hey what's up guys welcome to etsy shop
reviews this is episode 41 and we're
going to be taking a look at a print on
demand etsy shop i know we can all
probably relate to that and we're just
going to be going over what they did
well what they may be able to improve
upon
basically with a forward outlook you
know obviously print-on-demand
businesses it's not just chasing that
immediate return we're trying to build a
recurring sustainable passive income
base uh so we're going to be talking
about how this shop that we're reviewing
can do that can help continue to scale
up their shop so let's get started
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let's jump on over to etsy all right we
are on etsy and we are reviewing the
phantom eclipse store and the first
thing i notice about the shop is that
the uh the image up top is like
distorted it's like stretched wide and
it looks weird like when you like
stretch things out and it's not
proportional
uh
it's just it doesn't look right so
i mean
it has like kind of an air of like
unprofessionalism um not meant to be a
shot at the shop owner it's just is what
it is right like if it's like a low
resolution graphic that's clearly been
stretched width-wise but the height
wasn't allowed to scale proportionally
it just looks weird i don't know what
else to say it doesn't look doesn't look
too professional so i would definitely
update the banner um i mean any with
anything or remove the banner i think
that would that would be a great idea
um or just use your same graphic but
scale it proportionately right
uh so phantom eclipse store online or
quality apparel graphic designs and
personalized gifs
quality apparel graphic designs and
personal you might be missing a comma
there i'm not sure maybe between apparel
and graphic designs
from florida 23 sales
top shop for gifts that's great you got
the accolade there
all right and let's zoom in a little bit
and see what you got going on
so what is this a t-shirt uh
yes it's a t-shirt i do like kind of how
you did the
thumbnail there um
it i mean i don't know it's kind of like
i guess
up to you to figure out what's best
because i was wondering if that was like
a digital download or you know you can
sell so many different things on etsy
uh i know it says t-shirt in the title
but i just don't know if people actually
read titles anymore i think that they
most likely are just like shopping with
their eyes and making quick decisions
based on the graphic right and like i
said like i'm looking at your shop but
most people
will be looking at search results and
scrolling through you know your your
shirt plus everybody else's so
um i don't know if you want to like just
show the design almost as if it's
looking at like the canvas in
photoshop canva whatever you use to
design
um
versus like you know scale like zooming
out and showing it on an actual t-shirt
like you do here
by the way as far as backgrounds go um
hopefully it's not too nitpicky but i
always want to do like kind of good
contrast like if i have a black t-shirt
i'm most likely going to be putting
something in the background that
black
contrasts well against
so
um
like for instance the pink and purple
over here behind me i think is probably
the best out of this row i'm not a huge
fan of the the second one there
um by the way putting roblox in a shirt
like roblox is definitely um
intellectual property that i'm assuming
you don't have the rights to use so i'd
be really careful there uh as well
definitely be careful there
um
but yeah i mean i don't know just
talking out loud as i doing an honest
review here like
uh i think you know this is i think
these are great though like this one
this one to me is like kind of perfect
right it's a dark shirt you've got a
light background it's clear that it's a
human wearing the shirt it's cropped in
a way where you can see the design i
mean i maybe would like zoom out just a
little bit just to show like the
personally i mean i might just zoom out
a little bit more show like the top of
the shirt itself
because some people may care a little
bit about like what the actual shirt is
uh instead of just showing the design
like you know what i mean you don't want
subliminally a customer to not be 100
sure what the product type is that
they're buying
and
you can generally
like ascertain that it's a t-shirt but
depending on how it's cropped you may
also be like unsure like oh is it a tank
top is it a hoodie is it a shirt is it a
digital download and again i don't know
that people really read titles so i
wouldn't bank on that being the case
um
like as an example here like this one
you kind of left it zoomed out
also it looks like you're
it looks like you're distorting your
i could be wrong here but like it looks
like you're distorting the dimensions of
some of your images maybe you're not
here i don't know this just looks this
looks like vertically it was crunched
down
the same way that your shop banner was
was uh spread wide
and i just think any time on the
internet that you're gonna make
modifications to graphics
you almost unless it's like a solid
color like you pretty much always want
to scale proportionally and not skew the
dimensions of something
with but not height or height but not
with you know what i mean because it
just looks weird like this i swear it's
something weird is up with this image
but i was just gonna say like instead of
keeping the whole like full graphic like
this like i might just do something like
this
you know like you see how i cropped it
