Hey everyone this is Juna with Detour Shirts. In this video
we're going to talk about my strategy for redbubble. Let's go!
So in this video we're going to talk about my strategy for RedBubble this will be part one,
um but before we start let me introduce myself for those of you that are new to the channel my name
is Juna i'm a t-shirt designer i'm also a online t-shirt seller and my channel is all about helping
you design and sell t-shirts online if that's something you like to do then don't forget to
like this video and subscribe to my channel so you can see more of the videos about that topic
and don't forget to stay till the end to see those trend credits after this video so in my last video
i had a lot of people asking me at my last video i'll link it up here but it was about
my redbubble sales in august of 2020 and i kind of outlined my strategy and i kept what i was going
to do for september and people in the comments are asking can you share that how can you how
will you do those kind of things so i thought i'd share some of my strategies going into september
so you can see what i'm going to try and do and this will just be a part one i'll
try and do more of these videos so you can see what my plan is for september so in this video
redbubble strategy part one you may have noticed this
at the end of my other video i said i have these goals for september add more funny food t-shirts
add more big ticket items add more patterns add more halloween designs and get up to 800
designs that's my goal for redbubble for september and so what i'm going to share today is this add
more funny food designs a lot of ppo people in the comments asked like how do you do that what
are you going to do so let me show you what i'm going to do so first thing i do is and
this is the most fun part is brainstorming so this is where you come up with ideas
new ideas that you want to add to redbubble and so this is the part that i'm going to share with you
first first before you before you even draw anything you need to brainstorm and think of the
idea of what you're going to do so we know that i want to do funny food t-shirts if you watch my
last video you know that funny food shirts are doing well for me may not be doing well for you
so you you need to find what you want to work on this is what i'm going to work on so i just
brainstormed a bunch of different food ideas right like i just listed what is this um 12 of them here
so and then i picked one so just because this was the first one i picked pizza but you could
i could have picked any one of these and went that way but let's say i go with pizza first
so then the next thing i do is i go online and i kind of brainstorm pizza for me sounds like
peace right pizza trying to go going for a pizza pun so puns are words that kind of sound like
the words that they're asking so pizza sounds like peace to me so i i did a search on google pizza
piece pizza pun right here and i hit search and i notice that four of these right here give pizza
chance give pizza a chance so it sounds like give peace a chance right so that sounded good to me
i checked uspto make sure that that's not a trademark thing you should do that
too when you come up with an idea because even though you know you see it on there
it's an idea maybe you like to use obviously some other people were using it but it's not
um it's not a trademark phrase here so there you go i can use it it's fine so that's what i'm gonna
go with first is that so the next part once i have the the food and the idea now the next part
which is also a fun part is the design part so this is where i start putting pen to paper
pencil to paper and come up with a quick sketch of an idea of what i like to do so
first again i i checked the internet and i wanted to see what other people are doing not to copy
them but to make sure i'm not copying them right so just the opposite so you can see here people
a lot of people are using the peace sign here so i want to definitely stay away from that that's been
overdone here's a dove so that's i don't want to do that as well and so those kind of things i know
i don't want to do so when i think of the word peace again here i'm brainstorming of ideas um
peace sign you know i'm not going to do that the dove we saw as well what other things um
feel like peace or could represent peace maybe calm maybe the two-finger sign you know like this
meditation i think as peaceful serenity and then it got me thinking of yoga so that's kind of my
train of thought there maybe it's a pizza a piece of pizza doing a yoga pose kind of in peace right
so here's my quick sketch you can see i'm not even drawing it really well in fact i kind of
didn't even complete the the word here of pizza chance but here's kind of the idea the the pizza
kind of sitting in this pose and kind of putting his fingers out like this you know kind of that
peaceful yoga pose and so i'm going to go into affinity designer now and show you kind of what
i came up with after doing this and then mocking it all up so let's go to affinity designer now
all right so here we are in affinity designer you may recognize this to see if you've watched
some of my other videos so this is kind of where i do the designing it's kind of like illustrator
and you can see here i just scanned in that little quick pencil drawing that i did and this is kind
