Reach out to a wider audience by increasing the number of sales points to improve your chances of selling. External marketplaces (e.g. eBay, Amazon, etc.) provide you with great potential for online exposure. Find out how to get your designs and products from Spreadshirt’s Marketplace into shape for external marketplaces – here’s how…
Which external marketplaces can I sell on?
To give more exposure to the products of our community, Spreadshirt sells designs on the following Marketplaces:
• Amazon in the UK, USA, France & Germany
• eBay in the United States, Germany
• Rakuten and Sears in the US
• Cdiscount in France
Spreadshirt has tens of thousands of products on sale on any of the Amazon domains alone.
How can I get designs on an external Marketplaces?
Designers can’t directly sell their designs on external marketsplaces via Spreadshirt. Spreadshirt has an External Marketplaces team to take care of that. It selects designs based on the following criteria:
• Design is on sale on Spreadshirt’s Marketplace
• Design is selling well on Spreadshirt’s Marketplace
• The design theme is in high demand
• Currently trending topic
• High-quality style or message
We choose products that Partners have created with their designs in the User Area. The products we choose are regularly updated to replace some of those that don’t really do well by other best-sellers of the Spreadshirt Marketplace.
And sometimes we have to adapt the selling price of the products offered on the external markets to remain competitive, but – don’t worry – you will always get the design price that you have set yourself.
How can I increase your chances of selling a design on external marketplaces?
Spreadshirt’s customers often browse the Marketplace to see what’s on the market, whereas people shopping on external marketplaces tend to look for particular products in a more targeted manner. That’s why Spreadshirt offers a limited selection of suitable products on external marketplaces that meet the following criteria:
• Designs must be ‘elaborate’. We won’t choose clip art or customizable designs (customization not possible on external Marketplaces).
• Provide an accurate and detailed description as well as relevant keywords to help us find your design more easily.
• Topics, opportunities, trends – think about what might appeal to customers.
You’ll find quarterly updates on trending keywords customers used on Google and our Marketplace on our blog. Take these as a source of inspiration for your next designs. Also, check out Spreadshirt’s Amazon page to get a better idea of what sells well.
How do I know if my design for sale in an external marketplace?
You won’t receive an extra notification in case a design of yours has been selected for external Marketplace, and external marketplace sales aren’t explicitly shown in your sales statistics. But if you download Spreadshirt Partner app, you’ll be able to see the exact point of sale on external marketplaces as well.
Do you have any questions or need more info? Please drop us a line in the comments, and we’ll get back to you asap.
