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are going to be doing
some red bubble shop reviews but first
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shop number one joined august 2020 231
designs
you know i like to see 500 plus designs
so come on get there as soon as you can
oh sticker pack all right i already like
this shop check this out guys
look at their featured collection
they're doing packs of stickers
this does actually work when you have
those big stickers uh
and it works better obviously for the
large size however we can't restrict our
customers ability
to only purchase the large size but you
see here behind me like right here above
me
a large 8 by 8.5 by 8.5 inch if you're
gonna do sticker packs like this
um you know and obviously look how
redbubble mocks it up on the
laptop the back of the laptop i don't
know about you guys but i've seen so
many people doing this i don't think
i've ever done it myself
um i'm more of a desktop guy anyways
when i use my laptop it's like
it's so rare um but anyways yeah so
putting stickers on the back of a laptop
is perfect guys and if you were gonna
uh you promote your own stuff on social
media look how good this looks you can
just use the redbubble mock-up right
here you can even just kind of cut out
the
the middle portion and go on over to
twitter throw that up there by the way
you guys you want to see something
really cool we'll get off we'll we'll
get off topic just a little bit today
i just want to show you how easily you
can do something like this though all
right so i'm using this free
um it can be a browser extension you can
install it with windows you can install
with mac too
it's called light shot so i just take a
screenshot right there i pop on over to
twitter
and all you have to do is paste and then
boom you've got your image
right there and then you could say
something like um where did i go where's
the red bubble shop
you could say something like check out
these stickers
uh you know check out
these awesome laptop stickers
boom and then maybe like hashtag
redbubble or whatever red bubble um
red bubble red bubble shop boom promote
your stuff it took 10 seconds
to have a really good mock-up created
and yeah you guys get the point all
right so i just wanted to show you guys
light shot i can even put a link to
light shot in the description it's
completely free
so um i love it that's how i get a lot
of these videos done uh
as efficiently as i do by taking
screenshots and just kind of moving
quick
all right so really well done um as far
as the sticker prices go though
uh i like to kind of round out at a at
least like a number that you know so
here
the medium stickers for 10 bucks why not
just drop it by penny 9.99
um or the large 16 it's i don't think
you can actually price by size
so maybe whatever size you think is most
commonly purchased from you
try to get that to a good um you know we
call it pricing psychology to a good
number but i really like that you're
getting creative here
with um what you can do with redbubble
stickers and we know redbubble stickers
are
that that's definitely i think their
most commonly sold product
um and you got a lot of stickers well
done some simple designs the pumpkin
face uh bathmat for people that love
halloween year-round
it's pretty funny uh it looks like you
may have
been more active on redbubble between
october and december so maybe jump back
in and get going because
if this is your original work like
you're crushing it from a design
perspective
and um definitely better than me so you
got the you got the sunsets you got the
curved text guys this is definitely a
youtube subscriber or
you know i'm sure you could have figured
this stuff out before i ever put youtube
videos together but
uh the curved text here looks great love
it
and um the sunset with the
image overlaid guys when i talk about
keeping design simple and making them
good enough
i mean when i say good enough i know
some people are like oh that's bad
advice make it really good
i get it i get it i know what you're
talking about but when i say good enough
i mean like
creating a design like this that looks
really good doesn't have to be hard
it's as hard as you make it on yourself
you can go to all sunsets put a link in
the description
you can i mean that's super simple to
make by the way you don't even need to
go get it all sunset subscription but
it's like 30 bucks for a year
and you can get like hundreds of
different sunset backgrounds
uh you can take a basic one like this
put a graphic on top like the wolf's
head
and then add some text and you've got a
winning design just like that so
i just want to kind of demystify that it
doesn't take like hours studying how to
be a good graphic designer to make
designs that work
so nice shop there shop number two li li
taiwan shop from chiayi taiwan 33
designs
so get some more designs up when you can
you have five collections that's good
they're very minimalist
um now this style may by the way i think
it does actually look really good on
phone cases
uh this is the type of style that i
think may look better in real life than
it does online
now that's just my thoughts um like i
think the designs are good
but it's just like they look small uh
the color contrast isn't like
jumping off the screen it's not bold and
again like i'm not critiquing your art i
think your art's really good
however when you're selling online and
competing with people like that shop we
just saw
you know they i think are more optimized
to make online sales whereas i think
you're more optimized in this shop
to make like retail
sales um also you know i would try to
control your primary thumbnail like i
don't think a t-shirt is necessarily the
best
product to mock up this design on so you
can you know you can go in there at the
bottom
when you do the product creation and
there's a drop down and you can select
what product you think will look best
shop number three anna lou gonzalez 159
designs joined april 2018.
