hey what's up guys it is a rainy
saturday here in virginia
so i am happy to be at my computer
evaluating some redbubble shops today
we're going to do redbubble shop reviews
episode 18
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let's get to these redbubble shops all
right shop number one
is jacqueline mark i don't know if i
pronounced that right sounds french
i do not speak french alright so one
thing i noticed is that the header image
i do think it's cool it's kind of like
etched in stone that's a cool effect
but you can actually see the uh you can
see the
like watermarks from wherever this image
was taken from and i just wanted to show
you guys that like you can go to
pexels.com i can put a link in the
description
pixels you don't need to create an
account it's completely free everything
here is released under the creative
commons
zero license so you can use it for
personal or commercial use
no attribution required and you can just
come here and you're not gonna you're
not gonna find anything that's
watermarked um these are just where like
photographers post their stuff and i
guess they get notoriety or try to build
a name for themselves
um you can see here actually it's a
really popular website like this guy
um scott webb you know i don't know if
he's a famous photographer or what but
he's got
12.2 million views on one photograph
all right so anyways you can come here
if you're a photographer you can go
there
um but anyways yeah so you don't have to
use like watermarked images just go grab
one from pixels i'll put a link in the
description
all right let's check out your shop you
got a bunch of like acrylic uh
really nice really cool looking designs
but you know this is not
an uncommon thing i feel like we see
this every week we do redbubble shop
reviews there's always like at least a
few products that
look great but like it's just not
something that people come to redbubble
and search for
you know so it's not like somebody might
not buy this
if you could get it in front of them you
know like if you were a shop owner
and you could like put these at the cash
register at checkout
i'll bet you you would make sales but on
redbubble
there isn't really an equivalent of that
right so someone either comes and
searches
searches for it and then finds it or
they don't even know it exists
so yeah the acrylic stuff guys it looks
awesome but i don't think it's worth
your time
i could be wrong you know there's no way
for me to know if i'm wrong
but uh you know the only way for me to
know is to like go to amazon basically
because at least amazon gives us an
indicator
but yeah i don't think this is um uh
having like something from harry potter
not a good long-term strategy obviously
uh so i would not recommend that um this
image it looks like you maybe are using
like some software to uh
like kind of convert images now i could
be wrong here but like i certainly know
that when back when i was a web
developer
i worked at a company where every client
was a non-profit and we had this one
called wild
coast uh non-profit if you guys want to
check out their stuff it's pretty cool
and they they absolutely had an image of
a sea turtle that looked exactly like
that
behind one of their donation forms that
i built for them so anyways
all right let's look at shop number two
um that previous shop only had 150
designs of course this one only has 103
designs and you've been on redbubble
since june 2020 so guys like
you know if you can find a way to get
your designs posted to redbubble
where it's not going to cost you too
much time or effort i do think it's
worthwhile
if you're limited in time you obviously
would want to prioritize like
amazon merch amazon seller central etsy
even ebay at this point i think needs to
be prioritized above
above redbubble until redbubble does
something about
um all of the you know piracy of designs
and tag spamming it's crazy that they
still haven't done anything about that
juno of detour shirts did a really good
video on it i'll link to it right here
as long as i can find this timestamp
after i upload i'll find it um watch
juna's video though it's really good
talking about redbubble problems all
right let's check out this shop though
you got a featured collection it's
quotes
um guys like i love this idea of a
featured collection of quotes
but here is the thing right what do we
always say
like this is good too this screen right
here i want you this i want to see like
all of the the quotes
on one quick screen now if i'm a
customer
and this is my search results and i just
get a glimpse
like what catches my eye what stands out
my eye isn't drawn to
any of these one shirts more than the
other
and i know it's red bubble we don't get
complete control over our thumbnails
like if this was etsy i'd be more
i'd be able to say well hey you can be
more proactive by doing like this or
this or this
but um you know we don't get control
over the thumbnails on redbubble to that
extent however there is something we do
get control over
yes yes you the one that said yeah you
in the back the one that said
design you are correct we do control the
design
and you know what i just realized this
is crazy but it's been over a year since
i last
taught my college course in person i've
been teaching online for the last
year plus half a semester so it's crazy
because
i don't know it's like i'm like
pretending like i'm calling on somebody
in the classroom but i have i haven't
actually done that
since spring of uh 2020 so that's odd um
anyways back to what we were talking
about
we control the design guys so like for
instance this right here this is
something that i see so commonly
guys if you can take one thing away like
you can even close out of the video
after this i mean i hope you watch till
the end but
if you just want to close out after this
and say i learned something that i can
apply
this design right here can sell this can
sell
but why put all three words on one line
put them on separate lines and make them
big then you can easily read them when
you look at a screen like this
you know when you look at a screen like
this like it will be big bold easy to
read it'll pop
okay as opposed to just like oh three
words on one line it occupies like 10
percent of the available
real estate that we can design on you
