hey what's up guys happy saturday today
we're gonna be doing redbubble
shop reviews episode 19. after
this video is published i think we've
reviewed
just about 100 redbubble shops and if
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them in order
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alright let's get started with these
reviews shop number one
is bonnie shaw i like the graphics by
the way um
it's got a cool vibe to it and it looks
like your profile profile icon
matches the big banner that you've got
back there
so it's got a cool vibe you don't have a
featured collection you may want to
consider adding one
join december 2019 only 42 designs uh
you let me down i was like
this looks promising from the from the
shop uh
the structure but then you know 42
designs is not going to make you too
much money
um it's got a pretty cool like yoga vibe
what are those called like
mandalas or something i think now what
these are called
it's cool design though either way
rainbow flower of life sacred geometry
high vibration sticker so when i'm on
redbubble i typically
don't try to pack in too many search
terms into a title
uh just my personal feeling about
redbubble is that like
i don't think their algorithm is
structured the same as amazon's
where on amazon you know you can
definitely get away with putting a
couple more additional phrases in the
title with redbubble i try to be as
exact and direct as possible i think
redbubble's a little bit
harder to succeed on in general as well
because of course lower barrier of entry
for new sellers to jump on the platform
your designs though they do look really
good i mean you should keep up with the
uh with posting new designs to the
platform like some of these look
look really um great on the what is the
phone phone wallet iphone wallet
i mean it looks awesome looks super
professional this one too looks great
um so i don't know if you like uploaded
these designs with intent of selling
them on iphone wallets
i've heard that these sell really well
by the way on um
on well i forget what platform i don't
know if it was just amazon or what
but i knew some people that were making
some big bucks selling these as print on
demand
i don't know what production partner
actually even carries these maybe
guten but you could also always i mean
it's not something that
most people would condone but like you
can list it on amazon
manually and then fulfill through
redbubble you know drop ship from
redbubble to your amazon customer
as an option i've talked about how i did
that back in the past with some stickers
that i would manually order from
redbubble to my amazon customers because
the money was too good you know i just
marked up the stickers i was selling
like 12 13 14
stickers buying them on redbubble at a
discount you know from myself at no
markup and then
shipping them over to the amazon
customer because they were in such high
demand
all right shop number two urvashi patel
joined in 2016
only 114 designs come on get more
designs up
uh let's look at your shop branding it
does look pretty cool with the
watercolor in the background there
and you got a pretty professional logo
there with your name and logo
featured collection abstract art
remember what i said last last redbubble
shop reviews i said every week we see at
least
one shop that just kind of takes the
lazy route and posts
um you know abstract acrylic whatever
you know some weird
like patterny thing that's typically not
original work either
um abstract art may look great like this
this little
zipper pouch wallet looks cool
but nobody comes to redbubble and
searches for pink sunset pink orange
purple sky zipper pouch you know what i
mean nobody comes to redbubble and types
that in
so the likelihood of somebody finding
this probably pretty low
and it looks like that's basically what
you've dedicated your shop to you've got
animal illustrations that are pattern
based
abstract art patterns moroccan patterns
and bohemian ethnic so there's nothing
wrong with this but like you're really
competing with
infinite people that are selling like
similar things because they're so easy
to upload and create listings on
redbubble
also you know any retail store that's
selling the same similar thing too
you know i just don't think people come
to redbubble and search for this stuff i
think they follow the trends
and that's what brings them to redbubble
most likely from google search or
redbubble doing like retargeting ads
so i think a better understanding of the
customer life cycle and customer journey
is probably
probably a good thing to have right
all right sank of
sankofa ace what is that sankofa
ase i don't know i don't know what that
word is sankofa ace is what it looks
like to me
uh from waltham abbey united kingdom 283
designs you've got a featured collection
that you call text based
i might change the name of that featured
