{"id":4308,"date":"2024-01-21T09:44:36","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T17:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/?p=4308"},"modified":"2024-01-21T09:44:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T17:44:36","slug":"commerce-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/2024\/01\/21\/commerce-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Commerce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4309\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_7256-1.jpeg?resize=1000%2C516\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_7256-1.jpeg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_7256-1.jpeg?resize=500%2C258&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_7256-1.jpeg?resize=768%2C396&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had an idea for a T-shirt design bubbling in my head for a while now, and while I was working on video editing (and waiting for files to render) last week, I put it together in Illustrator: \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lockinghub.threadless.com\">a profile view of a Travelall<\/a> with the script I&#8217;ve already built underneath. This time I built two designs\u2014one for light-colored shirts and one for dark, which is more work but avoids a pet peeve of mine, when printers just reverse out a design in white and the negative spaces aren&#8217;t correctly negative. The other big leap I took was to post it up in a couple of Travelall-specific groups on Facebook, the first time I&#8217;ve posted there (other than Marketplace) in years. Within 24 hours I sold seven shirts and got two requests for custom truck colors and one for a coffee mug, which was easy to do because of the way I set the file up.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4310\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/travelall-silhouette_blue.jpg?resize=1000%2C507\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/travelall-silhouette_blue.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/travelall-silhouette_blue.jpg?resize=500%2C254&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/travelall-silhouette_blue.jpg?resize=768%2C389&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to hoping the orders keep coming in; I think I might do a Scout II next\u2014until the VW group sends me a cease-and-desist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had an idea for a T-shirt design bubbling in my head for a while now, and while I was working on video editing (and waiting for files to render) last week, I put it together in Illustrator: \u00a0a profile view of a Travelall with the script I&#8217;ve already built underneath. This time I built [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travelall"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Ac2-17u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4311,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308\/revisions\/4311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billdugan.com\/scout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}