Thank you for this! I have been doing research about the best print-on-demand website to put my energy to, and this video was very helpful. I see you mentioned SpoonFlower, TeesPring, and Placeit.net, would love to know your experience with those. Also, my biggest challenge is to generate traffic to my store, I would like to work with a platform that could help in this sense because I am not an expert in marketing and Adwords (And I would prefer to invest my energy on making aart) :D thank you again
Hi Melise. I have used SpoonFlower for a personal project but not commercially. TeeSpring I have one design up and that's the extent of that. I have quite a few on TeePublic and have made 2 sales in 2 months but I definitely like to out my energy into Society6. I am getting almost a sale a day at the moment. Placeit is phenomenal for mockups, I use it ALL the time for POD stores and my TH-cam videos. I have a whole video about how I use Placeit and Pinterest to market my Society6 store, so stay tuned :)
Also I understand wanting to create the art and not market it, but to get around this you can hire someone else to do it, or treat the marketing part like it's own artform, that's what I do. Placeit definitely makes it fun for me 😁
Loved the video. I always want to hear from other that sell on redbubble. I been in redbubble for 2 years almost three I think lol. I made my first sale after 4 months and I had about 50 designs up. Then I uploaded like 5 designs a months and got 2 sales every month when I had about 80 designs up. Now I have 103 designs. Still making 2 sales a month. My goal is to make a daily sale everyday. I love the idea of passive income lol😊
Thank you for watching Susy. It takes a lot of effort to have over 100 designs, good for you. Two sales a month is much better than what I do. My goal is to make one sale a week on Society6, then a sale a day. I love the idea of passive income too, but recently I have come to think that ‘delayed income’ might be a better term. Creating stores and marketing POD products can be a lot of work, and for some, the return will never match what is put in. Hopefully for both of us we can smash our goals :) Having a goal is great, something to work towards :) x
You will never achieve 1 daily sale with Redbubble. Never ever. I have 350 high quality designs and I have 1 sale per week. And I need 10 daily if i want to live out of Redbubble
Thanks for this video! Appreciated the honesty, instead of the thousands of videos out there about how rich they got on Red Bubble and such. Thanks again. Looking forward to check your other videos.
You're welcome 😊 I am slowly building up to more sales on Society6 but the return doesn't match the energy I have put in, it doesn't even come close. Hope you have some luck on whatever platforms you try 😎
Been on redbubble for about 2 months, have earned about 48aud so far.. but I think I got quite lucky with redbubble ranking my design quite high, quite fast in its respective niche. Hoping to get atleast 100 USD a month in mid/end 2021
That is awesome, with the way you are going, I think you will meet your goal 😁 I still haven't had many sales on Redbubble, my Teepublic sales have almost surpassed my Redbubble sales and I only opened that a couple of months ago. Best of luck for more sales 😁
Hi, I have just found "Wholesale Ted" and she is ranking Redbubble as the #1 POD site to sell on. I haven't had that much luck either, but I've just found her and have been implementing her advice. Might be worth looking up. I'm sure I'm in the FB groups with you, but have yet to put your FB name and youtube channel together. ;)
I will check that out, thanks for the tip. I have recently put a lot more energy into S6 compared to RB just because it works so much better for me. I have come to wonder if my style is more suited to S6 customers? My S6 and RB store are both named designbycheyney I think, just like my channel :) Your name looks familiar too, next time I see you in a group i'll message you to let you know it's me :)
Correct. Teepublic and Society6 will pay at the end of the month without any threshold. If you don't make it to $20 by the end of the year, Redbubble will pay you what you're due at the end of the year. Here's hoping you reach $20 soon, sooner than New Year :)
Something tells me you'll be earning more from monetizing youtube videos than with Redbubble. I'm finding the more I learn about print on demand the more I realize how saturated it is and how difficult to get eyes on the products due to search ranking. I also am hyper aware now of how some people just copy other people's designs. In many cases verbatim, leading to tons of similar or exact products for customers to sift through. Very frustrating. But it also takes only one design that happens to catch on to change everything for someone. I dont think I can ever recover, finacially, the energy I put into Redbubble designs. Fingers crossed regarding Amazon merch.
Hiya, I have only just been monetized, so no, I have not yet earned more on TH-cam than Redbubble. But this will likely be the case soon. Not the case however for my Society6 store. I earn much more over on that platform and I can't tell you why. I assume it is my style of designs. Not all markets are for everyone, I have the same artwork and put a similar amount of energy into both platforms and Society6 does SO much better for me. The copying of designs is extremely frustrating but happens everywhere. I have a full time graphic designer and I have had other full time graphic designers rip off my work to sell to their clients (it comes back to me sometimes but it is scary to wonder how many times it doesn't get back to me). Best of luck for Amazon Merch, any passive income streams require a risk (the risk being that you invest a lot of your time for it not to return) - I have had my fair share of flops but I always learn from it and move on. Keep going :) In my years as a business owner I have learned that the only difference between someone who "succeeds" and "doesn't" (those words in themselves are arbitrary) is someone who persists. I had 22 rejections before having my book published!
@@DesignbyCheyney Congrats on the book getting published and with more success on Society6! I've not checked that platform out yet as I am working on translating my ideas into designs and Redbubble seems to be a good trainer platform. The backend is very easy and allows the visual of mockups immediately. I'm not sure about you but I seem to always jump on these trains too late. I find myself, like others, working in a day job and trying to setup passive income on the side though everything I touch required 10 times the effort for 1/100 th of a return. No joke! Its very interesting to me that folks expend so much time and effort for so little ROI. I see videos on youtube with individuals touting their earning on these platforms but they all must have some other insight or just lucked out at the right time with some design or product idea and have been riding the success of that one thing. I'll keep at it as I'm sure you will, until one of my ideas catches on. In the mean time youtube it! Channels about how to make money seem to make top earnings with adsense.
