Two minutes in and SO THANKFUL for... no bullshit music, no teenager yelling about millions, no Lamborghini, no arrogance. MORE OF THIS on youtube. Please. Ok, back to watching.
OMG finally someone who really gives you the straight goods and doesn't sugar coat it. Two videos in and I've already learned more than all of the other "fantasyland" videos I've seen on the same subject, combined. I can't thank you enough. Now I feel confident I can do this with eyes wide open!
I'm new to Redbubble (just 5 designs, but no open store yet) and I'm in the research and knowledge attainment stage, and I must say, I consistently find your videos to be clear, concise, and extremely helpful!
Very refreshing compared to all the noise and hype with some RUclips channels. plus lots of tips and tricks. I stayed for the whole video and I learned more from you than the 10 others I watched on this topic. Great job Dude!
YAY Congrats on the 5k Subs..... Can I just say that I have watched many POD videos but none have been as informative and new content based as yours. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, and wishing you the deserved success that is sure to come your way.
So glad I've found your channel! What made it for me was the comment of 1 year of no sales. Treat it as going to school.. put everything in to perspective. Was getting a little disheartened with no sales a few weeks in...thank you..
That title honestly made me click so fast, keep up the great content :) Edit: Watched the entire video, honestly just amazing advice and this is the type of content that puts people in the right mindset for success without leading them to disappointment... 10/10 would smash the like button again.
Great video. Thank you so much. I've just started a POD business (using Redbubble and Teespring to start with) and am about to launch a joint one with my daughter (different design styles). I figured the first 12 months will be a "learning experience", but it's great to hear from an experienced POD designer what to expect and not to give up.
Totally - for me personally, print on demand is really fun and the sales are a bonus. Making even $50 or $100 a month on a small shop selling cool designs is like a hobby that pays you instead of you paying to play.
This is so interesting, I normally dont bother as much with 30+ minute video's, but i watched the whole thing now. You have some solid tips which I wouldn't expect when clicking this initially. Big thumbs up
Thank you so much for this video! I have made over 600 sales on Redbubble and I still feel like a beginner when Iuploaded my first design 2 years ago. One must never stop improving and trying new things, thank you for the motivation and helpful tips!
I am soooo happy I found you. The way you explain things is amazing, the things you provide I've never heard before and I think I watched everything on RUclips (ok a little exaggeration but you get the idea). I am going to find each and every one of your videos and binge watch them. All I can say is "where have you been all my life?" Thanks for all the great information.
watching this video second time, first - when just started. Thank you for a "year without sales" - it gives hope) The year hadn't past and got some sales) work, work and work! And now I am looking on my shop - and I see that many designs are not good. Do not have many designs - but want to delete half of them
Thank you, I found this video, right at the time I needed it! Also, going off track here, but I love your voice! It’s so relaxing! Sometimes I look up videos that I don’t really feel like watching, but I should watch them, but the person making the video is annoying or talks way to loud, or whatnot. I figured I should watch some videos today to learn some things, I found you and I could watch all day, because your voice is soothing! Well, anyway, thank you for the video!
Another fantastic video, thanks for all the tips and clarity! Some of these things are very helpful and comforting to hear as a beginner who has not yet made a first sale.
Hey Zen, I've been binge watching your videos since I found your channel and subscribed a few weeks ago...just echoing some other comments from below, but love your clean and informative style... Keep it up!
i opened my redbubble last feb and still zero sales. i'm kind of figuring out things and how to be visible and how all that works. recently i made a design that made it to 1st page of relevant search results with over 22k other designs. still figuring out how that specific design managed to be on 1st page of such saturated niche and results of 22k. to anyone who is reading this, don't give up. i guess my design showing at 1st page vs 22k designs is a sign that even if we are still starting, we can be visible and we will figure it out. your video is amazing and motivating. thank you.
I love your content, it has ALWAYS been very helpful to me. You know, if you hear it enough, you will begin to believe it, LOL! Many successful T-shirt and merch sales folks have said the same thing, this is not a get rich quick scheme. Never has been, never will be! KEEP AT IT! Thank you so much for the awesome video. 😉👍
I love your attitude, and work ethic. I was just thinking to myself it’s like a university speciality which will take time to connect all the dots, and make coherent sense to creating and then becoming successful.
Thank you for this. Everyone says "just do a RUclips channel, do affiliate marketing, etc" it's much harder than I thought it was..to even get subscribers let alone watch time and everything else. I wish I hadn't believed some of the stuff, my fault, my responsibility, I know
Yes its 100x times harder than what they tell us.. Hours and hours of hard work where you only sell 1 design out of 10 you post.. Same with the youtube and everything else.
