Stickers continue to grow in popularity - and sales - at an incredible rate. You might be thinking "what's the big deal?" But believe it or not, making and selling stickers can actually earn people a fortune.

People love to express themselves by personalizing items such as water bottles, laptops, phones, etc. Vinyl stickers are a great way to do that! Additionally, if you look at nearly any brand, big or small, they are likely using stickers in some way for their business.

So how can someone go about making money off of stickers? It's actually easier than you think.  Let's get into it.

How Much Money Can You Make Selling Stickers?

There are many small business owners who are generating a full-time income from selling stickers. You could make anywhere from $200-800 per month as a side hustle up to (and beyond) $10,000 per month if you are at it full time.  We have a large number of customers who make six figures a year simply by having us print their designs that they then sell on Etsy.  

What Do You Need to Start Making and Selling Stickers?

Getting Started is actually much easier than most people think.  With a $100 startup investment, and a few hours of time, you can create a business that can easily bring in hundreds of dollars a week.  So what do you need?

1. Sticker Designs

2. A Print Provider

3. Selling Platform(s)

Let's talk about these one by one.

Sticker Designs

Believe it or not, you don't need to be a graphic designer to start a sticker business.  In fact you don't need any special design skills at all to get started.  Now, if you are a graphic designer, or artist, it can be a benefit and a way to set yourself apart.  But it's certainly not required.  There are three main sources of sticker designs.

a) Use Designs That You Make Yourself.  If you're an artist, or graphic designer, this can be a great way to profit off of your past or current work.  If you already have a portfolio of art or designs that you own and can use for stickers, then that is excellent, and in the next section (Print Provider) we will talk about the simple process of turning your art into sticker. 

Even if you aren't an artist, you can still create custom quote style stickers by simply downloading cool fonts from free font providers (like dafonts.com) and making quote stickers.  If you don't already have designs, don't fret, just keep reading.  

b) Use Stock Art and Designs.  Have you heard of Shutterstock?  Or Adobe Stock?  These are platforms that artists, designers, photographers use to publish their work, which the public can license for a small fee.  For example, you can sign up for 10x free Shutterstock images, and download them for unlimited use.  If you want to really ramp up, you can pay for a subscription that allows you access to literally millions of potential files that you can use for stickers.  Funny and humorous quotes are big sellers on Etsy, you can also find fantastic seasonal and holiday designs.  

Designbundles.net is another fantastic source to license art and designs.  It's a website that offers designs and files for crafters.  There are tons of great options that you can get for almost any theme or occasion.  you can often get bundles of tens or even hundreds of designs for just a few dollars.  

c) Commission artwork to use.  You can commission art work in a number of ways.  Many artists offer custom services on websites such as fiverr.com.  This can be another good way to get custom artwork if you have an idea but may not have the artistic skills to bring it to life.  Keep in mind this approach can be more time consuming and expensive. 

Another approach is to connect with artists on reddit, or art portfolio websites such as deviantart.com - many artists are willing to license their art for a one time fee, or for a commission per sale.  This too, can take some legwork, but can give you some really cool art to turn into stickers.  

Print Providers

There are two options to getting your custom stickers printed.  You can do it yourself, or you can outsource it to a print provider.  Printing professional grade stickers does require special equipment that will cost at least 5 figures to get started, so for the purposes of this guide we will focus on outsourcing. 

Finding the right print provider is critical to your success.  Being able to charge a price that gives you a strong profit margin is very important as you start up a small business.  Here are the things you need to consider.  

1) Provider prices

1) Print Quality and Durability

2) Speed and flexibility

3) Provider prices

At FastStickers.com we think that our products and service will match or exceed any of our competitors, at a better price.  

We use top of the line printers and equipment and materials to ensure that our stickers have colors that pop, and are durable enough to last in almost any condition, whether that is outside, or going through the dishwasher.

We print on Epson SureColor SC-80600 printers.  This model is the top of the line vinyl printer in the industry.  It prints in 10 colors (compared to standard 4 color printers that most sticker providers use) for the widest color gamut. 

We then laminate our stickers to give them a 5 year minimum outdoor lifespan.  They are guaranteed not to fade for at least 5 years, even outdoors.  

For cutting we use Graphtec FC-9000 cutters which allows for extremely accurate and detailed die-cuts.  We can cut to any shape.  

We offer all of the above with a 2-day turnaround.

Finally, let's talk about price.  If you compare our price to some of the other sticker providers out there, you will see that we almost always have better prices.  What's more, if you do find an advertised price that beats us, let us know, and we will match it, or beat it.  

All that said - we recommend that you shop around!  Try some different providers, and try us!  We are very confident that you will choose us as your printing partner.  We offer 10x free custom stickers to anyone who wants to see our quality.  

Remember earlier when I said that having the right profit margins is critical to your sticker business?  Let's talk about that a bit more.  

 

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Beautiful Execution. Quick Delivery.

Custom Stickers did an amazing job with our sticker order. They were quick, efficient, and paid great attention to detail. And we can't forget AFFORDABLE!

easy to order, great quality

Will come back for more orders!

