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[Martinx]

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[Martinx]

OK these haven't been as popular as I'd hoped. I've dad plenty of views though.

Apart from offering them for FREE is there anything that would entice you mug sub peeps?

Or if you have any feedback let me know. I am open to criticism!

Thanks
Martin

[purpledragon]

Hi Martin
your templates are pretty good nice jazzy looking certainly have impact, i think the problem is you havnt done anything that most people on here can not do themselves, The nature of the beast is that if you are in this game you probably started off furiously throwing designs out in photoshop or corel.The other problem i find (and its just my opinon) is that joe public wants a golf mug or a fishing mug or just a picture of little jimmy on the mug ive had some pretty impressive looking templates and i have to be honest no matter how good i think they look they just dont sell. Paul used to churn out some pretty nifty templates and sell them on here it'd be interesting to hear how they sold for him but i suspect a few took the offer up but i doubt he made a fortune from them .
Brett

[Martinx]

Hi Brett
Thanks for your views. I am now on my way to Beachy Head!!

The reason I decided to go down this route was for 2 reasons.

1. For the past year I have been printing personalised mugs, but it's been quite soul destroying that the likes of ebay are making a mockery of this business by offering printed mugs for next to nothing. Therefore I wanted to provide credible businesses out there the opportunity of offering customers something different to perhaps combat this issue. I wanted to provide templates that would match the likes of Funky Pigeon and Getting Personal.

I appreciate that the majority possess photoshop skills in order to create their own but there are also those who don't.

2. Simply, I really enjoy designing so combined the two.

Cheers
Martin

[John G]

Got to agree with Brett - I design all my own artwork, people want their own photos/text on a mug and are not bothered about fancy backgrounds IMO.

[Reg]

Hi Martin
I've got about 160 templates that I've bought from various places and some I made but I've removed them from my website because all customers seem to want is just the photo and name or message.
Reg

[Martinx]

Interesting John, thanks.

I do offer photo and text upload options within the designs but if customers prefer simplicity then I need to look at this.

Like I said I have only been doing this for a year now so I am still understanding the market and what people really want.

I may trial these on my site as printed mug designs as apposed to selling them as templates.

Cheers
Martin

[Martinx]

Thanks Reg. Further proof.

[AdamB]

Hi Martin,

just my 'two pennys worth' you are obviously very talented in designing and you want to push this to be able to bring in some extra cash, and quite rightly so.

I've used your services and the end result (as I explained in the messages I sent to you) was better than I thought - and this isn't meant to be offensive (Martin knows this already). What I mean by 'better than I thought' was that I too do a lot of designing (as JohnG said, you can't seriously compete in this game if you don't) but I was in a position that I needed a specific template that I knew a few people wanted. I saved time asked you to do it Martin and my customers were happy when I sold them the mugs .............. I wasn't out of pocket as I got the cash back that I paid for the design when selling the mugs.

I have taken a look at your other templates and they are all very good, but - will I sell any? This is the question that stops me from investing into something that I can't guarantee that I will sell to get my money back to be able to invest into other things.

I bought the 'super DVD' from Paul when I first started off and I have sold quite a few of the designs making back (easily) the cash I spent on the templates (strangely it was very simple designs that sold - something that I wouldn't have designed myself but I added them to my portfolio as they were ready to go).

Martin, it's catch 22 for you I am afraid. I design and if the templates were a little cheaper then I would probably purchase them to 'save my time' - but you also don't want to undersell yourself and your abilites by offering them too cheap (plus too cheap and everyone will have them and they won't be unique!).

Just my two pennys worth

[Paul]

I think most of you know about my web site?! I must say they very popular but in certain time of the year.
lot of you say there is people that want only simple name and photo mug. I had this too before. but did you try to "sell" your mug with templates? I did
Most people take mug with template then without. But all I had to do i show them how this mug is look like. so I printed few templates with best pictures i had. and it worked Also very important is to clearly let people know that they can get fantastic looking mug for this same price as normal, borrin photo and text one. my 3p. (adam had 2 )