I love this video and you voice.. Holy makaroni, I could just listen to this for hours on end 🎧🙏 Getting in the zone 🤓 I'll be subscribing after this, most definitely 👍 Thank you Mr. 🙏
Failure is going to happen and it’s going to happen a lot!! Thank you... no one says that and it drives me crazy. Like everything, if you keep returning to it after many fails it means you love it and you will ultimately succeed. : )
I’ve been about 6 months now in different PODS and started selling on the 6 th month in some of them. Was a bit discouraged about not having sales, but I’m just starting to add new tags to my designs since watching these great tips. Not expecting to get 10,000 sales …😅but hope to get at least a few more Thanks so much for sharing this great information
@@padkirsch not so well...😁I may need to keep posting new material, but it's hard for me to try to do everything by myself, posting on social media, on PODs, youtube...too much!😅
@@art_by_Ruth_and_Co what different POD sites do you use? Keep at it! Post your stuff to Pinterest and other sites like this! Make sure to title things good. Keep at it. Find new niches that have less things but are still searched for etc. What is your page where can I find it? 🙂
@@art_by_Ruth_and_Co yea it's hard it's so much work! 😥 Keep up the good work. Just keep doing it. And do the art for yourself so you don't get discouraged. It's definitely a long process and hard work
Nice and full of insights as always! I like your approach of being more realistic instead of others who overly promote print on demand as a passive income. I am just wondering for uploading in 10 POD sites, have you used some automated apps that you can connect these POD sites (eg redbubble) and upload at once?
That’s a good question - no I do not use automation. What I do is set up my titles and tags in a Word doc and then just copy and paste them into each upload. I also make all my Redbubble images the same size so I can “copy settings” and just plow through the uploads
@@zenwatercooler and then for all other POD sites, you post new listings then copy paste the tags from docs? like your browser has 10 tabs open...? wow if you are doing this in one hour you're pretty fast
Thank you very much for your helpful advice! Ironically, I am actually in Omaha! So this gave me some good ideas since I can observe the community. 😊🙌🏼
Man I sincerely respect the courage people have to do Etsy. I started to set up an account the other day and I backed out They told me right off that they would be able to hold money to make sure that expenses were covered for shipping etc, and they demanded my Social Security number and so many things that scared the hell out of me and I just couldn’t go through with it. I hear so many horror stories about people who have done business with Etsy for many years as a top seller only to wake up one day; just like you and their entire shop was closed down without any foreknowledge, warning or opportunity to resolve any possible issues or misunderstandings. Etsy terrifies me.
Thank you for the advice it's very accessible and helpful. One question I have is this...Do you upload the exact same designs on more than one site? Or even a similar design, like you have a shirt that says I Love My Cat and you only change the font. Obviously there are some who do this, I was just wondering if you have and how well it's worked. Thanks
Yes great question - I typically make my design on the largest possible canvas and then for Redubble and Teepublic, push it to both of those. For others, I will use the canvas in Photoshop and make something similar. So yes to the exact same design like 75% of the time. It works OK - I find actually I make more consistent sales on Teepublic but the bigger wins $$$ wise are on Redbubble. (For me anyways)
Great video. What resolution do you use when making your designs for shirts? i use 4500x5400 px with canva, i upload that with transparent backgound, redbubble is redusing the size of the design to fit the t-shirt, the problem is the design, especially the text looks very jagged on closer look, how do you deal with that?
Yes it's a good question - I try to use the highest-quality base image (like a vector) if at all possible. The text should be the easy part - I am wondering if when you save with Canva it is not going to 300 dpi? For Redbubble I do 6480 x 7632 (and either 300 dpi or 400 dpi and I use an ancient version of Photoshop).
@@zenwatercooler Hey, thanks for answering. Canca saves the png designs at a max 96dpi value unfortunately, only pdf for print option gets 300dpi, so i guess that's where the problem is. I didn't start using Photoshop because it seemed easier with Canva since it has all those elements just ready to use for my designs. I'm new btw, barely having 20 designs atm, but I do have time and desire to learn 😅
Just wanted to point out that corn in Nebraska is not about corn fields. This is a football shirt and the football team is Cornhuskers. This is a good effective way to refer to Cornhuskers without saying the trademarked content. Good example of how to avoid copyright and trademark issues.
I am wondering how can I have time to do more than one website at the same time?I suppose the only way you would is to upload different designs as you make them. But I wanted to put the same designs on in case they closed me down on one. But maybe I should join other sites. I don't know if I should do different niches on each site or do a variety. and what do you think about word cloud designs? Is it a waste of time? I spend many, many hours each day,because I enjoy it. If I didn't I wouldn't even bother doing it.
Hello mister with the great and cool voici, i was wondering if when you upload a design, can you select only a gender for your design? I mean only t shirt for men for exemple? Or you only choose for products ?
Hey there - on Redbubble you can turn on or off products so you can switch off certain types of shirts. Most of the basic t-shirts are unisex - typically you would want to have your one design listed on as many products as possible. I have sold some seriously weird stuff (designs on jigsaw puzzles and shower curtains that I was shocked that someone actually paid money for it).
Honestly, I came across some redbubble accounts, created this year with thousands of likes. There is one, created in Feb, 2021, this month, having only 5 designs, with more than 8000 likes. How come? Is it realistic? Dont know... Btw, do you know whether it's possible to use erank without having a shop? I tried and it constantly asks for me Etsy shop link but I havent opened it yet. Thanks for your reply in advance.
Hey there - for eRank, I just logged in using my Etsy account (I do NOT have a shop anymore on Etsy so it should work even if you don't link a shop to your username). I primarily use eRank for keyword tools (they have some free stuff that is useful).
Question, though. Do we add the "xyz STICKER" part to the tags? I thought we just put "xyz" and RB adds the product to the tags. Thank you for all your help. Your videos are excellent.
