Friday, May 28, 2010

Funny Fishing Design - I've Got Worms

OK, I promised more fishing designs, and here's the next one.  This is another featuring that cute orange cartoon fishing worm, again perched on his fish hook.  That has got to be the happiest fishing worm ever!  He seems happy to be bait for some reason.

Anyway, today's design is the funniest of the bunch.  It has actually sold on more men's shirts and hats than anything.  I think it is used as a funny gift for guys.  It certainly works well if I do say so!  I've also sold it on refrigerator magnets.  I like to think they go on the bait fridge in the bait shop.  

I now present to you, "I've Got Worms":








I've Got Worms magnet
I've Got Worms by SportingLife
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I'm just dying to sell "I've Got Worms" on a doggy shirt, but no luck so far:



Click HERE to see this design on all offered products.  As always, the shirts are available in many different styles.  Just click a shirt and follow the links to see them all.  Other products are also available in many different styles and forms.  For instance, if you click on the coffee cup, you can also see the design on different cup styles as well as beer mugs, etc...


What's Hot? Women's Party Shirts!

So I just sold another Women's Party Shirt - this one of the pina colada variety:




 

These shirts have proven to be pretty popular.  I wasn't sure what to expect with this line, but it has done well.  I thought the idea was a funny take-off on the arcade game signs.  I thought maybe somebody would like a fun original shirt to wear out or to a college party. 

This design is currently available in beer, martinis, pina coladas, mixed drinks and margaritas.  I'm planning to include the design in either a new alcohol/party/college themed store or in my humor store, Rude Universi T and add a bunch of other flavors.  Possibly I can work up a generic template people can use to include their own favorite drink I don't have available.

Click HERE to visit the current gallery that includes all the current designs.

Thursday, May 27, 2010

It's fishing and camping season

It's my favorite time of year - summer is coming!  Time to take a kid fishing and the family on a nice long camping trip.  See the wilderness - even live in it for a bit!  Kids love fishing and camping, and families create memories together that last for a lifetime.

In celebration of the great outdoors, I would like to show off some designs over the next several posts.

I'll start with fishing.  I have a full range of these cute cartoon fishing worm designs at Zazzle/SportingLife.  They are mostly updated versions of the originals from my Zazzle/BrightSparkTees store.

Let's start with "I'd Rather Be Fishing"  Click the picture to see this design on all shirt styles offered, even men's and women's styles:



I've always liked this one.  It's my version of a popular fishing design theme.  It makes a great fishing shirt for boys and girls, but I've sold this design on both men's and women's shirts as well.  I've also sold it on a fishing hat:



Check out the dark shirt:



If you know anybody who loves fishing and needs new fishing t-shirts or hats, this is a fun gift idea.

I'll post more fishing design t-shirts over the next several posts.  Many feature the same orange cartoon fishing worm sitting happily on his fish hook.  If you don't want to wait, you can see them all by clicking HERE.

Friday, May 14, 2010

New Stores! - Breaking up BrightSparkTees.

Well, sort of breaking up BrightSparkTees.  I'm not really deleting anything from that store because the designs have a lot of search history at this point that can't be made up with new products in the new stores.

So I've decided to break up my Zazzle presence into several niche stores instead of one big mega store.  I've got two new stores so far.  I've been adding products to them rapidly over the past few days, and that will continue.  The two new shops are:

Sporting Life  - Outdoors recreation sports designs.  I've got quite a few designs up and running in Fishing and Camping as of now.  I'll be adding other departments later - hiking, skiing, boating, etc...

Rude Universi T - Funny designs of all sorts.  Some quite tame, others not quite completely tame. It's the home of the soon-to-be famous Constipated Chicken.  You should definitely check that one out!


Constipated Chicken shirt
Constipated Chicken by RudeUniversiT
Many more t-shirts online at zazzle






If either of these stores are of interest, you may also be interested in the blogs I'm running, or will be running for each.  Again, I'll be focusing on my progress in each store, updating with new designs and products, as well as highlighting and promoting other Zazzlers who's products and designs I think you should see.

The blog for Sporting Life is not up and running yet, but I hope to have it going this weekend.   The blog for Rude Universi T can be found HERE.

So, what of BrightSparkTees?  Well, the jury is still out a little bit.  I think I'll end up making it a catch-all store for designs that don't really fit in a niche store that will get large enough to stand on its own.  Either that, or it will be more of a cute cuddly hearts and rainbows and fuzzy bunnies store.  We'll see.

Next up, though, is to continue to move out designs that need their own shop.  I'll do a main stream sports site for my baseball, football, basketball, fantasy sports, etc.  And I'll probably add more food items to the bacon designs and move the whole shot to a food themed shop.  I've already moved beer to Rude Universi T, but I may end up with a separate beer/drinking/party store, just because.

At last - the verdict is in

I'll not dwell - Zazzle wins and my CP store is now gone.  I can't even pay my rent on that site. 

I'll now pick up the blog and run with it as my store is generating traffic and making sales.  I'll be highlighting designs of my own, and designs I like from other Zazzle shopkeepers.  Starting.....NOW!