How does CloudStriking Works

1. Open Your Stores

To start selling your products online, you need to create your shops. It's always best to create shop on multiple platforms so that we are able to reach a greater audience. There are several big E-Commerce platforms now a days and some example of them are Amazon, E-bay, Shopify, Etsy, Woocommerce and Redbubble. While you are free to use the platform of your choice, we recommend to start with Etsy, Ebay and RedBubble. These platforms allow you to set up shops without having registered a business at first. They are ideal to start, they have no monthly fees, and they have little to no-cost when it comes to product uploads or sales. For example, publishing a product on Etsy costs only 20 cents, E-bay does not charge per listing but gets a percentage of your sales, and RedBubble allows you to set up your earning margin while they take care of the print and shipping part of your sales. As you might have noticed, each platforms have different policies. To find out the complete cost and fees list, visit the E-commerce website of your choice.
To Register your Accounts and Open your Shops, follow this quick and easy interactive guide.

2. Stay Always Organized

Either if you run an online business from your laptop, or if you own a physical shop, organization is paramount to succeed. Create and Email dedicated to your online sales and a folder to store everything about your shop. Possibly, create sub folders for every specific thing. This will allow you to find your files quickly when it comes to processing and will simplify the resolution process in case of customer complaint. You can create a folder on your computer, or register for a free cloud service such as 'Google Drive' or 'DropBox' (our recommended choice). In the latter case, you will be able to access your files from any device and from anywhere in the world.

3. Find or Create Designs

Its time to create something to sell! You can create your own design with pen and paper (you'll need a scanner for that), through the use of software such as 'Adobe Illustrator' or through the use of websites such as 'Canva'. If you can also look for copyright free images and designs on 'Google Images' and start selling those. If you chose the latter case, make sure to get the highest possible quality designs. To do so, after you searched for your image on google, click on the 'tool' button, situated on the right side under the search bar, than select 'size' and chose 'large'. This will allow you to find good quality images that will look good on personalized products

4. Create Mock-up Images

Once you have decided on which designs you would like to sell, it is time to create mock-up images. Mock-up images are images of the product you would like to sell with your design on top. Your customers want to see exactly what they are going to buy, for this reason, mock-up images are fundamental. To create this images you can use complicated and time consuming software like 'Adobe Photoshop' or you can use our easy and quick mock-up generator app called 'Bolt'. To use this app, navigate to the Mock-up generator section of the website or click here. You will only need to upload your designs, select which product you would like your design on, enter your email, and submit everything. You can sit back while our software does the job. You will get a link by email to access all of your images, when ready.

5. Upload Your Products

For our next step, you will need to upload your products to your online store and start selling. Uploading on different shops requires a knowledge of the different portals and it is one of the most time consuming parts together with mock-up generation. An easy and quick solution is to use our product up-loader app called 'Up-link'. To use it, click here or navigate to the 'Product Upload' section of the website. Once on the page, click on 'Download Template' to chose a template. Templates are used to enter information and they can be 'general' (targeted to all platforms) or 'specific' (targeted to one platform only). Our recommendation is for you to start with the 'Simplified Template'. This is a general template and is compatible with all available platforms, meaning that you have to fill only one template to be able to upload on all platforms with one click. The 'Simplified Template' also allows you to easily enter your information and save time by avoiding 'less used field' such as 'Bold Title' or 'Subtitle' fields. Once you have completed your template, return on the 'Up-Link' app and follow the instructions. Upload your template as well as the mock-up images that you want to sell, select the market places you want to upload to,enter your email and submit everything. Your product will be created on your stores and will be saved as a draft. This allows you to go check them out and make changes. Once you are ready, you can select all of products and publish them with one click.

6. Fulfill Your Orders

Our last step, Printing and Shipping your Orders. This part is usually the part that stops everyone from starting an online shopping the most. Even if you were willing to learn how to use mock-up generator software and learn the ins and outs of the different portals, we understand that having to have a warehouse space, buying stocks of your products already printed (or to buy also the printers to print your designs), and ship your orders around the world would be the most economically and logistically challenging part. With our 'Order Fulfilling' app called 'Rider' you will be able to print and ship your orders on demand, anywhere in the world, with no minimum orders. process and pay for your orders only after you have done the sale. To use the app, click here or navigate to the 'Order Fulfilling' section of the website. Once on the page, just enter all the required information, chose the product your customer wants, upload your design and a mock-up image for reference and submit the order. You can just sit back while we take care of the processing, printing and shipping of your order. You will receive updates every step of the way as well as a tracking code (if available) for your shipment. Don't forget to provide your customer with the same information so to insure a top-notch customer service and making them want to buy again from your shop.