Yes that is a great question. Tags are mysterious (there is no “one source of truth”, just some RB blog posts). I personally think that there is no downside to putting the word “sticker” in the tag itself. I have found no evidence that there’s negatively impact a chance at a sale. However there are lots of different opinions so my experience only! P.S. thank you so much for the feedback!
Hey cool video, glad I found you. Just started my journey back in August 2020 on mba and rb and am only on 68 sales on RB at the moment. The only thing I wasnt sure was if you also sell on mba? If not why not? With 10k sales on other platforms you would be killing it on amazon.
Is it against these marketplace's TOS to upload pre-made saturated shirts being sold in these "shirt-packs" on various sites? I would be having my own shirts designed, but wanted to use these to "fill-out" my initial inventory.
I always recommend having a unique piece of art because if you upload the exact same design as someone else, even if you both have commercial license, someone could get dinged with a copyright violation. I have an example here: ruclips.net/video/T85ciRebwIw/видео.html
I’m yet to upload my first design and what really annoys me is while I’m searching on a platform for inspiration and I see a product where someone has just taken one of the free images available online made no changes to it and just uploaded it. And you can definitely see the difference in the quality of someone who has made some changes to an image they got on-line compared to someone who has just literally downloaded and then uploaded it straight onto A selling platform
Thank you for the tips. I have few items that I think are popular in redbubble and I know what the genre is. So, should I remove the other items that have 0 sales and just focusing on the popular items?
I would never recommend removing a design unless it really hurts your brand (like you have church designs mixed with erotic designs for example). Otherwise, just move your designs into collections
Hi... I'm an artist but not very I. T minded....... When we make our designs... Does the image have to be a certain size before we can upload it to red bubble? How do I do this? I've had issues in the past with ebay & image sizes.... Is this an issue on P O D sites? Thank you 😊
Good question - you can upload a smaller design if you like but it just won't be usable on every single product. You can also tile (repeat pattern) on Redbubble for a lot of designs, but usually I shoot to have at least 5,000 x 7,000 pixels for Redbubble.
Thank you so much for your reply. My question was about the income someone can make with POD business. To be honest, your number sounds more realistic, but several people claim 6 figures in a month within a short time and start their own coaching and offer courses. Is it really possible to make that mu h money in a month?
It's a great question. I guess anything is possible. My question (for them) would be that if they really are making $100,000 a year, why are they busy selling courses to people like us for $100. That seems fishy (to me). I think $100 is very realistic and if you are really talented or lucky (or both) and you upload a LOT of designs, you can make $1,000 a month. I have seen people on Reddit who post their Merch by Amazon sales and some people really do make $4,000 US a month. So it is possible to make big money but I certainly would start small and learn the ins and outs before committing time (and money) to an expensive course. My opinion only!
I heard in a few places that going for the most tags is not the best way and that for some reason ~25 tags is the sweetspot although I'm not sure how much they were conflating correlation with causation there as I'm sure a lot of people who go for the most tags they can think of would end up with around that number anyway
Yes I've heard that too (although I can't find any actual source that it's true) - I agree with you, I pretty much land on 25 and ove on - I've seen great selling design with 3-4 tags so I guess it comes down to a variety of factors.
Thank you very much man. You are making serious useful content and I will recommend your channel to all my Instagram followers. But I have a question if you don't mind, I use canva for designing my t-shirts, but canva just work with RGB system colours only, do you think I will be just fine to work with RGB canva for my designs??
You are most welcome - to be honest, I have only ever used RGB in Photoshop and have never had any problems. I've heard people talk about the differences between RBG and CMYK regarding printing colors, but I personally have only ever used RBG and never heard of a problem regarding print quality or anything.
I've only just started on RB... Can u give your shop ID so I can visit? Also how do u promote your products? Im using pinterest pins for now but I guess that won't be enough
I have a question: Actually I'm a brand new seller too and I'm not an artist, but can I ask should I just design in one specific niche or variety of niches? Should I follow trends and what is SEO, how can I rely on organic traffics to make a sale...can you help me? I would be appreciated!
Great question - if you first starting out on Redbubble (or any site), I would recommend doing 5 collections of 15-20 designs each. And then see what sells. Whatever sells... make more of that. So start out with a variety of niches but as you get more experience, you will find your dominate 2-3 niches where you will spend most of your time. Hope that helps!
Thank you so much!!! My journey had just begun, I will try to study as much as I can and I hope I would succeed on my own POD business😎😎😎 Thanks again for your advice, and your videos are really helpful!
Yes for sure - if you created the design, it’s yours so you would have the copyright. I have the same design on multiple print on demand sites (sometimes I change the size or make small adjustments, but you don’t have to).
Ah that's what I wanted to know, so how do you know if "they" used your idea for themselves and you won't even know it. You say it's your design and copyright?
Priceless advice! Thank you so much. Feels like after watching this, you shaved off months of my otherwise probable future errors. Here's my contribution to this video: ------ if you're having fun you can't fail, even if to others looks like failure.-------- 💪💛 I'm just getting started on RB so I'm really curious to apply your approach and come back to this comment in a year from now and share my resoults. In fact I challenge whoever is reading this to do the same. 😉 Good Luck Ya'll.
I usually take the same base design at the largest possible size and then throw it on each POD platform (without changes if possible). The hard part (for me) is the uploading - I find it boring and tedious so I wind up having way more designs and a backlog to actually upload them.
