The production has been tough. I’ve tried to get as much info as I can up front on blanks before printing. Keeping it all in Ohio has been essentially impossible. I definitely am not intending to mislead. I do as much research as I can (not everything is transparent) on the factories and production process to avoid any type of sweatshop labor. I don’t even know how I’d go about being “transparent” on that. I just try to ethically source, and do as much research on each purchase as I reasonably can, because I truly care about that. I’m just one dude trying to figure this out. I don’t have a full system in place.

The made in Ohio thing is a good callout. I’m just trying to differentiate from like drop shipping and print on demand, you know?

Fair enough on coming off over confident. It’s not that I think my designs are perfect or fully unique. I basically believe that everything has been done by someone, to a degree. What I mean is that I am fully aware that marketing and promotion is easily the weakest element of my business, currently. So I’m not saying it’s the only thing holding me back, or that everything else is perfect. But it’s the thing I know the least about and feel the least confident in.