Print on demand for beginners

Sell your designs on Teepublic

Sell your designs on Teepublic for an easy way to make money as a graphic designer.

This post won’t delve into the fine gritty of finding niches to target for your design, but it will show you how to get started with print on demand for beginners.

After selecting sign-up, enter in some information about your store, such as your name and the email address you’ll use to log in.

After you’ve created your store and signed up for an account, you’ll need to confirm your email address before you can start uploading designs to teepublic.

It’s time to post designs to teepublic once your email has been confirmed.

You’ll be asked to name your store on the upload screen; you can always change it later, but it’s a good idea to pick a name you like now because changing it later will change the URLs of your store to where your designs are.

Once you’ve decided on a name, you may either upload multiple designs at once or one design at a time.

I’m just going to upload one design for this example.

Once your design has properly uploaded, you will be taken to a screen where you must provide all relevant design information:

  • Design title–What do you want the title of your design to be?
  • Description– how would you best describe your design to someone, is it a cute cat sitting on a fluffy ball or is it a typography design with the words I love print on demand on it?
  • Main tag–What is the main tag someone will find your design, for my example the main tag would be print on demand.
  • Supporting tags–what are the supporting tags for your design, example merch, YouTube, colourful, typography, etc.
  • Is this mature content?–and finally is this mature content, if your content doesn’t contain violence or designs of an adult nature, then this can be set to no.

Then you must decide on the colors for your design; remember brighter colors stand out more, but I prefer black t-shirts, so I use black as my main background color.

When you click publish, your design will be uploaded to Teepublic for the rest of the world to see and possibly buy!

Please keep in mind that having only one design on your online store will cause a lack of sales, and from personal experience, I recommend having at least 100 designs on your teepublic store to gain any traction.

When writing descriptions for your designs, keep SEO in mind, since this will make it simpler for people to find them.