@@zenwatercooler Thanks for your input! Just getting started. I'll take your advice and put a year into it and see how it goes. A mentor once told me that something isn't true until it's true for you. I take it to mean that I can get all the advice in the world, but it doesn't mean much until I jump in with both feet and get some experience and learn all the pitfalls myself. Thanks!
I have a question that I hope no one asked. The question is is there any profitable niche in shirts. That has no living thing photos on it. No religious talk on it. No abuses on it. Please reply
so true, i started with exactly 100 t-shirt designs for amazon merch, that was my goal, 2 shirts sell alot, 98 never sell, i do better designs now and have a niche...2 years hard work and its still not a big earner, keep on trying never give up
To be honest, no I'm not sure (and I don't think anyone else is either). I usually split the different and do 30 because 15 is "recommended" and 50 is allowed. No one really knows (and if they say they do, I don't believe them!).
Hi sir I really have aa serious question Is it Legal to adjust and customize Pintrest pins and upload them as your design Maybe this looks stupid to some of professional designers but I really want to know It will be so much appreciated if you could provide an answer
Hey there - it would really depend on what the pin is. You can take public domain images and create art from it. But you can't just take a picture of like Nirvana and upload it. What is the picture?
Great stuff. How do you feel or have any experience with NON- copy righted images from the public domain sites? I plan on doing this type of business on Etsy connecting Printful to sell wall art, posters, framed images FREE from the public domain. From what I understand it is 100% legal. I just watched you other video with you getting banned on Etsy.. that's a bummer! *Update I just watched your other videos on this same subject. :)
Hmmm the only example I can think of this is a museum website that offers public domain images but then says the images on the website are copyrighted by the museum. So legally, the copy of the image itself on the website would be theirs. However, I can’t picture a realistic scenario where the museum could ever prove that the image you’ve used came from their website and not another source. My personal attitude is That I try to find the highest quality image possible, and often that is on Wikimedia.
@@zenwatercooler RUclips is unbelievable I can't even mention a website where I was going for free PD pics (like typing it in) w/o YT deleting the comment good Lord. I see this a lot now. Anyway I get the largest pic for download in a .PNG format so they should work well and I will check out that site also. Thanks
@@mdimroz8259 It happened to me and they also sent me that answer...I replied explaining I have experience in other marketplaces...no response from them, but then my designs started to show up.
Two minutes in and SO THANKFUL for... no bullshit music, no teenager yelling about millions, no Lamborghini, no arrogance. MORE OF THIS on youtube. Please. Ok, back to watching.
This.
This need to be on a T shirt 😂
OMG finally someone who really gives you the straight goods and doesn't sugar coat it. Two videos in and I've already learned more than all of the other "fantasyland" videos I've seen on the same subject, combined. I can't thank you enough. Now I feel confident I can do this with eyes wide open!
I'm new to Redbubble (just 5 designs, but no open store yet) and I'm in the research and knowledge attainment stage, and I must say, I consistently find your videos to be clear, concise, and extremely helpful!
Very refreshing compared to all the noise and hype with some RUclips channels. plus lots of tips and tricks. I stayed for the whole video and I learned more from you than the 10 others I watched on this topic. Great job Dude!
YAY Congrats on the 5k Subs..... Can I just say that I have watched many POD videos but none have been as informative and new content based as yours. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, and wishing you the deserved success that is sure to come your way.
So glad I've found your channel! What made it for me was the comment of 1 year of no sales. Treat it as going to school.. put everything in to perspective. Was getting a little disheartened with no sales a few weeks in...thank you..
I treat it as making/growing my portfolio.. So if no sales, my clients will see my portfolio (RB, MBA, Etsy shop etc) as a proof of experience.
Best video I've listened to on the topic so far. Thank you sir! 🖤
That title honestly made me click so fast, keep up the great content :)
Edit: Watched the entire video, honestly just amazing advice and this is the type of content that puts people in the right mindset for success without leading them to disappointment... 10/10 would smash the like button again.
Best video I´ve ever seen on youtube. You are great. Thank you
When you feel sad & tired in any domain just listen to this man god bless you❤
I really appreciate your videos my friend...you keep it real and honest..I appreciate that a lot. I really rate you content, keep it up and THANK YOU
Great video. Thank you so much. I've just started a POD business (using Redbubble and Teespring to start with) and am about to launch a joint one with my daughter (different design styles). I figured the first 12 months will be a "learning experience", but it's great to hear from an experienced POD designer what to expect and not to give up.
Totally - for me personally, print on demand is really fun and the sales are a bonus. Making even $50 or $100 a month on a small shop selling cool designs is like a hobby that pays you instead of you paying to play.
How is your shop going now?
This is so interesting, I normally dont bother as much with 30+ minute video's, but i watched the whole thing now. You have some solid tips which I wouldn't expect when clicking this initially. Big thumbs up
Thank you for the feedback! I super appreciate it 😎😎😎
Thanks buddy. Retired now I find this ideal for my phase in life
Thank you so much for this video!
I have made over 600 sales on Redbubble and I still feel like a beginner when Iuploaded my first design 2 years ago.
One must never stop improving and trying new things, thank you for the motivation and helpful tips!