@@MARTiALYOU this is the exact reason why I want to do videos where I am transparent about my earnings and experience. Some of them are not worth the time and the effort, and with the ones that do well, I have continued hope that they will continue in an upward trend. If it was that easy to earn, everyone would do it and have great earnings. Wishing you the best with finding the path that works well for you :)
Hi I'm a RedBubble seller in the US and just made my first sale to someone in Australia. I am very concerned about how to handle the sales taxes RedBubble collects on my behalf. Do you know if I'm supposed to pay Australian taxes (assuming I'm making a lot of money)? Please let me know how you handle RB taxes, it's very confusing and very little clear information out there regarding this :/ Thank you for your video
Hiya, to would talk to an accountant about your specific tax obligations when selling in AUD. It might be different from NZ so I am not comfortable giving you advice in this area. Best of luck and thank you for watching 😊
Hiya, this isn’t my area of expertise but I would assume most people don’t know that. The downside of Redbubble is there is a lot of artwork theft and copyright violation, whether that is intentional or unintentional, we will never know. I believe if you see something, you can report it.
Hi nice information...I am new to Redbubble still don't know how to promote .. still no single sell yet... could you help me few tips how to promote or how customers will knw to buy my product's thanks 🙏🙏🙏
Hiya, it does take some time and effort and you might find you have better luck on other platforms. I do a lot better on Society6. You need to market your products to your audience. I have a good video on my print on demand playlist which takes you through how to market and sell using placeit: th-cam.com/video/CJI_JPlU3AI/w-d-xo.html 😁 Best of luck with your store, I hope you have some sales soon. Thank you for watching and stay tuned for more print on demand videos 🥰
Thank you. Yes, I also enjoy the community and find it fun 😍 I love creating for these sites to, and seeing the designs on the products 🥰 Thank you for watching 😊
Hiya, I don't. People have purchased through my store using either USD or AUD and then that gets paid out to me by Redbubble via Paypal. When It comes through to my Paypal I have the option to convert the currency to NZD in there. I hope this helps :)
@@DesignbyCheyney my pleasure, and I've learnt it's a numbers game on redbubble. So not doing to bad now, enjoy how this video was put together. I'll definitely be back 🙂🤝
@@TheMoneyGame aw yay, thank you for the positivity! The editing takes aaaages and I am a bit scared of people being mean on the internet so thank you for the encouragement. I have some vids coming about Pinterest, about how to get clients, and some basic design fundamental vids 👍🏼 If there is something in particular you would like to see, please let me know 😊
@@TheMoneyGame Pinterest is HUGE for my design business and gaining new clients. That will be my next video. A must for anyone with the ability to sell globally/remotely 👍🏼
Good luck with your earnings on redbubble. I've been on it for 3 months and I've made quite a bit more so it is definitely possible. As I'm typing this, I just for a sale with a $12.30 profit margin lol.. weird. I have a question about society 6, I was going to join but it spoke about charging my PayPal so I stopped there. Does society 6 does the advertising for you meaning, are the products available for search right away or is it more like teespring where you have to get sales before you show on search results? Thanks
Hiya, that's awesome. Go you! I am sure it is possible but I can't work out the winning combo. Yes I think Society6 takes a dollar out of your PayPal to verify it but it is worth it when you recieve payments 😁 I am unsure if Society6 markets artist's work. All I know is I do better there than anywhere else and I am not doing anything different across all the platforms. I have been on for a year now and sales have just increased a lot in the last few months, I think you have to be on a while, create a lot of quality content and engage with other community members to be visible. There are no analytics on Society6 so it is hard to track. I have noticed the longer I am on there and the more I upload, the better I do whereas Redbubble seems to have plateaud for me.
How do you handle the tax aspect? I am starting my RedBubble store but am scared that I will get in trouble for not submitting sales taxes properly because it's confusing
I am all for persistence but you should look to see how you can better your artwork or process. Have you researched how to use keywords correctly and type good descriptions? I have over 100 designs and have only had 14 sales, I choose to still persist but I do much better on Society6. Wishing you all the best for some success with your store 😊
Design by Cheyney I highly appreciate you for your precious advice, and for the fact that you respond to every comment 🙏🏼💕. I will try to hit 300 designs asap and I will keep you in the loop ♥️. Thank you and good luck.
I have a video about this but I usually upload around 8200px x 8200px at 200dpi. 300dpi is ideal so smaller like 6000px x 6000px at 300dpi should be good 🙌🏼
Yes, this is frustrating and I think it might have been a while before I made a sale too. You aren't guaranteed sales but I would suggest you do as much research as possible to ensure that your artwork is high quality and being seen. Artwork will be more visible if you work on building a community in Redbubble and use tags and keywords well. Wishing you the best of luck and I hope you get your first sale soon :) I do MUCH better over on Society6 - It might be that your style of art/photography/design might be better suited to another POD platform too :)
@@DesignbyCheyney Thank you for your reply. It's very much appreciated. Yes I will take your advice and consider opening a society6 store aswell to see if that works better for me. I hope your redbubble store also does well and gives you what your efforts deserve.
Hi Catarina, yes, absolutely. You are the owner of the artwork. I sell on Society6, Teepublic, and Etsy :) I can’t speak for other platforms but these are all safe. Check the copyright/IP agreement in the terms and conditions of any other sites. Is this your first shot at print on demand?
Redbubble is all about algorithm If you know how to hack it You will get sales You can see some artists on this site has over 100k likes That means people are viewing their designs and obviously they are getting sales as well
Yeah, I believe it is possible, and I have luck with the algorithm on Society6, Pinterest and TH-cam. Redbubble just doesn't seem to be the right fit for me. I have watched videos and from what I can see, I am doing everything right...Just not working. Fingers crossed for more luck around Christmas. Do you have luck on Redbubble?
