hey what's up guys happy saturday today
we're doing redbubble shop reviews we're
going to be checking out print on demand
shops from six subscribers to the
channel this is episode 41 so we've been
at it for a while but if you would like
me to review your shop in the future all
you have to do is use the link in the
description it'll take you to my print
on demand facebook group and you can
drop a link to your redbubble shop right
there and i will review it in the future
in the order that they are received but
we're going to take a look give some
organic feedback see what we like what
we don't like and hopefully learn a
thing or two so why don't we get started
all right shop number one is called koi
art and i do like the branding i got the
asian theme to it the koi fish it says
failure is only the opportunity to try
again only more wisely this time
and then the featured collection
is pattern based but uh i don't really
know kimetsu no yaiba i don't know i
probably just butchered it but that was
my attempt at pronouncing what i saw
there uh these are really nice looking
phone cases though and i guess redbubble
definitely does a good job rendering the
thumbnails of phone cases so
that those look really nice
you have 19 collections so you've done a
good job keeping your
designs together uh organized
let's check out the pixel art collection
that looks really cool
got like playstation vibes
um so let's check this out so yeah a lot
of like 8-bit characters we know there's
like a pretty large demand for this
probably people like my age that are um
kind of thinking back on
when we were younger and like gaming as
we grew up and whatnot so i like this
idea if you're able to execute i don't
know how you've created these designs
because i would really struggle to do it
but you did a great job and i don't know
if i am just missing what video game
this is if it's from a game if it's not
though then well done i really like that
and if we go back to your shop what else
you got going on here some stickers some
shirts some phone cases
one thing that's evident is that you're
picking a lot of products that are
rendered really well in the primary
thumbnail by redbubble um i always like
to remind you guys that not all products
are created equal or are rendered equal
by redbubble a lot of them are
rendered like very small and very kind
of crappy and uh
yeah so picking good products to be you
know displaying your designs is always a
good idea
um i like some of these stickers though
your design style looks really good for
the most part your contrast is great um
this shirt right here behind me is
probably like the first example of
contrast not
doing your design justice but um for the
most part it seems like you've
done quite a nice job with it and you've
got a lot of like
i can tell you just kind of been jumping
from like holiday to holiday and
that's definitely a good idea
as far as
chasing trends it's not exactly how i
would build a long-term print-on-demand
business you know i think
that's better off targeting like
evergreens although some of these like
ir you know like i see drunk people as a
shirt like that can be uh evergreen um
but you know having like a thing one
thing two type design that's on green or
a leprechaun design like that's only
gonna sell probably once a year right or
the christmas shirt next to it so maybe
expand into more evergreens
shop number two is called th m marco
marco shop join january 2020 354 designs
i like the branding but the um the image
of the clouds is like low resolution so
it looks very pixelated and not in a
good way not in a good way pixelated
like those 8-bit designs we just saw on
the previous shop all right featured
collections stickers and posters
quotes various artwork it's kind of a
random collection name but it's all good
i do like your designs though with these
skulls and whatnot um so from a design
perspective uh well well done there
what else you got so
a lot of stickers everybody's catching
on the stickers on redbubble you know
that they sell all day redbubble yeah
what was it i just dropped a video last
week where i reviewed each of the
different sizes of redbubble stickers as
well as finish types
and the day i published a video i saw an
email from them basically saying like oh
buy x number of stickers get x number of
stickers free so they even like actively
promote
customers to buy specifically stickers i
know they do other product types too but
they know stickers are probably like
their most popular product if not
t-shirts but
um so yeah so overall though your shop
you got a lot going on uh a lot of
stickers a lot of shirts i don't know if
you're letting redbubble pick your
optimal
product or not but yeah it looks like
you probably are actually
a lot some of these designs are really
nice now this one right here the
vertical colored lines like
i have to like call one of these out
every time we do red bubble shop reviews
because it's kind of like you know is it
even worth your time to upload a design
like this like no one's going to go to
redbubble and spend 121
on a comforter when we could probably go
to amazon and buy a comforter for you
know i'm just guessing like 30 bucks but
we're gonna spend four times that to get
the vertical line design it's probably
not not likely to happen
the shark design though i like your
design style here if it is original like
it does seem like when we review
redbubble shops we see a lot of
versatility in the art design styles um
which makes me think that maybe people
are just like borrowing other people's
designs or have different sources
that they're not maybe all original but
so hopefully if you are doing something
like that that you have the intellectual
property rights to do so
more striped comforters if you're gonna
do the comforters i would not really
waste your time or like a leaves pattern
here behind me like i would stick to
more of designs like this
that we know kind of a formula driven
approach to designing we know this works
right we know that you can do the
multi-colored retro sunset add some text
above below over the middle whatever it
is maybe do a silhouette of a design in
the middle
we know this works so why not just stick
to you know
no need to guess we know we know it
works just stick to that
shop number three harry avenue from
australia 666 designs
uh i like the branding though it's
consistent on the banner and on the shop
profile image and on the shop name so
very cool uh although man look at how
your your featured collection of
stickers
is rendered um you're doing a lot of
designs in white and then you know
redbubble adds a white stroke and then
renders it against a light gray
background so
definitely not the optimal way of
designing stickers on redbubble i would
come back in and address this i'd also
up your pricing from two dollars 20
cents probably go to like 299.
