So last month, May 2023 TeePublic announced that they're going to be
splitting their artists into two categories, starting June. Well,
it's June 2023 and I wanted to explain what those two categories are on TeePublic. Let's go!
Hey everyone, it's Juna with Detour Shirts. In this video I wanted to talk about TeePublic's
new category system. So there's two categories. I wanted to do this video for a while but I wanted
to make sure I understood it before I did it so it took me a little while to get this out
and it's already June, so you should be in one of those two categories already and have been seeing
the changes. So I wanted to go into TeePublic first and look at the FAQs and explain where
you can find what category you are and what the differences are so let's go into TeePublic right
now and I'll show you the difference okay I'm here on TeePublic TeePublic.com this is their
home page I want to show you where you can find more information about the category so I'm going
to scroll all the way down and go to designers and you can see earnings right here so I'm going
to click on that and you can see it's changed it has the two categories now so artisan and
Apprentice so Artisan is basically the same thing that we used to have uh anyone that's
in The Artisans nothing has really changed for them you can see uh you still get four dollars
per t-shirt and two dollars on a sale so if you look at your earnings report you'll notice that
each time there's a sale you get two dollars and four dollars so pretty much the same I
mean exactly the same what we had before so now you can see there's this one Apprentice
so Apprentice you don't get as much you get three dollars instead of four so you get a dollar off or
taken from you or however you want to see it and then on the sale you only get one dollar per sale
which is a really small uh in my opinion but you can see that's that's what it is so all the way
across the board you can see there's more things on here like stickers is even less and and so on
but you can look at that that's where you find it so if you want to learn more about the different
earnings you can go here to the facts but before I go there one easy way to find out which one you
are if you're Artisan or Apprentice is to just go to your account if you hover over it you can see
right there account category I'm Artisans yours might be different and you can go to more info
here as well as visit the fact so I'm gonna do it really simple I'm going to go to more info here so
um do this go to more info and then click there so this fax page kind of explains everything I'm
going to go over it with you um and give you my thoughts on it so this basically explains
everything what TeePublic wants you to know about the two categories and how you can get from each
category and like what what does it mean to be in the Artisan category what does it mean to be in
The Apprentice category right and then you can see frequently asked questions what are the account
categories how does the service be increase affect my earnings how are accounts categorize where
can I find my account we just showed that can my account category change yes it can what happens if
my account category changes in the middle of the period that one's going to be easy to answer to
if I'm an art affiliate on TeePublic will my extra fees earnings change at all this is a no I'm going
to answer that one right away that affiliate sales at least for the time being doesn't change for
categories and this one right here we can answer this one really quick what happens if my account
category changes in the middle your earnings will be based on the accounts categorization
at the time of the sale so TeePublic knows if you switch in between and for some reason you switch
to Artisan in your from Apprentice to Artisan you will be getting as soon as that happens you get
the four dollars per sale and so on if you go back down you as soon as that happens if you go from
Artisan to Apprentice you'll get three dollars and so on so that's how that works so let's see
the two categories right here let's go back to the first one Artisan accounts these accounts
represent artists who design Unique Products most likely to interest their customers browsing the
TeePublic Marketplace so basically what they're saying is they want original artwork they want
artwork that people want to buy which is what we've been saying on this channel anyway design
for what the audience wants and here's what they're saying here's some examples of what
they're looking so this kind of thing you can see this this artist has a certain style this
artist has a certain style like really original uh art they probably drew this or did something here
um look at this this is a style right and so on so you can see just high quality looking for artists
right designed by artists just like Redbubble they want to see stuff designed by artists they don't
want to just have a blanket full of just regular stuff that anybody can do you can see this is more
for artists so that's why it's Artisan right so coming back here for The Apprentice accounts they
also give examples what an apprentice account is these accounts represent artists who are
less Discerning about the products they design TeePublic is clearly saying we don't want those
scale designs on here where it's just the same thing changing over and over just text designs
and you'll see what I mean so you can see they don't want spamming to public in high volumes
and so on so here clicking here this is an example that they're seeing you can see they use the same
bear over and over but just changing this one says Grandpa bear this is his grandpa bear on the top
this one says his grandfather bear like so many different versions of Grandpa bear so this is not
what TeePublic is looking for and in fact I don't think this is what TeePublic's audience is looking
forward to so they're really trying to make it so that this is a place where you can find original
