Bulletproof Guide for Stable Passive Income on Redbubble in 2022 – Part 3
At this point, you already have a design that you want to upload to RedBubble. If you don’t know where to start the whole process, check out this article first!
Let's open RedBubble, click on Add New Work and you find yourself on the upload page. Hopefully, you exported your graphics without a background in high resolution. For mainly shirt-related works, my go-to resolution is 4500 by 5400 pixels (Merch By Amazon reasons). Also, if you plan to apply it on larger items, like throw blankets or comforters, even higher dimensions are better.
I think it is important to choose your export sizes carefully because it saves you a lot of time down the road.
Uploading and positioning the very first item is a key moment. Once you choose the work you want to sell first, take your time to enable all items and position the graphics well. If it needs to be centered, make sure it is — you have buttons that help you do that, both vertically and horizontally.
For a few items, I suggest creating different, product-specific variants, like bags, hats, aprons, because the cutting makes them unique. RedBubble is kind enough to provide these templates for you, check them out here.
Why is it so main part of the process to position well? Once your first design is live and you are uploading the second, third, …, you can just simply make a copy of the first work and replace the graphics, and the item alignment will be perfect.
After every item is positioned well, let’s jump to the keywords. Before explaining this step, let’s take a look, what does it take to be successful on RedBubble (and any other print on demand platforms):
- First of all, you need to have good designs. If the quality is low, no one wants to buy your product. It does not mean you need to be a professional graphics designer — it’s possible to create very cool text-based or text-weighted works. Make sure you sell the stuff you would wear.
- It’s very important also, that your design is found. If someone is looking for your design that has a giant panda on a tricycle on it (yes, why not?) you have to make sure with the relevant keywords they will encounter it.
In a nutshell, the key to RedBubble success is:
Good quality design ✕ Relevant keywords = Success (=$$$$$)
Now let’s explore the second step, the relevant keywords. On RB these take care of your work — how easy or hard is it to find it on the marketplace in the pool of millions and millions of other graphics.
Choose your main keywords based on what is exactly on the design. Describe the items, colors, main message, and everything else which is visible. The second set of keywords, I advise, put loosely connected terms, like what feeling is connected to the design; is it a happy piece, maybe a sarcastic work?
The third part — I don’t consider it really important — is the title of the artwork. Make up a short, descriptive message which also suits the design.
I covered the key points of the successful RedBubble shop in these articles, hope you find useful information along the lines. Although, as my first publications, I’m sure there are a lot of ways to improve — I’d appreciate it if you take the time to point these out in the comments.
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