I am soooo happy I found you. The way you explain things is amazing, the things you provide I've never heard before and I think I watched everything on RUclips (ok a little exaggeration but you get the idea). I am going to find each and every one of your videos and binge watch them. All I can say is "where have you been all my life?" Thanks for all the great information.
Awesome tips......its very overwhelming at first..but you put everything into perspective...Thank you !
watching this video second time, first - when just started. Thank you for a "year without sales" - it gives hope) The year hadn't past and got some sales) work, work and work! And now I am looking on my shop - and I see that many designs are not good. Do not have many designs - but want to delete half of them
Thank you, I found this video, right at the time I needed it! Also, going off track here, but I love your voice! It’s so relaxing! Sometimes I look up videos that I don’t really feel like watching, but I should watch them, but the person making the video is annoying or talks way to loud, or whatnot. I figured I should watch some videos today to learn some things, I found you and I could watch all day, because your voice is soothing! Well, anyway, thank you for the video!
I very much appreciate the feedback, thank you for taking the time!
Thanks for sharing your experience and wisdom. I appreciate it.
Another fantastic video, thanks for all the tips and clarity! Some of these things are very helpful and comforting to hear as a beginner who has not yet made a first sale.
One of the best videos, it's all about your mindset. About everything in life. POD too.
Thank you so much for the feedback!
Hey Zen, I've been binge watching your videos since I found your channel and subscribed a few weeks ago...just echoing some other comments from below, but love your clean and informative style... Keep it up!
Thank you so much for the feedback!! 😎😎
Hello Zen, great info in your videos. Any advice on best way to get paid?
i opened my redbubble last feb and still zero sales. i'm kind of figuring out things and how to be visible and how all that works. recently i made a design that made it to 1st page of relevant search results with over 22k other designs. still figuring out how that specific design managed to be on 1st page of such saturated niche and results of 22k. to anyone who is reading this, don't give up. i guess my design showing at 1st page vs 22k designs is a sign that even if we are still starting, we can be visible and we will figure it out.
your video is amazing and motivating. thank you.
I’m loving your insights, can’t thank you enough, it’s exactly what I was searching for!
Thanks for telling us about what you think it takes to get to success. It is encouraging.
The Best POD channel out their alongside detour shirts keep up the excellent work ..amazing videos
I love your content, it has ALWAYS been very helpful to me. You know, if you hear it enough, you will begin to believe it, LOL! Many successful T-shirt and merch sales folks have said the same thing, this is not a get rich quick scheme. Never has been, never will be! KEEP AT IT! Thank you so much for the awesome video. 😉👍
So kind of you to share with us. Thank you so much.
Congrats on 10k sales and thanks for another great video.
this is an amazing video. no time wasted and packed with value all day!
3 years and i only sold 169 with 30 items, 10,000 is impressive as hell
I love your attitude, and work ethic. I was just thinking to myself it’s like a university speciality which will take time to connect all the dots, and make coherent sense to creating and then becoming successful.
One of the best presentations. Thanks
Your video so motivated for people like me who also struglle to get some money from pod business...thx for sharing it
Thank you for this. Everyone says "just do a RUclips channel, do affiliate marketing, etc" it's much harder than I thought it was..to even get subscribers let alone watch time and everything else. I wish I hadn't believed some of the stuff, my fault, my responsibility, I know
Yes its 100x times harder than what they tell us.. Hours and hours of hard work where you only sell 1 design out of 10 you post.. Same with the youtube and everything else.
I love this video and you voice..
Holy makaroni, I could just listen to this for hours on end 🎧🙏 Getting in the zone 🤓 I'll be subscribing after this, most definitely 👍
Thank you Mr. 🙏
Failure is going to happen and it’s going to happen a lot!! Thank you... no one says that and it drives me crazy. Like everything, if you keep returning to it after many fails it means you love it and you will ultimately succeed. : )
Great Content, and nice tips.
Keep it up!..Much appreciated.
Tnks!
Pure value loaded videos....Thank you so much, sending good wishes your way :) Keep it up!
May all your advice multiply in health and sales! thanks i'm studying all your videos!
I’ve been about 6 months now in different PODS and started selling on the 6 th month in some of them. Was a bit discouraged about not having sales, but I’m just starting to add new tags to my designs since watching these great tips. Not expecting to get 10,000 sales …😅but hope to get at least a few more Thanks so much for sharing this great information
Keep it up! How's it going? ❤️
@@padkirsch not so well...😁I may need to keep posting new material, but it's hard for me to try to do everything by myself, posting on social media, on PODs, youtube...too much!😅
@@art_by_Ruth_and_Co what different POD sites do you use? Keep at it! Post your stuff to Pinterest and other sites like this! Make sure to title things good. Keep at it.
Find new niches that have less things but are still searched for etc.
What is your page where can I find it? 🙂
@@art_by_Ruth_and_Co yea it's hard it's so much work! 😥 Keep up the good work. Just keep doing it. And do the art for yourself so you don't get discouraged. It's definitely a long process and hard work
@@art_by_Ruth_and_Co I just found your Instagram and gave it a follow. I love your jackets etc! I gotta go to work but will contact you later :)
Nice and full of insights as always! I like your approach of being more realistic instead of others who overly promote print on demand as a passive income. I am just wondering for uploading in 10 POD sites, have you used some automated apps that you can connect these POD sites (eg redbubble) and upload at once?
