Wall art graphics software – recommendations please.

[Liam Pattison]

Hi Lee

As far as i know most countries have been flooded with vinyl wall art. As the particular auction site where they are available is world wide. This was part of the problem in the first place, as you can often buy them from china all-in for less than the cost we pay to post them within the uk.

If you know of a country where you think they are not currently available, keep it a secret!

When i began selling them, there were only a hand full of sellers with good money to be made. I remember one particular seller making £1000+ per day easily with only about 30 or so listings.

Many of the ‘wall quotes’ you now see on ebay are copies or variations of that sellers listings.

I had my own unique products. The key is to offer something different and unique to every one else. I don’t just mean different designs, i mean find a different market. if you can find a gap in the market, there is money to be made for a while. But the trouble is it will seriously wind you up when sooner or later you see other sellers ripping off your designs or offering their own versions for pennies.

I gave up eventually as i just could not be bothered to compete and keep up with people who seem to almost be running at a loss when their sales don’t even appear to balance with seller fees.

Just my advice there, but if you are looking for vector clip art etc, you can find pretty much everything you need be googling ‘(whatever you’re after) vector’ or ‘……. eps’. Also vector clip art cd’s are available on the same auction site where people sell the wall art.

Liam

[Lee Pitcher]

Hi Liam

Cheers for your comprehensive reply. Yeah I’ve seen lots of stuff around and really don’t know how they do it for the price. They really must be making a loss. Not only that but some of the stickers are extremely intricate and as we all know, the smaller they go the more of a pain in the ar"se they are to weed ! (unless they’re manufactured a different way)

£1000+ a day ? wow. Think I’d be happy with that a week !

The country I was thinking of does have them but not on as bigger scale as here. Not only that but the well known auction site isn’t very popular there either at the moment

Fortunately wifey is native in the language so can translate all the sayings etc.

Will see how it goes !

All the best
Lee

[Liam Pattison]

Hi Lee

you have quite a good advantage there with another language. Also look at other selling platforms other than the well known auction site. Don’t want to say too much but there’s a few other such websites etc.

The seller i was talking about, was really the originator of the ‘wall quotes’ as we see them now. They may have even got the idea off other traders, but they were the first seller to really solidify the concept of selling quotes super imposed onto background images within the home. Back then you could get £30 for a wall quote which people were selling for between £7-£10 last time i looked a couple of years ago.

Obviously a hell of a lot of people realised how much this seller was making per day just by looking at their feedback and copied most of their products. Then people copied the copiers and so on! And now you have some terrible quality products on sale for pennies.

Also, back then not many people were selling these products, so you would be inundated with requests for custom designs, which you could obviously sell at a much higher price. So make sure you offer custom designs as these would be especially difficult for foreign language speakers to get i imagine.

I also used to tailor some of my products to certain types of shop interiors so that’s another area for you could look at.

Liam

[Tim Cowlishaw]

have you read any of the feedback on these site i.e nice design but it would not stick to the wall
Not all vinyls are equal

[Jason Davies]

quote Tim Cowlishaw:

have you read any of the feedback on these site i.e nice design but it would not stick to the wall
Not all vinyls are equal

Completely agree with Tim here. We have just finished a large job for a blue chip client and had to use different manufacturers and different grades of vinyl to ensure it stayed where it was supposed to. Lots of testing and trialling. I hate working with walls 🙂

Good luck