It's niche research time,
and I'm gonna be talking about Bubble Trends,
Redbubble Popular Tags Tool, and BubbleScout,
Three options you can use
to find out what's selling on Redbubble.
I'll be talking about the pros and cons of each
and what I think the best research method is.
You might be surprised at what I've got to say.
The whole point of doing niche research
is so you can figure out
what's selling right now on Redbubble.
That way you can give people what they already want to buy
and you'll be more adept at making money.
First of all, we'll do Bubble Trends
because it's the easiest one,
and this is super popular
because it's updated every day.
You literally just click Get Today's Trends
and it will give you a list like this.
And it's literally just a list
with names of stuff on the left
and the amount of search results on the right.
And if you go down,
there's 75 results in total.
And that's it, there's no links to click,
there's no filtering information.
You can sort by date now which is really useful.
It doesn't go back too far
because this wasn't made too long ago,
so it only goes back to November 2020.
But this will be useful
because you'll be able to look back on trends
and what was popular at certain times of the year
that will then inform your research.
So for example with this information,
we can look at what was popular
around Christmas time last year.
And that's probably going to be popular again.
Or we can rework some of the stuff into new niches.
So these are search terms on the left
and just how many results there are on the right.
So this isn't sales.
All it is is just telling you
what people are searching for at the moment.
And since it's updated day by day,
we can literally go to yesterday,
19th of April as of me recording this.
And have a look and all the stuff's different.
So it changes day by day.
It's very useful because it's updated daily.
So if you want to be on top of trends,
you can have a look at the results on here
and find out what is in demand right now.
With the Popular Tag Tool,
you get way more options
and this Tag Generator still isn't working
even though I talked about this ages ago.
But the Popular Tags Tool is working,
and it was last updated yesterday.
So we've got Popularity here.
The change in popularity here
so how much it's changed over the last week.
This one's become very popular.
The Results is how many results there are,
and then the change in results over the last week.
So you can see this one is mega, mega popular.
I don't know why.
Look me in the eye funny.
Don't know, I haven't come across that one.
And Results, this has got
10,000 extra results, birthday stickers.
I usually organize by popularity change over the last week
and just have a little scan down to see what's going on.
By default, it shows you 25.
We'll just up that to 100,
and it shows you this on one page.
So unlike Bubble Trends
that shows you only 75 and that's it,
Popular Tags Tool will show you 100 entries on a page
and it's out of 10,000 entries
which means you can go from page to page
having a look at what's popular right now.
Or if you just don't have much time,
you can have a look on the front page, the top 100 results,
and get an idea of what is popular.
These two, Bubbles Trends and Popular Tags Tool,
are web-based so it's quite easy to use.
Whereas BubbleScout is very new
and it's a Chrome extension.
Now I'm not recommending this.
I'm just talking about it so bear that in mind.
I don't actually use this.
However just because it's not right for me
doesn't mean it's not right for you.
So Redbubble niche research made easy,
one-click niche validation.
You've got to actually install the plugin
if you want to have it working on Redbubble.
And what happens is when you go to the Redbubble homepage,
it looks like normal.
But then in a few seconds, this loads up.
So it gives you the top 20 trending searches,
the top 20 popular searches,
and the top 20 popular product types.
So right now you can see these are really popular.
You can scroll down
and it'll give you the 20 as it says.
We're gonna click the first one
just to have a look, "I'm not Chinese".
And you can see it loads as normal,
and then again this page comes up.
This is coming up on every page.
So you can click these
and it'll take you to the actual product information.
And if you scroll down a little bit,
you can see here that it's got a box
which you can click to determine competition.
Usually if you pay for it,
this actually does determine the competition.
So it'll say yes, you can compete in this niche
or no, you can't.
Does this based on the number of search results,
so you kind of actually work that information out yourself.
I wouldn't target this niche personally
because well, for ethical reasons.
I'm not trying to be holier than thou or anything,
but anything that profits
off the discrimination of other people
especially an oppressed group that I'm not a part of,
I don't really feel it's appropriate for me
to be profiting of Chinese hate crime as a white person.