That’s a good question - no I do not use automation. What I do is set up my titles and tags in a Word doc and then just copy and paste them into each upload. I also make all my Redbubble images the same size so I can “copy settings” and just plow through the uploads
@@zenwatercooler and then for all other POD sites, you post new listings then copy paste the tags from docs? like your browser has 10 tabs open...? wow if you are doing this in one hour you're pretty fast
This is indeed a very helpful and informative video. Thanks so much for sharing! Appreciate it. ❤
Thank you very much for your helpful advice! Ironically, I am actually in Omaha! So this gave me some good ideas since I can observe the community. 😊🙌🏼
Man I sincerely respect the courage people have to do Etsy. I started to set up an account the other day and I backed out They told me right off that they would be able to hold money to make sure that expenses were covered for shipping etc, and they demanded my Social Security number and so many things that scared the hell out of me and I just couldn’t go through with it. I hear so many horror stories about people who have done business with Etsy for many years as a top seller only to wake up one day; just like you and their entire shop was closed down without any foreknowledge, warning or opportunity to resolve any possible issues or misunderstandings. Etsy terrifies me.
Best pod videos keep it up so simple and easy.
Thank you for the advice it's very accessible and helpful. One question I have is this...Do you upload the exact same designs on more than one site? Or even a similar design, like you have a shirt that says I Love My Cat and you only change the font. Obviously there are some who do this, I was just wondering if you have and how well it's worked. Thanks
Yes great question - I typically make my design on the largest possible canvas and then for Redubble and Teepublic, push it to both of those. For others, I will use the canvas in Photoshop and make something similar. So yes to the exact same design like 75% of the time. It works OK - I find actually I make more consistent sales on Teepublic but the bigger wins $$$ wise are on Redbubble. (For me anyways)
@@zenwatercooler thanks so much!
I wish you could view the tags from Redbubble on the app
Great video. What resolution do you use when making your designs for shirts? i use 4500x5400 px with canva, i upload that with transparent backgound, redbubble is redusing the size of the design to fit the t-shirt, the problem is the design, especially the text looks very jagged on closer look, how do you deal with that?
Yes it's a good question - I try to use the highest-quality base image (like a vector) if at all possible. The text should be the easy part - I am wondering if when you save with Canva it is not going to 300 dpi? For Redbubble I do 6480 x 7632 (and either 300 dpi or 400 dpi and I use an ancient version of Photoshop).
@@zenwatercooler Hey, thanks for answering. Canca saves the png designs at a max 96dpi value unfortunately, only pdf for print option gets 300dpi, so i guess that's where the problem is. I didn't start using Photoshop because it seemed easier with Canva since it has all those elements just ready to use for my designs. I'm new btw, barely having 20 designs atm, but I do have time and desire to learn 😅
Great content here. It really helped me pull together some of my ideas.
Just wanted to point out that corn in Nebraska is not about corn fields. This is a football shirt and the football team is Cornhuskers. This is a good effective way to refer to Cornhuskers without saying the trademarked content. Good example of how to avoid copyright and trademark issues.
That is a great point! 👍
At 2:50, you showed some names. Can you list all the names to work upon, in description.
thank you this video help me alot, the tips and trick is verry complete and can be applied
How to check copyright? How to create design? Question coming to my mind , listening to you right now @ 11:55
I am wondering how can I have time to do more than one website at the same time?I suppose the only way you would is to upload different designs as you make them. But I wanted to put the same designs on in case they closed me down on one. But maybe I should join other sites. I don't know if I should do different niches on each site or do a variety. and what do you think about word cloud designs? Is it a waste of time? I spend many, many hours each day,because I enjoy it. If I didn't I wouldn't even bother doing it.
Zen Watercooler is the coolest. What advice for modernizing fairly modern artists/publishers.
Hello mister with the great and cool voici, i was wondering if when you upload a design, can you select only a gender for your design? I mean only t shirt for men for exemple? Or you only choose for products ?
Hey there - on Redbubble you can turn on or off products so you can switch off certain types of shirts. Most of the basic t-shirts are unisex - typically you would want to have your one design listed on as many products as possible. I have sold some seriously weird stuff (designs on jigsaw puzzles and shower curtains that I was shocked that someone actually paid money for it).
Honestly, I came across some redbubble accounts, created this year with thousands of likes. There is one, created in Feb, 2021, this month, having only 5 designs, with more than 8000 likes. How come? Is it realistic? Dont know...
Btw, do you know whether it's possible to use erank without having a shop? I tried and it constantly asks for me Etsy shop link but I havent opened it yet. Thanks for your reply in advance.
Hey there - for eRank, I just logged in using my Etsy account (I do NOT have a shop anymore on Etsy so it should work even if you don't link a shop to your username). I primarily use eRank for keyword tools (they have some free stuff that is useful).
I noticed that too, very strange and even more strange to me is how to no one is strange that
Question, though. Do we add the "xyz STICKER" part to the tags? I thought we just put "xyz" and RB adds the product to the tags. Thank you for all your help. Your videos are excellent.
Yes that is a great question. Tags are mysterious (there is no “one source of truth”, just some RB blog posts). I personally think that there is no downside to putting the word “sticker” in the tag itself. I have found no evidence that there’s negatively impact a chance at a sale. However there are lots of different opinions so my experience only! P.S. thank you so much for the feedback!
