I have 3 shops. I average about $20-30 a day total, but that’s only the last few months. In the beginning I was lucky to pull in $1-5 a day. Just keep working at it if you enjoy it and you’ll see more results. Artwork will improve over time if you’re dedicated, designs will rank up and you’ll start pulling in those sales. Stay positive and build that passive income empire!
@@peeingpipxr7180 all my shops are linked to the same PayPal account which is awesome. I use different designs for all my shops, they’re all different niches
This video is very realistic. Everyone wants to make it big, but not everyone can work hard.. I started POD as a hobby and to make some extra money, but in the end I really liked the idea of designing something that someone would buy.. My redbubble shop has 61 sales (about 30 from the same sticker 😂) and 521 designs.. Some tips 1. Be consistent (10 designs every day, 6 days a week will get you 2880 in a year) 2. Keep learning, that's the key 3. Don't just get inspired(or copy in some cases) spend time on original work, it it's unique and good people generally like it.
I have two different Red Bubble shops. On one I joined 11 months ago, have 352 designs on and have only 9 sales. The second shop I started 4 months ago, have 280 designs and have no sales. I do it because I enjoy it but pretty discouraged because I am not getting enough sales. Thanks for your videos Zen! I always enjoy watching.
@@achrafadardor8675 I’m a beginner too. I watch a lot of RU-vid tutorial. I learn how to load my design so they look good on every product. I have several designs that need to be adjusted. I also need to change some of the tags.It’s a lot of work and passion. I drew a lot of my designs with colored pencils, which perhaps makes them unique. If you want to put de link of your shop, I will take a look. 😉
I started my redbubble journal in 2021. I made my first sale with in a month. I also uploaded hundreds of designs prior to that first sale… it was work, first sale I made 0.33. Less than a year I’ve reached over 1000 designs and have made 70 + sales . I probably make a few sales a months…. I will say you can make multiple sales a week and or a month, but it takes some time and dedication… and being consistent. Every month I see couple of bucks around $ 50 or more but its really dependent on sales. I will say the more stores you have, and the more designs you have out there can give you possible success and you could see steady sales… its possible but it might be a lot of work.
I have 2 stores. The one with much less design has more sales. But that's bc it's more unique store. In fact, I have found 2 of my designs stolen and uploaded on other stores. While people are more focused on uploading a lot of stuff, I'm more focused on quality art and key words.
Thanks for this video! I'm just looking to make my first $100 across multiple platforms. It can be discouraging putting in all this work on an illustration and not seeing anything. That reminder of the competitions having 1k+ designs is a strong reminder of what I'm up against.
i have 3 rb stores. 2 old ones and one recent. 1st is maikng around 20-40 $ a month consistently. second only got 12 sales so far. the newest shop is 6 month old and i haven't made any sales yet.
I'm on RB for 3 days, with 36 designs. No sale and 1 favored. Thanks for your realistic video, I don't think normal every day people will make money on this soon.
That’s really helpful as I get muddled. Choosing a specific niche for each platform would help me a lot. Instead of worrying have I already put a design on another shop. Great idea.
I have 398 designs, made 6 sales so far. 3 stickers, 2 socks, 1 canvas print 😊 Only 212 favourites though, aiming to put out better designs to get more likes and sales.
I have a couple of designs on over scaled niches which I got incredibility lucky because I only started 2 years ago but I am on the first page of it. It is the cat niche and remember people I count my blessings because when I started I made cat designs and had no idea everyone was making a cat design and it has over 2 million designs. Remember to take advantage of new products as I did because that was the only thing that got my design seen and at that time face masks were huge and still is because of the demand and rules about face masks. Remember you have to be extremely lucky to be seen on a big niche like cats the odds are bad to get even one sale probably 1 in 50,000 would make it and I got lucky 2 times in that niche. So like the lottery it is possible to almost unlikely you will hit on big niches. you have better chances on lower competition niches.
@@ImagineWhatIf227 because either your art sucks, or u doing the same design as everyone else . Your price is high . Or you in a top niche. Stop thinking about the top of the game and think you goin to make money lol
We all know $700/day is totally nuts. But, lets say one could make $350 a day (which is still highly unrealistic). $350 a day is $10.5k a month. That's $126k a year. I would chop my balls and marinate it in Redbubble stocks if I made that amount of money.
My friend is doing only on RB, started 3 months ago, 500 designs, now she’s doing 50€ a month, she’s working every day on it, I am sure she will increase earnings. She tried other platforms but with many problems, biggest prob is that those other platforms are really slow and she is discouraged to use them so she’s focusing on RB. Printful with Ebay is a really good idea I guess.
Honestly, I just don't get many people to my shop. I'm still working on how to get people to see my stuff. SEO and that kind of stuff is kinda confusing. But I've only got around 230 designs up so far, so I try not to worry too much and just have fun. Right now, I don't make a ton consistently. I've had 15 sales total over the past year and a couple months.
Thanks, I know this is an old video but it popped up in my feed today... I’m thinking of opening a RB store (because it is global and the customer service is taken care of) as a beginner. What if I was to drive my own traffic to my store via social media groups or ads - is this a viable option? Is anyone else doing this, with success?
It's funny how the top rated artists on Redbubble have 100 or so designs, and yet they have 10000+ favoured designs and thousands of followers and no tag spamming... What's their secret?
