Why are your patterns not selling well? 5 main reasons and how to fix them.
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- čas přidán 12. 08. 2018
- Why are your patterns not selling well? 5 main reasons and how to fix them. In this video, I talk about the main reasons why your repeat pattern designs might not be selling very well on microstock websites or on print-on-demand websites.
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If you are wondering why your patterns are not selling well, then this video is for you.
⇒ 5 MAIN REASONS:
1) Do you have only a few patterns for sale?
A good number of designs in your portfolio/shop to expect first sales would be at least 50 designs depending on the website. To start seeing any real recurring income you need to create 500+ patterns and keep uploading new ones every week. This will give you steady income growth as your portfolio grows over time and as you become a better designer.
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2) Do your designs have commercial value?
In other words, can someone use them to produce and sell their products? This is the reason why customers buy patterns. Not because they like how your art looks to decorate their home. How to know which designs have commercial value? Study clothing, accessories, home decor, toys, kitchen products, bath products companies and see which patterns they use.
3) Are your pattern's element and composition clean and eye-pleasing? Well designed?
The truth might be that your art skills still need development. This is a totally good stage to be in as I was my first few years as a self-taught artist and I am still in some respects need improvement in my skills. Over time, after designing patterns over and over, you will get better and your patterns will sell.
Watch my related video: 3 most common pattern mistakes.
4) Do your designs have good names, keywords, and descriptions?
Most of the customers find your patterns not by looking at images, but first by typing in search phrases. You need to make sure that each of the images you post online (not only for sale but also on your blog and Instagram, Pinterest) has good, appropriate keywords and descriptions. This is almost as important as the visual quality of your design.
5) Is your online shop or portfolio too new?
It often takes up to a few weeks, or months for your brand new designs to be properly settled in on related search pages and your customers to start finding and purchasing your designs. You shouldn't wait till you see the first sales. I recommend continuing uploading regularly new images to grow your portfolio AND your design skills and the sales will come.
Hope this video was helpful for you to get you started learning why your repeat pattern designs might not be selling well and how to fix it. Thanks for watching!
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You are so inspiring and very generous sharing your knowledge and experiences. Thank you!
You’re a blessing thank you!!
This has been very helpful, thanks a lot!
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Thanks this 5 tips is very very helpful for my design practices
Glad to help.
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Hello, could you please tell me which software we can use to upload a design in patternbank?
Can we use corel draw as well?
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Where do you advice to create a portfolio?
What is the cheapest computer that will take the photoshop and other things needed to use please
I love your videos
You are very adorable, the way you talk and your accent is really cute.
Hi Oksancia, I click the url for workbook but after filling my email and name it said I have been subscribed for your newsletter. It didn't say anything about the workbook. What should I do? By the way I love your videos 👍
Same thing happened to me
Hello! I have been creating very complex pattern designs for my portfolio and I love it. However I only sell them as raster image in different microstock sites, I would love to sell them as vector images though as raster images don't sell as well as vectors. I have my .ai files file size fine, but once I convert them to .eps, I get over 150mb! Even though I resize them following every tutorial I can find, I can only reduce them upto 50mb, which won't work for the required limit for a lot of microstock sites. Anyone here has an advice? am I missing something? Thank you very much!
In my experience, this means that you have applied some newer effects to some objects that are not allowed for EPS10. They get your files gigantic. Please create a design using a simple color fills, no effects of any kind, they try saving again. They should be far under 15MB. Good luck.
Hey Oksana, I watched your video about the cactus collection and I have some questions: Do you upload the collection as one file, or as separate ones with similar names or something? And is there and advantage to making collections (more profitable maybe?), or is it only for the purpose of practice?
many thanks!
I upload my patterns separately for sale and sometimes create collections of patterns in one file out of much older patterns.
Thanks for the reply Oksana. Are files containing collections more profitable?
ayasser 16 It depends. Some of my collections are selling well, some not. There is no clear answer to it. You need to try for yourself :)
MYDIGITEX is a good site to sell your designs too. I love the freedom it gives me.
Hi there, are you a textile designer full time would someone be able to support themselves with this? I don't have a degree in design, but wanted to know this. My degree is in Marketing, but I've never used it in my career because I took the 1st job that I could find at the time. Thank you for your information and help. :O}
Hi please can you help me
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If you have time please talk to me please
Yesterday got 4 sell. Today got 7 sell am I good?
Great work! Congrats!
@@oksancia thank but my friend got 50-100 per day.... Still need much to learn
How many patterns do you have on your store?
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Wow!
Thanks for sharing
But how you managed to design that massive number?
How long did it take?