@@DesignbyCheyney yup made 100 dollars in 4 month Got the first sales after two weeks of uploading The algo picked me up And now getting consistent sales
Hi Shay, thank you for watching. I am sorry to hear that you are not having too much success on Redbubble. Neither am I . Since this video I have 100 uploads on my store and I think I have had one sale since making this video. It is disheartening isn't it? Just because it isn't working, it doesn't mean it won't work. It might take some time. Have you tried other platforms? I have WAY better luck over on Society6 for a similar number of designs and effort. I don't think it is a one size fits all deal, some people I know who do really well on Redbubble don't make sales on Society6 and vice versa. Have you looked into Teepublic? If I have learned anything in business, it is that persistence pays off. Don't give up, continue to develop your skills or try uploading to another platform. you're doing the right thing by jumping online to learn :)
Hey Cheyney! Great video. I'm 2 months into freelance due to fallout from COVID. Just seen your video on society 6 before this. I have recently invested in a top-end art printer that can do prints as good as you can do from outsourcing. I have a feeling that based on your experience these platforms. I should see these third party platforms as an afterthought or a future business development rather than right now. I already have 3/4 clients (Don't know how I've been so lucky) So I already feel into the swing of things. I know income streams are important though so don't want to miss out. Is this something that you think would be silly to do? My thinking is I will have to market the hell out of my prints enough as it is rather than confuse my audience!
Hi Sam, thank you for your message. Good on you for starting freelancing. I think you should put your energy into what you’re passionate about and what works for you. I was selling digital prints on my website before branching out to print on demand but it didn’t go well for me. I have tried other POD sites and they haven’t worked as well for me as Society6. I keep going with Society6 because it is working better for me than the other alternatives. I think it is important to note here that it only supplements my client income. I do not not making a living off print on demand sites. I in no way rely on it.I think that selling my prints on my website could have been a bit confusing for my clients. When I advertise my Society6 art, I do so mainly on FB and instagram and have to be very clear about what it is Society6 is. I use Pinterest mainly for marketing my designs because my clients are not my target audience. And as you say, I don’t want to confuse them. I post occasionally to promote my Society6 in front of my client audience but mainly I promote my client work and my book. Follow your gut I say. You can always start building a shop in the background when you get a lull or a spare moment, it’s free to use but you need to invest your time (which isn’t free). If it grows, water it. I like to think of all my passive income streams as seeds, like in a garden. Sprinkle them around, water them and see what grows. Nurture the one full of life! I hope this has been helpful? Feel free to come back to me with any further questions, if you have anything you would like to see on my channel, let me know and I will see what bI can do for ya!
@@DesignbyCheyney This is where my strategy might differ from your own! I don't want my site to be customer-facing as the long term direction I want to move in is towards the tv/film/music/merc sectors and plan to have my stripped-back site just have a few projects an about page and a store. I plan to write case studies and include those at some point. In the short term till I am at the point where those clients are the majority of my clients I will put some money into facebook/instagram advertising (I am also going to directly advertise my prints on those platforms and lead them to my site in a seperate campaign) to get me some clients within the hospitality sectors or other small businesses. This leads them to my facebook which is more customer-facing, and will capture the lead there. I've sat on all the information from this video and others like it and agree that once Im a bit more established. My site being fully up, My branding fully done and in the swing of working with clients/finding new ones/and getting my prints off the ground at that point I will look again at the other print on demand sites.
Awesome, it sounds like you have some exciting things happening for you in your future career. Keep up the enthusiasm and curiosity and you will do well :) Wishing you all the best for a successful journey 🥰
@@samwilliamson903 I wouldn't have my career any other way!! Haha, I never want to be employed again. Love the freedom to make money doing what I love without having to answer to run it past anyone 🤗 I think you will just continue to grow it and love it based on the vibe I am picking up from you 👌🏼
Hi Juliee, thank you for your comment. Do you mean that I should add music to the video? I am still relatively new to TH-cam and my editing skills are evolving each time I make a video. I have started putting background music in my videos more recently but had to do some research around ensuring the music is royalty-free :) I have only been putting music into some of my videos but I will now consider it more carefully :) If you meant something different, please let me know 😁
Hi, Sorry for making you misunderstand! I asked you how can your video having auto English title? because some videos don't have the sub. I wonder we should put music background or not if we wanna have auto Eng subtitle? What is your experience? Thanks!
Oh, I see. Since I make videos in English, TH-cam automatically transcribes my content. I have a friend go in after and clean it up (fixing spelling and grammar). I would like to add subtitles in another language but I am unsure how to do so. When TH-cam auto transcribes the subtitles the English isn’t correct, I think the robot has a hard time with my accent. To enable captions when watching a video, click the CC button in the corner of the video. I like music in the background, I don’t think it is too much with the subtitles. Hopefully this helps a bit more this time around 🥰
Hi from NZ! Thanks for your tips. I am trying them out now. Google analytics is a little complicated to me @.@ but will get it set up for future use :)
@@Vzenki0507 how are you finding them? I started TeePublic last month and have had 2 sales. Society6 does by far the best for me at 130 sales in 13 months. I wonder how much of that comes down to artistic style?
@@DesignbyCheyney its kinda hard to do this on TeeSpring because there is no organic traffic at all unlike the other 2POD sites that I've tried. I have to do a lot of things to at least people see your account. So far, RB at TP are my favorites because of their user friendly sites. I'll probably gonna try Society6 maybe on Sept 1 since I was able to see how it is working great with your design..