know that you don't need to do it this
way
also um putting bts here like i don't
know if i really
recommend doing that i guess redbubble
doesn't seem to care about all the
infringement but to me it's just not a
good long-term strategy
shop number three and first of all this
shop already looks really cool they've
got these
mock-ups done in their header image
which i think is a great
uh usage of that real estate why not
just lead with some of your favorite
products right there
uh i i don't know what mockup generator
they used maybe place it
to generate those potentially um you
could also consider using the redbubble
mockups if you wanted to like make it
kind of more consistent since that's
what they're gonna see on this site on
the website but either way that looks
cool
uh you're from malta 45 designs though
come on get more than 45 designs up
um you know it's like okay this looks
really cool that cat emojis thing looks
super cool
this this one's really funny too cats in
the card i've never had a cat but
uh i know that they love their cardboard
boxes and it's like i've seen a meme
that just says
if i fits i sits and i always think of
that when i see like
my little chihuahuas like running around
and trying to squeeze into little spaces
i really like this design a lot uh you
just got like
nine different cat emojis on it doing
different emoji
faces and expressions i think that's
really cool so well done there
and um if you went ahead and selected
the pillow as your primary
uh product to be displayed on i think
that's a great choice i think this one
you rocked it with that one oh and the
end you've got the cat emoji coasters
too that's really nice
like seriously like you know if you guys
caught my wix tutorial that i released
recently
uh which i can link to right here if you
missed it because it's like an hour and
20 minute long video but it's a full
tutorial
i talked about how sometimes you just
need like one really good product
to make a bunch of sales you don't need
to offer like 500 products
if you're on like your own website and
the reason i'm sharing that is because i
think this design like really i like it
a lot i don't know why i like it so much
but this seems like the type of thing
where you could sell
it on one product like a t-shirt or a
pillow
if this was running on your own website
not on redbubble and then
you build the mailing list when they
check out and then you email them a week
later and say hey how do you like the
t-shirt
by the way did you know we have this on
coasters and then you give them a 10 off
coupon
and then you hit them back a week later
whether they bought or not and you say
by the way we also have it on
you know pillows like you see here so i
don't know marketing strategies like
that guys
um that makes sense where you're not
just being annoying i think can
be mutually beneficial to the seller and
the customer also you got to be
mindful of the redbubble coffee mugs
it's weird how redbubble does these mug
mock-ups
so you just want to be mindful of
the end product the finished product
because you may make some amazing design
and then upload it and the mock-up ends
up being bad
you can actually like go in and
customize the uh
graphic for coffee mugs explicitly
um i i talked about that in a video i
don't know if i did it was on youtube or
my redbubble uh course but either way it
is something you can do redbubble
provides mock-ups as well for
various product types that they make
themselves that help you optimize where
to put your designs
per where they're gonna show up in the
mock-ups themselves but yeah for some
reason the mugs a lot of people
end up with weird-looking mugs on
redbubble where the the designs aren't
where they need to be
all right shop number four we got top 1t
shirts
132 designs guys get to 500 designs come
on
the 500 design challenge just do text
only
and then remember the tip i shared a
second ago where it's like don't put
three words on one line
just hit return make it a bigger design
make it easier to read right
um i'd really like this design right
here um the only thing i'd suggest
maybe is like bolder text you know like
you could add
if you really like this font here you
can add a stroke
granted that may get a little tricky
with the gradient colors but like
you know adding a stroke to that will
make it bolder thicker
etc easier to read also i feel like i've
been saying this a lot lately with the
red bubble shop reviews but like
the design is centered vertically on the
shirt
and that just looks weird when they get
the finished product you don't want
returns because you're not gonna get
paid for returns
um you want to situate the design
towards the i mean honestly or at the
very top or you know your preference but
like
situate it vertically towards the top of
the canvas
not in the center you know just think
about it it doesn't really make sense to
put in the center you don't you don't
ever see that
oh this is a really nice sticker by the
way okay so you got some
design chops although now i'm also
wondering like are you
stealing designs potentially so this is
a really nice sticker right here
good use of color contrast good use of
graphics plus text
good use of font fonts
various fonts it looks like most of the
fonts are the same but you do have like
i think the word nurse is either using a
different font or just the way it's
arched makes it looks a little bit look
a little bit different
but that's a really nice sticker i would
recommend
increasing the price from 2.50 to
you know i mean your sticker markups
guys should be at least 100 percent
markup so you're making some profit
uh you didn't put in all this work to
make like 50 cents on a sticker sale
so make it at least like 100 to 150
profit margin on stickers that is my
recommendation
um also when i see like this one i'm
like all right i know
that these sell extremely well and i'm
not trying to accuse you because i don't
know for sure but i know that like this
design's been done a bunch of times
it's like always one of the best sellers
on amazon except they put the little
like
uh red flannel um clipping mask on the
bear
so that's just something to be mindful
of uh the daddy bear mama bear so i'd be
careful with where you get your designs
if
they're not original all right flow 311
