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hey guys thanks for joining me for a new
video today I'm excited to do an
interview with Alex
strambu you may have seen her in your
YouTube feed if you've ever searched for
anything related to redbubble hey Alex
thanks for being here thank you so we
were just talking about how she's
basically dominating the the YouTube
tutorials related to redbubble so can
you share any tips with people like me
who are trying to also get some red
bubble videos out there on YouTube on
how to get more views more clicks what's
your secret so I thought it was
something that was simple enough that
people who you know are just turning out
we want to learn more about start on
that bubble we want to learn how to do
so I pushed that and first actually
didn't do too well so for a few weeks
you know I got minimal views and my
channel was very small at that point so
it's only kind of helps to see that
video so after a while I had noticed
that I started taking off and I was
getting way more views and I originally
would so I noticed that people were
interested in the subject and that there
was kind of like a lack in the market
when you search for redbubble stuff
because a lot of the videos where older
videos and there were videos that where
I guess a bit more general of a red
bubble so I took that as an opportunity
and what this online was taking off I
filmed a couple more about you know red
bubble related topics so I have one
sharing how much I made on there I have
lunch sharing like how to become a
featured artist and you know other ones
about tips and tricks so I feel like as
long as they're giving people like solid
advice they can follow through on and
prove behind your advice so like I do
have you know proof behind my numbers
and so do you Ryan button I feel like
once kind of couple those two things
together it really builds you know trust
and proof that your advice works that
people want Rhino
and they come back when you have more to
offer yeah and one really cool thing
that you did was like you shared your
your redbubble store cuz like I shared
with you a minute ago like you to
basically put your video in my feed when
I wasn't even looking for redbubble
content so I clicked it cuz I was like
oh wow like this is a pretty big success
story and didn't expect you to show your
your shop and your most successful
product which then of course I used to
make a channel a video on my channel
which did really well to do and
personally like I was like I'm not the
type of shop where I'm like constantly
going after like trending designs so my
stuff is expensive in that way it's
stuff that I've just taken and
throughout my trips or other pics I've
been so to me it's you know you can try
to replicate that because there's
obviously you know water pictures
everywhere but I think mine store in
general has like a certain aesthetic and
people coming back to it you know they
want images that are in that like
editing style or in not like nature
themes so I didn't really have any
issues putting it out there and I wanted
people to see kind of you know what I
was doing and how was working for me
needs so it's people I try to copy it
that's fine but at this point you know
there are other pictures of water and
run bubble but I was able to kind of you
know use your ID tags and couple it
together with the rest of my store to
make it successful right you've got it
yeah there's other ones but yours is the
best just to it but also just to follow
up on what you said to like one thing I
do see a lot of people that are well not
a lot but I've seen like comments on the
video I posted and and in my Facebook
groups where they've referenced your
video and your shop and how much they
thought that it just like flowed
together really well and that's like an
interesting thing too and before I
forget actually hey guys like I'm gonna
put a link to Alex's channel in the
description if you want to go show her
some love some
scribe check out her RedBubble videos
very authentic which I'm sure people
will appreciate you know like you share
your numbers you share even your
products which is your going further
than I go on my channel so now you're
making me look bad they're gonna want to
see myself yeah and I mean like you said
though when you share some of your most
successful products like the sales
volume you've done is gonna cement you
in a better spot than if I were to go
try to cut even if I just copied your
exact design likelihood I show up on
page one it's almost zero right yeah I
mean I feel like like I said like I'm
approaching it from a different angle
whereas I generally started because I
like taking pictures I like you know
making art so there's just a way for me
to make a little bit of money off of all
those things I was doing and I couldn't
expect it to take off this much but now
that it has I definitely must start
taking more seriously and you know
potentially even like start a new store
and testing out some like those more
trendy design but you're talking about
because now I'm in this red mobile
community on YouTube I see so much and
there's so much potential beyond kind of
what I'm doing so I've kind of done with
a fun and passionate side of this and I
want to try a little bit more like
accelerated income side of it yeah I'm
treating it I don't want to say more
like a business cuz you're crushing me
but I always think of like if you're
gonna sit down every day and try to put
up X number of products you do kind of
have to venture out into the niche
research and yeah all that but it is
interesting kind of the two sides of how
we approach RedBubble where I sell my
soul for chasing whatever trend is out
that day and you go with your passion
and actually are I don't know should we
save artwork I don't want to insult
photography is it art it does it count I
don't know like actually I'm also going
like
and a love ballad singing help my stuff
is like artwork anything it's just like
pictures and honestly like I'm not
sensitive Ali we call it whatever you
want like I'm finally saying I'm like a
pro photographer because you know some
of it was taken on my iPhone so just I'm
whenever you want call rings I don't
know yeah if it's selling then if you
call it artwork or not I don't think it
really matters yeah important I can't
consider myself an artist because if if
you follow any of my videos anybody
watching follows my videos like I
usually preach that you should optimize
for the lowest amount of time invested
to generate a design anyways which
usually means going and getting some
other graphics somebody else made that
you can get the rights to and throwing
something together yes so so your your
background you'd say just started as
kind of like a passion project a hobby
and then now you're it's almost like
multifaceted actually you grew it into
over $20,000 profit I think you said and
now you're talking about on YouTube and
growing another branch of your business
so it was like a computing natural
process I wasn't you searching for
making money like through sites like
that so yes I tried to sign a six I like
to have some success on it and then I
actually started googling other sites
