Redbubble | Tips On Tags

RJ Martinez Print on Demand Career & Money

About this video

RJ discusses uploading his Merch by Amazon designs to other platforms — Redbubble, Teespring, CafePress and Spreadshirt — and shares his Redbubble tag research method. He says his uploaders dislike Redbubble because uploading there is time-consuming, so he has been doing it himself about five times a week since March started, and reports 33 all-time Redbubble sales with three sales this month, including shirts and stickers (stickers sell often but for small amounts like 20 cents). He says one shirt earned about a $9 profit and another about $4, and notes a design sold on Redbubble before it sold on Amazon, while a darts shirt sold on Redbubble had not sold on Amazon at all — evidence, in his view, that each platform’s algorithm differs and extra platforms can add profit. His tip is tags: his titles and descriptions are basic, so tags do the work. He opens front-page or top listings in a niche (a fox design, then searches for Earth Day and Cinco de Mayo), scrolls to their tags, and borrows tag ideas for his own listings and for new design ideas. He argues good tags are essential to ranking and generating traffic on Redbubble, warns against copying trademarked or disallowed designs seen there onto Amazon, and mentions also making a sale on Spreadshirt.

Key takeaways

RJ says designs can sell on Redbubble before — or without — selling on Amazon, so uploading the same catalog to multiple platforms can add profit despite the extra time
He reports 33 all-time Redbubble sales and three this month, mixing higher-profit shirts with frequent low-value sticker sales (creator’s own figures)
His stated strategy on Redbubble relies on tags, not elaborate titles or descriptions, which he keeps to one or two basic sentences
Tag research method: find front-page listings in a niche, scroll to their tags, and use those tags as ideas for your own related listings
Browsing top listings’ tags also surfaces new design ideas and upcoming niches, but he warns not to copy designs that would not be allowed on Amazon

Episode details: published March 17, 2018 · 12:50 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are RJ Martinez’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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