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what's up guys Ryan here so this video
came by request but I also love the idea
of doing some like year in review video
breakdowns of different what do I call
it like services I guess that I used to
make passive income so like redbubble
for instance I don't know is it really a
service it's it's kind of like an
all-in-one marketplace right because we
sell print-on-demand products on red
bubble it's free to use if you don't
know if you're not selling on redbubble
yet it's free to use and it's similar to
Amazon merch except it's not invite only
you can just go sign up there is some
geographic restrictions with some
international countries I know some
people have reached out and let me know
that but if you're in the US you should
not have a problem even though I think
it is an Australia based company but
either way it's like Amazon merch
because it they do it all for you it's
free we don't have to put a credit card
down we literally just upload our
designs tell them what products to make
them available for sale on and then
they're listed on the redbubble
marketplace they do like they run ads
for us redbubble ranks really well with
Google which is a big reason why I like
it I mean I like any platform where I
can make money on but they're not all
created equal like redbubble to me
stands out above most of the competition
and if you make a sale redbubble does
all of the product fulfillment shipping
customer service and we just sit back
and collect a royalty so what's not to
love about that and then what I'm gonna
break down for you and I mean I actually
learned some things looking at my not
just looking but taking a more in-depth
look at my twenty nineteen numbers and
data that they make available to us and
I can actually show you where in a
second but Before we jump into the
numbers or I'll show you the high level
numbers first but then I want to talk
very briefly about why I like redbubble
and why you should consider selling on
redbubble if you're not already so in
2019 I did 965 sales on redbubble
generated I should add a dollar sign
there sorry I just wrote this blog post
it's Friday night I have other things
I'd rather be doing I'm not gonna lie
but I want to get the shootin video out
so I'll go in and I'll add that dollar
sign if you're looking at the blog post
above my head here but I did eleven
thousand six hundred ninety six dollars
and 67 cents of revenue and I kept two
thousand six hundred sixty-five dollars
forty eight cents of profit
full disclosure like I didn't have my
entire existing catalog of
print-on-demand designs from when I was
like taking time to manually create
designs on pretty much a daily basis I
didn't have that fully uploaded to
RedBubble until probably like May of
this year so 2020 is gonna be a better a
better test of like redbubbles true
earning potential in my opinion because
I'll have my full old catalog and then
I'm also my new like print-on-demand
workflow if I can just I don't know why
I wouldn't be able to do it to stick to
it the way that I've been doing it
lately but I'm basically getting like 50
designs uploaded per day to all of the
like tier 3 I call them tier 3 platforms
like redbubbles more like tier 2 than
tier 3 in that like it stands above
platforms like T spring t public in my
opinions as a little Spreadshirt but I'm
making a point of like uploading 50 a
day every day some of those platforms
won't let you because they're 50 there's
not all of them have 50 a day limits but
the ones that do they don't all reset at
midnight like they should so anyways I'm
getting off topic with redbubble though
I'm making some money I should mention
the reason these numbers don't line up
is because I took this picture from my
redbubble dashboard and what I didn't
show in the picture I cropped it out was
a little filter and the filter doesn't
say doesn't let me adjust for like a
custom date range and last year was not
an option
so I was not able since I took this
picture on January 10th 2020 I was not
able to not include that extra column
for January so that's why you see like
an extra column over here and it also
it's basically what you see here is
January 11 not 2019 to January 10 2020
but when I downloaded the artist sales
report
spreadsheet and then parsed out the data
my actual earnings for 2019 we're two
thousand six sixty five was the amount
that I kept that's the amount that you
guys really probably really care about
but real quick reasons why I like
RedBubble and I'm gonna do this fast I
promise I have talked about this stuff
in other videos so if you want a more
in-depth explanation just go to my
youtube check for RedBubble videos I've
done a few but here in 2019 they made
uploading to RedBubble so much easier so
if you go up here and you go to it's
just a demo account that ads isn't my
real account you go to add new work you
you end up here then click copy settings
from existing work so if you haven't
done this already you will need to
manually upload so you'll need to come
back here and go upload to all products
manually upload a design position it how
you want it on all products I recommend
using a uniform uniform file dimensions
and I honestly personally recommend
using Amazon merge dimensions 4500
pixels wide by 5,400 pixels tall Amazon
merge standard dimensions I should say
because there is other products where
they're not that but that way when you
use this copy function on RedBubble
it should be relatively consistent
across the board so then just come here
click the gear on one of your listings
