Which platform is best
when it comes to passive income through print on demand?
I'll show the pros and cons
to help you decide what's right for you.
It's Redbubble vs Amazon.
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Accessibility.
Anyone can create an account on Redbubble
and starts selling immediately.
You can go from hearing about the website for the first time
to signing up and uploading a design within five minutes.
Merch by Amazon on the other hand
has a strict interview process
going through the application alone
can take upwards of 20 minutes
and there's no guarantees you'll be accepted.
It's not unheard of
for people to be waiting months to hear back
only to get rejected.
Winner: Redbubble.
There's no denying that it's easier to get set up
and start making money on Redbubble.
Customer base.
According to an investor presentation in 2019
Redbubble and their sister company TeePublic
served 5.4 million customers combined that year.
That works out at about 450,000 customers per month,
Wow.
Amazon is a gigantic beast though
which according to many reports
serves between 150 and 200 million customers per month.
If these stats are correct,
Amazon has almost 30 times the amount of customers
in one month than Redbubble and TeePublic have in a year.
It's unrivaled by any other print on demand website
out there at the moment.
Winner: Amazon.
More customers means more opportunities to make sales
and more passive income.
Product choice.
Uploading one design to Redbubble
results in the opportunity
to publish it on over 70 different products.
They've got t-shirts, hoodies and all the usual suspects
you find on print on demand sites,
as well as dresses, phone cases, pillows, prints,
laptop covers, duvets, shower curtains, mugs, skirts,
scarves, bags, books, clocks, bath mats, face masks,
badges, aprons, jigsaws and more.
Uploading one design means that your artwork
can be put on all these products
which increases your likelihood of getting sales.
You have access to all these products from day one.
Amazon have only got 14 products
to choose from in comparison:
Shirts and hoodies
as well as PopSockets, phone cases, bags and pillows.
Awkwardly, they don't have the option to resize your design
on the site like Redbubble
so you need to save your artwork in different formats
and you're only allowed to upload 10 designs
as a new seller until you've made 10 sales.
This is seriously restrictive in comparison to Redbubble.
Winner: Redbubble.
It's much easier to get your designs
on a wide range of products
and the more products you have for sale
the more likely you are to be making money.
Color choices.
Redbubble allow 18 color options
which are all available by default
on their standard print clothing,
meaning customers can decide for themselves
what they'd prefer.
You're able to select a custom color
on all their other products,
and there are millions to choose from.
This can result in some fantastic combinations
that really attract buyers.
Amazon have 21 colors to choose from
once you've uploaded your work,
but only allow you to pick 10 of them
to be displayed to potential buyers.
Winner: Redbubble again
due to the sheer amount of choice available.
Profits.
Redbubble allows you to set your own product price
but so does Amazon.
So whichever platform you sell on
you get to decide the profit margin
as long as customers are willing to pay of course.
Redbubble charge a base price of $16.87
for their standard t-shirts,
and then you decide on your profit margin.
If a customer pays $19.99,
you'll get $3.12 profit.
Amazon only charge $13.07 for their standard t-shirts,
and then you add your profit margin on top
meaning if a customer pays $19.99
you'll get $5.23 profit.
Winner: Amazon.
You'll be more than $2 better off
for every shirt you sell on Amazon
when compared with Redbubble.
This means you can keep your pricing competitive
and still make more money per sale on Amazon.
Copyright infringement.
Redbubble have a lengthy policy
against copyright infringement
but they seem to rely on people
reporting copyrighted material
in order to take it down.
The punishment's variable.
It can be a slap on the wrist
like having your work removed
or getting your entire account suspended
if you repeatedly break the rules.
People report receiving several warnings
before this happens.
Amazon also have a lengthy policy
against copyright infringement,
and they're extremely strict too.
The manually vet uploads for new sellers
which can result in waiting days
to get your designed published.
Amazon check the design as well as all the keywords
you've used to describe it for copyrighted material.
It's easy to fall foul of the policy accidentally
by using a sentence or a phrase
you didn't realize was copyrighted
and you can even get punished retrospectively
if someone registers a trademark
after your design has been uploaded.
The punishment for violating copyright
is getting you work rejected or removed.
Amazon will be quick to suspend you
if you violate that rules too frequently.
Winner: Redbubble.
Definitely more forgiving of a beginner
that might accidentally make mistakes.
Redbubble and Amazon both have their pros and cons
so it depends what you're looking for
in a print on demand site.
Luckily, you don't have to choose just one,
you can register on both for free
and sell the same artwork on both platforms
to expand your customer base
and your passive income.
For complete beginners, I'd recommend Redbubble first
because of how accessible it is
and how forgiving they are of mistakes.
If you're interested in selling on Redbubble,
I recommend watching
"How to find what sells on Redbubble" next.
If you're going for Amazon
I've got a similar video
about how to find what sells
which I'll link in the description.
But if you wanna get accepted fast,
I suggest watching my video about that next.
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