but you do the same thing on and that's
how I can impress that double which
ended up being kind of successfully are
you on T public I've had decent success
like my RedBubble numbers are always
bigger but I someone pointed out to me
that RedBubble bought t public so the
public starts to like well might as my
numbers start to scale up it kind of
makes sense that that if they're using
the same like marketing tactics that's
one of the big reasons I like redbubble
but they always say like you
make them work for us they do rank well
on Google when they run a lot of ads and
whatnot on our behalf
yeah no I that's why I signed up for to
public so I got the email saying they
were part of redbubble and they want
you to create an account because I was
doing so well on redbubble over - yeah
yeah like I don't have any mighty public
sales are like they're pretty widespread
it's not like any one listing that's
crushing it you know whereas like I'm
sure well I know you've shared your some
of your redbubble success stories
whereas like mine are pretty
concentrated at the top - mm-hmm you
know we're a couple do most of the do
most of the money and then but um do you
have any like general so let's get into
like what people probably really want to
hear can you provide any like general
actionable tips as far as maybe like
keyword strategy goes for redbubble
that you think will assist in improving
like organic rank mm-hmm well personally
I always like brainstorming keywords I
know there's a lot of like keyword tools
you can get make things like copy and
paste and I'm sure those probably work
but I've never tried one so I can't
speak to them so for me I just try to
come up with I guess around 20 or so
keywords I know red label says like 15
to 20 is like the sweet spot keywords I
think are relevant to not only like the
picture that's showing but almost like
the lifestyle is kind of people that
would be buying something like that
so you know obviously there's probably
just certain type of person I would buy
something from my store and I try to
embody like you know everything they
might be searching for in those keywords
so not only just like you know ocean or
water but I also do like adventure or
travel because people that like water
the ocean they probably like traveling
or adventurers or stuff like
so I can't think of it like more on a
broader level than just exactly what's
in the image and I think it's worked for
me so far so that's definitely something
I'd recommend don't just like nano in
turn zoom in i guess on exactly what you
see but think of like other things that
embody that image it's great advice too
because it's it's funny how like my
strategy i swear is kind of like
opposite of yours and it's you're having
more success so i'm all on board with
like saying hey what what you just
suggested targeting those broader
keywords is going to get you more like
mass appeal or hopefully at least
whereas I just always I don't know I
always just assume that it's gonna be so
saturated that like I'll just take my 1
sale every other month by being like
extremely refined mm-hmm and then just
blasting the catalog with more products
and trying to build up that way yeah and
I think what strategies probably work
artists I guess you are and mm-hmm and
do you have any other plans for Nick I'm
a big fan of diversifying income streams
like we talked about you where you
achieve success on RedBubble and then
you grew that into a new income stream
with your youtube channel and do you
have any other plans for anything
complimentary yeah I'd love to one day
honestly just kind of do your own
projects and working for you and you
know do whatever you want in the mean
time but with my youtube channel I'm
sailing through that as much as I can
with other streams so what if that's
like affiliate links or clouds or
courses down the line nothing like a
plan yet but definitely like where I see
my tail going in that sense and I
actually want to try kind of joining
more redundant man platforms and you
know approach open you strategy where I
can just I guess post more because
they like photography let me post so
much if you're not necessarily going
anywhere or you're stuck in the same
area all the time but it'd be great to
try different strategies how that works
for me yeah I mean kind of a typical
YouTube road I guess yeah and that would
be great to share with your audience I'm
sure people would be interested I'd be
interested to like follow your journey
too I'm sure you've seen other youtubers
who are kind of transparent about
launching some new or attempting to
launch a new passive income stream
there's one named cupcake trainings and
I really like her channel as well she
kind of does that where she's hey she
says hey guys we're gonna try you know
selling on Amazon through seller central
we're gonna sell print-on-demand there
and let's see
she actually reviewed like one of my
videos she was like playing me in the
background and then she would pause it
and be like alright I trust him or like
oh he's full of it don't listen to him
yet so that's that's kind of like how I
approach this - like I don't want to be
over relying on anyone income stream so
I think you're on the right path as far
as as far as like my opinion is I mean
I'm still really I wasn't expecting to
monetize this quickly so I definitely
don't have a plan for my channel yet
because it's still very new and fresh
and I have to kind of think it through a
little bit more but I would beginning I
do want to keep it kind of like organic
on my channel or I don't wanna like push
out different things right I definitely
want to do those kind of things have
trade dropship thinking before but I
don't know it was not very successful
and I don't think I approached it the
right way but income streams yeah I have
a buddy that does drop shipping and it's
everything that I talk about in my
channel is more or less complimentary in
some way and drop shipping to me is like
outside the mold because it relies so
heavily on like driving you know it's
Facebook ads really I mean it up it's
really that side of it that to me I
wasn't a huge fan of plus you have to
hire VA I think for customer service
yeah actually just so many elements to
and like it it's a little upfront cost
you know you don't think it is initially
so yeah that's one of the biggest
fallacies associated with drop shipping
for sure whereas like print-on-demand
as you can attest to truly like red
bubble is free right and they do think
about royalties you don't have to do any
customer service even cool so hey guys
if you're not on redbubble by the way
signing up is free like we just
mentioned and if you're looking for tips
on how to get started how to thrive on
the platform like I said earlier alex is
more successful than me on redbubble
and her channels putting out great
content so there's gonna be a link in
the description if you want to go follow
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comments that people have questions well
a thank you again for being here and
yeah we're gonna be dropping a interview
on your channel too so guys look out for
that and yeah thank you for being here