Hey cool video, glad I found you. Just started my journey back in August 2020 on mba and rb and am only on 68 sales on RB at the moment. The only thing I wasnt sure was if you also sell on mba? If not why not? With 10k sales on other platforms you would be killing it on amazon.
Is it against these marketplace's TOS to upload pre-made saturated shirts being sold in these "shirt-packs" on various sites? I would be having my own shirts designed, but wanted to use these to "fill-out" my initial inventory.
I always recommend having a unique piece of art because if you upload the exact same design as someone else, even if you both have commercial license, someone could get dinged with a copyright violation. I have an example here: ruclips.net/video/T85ciRebwIw/видео.html
@@zenwatercooler Good advice. I'll build slower with all original or "re-imagined" unique designs.
Do you use one social media for multiple design selling sites?
I’m yet to upload my first design and what really annoys me is while I’m searching on a platform for inspiration and I see a product where someone has just taken one of the free images available online made no changes to it and just uploaded it. And you can definitely see the difference in the quality of someone who has made some changes to an image they got on-line compared to someone who has just literally downloaded and then uploaded it straight onto A selling platform
Yes I personally like to create unique designs in niches that sell. I hope you have fun starting your print-on-demand adventure!
Thank you for the tips. I have few items that I think are popular in redbubble and I know what the genre is. So, should I remove the other items that have 0 sales and just focusing on the popular items?
I would never recommend removing a design unless it really hurts your brand (like you have church designs mixed with erotic designs for example). Otherwise, just move your designs into collections
@@zenwatercooler Thank you!
Hi... I'm an artist but not very I. T minded....... When we make our designs... Does the image have to be a certain size before we can upload it to red bubble? How do I do this?
I've had issues in the past with ebay & image sizes.... Is this an issue on
P O D sites? Thank you 😊
Good question - you can upload a smaller design if you like but it just won't be usable on every single product. You can also tile (repeat pattern) on Redbubble for a lot of designs, but usually I shoot to have at least 5,000 x 7,000 pixels for Redbubble.
Thank you so much for your reply.
My question was about the income someone can make with POD business. To be honest, your number sounds more realistic, but several people claim 6 figures in a month within a short time and start their own coaching and offer courses. Is it really possible to make that mu h money in a month?
It's a great question. I guess anything is possible. My question (for them) would be that if they really are making $100,000 a year, why are they busy selling courses to people like us for $100. That seems fishy (to me). I think $100 is very realistic and if you are really talented or lucky (or both) and you upload a LOT of designs, you can make $1,000 a month. I have seen people on Reddit who post their Merch by Amazon sales and some people really do make $4,000 US a month. So it is possible to make big money but I certainly would start small and learn the ins and outs before committing time (and money) to an expensive course. My opinion only!
Love Ur efforts and value u provide....thnkx
See you in 2 years. I will be back with 10K. Thank you for your nice video:)
You can do it!! 👍
@@zenwatercooler thank youI am happy for you too
Great info!! As for Redbubble, should I tag up to 50 or keep at 15? Thank you!!
Great question - I have heard both - I personally go with about 30 tags (usually because I am too lazy to think up 50)
@@zenwatercooler lol..ok, Thank you!!
We need your experience and wisdom so much. Thank you.
I heard in a few places that going for the most tags is not the best way and that for some reason ~25 tags is the sweetspot although I'm not sure how much they were conflating correlation with causation there as I'm sure a lot of people who go for the most tags they can think of would end up with around that number anyway
Yes I've heard that too (although I can't find any actual source that it's true) - I agree with you, I pretty much land on 25 and ove on - I've seen great selling design with 3-4 tags so I guess it comes down to a variety of factors.
Thank you very much man.
You are making serious useful content and I will recommend your channel to all my Instagram followers.
But I have a question if you don't mind, I use canva for designing my t-shirts, but canva just work with RGB system colours only, do you think I will be just fine to work with RGB canva for my designs??
You are most welcome - to be honest, I have only ever used RGB in Photoshop and have never had any problems. I've heard people talk about the differences between RBG and CMYK regarding printing colors, but I personally have only ever used RBG and never heard of a problem regarding print quality or anything.
@@zenwatercooler thank you very much
I've used redbubble for about 3/4 months so far and had 7 sales with under 30 designs
I've only just started on RB... Can u give your shop ID so I can visit? Also how do u promote your products? Im using pinterest pins for now but I guess that won't be enough
I have a question:
Actually I'm a brand new seller too and I'm not an artist, but can I ask should I just design in one specific niche or variety of niches? Should I follow trends and what is SEO, how can I rely on organic traffics to make a sale...can you help me? I would be appreciated!
Great question - if you first starting out on Redbubble (or any site), I would recommend doing 5 collections of 15-20 designs each. And then see what sells. Whatever sells... make more of that. So start out with a variety of niches but as you get more experience, you will find your dominate 2-3 niches where you will spend most of your time. Hope that helps!
Thank you so much!!! My journey had just begun, I will try to study as much as I can and I hope I would succeed on my own POD business😎😎😎
Thanks again for your advice, and your videos are really helpful!
Hey Zen, very nice video, lots of good info. Important question: Can you have the same designs on multiple stores or not?
Yes for sure - if you created the design, it’s yours so you would have the copyright. I have the same design on multiple print on demand sites (sometimes I change the size or make small adjustments, but you don’t have to).