so you had three years and you only got
159 designs up now i know you can do
better than that
all right let's see what you got going
on though uh quarantine your mouth
golden rule number one
it's kind of funny i haven't seen that
um collections you have 10 different
collections i like that
maybe put a featured collection up here
that's what i like so much about that
first shop is like their stickers were
really good
like guys if anybody's gonna see your
shop
you don't need to make it complicated
like that first featured collection is
the first thing people are gonna see
put your best work there all right if
it's that you're gonna make sticker
packs and put the sticker packs there
if you've got some really good t-shirts
like i always compliment when people put
their best sellers in the featured
collection it just makes sense if those
are your best sellers
lead with them statistically speaking
that's most likely the product that
someone's going to buy because it's
already validated
all right what else do you got u.s
election 2020
let's check that out so we know that the
election stuff was selling
really well so
okay you've got some good stuff here a
lot of these designs though are
kind of small you know like this um
the what is this the scales of justice i
guess uh so
look how when when i click into your
design by the way you've got the
watermarks enabled that's smart so
nobody steals them
but you see how big this the rectangle
is here
and look at your design and what
percentage of the available space
your design occupies it's maybe 25 get
it to
like literally it's it's sometimes
enough to just make it as big as
possible
until it's hitting either the top and
bottom or the left and right side
uh again it may not look the best in
real life but it's going to help you get
clicked in search results and you can
bet
election 2020 yeah there was a lot of
competition so you need to do whatever
you can to pop in search results
all right shop number four how did we
get to the bottom of this
oh it's because it was anchored in the
link benovi joined august 2020 104
designs
you have three collections no featured
collection i'll get that featured
collection going
all right so it looks like a lot of your
designs are
optimized as uh kind of flipped from
what i recommend you have a
light colored background and a dark
colored foreground
this is how we look this is how most
websites are designed
and the way websites are designed are
not typically how like t-shirts that
people wear are designed
it's not that people have never worn a
white t-shirt with a dark colored design
or black text in the foreground
but what's more common right we already
know um so i would definitely optimize
your designs
for the dark colored products and uh by
the way when you're gonna upload like
square pictures like this
go out of your way to manually select
the product that's it's mocked up on
and do the opposite of this where it's
just like a square
on a on a design these do not look good
so i think you can like put in minimal
effort and make your shop look quite a
bit better
um you know like this coffee mug for
instance like look at the actual
thumbnail that we're seeing we can't
even see the design guys so
you know take an extra minute and fix
the mock-up on your mugs you know
all right shop number five maria
gonzalez from columbia 731 designs got
to clap it up
that is more than 500 designs i love
seeing it and check that out look at the
background image it's her
own product mockups somebody
is thinking they are thinking hey you're
here at my redbubble shop
to purchase my products so you know what
i'm going to lead
right at the top the first thing people
see is the banner i'm going to lead with
my own
products in the banner so she stitched
different mock-ups together
and created one heck of a banner so
really well done you've got a featured
collection i would have guessed because
it seems like you really know your stuff
well done and you've got sticker packs
now it says sticker packs but then
you've got like t-shirts and stuff
sprinkled in so maybe revisit
the featured collection here and
optimize all of them as well
for stickers specifically because it's
going to look best i think
instead of seeing like sticker packs and
then seeing like cake
and a dog photo but what else
you got some good designs here some just
kind of
random like across the board uh
scattered niches
which i am a big fan of that i'm a big
fan of just like being in a bunch of
niches
a bunch of ideally evergreen niches you
guys know i talk about that
um again it's kind of a journey right
print on demand i think is a journey
when you first get started in order to
keep your interest you need some
immediate sales so maybe hit the trends
but you know that like a trend is going
to come and go so it may be
like initial short term validation that
hey this is worthwhile
but you know that then long term are you
really trying to chase trends 24 7 and
make this a job
because it doesn't need to be like i'm
still making sales from products i
posted on amazon print on demand
products that i posted from amazon from
2017.
you know on amazon merch i'm making
sales from products i posted
from 2017. all right so you know what's
interesting is some of those bestsellers
it's like i can't even edit them there's
like a bug i guess it's like
the products are too old or something it
won't let me publish any changes but
it's just funny you know it's like you
that's what that's what we're aiming for
when we're building a print-on-demand
business so
anyways that was just me kind of going
off on a rant thinking out loud
i like this shop you have a lot of
different niches that's what i like to
see
let's check out this design real quick
this one looks crazy
did you really make this or it's a lot
of different designs
um but i do like that it's really cool
kind of like a collage
of sweets and it's it's in that style
that uh that one shop that i like um
sugar high
it's in like the sugar high style by the
way this shop right here guys
this is like one of my favorite shops on
redbubble sugar high
check it out they just like are killer
graphic designers
and they understand redbubble really
well so anyways check that one out in
your spare time maybe i should just do
another video and just
examining sugar high because they do so
much so well all right last shop
rwd store one joined july 20 57
designs guys i could start a new shop
today and get 60 designs up today
so again what do i always say text only
do text only
get to 500 text only big bold text
500 designs and then branch out but you
know the more online real estate you
occupy the more sales you make simple
i'm keeping it simple here i'm not
trying to like sell you a dream i'm
saying keep it simple
you have more products for sale you're
gonna be indexed on more search queries
probably gonna make more sales nothing's
guaranteed but
all right you don't have a featured
collection i would take time just to add
one whenever you can you have 12
collections though halloween
coffee dog optician that's interesting
and teacher
let's check out optician so only two
designs here um looks like you have like
a word cloud
that is kind of cool though i did do a
video on how to do word clouds
um last year if you guys missed it i'll
put in the youtube cards right here
because there's like a free tool you can
use to do that
and knock it out and make some cool
looking designs so check that one out if
you missed it
uh you got some masks that's pretty cool
i mean you know fine i think you just
got to find your thing
like seriously uh the first shop i
really liked because those sticker packs
were like
direct like they knew exactly what they
were optimizing their designs for
um it's like nothing in this shop is
blowing me away so maybe like
optimize for face masks you know i mean
find something
obviously like we've talked about before
face masks are landscape
not um what's the other one landscape
and portrait so they're optimized for
landscape not portrait
and as a result if most people are like
me optimizing their designs for
portrait meaning vertical you can
optimize your designs for landscape make
some kick-ass masks
and set yourself apart from the pack i'm
just thinking out loud here but find
something that you do really well
that not everybody else is doing thanks
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