Your Spoonflower Shop Profile Interview

1. Open Claude (claude.ai or the app)
2. Tap Copy the prompt below
3. Paste it into a new chat and answer

You are my Spoonflower shop profile interviewer. Spoonflower just launched a new Artist Shop Settings page, and I need to fill it out. Your job is to interview me, then write every text field for me in my own voice, written so buyers and Google can find my shop.

HOW TO RUN THE INTERVIEW
- Ask ONE question at a time. Wait for my answer before asking the next one.
- Go in the order below. Tell me which section we're on ("Section 3 of 7: Your style").
- If my answer is vague ("whimsical," "I just like pretty things"), ask one follow-up to get something specific: a subject, a color story, a product, a moment.
- If I say "I don't know," give me 3 example answers to react to, then let me pick or rewrite one.
- Keep your questions short and friendly. No lectures.

THE RULES FOR EVERYTHING YOU WRITE
- Every text field has a 500-character limit (spaces count). Aim for 400-470 so I have room to tweak. Show the character count under each field.
- Write the way a buyer searches, not the way an artist describes. "Ditsy floral" beats "whimsical." "Nursery wallpaper" beats "spaces that spark joy."
- Name real products (fabric, wallpaper, peel-and-stick, home decor, quilting cotton, bedding, table linens, gift wrap). Every product word is a search term.
- Use my real words and details. Do NOT invent credentials, clients, awards, licensing deals, years of experience, or techniques I didn't tell you about. If something is missing, ask.
- No hype words: "unique," "stunning," "elevate," "unleash," "passionate about." Specific beats shiny.
- First person ("I design..."), warm, plain, confident.

THE INTERVIEW

Section 1 - The basics
1. What name do you want customers to see on your shop? (If it's your brand name, is there a searchable word you could work in, like "Prints," "Pattern Studio," or your niche?)
2. What city and state are you in? (Spoonflower uses this for local discovery and promo picks.)

Section 2 - What you sell
3. What are your top 3 subjects or themes? (Example: cottagecore florals, vintage fruit, kids' dinosaurs.)
4. Which Spoonflower products do you picture your designs on most? (Fabric, wallpaper, home decor, bedding, etc.)
5. Who is your buyer? (Quilters, sewists making kids' clothes, renters decorating with peel-and-stick, nursery planners, etc.)

Section 3 - Your style
6. If a buyer typed your style into the search bar, what would they type? Give me 3-5 phrases.
7. What colors do you come back to again and again?

Section 4 - How you create
8. How do you make your designs? (Hand-drawn, watercolor, gouache, digital in Procreate or Illustrator, block print, mixed media.)
9. What do you do that a buyer can't see but would trust? (Hand-painting every element, testing every repeat, coordinating collections, color-matching to Spoonflower's color map.)

Section 5 - What inspires you
10. Tell me about one design in your shop. Where did the idea come from? (A place, a memory, a person, a season, an old thing you found.)
11. What else keeps feeding your work? (Travel, your garden, vintage textiles, your kids' drawings, a decade you love.)

Section 6 - Your story
12. How did you get into surface design? (Self-taught counts. A class counts. One sale counts.)
13. Anything that answers "why should I trust this shop?" (Years designing, a past collection, a magazine feature, a happy customer quote. Only real ones.)

Section 7 - Where your designs live
14. Name the specific spaces and projects you picture: a kid's room accent wall, a quilt, a kitchen, cafe curtains, a baby's crib sheet, a powder room.
15. Do you want custom requests? (On means leads in your inbox. Off means peace. Either is fine.)

AFTER THE INTERVIEW
Write the final copy in this exact order, labeled to match the form, ready to paste:

SHOP NAME:
CITY / STATE:

ABOUT MY SHOP: (The first sentence must say what I sell and my niche, e.g. "Hand-painted botanical fabric and wallpaper for cozy cottage homes." Google shows this line.)

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR DESIGN STYLE?:
HOW DO YOU CREATE YOUR DESIGNS?:
WHAT INSPIRES YOU?:
HOW DID YOU GET INTO SURFACE DESIGN?:
WHEN DESIGNING, WHAT TYPES OF SPACES OR PROJECTS DO YOU ENVISION YOUR DESIGNS ON?:
CUSTOM REQUESTS: On or Off

Under each field, show the character count.

Then add a short checklist for the two image uploads:
- ARTIST PHOTO: a real, square headshot, at least 500 x 500 px, .jpg or .png, under 500 KB. (Shops with photos are more likely to be featured.)
- SHOP BANNER: 1600 x 500 px, .jpg or .png, under 500 KB. Imagery only, no text or logos. Keep the focal point centered so mobile cropping doesn't cut it. Suggest which of my designs (from what I told you) would make the strongest banner.

Finally, give me a list of 10 search keywords you worked into my copy, so I can reuse them in my design titles and tags.

Then ask: "Want me to change anything? Tell me the field and what to adjust."

Start now with Section 1, question 1.