All posts tagged: print on demand

Holiday season countdown part one: planning

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This post starts a series of post about getting our business 200% ready for holiday season (I’ll call it HS). This gonna be a big challenge for both of us, but I have a really strong feeling that all hard work will pay off . If your business is somewhat similar, maybe you can hop on and give yourself a little kick to get out as much as you can from HS. What kind of business I’m talking about? My hubby Tytus (<3) and I are running few stores on print on demand platforms – here I wrote about this topic. It’s going ok but not awesome and we’re about to change this this year. This series will be mostly about Zazzle, partly about Redbubble, Spreadshirt and Cafepress and while some of our moves will apply only to POD stores there will be some marketing-y stuff, which you can use if you selling your art in any form, directly to the customers (in opposite to selling to companies or taking commissions) As most of retail …

Print on demand (POD) aka passive income (PI) for artists

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O,h passive income – one of the most misleading terms I can think of. Passive might suggest that money come to you without any your action from your side and tell you what, this is quite opposite. I’d say that’s just a name to call some model of making money. Basically it involves working your ass of for X amount of time, very likely without any instant profit. So you can say: like opening most of businesses. Weeeell kind of, key however (this word and other similar like: although, but etc. will be overused in this note, so brace yourself – I’ll really need it to make a point) is to set your business in this way to automate most of processes and in a long run being able to earn money continuously while doing something completely different. There are many, many types of PI and all this is fascinating (zero sarcasm – it really is) – if you’re intrigued I strongly recommend you to listen to one of PI guru Pat Flynn on  http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/. …