Uploading To Redbubble Tips & Tricks (Step By Step)
About this video
Martinez shows how to upload a design to Redbubble and adjust how it looks on each product, noting one uploaded design is applied across Redbubble’s product templates. His central advice is to make the design look good and large on black: he shows Merch by Amazon stats and says black is his top color by far, with over 10,000 products sold on black, far ahead of navy. He edits the main t-shirt mock-up to center the design, keep it inside the printable square so it is not cut off, and make it as big as possible. He points out kids’ clothing is not enabled by default and urges enabling it, and he shares his own markup test: 25% on most products and 100% on stickers, after previously testing other levels. He goes product by product — large-print clothing, dresses, stickers, phone cases and wallets, mugs, leggings, bags, journals and clocks — adjusting size and placement for each type of customer. He also argues for uploading the same design to many platforms, not just Merch by Amazon, because each platform has its own customers and a paid illustration can pay for itself across platforms and then become profit.
Key takeaways
- Optimize the design first for black shirts and make it big and centered within the printable area; he says black is his top-selling color by a wide margin on Merch by Amazon.
- Uploading one design to Redbubble populates many product templates, but each product should be checked and adjusted so nothing is cut off.
- Enable kids’ clothing, which he says is not checked by default, to avoid missing sales.
- He sets his own markups at 25% for most products and 100% for stickers, describing pricing as something to test.
- Put the same design on multiple platforms, not only Merch by Amazon, because each platform brings its own customers and spreads the cost of paid illustrations.
Episode details: published February 25, 2019 · 15:39 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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