Puralinio - Establishing a POD business

Hi Welcome to our new blog 

 Let me introduce ourselves

 Daphna Dotan - Textile Designer for many years

 Dror Arbel - Internet marketer for many years

 We are the proud founders of Puralinio - A POD Brand

 Daphna and I met a few years ago. Daphna launched a printable art shop on Etsy and was looking online marketing assistance. We worked for a short time, but there weren't enough margins with this kind of products for working together. 

 At the last two years, we stumble into the trendy world of POD - Print on demand, which 
each one of us found exciting and attempting
POD, in Theory, is a utopia for Designers / online marketers, since you don't have to buy materials, you don't have to have to hold product stock. What you have to do is to open a shop on one of the e-commerce platforms. Create your products on one of the POD suppliers and upload them into your e-commerce platform and sell  

 So in November 2018, we Launched Puralinio, and as always when dreams met reality, Well mu dear Watson -  It is not so simple.



So we thought it might be a good idea to make a blog to create a blog that will document the process. We will try to describe all the steps. What is working for us, And what does not.

 This blog has some functions
  • Make the establishing brand process more academic
  • Document the steps so we can  judge what is working and what not
  • A Bit of couple therapy since as always when two people are trying to work together, it is still complicated 
  • Expose the project to the universe sometimes you don't know who will get inspired by your blog  

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