I have noticed that different styles of designs sell better on different platforms, though I do load up to all of them. Pareto Principle comes into effect. As always, nicely presented tutorial.
Great video, short, sweet and to the point. Thank you for making a easy to follow video on how to set up TeePublic and publish designs. I greatly appreciate you taking the time to make this video. Many Blessings~
I have watched a dozen videos so far and you are mostly what I watch! Thank you for all the great tips and tutorials! I have learned so much from you! Thank you Zen 😃☘ T
Your videos are really informative. Compliment. I was wondering about this video: ' what profit margin can I make on products on Teepublic?' I don't see that anywhere.... Thanks in advance. Keep up the good work, dude!
Yes that is a good question - on Teepublic, the prices are fixed so there is no opportunity for an artist to change the margins. So you either make the full commission, or when Teepublic has a sale you make the reduced commission.
As someone who starts with Redbuble when I learned zazzle it was another world. But here when I am learning Teepublic I can see it's really Redbubble's sibling. 😂 it even looks simpler
Great video. You have a gift for doing the "walk through" step by step videos, which I need because I'm brand new to POD. I watched it to help me open a store. I also opened one with Zazzle. I noticed though that my designs/products or store don't even show up on the websites' home page searches. It's weird because I log out of my account and go in the websites as a regular customer and type my verbatim tags and titles but my designs don't appear, only other designers' designs with those similar tags. If two designers have the same tags, does the one with more designs and seniority trump the other (the new guy) and gets his designs displayed to the exclusion of the other?
Awesome, thank you for the feedback! If you're designs are not showing up in Teepublic, I have a video here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-M64CGa2I0-Q.html. It is annoying, I am not sure why Teepublic doesn't have their artists' storefronts turned on (we all want to make money). Hopefully that helps!
Sir, thank you very much for this wonderful guidance video on Teepublic. My name is Ashim Mishra and I just started some work in Redbubble. I really don't know much about this print on demand field but your videos helped me a lot. Thanks again. By watching this video I will also try to start on Teepublic. I want to ask you one thing that can we upload the same design on other platforms as we did on the redbubble? Should we upload the different designs on other platforms? May be this will be a silly question but as I told you that I am new in this field with many queries in my mind and I want answers to make my work better in a correct way under the guidance of a professional and expert person like you. I am feeling very hesitate to writing this message to you but I want to do work in this field. I am doing this work on my android mobile phone. I hope you will help me by providing the answer. It will be a great help from your side. Thank you very much. Lord Krishna will bless you in all the way. Thanks.
I agree with Ausillla M (and thank you for the comment, both of you) - yes you can upload the exact same design to multiple platforms (since you own the copyright) and yes definitely stay away from obviously trademarked items like Star Wars, Marvel, etc.
@@zenwatercooler Sir, thank you very much for your quick reply. I will definitely keep in mind about the trademark. It will help me a lot. Thanks again for your guidance. Take care and have a nice day.
@Ashim M..... you can upload the same designs on various platforms as long as they are not copyright images. Be careful of trademark as well. The rest of it is easy. I hope this helped you . Stay safe and blessed.
Hi Ausilla, @Ausilla Smith.... Thank you very much for your reply. It will help me a lot. I will be careful about trademark. Thanks again. Take care and have a nice day.
Nice video pal, i had an account with over 300 design on teepubic, but i decide to start all over. How many designs can i upload on the first day of opening my teepubic account?
Hey, Zen. Great tips as always? 1 simple question: Would you say that being very consistent with your uploads is crucial for the algorithm to start showing up your designs in search more? Some POD sellers say that we should upload every day X number of designs, but sometimes is hard to upload so hard every day, it is not really possible for me, since I spent a lot of time uploading. Would like to hear your thoughts on this. Keep up the amazing job, man :)
If I may respond.... I would just upload like this... 1. WHEN you can (not everyone can upload designs all day everyday) just make sure that what you upload is of GOOD quality (doesn't have to be a freaking PICASSO, lol) 2. WHAT you can, (meaning, if you're just starting out....then make TEXT BASED DESIGNS. (Funny sayings, thoughts, or quotes,.... That you edit of course, lol) that way you're not stressing yourself out over what to design. Hope this helps you on your journey to become a successful entrepreneur! Like and Subscribe!
That's a great question - my personal experience is that consistent uploads do not trigger any algorithm (although I don't think any of us can really know). I go hard on Redbubble for a month and then take like 2 months off and don't even think about it. So I am not sure what "consistent" would actually mean. It COULD be possible but I haven't seen any evidence that the algorithm favors consistency. However, I do consistently upload at least 1 design to some platform pretty much every day (like a farmer watering the crops and helping them grow).
