owners only put the best. Since my venture was more random, my feature ratio was about 7 designs to 1 featured. Given this will vary depending on skill, design, and how well it is now.
Hope this helps. Hey, I'm not sure how old this article is, but a response would be appreciated. I'm not exactly looking to make money, more the novelty of creating vector designs and seeing them in the marketplace. I don't mind how much I make, I just want to see what this is like.
If I am just creating designs and submitting them to the marketplace, there's no way I can lose money, right? Would you still recommend I steer clear of the whole thing? And I can see why people would complain about not making 'enough' money - but how much is considered 'enough'? And what are the realistic figures for earning potential against a given number of submissions? Thanks, any help appreciated It's been a long time since I wrote this article and it's sad to hear you are experiencing some of the same things I did.
I've checked out your blog and congrats on the recent sale. I hold nothing against Spreadshirt but it is still a bit painful to see very little improving. Especially the design spammers. I wish you lots more sales. Be sure to stop by again and post updates. Thank you for this review it has been very useful. I've been blogging about my efforts with Spreadshirt and haven't found anything in this article that runs contrary to my experience.
I've only tried Spreadshirt and Printfection. I would never recommend anyone using them Spreadshirt. Printfection was great. Nicer than I expected. The prints from Spreadshirt was good in Flock but I noticed that some of the fit and finish was off. If you have fine details in your graphics, they will look good with spreadshirt but they won't come out perfect. For example, the holes might be a bit off centered where they make their cuts. I can't provide any feedback for cafepress, zazzle, or etsy.
It funny that you mentioned cut. When I was using spreadshirt, I too could not find their exact cut either. I mentioned above that sometimes shirts came out cheaper in some instances and spreadshirt responded that they didn't want to compete with their designers. When you sign up with them, you should see their base price.
That's the price where you don't make any money and it depends on which shirts you choose to put your designs on. For example, heavier cotton shirts will have a higher base price than a light cotton shirt. More colors affect sales too. They charge in a way that makes it hard to sell anything with more than 1 color. Even at that, you might make a few bucks. That's a great idea. If your target audience are loyal, that's a guaranteed sale.
Sorry I can't be much help. People that will buy or not would mostly come from my blogs. So, I don't want to spend any money either I'm not expecting to make a ton of money either but I simply want to set something up, create a shop that people can go to and buy the blog-centered merchandise if they want to, in a way that I don't have to deal with the whole payment end of it.
I liked cafe press alot but it seems like their bases prices are so high that if you wanted to make any money at all, you would have to price really high which means you probably won't get any sales. When I was looking up spreadshirts, I couldn't plainly find how much their cut is. Sorry for the late response guys. You comments was marked as spam for some odd reason.
Maybe Spreadshirt have been reporting them lol. Anyways, thanks for the support Anon. I can't tell you how much I appreciate it. Sometimes, I don't understand why people are so defensing. Their loyal defense can be compared to overzealous patriots. These spreadshirt defending losers don't even bother to read that I strictly use vectors yet they bring up DPI and the blurriness of raster designs as an argument!
Just who are they kidding? Ida, you don't have to spend money at all. If you do what you described, you can make money but you are only allowed 1 upload per day last time I checked. Also, you must work crazy hard to promote your shop but if you strictly want to focus on designing and not the web-seo-bullshit, then you have to pray that an established and successful shop will feature your design.
That or try to get ranked high on their marketplace. Good luck with that. There seem to be no rhyme, rhythm or reason on how that mess works. Frustrated, LOL. I know how you feel. The demand should've been dwindling and the marketplace should be over saturated by now.
I believe some of your designs need to be "approved" before you see them. The whole site is a mess for designers. The site is not user friendly. It has taken me hours to try to set up designs that I already have placed on Zazzle months ago. I loaded several designs on Spreadsheet. It kept asking me if I wanted to safe and add more designs and so I did.
Then I attempted to change some info and now I cant access my designs. What the hell Spreadsheet??? It should not be this hard. Or can you just make some designs, post them, and wait for the cash to roll in, without having to do anything.
Set's All Set has made many good observations. There seems to be a Love Fest of "shop" owners who need to defend their Spreadshirt territory even if they have to fight to the last shirt. There are a LOT of dead and dying links. Other than posting 'how-to's' Spreadshirt corporate seems to favor the producers as the dying links fade away.
There isn't a POD out there that thinks any other way. Also, dissing someone else's designs seems to be the bailiwick of either art school drop-outs or frustrated critics or Spreadshirt shills.
Let me get this straight What are you saying? A design you haven't even seen is by your blind critical eye, Wrong. How do you know? Your clairvoiant with mise-en-scene? The art degree by mail folks told you that? Don't bother with a retort here, it's for intellection.
Your chances of success with any POD are practically zero, unless you put in a LOT of time, a lot of time, a lot of time. If you read the above posts that should seem familiar. Until Spreadshirt corporate budgets for, some call it advertising, their own SEO and a little sizzle in their approach, you are on your own with only a url link.
Thanks for the great bandwidth though. In my opinion, and lastly, take some of that "a lot of time", and look at ALL the POD sites and possibilities before you ever think about designing a shop full of limited appeal trinkets and apparel. Most important: Keep your day job. I dislike having to explain my experience, so very briefly, CP since '05, Zaz and PF since about when they opened.
If people just want to design and submit stuff and think that success is going to be easy that's not how things work. I'm not saying that you dont understand that.. Its just way too many times people just becuase they can design well that they should profit.
If you want to be a successful designer you better learn to also be a great web marketer at the same time. More often than not its not the vehicle or knowledge its the flat out will to do it.
Hour by Hour, contact by contact, book by book, and so on Seek people that are making thousands of dollars a month get in their pocket as much as possible for the knowledge of how they did it.. Too many times people just think that their idea is having it all figured out. Either way that's my rant.. As far technically speaking I think Spreadshirt is the best platform for what "I need it for" i've ahd accounts at all the others also.
Than you need to host your entire own website pay for design or spend the time to create a fully functional website and pay for shopping cart software taking full control. POD companies do all the leg work you.
Just because someone is good with graphics guarantees nothing.. I know some amazing writers that will never be best sellers.. All the companies are only vehicles to make your life a little simplier in your own will to flat out succeed. I'll leave your backlink up just to rebuke you. Congrats that you're successful with Spreadshirt! I posted with the screenshots that I do have a "fundamental understanding".
While many people have gotten no where with Spreadshirt, I've managed to see both sides of the argument and have gotten a payout from them. I've linked the "shop graveyard" above. Dig for it. See all of the shops. Do the calculations and come back to me. What do you think is the success rate of Spreadshirt designers? I'm not going to bother sifting through the hundreds maybe thousands of shops to add to the failed list. I'm over them and by you keeping this discussion going, you're adding to their bad press.
I'm not bitter at all. I just want to help future designers that may make mistakes with Spreadshirt. Spreadshirt is not the gospel. There's Cafe Press, Zazzle, and other companies out there. I've made hundreds of dollars through Spreadshirt selling products that support my existing webcomic, allowing me to turn around and fund better hosting and contests.
Your bitterness and frustration seems to be a product of a lack of fundamental understanding of any real Spreadshirt capabilities. Setting a commission too high will destroy any desire for purchase. I don't think Spreadshirt is right for you.
You're not doing the right kind of time investment to make a profit off it.
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