collection because suppose a customer
actually sees that they're going to be
like
text-based you know you guys subscribe
to my channel we see things from the
seller's side i think we all kind of
know like okay text based
text based designs duh but what about
the customers that we're actually trying
to sell to so maybe
call it you know funny designs or
something whatever or best sellers you
know it doesn't have to be your best
sellers just call it bestsellers
since it's the first thing they see you
got some pretty funny designs here deja
poo
i'm sure i've heard this crap before um
curry goat pies and peas
rice and peas kalu a key catfish jerk
chicken
spice up your life that's like really
hard to read i would improve your font
selection on designs like that
um even like this design here
this looks kind of like i don't know it
just this looks like something you'd see
on a digital screen but not actually see
a final print of in real life that comes
out looking anything like
what you see on your screen right now so
i'd be careful with how you design
using things like bevel and emboss like
even like the fade out
i don't know if that's a gradient or the
watermark or something it looks like
washed out
on your text um just be careful with
that stuff because i don't know that it
translates that well
into the final product when it's printed
so definitely be careful
uh you have a lot of stickers leading
primarily with
stickers and i think that is a great
idea we know stickers are probably
if not the best seller like top two on
redbubble behind t-shirts
or maybe top three behind face mask so i
think that fad passed
so yeah stickers is a great idea if you
do want to set your default
mockup to stickers that is a good it's
definitely not a bad thing
you got a lot of stickers though that
are like simple black text if you're
going to do something like this like
i would maybe market it as like bumper
stickers
you know because if you're gonna do like
a water bottle sticker or a laptop
sticker i think
you typically see graphics and if you're
just gonna do text it just reminds me
more of like something you'd see on the
back of a bumper sticker of a car
all right shop number four red bubble
gum from the united kingdom again all
right cool back to back
and uh 247 designs
let's see you've got a featured
collection red bubblegum halloween so
have you not updated your featured
collection since halloween
first thing i'm noticing your price
point 1824.
so it looks like you've manually updated
your pricing on redbubble but you've
reduced
the default i think the default brings
your shirts to about 1990.
so i don't know 1824 seems a little
random i would update your pricing i
would also update your featured
collection to do something other than
uh halloween all right and then on some
designs like this one that i'm seeing
here focus on better color contrast
like it's this may actually be like what
you wanted it to look like
but and in real life it may look amazing
but like on a t-shirt
mock-up that a customer has to click in
search results
you can scroll right past that without
even noticing that it had pink text on
the
purple background color shirt so be
careful with that you really need it to
pop and be bold and be easy to read kind
of like this design here that you made
with the the big boo you know you got
the graphic you got the text you have
great color contrast with the cream
against the black
yeah i like that a lot more let's check
out your
red bubble gum gaming by the way i like
how you structured your
collections you put the shop name as
like a prefix of all the collections i
don't know why i think that looks
professional so well done
and it looks like you uh your gaming
logos are all
just straight exports out of i believe
canva pro
if i'm not mistaken i think these are
like templated graphics that you can get
inside of canva pro like in the logo
builder
so uh that may be not the best idea like
maybe
do some alterations to them instead of
just and i could be wrong i might be
wrong if i'm wrong let me know in the
comments below but i swear these look
familiar
i think i've seen these in like the
canva logo builders
so it's not that unique right um
i could be wrong though blame it on the
lag i mean that's kind of funny i grew
up gaming
what like 15 years ago so even longer
than that actually now that i think
about it yeah when i started i was 13
but anyways
uh when i was gaming we started with
like 56k modems and slow computers
and there was plenty of lag there was
also people would pick up the phone in
the house and kick you off the internet
and that was absolutely miserable when
you're in the middle of a computer game
um so yeah good times good times
all right shop number five geneva joined
july 2020
so your shop is about a year old and
you've only got 53 designs
no come on get that number up to 500.