@@PhillipLemmon that is actually pretty comforting to hear. Thank u. What is your experience with POD so far? How long are u ij the game? On which platforms are you on? Are you making regular income? Are you doing evergreen or trending designs. I am doing both, I have 250 designs up on RB and 150 on Teepublic but I have only 15-16 sales so far. My designs are pretty good, tags are well researched but the algorithm doesnt seem to boost my designs in the top results
@@PhillipLemmon I also have 2 questions. If you could kindly answer. 1) Do I NEED to fill in my payment details as soon as I make an account? If I don’t do that then will I not be able to start uploading designs and make money at all and reach visibility? (I’m very new to POD and Redbubble does now allow an account to start selling, basically be live until all the payment details are filled and since Teepublic is owned by Redbubble despite having different settings, I just wanted to know for sure). 2) While signing up for a new account you need to give your county’s name. So will I only be able to make sales in THAT PARTICULAR country, the county which I entered ?(Then I won’t be making sales because the people in my county don’t shop from these pod websites at all so that is a problem and I know for sure. The country that I liven in is India if thay helps). These were the two questions that I had and I've been asking a lot of people but none of them answered so really just wanted to know for sure. Have a great day :).
Teepublic is owned by Redbubble (so I am not sure exactly where their headquarters are) but they pay in US dollars. I'm not a tax accountant but generally speaking, you are supposed to declare your income when you file your Canadian income taxes and you would list the payments you received in Canadian dollars (so you would do a calculation of that day's exchange rate).
Photoshop is a cadillac for editing no question. However, Adobe charges monthly fee for using it and you never own it. To make your design or image converted to PNG, first it has to be scanned or photographed. Photography software usually saves as a JPEG (JPG) format. Scanner software gives you the options of PJG or PDF if it is a good scanner software might even give you a TIFF and PNG right there and there. Most if not all artists usually edit their art in some sort of software like to clean up, tone it up a little, opacity, remove background, etc. When the art/image is done you can exported into a PNG file format with the pixels and DPI desired. This latter parts is a tad challenging if you are not a graphics design major. It can be learnt definitely provided you are into it.
I created an acount, but when I make the login it doesn t work...goes again to the e-mail to verify and confirm. And so on and so on...how strange. It doesn t open at all. Can you please help me? Thanks.
Hi one question I opened a store in teepublic and didn’t had time to put a banner and just uploaded 3 designs. Went to vacation ( this was in summer) when came home received an email saying they closed the store. Send an email complaining about it till today no answer… Should open another store again or go to another platform?
@@zenwatercooler i never received an answer from them . I send the email for the email address they said but since august nothing. That’s why I don’t know why it was closed and my question should I go to another platform or try to open again on teepublic? Sorry for answering just know I’m in Europe
Thank you. Teepublic doesn't show my stores. My old store made me good sales but after it was deactivated I am struggling to make my first sale because my designs arent there. I followed all your tips regarding the banner . The pic. Albums . Name snd stuff. Contacted them yet they were strict about not letting me be in the game. Can you help out there?
More like the other way round - when they sell a product, you get the commission. The prices are fixed so you get anywhere from 50 cents to $4.00 or so for a sale.
These are great tips. I did open an account, did all these and uploaded 10 designs. The next morning, not even 24hours after I did everything, they suspended/closed my account without any specifics. Emailed their legal team and did not receive any response till now, 11days after.🥺
Your tutorials are the best ! Thank you - One question that I haven’t figured out, yet, please - For both, RedBubble and TeePublic. - When I am in the process of walking through every product, after uploading, as you showed here, and am clicking on each individually to assure centering and sizing of image - with transparent background - when selecting a background colour, does that apply that colour only to the display on the store page…. or does that selected background colour get fixed as the only colour option for all customers for that item ?? Thank you kindly -
I am not sure I understand your question completely but I can try and answer it for you :) you can easily check how your products look to your potential customers if you take a look around all the different products after you have published your design. Basically, on Redbuble you can choose the default color on the clothing but you cant unselect other color options to appear on the clothing. That is not the case with the rest of the products where your default color selection is the only option they can buy. On Teepubluc on the other hand, you can select the default color for clothing (the color that will appear in the search results when someone is looking at the variety of designs in your niche) but you can also manually choose which other colors you want your apparel to appear onto so your clients can only choose to buy a t-shirt or long sleeve shirt etc in a pallete of colors chosen by you or you can select all of them - it is really up to your preference. The rest of the products is the same like on RB, only one color. I hope that clears things up! :)
@@kristinashumadieva1529 Ohh thank you kindly, Kristina ! Well, I would like to leave background colour options for the customer to choose at time of their selection - pretty much for all textiles and products (unless I have a white script in the design, of course ) - ok, so if I understand correctly, I should leave all colour options during upload-individual-manual-final-sizing-placement as 'white' (where that option exists - a few don't have white) ) and that way the customer has all colour options free to choose - - if I make a background selection during that individual-sizing-placing-correctly-phase, then that by-me-selected-BG-colour will be the only option offered to the customer - ?!
