If you're a designer and you would like to design. There is an awesome marketplace called Redbubble, that helps a lot of artists around the world to take their design to the next levels. You can open a shop easily for free! start designing and earning money at the same time.
Before you start uploading your designs in this marketplace, you have to know how it works. It has more than 80 different products (include: T-Shirts, Stickers, Mugs, Phone Cases, Greeting Cards, Postcards, Notebooks, etc.) to choose which product you rather sell in your shop.
Note: You can add all of the products If your design appropriate. it's a great benefit for your customers to choose from them also to raise your chance for more sales!
In your shop, simply have to create better designs and upload them, and wait for sales! , and Redbubble cares about production the production, shipping, and support your customers. So, how many designs can you have on Redbubble?
This lovely marketplace gives you a huge chance to bigger your shop quickly, simply by uploading 60 works per day to your shop!
After you get sales in your account, they will send you earnings every month and also you can track and analyze what you’ve earned on the Dashboard of your shop.
Here are tips that help you to start:
Set Up a Redbubble Store
To create your shop you have to Click the sell art button on the top right of any page to get started, you will be taken to this page below.
Then signup as Artist simply by filling out your information and be careful to choose a great user. To complete your shop you need a few steps:
Add an avatar and Cover Image
Adding value gives you a benefit to encourage customers to visit your shop and they can buy from you because people love remarkable things. so. make sure to upload great images for the avatar (100 x 100 px) and cover (2400 px wide x 600 px high).
Add social links
Adding social media accounts is a powerful way to grow your audience, help your customers to know more about your work, and follow you.
The good news is this awesome marketplace gives you a huge opportunity to promote your products simply by clicking on the share button (Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest).
Add a bio
Bio is simply a short story about your work and your interest so, make sure to create a smart and creative bio that can help you encourage customers to explore your store, and they can admire your work and buy from you. Here's an awesome example of bio:
Add Your Artwork
After setting up your shop, the next step recommended is to add the first artworks simply by clicking on your avatar (you find the top right of any page) then the “Add New Work” button, and select the "Upload New Work" button to upload PNG or JPEG file (both accepted). Make a title and create a description, tags(keywords), choose a background color, and make your design available on a wide range of products (including t-shirts, hoodies, sweatshirts, clocks, socks, scarves, leggings, dresses, tote bags, pencil cases, notebooks, duvets, throw pillows, floor cushions, phone cases, wall art, bath mats, shower curtains, coasters, and many more).
Adding tags or keywords really gives you a huge chance to be seen in search, in Redbubble on a part, search engines on the other hand. So, how many tags recommended in Redbubble?
In this marketplace, you can add up to 50 tags max to any artwork, and make sure your tags at least 3 words. Add many tags is not efficient sometimes because it can affect negatively your ranking search.
we talked about the quality of products, and we forgot an important thing is "Price", this the last is very significant in the marketing world so, be careful to put a serious price.
In Redbubble, you have a margin of any product you sell it. by default is set to 20% and you can change it as you like.
Final Small Steps on Your Account Details
To Finish your shop you have to:
Verify Your Email
It's important to confirm your email, to make your products for sale. so, check the email address that you already signup with it, and simply click verify your account.
Payment Method
To get started and sell your products you need to add your payment details. So, go to your Account Settings, click on "Edit Payment Details" and then choose your payment you would like to get paid. Also, don't forget to fill out your real personal information.
You're done! 👌
Optional Additions
Thank you message
Almost all e-commerce businesses using a "thank you message" because it is important to encourage their customers to come back to purchase from them, so also you can make it too. Redbubble gives you an opportunity to connect with your customers by creating a message for them after they purchase from your shop.
In your Dashboard click on "Message To Buyer" and then add your message to touch your Buyer's emotions!
Add Google Analytics
Analyzing your shop and your traffic is a very important step but many people ignore it. It gives you a lot of information and statistics to track your visitors and enhance your store. There is a great tool free, it can do all this work.
So, you can simply go to Google Analytics' and signup then copy your "Web Property ID" from Google Analytics and paste it in the box on your dashboard in Redbubble.Getting Ideas
There are many things to get ideas:
First, In the marketplace itself (Redubble), simply by search box on any page and start writing at first any letter and they will show you a lot of ideas trending. like this example below.
Second, Google Trends is a great tool to help know what people searching for with statistics also to compare between two keywords or more. like this example below.
Third, social media has strong algorithms and you can find ideas, like on Pinterest and Instagram to see what’s topics really people engage with them.
To conclude, whether you have another business or not, Redbubble is an awesome passive income for you.
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