100x Custom Stickers for $29.99 | 3"

Will order time and time again!

I am SO in love with my stickers! They turned out exactly how I envisioned — vibrant, high-quality, and super cute. The colors pop, the design is clean, and they were packaged nicely. These are perfect for my brand and I’ve already started using them on my products. Definitely recommend and will be ordering more!

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Circle Stickers
Otávio Santos de Albuquerque
Great quality!

Loved the print and paper/vinyl quality. Plus, the extra bunch were really appreciated!

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Face Stickers
Sandra Kim

Face Stickers

Quality business card.

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Square Stickers
Liam Gardo

Square Stickers

10/10 recommend

The stickers came out better than I thought. Love them. Thanks so much

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Custom Vinyl Stickers
Robert Lehmann
When things go wrong, it's the after sales service that counts!

I placed an order for some stickers for my business, Fair Wind Fasteners, which is a leading supplier of marine grade fasteners such as nuts, bolts and screws. Like CustomStickers we have an e-commerce business model so are well aware of the effort it takes to provide good service.

Sometimes the shipping carriers (especially USPS) make it hard for us to provide the kind of speedy service that we would like to, and in this case that's what happened to CustomStickers with our order. USPS had marked the package as delivered, but it was nowhere to be found despite checking with neighbors and speaking with my postman. This is of course not the fault of CustomStickers, and from their perspective tracking showed the package as delivered so they thought the job was done.

When I contacted them about the msising package I was able to reach Amie at customer service who didn't hesitate to help me out. She had the factory turn out another run of stickers immediately, and had them shipped out to me very quickly to try and solve the issue. I very much appreciated her attention and the fact that they decided to just eat the cost of that first shipment and send us a new one. We do the same for our customers, so it was nice to be treated with the same level of customer service that we try to provide at Fair Wind Fasteners.

Thank you Amie, and thank you CustomStickers for the great service. As an e-commerce business ourselves we understand that no matter how hard you try to get orders out of the door and delivered quickly sometimes a third party (in this case USPS) makes that impossible to do through no fault of your own. What matters then is the level of professionalism and communication that happen afterwards and you nailed it there.

Thanks again!

Sticker samples

I thought the sticker samples were awesome. Great quality. 2 thumbs up

Great look and feel. Will be reordering.

Amazing, as usual

I created stickers from photos I took during a recent family trip and as usual, Customstickers did an excellent job with them. One of the photos I had planned ahead of time specifically for the sticker knowing I could rely on Customstickers to deliver it beautifully. Thank you for yet another awesome round of stickers!

Great product and great customer serivce

Awesome

Stickers were awesome! Quickly shopped

I Continue to come to custom stickers because they do such an amazing job and they ship out my order so fast. They are literally my favorite sticker source!

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Great stickers!

Very high quality stickers! Would definitely recommend!

Every sticker had a raised, melted border. Not flush.

Every sticker had a raised border, so they don't fit completely flat. My concern is that they will eventually peel or rip after a period of normal use. I get that the raised edge is a melt from the laser cutting cut I have gotten other stickers from other companies, and this was not an issue. I contacted customer service but was not offered a fix, they just wanted to be updated if they came off. I think the quality could be improved as they should be flush and have no edges. Doubt I'll place another order. There are too many other options out there.

Hi Chris!
Thanks so much for your feedback—we really appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts.

Regarding your concern about the raised edge potentially peeling: this isn’t something we've had complaints about, and in our experience, it’s not an issue you should need to worry about. That said, we want you to feel fully confident in your order, so we’d be happy to reprint the stickers using our blade printers, which offer a slightly different cut that may give you extra peace of mind.

If you're happy with how the reprint turns out, we’d be grateful if you’d consider updating your review. We truly value your support and always want to ensure you're satisfied with the end result.

Let us know if you’d like to move forward with the reprint—we’re ready whenever you are!

Thanks!

Great quality, price, and service.

These stickers turned out exactly as we hoped. They are great quality, especially for the price. Customer service was awesome as well. I had to call a few times to clarify parts of my order and they were so helpful. Setting up my account as a tax-exempt entity was easy. The stickers arrived super quick and have been very popular. Would definitely recommend.

Give and take

They were just kind of so so. The color seems kind of faded and the text seems a little blurry. But the vinyl is thick and the contour cuts are good. They also arrived quickly. The text though.

Good size for free stickers.

I didn't know what to expect when i first put in an order, but the samples I received were larger than expected. The stickers were large enough to fit into the palm of my hand, roughly 4 to 4.5 inches at the largest portion and they had a nice matte finish that would fit very nicely on a water bottle or on a PC case. If all the stickers from this sample set had the same quality in future orders and remained uniform I'd be a very happy customer.

My Team Stickers

Oh I was very excited to receive the stickers. . . .oh. . .they are just stickers , but not to me. . . .brought back some good memories . The stickers were perfect, bright colors and stuck very well to my old Atlanta shirt. Thank you for sending them so quickly.

Great sticker

Arrived in a good time frame and the sticker turned out amazing. Great packaging too. Will buy again!