Design by Cheyney honestly I would increase them if I were you. Especially on stickers (you could put it from 75-120% and still get consistent sales). You could always increase them by 5% -10% a month (until you see a noticeable drop then you can work it back to the last successful percentage) hope this helps a bit
@@themurrayvideosThank you for the tip. I would first like to drive consistent sales before upping the price. People either aren't finding my products or I'm not converting sales. People already aren't buying my products and I feel they will be less likely to if I up the margins?
Design by Cheyney honestly for stickers it usually doesn’t make a difference especially since there are huge discounts on bundled purchases for them. It helps protect you from that margin loss. You might just have to work on your keywords which might be the issue more so than the prices.
@@themurrayvideos thank you so much for this. yes, I think I might have to go through and relook at all of my keywords! I appreciate your advice, thank you :)
@@nanajodes8154 haha, yay. I have a few other requests to get to first (a video about Pinterest and one about how to get clients) but I will get there 🥰
Sorry to hear you’re disappointed with you experience. It is disheartening to put in the effort and nit see it return. Have you tried other a POD websites? I have much better luck on Society6.
@@monatahan635 my pleasure! I started a Teepublic store last month and this morning I woke up to my first sale, that might be another avenue for you to try. Keep up the persistence, you never know how close you are to your first sale 😁
Thanks so much for the video! I am glad that I am not the only one who feels frustrated with POD. My store is ss1125.redbubble.com. Although I only have a few designs I feel like I am not getting enough success for the amount of work I am putting in. Hopefully that will change over time.
Thank you for watching. Yes, I wanted to create a video of my experience because so many videos boast lots of work for little work and that hasn’t been my experience at all! I will go and check out your store now, I hope we both start having some better luck soon :) xx
Hi, just took a look at your shop and if you're open to feedbacks, I think the one thing that really stands out are the photos of plants being less desirable. You might benefit from learning a little more about composition and post edits. Improve one or two things with each design and I'm sure it'll be much more attractive to buyers. Right now it might not be attractive enough for people to buy even if they visit your shop.
@@DesignbyCheyney i have my friend have 1k art and he get every month between 200-500$ every month and this happened with so much work of 1.5 years later , and also u can't get the exact same amount this matter how much u sharing ur arts and so much other stuff and just keep going 😘
@@DesignbyCheyney I have around 86 products and I'm getting around 15 dollars every month. I think you don't necessarily need too much products, because each sale helps boost my products a lot. Each month I'm earning a bit more without adding more products.
@@Emma-gn7vy That's awesome. Well done. I now have 100 products loaded to my store but still no sales. Haha. Since my Society6 video, my Society6 sales have doubled. I wish I could see analytics for Society6 because I am doing the same thing across multiple POD sites and only having luck on Society6. I have also started a TeePublic (which was purchased by Redbubble) and have 30+ designs uploaded but not a sale yet. I wonder if my style of design has anything to do with it?
Thank you for this! I have been doing research about the best print-on-demand website to put my energy to, and this video was very helpful. I see you mentioned SpoonFlower, TeesPring, and Placeit.net, would love to know your experience with those. Also, my biggest challenge is to generate traffic to my store, I would like to work with a platform that could help in this sense because I am not an expert in marketing and Adwords (And I would prefer to invest my energy on making aart) :D thank you again
Hi Melise. I have used SpoonFlower for a personal project but not commercially. TeeSpring I have one design up and that's the extent of that. I have quite a few on TeePublic and have made 2 sales in 2 months but I definitely like to out my energy into Society6. I am getting almost a sale a day at the moment. Placeit is phenomenal for mockups, I use it ALL the time for POD stores and my TH-cam videos. I have a whole video about how I use Placeit and Pinterest to market my Society6 store, so stay tuned :)
Also I understand wanting to create the art and not market it, but to get around this you can hire someone else to do it, or treat the marketing part like it's own artform, that's what I do. Placeit definitely makes it fun for me 😁
Loved the video. I always want to hear from other that sell on redbubble. I been in redbubble for 2 years almost three I think lol. I made my first sale after 4 months and I had about 50 designs up. Then I uploaded like 5 designs a months and got 2 sales every month when I had about 80 designs up. Now I have 103 designs. Still making 2 sales a month. My goal is to make a daily sale everyday. I love the idea of passive income lol😊
Thank you for watching Susy. It takes a lot of effort to have over 100 designs, good for you. Two sales a month is much better than what I do. My goal is to make one sale a week on Society6, then a sale a day. I love the idea of passive income too, but recently I have come to think that ‘delayed income’ might be a better term. Creating stores and marketing POD products can be a lot of work, and for some, the return will never match what is put in. Hopefully for both of us we can smash our goals :) Having a goal is great, something to work towards :) x
You will never achieve 1 daily sale with Redbubble. Never ever. I have 350 high quality designs and I have 1 sale per week. And I need 10 daily if i want to live out of Redbubble
Really loving the honesty and openness in the video, especially being paired with the positive outlook! Looking forward to viewing more!
Thank you so much. More print on demand videos are coming soon, stay tuned. Thank you for watching :)
Thanks for this video! Appreciated the honesty, instead of the thousands of videos out there about how rich they got on Red Bubble and such. Thanks again. Looking forward to check your other videos.
You're welcome 😊 I am slowly building up to more sales on Society6 but the return doesn't match the energy I have put in, it doesn't even come close. Hope you have some luck on whatever platforms you try 😎
Been on redbubble for about 2 months, have earned about 48aud so far.. but I think I got quite lucky with redbubble ranking my design quite high, quite fast in its respective niche. Hoping to get atleast 100 USD a month in mid/end 2021
That is awesome, with the way you are going, I think you will meet your goal 😁 I still haven't had many sales on Redbubble, my Teepublic sales have almost surpassed my Redbubble sales and I only opened that a couple of months ago. Best of luck for more sales 😁
Hi, I have just found "Wholesale Ted" and she is ranking Redbubble as the #1 POD site to sell on. I haven't had that much luck either, but I've just found her and have been implementing her advice. Might be worth looking up. I'm sure I'm in the FB groups with you, but have yet to put your FB name and youtube channel together. ;)
I will check that out, thanks for the tip. I have recently put a lot more energy into S6 compared to RB just because it works so much better for me. I have come to wonder if my style is more suited to S6 customers? My S6 and RB store are both named designbycheyney I think, just like my channel :) Your name looks familiar too, next time I see you in a group i'll message you to let you know it's me :)
Made $2.00 on Red Bubble in 4 months and found out that they do not pay untill you earn $20.00.
