Redbubble is a free-to-join marketplace of thousands of shops, all operated past independent artists from around the world. Here's our guide to getting started.
          
                      
        
        
          
How Does Redbubble Work?
          
          
When you upload your art to Redbubble, you can customize it on over eighty different products. Y'all choose which products y'all sell and fix your own artist margin and so you lot have control over your pricing.
          
When a customer purchases one of your products, Redbubble handles production, shipping and customer support for you, so you can focus more fourth dimension on of import stuff like creating amazing art! Information technology'southward completely gratis to open up a shop and sell your art, and yous can keep track of what you've earned on your Dashboard.
          
            The 3 nearly of import tips we have for you in getting started on Redbubble are:          
          
                
  1. Upload your full catalog right away – aim for at least 25 designs in your offset month.
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  2. Tag your piece of work well! For a total breakup of how to tag, click here.
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  3. Promote your store. Sharing your shop link on social media, regardless of your audience size, tin aid bring your followers to your store and amend your sales.
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Keep reading for a detailed walkthrough on setting upwardly your store, choosing your products & pricing, and how to utilize client insights to brand more sales.
        
        
          
Customize Your Shop
          
          
Customize the appearance of your shop in your Account Settings. You lot tin observe these settings by clicking on your avatar in the height right corner of any folio. They're also in the bill of fare on your Dashboard.
          
            Add a Bio          
          
          
Customers are keen to support independent artists so this is your chance to connect. A nifty bio should encourage them to explore your shop, favorite your work, and follow y'all. Your bio should serve equally a high level introduction to yous, the kind of work you create, subjects or themes you're passionate most, and tools and techniques yous use. For more tips, run into our guide to writing a great bio for your Redbubble shop.
          
          
                      
          
            Vlad Stanovic's bio and social links          
                    
            Add an Avatar and Cover Prototype          
          
          
Your store's appearance tells customers a lot about what they will discover inside. Your avatar and encompass images are your take chances to wow customers and encourage them to browse and ultimately buy from you. It's often helpful to create consistency betwixt the artworks they will discover in your shop and the contour and cover images.
          
Cover image dimensions are 2400 px wide by 600 px loftier and they can be in JPEG or PNG format. For your avatar, nosotros recommend using an epitome that's 100 x 100 px.
          
            Add Social Links          
          
          
If new fans and potential customers notice your contour and love your work, make it every bit easy as possible for them to find and follow yous elsewhere past adding your social links. It'south a great way to build an audience, and it will assist y'all when it comes to promoting your art.
          
            Pro Tip: Filling out your bio and adding social links can increase your chances of beingness featured on Redbubble'south homepage, social media profiles, or in our marketing emails. Read more near how to get featured on Redbubble.          
        
        
          
Add Some Products
          
          
We recommend calculation at least five artworks when you're setting up your shop, and adding 25 artworks within your first month! Adding all of your art and making those designs available on a wide range of products instantly makes your store feel established and gives customers a range of products and designs to browse. To ensure your products wait not bad, pay close attention to the way your artwork is positioned on each production. Try and avert white edges or badly cropped designs. You may need to become back and edit your work to adjust the positioning.
          
            Product Range          
          
          
You can sell your art on            over 80 products            – and we're calculation new products all the fourth dimension! To keep upward to date with new product news, bank check your Dashboard, make sure you're signed up for emails, and follow the states on our artist Instagram @redbubbleartists.
          
                      
          
            Designed and sold by Sabrina Brugmann          
                    
            Dimensions and Formats for Products          
          
          
We've compiled a list of dimensions and formats for all products in our Assist Centre. It's a super useful resource and one of our most visited pages so you'll to want to bookmark information technology for later! While we're talking useful resource, check our guide to designing with products in mind.
          
            Uploading          
          
          
At that place'due south a whole section on uploading in our Aid Middle, so we'll just cover the basics here to get you started. so we'll just encompass the nuts hither to get you lot started. To create your showtime products, click on your avatar (top correct of any page) and choose 'Add together New Work'. Select 'Upload to All Products' and cull a JPEG, GIF or PNG file. From here y'all tin can choose your title, add a description, add your artwork to multiple products, suit the placement, disable or enable products, choose a background color, manage tags, and choose the default product you desire to appear in your shop. Once you're done, scroll to the bottom of the page and save your piece of work. Easy peasy!
          
