In this video I'm going to teach you how to fix your mugs on
redbubble and hopefully get more sales. 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 like to do don't forget to
hit that subscribe button. So this video is not about t-shirts though but it is about print on
demand it's about mugs and specifically mugs on redbubble so first of all i'd like to thank
mark who brought this to my attention he's in my facebook group also a fellow youtuber who has this
channel wonderful world of stuff if you like to follow him there he can also do that so i'm going
to take everything that i've learned in these last few weeks of researching mugs and give it
all to you and hopefully this will increase your mug sales as well as my mug sales i'm hoping that
i get more mug sales on doing these things you're going to want to stay to the end of this video so
you can see all the different things that you should do to help get more sales on your mugs
as well as another edition of trend credits so the first thing i want to do is to go into
redbubble itself and show you what i'm talking about so here we are on redbubble you can see
these are the mugs that redbubble has they have the classic mug the tall mug and the travel mug so
we're gonna basically be focusing on these two not the travel mugs the classic mug and the tall mugs
and i'll show you later why but these two actually are connected together when you put in your
file so this is a separate one and these two are kind of connected when you put in
your design so let's take a look first at the mugs that they're showing on redbubble
so these are the most relevant you can see here and take notice of where you see the design it
is right there right here you can always see the design um look even as you scroll down this one's
kind of getting hidden not so much here but most of the time what you're seeing are patterns or if
it's a graphic it's right here right so take a look at that again this isn't so 90 of the
time it's right there these are the best sellers so what's happening though is most of the time
it's not there and let me show you when people are searching for mugs let's say a mother's day
this is more apparent when you actually go and look for something so mother's day
mugs here and i'm just going to talk about the classic mugs not all the style mugs
so you'll notice a lot of times there's nothing here so when people are scrolling by
if your design is not showing up right here they most likely would pick this one or that one right
out of all these mugs do i just want a black mug what are these what just a white mug
so take a look at this this is happening a lot on redbubble and those that are getting more sales
you saw on the what redbubble is showing those that actually have the picture here
is is the one so that's one thing that we're gonna try and solve today and let me show you
what exactly is happening when you upload so here's what usually happens on redbubble
when you have your t-shirt design and you get to the mug section it comes in like this super big
and some people just leave it like that and then you can see um it's getting cut off and
stuff but what most people do is they'll size it down so they'll take it and they'll size it down
and they'll put it right in the middle of the mug right here you can see
and then they'll save it and what happens is it looks great in the middle of the mug
but the default is this one right here and i'll show you what happens i'm going to save this
and apply changes and you'll see what happens so right here you can see after i've saved it
this is what people are going to see when they're scrolling through redbubble they're gonna see this
mostly white they can hardly see the design at all and same thing on the tall mug you can see mostly
white and so that doesn't really help you get the sale if people are scrolling through redbubble so
i'm gonna teach you in this video how to fix it i'm gonna go into affinity designer and show you
some things that i found and some of the things that i think that we can do to help make it better
and then i'm gonna come back in here and use those techniques and show you the difference all right
so here we are in affinity designer these are the two mug sizes that i was talking about so
there's the tall mug size you can see here the pixel sizes and the standard mug size the pixel
2700 width is the same for both but the tall mug is actually a little taller you can see
16 24 pixels instead of 1120 pixels so that kind of relates to this i made this right here
again thanks to uh mark for the help on this so i put some guides in here so this is the middle
right here so divide 2700 in half and you get 1350 right so that's this line right here 1350 from the
edge the edge and this line right here is the center line of the object and this is 600 pixels
in right here so not exactly half and the reason why it's not exactly half is because there's
the handle so the handle is like right here or right here right this whole thing wraps around
so you're going to go in 600 pixels in that's this line and 600 pixels in on this side for that line
and then this is your just your middle line if you're going to do something in the middle
right so type in command r to get your rulers right here and then just drag it in 600 pixels
what you could do is just draw you know 600 pixels in here and then pull in a guide so
real simple like that so 600 pixels on the right 600 pixels on the left okay and here is the tall
version so red bubble tall mug you can see 2700 by 1624 same guides 600 and 1350 in the middle 600
in this way these guidelines right here is for the small mug so uh if you're going to put anything
outside of this right here they're not going to show up on the small bunk so this is the
this is the height this is the 1120 these two for the small mug so they both use the same thing and
i'll show you what happens so right here i made this so you can see what happens when you design
something a full design on a mug so if you're using the 2700 by 1120 so you can see here i
just numbered it one through zero so you can see the full thing if i put this on a mug on redbubble
so if you look at this right here you can see that the full design is on one and zero right
nothing's getting cut off it goes all the way edge to edge but because the tall mug is taller
you're going to not see you're not going to have anything up here and down here it would be white