and click copy all right and then what
it does is it positions this design
using your preset when I said you have
to do it manually like your preset
positioning of the design it just copies
your new design and by the way I mean I
guess this looks stupid right now but
what you're actually supposed to do is
hit replace all images and then when you
replace the image with your new design
it's automatically positioned on
everything so what's not to love there
and then you just do your own title and
tags for the new design speaking of tags
one of the things I wanted to show you
here is our friends at merge Titans has
a free RedBubble tag generator where you
seed it with a couple keywords relevant
to your design and it spits out the most
relevant keywords based on the ones the
keywords you seeded it with the most
relevant keywords shared by the
highest ranking listings on those
keywords on RedBubble so these are the
highest performing or most common
keywords amongst the most successful
keywords on redbubble / the ones that
you seated so I searched for cat lover
here I did it ahead of time because it
does take about I think it takes longer
based on how much competition there are
on the keywords so me searching cat
lover took longer than if you search for
something more niche down but it might
take like 15-20 seconds so just
understand that and so then you can just
copy these straight into your listing
that you're creating that's another
reason why I love redbubble so easy to
upload freitag generator third reason
well third reason let's just go ahead
and say that it ranks well on Google so
it gets a lot of organic traffic we
already mentioned it's also free to use
they are great about running retargeting
ads what a retargeting ad is is if we go
to redbubble and we just look at some
random listing like I'll just click this
or this is somebody's artist page
alright let's click one of their
products all right llama phone case we
are now cookie our web browsers cookie
it's it's essentially what I'm trying to
say in short I don't want to get too
in-depth as a web developer but we can
go to like some other random web site it
after this after not buying this product
and we will probably see a redbubble ad
with this product and that's not by
coincidence it's because it's the years
20/20 and advertisers have figured out
how to serve us relevant ads and red
bubble is they have a very high budget
for running retargeting ads because
retargeting ads mean like it's more of a
qualified ad they know that like they're
they set a condition the condition is
that okay we viewed this product page
therefore if we go to a website that's
partnered with an ad network where they
can buy a retargeting ad space and try
to bring us back to complete the
purchase they do that the reason I
shared that is not because I care about
how online ads work it's because if
we're the artist selling on RedBubble on
this platform and they're doing that on
our behalf and we don't have to do
anything like seriously think about all
the technical stuff going on on our
behalf
just to make us money I mean they make
money too but right they make money when
we make money they're doing it for us
so I like RedBubble that's another
and what else oh the last one can't
forget this so merge tightens the the
website that I've got here with the free
redbubble tag generator well they also
created a print-on-demand
upload Automator so this app the merge
Titans automation app I put a link in
the description if you want to check it
out but this allows you to automate your
uploads to multiple different
print-on-demand marketplaces redbubble
being one of them although I did just
show you how easily you can now upload a
redbubble so it's not like you have to
have the automation for redbubble but
the benefit of using the automation is
that you can just say ok upload to
literally all of the places you see
listed there and printful integrates
with a bunch of different marketplaces
so it's actually more coverage than what
it seems like right here so it's good
that you just know this exists again if
you're interested link in the
description if you want a step-by-step
exactly how I use this including my
spreadsheet my data spreadsheet you can
check out my dropship to print on demand
course alright back to the reason you
came to this video I managed to talk for
like almost ten minutes without drilling
into the numbers but to be honest the
numbers I don't know let's just jump
into him so again profit two thousand
six hundred sixty five dollars on eleven
thousand six hundred ninety six dollars
revenue on just under a thousand sales
nine hundred sixty five to be exact so
what I did is I used the if you guys are
on redbubble let me just show you how I
did this so go up to your account go to
account settings and then go to sales
history on the left hand side and if
you're on an account that has sales this
is my demo account called Ryan's method
you'll see an actual like list of your
sales here and then you'll be able to
download as CSV and from there you can
do what you want with the data what's
cool is whether you use Microsoft Excel
or Google sheets you can insert charts
and based on your data set it will just
generate the charts for you so I've got
a couple different ones to show you guys
this one is product revenue versus
royalty and as you can see here the
biggest revenue generator was standard
t-shirts it looks like it brought in
just under four thousand five hundred
dollars
but that's revenue we care about about
the royalties right and that's in red so
it looks like the royalty earned on that