They were known when red bubble started . They use bots , they were known elsewhere before jumping to RB ... Word of mouth , social media , etc . Maybe some are marketing experts or have friends that are expertise in helping them out . There no secret magic bullet
What is possible and what is probable selling digital graphics. It seems like their is more money to be made in digital graphics rather than pod. Thanks
I am on Redbubble from January 2020. With 85 designs made 2 sales so far, one design sold on stickers and one on t-shirt. But it is only about 3 bucks in total. Have not much time to upload, but still try to find the time. I have only one store. And it is not niche store.
I really love your videos, especially with regards to critiquing designs. It is really helpful. I have bearly started and am very insecure about my design esthetics. RU-vidr Greg Gottfried says it is realistic to make a dollar a design a month when all designs are spread across the three main platforms and designing for only sub niches. I don't know if he's exaggerating or not but after listening to you I have my doubts. It is fun designing but my main goal is for a real income. I'm going to have to reconsider the whole POD business model
Well I can't say it's impossible, but I will say it very very difficult. The Pareto Principle would state that most designs will make nothing and a few will get most (or all) of the sales. I definitely think that niche marketing is the key... otherwise artists are just heaping more useless designs onto an already-huge pile.
The number of design doesn't matter , if all of your designs are in highly competition or low demand niches Niche down find low competition niches with some demand Don't waste time designing and uploading in high competition niches
@@basileldhose240 My questions are what highly competition designs are and what low demand niches are? In my opinion, they are subjective. Everybody might have different ideas about those subjects.
@@arkofimagination high competition Niches are Niches with lot of competition , results Eg . Funny cat , Cute dog There are thousands of results , designs and people competing for this niche So when you upload your design it will be on last page No one will even see your design Low competition Niches have less people and designs competing , Maybe about 200 results So your designs have a higher chance of being seen and getting a sale possibly
Ahhh haaaa hsssb bbsss hahaha holy shit that was great! Im stoned as hell right first thing I see is this video. Never heard of you before. Love your style man. If people can't understand after the way you explain it, well frankly...I don't think there's any hope for em. 🤣🤣 Thank you!! I needed that. 🤣🤣👍🏽👍🏽🔥🔥
Thx Zen for another cool video that's the reality about POD,getting struggle as redbubble suspended all my accounts, I had multiple niches in one store I get your advice to separate some designs in separate stores as they are completely different niches so visitors can find more designs about the style they love but today 3 of my accounts are suspended, I don't know it's the massive ban issue that happened in february 2021 is happening again to everybody? or just me? any idea? on a new store I had a sale after 1 week or maybe less. I will upload my design on other platforms, can't understand why ban the whole account instead of a single designs.
Is it really important to have a store that focuses on a particular niche? Or can I be ok with 1 store that organizes different designs into Collections?
I personally do a general store (because I like having fun and creating different stuff). But I think if I was really going to push on a sales, I would recommend a dedicated store with one brand or type of design. But I think either would work (I am living proof that a general store can get sales). You can also set up more than one store (but you would need a completely different sign in and email address for each store, so RB would never know you were the same person).
It is true what you say, the designs have to be perfect, you do have to spend time and energy on it to dominate. I find the main thing is I am lost as to which platforms to use! As a newbie I have tried to get accepted to Merch by Amazon but keep getting rejected. So then it boils down to which other platforms I can use, that are up there with platforms like Redbubble that has a large volume of traffic. Any suggestions or videos that I can watch. Thank you.
It's a great question. Typically what I do is type in a search term for something like "funny cat t-shirt" and then see what actually comes back (Redbubble, Etsy, Society6, Zazzle, etc). Sometimes the most relevant search results are based on the product (as well as the design).
@@zenwatercooler Thank you for this. I am unsure about opening more than one account on Redbubble as I am trying to launch myself as a label. Although I will be opening an Etsy account and my own website in due course.
The amount of total **it on RB is amazing and I've been selling on to for 6 years. Its gone to the wall fuled by fake RU-vidrs promising riches to no talent teens and adults. Time to find a more professional site. Fake info
Anything is possible on Shopify because it depends on you. Shopify is just a platform to sell through but you need your own Shop and traffic. Therefor you must create a brand to sell. So for example "JC Shirts" for example is the brand and you must create your own traffic as if you're a legit clothing store. I am planning on doing this in the future (2 years from now) but I wouldn't recommend jumping into that as a beginner because it takes money to do it and most of that money goes to advertising on social media or if you buy physical products to brand. I suppose someone could spend a lot of time doing free marketing to build a brand and drop ship the products but that's not really a long term strategy for when you create your own brand, that's like when you first get started. I'm not touching self branding until I have an extra $5,000 to dedicate to my own idea and I've drilled down 100% into all the POD stuff I want to do and I estimate that'll take me 2 years if I stay consistent.
Can I make a store on different sites (teepublic, redbubble, amazon, sosiety6 etc) with the same email, same shop name if available, and the SAME exact designs?? or will they delete my stores for "copying" MY other stores? I'm starting to make designs i really like, and i want to sell them on different sites for the best chance at getting sales.
Yes you can definitely do that - you own the copyright on your designs. Redubble only cares if you are copying a design on their site (so it's crappy but people will go to Teepublic, steal the designs and then upload them to Redbubble and there is not really anything that the Teepublic artist can do). But yes you can (and should) upload your designs across multiple platforms!