Arts um by artists right so that's the difference Artisan accounts mainly for artists and you can
get into here if you want if you're if you see that your account is an apprentice if you want
to change that and make sure that each individual design is more artsy or design better you know
take the time to design instead of trying to just Spam TeePublic that's what they're trying to avoid
here basically so that's the big difference between artists and accounts and Apprentice
accounts once more original artwork which is what TeePublic is looking for and Apprentice accounts
is more people who are just kind of blasting and you know putting the same kind of things
but with little tweaks okay so next question how does this service fee increase affect my
earnings so Artisans earnings don't change as the 4-2 split right you got four dollars regular and
two dollars uh during the sale Apprentice like we saw and beginning June 1st so we're already
in June you should be seeing this if you're an apprentice uh three dollars when you sell full
price and one dollar for the sale so and clicking this link will just go back to the table we saw
earlier in this video so the next question how are our accounts categorized we pretty much saw this
in this answer here but it did just explaining that you can go back and forth between so if
they they see that you started spamming um designs they may put you into Apprentice but if you start
cleaning up your Apprentice stuff and and start putting on original designs that people want to
see then you'll get back to The Artisan where can I find my account category we sell really quickly
but you can also go to the dashboard but it's just that drop down that we saw will tell you so
last one here last question that we didn't answer is can my account category change if so how it
says yes it's possible that it can change it all depends on your design quality and artistic skill
level the volume of designs and consumer appeal so basically what they're saying is they're looking
for really good designs to show on TeePublic and here if you're not trying to do that it you're
just trying to blast the public there you're going to take a hit right so I think this is just a way
for TeePublic to kind of clean up their site kind of give more incentive to people to do original
designs and create designs at the TeePublic audience wants so there's a couple more things
I wanted to mention that aren't mentioned in those and that is first a lot of people are asking have
been asking before why my designs aren't showing up so it's pretty clear that TeePublic is trying
to say that if you're in the Artisan category they will show your designs on the marketplace
and if you're not in the the artist in cabinet or if you're in The Apprentice category your designs
will not show up in the marketplace they're kind of discouraging those that are trying to
spam TeePublic they really want to show and give priority to those that are in The Artisan category
and showcase those designs the designs that they think that the TeePublic audience wants to see so
these two categories on TeePublic as far as I understand it is not based on time it is based
on design so like I've been trying to say for a lot of these videos is it design really matters
and really does here on TeePublic just like it does on Redbubble but more specifically here on
TeePublic because you can see the the divide that they're saying is we want original the
TeePublic is saying basically we want original designs that people want to buy on TeePublic
we want to make sure that we're showcasing those kinds of designs now because of that it doesn't
matter if you've been on TeePublic as far as I understand it it doesn't matter if you've been
on TeePublic for or years or if you just started tea public they're going to look at into every
account I don't know how they're going to do this but they're going to do an audit basically
of every account and look at all the designs and figure out are these designs the kind of designs
that people would want to see on TeePublic or is this account just trying to spam TeePublic with
the same kind of designs just changing your word here to or moving moving it up and down and things
like that so think about what you're putting on TeePublic make sure that you're putting the best
things on there which you should be doing anyway putting the best things on there what people are
you think people are going to buy so think about the design and don't try and do scale designs or
spam TeePublic in any way because that's an easy way for you to get to The Apprentice account so
hopefully that was really helpful for you let me know in the comments if everything made sense
there and I I think this could be a good thing for people who are legitimately using TeePublic to
Showcase their Art and Design for that Community like every print on demand site I've said this
before every print on demand site has their own audience and it's our job as artists as sellers
to figure out what that audience is and deliver the best product for that audience so same thing
here on TeePublic on Redbubble and on Amazon Etsy as well so wherever pod site you're on make sure
to figure out what the audience wants on there and design your best things for that audience
and that's just going to help you get sales as well instead of just trying to push tons
of designs out and hoping for the best so that's not a good strategy the best strategy is to design
for the audience on that print on the Mad side so thanks again for watching if you want to see
the video I made about redbubble's changes is a while ago but I'll put that video right here you
can see what they have done with the tier system a little bit different than TeePublic so that
one's a good watch too if you sell on Redbubble or plan to sell on Redbubble thanks again for
watching and as always guys keep creating and keep learning I'll see you on the next one bye