of my progression so i just take the pen tool i start tracing over it you can see right here at
first i thought you know it would look really cool maybe a rainbow as well so i gave that give pizza
a chance like this in an arc shape and a rainbow and then i started um drawing a little bit more
this is kind of more of a colored version i still need to do some of those pepperoni slices but
i looked at it and i i just didn't i didn't like the way it was going this the colors
didn't match here and the rainbow although it might be good but i think on a shirt when i put
the background on it it might not work so then i thought maybe some rays here i i finished up the
the pizza here you can see it's a little more detailed now with the cheese kind of melting
here you can see his shadows i got shadows and highlights just to give it a little more oomph
and then i have kind of these rays here and then i did this give pizza a chance underneath with kind
of the same style as these rays i still feel like i didn't like it because it it just i don't know
i i didn't like it personally it maybe it would look good to you i was trying to make it so it
would work on a dark background you can see this red here and it kind of just didn't stand out and
maybe if i change this to white it would have but i went in a different direction here ultimately
i went here with kind of this banner this is my idea of give pizza pizza a chance still has that
you know same same idea that i started off with with a pizza kind of doing the yoga pose but my my
words are up here and so because of the what white outline i can put it on a dark background like
on a dark t-shirt and a still work and it would still work on a white background here like that so
so that's kind of what i'm doing so that's what i ended up with and we'll go to the
next part after you make a design of course you need to upload it so let's go to that so
like i said the next part is upload but before i upload to redbubble which i'll do in redbubble
i wanted to show you what size that i upload in so redbubble has their sizes but we can use different
sizes on redbubble it's not like merch by amazon where you need to have a specific size so what i
am going to do is i'm going to use merch by amazon size because i can still take that design that i'm
going to make with redbubble and put it on march by amazon so this is the size for merch by amazon
4500 pixels by 5400 pixels and that will work great on merch by amazon and it will also work
well on redbubble for the shirts and for stickers which is what i'll put it on i'm not going to put
it on big things like duvet covers and things like that so i don't need it to be the maximum
size because this is more of a more of a t-shirt size thicker size which are smaller
and it'll still work for redbubble so let's go to redbubble now and i'll show you how to upload
alright so here we are on redbubble the way to get here is through your shop and if you just added
if you go here and click on it you can add new work whoops here's my shop
okay let me show you add new work right and you just add your work here you can
click this button or you can just drag your your picture or your png that you have right onto that
so i'll go do that and then you'll see what it looks like so when you add something i've already
added this so i'm editing it now but adding it will look just like this um you can see
your your photo is here or your design is right here you need to put a title here which i did
just make sure that those keywords are in there i have give pizza a chance which is
the title but it's also a funny piece and meditation i probably could put yoga in here
because he is doing a yoga pose and cartoon here so any word that you want to put in here
also there's tags so you don't have to load your title with so many keywords i'm going to
start taking zen out there i think yoga is good cartoon anyway however long you want to make it
and then tags make sure you use relevant tags and then the description of what it is
really you can do make sure there's keywords in your description too that's pretty much
it um and then i've added it on t-shirts you can see here
make sure that it's enabled right here it says nine
sometimes not all of them are enabled so you can come in here and if you wanted to put it on some
kids or toddler and it works for that then you can i had it off just because i i think maybe
it may not work for a toddler kid it's okay and you notice i have a mark up here of 40
the default is 20. i'm trying this out um i just i used to have it at 30 i moved it up
to 40 for september to see if i get a more profit so that's another thing i'm doing
i'm adding it to this one i'm also making it a sticker magnet i think that will do
really well here if you notice my sticker and magnets i'm trying something else
i'm also doing stickers at 70 percent i should probably do magnets at 72 to see what that's like
and pillows i don't really sell any pillows but i'm putting it on there giving it a chance there
prints and cards i don't usually sell that but you know that's a good markup so i'm putting it
on there you can see it doesn't work for leggings and and things like that drawstring bag i think
it would work notebooks it could work let me just put it on there art prints again and coasters here
i think it would work for this bag so i'm going to enable that and this print i think it would make