right there so we've got her face
and then we've got the design you know
or you could even just do
the you know t-shirt with the design but
still keep like the neck and some arms
in it um because i just thought and i
mean i could be completely wrong it's
subjective all that good stuff i just
think some of the the cropping on some
of the thumbnails is weird
and then also i really can't tell if
like some of these are are like skewed
in the dimensions like they just look
weird
you know like this like is something up
here
uh
also some weird fonts as well
like
this one is good but i mean i don't know
if i really like the background like i
said kind of like a dark background on a
dark shirt
i might lighten up the drop shadow on
that shirt as well like personally just
because it's
like imagine just a normal customer
who's used to shopping on etsy kind of
seeing that like you know they're not a
graphic designer so they don't know why
there's such a dark drop shadow
underneath that shirt it doesn't really
it's just weird and it detracts
attention away from the the shirt itself
uh this one again you skewed it you you
took the the width and you crunched it
and it just
doesn't look right i mean
yeah i'm guessing you haven't i mean i'm
not trying to be you know mean but i'm
guessing you haven't sold this shirt
because look just look
that's weird i've never seen anything
like this
again you skewed this one too you
crunched this one vertically also that
font i would definitely
not use that font but i could be
completely wrong i could be completely
wrong if that's like a lizard niche font
that everybody loves i'm not a fan of
that font though
uh really at all because it's so hard to
read
um
like you can just use a standard font
like you could just use like admin
texture like a nice distressed font
and not even have to like slow down to
pick what the right font is also if i'm
being honest like i think some of these
designs
to me personally feel
um maybe not this one but like i know i
saw a couple ones here
like this one
um
again you crunched i see it's like
killing me seeing the weird distortion
of these graphics
uh
but
like i think some of these graphics
aren't meant to be like printed on a
t-shirt that's honestly how i feel like
i've said this before in in videos
where
like as a web developer a graphic like
this that lives on the internet just
fine but as a print-on-demand seller a
graphic like that to me personally like
it doesn't belong on a t-shirt it's like
photo realistic on an animation like it
belongs on a television for a kids show
or the internet on a screen
i don't personally feel like it
translates into a shirt like that style
of graphic
um i don't know what to call that style
though it's just hopefully you get what
i'm saying like to me that's not meant
to be on a t-shirt but i could you know
it could be wrong could be wrong
disclaimer etc
uh the way that you know i think you
need to redo a
bunch of your thumbnails just because
what has happened to a lot of them with
the skewing um
is just way too weird like it's just way
too weird it almost makes is like making
me feel dizzy to be looking at your shop
because it goes from like
skewed not skewed
i don't think skewed i don't think
skewed skewed heavily
not not you know i don't know it's just
weird um
also like you know if you're gonna use
gradients for instance
yeah definitely skewed actually
vertically
uh like if you're gonna use like a dark
red dark blue gradient like
probably put it on a white shirt you
know what i mean like look looks much
better here it looks much better here
but your primary thumbnail is on a black
shirt and so it's like dark foreground
tied to a dark background it's just not
it's not giving you the pop that you
need to get clicked in search results
you know by the way i'm not just trying
to show negative stuff like you're doing
some good stuff you've got you're
running a sale you're using the pricing
hack i mean these are all great stuff um
you are cropping your thumbnails and
making them custom i think that's great
because like we typically say like
people are buying the design um but like
you know not all these thumbnails are
created equally either like i keep
saying like some of these like this one
right here that i'm highlighting i think
is a great example of like a t-shirt
zoomed in on the design but you know
it's a shirt because you can still see
it's a shirt um whereas this one right
here that i'm showing
i don't feel the same way like you know
i mean it's like zoomed in too much
almost where
where at a glance people might scroll
right past it because that doesn't have
to be a t-shirt that could be a bunch of
other products so you you need to
remember that like people do a keyword
search and they scroll
and they're not gonna stop and think
twice about scrolling right past your
designs
um
i would strongly consider like
you know
your designs it just seems like you're
doing a lot you know what i mean like
i'm i'm i'm thinking that you could
spend
half as much time on designing
and probably crank out shirts that are
like twice as good
you know like
it feels to me like you're doing
graphic design like digital design web
developer website design and not t-shirt
design
is how i feel you know what i mean like
that's and it's just one of these things
i don't know how else to really describe
it like this is the type of design right
here this one right here um
it's just a white foreground white
graphic white text centered
