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7 Success Tips for Marketplace Designers

7 Success Tips for Marketplace Designers

Naturally, the question we receive most from Marketplace Designers is, ‘What can I do to improve my chances of selling on the Marketplace?’ With more than 2.4 million customers browsing Spreadshirt’s international marketplaces every month, the odds of your designs being seen pretty good. In addition to the existing traffic, you can apply to become our Spreadshirt Select Designer of the Month to gain even more exposure. Also, if you’re selling well, we’ll feed your designs to external marketplaces like Amazon and eBay, where you can benefit from their crazy amount of traffic. On top of all that exposure, there are certainly things you can be doing to further increase your chances of selling on the Marketplace. Check out the list after the jump and put these tips to work for you.

1. Get your concept right

Creating appeal for a certain type of target group means offering designs that cater specifically to their interests. Of course, it’s to your advantage if you’re part of that group yourself! Can’t find your niche? Some of our classic topics are always worth some consideration. Try out a few different styles and ideas to see what works well for you, and then elaborate on what makes your ideas and style unique.

2. Choose your tools

You’re spoiled for choice when it comes to design-creating software. Here’s a quick overview of the most popular graphics tools. And don’t get put off by the high prices– older versions may be available for free, and some you can download for free outright.

Complex image processing software to e.g. knock out the background of a photo is easily done with Adobe Photoshop, Affinity Photo or Gimp.

Create vector graphic files like illustrations, logos or symbols with Adobe Illustrator, Affinity Designer or Inkscape. All vector-based programs support scalable vector graphics (SVG).

Expensive Cheap Free
Adobe Photoshop Affinity Photo Gimp
Adobe Illustrator Affinity Designer Inkscape

Once you get used to one of these programs, you can vectorize your designs in no time. What’s more, you can use effect filters to refine your designs and create stand-out pixel graphics.

Need help with creating or editing your designs? Our Graphics Service will be glad to assist.

3. Naming, describing, and tagging

As soon as your design is created and uploaded to the Partner Area, make sure you carefully consider its name, description and tags. These three elements are how customers find your designs through Marketplace and Google searches. Make sure you name, describe and tag your designs appropriately to make them easy to find.

A word about tags:

If your design tags match the search terms a customer enters, your design will pop up on the search result page. Simple as that. It’s important to choose appropriate tags that do a good job describing or categorizing your design. Using keyword tools like Google AdWords, Keyword Planner, kwfinder or Hypersuggest can help you out if you’re scrambling for good tags.

A word about products:

Publish your designs on as many products as possible. The more products you offer, the more choice you offer customers, the more likely you are to make a sale.

4. Use the Designer Showroom to your advantage

As soon as you publish a series of designs to the Marketplace, using the features of the new Designer Showroom can give you a big leg up on the competition. You can add a header image and a profile picture, a short intro about yourself and your work, and you can link up to your social media channels.  Read this article for everything you need to know about using the Showroom to its fullest potential.

5. Build your community

Make it a point to always be sharing your Showroom and designs across your social media channels. Build your community, and keep your followers posted about your new designs and products. Facebook and Instagram are easily fed with your new designs to help you push your traffic and sales. Use your social media channels to announce and remind customers of Marketplace promotions. The schedule can always be found in the promotion calendar in the Partner Area.

6. Create your own marketing material

With Canva and Placeit, you can easily create professional ads to help push your designs, products, and promos. Placeit  makes it easy to integrate your designs, images and logos with professional model images. It’s a fast and easy way to create perfect marketing material in a matter of clicks.

Also, our collaboration with Moo.com offers you a chance to create top-notch promo material at very reasonable rates.

7. Stay up to speed and be proactive

  • Keep checking the blog for tips, trick, tutorials, and insight.
  • Take part in design contests.
  • Invest some time in reading our weekly Partner newsletters, and read the advice inside.
  • To increase your reach, publish your designs to our European platforms, as well.
  • Download our Partner App, and keep an eye on your sales at all times! You’ll get valuable statistics that will help you understand how, when and why customers are reacting to your stuff.

We hope these Marketplace Designer tips will help give your sales a boost! Please get back to us with your questions. We’re happy to help!

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  19. If someone buys from my store, will it appear in my store that I have made a sale and will get my money at the same time, or do I have to wait until the end of the month to know how many products sold and how much money I got..please answer my question..this my store: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/halimfox

  22. I am a designer for arvind international shop id 100876617 my query is to know that how to start earning after submitting and publishing many more designs.

    • Hello Ralf,

      since your inquiry is about the Spreadshop, I ask you to share it in the Spreadshop Forum.
      There my colleagues and other designers can help you with your questions.

      Best regards,
      Sandra

  26. Hello,
    I’m little overwhelmed with new “Many in One (MIO) website. I’m not sure that I am processing in right way. I’m hesitant about filling a tax form for United States if it requires to fill it out. I have my GST ID number. Please help me to smooth things. Can you email me at charmal37@gmail.com soon as tomorrow? Thank you.

    • Hello Charlene,

      if the country in which you are resident/based isn’t Germany, then in addition to your name and address we also need your Tax Identification Number. If you are a US citizen, it is up to you whether you provide your Social Security Number (SSN), your Employer Identification Number (EIN) or your Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN). If you don’t provide a correct tax ID, we will generally be required to retain withholding tax of 15% of your remuneration from the Design Price plus an additional 5.5% solidarity surcharge (German Solidaritätszuschlag). Depending on the country in which you are resident/based, a withholding tax may also be payable on your remuneration from the Design Price. For more information on the deduction of tax, please refer to the following articles:
      https://help.spreadshirt.com/hc/en-us/articles/207194399-Marketplace-Designer-Earnings-Taxation
      https://help.spreadshirt.com/hc/en-gb/articles/212640345-Withholding-Tax-on-Design-Price-Earnings

      You can also use our Forum for additional information or discuss topics with other designers.

      Best regards,
      Sandra

    • Dear friend
      I am a poor family father I try to start on this site and make designs to be able to earn a little money and support my family I ask for help.
      thank you
      cher ami
      je suis un pere de famille pauvre j’essay de commancer sur ce site et faire des desgins pour pouvoire gagner un peut d’argent et faire vivre ma famille je demande de l’aide .
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  37. Designs are only visible in my spread shops.Why it is not showing in marketplace showroom.

    Please tell me way, how my designs will visible in marketplace showroom.

  43. I am a designer for partner.spreadshirt.com my query is to know that how to start earning after submitting and publishing many more designs.

  47. hello my name is Dominique Thomas and im all new to this website can you email me at dthomas4405@gmail.com on steps how to sell save and sell the t shirts, Ive been try calling and no one is answering the phone. I really prefer to be \called by phone I can be reached @ 2602341029. I need to understand step by step

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