Where To Sell Your Designs

There are a number of places online to sell your photoshop art, but very few will turn out to be profitable for you.  How do you choose the right selling platform?  How do you know what's a scam?  Which sites actually pay you?

I will list below what I have tried, and what my experiences have been.



Zazzle.com

In my opinion, this is by far the best place to sell your work.  Zazzle is a company based in San Francisco California.  You sign up for a free account, upload your designs, decide which products they go on and what the mark up will be (what percentage of money you will make off of each sale), and let your designs start making money for you!  Zazzle takes care of printing, packaging, shipping, and returns.  They will pay you by check or by paypal.com based on your preference.  It's not an immediate money maker, but if your stuff is good it will sell.  Zazzle has never failed to pay me what they owe.  There is a $30 minimum balance before payout, but it's pretty easy to get that far.

What products do they have?  Too many to list: Skateboards, shirts, sweatshirts, coasters, posters, greeting cards, business cards, shoes, ties, binders, stickers, stamps, aprons, mugs, hats, and even dog clothes.  My best seller there have been posters and skateboards.  Check out my site on zazzle.com HERE.

To see Zazzle's guide templates, click HERE.

Cafe Press

Cafe press is much like zazzle with one exception... it's NOT free.  Cafe press will allow you to open up a store and sell about 5 items for free, but any more than that and you will be charged around $8 a month.  I had a cafe press store for a long time, but I never made a profit because what I made each month was less than what I paid for the cafe press account.  They have a few products zazzle doesn't have, but on the other hand, zazzle has A LOT of products cafe press doesn't have.  Good luck to you if you try this platform, there's nothing wrong with it except that it's not free.


Deviant Art

Many graphic designers have a deviant art account because it's a great way to show off your work.  You may not know that they will also let you run a small store where they will print posters with your designs.  The problem?  It's hard to make money there.  They take a pretty big cut of any profits you might have.  Feel free to try it to have some options though!

These are just three of the sites I've tried, but I would recommend zazzle hands down.  I've made good money there.  If you open up your store and add about 13 items, and then one item per month after that, you're store will be thriving.  Keep in mind that you must use their templates for size requirements, and that you may not make money for your first few months.  It's always a good start to my day however when I open up my e-mail inbox and see the message from zazzle declaring, "Your products have been sold!"

Have other websites that you use to sell your designs?  Post them in a comment below!