Make Money Online Selling Your Artwork on RedBubble

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If you are an illustrator looking for an additional way to make money with your artwork, RedBubble might be the perfect website for you. Similar to Zazzle, you can upload your artwork on RedBubble and create a variety of items for sale. Wall art, designer tee shirts, posters and greeting cards are just of few of the items that you can create.

While perusing RedBubble, I noticed that the focus seems to be more fine art based then commercial images. You might classify RedBubble as a �??high-end Zazzle�?� �?? where a community of artists share some of their best work. There are also many photographers who upload their images on RedBubble products. This can be a great way to make money online with your images �?? especially if you are a stock photographer who�??s sales have been declining due to the large influx of images on the microstock photo websites.

Just like Zazzle, RedBubble charges a base price for each particular item and then you get to decide how much you want to mark-up the price. Obviously, the higher the mark-up �?? the more you will earn on a given sale. The best idea would be to create a large gallery of your artwork and market your gallery as much as possible.

To be successful on RedBubble it�??s best to only upload your best work. Potential customers don�??t want to go through twenty pages of your gallery to find what they want. Like I said, RedBubble is known as a high end online art gallery and your work should reflect this. Know your target demographic and do your research when creating items for sale. The fact is, your items won�??t sell themselves on RedBubble �?? YOU have to market your gallery and create some buzz about your artwork.

RedBubble pays via PayPal on the 7^th day of the month and they have a payout threshold of only $20, which is nice. If you choose a check payment �?? you�??ll have to wait until you have earned $100 to get a payout. If any of my readers have had success with RedBubble, I would love to hear about your earnings or the potential earnings that can be made on this website.

You can visit RedBubble’s website here: RedBubble

Let us know what you think about this review of RedBubble, if you have compliments, complaints, comments or you think it is a scam – let us know by commenting below…

Best regards,

Michael-John Wolfe

TAGS: Residual Income, Make Money Online, Royalties

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12 Comments to “Make Money Online Selling Your Artwork on RedBubble”

Kai Lo 23 January 2010 at 12:02 pm #

I can tell my friend about this. He just graduated from an art school.

-Kai Lo
Twitter @lomak1985
MJ Wolfe 24 January 2010 at 4:18 am #

Hi Kai, yes – I am sure he may be interested in RedBubble if he is an artist! Let us know if he sets up a RedBubble shop.

MJ
Jamia 25 January 2010 at 8:17 pm #

Hey Mike! I’m going to check into this…thanks! Showing some of my work this weekend in an LA group show!
MJ Wolfe 25 January 2010 at 9:27 pm #

Hey Jamia! It’s good to hear from you. I checked out your blog – it looks great! There’s some nice artwork on there and some cool clothing. Yes, I think RedBubble would be right up your alley! Have you had any luck on Etsy?

Mike
sixty6 29 January 2010 at 9:08 pm #

I have been on Redbubble for about a month, albeit, a short time, but one of my pics recieved 314 hits and yet, no purchase. I’m beginning to wonder what it takes to actually make a sale. Great review, by the way.
MJ Wolfe 30 January 2010 at 4:23 am #

Thanks for letting us know – I hope you get a sale soon! Do you have any other websites that you have had luck getting sales on? If so, I’d love to hear about them.

MJ
mailmarker 14 April 2010 at 8:03 pm #

I was in redbubble for 2 years (i just cancel my account). During my tertulia there I sold…. zero pieces. And that was a good thing.
So let me explain this a little more.
sold zero… redbubble does not advertise to attract custumers, only other artists wanting to sale not to buy.
that was a good thing… because redbubble makes the money. they charge high prices to sellers, and you are force to add a small mark-up, so let’s say u add a 20% on your cards (around 30� profit) how many do you need to sell to reach the $20 cut ( if you use paypal) can you sit and wait until you reach $100?
I sell many, many pieces online, and using redbubble is a waste of time.
MJ Wolfe 15 April 2010 at 4:58 am #

Hi — sorry about your bad experience with RedBubble. When you said “I sell many, many pieces online” — what website do you use to sell all of these? Thanks for letting my readers know about your experience with RedBubble.

MJ
gugughandi 9 July 2010 at 9:59 am #

how does the payment method work, like do artist get a certain % of the cost item of their work for lets say.. a t-shirt?
ZeitGeist 15 December 2010 at 8:59 am #

I have sold hundreds of T-shirt designs on Cafepress, but I have no sold one single work on Redbubble. I don’t think it is a site for selling, it is more of a morale support between artists that’s all. I stopped loading my artworks to redbubble because the site has a particular kind of art flavor of which I can’t explain and the taste is a bit conservative for me. That’s my two cents of opinion…..
seething 27 February 2011 at 1:15 am #

As a member of this site,everyone expects to sell instantly,but it won’t happen!
I have been on there for 3+ years and will be leaving as soon as I get my second payment from them.
To make money you have to price yourself out of the market to make a dollar,but if your prices are too high nobody will buy.!
IE:Sale of a greeting card:) manufacturing fee £1.04 + Tax,my grand total for a Sale is £0.29p,so having produced the image,uploaded,struggled to sell,the eventual (Sale) leaves me in no doubt that RB is reaping the rewards,making the dough,while we struggle to make money..isn’t worth joining.
Besides,you have to be [found] first as there are so many new members now.
I can’t wait to exit the place IMO because there are rules and regs that are not only bent,[they are positively mangled,screwed,and warped] for certain members who get away with murder,whereas others pay the ultimate price for doing the same thing!
Can’t wait to see the High & Mighty RedBubble fall flat on it’s face.
Enter at your own risk!!
Yshuapaints 14 June 2011 at 4:57 am #

very very new to RedBubble…well, not really I guess. Started playing with it a while ago, but let it slip a bit. Have made several sales on zazzle @ http://www.yshuapaints.com and a couple on fineartamerica.com, but I looking at uploading more to redbubble and cranking up promotion on there.

I enjoyed this article quite a lot. you give some good insight into selling on RedBubble. Thank you.