Tag: t-shirt

Positive Vibes

Several months ago, the Positive Vibes t-shirt debuted in our Printify shop. It deserves a bit of explaining.

Some will look at the front of the shirt and think that “B+” is a grade. In our society, which prizes achievement and success, a B+ might be looked down on as being subpar, or less-than-perfect and therefore unacceptable or not good enough. If you’ve ever struggled with perfectionism, you feel me on this one. Others are probably thinking you’d have been thrilled to have gotten a B+ in school.

Another way to interpret the design is to see the + sign as “positive” instead. So the B+ becomes “B-positive” or “Be positive.” That carries a whole different message.

The note on the back of the shirt works, regardless of whether you see a B+ or “Be positive” on the front. The back side of the shirt reads, “Be positive. No one else is perfect either.” In other words, it’s okay if you aren’t perfect. The big hairy secret: None of the rest of us are perfect either. Don’t let imperfection get you down. Keep trying to do your best, and if something you do feels good enough for you, then be content. Don’t let someone else talk you out of your contentment just because they are not happy.

This shirt is one way for us to send some love and positivity out into the world and remind folks that it is okay to make mistakes, and it is okay to be less than perfect.

You are perfectly imperfect. And it is okay.

Shifted to Printify

I’ve moved my storefront from Etsy to Printify. Currently, my Etsy store is in vacation mode. At some point, I may try to create some sort of digital product to offer there. As for physical products, they are all currently on Printify.

I feel like I’ve wasted time and money on Etsy. I had a digital offering there originally, listed for about a year. Nothing sold. I let the listings expire, regrouped, and returned with print-on-demand product via a linked Printify account. I sold a few items to a friend. After a month of the design being listed on Etsy, I did a keyword search on its title: “property of the Holy Spirit.” My search returned NO RESULTS. As far as I knew, I had the only property of the Holy Spirit design on all of Etsy. The keyword search returned neither my products bearing the design, nor my store even. It was then that I began to think Etsy was not where I needed to be.

I will admit that I did not pay to advertise on Etsy, and I get the feeling that, unless you pour some money into advertising, they aren’t really going to help your store out. Hence why I got no search results. I can’t prove that, but I experienced what I experienced and draw conclusions from that.

Etsy charges a fee to list your items. If you have variations, each one gets a listing fee. Different sizes? Each one gets a listing fee. If you sell something, Etsy also takes a commission plus a transaction fee. I may well have spent more money than I made.

Continue reading “Shifted to Printify”