ididitdesigns

New Designs Coming Soon

2009-04-16T00:37:00.001-05:00

Watch for new designs in the Political Store. I attended the Kansas City Tea Party this evening and I am excited and ready to do what I can to help this grassroots organization.

julie

CafePress Announces Organic Apparel

2009-03-28T22:29:00.003-05:00

Cafepress announces the addition of new organic cotton t-shirts, toddler and infant wear just in time for green day sales.

Zazzle Store Up and Going

2009-03-25T18:46:00.001-05:00

My zazzle store is finally organized, product listed and sells coming in. It still needs lots of fine tuning, but at least it makes sense now.

So Many Changes in Online Selling

2008-12-04T14:44:00.005-06:00

There are so many changes being made to online selling. The days of your POD doing your merchanding, networking and selling for you are over. I am now spending as much time on networking as I am on designs. Stay tuned for more stuff showing up on this blog soon.

Let's Talk Design for Sale Online

2008-03-10T23:16:00.003-05:00

About two years ago I ran across Cafepress and they offered what I thought was the perfect idea! I could create designs, upload them to Cafepress, go about my business and watch the sales come in. Isn't that what they tell you? Well as with everything, it is not that easy! Unless of course you are happy with making 10 - 20.00 a month :)

Like my Dad always told me ... "anything worth doing is worth doing right." And the first rule of retail (and cafepress is a form of retail sales) you must merchandise and promote your products!

While the internet has opened the opportunity to have a more customers than one could have ever imagined...how do you reach those customers? How do you get google to pick up your website?

That was the hard part for me to learn! I didn't really understand how the internet worked, so I had to change my brain waves to get it! Especially as a designer that thinks of everything as an image.

Because you see ... Google or any of the search engines, does not see images! Search engines only see digits and symbols, ie.; TEXT! Very weird for a designer to understand :(

So now I figured out (with the help of many books, the great people on the GREAT GEAR message board, and lots of internet searching) that not only did I have to create nice graphics, I needed to learn how to describe these graphics, come up with keywords, and use TEXT to sell my pretty graphics!

In writing descriptions you have to be very good at using keywords that are directly related to your products, and use as many variations of those keywords as you can in a short description. Example: I specialize in Cheerleading Products at this time, so lets say I have a cheerleading t-shirt I am posting for sale ... the text should read something like this: These unique Cheerleading T-shirts & Cheer gifts will be the perfect gift for the cheerleader in your life. (Notice the keywords in bold)

You will find links on this blog to many of the resources that helped me!!

Tonight I will leave you thinking about TEXT and how you are going to sell your products using words.

As many have helped me over the last 2 years, I would love to pass it forward and help anyone reading this that has questions on opening a Cafepress or Zazzle store. I am still learning, but I am far beyond where I was 2 years ago! Post comments or email me, and we can talk :)

Julie
www.ididitdesigns.net

New Zazzle Store

2008-03-09T23:21:00.003-05:00

If you have been to the website lately you heard that I am opening a new store at Zazzle! You will see alot of the same designs, BUT ... Zazzle offers different products and allows you choose what product you want the designs on, and gives you an opportunity to personalize designs without having to contact me to get it done!

I am excited about this store, hope you like it :)

Julie
http://www.ididitdesigns.net/
www.cafepress.com/ididitdesigns
www.zazzle.com/ididitdesigns

create & buy custom products at Zazzle

A New Look a New Site

2008-02-29T17:21:00.002-06:00

OK ... it has been forever since I posted. I started this blog but really didn't know what to do with it. I have been busy learning how to be a success at an online business. I am happy to say I have been learning more than I can imagine and my sales have tripled this year.

Now that I have my websites set up I am going to share what I learned here just in case there are others that are going through the same struggle to find information.

Look for lots of information to come!

I've Been Busy!

2007-07-30T20:38:00.000-05:00

For those of you that are following my blog, I have been very busy!! There are 50 new tshirt designs and a new poster/print store at www.cafepress.com/ididitdesigns.

I also have had several special order requests and those designs can be seen in the special order store on my website.

Would love to discuss all the marketing I have been doing but with back to school in my lurches I have to keep designing and marketing so I will be ready!

Sheesh....Christmas designs need to be up soon!

Have a great week!
Julie
www.ididitdesigns.net

Sample Cheerleading Designs

2007-07-24T18:44:00.000-05:00

Staying ahead of the game

2007-07-15T21:53:00.000-05:00

The hardest part of being in the t-shirt design business is staying ahead of the game. That is thinking about what is coming up in people's lives that would make them think of buying. I have been working diligently over the past couple of weeks on Back to School designs. I am still learning who buys tshirts online, so I am gearing my designs towards the preschool/kindergarden kids, thinking their Mom's will be excited about their kids going back to school. I also have a line geared towards the Teens, they have access to computer and love to shop all day long every day.

I will continue this line with more designs geared to the freshman college student going to college for the first time this year.

Gotta Love T-shirt design!

2007-07-15T00:06:00.000-05:00

This is my first blog and it will celebrate my love for what I do .... graphic design for apparel, including t-shirts, sweatshirts, tote bags, children's apparel, teen apparel and more!
Julie - Designer

http://www.ididitdesigns.net/