In this video I'm going to talk about my RedBubble earnings for April
what I sold and what I plan to do in the coming months. Let's go!
Thanks for joining me on this video my name is Juna with Detour Shirts the channel
all about helping you design and sell t-shirts online. If that's something you'd like to do
don't forget to hit that subscribe button. So it's May and that means we can look back at April and
see what we did in April. What we did right what we did wrong and kind of change and move and make
sure that we're doing what we need to do and get rid of the things that we're not doing maybe try
something different and that's what i'm going to show you in this video exactly what i did in april
for redbubble and the things that i'm gonna do to change using that data i'm gonna show
you all the data that i get from redbubble and i'm gonna do some data of my own so you can see
some of those things if you've been following me for a while you know i have videos like this
that i do every month for my income reports on redbubble you can go back and watch all of those
this month i actually made more than last month so you're going to want to also see that and what i
did why is it different and why i made more you're going to want to stay to the end of this video so
you can see everything i got lots of tips for you to do on redbubble as well as a bonus tip
at the end and of course another edition of trend credits so lots to see in this video and
let's get started alright so here we are let's begin i made this redbubble april 2021 sales
kind of presentation for you so you can see everything that i learned in april on redbubble
and the things that i'm going to change on redbubble you don't have to do the same things but
hopefully you can learn some of the things that i learned here so you don't have to go through them
and don't make the same mistakes i did so first of all on redbubble you can go
to your sales history and hit this download csv file right here and you can get all your
information your own personal information and do some of these things that i'm showing you here so
that's probably going to be more helpful for you because you're going to use your own data
you're going to see what sells and what doesn't and then do more of that so one thing that i did
is i added more shirts this month so you can see right here in march at the end of march i had 930
designs at the end of april i have 974 designs which means i added 44 designs and that's not a
lot of designs you can add up to 60 designs a day so if you can do that i would suggest to do that
but you also want to take some time and build some quality design so it's not about rushing and
putting as many designs as you can on redbubble it's about thinking about what sells making sure
that you design things that people actually want to buy and wear so put those quality designs
as many as you can on redbubble just have that balance and you'll notice one thing i did here
on my shop if you visit my shop is i change my shop banner this was my old shop banner right
here this is my new one and you're going to want to do that every once in a while to freshen it up
and add the things that people actually are buying so these are the more pertinent people were buying
these um you know two three years ago and so now they're buying these things so i'm putting those
in there and i'm just doing a real simple shop banner with boxes and putting my designs in
boxes nothing too fancy here so just put your you know your top 10 top whatever on there and that's
an easy way to showcase what you're selling so the next thing i wanted to show you is
at the end of my last video i had these goals for march so it's important that you follow your goals
and i i hit a lot of them i upload every day check i did that you can see i had 44 uploads
so that's at least one a day fixing greeting cards i showed you how to do that in a video
so you can watch that if you haven't seen that video i'll put that video link up here
but that's a good one and then design for t-shirts and hoodies
i've been doing that with my uploads designing for stickers i haven't done that as well so i didn't
give myself a check mark there but i did a lot of these goals that i i set out to do in march
so one of the things i wanted to talk about is uploading every day i talked about this before in
other videos you can just download this sheet for free i have it on my site detour shirts.com
this is what i used um last month and you can see every upload i did i said one upload or
sometimes i had five uploads or four uploads and i kept track of my uploads as well as my sales
and that really helped and i'm going to show you the graph i made with this and you can kind of
see when or what days you sell the best or kind of just keep track and see if your uploads are
actually helping you with sales and i think it did so so i wanted to share this earnings summary
that redbubble provides you can get this on your dashboard everyone that's on redbubble has access
to their own this kind of shows you how much you made each day but not really what you sold each
day so using that sheet that i showed you earlier the one that i wrote down on i made this graph
here so i thought this graph was actually even better so i just did this graphing keynote this is
the one that i'm using for the presentation you can make graphs like these on anything but once
you have those numbers now you can do stuff like this and look what i found my top three
sales days were on the weekends surprise surprise so people are buying friday saturday you can see
um i upload it every day that's what the blue is but these greens are sales i made seven
sales on fridays seven sales on saturdays six sales on saturday and i wouldn't have known that
um just by looking at the red bubble graph if you make your own graph and use your data then you
can see that and how is this helpful well it's helpful because maybe you want to push more of
your stuff with social media on friday or saturday just to get that little extra advantage and i did
not do that i wish i did but just organically it's selling more on the weekend so if you give
yourself even more push if you know people are buying on the weekends maybe that's when you
