Hi everyone, this is Anne with Graphic Design How To, and today I'm going to tell you how
to open your own DesignBundles digital download shop.
And there are a few things to know before we get started.
So first of all to join DesignBundles, you already have to have a portfolio somewhere
else on the web.
So Etsy, Creative Market, Envato and there are a few other ones - I'll list those in
the description.
You have to have one somewhere, but Behance is one of the ones that you can have, and
Behance is free.
So you can just create an account there, upload some designs, and then put that in as your
portfolio.
But be sure to look at DesignBundles first and see the types of things they're selling...because
they want your items to match what's already on DesignBundles and if your style is a lot
different, they won't approve you.
So go ahead and get out there on DesignBundles and look to see what's out there.
The second thing you have to have is a Facebook profile.
And this is to keep fake profiles from being set up, I guess they're having a big problem
with that on DesignBundles.
So you need those two things before you start.
And it's also a good idea to get at least one product listing ready to go before setting
up your shop.
And you'll also want a shop name.
Now when you get your product listing ready, you need an image to go with that.
Okay, so if you have all that information ready and you're ready to join, there are
two ways to do it.
The first is through my referral link.
And if you use that one, I would be so pumped because I get paid a little bit if you do
that and helps me keep the lights on, keep making videos and all that stuff.
But if you don't want to do it, that is totally fine too.
There will be a link in the description also for a non-referral link that you can use if
you don't want to do the referral thing.
Alright, so let's get started.
Okay, so first, I'll show you how to get in with my link - this is in the description
below.
So I'm just going to paste it in.
And it'll bring us to this page.
And then you just go to Open a Store Now and start filling out your information.
If you want to go the non referral route, just go to DesignBundles.net, and then go
to Create a Store right here.
And it'll bring you to the same page.
So we're going to go to Open a Store Now.
And then we'll fill out all this information.
This is just a demo.
So I'm going to put demo everywhere.
But of course, you'll want to fill out your real information, because you do have to pay
taxes on this.
So it does need to be correct information.
And my store name is going to be demo demo.
Here's where you'll enter your portfolio information.
If you leave these blank, you'll automatically be denied and I'm not 100% sure, but I think
you have to wait three months before trying again.
So make sure that you give them a portfolio to look at.
We'll just put this.
And then here you'll have to put your Facebook profile.
We'll just put some stuff here.
Then we'll register our store.
Once we do that, we'll get this little blue screen.
It's telling us that we'll have to be verified.
But we can go ahead and upload products now.
So we'll go ahead and do that.
And I'll hit Explore.
And now we'll go to Products, and My Products.
Here we'll have to fill out a lot of the same information as before, so go ahead and do
that.
And then Confirm Details.
Now we should be able to list a product.
So we're already here at My Products, and then we'll Create a New Product.
The first thing I usually do is go to my Image Manager and upload the images that I have.
So I'm going to click here.
I've got one saved already, I'm going to make a St. Patrick's digital paper pack.
So I'll open that.
Here are your upload requirements.
I usually make my images 1500 by 1000 px, but that's really up to you.
Okay, and it's showing right here it's being uploaded.
And then I come on down here to the bottom and click like to add my files, your files
on DesignBundles have to be a zip file.
So in this case, I've got all six of these papers in one zip file.
And we'll go to Open.
It'll take some time to upload these.
I don't actually have six images in here because this is just a demo.
So it went really fast, but sometimes this might take a little bit of time.
Okay, now we'll go up to the top.
And now we just fill out all this information.
So I'm going to put St Patrick's Day digital paper pack, and then I'll say what type of
papers they are - high resolution JPEG.
You do have a 60 character character limit and it just won't let you type past that.
So even if you tried to, it wouldn't let you.
Anyway moving on...Product Category.
I think of paper packs being mostly used by crafters, so I'll choose that.
And then for subcategory, I'm going to go with scrapbooking.
For the price, I'm going to put this right at $5.
To learn a little bit more about this, go to More Info and this tells you about the
licenses.
So when someone buys your file, this is how your image can be used by them.
Okay, we'll get back out of that.
And then we'll come over here and look at the corporate license.
This is something that automatically populates, but you can change it if you want to.
If you click More Information here, you're going to get the exact same screen as the
one here.
It's just telling you DesignBundles' corporate license for your products.
Here, you can enter a product description.
I usually do a little marketing spiel at first, so I'm going to put "These six St. Patrick's
Day papers are perfect for your next project."
Then I usually put "What you'll get: 6 12"x12" scrapbooking papers, digital scrapbooking
papers at 300 dpi."
Then I tell them how to use the files.
A lot of times the people you sell to are not very computer savvy, so sometimes they
don't know how to open a zip file.
So I just let them know that right here in the product description.
And then for product tags we'll put "St. Patrick's Day,
scrapbooking papers, polka dots,
buffalo plaid" and I'm only going to put these four in for
right now.
But you have the ability to put in 30.
And if you can do it, that's the best thing to do, because this is how your product gets
found.
But just make sure you're not putting anything that's not true.
Make sure you're not spamming or anything like that, because that can probably get you
kicked out of DesignBundles and you don't want that.
Okay, Product Groups.
This is something you can set up over here, but they're basically categories.
So if you wanted to have a St. Patrick's Day category, you could do that.
So we'll do that real quick.
I'll open that in a new tab and then we'll create a new group.
We'll call this one St. Patrick's Day.
Create that.
And then we'll go back.
And it might not let us choose it right off because I just put it in.
But we'll be able to edit this in a minute and we can choose it then.
If you have a product video showing how to use this file, you can put your YouTube link
in right here.
We've already got our product images in and we have our product files in.
And that's all we need to do.
We'll save the product.
And now we have our first live product!
This actually isn't live yet and it won't be until your account has been verified.
But once it is verified, this will be live on the site.
Okay, so let's go back in and edit this.
Now we can choose that product group, 'St. Patrick's Day.'
DesignBundles is nice because you can add the same listing to a lot of different categories,
which helps your image get found too.
So we'll save that.
And now, there are a few things that you'll want to set up inside your store.
So go to Settings.
It's a great idea to get all of this set up because it helps your store seem legit.
You'll want to replace this image.
If you want people to be able to visit your website or see your social profiles, you can
add them here.
And then your avatar, you can upload an image of yourself or your logo, and it gives you
some specs up here.
And then your banner manager, this is what people will see when they come and visit your
shop on DesignBundles.
It says FontBundles because this site started out as fonts only and then it expanded to
designs too.
So anyway, we'll save changes.
And it's as easy as that!
I hope this has helped you set up a new store, and hopefully you'll start selling things
very soon!!
All right, that's my video for this week.
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And I'll see you next week with another graphic design tutorial.
Thank you!!!