Ah that's what I wanted to know, so how do you know if "they" used your idea for themselves and you won't even know it. You say it's your design and copyright?
Excellent content!
Priceless advice! Thank you so much. Feels like after watching this, you shaved off months of my otherwise probable future errors. Here's my contribution to this video: ------ if you're having fun you can't fail, even if to others looks like failure.-------- 💪💛 I'm just getting started on RB so I'm really curious to apply your approach and come back to this comment in a year from now and share my resoults.
In fact I challenge whoever is reading this to do the same. 😉 Good Luck Ya'll.
I love this!!! Awesome
How is your shop going now?
How do I upload 1000 designs from where the idea ?
Well there is no easy answer on where to get ideas but my channel has lots of videos on how to make designs. Hopefully you find inspiration!
Do you take a design and spread it to all the POD platforms you use, or do you put certain designs on certain POD platforms?
I usually take the same base design at the largest possible size and then throw it on each POD platform (without changes if possible). The hard part (for me) is the uploading - I find it boring and tedious so I wind up having way more designs and a backlog to actually upload them.
@@zenwatercooler Thanks for your input! Just getting started. I'll take your advice and put a year into it and see how it goes. A mentor once told me that something isn't true until it's true for you. I take it to mean that I can get all the advice in the world, but it doesn't mean much until I jump in with both feet and get some experience and learn all the pitfalls myself. Thanks!
Awesome video! Thank you. ❤️
Can you show us the right way to get into Amazon, please? . We need advice from someone as reliable as you.
This have some good ideas and although the OMAHA SOCCER niche has very few results, hence low competition, how could we know that it has
sales?
You don't. The best you can hope for is to upload a few designs and see if anyone buys it. And if they do - pump more designs into the niche!
@@zenwatercooler how long do you think it would be good to wait for designs to sell before moving on to another niche?
I have a question that I hope no one asked. The question is is there any profitable niche in shirts. That has no living thing photos on it. No religious talk on it. No abuses on it. Please reply
In my opinion, there are literally thousands of profitable niches. ruclips.net/video/VYKiks684Tw/видео.html
What does hooning have to do with welding?
Beats me.
so true, i started with exactly 100 t-shirt designs for amazon merch, that was my goal, 2 shirts sell alot, 98 never sell, i do better designs now and have a niche...2 years hard work and its still not a big earner, keep on trying never give up
Nice video, bro plz tell me where can i get text design quotes ideas?
awesome call out for Omaha Ne. why did you choose that city of all the millions of cities?
Probably Peyton Manning yelling OMAHA has wormed into my psyche.
Awesome video 👍
I loved your tips . But are you sure 30 tags are fine? Redbubble and other pod sites suggest 15 tags are enough
To be honest, no I'm not sure (and I don't think anyone else is either). I usually split the different and do 30 because 15 is "recommended" and 50 is allowed. No one really knows (and if they say they do, I don't believe them!).
I was banned from Etsy and TeePublic for no reason and I don't know why =((((((((( but could I have a second chance of creating a new account?
Hi sir
I really have aa serious question
Is it Legal to adjust and customize Pintrest pins and upload them as your design
Maybe this looks stupid to some of professional designers but I really want to know
It will be so much appreciated if you could provide an answer
Hey there - it would really depend on what the pin is. You can take public domain images and create art from it. But you can't just take a picture of like Nirvana and upload it. What is the picture?
@@zenwatercooler like
Landscape illustrations
Not disappointed in the least!
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Great information - had to be in bed an hour ago - but who need sleep ;-) Thank you
Great stuff. How do you feel or have any experience with NON- copy righted images from the public domain sites? I plan on doing this type of business on Etsy connecting Printful to sell wall art, posters, framed images FREE from the public domain. From what I understand it is 100% legal. I just watched you other video with you getting banned on Etsy.. that's a bummer!
*Update I just watched your other videos on this same subject. :)
Hmmm the only example I can think of this is a museum website that offers public domain images but then says the images on the website are copyrighted by the museum. So legally, the copy of the image itself on the website would be theirs. However, I can’t picture a realistic scenario where the museum could ever prove that the image you’ve used came from their website and not another source. My personal attitude is That I try to find the highest quality image possible, and often that is on Wikimedia.
@@zenwatercooler RUclips is unbelievable I can't even mention a website where I was going for free PD pics (like typing it in) w/o YT deleting the comment good Lord. I see this a lot now. Anyway I get the largest pic for download in a .PNG format so they should work well and I will check out that site also. Thanks
Thank you! great video! ☺️
If we found your video helpful you ask? HELL YEAH! MAKE MORE! NOT NOW! YESTERDAY! :)
BTW you gave us two low competition niches :)
My teepublic design are still not show on search 😔
Did you email them about that?
Ya 5 time but same reply due to creative reasons your designs are not show on search place
@@mdimroz8259 It happened to me and they also sent me that answer...I replied explaining I have experience in other marketplaces...no response from them, but then my designs started to show up.
keep up the great content, excellent thanks :)
I have read 150 red bubble reviews on one product, they all seem fake. Noone said anything specific about the design or the joke upon it.
Yup. They put fake reviews on my items. I was confused at first because I don’t have sales yet and thought maybe something had sold nope lol