Day 9 – Choosing and Picking is hard to do

Now, this week I have been working hard.

The Week Previous I did got shirts for all the euro 2008 players. With a soccer ball in the o for got.

Last week I did first set for the top 50 boxers, seems I am going to revisit that theme once I am done this week.

This Week I am doing 80s Cartoons, and even though I am toppling over into the 70s and 90s it is turning out well. I have a generic theme to them. Also this week was alot of personal designs I did for myself to put in my Wordans account. I was not hardcore into designing tonight for Wordans. It seems to be a self inflicted time out. But tomorrow I will be up and at it.

To Date: Total: 1807 visitors have visited my Wordans store

And I am up-to-date in approvals which makes me happy. Although the one thing that bugs me is I only have 2 dollars in earnings there. I have better luck on eBay it seems. But from eBay what I have learned is what you think will sell won’t sell. For instance: My Hello Kitty Design and today I sold 13 shirts on ebay. This is about 325 dollars. Yesterday it was 325 dollars too. That is 650 dollars in two days plus my pay check of 240 dollars for both days, which is roughly 890 dollars in 2 days. Sure Taxes, shipping, production costs all come into play but it is not going to take the entire 650 dollars. So the question: How can you guarantee designs that will sell.

What I have learned through trial and error is the shirts that will sell are the shirts that people want. Now I cannot account for why tina turner shirts sold, but maybe she was in the news. New cd? New concert? What is important is keeping up with the news. You could have the best shirt in the world, but no one knows it exists. That is the problem, sure I have sold personal designs but that is only because of the reputation of my other shirts. When they see what else I sell that they are hooked. Another fact is I offer something not many or no one else does. This puts me on the map.

http://search.ebay.ca/search/search.dll?sofocus=bs&sbrftog=1&dfsp=32&catref=C6&from=R40&satitle=bo+knows+t+shirt&sacat=-1%26catref%3DC6&sargn=-1%26saslc%3D3&sadis=200&fpos=L1c5g7&sabfmts=1&saobfmts=insif&ftrt=1&ftrv=1&saprclo=&saprchi=&fsop=32&fsoo=2

I am the only one on eBay that offers this shirt, and as you saw from my top sellers list. It sells.

http://search.ebay.ca/search/search.dll?sofocus=bs&sbrftog=1&dfsp=32&catref=C6&from=R40&satitle=sooty+t+shirt&sacat=-1%26catref%3DC6&sargn=-1%26saslc%3D3&sadis=200&fpos=L1c5g7&sabfmts=1&saobfmts=insif&ftrt=1&ftrv=1&saprclo=&saprchi=&fsop=32&fsoo=2

Where is my competition?

http://search.ebay.ca/search/search.dll?sofocus=bs&sbrftog=1&dfsp=32&catref=C6&from=R40&satitle=wllz+98.7+shirt&sacat=-1%26catref%3DC6&sargn=-1%26saslc%3D3&sadis=200&fpos=L1c5g7&sabfmts=1&saobfmts=insif&ftrt=1&ftrv=1&saprclo=&saprchi=&fsop=32&fsoo=2

Again not much competition. I have 8 auctions, the other guy has one and that will go away in a few days. Mine cycle through once every 30 days and refrehe. It will never end.

So this is not a blog persay about designing it is more of selling your designs. You need to hook them in order to sell them. I am hoping my presence on Wordans picks up and my dvd and books section takes off, because that is some bonus funds that will come in.