Correct. Teepublic and Society6 will pay at the end of the month without any threshold. If you don't make it to $20 by the end of the year, Redbubble will pay you what you're due at the end of the year. Here's hoping you reach $20 soon, sooner than New Year :)
Thanks for making this video. Hearing your journey motivates me to keep trying as well.
Wonderful to hear. Best of luck with your store 😊
Something tells me you'll be earning more from monetizing youtube videos than with Redbubble. I'm finding the more I learn about print on demand the more I realize how saturated it is and how difficult to get eyes on the products due to search ranking. I also am hyper aware now of how some people just copy other people's designs. In many cases verbatim, leading to tons of similar or exact products for customers to sift through. Very frustrating.
But it also takes only one design that happens to catch on to change everything for someone. I dont think I can ever recover, finacially, the energy I put into Redbubble designs. Fingers crossed regarding Amazon merch.
Hiya, I have only just been monetized, so no, I have not yet earned more on TH-cam than Redbubble. But this will likely be the case soon. Not the case however for my Society6 store. I earn much more over on that platform and I can't tell you why. I assume it is my style of designs. Not all markets are for everyone, I have the same artwork and put a similar amount of energy into both platforms and Society6 does SO much better for me. The copying of designs is extremely frustrating but happens everywhere. I have a full time graphic designer and I have had other full time graphic designers rip off my work to sell to their clients (it comes back to me sometimes but it is scary to wonder how many times it doesn't get back to me). Best of luck for Amazon Merch, any passive income streams require a risk (the risk being that you invest a lot of your time for it not to return) - I have had my fair share of flops but I always learn from it and move on. Keep going :) In my years as a business owner I have learned that the only difference between someone who "succeeds" and "doesn't" (those words in themselves are arbitrary) is someone who persists. I had 22 rejections before having my book published!
@@DesignbyCheyney Congrats on the book getting published and with more success on Society6! I've not checked that platform out yet as I am working on translating my ideas into designs and Redbubble seems to be a good trainer platform. The backend is very easy and allows the visual of mockups immediately.
I'm not sure about you but I seem to always jump on these trains too late. I find myself, like others, working in a day job and trying to setup passive income on the side though everything I touch required 10 times the effort for 1/100 th of a return. No joke! Its very interesting to me that folks expend so much time and effort for so little ROI. I see videos on youtube with individuals touting their earning on these platforms but they all must have some other insight or just lucked out at the right time with some design or product idea and have been riding the success of that one thing. I'll keep at it as I'm sure you will, until one of my ideas catches on. In the mean time youtube it! Channels about how to make money seem to make top earnings with adsense.
@@MARTiALYOU this is the exact reason why I want to do videos where I am transparent about my earnings and experience. Some of them are not worth the time and the effort, and with the ones that do well, I have continued hope that they will continue in an upward trend. If it was that easy to earn, everyone would do it and have great earnings. Wishing you the best with finding the path that works well for you :)
Hi I'm a RedBubble seller in the US and just made my first sale to someone in Australia. I am very concerned about how to handle the sales taxes RedBubble collects on my behalf. Do you know if I'm supposed to pay Australian taxes (assuming I'm making a lot of money)? Please let me know how you handle RB taxes, it's very confusing and very little clear information out there regarding this :/ Thank you for your video
Hiya, to would talk to an accountant about your specific tax obligations when selling in AUD. It might be different from NZ so I am not comfortable giving you advice in this area. Best of luck and thank you for watching 😊
@@DesignbyCheyney Thank you anyways! I really appreciate it :)
@@zahraamin164 my pleasure. Best of luck ☺️
Hi, Emotionally Unavailable is trademark, why do I still see lots of designs on Redbb? Thanks!
Hiya, this isn’t my area of expertise but I would assume most people don’t know that. The downside of Redbubble is there is a lot of artwork theft and copyright violation, whether that is intentional or unintentional, we will never know. I believe if you see something, you can report it.
Hi nice information...I am new to Redbubble still don't know how to promote .. still no single sell yet... could you help me few tips how to promote or how customers will knw to buy my product's thanks 🙏🙏🙏
Hiya, it does take some time and effort and you might find you have better luck on other platforms. I do a lot better on Society6. You need to market your products to your audience. I have a good video on my print on demand playlist which takes you through how to market and sell using placeit: th-cam.com/video/CJI_JPlU3AI/w-d-xo.html 😁 Best of luck with your store, I hope you have some sales soon. Thank you for watching and stay tuned for more print on demand videos 🥰
Also, the relax fit heather shirt on RB was AWFUL. I was embarrassed sending to my customer thru etsy. But everything else has been good.
Eek. Good to know. Might be worth disabling that item from your store. Thank you for your comments and for watching :)
your refreshing and yes yet to make big dollars but i enjoy the process and the community and its fun
Thank you. Yes, I also enjoy the community and find it fun 😍 I love creating for these sites to, and seeing the designs on the products 🥰 Thank you for watching 😊
how do you get them to pay in NZD thought? ive been trying to figure this out for months and havent got an answe, please help!!
