In this tutorial, we will see whether how we can create our Redbubble store from Scratch and upload our first design.
Anyhow, to set up your store on Redbubble, click on signup, and then select Artist signup, and then provide your email, Shop name, and password and then click on signup. Well, Our account on Redbubble has just been created and lets start setting-up our shop. Here you can see that we need to fill these three sections to go up and running. Now let’s start with the Set-up section and click on “Add avatar” to upload your avatar image, Cover Image, attach social media links, and write some bio.
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Now click on browse button to select your avatar image and then click on Upload and exactly the same way, upload your cover image, well it seems that my cover image didn’t fit as expected. Anyhow, I will change the dimensions and upload it again. Moreover, it also has provided the cover image dimensions here.
Now add your profile info like “first name”, “last name”, and some bio, and you can choose to display your full name or the user-name which is your shop-name.
Well, i would recommend you to select all the notifications at this point in time to see whether how they will help you and you sure can make changes to these notifications later and here is your copyright shop-name and link and if you’d like, you can check this check box to advertise your products in off-site marketing. Like on google, social media platforms, email marketing etc. and lets check this checkbox for mature contents under images setting and then click on save changes and here its letting you know that your changes have successfully been saved.
Now, click on “Dashboard” and here you can see, what you have added so far under setting-up section. Now click on “Add a social link” to add the ones you want to display on your shop. There is a long list of social media platforms you can add but for the time being I am adding my facebook link only and you can choose to display the up-to-date version of your shop on your website or blog. Just select the number of rows and columns to display and then copy the embed code and paste it into your website or blog where you would like to display and then click on save and our social media links have been added.
Now, click on Dashboard again and here you can see that we have added everything shown under “Setting-up shop” section.
Now, lets go to the “Get Paid” section to confirm our account and payment details so that we can open our shop and start selling. let’s click on “Confirm your Email” and so far, we haven’t received any email to confirm our email address and it’s just because that we haven’t added our payment details yet and as soon as we will provide our payment detail, we will be able to request Redbubble to send us the link by clicking on this “Resend confirmation” button so that we can confirm our email address.
Now, provide your personal information like “Residential Address” and then the postal address and if both are the same then keep this check-box checked otherwise uncheck it and add your postal address.
Here you can see that even after selecting this option, it provides us with the both “PayPal and ACH direct bank transfer” options, Well as we know that PayPal does not work in Pakistan but people in Pakistan still use PayPal account by borrowing it from relations or relatives who live in a country where PayPal works, in that scenario, just select the first option to provide your PayPal account and after providing the PayPal account you will receive a confirmation email to confirm your PayPal account to get paid.
And, if you don’t have PayPal account, you can use payoneer account details to get paid. So, to add the payoneer account details, select the second option which is ACH Direct Bank transfer. Now, its asking you to provide your banking information and this is the information that you can get from your payoneer account. Just sing-in to your payoneer account and then go to “Global Payment Services” under “Receive” tab and select your concerned bank account information here at this point in time, payoneer has provided me with USA and UK banks information which I can use to get paid from different marketplaces.
Now, select a bank information you want to provide to Redbubble and since I have selected “United States Dollars – PayPal or ACH bank transfer” option. I need to select USA bank information and if you have selected “Transfer to UK bank account” then you will provide GBP bank account information Etc.
Now lets click on USA bank account, and here you will find all the information Redbubble required you to provide, just copy and paste the required information in the concerned fields from payoneer bank account to Redbubble account, which is “Routing number”, “bank account number”, “Account Holders name”, and bank type and then click on “save changes”.
Here, Redbubble is letting you know that your details have successfully been saved and now we can send a request to Redbubble to send us the email confirmation link by clicking on this “Resend Confirmation” button and here you can see that we have just received the confirmation email and then click on this link to confirm your email address and here you can see that Redbubble is letting you know that your email address has been confirmed and you are set-up to be paid by Redbubble.
Now click on “dashboard” to see what steps remain and here you can see that we have completed all the steps under “Set-up and Get paid” sections and now its time to upload our first design to create our store.
Now, click on “Add Design” and then “Upload new Work” and here its letting you know the minimum resolution of the file should be 1000px and then click on open after selecting your design. It will take a few seconds to upload your design, well the design I uploaded is 4800 by 5000px and is just based on some words. Anyhow, provide your well thought “Title, Tags, and Description” because these will help your design show up in the search.