or whatever color you pick as a background but you can see that it's not filling here so
if you're going to do a full design a full pattern you're going to want to do the other side you're
going to want to do this size the red bubble tall mug so this is what happens on the tall mug
you can see on the tall mug it goes edge to edge and on the small mug it will get cut off right
just where i showed you the lines these lines right here this is where it's getting cut off
right because it goes edge to edge so just think about that if you're thinking about doing a full
pattern of full design so if you have something a design that you don't want to get cut off make
sure that's in inside of the small mug area so that's number one so the next thing i wanted to
talk about on redbubble mugs is color so here i am redbubble mugs and i'm just doing the best selling
mugs you can see here and i did classic mugs let's scroll down and take a look at the color
you're gonna see that most of these are white um some of them are full color you know you got
some black here but i would say 80 percent of them are are lighter colors you can see some
of the lighter colors right and so that made me think um what sells better white or dark and so
i went to my facebook group and asked that same question light or dark which do you sell more
and more people have sold white and in fact all the mugs that i've sold in the last six months
are white mugs they were all white mugs so one of the reasons i think why white mugs sell better is
this so if you go on and search redbubble dark mug you're gonna see this line right here so
this line is more apparent when you have a dark color like black or blue so this handle and the
part around the handle is white so that kind of makes it look weird where it wraps around the
color but on a white mug you don't see that hard line because it's all white so that's one reason i
think the white mugs sell better is because people know that they don't want this weird white handle
and and line here so they'll just buy the white mugs that make it look good if it was a blue mug
and the blue and there was blue all around and the handle and everything i think that would be okay
but because there's this line right here i think that kind of discourages people from selling it
as well as buying it so here's what i suggest we should do i'm gonna take my design that works on
a t-shirt and i'm gonna center it you can see the center lines right here right here is the nose so
i'm gonna center mine right in the middle of that line 600 pixels in and we're going to do the same
on this side so that way on the mug on when you see it it's going to be right in the middle and
people will see the design and it's going to be on both sides so there's not a weird white space
here in a weird white space here and i'm going to keep it white so that there's not that wrap around
hard line right next to the handle so those are the two suggestions take your designs that
you're doing for t-shirts put it here and here so you have it on both sides because typically
your designs are going to be square for or or a tall rectangle and so they're going to fit
nicely right here and right here and i think that will give us an edge of selling mug so
let me get back into redbubble and i'll show you exactly what it looks like so we're here
back on redbubble i exported that png that i made in affinity designer and you can see here
it fits right there you can see the lines that they have they suggested i kind of went in just
a little bit from that that's what that file is 600 pixels in they suggest going out just a little
bit more but you can see it actually is right in the middle on here so i'm going to save this
and we'll see what the results are so you can see now when i'm looking at the mug you can see the
graphic it's easily seen it's right here in the center and so is it right here on the tall mug
you can see so this will help us get more sales because now when people are scrolling through
they'll see the design and hopefully pick this one instead of the one that was just out here
and they couldn't see the design so i think by doing this technique keeping your mugs white
and putting your design right in the center on both sides will really help as far as the price
i'm just keeping it at 20 i noticed all the prices on the best sellers were somewhere in between 12
60 and 13 dollars so that's a 20 maybe 30 percent uh increase not getting very much for these mugs
you'll probably get right around two dollars profit but if you get more sales that will
give you more money so just think about that so hopefully by doing these few adjustments this will
give you more mug sales i think it'll definitely help with visibility and showing off your design
instead of having someone scroll through it and not see your design and and i'm keeping all my
mugs at white just so i don't have that harsh line right there but i think that that also can
help so that is it for this mug tutorial let me know in the comments if this was really helpful
if you're doing these techniques already for mugs or if you're getting sales on white mugs
over dark mugs i like to hear about that because i really think that the white mugs do have a better
chance of selling thanks again for watching and your reward is another edition of trend credits
Thanks for staying to the end for this trend. Here is your trend, "When I die don't let me
vote democrat". So let's look at the BSRs. Super low BSRs right. So this is a political shirt
uh republicans democrats so you can see very low bsr still on these and 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. If you want to get this, where you can check the competition
and you can see when you scroll down here like this is getting 33 sales 23 sales so these are
selling right so make sure you're not copying these make sure yours are different than these
uh i think there's a way that you can make yours stand out from these uh all of these look
very similar so make sure they make yours stand out and get into this trend you can also do other
uh political trends those those seem to do well just be careful uh on what you pick there um and
do your research for trademarks and copyright stuff so that is your trend for today when i
die don't let me vote democrat so that is it for this video guys thanks so much for watching
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