it looks like you're at least doing some
like
clipping masks and overlays like you got
the sasquatch design here but then
you've
kind of created a second version of it
and altered the color scheme which you
can also do by using the same overlay
and just adjusting the hue in photoshop
so that would work
um using the coffee mug here
redbubble did not choose a good angle of
your product mockup so you can't even
see what you're designing there so that
is something that i would try to fix and
i just realized the webcam was broken
but it appears to be fixed i don't know
why it was out of focus but you got a
lot of bigfoot designs i like that you
got um you know the all sunset
subscription it looks like and they've
got a ton of nice looking uh bigfoot
style designs over there and uh you know
i actually sell a lot of designs related
to
sort of like the paranormal and unknown
just because you can have some fun in
those uh in those areas like bigfoot
hunting whatever stuff like that
um also you got like a design template
it looks like up there like don't mind
me i always act like this don't mind me
i just need another beer well you could
also change the text if it's like a
white box and some text um kind of in
there
go with that if it's working like if you
get a design
or a sale i meant to say if you get a
sale then that's an indicator people
like it maybe keep elaborating and
expanding on that design style
it also looks like you've
kind of jumped into
using another design template and
expanded it america's
doctor
um if you're going to go with sort of
designing like this i would just maybe
not overlay uh stars on top of your
letters so that they can't be read and
then also make your designs bigger you
know what i mean like the larger you
render them in the canvas space that's
available
the larger the render on the shirt the
larger they will render in the thumbnail
which is more likely to get clicked in
search results which is required before
you make a sale
shop number four is olympique 1359
joined in 2019 308 designs all right
let's see what you got going on here
featured collection funny designs and
you got some actually really nice
artwork here
the super panda that looks awesome
uh again lots of different design styles
in your artwork
so that makes me wonder where where do
you guys get these graphics are you
making these graphics are you getting
them somewhere that looks like a
straight out of a kid's cartoon or
something
uh but you know for what it's worth
redbubble's not that great at um
policing their their platform but i'm
also not trying to say that that should
incentivize you to
bend the rules of what you're supposed
to do uh anyways as far as graphic
acquiring graphics goes
so let's see you've got some
different language designs which is cool
because we know redbubble serves an
international market and one of the
coolest things is like when you get
those emails and you're getting paid in
some currency that you maybe hadn't seen
before you know what i mean and you're
like oh cool i'm you know got customers
around the world literally uh what else
you have
a lot of different niches here but i
like that you've got
what to me look like
maybe evergreens like
mixed in like you've got like a generic
africa design so that could sell any day
of the year you've got you know a skiing
design that could sell any day of the
year uh super panda well i don't know
what that is that could probably sell
any day of the year and you got it mixed
in with trends happy australia day cinco
de drinko on the cinco de mayo design
right uh la reunion i'm assuming that's
like a specific date if i had to guess
um so you got a nice mix there of trends
and evergreens which is always good i
think that's a nice way to
build up your designs careful with this
one before
you know if you post that's like amazon
or he put that on uh like youtube they'd
probably kick you off that's why i'm not
even gonna read what it says
um
anyways you gotta
what the one thing that stands out to me
is the way you design is like very much
all over the place which makes me think
like you're ripping your graphics from
somewhere which just keep your account
safe it's not a good long-term strategy
and if you're taking time to post them
redbubble you should be posting them to
amazon etsy those types of places but if
you post stolen graphics to places like
there they care a little bit more then
you're really putting yourself at risk
so
i don't know i don't know for sure that
you that these aren't all original but
like you do have a very wide
um
array of design styles all right shop
number five is jai store j j-i-a-i store
1161 designs that's awesome you've also
got
you know a nice branded
banner right away that we see when we
come to your professional-looking
redbubble shop featured collection is
kids collection
so you know the kids designs are selling
really well we know people love to spend
money on
um their kids too so why not sell them
print on demand
kids clothing uh also you know if you're
gonna charge like 1609 for
you know a kid's like onesie why not
