How I Got 2 Redbubble Sales After I Stopped Uploading New Designs for One Year
My attestation that print-on-demand is a passive income source
I started my Redbubble side hustle in February 2021, having found out about print-on-demand on YouTube.
During this period, I watched several YouTube videos to keep updated with information such as trends, tagging tools, strategies for getting sales, and more. I ensured that I implemented as many tips and tricks as I could to achieve success (getting sales and making good money) on Redbubble.
I got my first sale after two weeks of creating my store, and I was very happy about it. It was a sticker sale, and my profit margin was a little above $1. I was also happy that my royalty for sticker sales had been set to 100% to get that royalty amount; if not, it would have been some cents.
I kept uploading new designs to my store, and after a few months, I got another sale email alert from Redbubble.
Going on further, I kept researching and uploading a few designs, but I didn’t make any more sales until October, then two in November, and finally another in December.
Redbubble’s payment threshold is $20, and it is paid out monthly to store owners that make a minimum of this amount. My royalties earned from product sales weren’t up to this amount, so I wasn’t qualified to receive the money.
I made a total of $11.07 and got paid by Redbubble in December 2021, since I already made over $2 in total yearly earnings for yearly payment eligibility. Here is a screenshot of the payment.
Before the sale I made in October, I had already stopped uploading new designs to Redbubble to focus on some other things I had left behind while focusing on Redbubble.
I had to do this because I noticed that I would have to dedicate more time to research, further niche-down, and create better designs to achieve the “regular and substantial passive income” I had pictured making on Redbubble.
Fast forward to about a year after I stopped uploading new designs on Redbubble, I was surprised to wake up to an email that I had made a sale on Redbubble (July 19th, 2022). It was a tote bag sale, and my royalty margin was $4.11.
I was so surprised because I never saw that coming. I haven’t logged in to my account since this year commenced and haven’t done any promotion for the design that sold, not even for my store.
Three weeks after that (August 9th, 2022), I got another sales notification for a classic T-shirt purchase by a customer on Redbubble. My royalty margin for this sale was $4.17.
This experience further made me realize the power of passive income. I had stopped uploading new designs on my Redbubble store and wasn’t even focusing on it this year, but I got paid for the work I had done in the previous year. I might probably make more sales before the year runs out.
My Redbubble experience attests to the fact that print-on-demand is one of the passive income sources to make money online. However, you will need to put in the work required to make it a passive income source.
My advice to anyone that wants to look into this side hustle is that you need to first learn the necessary skills from someone currently making waves in the industry.
You can get a paid course from online learning platforms such as Udemy, a trustworthy print-on-demand business YouTuber, or from anyone you find experienced in the business niche.
Never depend on YouTube alone because the information available there is not structured, and you can get overwhelmed with consuming a lot of information from various print-on-demand YouTubers.
I will do this if I am to get back into the print-on-demand side hustle on Redbubble and other platforms.
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