Hiya, I don't. People have purchased through my store using either USD or AUD and then that gets paid out to me by Redbubble via Paypal. When It comes through to my Paypal I have the option to convert the currency to NZD in there. I hope this helps :)
Love this. Keep going the sales come Christmas will jump dramatically 🙂📈
Hiya, thanks for stopping by. I had a slow Christmas last year on Redbubble but I am hopeful for next 🥰 I hope that your store is going well 😊
@@DesignbyCheyney my pleasure, and I've learnt it's a numbers game on redbubble. So not doing to bad now, enjoy how this video was put together. I'll definitely be back 🙂🤝
@@TheMoneyGame aw yay, thank you for the positivity! The editing takes aaaages and I am a bit scared of people being mean on the internet so thank you for the encouragement. I have some vids coming about Pinterest, about how to get clients, and some basic design fundamental vids 👍🏼 If there is something in particular you would like to see, please let me know 😊
@@DesignbyCheyney Pinterest videos would be good always looking to learn, as they say knowledge is power 🙂
@@TheMoneyGame Pinterest is HUGE for my design business and gaining new clients. That will be my next video. A must for anyone with the ability to sell globally/remotely 👍🏼
Good luck with your earnings on redbubble. I've been on it for 3 months and I've made quite a bit more so it is definitely possible.
As I'm typing this, I just for a sale with a $12.30 profit margin lol.. weird.
I have a question about society 6, I was going to join but it spoke about charging my PayPal so I stopped there.
Does society 6 does the advertising for you meaning, are the products available for search right away or is it more like teespring where you have to get sales before you show on search results? Thanks
Hiya, that's awesome. Go you! I am sure it is possible but I can't work out the winning combo. Yes I think Society6 takes a dollar out of your PayPal to verify it but it is worth it when you recieve payments 😁 I am unsure if Society6 markets artist's work. All I know is I do better there than anywhere else and I am not doing anything different across all the platforms. I have been on for a year now and sales have just increased a lot in the last few months, I think you have to be on a while, create a lot of quality content and engage with other community members to be visible. There are no analytics on Society6 so it is hard to track. I have noticed the longer I am on there and the more I upload, the better I do whereas Redbubble seems to have plateaud for me.
@@DesignbyCheyney thank you, this is helpful. Do you sell any graphic shirts or mainly home decor?
@@fabiGBOtown it seems to mainly home decor, hardly any shirts. Lots of curtains, facemasks, coasters and gift wrap!
How do you handle the tax aspect? I am starting my RedBubble store but am scared that I will get in trouble for not submitting sales taxes properly because it's confusing
I’m under 50 designs... and still didn’t receive any sells , is that okey?? Should I continue?
I am all for persistence but you should look to see how you can better your artwork or process. Have you researched how to use keywords correctly and type good descriptions? I have over 100 designs and have only had 14 sales, I choose to still persist but I do much better on Society6. Wishing you all the best for some success with your store 😊
Design by Cheyney I highly appreciate you for your precious advice, and for the fact that you respond to every comment 🙏🏼💕. I will try to hit 300 designs asap and I will keep you in the loop ♥️. Thank you and good luck.
@@itzhala101 awesome, yes, keep me posted 😊 Fingers crossed you get loads of sales 🙌🏼
Design by Cheyney I just made my first sale 1 hour ago with only 36 design.🙌🏼♥️
@@itzhala101 woohoo, congratulations, that's awesome 👌 Keep up the good work 😁
Hi, which dimension is the best for society6? Thanks!
I have a video about this but I usually upload around 8200px x 8200px at 200dpi. 300dpi is ideal so smaller like 6000px x 6000px at 300dpi should be good 🙌🏼
Great video! Could you make a video for Society6 tags advice? Thank you!
Hi Mys, I sure can! I will pop that on my list ☺️ Thank you for your suggestion!
Ive been on redbubble for one month now and have yet to make a sale. 🙇🏻♀️
Yes, this is frustrating and I think it might have been a while before I made a sale too. You aren't guaranteed sales but I would suggest you do as much research as possible to ensure that your artwork is high quality and being seen. Artwork will be more visible if you work on building a community in Redbubble and use tags and keywords well. Wishing you the best of luck and I hope you get your first sale soon :) I do MUCH better over on Society6 - It might be that your style of art/photography/design might be better suited to another POD platform too :)
@@DesignbyCheyney Thank you for your reply. It's very much appreciated. Yes I will take your advice and consider opening a society6 store aswell to see if that works better for me.
I hope your redbubble store also does well and gives you what your efforts deserve.
Thank you so much, I have the same wish for you also 🥰
Hello, can we have Redbubble website and still sell on another platform?
Hi Catarina, yes, absolutely. You are the owner of the artwork. I sell on Society6, Teepublic, and Etsy :) I can’t speak for other platforms but these are all safe. Check the copyright/IP agreement in the terms and conditions of any other sites. Is this your first shot at print on demand?
Redbubble is all about algorithm
If you know how to hack it
You will get sales
You can see some artists on this site has over 100k likes
That means people are viewing their designs and obviously they are getting sales as well
Yeah, I believe it is possible, and I have luck with the algorithm on Society6, Pinterest and TH-cam. Redbubble just doesn't seem to be the right fit for me. I have watched videos and from what I can see, I am doing everything right...Just not working. Fingers crossed for more luck around Christmas. Do you have luck on Redbubble?
@@DesignbyCheyney yup made 100 dollars in 4 month
Got the first sales after two weeks of uploading
The algo picked me up
And now getting consistent sales
Awesome work, what’s your secret?