            Add together Tags          
          
          
Tags are the secret to your work being discovered through Google, Redbubble, and other search engines. To put it simply: tagging your work well is how you'll brand sales. To requite your work the best chance of being seen, choose effectually fifteen relevant tags. The secret is to choose simple, relevant, and descriptive words that potential customers are likely to search for. Don't be tempted to tag spam. Y'all may think adding as many tags equally possible volition increase your visibility, simply it tin have the opposite effect on your search ranking. See Redbubble Tagging 101 for more tips.
          
                      
          
          
            Review Your Pricing          
          
          
Each product has a base price that covers Redbubble's service fee and the cost of manufacturing. Artists tin set a per centum markup or 'artist margin'. The margin is set to twenty% as a default, but you can adjust this for each product, choosing any percent you like. Caput to your Dashboard and click on product pricing to adjust the artist margins for each of your products. This article covers pricing in more item.
          
          
            Pro Tip: The most successful artists on Redbubble add new artwork regularly. We recommend adding 4 or more new designs per month. Keep things fresh past releasing new artworks each calendar week and letting your followers know about your latest designs and new products on social.                      
        
        
          
                      
          
            Mat Miller's Redbubble Shop | Designed and sold by Mat Miller          
                    
Finalize Your Account Details
          
          
There are 3 final steps you lot need to accept and so your store is open and ready for business organisation.
          
            Confirm Your Email          
          
          
Earlier you lot can brand your artwork available for sale, you'll demand to confirm your email address. Head to your Account Details page, enter your email and click on 'Ostend Your E-mail Accost'. You should receive a confirmation email within a few minutes. If you get stuck, our Artist Support team can aid you out.
          
            Add Your Name And Address          
          
          
This ane's pretty straightforward. Equally with your email, these details need to be filled out so your account is prepare and yous're ready to sell.
          
            Add Payment Details          
          
          
You can be paid via Paypal, or bank transfer if yous have an Australian, US or United kingdom banking company account. Y'all'll notice your payment details under Account Settings. Make certain you choose the right currency every bit we're unable to alter this once you've confirmed your payment details. For more detailed info on getting paid, see our article on the artist payment process.
        
        
          
Utilize Trends and Client Insights
          
          
When you're creating new work and thinking well-nigh marketing your Redbubble shop, tapping into trending themes can exist a groovy way to find inspiration and reach new audiences. Before you lot dive into the cosmos procedure, it'south a good thought to ask yourself a few questions.
          
                
  • Who am I designing this for?
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  • What products are they well-nigh likely to be interested in?
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  • What are the file sizes and dimensions for those products?
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  • Is there an audience I can share this with on social?
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  • Are there any popular hashtags I can use to market my piece of work and attain new people?
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We're big advocates of finding trends that compliment your own style and passions. Successfully combining business concern and creativity means creating with an audience in mind, and some idea of how you're going to reach them. Hither are some useful resources for research:
          
                
  • Scan sites like Pinterest and Instagram to run into what's popular
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  • Utilize Google Trends to compare traffic volumes for different search terms
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  • Visit retail stores to see what colors, patterns and themes are large this season
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                        Google Trends          
                    
It'southward as well a good idea to accept a poke around Redbubble. Put yourself in the customer'south shoes. Become looking for something that speaks to you. See what other artists are creating. What styles popular upwardly. You'll kickoff to see how you can create artwork unique to you that customers will love. For more than inspiration, see our articles on identifying trends and how events and holidays can help you lot connect with fans.
        
                
          
Helpful Resources
          
          
We hope you've found some useful tips in our guide to getting started on Redbubble. Here are a few more than of import places where you tin follow updates and discover farther data:
          
            Dashboard:            Track your earnings, see customer traffic sources, trends, tips, and more
            Creative person Social Channels:            Follow u.s.a. on Instagram and Facebook for inspiration and updates
            Email: Subscribe and manage your preferences for news, promos, artist tips, and more
            The Blog:            Find the latest artist news, selling tips, advice, and inspiration hither on the blog
            The Help Centre:            Got a question? Our Creative person Success team can help.
                    
            Header Epitome: A Dreamy Nighttime In | Designed and sold past Singajelly