a nice print as well and you can come down here and move it make sure it centers horizontally or
vertically you can you can change that you could also give it a background color if you don't want
it white you can do this like this red something i think it would look nice with that actually so
i'm going to change that to red you can see here i have the tote bag enabled and you can see here
i have the mask i think it would work well on mask same thing here you can set the background
to the mask which i did so again it doesn't work really well for like backpacks and duffel
bags which probably would use patterns i mean you could make it a pattern here i know this video is
getting long but you could choose a pattern if you have something like this you could do some
kind of offset grid and you can see how it like grids it out like that which would give it some
some kind of a cool look like that but i don't want to do that so i'm not i'm going to just
disable it so it's not going to work and then make sure you select what media type it is and this
does not have mature content i have the right to do this so i'm going to just save the work
and it's going to take a little while to process 15 minutes to upload to your store and you can
just give it a once-over check when it's done it's going to like process here and you can see
when it's done here you can see all the products that it's on and that's it it's uploaded now
onto the store onto my store and this is what you would do with your
idea and you can kind of see how it is right here so the next thing that i would do is promote
and you want to promote your stuff on social media and this is a great time to promote it is once
you're done with it because these things right here these arrows are a way to promote your stuff
so let's say i want to promote my sticker i'll click here look you can share for all on all those
facebook twitter tumblr pinterest now you'll have to go into your settings and put in your
facebook account and your twitter account and your tumblr account and your pinterest account
mine's already enabled so i'll show you just one i'll do pinterest here
and you can see i have a pinterest board it's just looking at my boards here
and i already have a board with detour stickers so i'll hit save there and
it's going to go to my stickers i've already done this step but that's how you would do it
hit save and do it same thing with the shirts if you want to share it on twitter as well
you can do that too so maybe i'll i'll do one on twitter maybe these
coasters just to show you how it works so share on twitter it's going to search on twitter and it
gives you this generic message of course you can change it um look at this right and then tweet
and it gives you a little thing here well i guess it didn't show it but if you went to my profile
there that's how it kind of looks that's the coasters i did and i said look at this so it
automatically like brings in the picture so it's a nicer tweet there so people can see so
um this is free by the way and redbubble also promotes your stuff too so it's a win-win so
we're gonna see how this if this even catches on this month we'll see it in my next video for
uh september the 2020 results so that's it that's kind of how i'm going to do it of
course i'm going to need to do this multiple times this is just one of many of food designs
that i'm going to add to redbubble in this month of september and see how it how we do so
that is it for this video thanks so much for watching hopefully this was helpful
for you you can see kind of a step through my process from brainstorming all the way to
adding uploading and even promoting on redbubble so just a full gamut i'll try and do more of
what i do to help in redbubble but if this was helpful for you don't forget to like this video
and subscribe to my channel so you can see more of these things to help you sell and
more things on on redbubble and online and until next time guys keep creating and keep learning
Hey this is a quick trend credits just so that you get one again at the end of this video thanks for
staying till the end here is one that i found, "It's fine I'm fine everything is fine". It's
getting a B here on Merch Informer. Again if you don't have Merch Informer make sure you get it. I
have a link in the description you can get 20 off if you use my code and with the BSRs going on and
off and on and off this is probably really good to get merchant former because you can
still track it whether or not that there are psi's on the front end or not so good idea to get this
as well as getting you know merch graphics here so this is every month you get that so
i'm fine it's fine or it's fine i'm fine everything is fine that's my
you can see this one's doing like has a very low bsr it's got 40 sales this one's got six sales
got six sales so there's a bunch of them on there this is kind of your competition again you don't
have to do this exact phrase so this is kind of more of a you know in the times that we are with
the pandemic like yeah everything's fine kind of a sarcastic thing so think of things that actually
work for this kind of state that we're in in 2020 like it's kind of okay it's kind of fine so think
of things that you can do with that so that's the trend trend credits for today thanks again for
watching and keep creating and keep selling and keep learning alright see you later bye