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hey guys Ryan here thanks for joining me
for another video in this one I want to
talk about how to get featured on
RedBubble now right up front I'm gonna
tell you that understanding how it works
is far from a guarantee that it's ever
gonna happen to you I personally have
never been featured on RedBubble but I
went ahead and studied how you're
supposedly able to increase the
likelihood of getting featured on
RedBubble and that's what I'm going to
share with you in this video in the
hopes that one of us maybe even two of
us who knows maybe three can get
featured somewhere on RedBubble that
meaning like the homepage an email
newsletter etc if you end up getting
lucky and becoming one of those people
definitely let us know in the comments
but for now I'm gonna go jump on my
computer and we'll get started on how
we're gonna increase the likelihood of
making that happen
alright real quick before we jump into
things let me introduce myself for the
new viewers I'm Ryan Hogue I've sold
over 1.6 million dollars on Amazon to
date if you want to follow the links in
the description I've got a free
print-on-demand
8 day mini course that'll help you sell
on etsy I have a print-on-demand
Facebook community it's been extremely
lively lately we're helping each other
succeed as print-on-demand sellers I
also publish income reports on the first
or second day of each month if you would
like to follow my progress as a seller
or look back on my humble beginnings
when I was getting like five sales a
month it's all out there it's on my
youtube channel if you want to be alert
the next time I drop a video just hit
the subscribe button or join my email
list and I'll let you know
last but not least I've got a full
print-on-demand course it's almost 70
lectures split up over 10 modules it
covers niche research design tips how to
get set up on all the major e-commerce
marketplaces the bonus sections my
favorite it shows you how to automate
your uploads to save you a massive
amount of time so check that out if
you're interested link in the
description let me know if you have any
questions about it by the way alright
now back to the reason we came how to
get featured on RedBubble now if you
guys missed my video earlier this week
where I highlighted somebody who made
$20,000 on RedBubble profit just from
photography which is crazy because I'm
usually talk of graphic design she did
it using photographs check out that
video I'll put a link above me here in
the YouTube cards but I did
also mentioned that she was a featured
artist if we went to her profile which
she publicly shared you could see that
she had the featured artist badge and I
said you know what I'm gonna do some
digging and report back to you guys
about what I found about how we can get
featured and I went ahead and found the
RedBubble resource all about how to get
featured and that's what we're gonna be
looking at in this video alright so to
start how do you featured on RedBubble
we're privileged to have so many
talented artists who choose to sell
their at work
via the RedBubble marketplace self
promotion is the most effective way to
increase your chances of success so real
quick of course they say that all of
these marketplaces they want us to work
for them
instead of them work for us you guys who
watch my videos regularly on my youtube
channel you know that I'm all about
capitalizing on the organic exposure
that we gain from selling on a place
like red bubble so I want them to work
for us you know to me that's more
logical but they say self promotion is
the most effective way and you can't
disagree I mean of course but it says
but we're always looking for ways to
help artists gain more exposure there
are many things we do to promote your
art like highlighting artists through PR
opportunities getting your products into
Google shopping feeds choosing designs
for product shoots featuring your work
in email marketing campaigns working
with influencers and highlighting
artists on our social channels for the
past 13 years we've also been featuring
artists on different versions of red
bubbles homepage so real quick just to
recap this is what red bubble can do for
us they can feature us through PR
opportunities Google shopping feeds
product shoots email campaigns
influencers and social media yes please
to all of the above more exposure is
gonna lead some more sales or at least
higher sales potential no one can argue
that fact all right the new profile on
your artist shop features a new featured
artist achievements badge for artists
who have been featured on the found feed
we're often asked how do I get featured
on RedBubble
so we've compiled some tips to help you
get noticed and increase your chances of
landing that coveted feature so in that
video I dropped earlier in the week
where I highlighted a red bubble seller
who made $10,000 profit from a single
photograph I also shared that she had
the coveted featured artist badge right
there on her profile which definitely
did not hurt her chances of getting more
exposure on the platform so back to the
red bubble tips
what's the found feed the found feed is
a collection of artwork and products
that have been featured on red bubbles
homepage since 2011 well if you can get
featured on the homepage you're in good
shape over the past couple of years
