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7 contributions to Poster Print on Demand
Where do you guys find inspiration for your prints?
Excluding travel prints. When you guys are making different type of posters where do you get your inspiration from?
First etsy order
I've just received my first order 🎉🎉🍾 I have no idea how to fulfill it 😭 do I complete the order on etsy and it will then generate on printshrimp? Help ❤️
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Congrats! I think its preference on 2 different ways. You can send the order on print shrimp and complete the order straight away without initially adding the tracking number. Then a couple days later when you get the tracking number you add a package on the order where you can add the tracking number. Or you can send the order on print shrimp, and wait until you get the tracking number to then send the order complete with the tracking number all in one. I prefer this way as personally feel its probably less confusing for the customer to get less emails and just get one, all in one email. If you're doing this though just make sure you set your shop dispatch dates correctly so etsy doesn't put a mark against you for doing it late or whatever.
How many sales do you average a month, and how many listings do you have?
I have 122 listings and have averaged about 1.5 orders a month over the last 3-4 months. I keep getting favourites constantly but very rarely orders. I have travel prints, but also have regular prints, I like to have variety in my shop. I'm always adding more prints now but a few months ago I was busy and stopped adding as many prints, but I don't know if 122 is too little to be getting many orders or not? Just trying to keep chipping away until I get a breakthrough and start getting more consistent orders, if you guys have any tips for more orders I'd love to hear them!
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@Robyn Niblett I'd love to see your shop, your progress sounds absolutely amazing!
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I've just looked and turns out I had my print shrimp template to personalisation required, what an idiot. I'm just going to disable it entirely anyway, because I've had 1 or 2 people message me about customisation and never use the box so it seem to be more hassle than its worth
Make sure you don't leave personalisation on required! 😂
So it turns out that probably 2-3 months ago when I was working on the back end up my shop that I turned on personalisation, thinking it was a good idea to give customers an easy way to ask for customisation, as to try and not lose any customers that would want that, but not see an easy way to ask for it. And I obviously thought when I added this that it was optional, I even tested it in incognito browser so that I was signed out, and the box was just a drop down menu so I thought it was fine. Turns out that I had it set to required, only just found out when a potential customer just messaged me asking why it was required. I swiftly bulk edited all my listings and changed them to optional and give her a big discount as a thank you, so don't make the same mistake I did if you turn on the personalisation box lol. Also when I turned that option on, I also added a lot more prints to my shop, and since then I've been getting a lot lot more favourites on my listings than I ever did before, but I got 0 orders in this time. I just thought it was a rough patch, but it seems like I potentially drove away every single buyer because I required personalisation, whoops! Live and learn lol
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Let's get the ball moving!
Hey guys, I want to ask, what are you struggling with the most at the moment? It could be figuring out where to start, creating designs, using PrintShrimp, setting up your shop, pricing, getting listings up or getting sales. Whatever stage you’re at, I’d like to hear from you. Tell me what you’re trying to do and where you’re getting stuck. If you’ve already tried a few things, mention those too. I want to get a better idea of where I can help and what we could explain better in the community. Chances are someone else is stuck on the same thing, so don’t be shy about asking.
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i have been getting so many favourites over the last month or two but no sales. i was getting a low but consistent ammount of sales with little favourites before, now i havent been getting any sales but i keep getting favourites, a lot of them
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@Mihai Volintiriu it actually came after I added a lot of prints. I was slacking with my shop for a couple months due to being mega busy and I wasnt adding prints, then I started adding prints again and I added a big batch over a couple days and since then it has jumped up. it is a good thing that the extra prints is obviously getting me more views and favourites but at the end of the day we all want sales of course lol. maybe its just a time period i need to just see out then the sales will start coming again, it isnt all linear i suppose. but if you have any ideas i'd love to hear
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Jake Donaldson
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