you know come on text only do text only
designs until
you um until you get
500 all right so that was a weird link
that was kind of structured
uh not to display things the way we're
used to seeing them i don't want to give
them an unfair advantage so i reset the
the page all right you have seven
collections one is 2021
donuts city cat quotes foodie let's
check out foodie
uh two stickers inside of foodie i think
these actually are pretty decent designs
again one of the benefits about also
doing stickers as your primary product
type
is the thumbnail that it displays is
automatically zoomed in
okay so you don't have to worry as much
about doing what i always remind you to
do every saturday whether it's etsy shop
reviews or redbubble shop reviews which
is
make your designs big bold and easy to
read if you do stickers
it typically zooms right in and makes it
all of those things big bold and easy to
read so
doing stickers i think will increase
your click-through rate even if you have
a design like
you know these three which nothing is
really standing out to me like
the color contrast here isn't great i
don't think i'm not trying to like cut
everybody down i'm just like i'm trying
to help you
improve on these things um this design
to me is kind of random like i don't
know if that's in reference to some
something in the news cycle that i
missed but as far as like color contrast
i don't think it's anything special
um i would probably use a different font
personally uh this one right here
like it's very small very thin
uh the font selection i'm not a huge fan
of and it looks like you
tried to like grab that loading bar off
google images and you didn't
actually magic wand the
like white background off completely so
that looks pretty crap just beyond it
looks pretty crappy let's be honest here
um nap queen i like the color contrast
here i like this design but i would
vertically orient it towards the top of
the shirt otherwise isn't that just
random to see like a
horizontal design that's just in the
middle of the shirt like
i never see people wearing shirts that
look like this and probably because
people don't buy shirts that look like
that so
come on a little bit of extra effort
will go a long way all right
remy's designs from united states 331
designs you've got a featured collection
of masks all right i like that
um one thing though you've got a tote
bag in your masks but check out that
design that is sick
also all of your mask designs are really
great too but if that's original artwork
then
you should be crushing with print on
demand because you're doing some crazy
things
check out this beast mode tote bag that
is
awesome i don't know how you did that if
it's original if it's not but if that is
original and you're able to create
graphics like that you should be
not only selling your own stuff but you
should probably be like
for hire on a website like fiverr um
creating custom graphics because that's
that's just amazing um i i closed the
tab out but i noticed you had a weird
price on that it was like 23.86 i think
so maybe go in and like up your price to
23.99 or 24.99
although also that is really expensive
for tote bags you can go to amazon and
find tote bags from amazon merch for
like 19.99
and you can find non-merch tote bags
that are fbm
sold through seller central for much
cheaper so the tote bag thing you don't
want to come in at like a super high
price point because i don't think
anybody's gonna buy it
alternatively i like the design for this
face mask um but like 10.50 i would
bring that either at like 9.99
or something like 11.99 and market it as
like a premium
but uh yeah 10 10.50 just seems kind of
random i would drop that like to
9.99 and just move on what else you got
oh this sticker is really cool um
you've got your watermarks on this looks
familiar is this from like a video game
or something where have i seen this or a
movie
i don't know why i feel like i've seen
this before anyways i do like
the sticker itself i would again fix
your pricing 291
just seems random i would get that up to
like 299 or 399
even um again though you've got some
really cool looking
designs anybody listening to the podcast
uh i'll link to the shop or
i won't link to the shop actually
because i do that only for etsy shops
but i do think this is a
really good looking red bubble shop you
know what actually i will link to this
shop i will link to this one because
it's the best one we've seen in this
episode
a lot of great designs you also went
this is one of the first things i did
when i jumped on merch by amazon is i
sold
uh letters because i was like what the
heck can i do to fill these upload slots
and i ended up doing just letters
and uh i think i made like one sale so
it was not
profitable um i thought i was a genius
for doing it then i did some research
and realized everybody else had already
done it too
so not anything to write home about as
far as sales i think i got lucky and got
like one sale
although you know what's funny is one of
if not my best selling listing on
redbubble
was just a letter and it was marketed
correctly and that's really all it was
like i put the right keywords in
i put the letter to market it to the
people that would search those keywords
and it actually worked and it didn't
just work like it worked extremely well
um so anyways i'm not gonna give up the
niche
but it did like it was that simple it
was like oh okay i'm like the ten
thousand person to put this letter up
however i know what keywords to market
it as
and it worked all right anyways i think
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episode
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