@@DesignbyCheyney as i said
All about the algo
@@EpicTime33 I will investigate ..🔎
Ive had redbubble since January of this year and I have like 40 designs and I've only made one sale I dont know what to do to get my sales up :((
Hi Shay, thank you for watching. I am sorry to hear that you are not having too much success on Redbubble. Neither am I . Since this video I have 100 uploads on my store and I think I have had one sale since making this video. It is disheartening isn't it? Just because it isn't working, it doesn't mean it won't work. It might take some time. Have you tried other platforms? I have WAY better luck over on Society6 for a similar number of designs and effort. I don't think it is a one size fits all deal, some people I know who do really well on Redbubble don't make sales on Society6 and vice versa. Have you looked into Teepublic? If I have learned anything in business, it is that persistence pays off. Don't give up, continue to develop your skills or try uploading to another platform. you're doing the right thing by jumping online to learn :)
Hey Cheyney! Great video. I'm 2 months into freelance due to fallout from COVID. Just seen your video on society 6 before this. I have recently invested in a top-end art printer that can do prints as good as you can do from outsourcing. I have a feeling that based on your experience these platforms. I should see these third party platforms as an afterthought or a future business development rather than right now. I already have 3/4 clients (Don't know how I've been so lucky) So I already feel into the swing of things. I know income streams are important though so don't want to miss out. Is this something that you think would be silly to do? My thinking is I will have to market the hell out of my prints enough as it is rather than confuse my audience!
Hi Sam, thank you for your message. Good on you for starting freelancing. I think you should put your energy into what you’re passionate about and what works for you. I was selling digital prints on my website before branching out to print on demand but it didn’t go well for me. I have tried other POD sites and they haven’t worked as well for me as Society6. I keep going with Society6 because it is working better for me than the other alternatives. I think it is important to note here that it only supplements my client income. I do not not making a living off print on demand sites. I in no way rely on it.I think that selling my prints on my website could have been a bit confusing for my clients. When I advertise my Society6 art, I do so mainly on FB and instagram and have to be very clear about what it is Society6 is. I use Pinterest mainly for marketing my designs because my clients are not my target audience. And as you say, I don’t want to confuse them. I post occasionally to promote my Society6 in front of my client audience but mainly I promote my client work and my book. Follow your gut I say. You can always start building a shop in the background when you get a lull or a spare moment, it’s free to use but you need to invest your time (which isn’t free). If it grows, water it. I like to think of all my passive income streams as seeds, like in a garden. Sprinkle them around, water them and see what grows. Nurture the one full of life! I hope this has been helpful? Feel free to come back to me with any further questions, if you have anything you would like to see on my channel, let me know and I will see what bI can do for ya!
@@DesignbyCheyney This is where my strategy might differ from your own! I don't want my site to be customer-facing as the long term direction I want to move in is towards the tv/film/music/merc sectors and plan to have my stripped-back site just have a few projects an about page and a store. I plan to write case studies and include those at some point. In the short term till I am at the point where those clients are the majority of my clients I will put some money into facebook/instagram advertising (I am also going to directly advertise my prints on those platforms and lead them to my site in a seperate campaign) to get me some clients within the hospitality sectors or other small businesses. This leads them to my facebook which is more customer-facing, and will capture the lead there. I've sat on all the information from this video and others like it and agree that once Im a bit more established. My site being fully up, My branding fully done and in the swing of working with clients/finding new ones/and getting my prints off the ground at that point I will look again at the other print on demand sites.
Awesome, it sounds like you have some exciting things happening for you in your future career. Keep up the enthusiasm and curiosity and you will do well :) Wishing you all the best for a successful journey 🥰
@@DesignbyCheyney thanks! couldn't be enjoying it more ATM! so hopefully it stays that way
@@samwilliamson903 I wouldn't have my career any other way!! Haha, I never want to be employed again. Love the freedom to make money doing what I love without having to answer to run it past anyone 🤗 I think you will just continue to grow it and love it based on the vibe I am picking up from you 👌🏼
Hi, For auto english sub, we shouldn't add music background even just low volume? Thanks
Hi Juliee, thank you for your comment. Do you mean that I should add music to the video? I am still relatively new to TH-cam and my editing skills are evolving each time I make a video. I have started putting background music in my videos more recently but had to do some research around ensuring the music is royalty-free :) I have only been putting music into some of my videos but I will now consider it more carefully :) If you meant something different, please let me know 😁
Like in this video? th-cam.com/video/Ntbm_5lyyzs/w-d-xo.html
Hi, Sorry for making you misunderstand! I asked you how can your video having auto English title? because some videos don't have the sub. I wonder we should put music background or not if we wanna have auto Eng subtitle? What is your experience? Thanks!
Oh, I see. Since I make videos in English, TH-cam automatically transcribes my content. I have a friend go in after and clean it up (fixing spelling and grammar). I would like to add subtitles in another language but I am unsure how to do so. When TH-cam auto transcribes the subtitles the English isn’t correct, I think the robot has a hard time with my accent. To enable captions when watching a video, click the CC button in the corner of the video. I like music in the background, I don’t think it is too much with the subtitles. Hopefully this helps a bit more this time around 🥰
i have to create my own sub T.T it takes lots time!! Maybe my accent is not good!!
Hi from NZ! Thanks for your tips. I am trying them out now. Google analytics is a little complicated to me @.@ but will get it set up for future use :)
Are you watching from NZ? Where is NZ are you?
@@DesignbyCheyney yes I am watching from NZ. I m in Auckland. Your sharing experiences and tips are really helpful and motivating to me. Thanks :)
@@wemeditate7833 awesome, I am also in Auckland 😁
maybe try adjusting your tags so that your more likely to be found,your tags should be in search results that are less than 400
Thank you, I have tried this but didn't see any change. I will do some more research and see if this helps 🥰 Do you research tags for each product?
@@DesignbyCheyney what i do is use the redbubble tags website and see what is popular and has low search results then i use those tags
@@SG-cg6go Awesome, thank you so much for sharing. I will try that and see if I have better luck 🥰
I've been with Redbubble for almost a month now. No sales yet but yes, I am also forever hopeful 😂
Me too! Best of luck. Hopefully we both see an increase in sales in the lead up to Christmas. Have you posted your art on other POD platforms?