Well, if you want to add some background color to your design, you sure can by clicking on this color option. Now, its time to adjust your design on the products and lets I do a couple of. Now, click on edit button of any product and you will be able to make changes, here you can select color and increase or decrease your design size by using the slider and you can move it around to adjust the position and when you will click on this dropdown, it will show you the products that come under this category and can select any to see how your design looks on them and its also giving you design dimensions that best fit on this product, well every time you will move your design to adjust it on the product, it just misalign towards the left side and to keep it in the center, just click on these options to bring it back to the center.
Now click on this tab and select all options at this point in time because you never know what product can grab attention of the potential customer and make a sale, of-course you can uncheck the ones you don’t want to be out there but for experiments, I would highly recommend you to select all the product in the beginning and also you can change the mark-up of each and every product individually. Well, I’m not going to make any changes in the prices at this point in time and then click on “Apply changes” to save your changes.
Now, click on the edit button of the next product and here you can make changes exactly the same way you made in the last product and here you can set your product print default whether it would be front or back. Now click on the gear icon and this product will be offered in “Premium T-Shirts, Premium Scoop T-Shirts, and Long T-shirts” and you can make changes to the markups if you want and then just click on apply changes to save your changes on this product and by default, some of the products may be disabled by the platform due to some reason which you can enable by clicking on this “Toggle” button and, on some products, you will have Repeat or Choose Pattern option which will repeat your design as many time as possible on the product like regular grid or offset grid,.. according to the size or scale you will select.
Now, I have just adjusted my design on every product and you can choose two options here whichever you think is best describing your art or design and here if you select any product that will become your default product on your shop for this design but instead of selecting any, i am keeping it as recommended because the platform algorithm knows what product will be the best choice for this design and here let the platform know whether it’s a mature content design or not and then check this checkbox for selling rights of this design.
Now, just take a look at the products if you need to make some final adjustments…and then click on “Save Work”.
Now our design has been published and the platform is letting you know that it will take like 15 minutes to appear on your shop and this is how the design will look like on the products. Well it doesn’t look bad but I think the position of the design is little lower on some clothing products and that definitely need to be adjusted.
Anyhow, go to your dashboard to see the changes and here you can see that we have uploaded 1 design out of 5.
Now, go to your “Account activity” under account and here, the first thing you need to do is to click on “protect your work” and select a watermark option, here you will have some options to select from but the one I recommend is the last one and then check this check-box to discourage people to download your design and then click on save. It will place a water mark on your design and the Redbubble will make it hard for people to download your design and this how your design will look like when you set up your design protection here on Redbubble.
Now let’s click on “Message to Buyer” to add a message and here you can write your message which cannot be longer than 160 characters and then click on save message. Now our message has been saved.
Now, go to the “product pricing” to change the markup on your products, here Redbubble has already applied a standard 20% markup on every product, which will give you the retail price and your margin on the sale of a specific product but you sure can change your markup on every product listed here.
Well, what I have observed that most of the sellers keep their markup at 30% in the beginning and lets I keep it at 25% in beginning which will be more or less for some products, anyhow while editing the markup, you will see a link appearing under the box informing you to apply this to all products which means if you click on this link, it will apply this markup to all the products and since I haven’t put too much effort searching prices at this point in time. I am going to apply this markup to all products and definitely I will change the markup on every product later.
Anyhow, after applying your prices, click on this checkbox and then “save new default markups” button and then click on ok to save your default prices on all your designs and here you can see that Redbubble is letting you know that your pricing settings have been saved and applied.
Now, go to the dashboard and select “View Shop” under “Account” and this is how your shop will look like in the very beginning after uploading your first design.
Now, click on “Manage portfolio” under “Account” and then click on this “gear icon” and select “Promote Products” and here you will be able to see your design on all the products and if you see your design is not sitting well on some products like this one, you can edit the position of your design which we will learn in future tutorials, and overall, it seems good on all products except a couple of.
Moreover, you can click on this ellipsis icon to download your image, copy the link to share and “view the product page” and this is how the product page will look like and you can share your products on social media platforms by clicking on this share icon. Anyhow, we have just created our shop on Redbubble and this is how it will look like and I hope this will be helpful for someone out there and thanks for watching.
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