want to do your extra push on social media i mean it could help right so the next thing i wanted to
share with you is this graph here that you can also find on the dashboard on redbubble so my
traffic went up in april from the previous month in march so it's up just a little bit but that is
encouraging that more and more people are visiting the site so probably helped with the increase in
profits that i made too so speaking of profits here you can also find this um
yours will actually show the artwork i'm not showing what artwork is here but this
you can also find on your dashboard and look at a sales history and see how many products
of something that you sold and what's the total profit that you made so you can see here i sold
10 of these products right here three of these so these are my top sellers for the month right
so with the data that i got from the csv file i made this chart this pie chart let me remove my
face for a bit so here you can see now without my face blocking the way stickers in march made 67
but now close even though i sold less products in april i sold more clothes you can see 10
in march 31 here which helped me get a bigger profit i'm gonna show that later but look at
some of the other products that i sold too so i didn't sell an iphone 12 in april i sold a magnet
though and i sewed a mask and a pin button which is new and a throw pillow too which is new and i
didn't sell greeting cards so what is this is showing is stickers and clothes still my
top biggest sellers but you can sell different products from month to month and you want to
keep track of that and one of the things so i'll show you here and put my face back but
some of the new products in april that i show sold was a pin button i only made 55 cents on that and
i sold two throw pillows at 487 profit each and the reason i put this here for new products sold
you never know what products you're gonna sell so i put it on all products and sometimes
it pays off right sometimes you know this is an extra 10 bucks so it doesn't hurt to add it to
different products and these again are my highest profit top three highest profit products in april
there are the hoodies premium t-shirts and long sleeves so make sure you enable all of those
i think they're enabled by default but just go back and check and make sure
that you're enabled for those and make sure they look nice on those too so another thing i wanted
to share and i think this is helpful this is new i haven't added this in my previous videos but
i think this could be really helpful for you guys and that is to show all products sold in april so
these are all the products that i sold in april when you look at that csv file you can see it
and you can see essential shirts are something that i sell a lot and stickers are something
that i sell a lot here but this is the breakdown this is how all my 71 sales if you add all these
things together you'll get 71 and this is kind of what i sold in april and you're going to
want to look at yours what you sold again you can see it's a big variety of products so you
want to put all your designs on all products and hopefully it looks good on it and can
sell and make a sale so the next thing i wanted to show you is my exact profit what i made so
here i'm going to remove my face again so i'm out of the way so here it is march profit 2017
april profit i actually made a little bit more 233.68 and that is because clothes clothes did 63
of my profit you can see here close i sold a lot more clothes a lot more shirts hoodies those kinds
of things and that accounted for my profit being higher even though i sold less products so it pays
to try and do some of those higher ticket items stickers do really really well on redbubble but
they don't bring in a lot of profit when compared to close so you have to go back and look at your
csv file and think about this why did my profit go up in april or why did my profit go down in april
in my case it went up i think it went up because i uploaded every day you saw that chart i made sure
that i uploaded every day at least one i would suggest to upload even more than one i want to
do a test and see if i upload five a day if that's going to make a huge difference i think it will
i also got a lot more traffic i don't know why i got more traffic but i think that helped with me
getting more sales and i also sold a lot more t-shirts so that is a big thing that helped me
to get more profit and you can do these things yourself right maybe you might not have control
about getting more traffic but you definitely can upload every day and you can help yourself
sell more t-shirts right and design for t-shirts instead so some of my goals for next month for may
is to change the prices on products so you might have seen a video that i did recently about the
average price for the best-selling products on redbubble i'm gonna try and change my product
prices to see if it helps get me more sales so in my video for next month we're going to see if that
helped or not i'm also going to look at what sells and update and i'll show you what i mean by that
and i'm going to update mugs and postcards when i do that so this is what i mean first of all
changing prices on products these are the price changes i'm gonna do according to that video
i'm gonna lower i had my clothing at 40 i'm going to lower it to 26 and see if that makes
a difference if not i'll put it back up at 40 because i did do a lot of sales stickers
i had it at a hundred percent i'm going to move it down to 50 see if that makes a difference
i know i'm taking a big chance with that greeting cards i'm going to move it to 55 mask 25
aprons at 28 now this is all a test i'm not saying that you should move it to these prices
i'm going to test it for you and let you know if this helped or not and then i'm going to give you
back the data so that you can see i mean these prices work better or if the prices i had before
worked better for me and the next thing i want to talk about is this so if you go into your sales
history again and see all of these products you're going to see the design name underlined i changed
it to design name because i don't want to show you what i sold but if you click here this is a link
so when you click this link you can actually go to your work and then go back there this is what