on a black shirt this i mean minus the
fact that you've skewed the thumbnail
again which is killing me still i'm so
sorry first i know i get i gotta stop
acting like i'm
um too good to to look at the thumbnails
but it is weird man like my brain is
like i'm getting like dizzy from looking
at it
um like this is t-shirt design like i
mean there's definitely layers like you
can do much more than this but i would
start here graphic text centered go
graphic text centered go
not you know oh let me go grab a website
graphic that's not meant to be on a
t-shirt put it on a t-shirt then go find
some custom font then put like a
gradient and a stroke on the custom font
and make it asymmetric like it's getting
off into the weeds spending way more
time to create designs that like
aren't following what i would consider
to be best practices but i'm not like
the voice of god of print on demand like
i'm just a youtuber i'm just giving you
my opinion like i think you can keep it
simple and do much better but like
a lot of these fonts too and like the
spacing like
you know what i mean like
like i wouldn't worry about like using
whatever this font is you know what i
mean like there's no need to go grab
this font like just use impact font
you know what i mean impact is big and
bold so that's why you don't have to
when i say impact i mean use a big bold
font that's easy to read
and then like
instead of having to go to some website
and research what font you feel like
fits the niche
like
yes sometimes sometimes it's great to go
find a font that matches your niche but
i think you're almost at the point where
you need to like reset to the basics
because i think you're doing too much
it's like i guarantee you it's spending
like twice as long on these designs
for a font that doesn't even look good
like i mean and i'm again subjective i
get it i get it but
um like a you know like this too it's
this text is so small you know what i
mean like why make it so small you're
using less than 10 of the available
design canvas space on this shirt less
than 10 percent
you know what i mean it's a value
proposition potentially you know in the
customer's perception a value
proposition to have even if it's the
same font if you love this font use the
same font but increase the font size you
can put one word per line
you know there's various ways to make
this look good and i mean honestly
it's not like some formula driven right
or wrong way like you can just go to
etsy and type in like funny shirt or
trending shirt
or whatever like father's day is coming
father's day shirt not to steal the
niche idea but just to look at the
designs and derive some inspiration from
bestsellers instead of
you know whatever i mean i'm not trying
to be mean but like whatever this is
this looks like
like you didn't try that hard
um
and then also it's like i think you made
the whooping word slightly bigger than
the previous line
but it looks like it's it's like
at most five percent bigger
so it almost looks like a typo then
you know what i mean like
like if you're gonna make it bigger make
it bigger like 33
plus
if you make it like five percent bigger
it's like not even noticeable but when
you do notice it looks like a mistake
like i i just think like the best thing
that um the shop owner of the store can
do and like the weird awkward spacing
here
is just like
it doesn't look right i mean i just
think you need to like just go to amazon
go to etsy type in super generic search
terms and then type in t-shirt
and just look at
the best sellers because i just think
you've deviated from
what we know works and it's not that you
won't make sales
you will make some sales you've got 23
sales i think you know what i mean
that's great 23 sales but like you can
add a couple zeros to that
because you're adhering to a lot of etsy
best practices but like we always come
back to the same thing where
your designs have to be good enough and
i think a lot of your designs are
lacking
um and design is of course subjective so
but like also the way you've done your
thumbnails with the the manipulation and
the skew you've got to fix that you got
to roll that back
because that's just going to drive your
customers crazy all right guys um but
let's wrap up this shop review here
hopefully it wasn't too hard on like
it's almost like tough love right
because all i have no real vested
interest in
you right like this isn't my shop i want
you to succeed though so i'm just trying
to give you some tough love and like
like just help you out because i mean
you're on the right path as far as like
etsy goes you're doing a lot of things
right as far as design goes there's room
for improvement and like i was saying i
think you can cut your design time in
half and make designs that are twice as
good
so you know what i mean that's like a
huge step in the right direction by just
kind of studying and adhering to some of
the best practices and even taking a few
steps back
resetting making some text only designs
like you've got some good textile
designs by by the way they're not all
bad
um you know what i mean like they're not
they're definitely not all bad but like
there's definitely some approaches you
can take to text only designs that i
think you can implement to increase
click-through rate and incl increase
conversion rate so again look to the
best sellers um look to some of my
content that i put out there because i
definitely i'm a big fan of text only
designs and um yeah thank you guys for
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