#redbubble tips

I’ve had my Redbubble store since September 2016. In that time, I have learned a lot about what works for me and what doesn’t. It took me a while to finally start getting consistent sales, but now that I am, I want to share with others what I have learned!

In the first year that I had Redbubble, I only made one sale. Why is that, you ask? Well, because I didn’t have very many designs up yet. However, in 2017, things began to change. I uploaded new designs frequently, and made almost 30 sales. At this point, I was consistently making new designs to see what works and what didn’t.

Now it’s 2020, and I’m making sales consistently. Some months are better than others, but sometimes I make multiple sales in a day! I’ve been more consistent with creating new designs and using social media to market my designs.

How can I use social media to market my designs?

There are many different ways that you can market your Redbubble store. Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Tiktok, Tumblr, Twitter, Youtube... any of these social media websites can be used as a tool for spreading the word about your store. It’s important to know your demographic (target audience) and the places online where they frequently spend their time. Do a little research online and find out what apps or websites your demographic uses most frequently.

What should I post, you may be asking? Well, it wouldn’t hurt to take a look at other successful Redbubble stores and see what they’re doing. My target market is young women, from the age of let’s say 13 to 25. One competitor of mine whose designs appeal to the same demographic uses TikTok to promote her designs. So I’ve made a TikTok and I plan on finding a way to promote my store by creating short-form videos on the platform.

Instagram is a platform that I have more experience with, and I feel more comfortable using it, so I have created a page (separate from my personal account--this is important) where I post my designs weekly. This helps to generate some traffic to my store and get it in front of people who may not have seen it otherwise. Make sure to use relevant hashtags, and I always tag Redbubble’s account in my photos. Here is a blog post from Redbubble about sharing your work, using hashtags, captions, and tracking links, and measuring the results!

Help! I’m using social media to market my designs but I’m still not making sales.

Sorry to break it to you, but it takes a bit of hard work and patience to make sales on Redbubble. There’s no magic pill to make money hand over fist. It’s something you have to constantly work at. Make sure all of the work you have to offer is high quality. You won’t make sales if you don’t have work that appeals to someone. Every so often, I go into my store, make sure every design looks good on the products it’s enabled on, delete any designs that have been up for years but haven’t made any sales, and add new designs. Make sure you are doing research to pick up on design trends--certain colors and subject matters go in and out of popularity. Try to ride those waves.

If you’re having a hard time breaking into a niche, maybe try a different style. If you’ve been going for dark and moody, maybe try something outside of your comfort zone, like a t-shirt with a pun that features an animal illustration. Those seem to do really well on Redbubble! You can always find out what’s selling by going to a category- for example, stickers- and sorting them by “Trending”. Try to figure out if you can duplicate the success of that product by offering something similar in terms of subject matter (not stealing their idea).

Other Helpful Guides:

Getting Started on Redbubble 5 Tips for Getting Featured on Redbubble How to Sell Your Art Online – The Definitive Guide How to Sell on Redbubble Identifying Trends with Katie Crumpton How Events and Holidays Can Help You Connect with Fans A Guide to TikTok for Visual Artists The Ultimate Guide to Promoting Your Art on Instagram 10 Ideas for More Engaging Social Media Posts Share Your Work Like a Pro With Our New Promotional Tools

The Redbubble Blog posts really helpful content that you should definitely check out as well, and commenting on those blog posts helps Redbubble see you, and give you a better chance of being featured on the homepage.

Running a print-on-demand business is both exciting and challenging. Whether you're selling on platforms like Redbubble or managing your own store, creating designs that resonate with your audience is the key to success. But how do you craft designs that not only look great but also sell? In this blog post, I’ll guide you through the process of creating designs that work for your print-on-demand business, with tips and tricks tailored to help you stand out in a competitive market. Let’s dive in!

Welcome back to red bubble Canva design tutorials.

In this video I will show you how to make more sales on red bubble. This tip will help you make consistent sales. You can even promote your click bank on red bubble or your own website.

You can automate your red bubble shop by taking advantage of your description as well as your thank you message to the buyer.

When creating the description, You want to include links to any other platforms or affiliate programs that you may have.

If you have click funnels or use A weber you can create an automation to send it to people when they make a purchase by including the link in the thank you message.

This Link that you include should have a landing page attached to it.

If you’re not sure how to do this leave a comment in the description and I can make future videos

Here is what it would look like if you were to have a link in your description and thank you message.

This red bubble selling top will keep your shop in people’s mind.

Your offer should give something away that is of value. Try this red bubble hack and make more sales passively with repeat customers or promote a different link to raise awareness to your other sites.

 I am by no means a pro at this shit but this is some basic bizniss and mark my words, I’m correct:

1. Use PNGs. Please. With transparent backgrounds. It looks so tacky to have your nice cool typography/art on a white square on an off-white mug/shirt/clock. This is the most important tip.

2. Spend 10mins formatting your designs for the various products- especially the phones/mugs/travel cups- make sure it’s not chopping off the bottom or the sides

3. Try not to have your design end in an abrupt straight line at the bottom- this occasionally works but play it safe

4. Reformat your design closer/further apart for the sticker design and upload it individually, depending if you want resulting one sticker or multiple- stickers are definitely the most purchased item because they’re the cheapest, so it’s worth doing for sure

5. Stay away from the dorky-ass fonts that came with microsoft word, yeah? Times new roman and comic sans especially but just, like, download druchilla or something. Go on dafont or fontsquirrel or blambot (all free) (blambot especially recommended, it’s fantastic) and get yourself something nice.

6. Hashtags are your amigo, amigo- go wild

7. Stay away from the posterise filter if you can

8. Personally I like to search up my quote (or idea, whatever) on the redbubble search engine before I post my work just to see if it’s very similar or identical to what’s already out there

9. Don’t post squashed or stretched images

10. Don’t do crappy cliches unless whatever you’re doing is truly clever- no ‘Keep Calm’, kids

11. Don’t add a vignette- you’re better than that

12. If it’s a long quote be sure to center your text rather than having it right-aligned

13. Hi-res or go home, baby!

14. Unless it’s a suuuper specific design- this mostly applies to clocks and duvets- put your art on more than just prints and a card; this is not to say that you should put it on EVERYTHING (you shouldn’t- I normally stay away from tapestries and skirts especially)

15. If you are going the leggings and skirts route, or duvets and scarves, your design should probably repeat

16. I’d avoid little square designs in the middle of phone cases in general

17. Be discerning with the whole adult content thing

18. Wisely choose what your design default-ly displays as 

19. Have your original design cropped tight for everything for optimal resizing but the art products (prints, posters, cards, art block) in which case make a variant with some chill whitespace around, room to breathe, you feel me