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61: Back to Marketing Basics with Danielle Harris Mar 02, 2022

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Danielle Harris helps creatives prioritize marketing so they can share their gifts with the world. Helping creative entrepreneurs focus on the marketing strategies and tactics that will give them ethical and sustainable growth in their business is her goal. In addition to her 10 years of experience, Danielle has a BA in Marketing, a Master of Science in Marketing and an MBA. If she's not qualified to talk to us about marketing, we don't know who is!

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60: 5 Tips for Profitable Print on Demand Sales Feb 23, 2022

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Last week, we introduced you to selling print on demand products on your own website. So if you haven't had a chance to listen to that episode yet, be sure to check it out. Today, we're back to share with you five tips for profitable print on demand sales on your own site.

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59: Setting Up Print on Demand on Your Own Website Feb 16, 2022

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Now that we've explored print on demand marketplaces like Society6 and Spoonflower in more detail, we want to dive into how you can add Print on Demand products to your own website through providers like Printful, Printify, Gooten, and more.

In episode number 50, introducing you to print on demand, we talked about all of the pros and cons of the different options and having print on demand products through your own website gives you the most control over your pricing, your profitability, and your overall customer experience. Nikki has a ton of experience in this area and Laura has just gotten a few products launched on her own website. So we're really excited to share our experience and advice with you.

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58: Spoonflower Tips with Ashley Beasley of Presutti Design Feb 09, 2022

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Last week, we introduced you to Ashley Beasley of Presutti Design. Ashley is a surface pattern designer who's kicking ass on Spoonflower and Minted, among other things. So if you haven't had a chance to listen to that episode yet, be sure to go back and check it out. Ashley offers a beautiful and meaty guide on her website to everything Spoonflower, but today she's going to share a little taste of her best tips for getting started and making sales on Spoonflower, which we're also providing to you as a downloadable PDF. Read the show notes & download your FREE SPOONFLOWER TIPS PDF: startistsociety.com/spoonflowertips/ JOIN THE STARTIST SOCIETY FB GROUP:

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57: Spoonflower Success with Ashley of Presutti Design Feb 02, 2022

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A few episodes ago, we introduced you to print on demand marketplaces, specifically Society6 and Spoonflower. Today, we're excited to introduce you to Ashley Beasley of Presutti Design. Ashley is a surface design artist based in Houston, Texas with a focus on repeat patterns, stationery and print on demand. She believes in keeping things fun and authentic and sharing how she juggles working full time, being a new mom and keeping up with her passion for design.

Since she started participating in weekly Spoonflower design challenges in 2020, Ashley has already had 19 designs land in the top 50 and made over 600 sales. She's also participated in Minted challenges and has won seven of their challenges. It's proof that you can succeed in a market that we really tend to think is already oversaturated.

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56: Kickstarter Tips with Jenni Kowal Jan 26, 2022

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Last week, we interviewed Jenni Kowal of Anytime Creative and we talked to her specifically about her Kickstarter campaign for her Self Care Adventure Cards. We wanted to add some extra tips on getting started with your own Kickstarter campaign, so we asked Jenni to come back and share her best tips and tricks, which we're also providing to you as a downloadable PDF.

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55: Kickstarter Basics with Jenni Kowal Jan 19, 2022

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We have a lot more to share with you about print on demand, but we are taking a short break from this series to talk about another way to get your art and products made without investing a whole lot of your money up front.

As artists and designers, many of us are interested in finding ways to get our artwork on products in the world. Rather than waiting for the perfect collaboration with a company, you can create those opportunities yourself with crowdfunding. It can be very confusing where to even start with something like a Kickstarter campaign, so today we're going to talk to someone who has done just that.

Designer, photographer and creative guide, Jenni Kowal created a Kickstarter to fund her Self Care Adventure Cards, which she was able to not only fully fund, but get three times more than she was asking for! We're really excited to learn more about that process, her Startist journey and the advice that she can give to others who are just getting started.

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54: 10 Print on Demand Sales Tips Jan 12, 2022

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Last week, we shared all about getting started with print on demand marketplaces and how you can create either a Society6 or Spoonflower Shop. This week we share 10 of our best tips for increasing your POD marketplace sales.

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53: Getting Started with Print on Demand Marketplaces Jan 05, 2022

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For the first episode of our second year, we're taking you back to where we left off with print on demand. In Episode 50, we introduced you to the different types of print on demand services and talked about the pros and cons of each. This week, we're going to go into more detail about print on demand marketplaces... specifically Society6 and Spoonflower.

Marketplaces are great when you don't know where to start and you just want to get your art out in the world without having to manage the tech side on your own website. These platforms handle the customer service, the order fulfillment and the shipping. All you have to do is upload your art and add tags and descriptions. Oh, yeah, and tell everyone that you actually have a shop!

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52: Celebrating One Year of Podcasting Dec 01, 2021

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This week marks one full year of Startist Society podcasting for Laura and Nikki! They share how they plan to celebrate - Nikki with bourbon, naturally. In this episode they look back over their first year of podcasting and talk about what they've learned and what challenges they've experienced. They reminisce about some of their favorite episodes and share some plans for the upcoming year.

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