Richie Rich's Diary

[rich110991]

New printer is working thankfully!

 

[robchoc]

Got my first sale.

 

[rich110991]

Got my first sale.
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That’s amazing!! What are you selling??

 

[rich110991]

Thought the orders would slow down and I’ve still had 18 today so far. I’ve just put the prices up.

 

[robchoc]

That’s amazing!! What are you selling??

The family welly prints.

 

[fajita]

Got my first sale.
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Woohoo well done! First of many hopefully What do you use to do your mock up/preview photos? I found a few sites but they either want me to pay or it takes me off to another completely different site to do the mock up which is confusing. I had a feeling I read earlier on that there were free resources...

 

[fajita]

I was using GIMP, until I updated my MacBook and it absolutely ruined GIMP. It’s basically broken. This was during this stressful period. I went on Twitter and saw that GIMP had said they wouldn’t be able to fix it at the moment. So then I had to pay for Photoshop, £20 per month. But to be fair, it’s awesome and I’m able to do the pictures a little bit quicker! If you have a Windows Pc/laptop I’d say just use GIMP though.

Yeah I must try GIMP, I did go onto the website but thought it looked a bit confusing initially haha!

 

[robchoc]

Woohoo well done! First of many hopefully What do you use to do your mock up/preview photos? I found a few sites but they either want me to pay or it takes me off to another completely different site to do the mock up which is confusing. I had a feeling I read earlier on that there were free resources...

Thanks, I use Affinity Designer and it has pictures that you can use for free, so that is what I have done and then just put my design on top.

 

[rich110991]

The family welly prints.

You will do well!

 

[stevehayuk]

My shop is up and running just waiting for first order. Custom pet prints, canvasses and mugs and more to come

 

[rich110991]

My shop is up and running just waiting for first order. Custom pet prints, canvasses and mugs and more to come

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Awesome!

 

[robchoc]

Another sale but what a nightmare.
I had to cycle in the rain all the way to my local post office as they wanted it next day.
I hope I get a good review lol

 

[rich110991]

If anyone finds a good cheap drop-shipping company that you can still make a profit with, please let me know aha. It would be so much easier to not have to deal with the printing and posting.

 

[robchoc]

If anyone finds a good cheap drop-shipping company that you can still make a profit with, please let me know aha. It would be so much easier to not have to deal with the printing and posting.

For £18 a week Royal Mail will collect them from your home, have to have over 20 postage items a week and register for a business account. That solves the posting part.

"Royal Mail Weekday Collection – The cost of a weekday collection Monday to Friday is £787 + VAT per annum. Alternatively you can opt to take your items to your local Post Office along with your end of day manifest."

 

[Tsonga87]

For £18 a week Royal Mail will collect them from your home, have to have over 20 postage items a week and register for a business account. That solves the posting part.

"Royal Mail Weekday Collection – The cost of a weekday collection Monday to Friday is £787 + VAT per annum. Alternatively you can opt to take your items to your local Post Office along with your end of day manifest."

Hi Robchoc - do you have a link to your store at all?

 

[robchoc]

Hi Robchoc - do you have a link to your store at all?

Here it is.

[Edit] I had to remove my link because people are visiting but not purchasing and that goes against you on Etsy as the algorithm thinks that people don't want to buy your products when they visit.

 

[Annie Beau]

Inkthreadable do prints as a POD item

 

[rich110991]

Inkthreadable do prints as a POD item

I think I looked at this and the shipping is too much.

 

[robchoc]

I have created some other designs with long tail keywords (less than 30'000 in competition) so will see how they get on with no advertising. So far I have sold 3 designs but I'm advertising at $1 a day for those.

 

[rich110991]

I have created some other designs with long tail keywords (less than 30'000 in competition) so will see how they get on with no advertising. So far I have sold 3 designs but I'm advertising at $1 a day for those.

At the start I got my mum and my sister to buy one each It might help you get higher in the search results.