@@PeterQuentercrimsonbamboo No. On Redbubble you can't select the color selections available for your customers. you can ONLY select the default color that will show up in search when someone is searching for designs like yours, however they can still click on the design and then choose other background color - you don't have control over that od Redbuble. On teepublic you can choose some custom colors and default color (it can be white, black, grey or any other available color but most often we use black or white background color for our designs cuz they sell the most) Zen recommends to click the option Select All colors so you can leave that choice up to your client's preferences
@@kristinashumadieva1529 ok.. perfect - got it - that’s how I actually like it - let customers have all options and decide - the final BG colour choice - I just select one for display purpose - white or black mostly, some colour if the specific design requires it to be visible - thank you very much, Kristina! Off I go to design..
Zen Watercooler ? when you receive a payment. in 2022 should it be for "paypal personal" or "paypal business" account ? which type paypal account should a beginner use ?
Both are free accounts - I personally use the business account but you can do invoices, receive money from vendors, etc. I don't see a down side to using business account, only upside.
If the design is text only, and it is not trademarked, then someone else can produce a similar design (not exactly the same). So if you find popular phrases or sayings (that are not trademarked) then go for it! I just try to make my designs look better (add a graphic, different colors, fonts, etc.)
I am Curious ,why put T-shirt in the design title when Tee public adds T-shit at the end anyway,does this make a difference??, just uploaded 3 designs and just noticed this.
Teepublic does a great job of adding in their own tags. So you definitely don't have to include "t-shirt" in the title of the listing. I just jam as many keywords in there as possible.
wow, very mixed reactions to Teepublic, talk aboyt pyramid schemes, stealing designs, suspensions for no reason, are you sure this is a POD platform to recommend ? After your tutoriol l was playing with the idea of starting a Teepublic store, l'm not so sure about it anymore. Maybe an idea to do a follow up video with your thoughts on this, Zen ?
I have to be honest, I have not had any personal experience with pyramid schemes or Teepublic selling my designs after banning a user. (Not saying people are wrong - just that I don't have any personal experience that that happens). I have been uploading on Teepublic for years and enjoying 15th of the month payments, so this is based on my personal experience making sales.
@@kayligo Hi, ypu should first warming thr account open new account then don't do anything, after that wait at least 3 days. In those days your behaviours must be normal like a normal human, like searching for shirts, follow some artists and give some like to some designs. Finally open a shop like usual method. And I believe it may work for you but you should change your personal information like name ... . And I advise you to open it from your phone so that THE ROBOT won't detect you.
Hey Zen!! Great video. Just 2 questions. If you could kindly answer. 1) Do I NEED to fill in my payment details as soon as I make an account? If I don’t do that then will I not be able to start uploading designs and make money at all and reach visibility? (I’m very new to POD and I'm asking this because Redbubble does now make a store live and ready for selling if the payment details are not filled and Teepublic is owned by Redbubble although as far as the details I saw here the settings are quite different but just wanted to know) 2) While signing up for a new account you need to give your county’s name. So will I only be able to make sales in THAT PARTICULAR country, the county which I entered ?(Then I won’t be making sales because the people in my county don’t shop from these pod websites at all so that is a problem and I know for sure). These were the two questions that I had, found this video just today and it was super helpful and saw that you actually replied to others and cleared their doubts so just wanted to try my luck because I have been asking a lot of people and no one responded. Well thank you and have a great day Zen!
Hello! 1. No I believe that you can set up an "artist account" and then start uploading designs right away. I believe that you need to add your PayPal address in order to get paid (and they don't care about that until you make a sale). 2. Yes you need to give your country's name. I am not sure why. But you will be able to make sales anywhere in the world. I am based in Canada and it doesn't matter - anyone who visits Teepublic can buy something and that includes your designs. It is not limited to your country only. Hope that helps and I hope you enjoy your print on demand journey!
@@zenwatercooler Oh thank you so much Zen!! Your channel has been a blessing for newcomers like me. Great videos and thank you for replying to me and have a great day!
Hey there - I definitely would recommend trying new stuff - you might hit on a niche that no one has exploited yet! I have done that a few times and when it hits, you can get some great sales!