@@DesignbyCheyney yes, hopefully.. this coming Christmas season 😂
I have posted it on RB, TeeSpring and TeePublic.
@@Vzenki0507 how are you finding them? I started TeePublic last month and have had 2 sales. Society6 does by far the best for me at 130 sales in 13 months. I wonder how much of that comes down to artistic style?
@@DesignbyCheyney its kinda hard to do this on TeeSpring because there is no organic traffic at all unlike the other 2POD sites that I've tried. I have to do a lot of things to at least people see your account. So far, RB at TP are my favorites because of their user friendly sites.
I'll probably gonna try Society6 maybe on Sept 1 since I was able to see how it is working great with your design..
Yes, i think it is really depends on the artistic side of the store owner as well the target market.
The biggest con for me is that the products are SO over priced.
Print on demand products are likely to be more expensive than off the shelf products or bulk printed items.
Have you played with the margins?
Hi there, I think I have kept the margins the same as what Redbubble recommends. Do you suggest lowering the margins?
Design by Cheyney honestly I would increase them if I were you. Especially on stickers (you could put it from 75-120% and still get consistent sales). You could always increase them by 5% -10% a month (until you see a noticeable drop then you can work it back to the last successful percentage) hope this helps a bit
@@themurrayvideosThank you for the tip. I would first like to drive consistent sales before upping the price. People either aren't finding my products or I'm not converting sales. People already aren't buying my products and I feel they will be less likely to if I up the margins?
Design by Cheyney honestly for stickers it usually doesn’t make a difference especially since there are huge discounts on bundled purchases for them. It helps protect you from that margin loss.
You might just have to work on your keywords which might be the issue more so than the prices.
@@themurrayvideos thank you so much for this. yes, I think I might have to go through and relook at all of my keywords! I appreciate your advice, thank you :)
Can you tell me redbubble review is 100% original??
Hi yes, it is!
If you answer is yes so please tell me my all products review is my 100 and 150 review ??but I have no sale why why why why
Mubin Ferrous, the reviews you see on Redbubble are for the products not for your design, so everyone will see the same reviews under their designs
dont quite understand the analytics uploading stuff can u do a video on that please
Hi Jody, you mean connecting to Google analytics? I will pop that on my list :)
@@DesignbyCheyney thanks so much now i am excited lol
@@nanajodes8154 haha, yay. I have a few other requests to get to first (a video about Pinterest and one about how to get clients) but I will get there 🥰
@@DesignbyCheyney no rush xx
Hello Everyone! We just start to selling products on Redbubble. Check our designs here: www.redbubble.com/people/CreativeLabour/shop
I checked out your store. Nice designs :)
@@DesignbyCheyney Thank you! Yours is also great!
@@zokumester Thank you :)
Great video !!
Thank you so much. I'm glad you enjoyed and thank you for watching 😁
Oh man. These sites are not worth the trouble at all.
They can be, it is hit or miss though and I think the trick is to find the right one for you and not rely on it for sole income 😁
love this honest review
Thank you for stopping by. Glad you enjoyed it :)
You need to show your products better ...artists Sheesh 😘 rogue pixel has some stuff on using Redbubble more effectively
Interesting feedback, thanks for watching 😊
Thank youu
You’re most welcome 😄
At least you have earnings..
Sorry to hear you’re disappointed with you experience. It is disheartening to put in the effort and nit see it return. Have you tried other a POD websites? I have much better luck on Society6.
@@DesignbyCheyney I’m gonna try to dabble into society6 and keep uploading on redbubble. Thank you so much Cheney I feel like you’re my mentor.
@@monatahan635 my pleasure! I started a Teepublic store last month and this morning I woke up to my first sale, that might be another avenue for you to try. Keep up the persistence, you never know how close you are to your first sale 😁
Thanks so much for the video! I am glad that I am not the only one who feels frustrated with POD. My store is ss1125.redbubble.com. Although I only have a few designs I feel like I am not getting enough success for the amount of work I am putting in. Hopefully that will change over time.
Thank you for watching. Yes, I wanted to create a video of my experience because so many videos boast lots of work for little work and that hasn’t been my experience at all! I will go and check out your store now, I hope we both start having some better luck soon :) xx
Hi, just took a look at your shop and if you're open to feedbacks, I think the one thing that really stands out are the photos of plants being less desirable. You might benefit from learning a little more about composition and post edits. Improve one or two things with each design and I'm sure it'll be much more attractive to buyers. Right now it might not be attractive enough for people to buy even if they visit your shop.
U upload just 83 art so u can't get so much revenue
Thank you for the feedback. How many uploads do I need before I start seeing more people purchase?
@@DesignbyCheyney i have my friend have 1k art and he get every month between 200-500$ every month and this happened with so much work of 1.5 years later , and also u can't get the exact same amount this matter how much u sharing ur arts and so much other stuff and just keep going 😘
@@DesignbyCheyney I have around 86 products and I'm getting around 15 dollars every month. I think you don't necessarily need too much products, because each sale helps boost my products a lot. Each month I'm earning a bit more without adding more products.
Also the type of products you get sales from really impacts your earnings. I mainly get sticker sales and earn about 50 cents each time.
@@Emma-gn7vy That's awesome. Well done. I now have 100 products loaded to my store but still no sales. Haha. Since my Society6 video, my Society6 sales have doubled. I wish I could see analytics for Society6 because I am doing the same thing across multiple POD sites and only having luck on Society6. I have also started a TeePublic (which was purchased by Redbubble) and have 30+ designs uploaded but not a sale yet. I wonder if my style of design has anything to do with it?