we've added more personalization to the
browsing experience on red bubbles so
people can see more of the things they
love and we can surface a wider range of
designs based on their interests and
preferences the found feed has evolved
into a discovery feed for new visitors
and returning visitors who aren't signed
up as members if you're featured your
work will be seen on the logged out
non-member homepage so again guys like
this is the internet things are tracked
I know not everybody has my technical
background as a web developer but you
know what they're essentially saying is
if people are not logged in and they
don't have you ID'd you get a generic
homepage if they can I don't know if
they're using cookies or whatnot
probably not I think they pretty much
just said if you're logged in they're
recording your browsing history and
using that to get an idea of your
interests which will affect what you see
on the homepage but either way if you're
able to crack someone's homepage that's
good you know and I mean that might just
be red bubble like retargeting somebody
who went to your product and then went
to the homepage well the product that
they saw of yours they didn't buy they
may see on the homepage now red bubble
also runs retargeting ads on Google
through Google's network which is really
good a very effective way of increasing
conversions and they do that for us at
no cost tag your work well we know we
talked about this a lot the tags are one
of the most important things to get
right and it's mind-boggling how many
artists don't tag their work at all guys
that better not be you you guys are
smarter than that come on make sure your
work is tagged well to multiply your
chances of being discovered aim for
about 15 relevant tags and please don't
tag spam our search team have
implemented a bunch of clever things
that mean tag spamming can work against
you all right so maybe I'll do a more
in-depth RedBubble video on tags because
it seems like there's a little bit more
to it than you had just if you didn't
read this resource then you would expect
you know normally you just say all right
I'm gonna include these keywords and
then I'm gonna get indexed on these
keywords but it looks like if you add
too many it may work against you so I'll
probably add that to my videos list for
the future
protip review your tags now and again
keeping in mind what's trending or
popular you might have an older work
that ties into a current trend if
everyone's
searching for succulents and you've got
a great picture tagged cactus you may be
missing out on some traffic that's a
great suggestion guys and I know what
succulents I would not know what
succulents were but my girlfriend loves
to buy them for me since I'm always in
my computer desk she'll give me these
little plants and trust me to keep them
alive and I'm not gonna lie to you about
50/50 on ability to keep those little
cactuses watered all right this is an
example of tags I you saw this in my
video earlier in the week just showing
you how we can provide like general tags
this was going back to that $10,000
profit product where she provided tags
Oshin and then if you looked at that
design on a duvet
it says ocean duvet covers you provide
the tag water it says water duvet covers
si si duvet covers so you get an idea of
how RedBubble and their algorithm if you
will is applying these tags to various
product types that our designs are made
available for sale on pay attention to
product formatting when it comes to
featuring this is just one of this ones
just as important as tagging we want to
feature designs that look great on
products if a couple of your products
aren't perfect your work may still be
featured but spend some extra time on
this and you can vastly improve your
chances so here's some bullets that they
included as suggestions avoid white
borders or products where the design is
cut off at the edges think about where
you place your design how will products
look when they're printed consider
uploading different variations of your
artwork for different products pay
special attention to popular products
like clothing phone cases and stickers
so they're saying take extra time to
optimize your designs for the various
product types they even go as far as to
say you can create separate listings
with really the same design but tailored
for let's say an all-over print or
tailored for leggings and then make
another version that's tailored for
stickers or t-shirts whatever it really
depends on the design here's an example
straight off their page by the way that
resource again is linked below if you
want to check it out for yourself but
it's a pretty cool design and they've
got it available for sale on a bunch of
different products alright so offer a
wide range of products this is very easy
to do if you've never uploaded a red
bubble by
it is very easy they made their upload
her so much easier to use than it used
to be there was a day where I uploaded
over 400 products or might have been 400
on the nose in a single day and I
watched Netflix and I spent the whole
day uploading and it was yeah you don't
need to do that anymore it's much easier
alright offer a wide range of products
you don't have to make your design
available on all 60 products but the
more you offer the higher your chance is
being featured there will be times
