Learn about the various print on demand vendors available to sell your art on merchandise online. This is a great additional revenue stream for any artist. Focus on your art, not the back-end ordering and processing. This is a low risk endeavour as there is no cost to start an online storefront and you don't carry inventory! I will share my experience with the top vendors available so you can pick the best one(s) for you. By the end of this course you will be open for business; online!

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Class Title: Sell Your Art Online with Print On Demand Vendors

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Learn about the various print on demand vendors available to sell your art on merchandise online. This is a great additional revenue stream for any artist. Focus on your art, not the back-end ordering and processing. This is a low risk endeavor as there is no cost to start an online storefront and you don't carry inventory! I will share my experience with the top vendors available so you can pick the best one(s) for you. By the end of this course you will be open for business!

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Intro

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Hi. My name is Michelle Cooke, welcome to my Skillshare class on how to sell your art on line with print on demand vendors. I’m a creative person who has always had a side hustle going whether it was crocheting Yoga Bags (hold up Yoga bag), or making jewelry (show example), or doing custom drawing for friends. The main issue with all of these ventures was my ability to scale and I soon became a one woman sweat shop. I knew there had to be a better way to continue to be creative but also generate some income. That is when I started exploring Online Print on Demand Vendors. I learned a lot in my journey to sell art online and I want to share my learnings with you in one concise class that will compare the various options. By the end of the class you should be able to select the right vendor, or vendors for you and open your first shop online.

Top 5 Reasons why to use a Print on Demand Vendor

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Before we get started I want to talk about why you would want to engage with a Print on Demand Vendor.

1. Scalability. You can sell around the world with a few minutes of time uploading your art to the site.

2. Focus on what you love to do, your art, and let someone else take care of the manufacturing, payment collection and shipping.

3. No Inventory, that’s right, no inventory. Print on Demand vendors stock the blanks of all the items offered on their site, or outsource to vendors with blank stock. When your customer places their order the item is printed with your design at that time and shipped.

4. No cost to set up an account with a print on demand vendor (or several!). 1 caveat, some may ask to bill you $1 as a set up fee for your paypal account to verify your account. This is a legitimate practice.

5. Ability to jump on trends fast without long lead times for production. You can have it uploaded to your site in minutes and ready to purchase. The only delay is how fast you can design it!

Other reasons to love Print on Demand:

Print on Demand Vendors

Screen Demo of each site.

For length will likely break this into several small videos, one on each vendor.

There are many different vendors available. I cannot even pretend to know all of them but I will highlight some of the most popular ones and share my experience with each and why I like or dislike them.

· Society6: https://society6.com/register?tab=artist

· Redbubble: https://www.redbubble.com/about

· Threadless: https://www.threadless.com/artist-shops/signup

· Drawdeck https://www.drawdeck.com/ (artists must provide portfolio and be accepted)

· Design By Humans: https://www.designbyhumans.com/store-signup/artist/ (sign up and provide link to portfolio to be accepted)

· Fine Art America: https://fineartamerica.com/openanaccount.html

· Printify: https://printify.com/ (tie to your own e-commerce engine)

· Zazzle: https://www.zazzle.com/sell/designers (allows customers to customize)

Uploading your Art to the vendor of your choice

Show Screen and demo how to load your art. Mixed with talking head and some powerpoint slides

A bit of a “how to” plus introduction of the class project.

More learning resources

While I hope you have learned all you need to know about Print on Demand vendors from this course, there are a lot of other great resources available to help you learn more.

There are several courses on Skillshare where you can learn more and take a deeper dive into specific vendors.

You should also check out these classes

If you want to load your files for Wallpaper, curtains, wrapping paper you will need to know how to create a continuous and seamless pattern.

Use the Help and FAQ sites from the vendors themselves. That is where you can find promotion templates, files

Class Project

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Project Description

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By the end of the class you should be able to select the Print on Demand vendor that best suits your needs and open your own online store. Post the link to your new online marketplace to share with me and others taking the class. This is a great opportunity to show off your work and begin your online promotion! For example, here are a few of my shops on various platforms: Society6, Redbubble, Casetify, Zazzle

Step 1: Pick your online vendor. If you know of one not covered in this class, please comment and include a URL to let us all know about it and any relevant information to help us decide if it is right for us. There are new print on demand vendors cropping up all the time and when you first start out it is best to try as many as possible to see where your style of design finds its audience.

· Casetify: https://www.casetify.com/en_CA/sell

· Society6: https://society6.com/register?tab=artist

· Redbubble: https://www.redbubble.com/about

· Threadless: https://www.threadless.com/artist-shops/signup

· Drawdeck https://www.drawdeck.com/ (artists must provide portfolio and be accepted)

· Design By Humans: https://www.designbyhumans.com/store-signup/artist/ (sign up and provide link to portfolio to be accepted)

· Fine Art America: https://fineartamerica.com/openanaccount.html

· Printify: https://printify.com/ (tie to your own e-commerce engine)

· Zazzle: https://www.zazzle.com/sell/designers (allows customers to customize)

Step 2: Sign up and set up your online shop. Make sure you personalize with a profile photo and a banner, use some of your own art to design so people see your work right away. Fill out the bio to generate some interest in who you are and what you are creating.

Step 3: Start uploading your art. I recommend 6500x6500 file size if designing digitally as it will fit most everything. Casetify will have smaller file sizes and even accept your Instagram images.

Step 4: Come back to my Skillshare class and post your Shop URL to show us all your success!

Examples of Classes We Love:

Jenn Coyle’s Paper to Digital: Watercolor Brush Lettering.

Christine Flemming’s Art School Boot Camp: Harnessing Color

Allison Esposito’s Writing Better Copy for Your Startup

Michelle Cooke

Owner Quick Brown Fox, Lifelong Learner

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