It's a good question and no the width is not always first (sometimes designs are landscape and sometimes they are portrait). For Teepublic, you want at least 5,000 wide x 5,500 pixels tall (a t-shirt is typically portrait). I hope that helps!
hi they Blocked my first i account 2 month ago i dont why i didnt made any mistake (design. seo...) but after 4 days they Blocked it... and i have made another one month ago and i left it after one day i upload a design no copyright no trademark but after 2 days they deleted it again for no raison. i confused for that
About the color selection it’s kind of in contradiction to something you say in many videos… Do you think that teepublic is an exception to the rule and leaving all colors on it’s okay and not driving the customer away after being unable to make a quick decesion? Sorry for my bad english, got to say I am a fan of the channel cause I am learning so much from you but I want to know this just so I can maximize my sales…
Yes that is a good question - for t-shirts, I think limiting options (colors) could rob you of a sale. There is no downside to having the option of any weird color for a shirt. For an individual design (like a picture or mug), I am a fan of selecting white text on dark background or dark text on white background.
Teepublic wont show ur design on their browser, even when u got decent amount of design and u complete everything on ur bio and collection... But I love their design uploader and tag recomendation. it's time saver.
Thank you! Very Nice! I am getting 500 server error on Tee public. I got discouraged since I tried to upload two times and, in the end, it gave me 500 error. Which browser works best for Teepublic? Thanks
Hmm that is strange - it is possible that their server might have been down for a bit but it is possible that there is a problem with your server talking to their server. I typically use Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome for my uploads - I just checked Teepublic, they are up - hope that helps!
You can make sales on Teepublic (I personally like their site a lot) but you need to make sure that your store is showing up in search: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-M64CGa2I0-Q.html
You could, but if you want to order your own product as wholesale, I would recommend a company like Printbest or Printful - you just design and order at cost (often a substantial discount) - hopefully this helps: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bjLvTjskp2k.html
They did the same to me. I emailed them asking why, because all my designs were MY designs. No trademark or copyright issues. They then wanted me to send the psd files of They designs that were deleted. I can send the png files. So far no answer. It's funny because my RedBubble store is still up and some of those designs are on there. Just weird
@@leonaf4142 it was good deal from them since they suspended my account from the first upload imagine that you give them time and you upload many designs and you inviste in your time to build your store then they close your stop in 1 second . bay bay teepublic for me
Yes absolutely - in fact I would encourage it - buying one t-shirt gives the designer a good idea of the product quality, the shipping, the overall experience - plus it's fun to wear clothes you design yourself!
Yes - copyright free means that by definition no one owns the copyright, so you can use that. However, I always recommend using the public domain (copyright free) image as a base and adding/changing/modifying it to create an original piece of art. That way, you will never get a copyright strike from someone else who also uploaded the exact same image!
The general idea would be to expand your print on demand footprint and hopefully make sales by targeting a different customer base. Some customers like the interface of Teepublic better than Redbubble (or they might like the quality of the shirt or product).
@@zenwatercooler Thanks. I'll give it a try but not very motivated though, as my Redbubble shop, opened last June has only made 1 sale 😑 I currently have about 150 design spread over several niches 🤷
It's a good question-I had a Teepublic store closed about a month ago (I only had 4 designs in that store, it was brand new) and it was closed. I emailed them and explained that I created my own designs and they reinstated it! Maybe their bots are on the rampage-it's worth emailing them and hopefully they listen!
@@zenwatercooler So basically you get $4 per shirt and $8 for hoodies when they're not on sale. Personally I think that's a rip off. Particularly if you have a design that goes viral. It becomes a bigger problem and loss of profit when you sell the exact same design on another platform for a higher price and people discover they can get the same t shirt on the site recommended in this video at a much lower price point.
Hi Zen, how are you going? I hope you and yours are all well. I wrote you a comment on another video a while back. I'm not sure if you replied. I was asking you to check out my shop out and for constructive feedback. Do you remember if you replied? I know you get a lot of comments and requests, so no pressure. I just thought I'd ask in case you did reply, as I most likely missed it.
There's a huge issue tho: they suspend accounts, BUT keep selling the designs from the suspended accounts. It's a massive scam. You have to sign up through a referral, but even then is risky. AND, big creators profit off of smaller creators, with every bloody sale u make. I hate this pyramid element to it.
I have not had this experience - as I showed in the video, you can sign up off the street and don't need a referral (I've never used that feature in real life). Not saying you are wrong, just that I have not had that experience at all. I have been uploading on Teepublic for years and get paid every month and not had designs stolen and sold by Teepublic.
I've only ever used PayPal so I can't really comment on Payoneeer. I've personally never had any problems with PayPal and use them quite a bit, I like it!
Wow, this is really life-saving....Is it only when you upload a design then you can access your storefront @ZenWatercooler? I just opened a teepublic account and I can't access my storefront so as to upload my profile photo and my banner...
