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With drop shipping you just place the order with a 3rd party vendor to fulfill the order. You don’t have to carry a large expensive inventory of products or place orders with printers in large quantity. Rather, you create the product on their site, advertise it on Etsy, Amazon, your website or any other venue that you might be using. As an order comes in, you simply log into your computer and place the order and have it shipped directly to your customer.
The drop ship company that I learned about was called GearBubble.com. I checked them out immediately and decided to give them a try. I created a number of coffee mug designs and 2 jewelry designs all using my original artwork. It was a bit of an effort and I wouldn’t say that the GearBubble site is super user friendly. They have training videos but it still seemed confusing but I was determined to make this work.
I did have some issues when I came to opening the drop ship part of the account. I had to email customer support 3 or 4 times to get it all resolved. They did solve my problem and I’m still not sure why I couldn’t get the drop ship icon on my home page but it is there now and I guess that is what really matters.
I decided that before I had my first online order, I needed to check out the quality of this company and make sure that I was happy with the finished product. So I decided to order the mug I though was probably the most difficult to reproduce and placed the order on May 13th and the mug was delivered on May 26th. That is within the 8-10 business days promised and my mug looks very professional. Overall, I feel I can be confident that my artwork will be nicely represented.
Here are the pictures I took of the mug I received and the link to my listing. I chose to order the mug design that features my original acrylic painting that it titled "Some Pig". I love how it turned out don't you?
Julie Townsend Studio Etsy Shop-Some Pig
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