i'm going to do i'm going to click on everything that's sold click on the name here and open it
up and make sure that everything's in place make sure i have everything enabled on the kids shirts
make sure my mugs are the right size make sure my postcards are the right size everything like
that and then maybe add products if they're not added already so i'm going to make sure
at least give myself a better chance because i know these have sold because they're
showing here that they just sold and then just optimize make sure that they're the right prices
everything's good on those and i think by doing that that's going to help me a little bit we'll
see next month on my next month's video so that is it for my redbubble data i do have just one more
thing though one more thing i want to tell you this is the bonus tip and make sure to do this
i'm going to do this and this is about t-shirts so i sold 22 tops this month this is why i made
a little bit more this month than i did last month because i sold a lot more tops a lot more
shirts and hoodies 17 tops were dark tops so i just wanted to make sure to let you know
you probably knew this already that dark shirts sell better than light shirts so you can see here
um 17 were dark tops the reason i know this is because they have white text on it so they have
to buy it in a dark uh top three tops were either they could have been both they you know they have
like a black outline so they could have been with a white border so they could have been on either
black or white and only two of them were white so they do sell the the white shirts white tops do
sell but they don't sell as good as the black one so make sure you're putting your designs
at least on the black one probably both but the black ones sell better the dark ones sell better
and one thing to not forget about that is to do this so if you're gonna do a black shirt let's say
like this and your text is white do not put that same thing on the stickers see if your designs
have white text and you put it on stickers with white no one's going to be able to read that white
text so what i do is i upload a dark text version for stickers you're also going to want to do this
for the canvas tote bags as well so i saved two versions one with white text one with black text
so you can see this looks good on a sticker it doesn't have the white text on it and i think
this will help you sell you just have to hit this replace image and then put a different image for
the sticker same thing with the canvas tote bags when you open it up hit replace image and do that
so hopefully that really helps you get some stills on both stickers and shirts because it works well
on both when you do that if you want to replace an image on anything any product on redbubble you can
do this as well so sometimes i do that a lot of times i do that for mugs and postcards and things
like that if you've seen my other videos so just make sure to optimize for the product and you can
do that individually here on redbubble that's a huge tip so i think a lot of newbies go here and
just enable stickers and don't really look at them and then they they're not selling stickers and
they don't know why it's because you have white text on a white background on a sticker and nobody
can see it and nobody will buy it if they can't read it so that is my big tip my bonus tip so that
is it for this video let me know what changes you're going to make in may i told you about
mine leave in the comments what changes you're gonna make in may to help you get more sales in
redbubble thanks so much for watching and thanks so much for staying till the end of this video
your reward for staying all the way to the end is another edition of trend credits.
Thanks for staying to the end for this trend credit here is your trend, "Another school
year survivor teacher t-shirt". So let's take a look at these you can see they have a lot of
low BSRs right here take those low BSRs one thing you don't want to do though is copy the survivor
logo I know that's here and when you scroll down you'll see a lot of them with low BSRs
these will probably get pulled down because that logo is copyrighted and you can see a lot
of different people are just copying the copy and getting sales but risking their accounts but you
can do this version in different ways where you don't have to use the survivor logo you can see
some good ideas here as well still getting sales too so don't risk your account make sure to do it
in a way that's safe let's check Merch Informer it is getting an A so you know it's good. If you
don't have Merch Informer I have a link in the description for Merch Informer where you can
check competition and some other things do keyword research and get some graphics here as well so
again here is the trend, "Another school year survivor teacher t-shirt". My guess is you could
do another school year survivor student t-shirt as well or mom or dad or you know
those kinds of things so this is something that you probably could scale a little bit
you can see right here this one's saying teacher 2021 so you could change that up but
again make sure that yours is different obviously don't copy the survivor logo
but you can do yours in a way that looks good on a t-shirt and something that people actually want to
wear this design is geared toward teachers so make sure it's something teachers would want to wear
and that is your trend so that is it for this video everyone thanks so much for watching this
video hopefully this video was really helpful for you make sure to look at your own redbubble stats
download that csv file of your own and look at your own data and do this kind of thing every
month to make sure and check what you're selling what you're doing well what you can change and
hopefully that those changes help you make more and more sales and don't forget to upload every
day as much as you can if this video was helpful for you don't forget to give it a thumbs up and if
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all my videos that are coming up in the next few weeks and beyond and if you want to see more of my
videos about income for the last couple months click on these videos here these are the ones
i did last time and as always guys keep creating and keep learning i'll see you on the next one bye