he got some really trippy background
colors there
like i'm on an acid trip or something
right i've never done acid but i'm
assuming that's what it would look like
anyways 7d designs though a little bit
of a letdown also
you don't have a featured collection i
would recommend adding one
that is a really cool design though also
let's check out how you did these
stickers this is probably the one thing
that stands out most
but first we gotta check out the space
cartoon thingy all right this
is sick uh this if this is if this is
original artwork like
you are probably a professional graphic
design artist in which case
if you gave up on redbubble fine
hopefully you are dedicating a lot more
time to scaling out
an amazon merch business or seller
central or etsy or ebay or all the above
is what i would really recommend while
also not giving up on redbubble
if you designed this you've got serious
graphic design chops this design looks
amazing
in my personal opinion and um anybody
listening to the podcast version it's
like a
sick looking cartoon astronaut holding
balloons that are planets with an alien
in the background
sucking him up all right uh you have
like these stickers though you're doing
these sticker packs which i really like
because you're putting four different
stickers in one sheet
which is a great way of customers
feeling like they're getting better
value
think about a customer's perspective
they're on redbubble they search coffee
stickers you've got ryan's design mine
and it's one
coffee mug and you're like okay that's
one sticker for
let's say we're priced the same three
dollars and 12 cents even though i would
aim to get that at either 299 or 3.99
but either way so you're going to buy
ryan's sticker which has one
or you can buy from flow 311 who has
four stickers for the same price even
though they're a little bit smaller
i think the customer is going to go with
yours so i really like this idea that
you're doing right here
you've got another four pack right here
another four pack of donuts
and another four pack of um sunglasses
so i think that's really well executed
good idea
and you also have military stickers so i
like that a lot i like that a lot oh
here we go enigma 84 we're going out
with a bang
on this redbubble shop reviews this shop
has 983 designs
they have a cool background image albeit
i don't really understand what's going
on it's just got some like cool kind of
neon graphics uh good color contrast
looks like
like um almost like we're entering the
jungle and then your profile image is
like a cat's eye so maybe it is like a
jungle vibe
featured collection super funny um the
one thing that i would say like okay
though
if someone comes to your redbubble shop
the first thing they're going to see
uh product wise is going to be your
featured collection it's probably going
to be
the leftmost um product and while this
design may be like an amazing design
look at like if the product that it's
featured on is a birthday card
redbubble for some reason their birthday
cards in the mock-ups in the in the
thumbnails
occupies 20 maybe of the available
thumbnail space
20 you know look at the t-shirt right
next to it guys you see what i'm saying
like
look birthday card right there
and then right next to it t-shirt you
know like
come on like the t-shirt is occupying
way more and i'm sure it has a much
higher click-through rate
and i mean it's red guys it's redbubble
i'm sorry i don't have a very favorable
opinion of them right now
because of what we talked about earlier
with all the problems on their platform
that they do nothing about
but it's like they must have data to
know
that like certain thumbnails that they
control that we don't control that they
control
have higher click-through rates hmm if
that's the case maybe we fix the
thumbnails for the product types with
low
click-through rates but i mean i can
just picture the people that work there
like oh it must mean that they want the
other products but not that one it's
like well maybe they want both but
like one of the thumbnails is just such
crap like that birthday card just the
thumbnail sucks like look at this
um anyways like funny design says
geniuses are born in july
um you know i don't know that's that's
kind of weird to put that as like the
front and center first product in your
super funny
featured collection uh either way it
looks like you have 29 collections
actually so you're active on redbubble
that's good to see at least and he got
like i like the stock from
gamestop if you're gonna put up a
thousand designs on redbubble though
you might as well like go in and fix
your pricing like
you took the time to make a thousand
designs and upload them
fix your pricing make your product
pricing 19.99
or 19.95 or whatever instead of 19.90
you know what i mean there's
pricing psychology it's not like gonna
make or break you but like over the long
haul let's just say tomorrow you had a
million visitors
if you have like a million visitors it's
going to make a difference if you have
like
two visitors is it really gonna make a
difference probably not um but you know
over time right you you want this to uh
you wanna do everything you can to
optimize for success so i like the stock
i get it
we like the stock i double down on what
works right the the gamestop
stock which by the way was uh was on a
tear recently
so it looks like yeah it had a big week
i mean five days it went from
dollar uh 175 to as high as 262.
anyways i know nobody cares about that
but um yeah so i think the shop looks
pretty good
i would just one thing that that stands
out to me is like
if you're optimizing your designs for
t-shirts then just make sure you select
the primary product to be displayed on
to be a t-shirt
and then like some of your designs are
really good like i like them a lot but
um
i just think you could again vertically
orient them
which a lot of people don't do and then
uh make the
the text thicker i know i'm just i'm
just saying what like comes to mind when
i look at this personally
and you can go and add a stroke you know
you can do it in photoshop you can do it
in photopia
i don't think you can do it in canva um
but you can increase the thickness of
the letters and that's something that
stands out to me
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