Actually, it’s closer to 30 factories, all of them making product for me and selling it for me and handling all the transaction and customer-service issues and shipping and billing and invoicing and all that jazz.
I don’t invest a penny in any of it. I just upload my art onto their stuff and they sell it for me. I can add to that effect by marketing my things on my own outlets, of course, but not on eBay — you can’t sell what you don’t have in hand.
On social media, I explain that it’s all made to order, and it takes a few extra days for that to happen. In the case of my high-fashion items that I make on PAOM, it can be a few weeks, but those are actually cut and tailored to order.
But, wow — thirty factories, all of them spewing out the stuff I designed, but they make it, ship it, the whole megillah.
I don’t store any of it — therefore, no inventory issues. I don’t guard it, so I got no security issues. I don’t have it somewhere around, so you won’t see any insurance issues, and since I didn’t make the final product, I have no consumer issues or liability issues for the item — all that is handled for me. I just sit at home and think up things to put up there.
I hum, consider and think, and then, miraculously somehow produce or create the image, then upload a very large version of it to zazzle, which generally takes about fifteen minutes, then pop the image into my image bin on zazzle, and bloop it down onto whatever basic item I have in mind, then make the item appear in a collection, and presto! I’m there!
What I’m describing is a way to put your designs onto thousands of objects, and set them out there to make for you a passive side-hustle living.
It can be much more than that, but you’ll really have to market the hell out of your stuff, and that might be a problem, but you can solve that problem easily, just by coming up with a “Proof of Concept” and generating venture capital from a sample which you made on zazzle.
I have several hundred modest examples, notably the socks collection, the men’s necktie collection, the Tom X. collections and the LRS collections, and there’s more, much more.
You can start looking here. Did you notice that the word “here” was a hot-link?
What you’ll find is a bunch of collections, if you press the “collections” button directly ahead of you.
After that, you’re on your own, but don’t just scan the things — press a button now and again so we’ll know you’re still alive.
In short, actually take a closer look at some of them — if anything appeals to you, jot down what it was and tell me in the morning meeting.
I need to know what YOU find attractive or interesting in there, if anything. If nothing interests you, let’s find out why — I can put other stuff in there, if I get a little feedback from my friends.
Most amazing things you’ll find in there, and everything is malleable, meaning that you have a variety of choices on almost every item — not just size, but a whole bunch of factors that you will appreciate, plus instant view of what your choice would look like.
Five years ago, I put up some 2,000 items, but they were all set to “private”, which I just found out and remedied over a period of some 30 work-hours at the keyboard.
I hope you like the result. You can use zazzle yourself, and also use my stuff on zazzle for resale, but you’ll have to learn how, which we cover in zoom meetings.
See You At The Top!!!
gorby