just up that to 19.99 you know if
they're gonna pay 1609 they're gonna pay
19.99 i don't think anybody's gonna
gonna stop and like remove it from their
basket because
of an extra you know four dollars when
it's when it's so close like i think
just talking pricing psychology so i
would up your prices i like your designs
by the way i love the color scheme in
this design specifically right here
so even though this is like basically a
text only design check out the color
scheme and the contrast against the
black colored onesie
i just think that looks really nice so i
want to commend you for that
um
a lot of t-shirts a lot of stickers it's
awesome
uh check out my six pack you got the
chest designs there
great contrast though i mean it's it's
something that's like kind of obvious
yet at the same time too we can
we don't have to struggle to find
examples of people like
missing
sort of the low-hanging fruit when it
comes to design make sure that you have
a nice contrast against the color shirt
that you're selling your designs on okay
that should be kind of obvious and easy
but um sometimes it warrants a reminder
and that's something i think you've done
really well you've even taken like the
same
design like the one you have here player
force entered the game
and you took the design and you just
flipped it you did a light foreground
dark background and then a dark dark
foreground light background so why not
get double the coverage
especially when redbubble is giving you
you know what 60 uploads a day right um
so i like this i like your shop it's got
a lot of like kids themed designs and
i'm guessing that's not coincidence i'm
guessing you're probably doubling down
on what had worked for you in the past
so anybody still watching hey maybe take
a note out of this guy's book out of
jai
and maybe target some more kids with
your designs
we know redbubble ranks really well on
google as well so i mean heck why not
take that like i said take a note
all right shop number six shayna dugan
okay
and uh great nicely branded um
background image here on your banner and
i'm just wondering because you only have
76 designs posted that maybe you spent
too long on your
i don't know you know
i did you spend too long on your banner
and not enough time like actually
creating and uploading to your redbubble
shop because 76 designs i mean i'm
hoping you can get more products
uploaded for sale because that's going
to make you more money than a
professional looking shop banner which
can't really be purchased although you
do have a
url here though so let's see
dogspawfirst.com
oh so you do have a
animal rescue pet shop so that's really
cool
uh and i like that you plugged it in
right at the top here redbubble banner
why not right uh so you got mother's day
deals running
15 off your order and your designs
actually look really nice so are you
selling these on
on redbubble uh you've got
dog seat mother of dogs seat covers kind
of like a game of thrones shout out
right there
um
fur mama stickers that's really nice so
okay i like your i like your shop here
and this is uh what is this shopify
yeah you got a shopify store running
here um
one thing that i would critique really
quickly and you know do with it what you
will
sometimes less is more uh with print on
demand just because we can create
a bunch of different products doesn't
mean we always have to
i do like that when you come to your
like landing page your splash page
uh that you know we see these products
that are probably hopefully your best
sellers
and you know hopefully you're offering
something like customization as well
because that's a nice way of
setting yourself apart um i don't think
you need like this little slider here
uh
like you could probably just remove the
slider altogether
and have your
like featured products be the first
thing people see on this main column so
that's one tip i would come up with um
it looks like you probably are
prioritizing understandably so uh your
your shopify store more than your
redbubble shop looks like your redbubble
shop is a lot of just like random stuff
not all in the pet niche you got a lot
of like patterns
for sale on comforters which i mean it's
just like almost like we have to see at
least one or two people doing it each
week that we do red bubble shop reviews
but i would move on from doing that and
just kind of
focus on
focus on you know it doesn't hurt to
expand your redbubble shop because just
like i found your shop url up here um
more people might as well so
occupy more online real estate on
redbubble and hopefully you can get them
to your shop and then they see your you
shop your shopify store url and you get
more people to shopify where you
probably make the most money hopefully
you're building an email list and doing
good marketing that way
um one thing i would quickly mention is
like move your url up into this like
white space here uh the way it is right
now unless that was intentional is like
kind of like easy to miss so i would
just recommend that uh really quickly
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