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I started selling NSFW stickers on Etsy. Originally it was a way for me to have a creative outlet but turns out a lot of people want this kind of product. Makin

I started selling NSFW stickers on Etsy. Originally it was a way for me to have a creative outlet but turns out a lot of people want this kind of product. Making just about $500 a month from it now. It’s great because all I have to do is draw the original art once and then I can just repeatedly print it and cut it out. It’s also a very relaxing hobby for me. I enjoy sending out envelopes with hand written notes. It’s refreshing from my usual 9-5 of spreadsheets.

BonoboIO 4y ago
Got a link for us?
c7b 4y ago
How do you do the sticker printing? I recently helped make some stickers for marketing for a friend's business, and I was surprised how much they cost to order in small batches (which is annoying, because we wanted to make miniseries with different designs, but now we just ordered a larger batch of one design instead). Sounds like you use your own hardware, do you have any experience with different models?
- lethologica 4y ago
  I have the simplest set up you could imagine. I just use a Brother MFC-J4440DW printer, the same printer I’ve used for years to just print text documents and some glossy Kodak sticker paper. The printer was a couple hundred bucks and the paper is $10 for 10 sheets. I charge anywhere from $15 to $25 per sticker and usually get 4 stickers per sheet of paper. I then cut them out by hand using an xact-o knife. I’ve looked into automating the cutting process using something like. Brother Scan’n’Cut or a Cricut but I honestly enjoy the manual process of cutting stickers so I’m sticking to it (pun intended!) There was a little bit of trial and error to get the level of printing quality I finally ended up with but now that the settings are dialed in it’s a very easy process. Drawing the art is the hardest bit. I just use an iPad Pro with the pencil and Procreate for that
boppo1 4y ago
Are you printing & shipping them yourself? I considered selling stickers at one point but print costs under 500 was too high, plus the hourly requirements of doing my own pick& pack. I thought about hiring the neighbor kid, but casual hiring seems to get messy/illegal fast.
- lm28469 4y ago
  There are many services that do the printing/shipping for you, they take a big cut on the price though but you don't have to worry about anything at all.
- lethologica 4y ago
  Yep, print and ship myself. The shipping can definitely be expensive for a single sticker depending on where it is being sent to but I charge anywhere from $15 to $25 per sticker (all original art and I think that’s why I can get away with the higher prices) so shipping doesn’t dent into that too much to not make it worth it.
  - boppo1 4y ago
    Do you use any sort of stiff backing to prevent bending?
    - lethologica 4y ago
      No backing. The Kodak glossy sticker paper that I use is thick enough on its own to prevent that

BonoboIO 4y ago

Got a link for us?

c7b 4y ago

How do you do the sticker printing? I recently helped make some stickers for marketing for a friend's business, and I was surprised how much they cost to order in small batches (which is annoying, because we wanted to make miniseries with different designs, but now we just ordered a larger batch of one design instead). Sounds like you use your own hardware, do you have any experience with different models?

lethologica 4y ago
I have the simplest set up you could imagine. I just use a Brother MFC-J4440DW printer, the same printer I’ve used for years to just print text documents and some glossy Kodak sticker paper. The printer was a couple hundred bucks and the paper is $10 for 10 sheets. I charge anywhere from $15 to $25 per sticker and usually get 4 stickers per sheet of paper. I then cut them out by hand using an xact-o knife. I’ve looked into automating the cutting process using something like. Brother Scan’n’Cut or a Cricut but I honestly enjoy the manual process of cutting stickers so I’m sticking to it (pun intended!) There was a little bit of trial and error to get the level of printing quality I finally ended up with but now that the settings are dialed in it’s a very easy process. Drawing the art is the hardest bit. I just use an iPad Pro with the pencil and Procreate for that

boppo1 4y ago

Are you printing & shipping them yourself? I considered selling stickers at one point but print costs under 500 was too high, plus the hourly requirements of doing my own pick& pack. I thought about hiring the neighbor kid, but casual hiring seems to get messy/illegal fast.

lm28469 4y ago
There are many services that do the printing/shipping for you, they take a big cut on the price though but you don't have to worry about anything at all.
lethologica 4y ago
Yep, print and ship myself. The shipping can definitely be expensive for a single sticker depending on where it is being sent to but I charge anywhere from $15 to $25 per sticker (all original art and I think that’s why I can get away with the higher prices) so shipping doesn’t dent into that too much to not make it worth it.
- boppo1 4y ago
  Do you use any sort of stiff backing to prevent bending?
  - lethologica 4y ago
    No backing. The Kodak glossy sticker paper that I use is thick enough on its own to prevent that