was just under $1,000
it looks like second place was stickers
by the way this is unique to me one
thing that we also need to remember
about redbubble is that you have to let
me jump back over here really quickly
and I think it is actually it should be
here so if you just go to your settings
which is where we already are where is
it why can't I see it
account details I believe and then go to
product pricing and here is where you
set your markup by product type
so everybody's charts will look
different not everybody's will look like
mine because this is unique to my
settings for my product markup one thing
I will say those stickers are my number
two most well what's interesting is it
looks like classic t-shirts generated
higher revenue for me but lower
royalties than stickers now this brings
me to the point I was just making when I
set my royalty percentage for stickers I
use at a minimum a hundred percent one
hundred percent markup
I think stickers given their low price
point and they sell really well in red
bubble like they're probably the best
seller on rub okay maybe not actually my
data doesn't support that that assertion
but I might be wrong overall but either
way redbubble sells a ton of stickers
and you know it was actually like one of
my students that said hey you should
charge more for stickers or what are you
charging for stickers I'm charging this
much and people keep buying them so I'm
gonna keep pushing it and they push
theirs as high as 150% so I went and
followed suit I always keep it in the
range of like one hundred two hundred
fifty and you can actually set your
markup percentages based on the various
sticker types so just know that that's
out there that's a good suggestion let's
scroll down here to my most profitable
redbubble products now we're only
looking at profit not revenue so as you
see here t-shirts were the most
profitable followed by stickers followed
by classic t-shirts no that's not me
making these distinctions that's red
bubble they do have a lot of different
t-shirt types like you can see here
tri-blend t-shirts sold really well
looks like that's my fourth highest
profit generator followed by glossy
stickers and then it's kind of a tie
between relaxed fit t-shirt fitted
v-neck shirt and yeah that's probably
about right coffee mugs actually up
there too um some funny ones though are
some interesting ones I did sell I think
three or four I can actually check I
don't know if anybody cares about the
numbers but I did sell a few acrylic
blocks which I didn't think I would ever
end up actually selling but I managed to
sell a few so that's pretty interesting
and here's the same data broken down
into a pie chart the pie chart helps you
really visualize like on a percentage
basis what product type made up most of
my sales so as you can see here t-shirt
at 34 percent sticker at twenty seven
point five classic t-shirt 12.2 colossi
sticker it says two point seven so those
are or those made up the bulk of my
sales and then one interesting one
before I wrap this video up is the
breakdown of countries that I was
selling products in so check this one
out
and I think there's a legend down here
let me zoom in by the way this blog post
will be available on my blog which I'll
put a link in the description if you
want to check it out and just scan
through the data but yeah so one cool
thing about RedBubble
that's easily overlooked is you are
tapping into a global marketplace you
have global outreach like think about if
our parents wanted to sell things they
had to go like rent retail space pay
monthly rent then stock the shelves with
stuff and then hope that they marketed
well enough to bring in foot traffic and
we are lucky we grew up with the
internet and all we have to do sit here
at our computer and either like very
easily upload to RedBubble and use the
free tags generator to get indexed on
relevant keywords or even use the
automation app where we can just hit go
log in and walk away and it does it for
us I mean we're so spoiled it's like to
not be taking advantage of this
opportunity
he's just crazy so please do that again
though we're tapping into a global
marketplace we don't even need the
infrastructure ed bubbles free so please
jump on redbubble um here's a list of
countries that my customers lived in I
don't know if this is all yeah I think
this might be all of them so I'm not
gonna read all of them to you but it's
interesting United States Slovakia
Canada Germany Australia United Kingdom
France
Czechia oh man I just embarrassed myself
I probably pronounced that wrong
Switzerland Romania Ireland New Zealand
Belgium Italy Netherlands Spain Japan
Finland Iceland Bahrain Saudi Arabia
Qatar Sweden Poland Kuwait Austria
Austria Denmark Norway and Croatia not
bad
hopefully that list grows in 2020 but
guys that's where I'm gonna wrap the
video the whole point of me doing this
video was again first and foremost by
request and the guy actually followed up
on his initial request to keep me honest
because I was like yeah I'll do the
video and then I didn't do it I mean
it's only the 10th of January so I got
it out there but if you enjoyed it
please do me a favor just give a give it
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speculate that that may help it rank
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have any questions any comments any
feedback for me just drop me a comment
below I see everything and thank you for
spending your time watching this video
I'll see you the next one always open
enroll now and Riots medCom thank you
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