Making money online
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- benfal993
guise check out my shop on Society6, some cool stuff. i guess.
share it if you want to make me happy :D
- check this link to all the illustrations at once: http://goo.gl/gsGSG5…benfal99
- Isn't society6 the site that Urban Outfitters uses to steal artwork for graphic tees?nb
- may bebenfal99
- Ben993
I'm seriously thinking of buying a button maker machine and start selling 1" buttons a nice looking website and offering the service of making custom buttons.
The pro machine cost 600$ with a starter kit of 500buttons. Selling them 1,25$ each = 625$ ... the machine is paid.
Could sell them via etsy too. I could make QBN buttons :)
What do you guys think?
- How much are the button elves per/hr?BH26
- What about zippers? Can you make zippers?moldero
- badges, buttons... how do you english people calls that?Ben99
- do it! report back.bklyndroobeki
- maybe!Ben99
- remember you gotta sell 500 buttons thoughcbass99
- i'll buy a qbn on though! good luck ben99cbass99
- thanks! :)Ben99
- yes!LOKi
- Sep0
Do something you love doing fer chrissakes. Something you're passionate about.
Wondering what people would pay for online seems like the wrong question and a waste of time. Life's too short. It's very hard to predict what will take off and make you money. And if so, it will take a lot of time, energy and perseverance, things you won't be able to muster when your hearth's not in it.
Don't spend your time hopping from one idea to the next, never seeing something through, always being disappointed because money doesn't start flowing in. Find something you absolutely love doing and give that your all.
Just my two cents.
You made at least that much online today. :)
- breadlegz1
I've been making money from my podcast...
- detritus0
If it's a manual machine, Benfal, I'd think long and hard about what you're getting in to.
I have a small hand-pulled button maker machine which stems from my days doing market stalls, and it is a pain in the arse.
It does its job well and simply enough, but fucking hell if it's not laboursome.
Even with my laser cutter these days simplifying the circle-cutting of the designs, it's all still a tedious process.
In your shoes I'd outsource at first, and see how your sales go on.
If it's worthwhile, great. If it's not, you're going to spend a long lonely time swearing at yourself as you manually cut, place, pull, shunt, pull, remove, pin, repeat.
- I know, but from what i've seen online, its kinda fast. Also if i outsource, that mean my mark up would be very small or i'll need to sell the badges at higherBen99
- ..price, wich is not good.Ben99
- I want to make small batch, not undustrial batch. Like, for exemple, someone asking for 200 badges would be my max amount i think.Ben99
- 200 badges would take approx 2-3 hours to make. 200 x 1,50$ = 300$ ... it's like 100$/hour paid. Could be an interesting sideline.Ben99
- 200 full colour badges £44 - hard to compete with those prices. Badgesforbands.commicrokorg
- Ben990
How would you call a website that sells cool button badges? Any idea of a name?
- for SEO reasons make the domain name obvious, though this makes it tough because all that shit is taken alreadymoldero
- what about 'Awesome Button Badges' ?
the .com is freeBen99 - omgbuttonbadges.com
nicebuttonbadges.com…
are also free. But this isnt an original name..Ben99 - short is good too because its just easier to remember buttonbadges.biz is available but you risk someone remembering "buttonbadges" and not the ".biz"moldero
- maquito0
wankerbuttons
- moldero0
I just found this, and it looks like one of our own is featured
'Art of the title'https://www.patreon.com/featured…
Pretty cool concept
- Patreon is super cool. Again, you need solid networking for it to work.Ben99
- timeless2
well - I've been doing this for awhile - the only real $$ I ever make are on larger custom orders / colors. Thought I'd push it out here cause I'm buying a house (gulp) and any extra scratch I can get my hands on would help us out.
I have regular orders from two big clients twice a year and I have some studios that use them as their house notebook. Etsy is basically just an advertising / marketing fishing hole for larger whales.
- cbass990
Ben99, are you still making buttons?
- canoe0
I'm working with a new client out of NYC, who relied on foot traffic to buy his shirts and poster art. Now their "market" is closed and he has to rely on his online store, etc.
The shirts are not bad at all... whimsical collage art would be a good way of briefly explaining it.
Does anyone have any advice other than:
- Find a niche
- Use social media to drive traffic
- Join EtsyHe's designed and silkscreened shirts for the Guggenheim and other recognizable names.
To me the shirts are for DJs, rock musicians, graphic designers, comedians and people who appreciate NYC themes.