Marketing Overkill and Excess?

By way of a bit of hopefully helpful feedback to Redbubble:

Think the pretty high frequency rate of your promotional emails might soon become a problem for some people.

There is such a thing as excess. (As they say in marketing, less can be more.)

Particularly given you are just one more email on top of the pile of others that many are receiving already and having to process one way or the other. (Even if they have agreed to be placed on your email list.)

Nearly reaching the point of unsubscribing myself. Wonder if that point is not far off for others too?

Be interested in additional opinions here, as it might prove helpful to RB itself.

2,000 Great Reasons to Pursue Your Passion

Today I just happened to spontaneously revisit what now turns out to be 109 pages (nearly 2,000 works) of truly inspirational images in my Redbubble favorites gallery … collected over the duration of my nearly six years’ association with the site.

I found that this handpicked exhibition of favorites not only totally refreshed my respect for the incredible talent evident, but also renewed my respect for the creative process itself.

And last but not least, underlined the genuine value of redbubble – in providing this special opportunity that brings so many creative people together in the one place. (Thereby making such a ‘collected’ overview possible to begin with and facilitating the subsequent opportunities to reflec…

Estonia’s BLUESROSE: One of Redbubble’s most talented and longest standing artists feels it is time to uproot and leave … I always found her eye for the abstract expressed in so many uniquely imaginative ways a great pleasure to see.

She has published several absolutely outstanding books of her work on Blurb.

Read her parting words here

Just about to hit the 200,000 mark (for about 1,000 images in around 5 years) … so my first quarter of a million views virtually around the corner.

Have to thank a lot of people for showing such interest. Greatly appreciated!

(But of course there is always the prospect people simply looked, hated what they saw and left quickly! :)

Thanks to the mystery buyers of the 2 x Barber Shop postcards. For some reason that image keeps selling … a further mystery to me..

A true classic from my amazingly talented friend Matt – and hilarious! Jaywalking

Great to see good design thinking at work again (something RB used to be such a leader at).

Personally, I like the newly created modifications to the look and presentation of each of the ‘images of works’ pages a lot – particularly when coupled with the additional sample images of more works able to be shown below. Overall, it results in a much better focus now on the works themselves.

Why not try something similar for the RB Home Page???

(As I have pointed out before here and here, it is that all important landing page that really needs the pickup in terms of better page design and greater immediate visual impact!)

The tally to date … thank you to all for your interest! It is always greatly appreciated. Nice to know someone at least is still looking ..

There was a time when I would try very conscientiously to look at the majority of fresh works posted by the bubblers I have chosen to follow (and others too) … but over time have been finding this has basically become too overwhelming. Virtually impossible and impractical to attempt given the high volumes of postings involved.

Have even cut back on my own level of posting to achieve a greater balance in life as something of a response too these circumstances too.

Have told myself I have to try much harder to be more discriminating about what I think should be shared. Even though this is always a subjective exercise and I’m sure hard to keep to!

So my advance apologies to any seeming failure on my part to respond henceforth to any really excellent work published by my great bub…

Always nice to ‘out of the blue’ happen upon an excellent portfolio of work on Redbubble from a ‘new’, or at least freshly discovered fellow photography enthusiast. My most recent was today and here" (only quibble is that his images are displayed in framed form which in effect diminishes their impact, unless you click on each to enlarge them). The work of Laurent Hunziker.