It just doesn't feel right.
I know that people do that for business reasons.
And certainly things like Black Lives Matter
and Stop Asian Hate are very on point trending right now.
I'm all about spreading love.
I absolutely agree with the message and everything.
I just feel that for me to profit off a trend
that is about hating someone else is for me,
it just doesn't feel right to do that.
I'm not judging anyone that does.
If that's what you want to do,
then obviously you're more than welcome to do that.
And certainly it's a good way
to reduce the amount of hate in the world.
However, it just doesn't feel right to me.
These red bubbles down here
have replaced the favorite icons.
So if you click them,
you can favorite as normal.
You can copy that person's tags
or you can analyze the listing.
So if you click Analyze,
this is the product data that it brings up.
So it'll show you the product, the price,
the sales per month, revenue per month, niche score,
and popularity which you can do some trend analysis on.
the problem with this and something to bear in mind
is that this isn't data from Redbubble.
So although it's a Redbubble research tool,
the information about what's selling
on Redbubble isn't publicly available.
So they've had to take these
from other websites which is okay.
It's just that it doesn't
necessarily translate on Redbubble,
and I'm just a bit concerned that people
are gonna look at this and think,
oh yeah, I can compete in this niche
when actually there's no demand for it on Redbubble.
It's kind of similar to Merch Informer
in that you can look and use this website,
and it'll tell you great, what's selling on Amazon.
And sometimes those things do translate to Redbubble.
It's like this one's selling 74 shirts a month.
Will that be really popular on Redbubble?
I don't know 'cause they've got a very different market
and it's something that you pick up over time
when you've been on analyzing these different sites.
What works well on one might not work on another.
So it is a tool for Redbubble,
but the search information
isn't actually getting that information from Redbubble.
So that's just something to bear in mind.
One of the important things I wanted to let you know
is that before we had any of these things,
we didn't have Bubble Trends, BubbleScout,
Popular Tags or anything like that,
it was just a case of going on the Redbubble website
and getting a feel for what's selling.
Literally you can go
and click Most Relevant and that Best Selling,
and it will sort by what's best-selling right now.
The benefit you get from looking through these designs
and getting a feel for it is something that can be taught
and can't really be explained in a video.
It's something that comes to you after you put in the hours
looking at designs that sell and coming up with your own,
and it can only be achieved through real-time research
so you do kind of miss out.
It points you in the right direction.
Don't get me wrong,
these research tools are really useful.
However there's something to be gained
from actually manually looking through the website,
and having a look at what sells,
and thinking about why that sells?
Why is it so popular?
It's something that you'll get feel for
after putting in some hours looking at these designs,
and it'll really pay off.
So make sure you don't neglect
actually just going on the site and having a look.
You'll be able to pick up what's gonna sell
and what isn't gonna sell
after spending some time doing this.
The thing that worries me about BubbleScout
is that it has to be installed as a Chrome extension.
And when you go on there,
it shows you that it can read and change your data
on a number of websites, show details.
So all Amazon sites, all Google sites,
all Gstatic.com sites, all Redbubble sites,
and this one as well.
It can also modify data that you copy and paste
and know your email address.
And it's quite a new extension.
It's backed by this guy who has a YouTube channel.
I've got nothing against this guy who made the tool.
It might be completely fine.
But it might not
because I've been in
this print-on-demand business a long time,
and I've seen these tools come and go.
And I'm not saying there's anything
wrong with this one in particular.
It's just that it requires a lot permissions
that you don't have to give
by just using web-based software.
And for me, I've seen people get their accounts stolen.
I've seen people lose massive amounts of income
that they've worked so hard on.
I've seen them get their stores shut down,
their designs stolen, all through using stuff like this.
And because it is so new,
personally I'm not gonna use it yet.
I'm just gonna see what happens.
So in summary, I recommend using Bubble Trends
combined with the Popular Tags Tool
and maybe even something like Merch Informer.
But don't underestimate how useful
actually looking at the site is
and just using your own judgment
to recognize what's popular.
Thank you to everyone involved in Passive Ethics
and especially these absolute bosses.
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