during the year where we're searching
for great designs on particular products
for example during big campaigns like
back-to-school we want to showcase
popular products like tapestries throw
pillows and posters and after a product
long launch were keen to feature designs
that look great on new products so I
went ahead and looked at their uploader
I counted 35 products but sometimes
they'll take like how you position your
t-shirts and they might have like five
different types of t-shirts that they
sell based on how you upload your design
and position it on the t-shirt model in
the uploader so they have 60 plus
different products when you're doing the
uploader you see 35 to are coming soon
by the way so that means they just added
two more and I know what you're thinking
what are the new products don't worry I
got you backpacks are coming soon and
duffle bags so they're just growing and
growing and growing and I love it
alright upload new work regularly we
spend quite a bit of time browsing newly
added designs so regularly adding new
work to red bubble will help your
chances of being seen we also think or
also think about when you're adding any
work that's related to holidays events
or occasions we're looking at you people
who uploaded amazing Christmas designs
in January it's best to add new work no
later than four weeks before the event
or occasion we need to plan our
featuring to allow plenty of time for
shipping so if you're uploading
Valentine's designs on the 12th of
February you've missed an opportunity
that makes perfect sense guys they're
not going to like they're basically what
they're saying is their featured list
for the actual homepage not the
retargeting homepage that works
algorithmically they're saying it's
curated and hand-picked so they're not
going to be like looking at designs
uploaded three weeks before the holiday
keeping in mind that when someone buys
something they still need to produce and
ship it
otherwise they have unhappy customers so
no later than four weeks before the
holiday that's something big that we
should remember are almost done create
work based on trending themes we're
always looking for work that appeals to
customers so understanding what's
trending can give you an advantage when
it comes to being featured keep an eye
out for trends that complement your work
or subjects that you're passionate about
think about events people might be
shopping for and take a look at red
bubble marketing emails for hints on
what we're promoting so I don't know if
red bubble sellers get the marketing
emails but like I've bought stuff on red
bubbles so I'm in all of their I'm on
all of their marketing promotional
emails and by the way if you're trying
to sell apparel online through like a
Shopify store I always tell people hey
sign up for red bubbles email lists
you're there they said great emails that
clearly are effective at converting and
you can get a lot of good ideas from
them so if you're looking for
inspiration we've also started posting a
weekly trending theme on the red bubble
artists Instagram so check out those
related posts for more ideas there you
go if you're on Instagram definitely
follow at red bubble artists because
they're posting trends they're just
giving them out and real quick on the
subject of trends and niches guys I
recently stumbled upon a free red bubble
tool that curates a weekly list of the
top trending searches on red bubble by
tag and it also shows the Delta the
change in popularity whether positive or
negative and if you would like me to
highlight this in a video I want to see
at least 10 people in the comments just
say hey Ryan I'm looking forward to that
red bubble Nisha's video just say
something like that if I get at least 10
people
I will deliver that so I know you guys
are gonna be interested but hey let me
know in the comments below fill out your
new profile we love promoting artists
who are creating original unique art the
quickest way we and potential customers
can get a snapshot of you and your
creative world is via your new profile
released as a part of the updates to
artist shops funny thing is I was doing
a consulting call which by the way you
can book time with me there's a link in
the description if you need one-on-one
help I was just doing one last night
talking about optimizing a red bubble
shop because someone wanted to promote
it to their friends and family so the
red bubble shops I think they probably
borrowed that idea from Etsy shops if I
had to guess they are giving us more
control
over how we present it and they're
rewarding artists who take an extra you
know hour or however long it takes you
to make your shop really stand out and
look nice with potentially featuring you
so if we follow everything that
RedBubble suggested and we end up
getting featured this could be us you
can see here this is the blue ocean
waves product that I talked about in
that previous video generated nine
thousand seven hundred eighty dollars a
profit you can see there's other similar
ones that are doing over a thousand
dollars profit this can be you this can
be me this could be us getting featured
definitely helps way more than it hurts
so let's abide by red bubbles rules and
see what we can do see if somebody can
get lucky all right and thank you so
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