Making money designing shirts and other products for Redbubble is something possible, it's not something impossible as some believe that it cannot generate income being a designer for the Internet, so here we have a small guide on how to start in this world.
What is RedBubble?
First we are going to talk about Redbubble, this is a page that takes care of making the designs that we mount and offer can be printed, printed or glued on many products for anyone to make use of them, so it has many advantages if you are a graphic designer, whether you have little or much experience, because the designs will be sold directly by Redbubble, we will always have a commission, that said we save ourselves the problem of stamping products, sending them and having all the necessary logistics issue, so it is a very good option for Freelancer designers.
What do we need to start?
You don't really need anything to get started, just draw something fromyour own inspirationand take it to Redbubble in any of the following formats:
- XBM
- BMP
- WEBP
- JPEG
- SVGZ
- GIF
- JPG
- ICO
- TIFF
- PNG
- SVG
- JFIF
- PIPEG
- PJP
- TIF
As you can see, there are many file formats that Redbubble accepts but in my preference I would say that the useful ones if you are starting out is well SVG which is common in all vector programs or PNG which you can take from any graphic editing program without major difficulty.
Uploading a drawing
One of the things I liked most about Redbubble is the fact that it has a product management system, when uploading a new artwork it is extremely simple, since the system takes care of placing our work directly on all available products in the store, making it quite easy to manage where we want our content to appear.
Title, Tags and Description
Once we upload our first image what remains is to place the information part of our work, since we need a way to call it and that potential buyers can find it, we need to fill in at least 3 fields
Title
As Redbubble mentions in this area, the title of the work is placed here, they recommend using between 4 and 8 words, but if you want to use more there is no problem, as long as it is catchy given the great competition, something striking is always needed so that we can be found in the search engine of Redbubble itself.
Tags
The biggest challenge if we are starting out since we really don't know how to tag so that the search engine gives us visibility, but it’s not as difficult as it seems, so I will give a pretty useful tip so you can get tags without suffering in the attempt, personally when I tag I do the following:
- I search for a design with a similar theme, for example, if I upload a drawing of a turtle, I place that in the Redbubble search engine, I open one that is similar to my work or several that are of the same theme
- I go down to the end of the page where I will find something quite particular and it is that Redbubble breaks down tags "For all products", tags that are referring to our topic and we can easily copy use.
- I compare several products in search of the most repeated labels and place those same since Redbubble suggests them, they help us advance easily in the labeling and achieve the 15 that we want.
Description
In descriptions we have to give a brief description of our work, that is what it is about or what we are trying to inspire with it, the main intention sought is that whoever likes our design can know a little more about what the author thought when creating it or simply what it means to us.
Categories, Collections and More data to complete.
Once we have selected between the multiple products of the store begins what could be one of the most important parts among the data that we must complete:
Category
These categories are created by Redbubble and represent the different areas of the store in the techniques section, so we must select well what we are presenting to the public, we can select two or more techniques so that we have variety if they are more than one used.
Collections
Something of utmost importance forourorganization and which we can easily make use of because we can group a group of works that are similar whether in theme, technique or what we want to unite in a group, so if they visit our profile it will be easier to find what they are looking for.
Default View in your store
This is used by Redbubble to show our audience the product that looks best, whether it's a mug, a sticker or a shirt, just select it and when clicked on the work it will be the initial piece before the customer wants to select any other but we can place what looks best.
Can adult content be considered?
This is extremelyIMPORTANTespecially if suggestive images are uploaded, since they can easily take down our account if we do not mark them, but you wonder? What images are suggestive and which are not?, it's simple just avoid marking this box if your Drawing contains:
- Nudity
- Blood of any kind
- Firearms of any kind
- Alcohol and Alcohol or references to the same
- Violence or strong language in any form
In general, they are simply things that would not be considered for all audiences, so if we upload something suggestive content, we must keep them in mind, equally Redbubble places a guide so that we can better review the content that is considered +18
Adult Content Policies - Redbubble
How do we collect our money after selling on Redbubble?
The methods by which Redbubble pays are two, which does not leave much room for where to go when talking about collecting for our sales, but that is not really a limitation if we have a verified PayPal account since it is the simplest method but I will describe briefly the two methods:
- PayPal: I consider the most used and useful method of the platform since it is practically global, we can do it but onlyTHROUGH A VERIFIED ACCOUNT, they emphasize that very much so we cannot collect otherwise.
- Bank Accounts: The most complicated method and also only available for Australia, United States and United Kingdom.
If the payment system is not a limitation for you, you have one of the largest pages worldwide at your disposal to give publicity to your work and generate income through digital art.
¿Puedo cobrar en Redbubble viviendo en Venezuela?
You can reallyif you live in Venezuela, if you get the minimum collection but unfortunately you can only do soif you have a Verified Paypal accountsince that is the only payment method available for Venezuela, so it’s not the best option if you are starting out in internet jobs and you don't have a way to verify a Paypal account with your credit card.
