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Double Your Earnings: Promo Ideas

Posted 6 days ago

This morning we’ll be launching a double your earnings promo, giving you the chance to earn twice your mark up for the next three days. For those who’d like to take the opportunity to get stuck into some promotion, we’ve come up with some suggestions to help get your brains into gear:

*Hold your own promo…

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Getting ready for the festive season

Posted 18 days ago

Next week marks the beginning of November and in online land, this means people are already starting to think about what they’ll be placing under the tree. We can expect an official announcement on the shipping deadlines in a few weeks, but in the past, the cut off has been around the second week of December to allow the RedBubble elves enough time to ensure your products are sent off in time f…

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10 promo ideas for beginners

Posted about 1 month ago

If you’re not used to promoting your own work, writing articles or showing off your talents, there are some simple things you can do to test the waters and build confidence. Self promotion needn’t always be about saying ‘here, look at my art’. Your expertise, experiences and knowledge are just as good advertisements for you as an artist:

  1. Write a journal about an art event, gallery opening …

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Merchandise to Increase Your Art and T-shirt Sales

Posted 2 months ago

A merchandiser’s goal is to make shopping easier – often resulting in more sales. If you’ve bought an item from a store mannequin display or purchased an item that was featured on an aisle end (an “end cap”), you’ve experienced a merchandiser’s work. The same goes for those of you that have added a suggested item to your online shopping cart.

*Here are a few ways to merchandise the art a…

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A Reason to Shout! 15% Off Framed and Canvas Prints. 7 Days Only.

Posted 2 months ago

Shout

This promotion is a great opportunity to market your art. It’s also a good opportunity to do a bit of ordering for the holidays – which will be here before we know it.

Make It Better

15% off framed and canvas prints is a pretty good savings, but you have the power to make it an even bette…

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is Not Scary.

Posted 2 months ago

Firstly, what is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?

When you edit (fine tune) your web pages to accurately describe the content on the page, you’re optimizing for search. Search engines will scan your website, index the content, and use it to deliver [what they feel] are the best results to the searcher – hopefully your web pages!

Why is this important?

The better you rank in Google…

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The Soft Sell - Creating Sales Through Non-Salesy Actions

Posted 3 months ago

You can reach a lot of people using the Internet, but creating personal and lasting relationships is a more difficult task. It requires an openness and reciprocity that doesn’t come easily to most people. Not that we artists don’t have the ability, but exposing ourselves emotionally outside of our art takes practice and a thick skin.

There’s also a tension between wanting to sell our art an…

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Let's Sell! 15% Off T-shirts. Plus, Free Shipping on 5+ Tees.

Posted 3 months ago

This promotion is a great opportunity to market your designs.

All t-shirts on RedBubble are 15% off, and any order with 5 or more shirts ships free. That’s a good deal, but you can make it even better for shoppers.

Here’s an example of the discount you can boast when you lower your margins temporarily for this promotion. For example, by lowering a mark-up from 30% to 15%, you can marke…

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Make Your Art and T-shirt Pages Buyer Friendly

Posted 4 months ago

The Optimize Your Profile Page for Sales article proved that customization is a popular topic. Today, let’s apply customization and optimization hints to the “show work” (your art and t-shirt) pages.

First, let’s look at what a show work page should do. show work page example...

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Optimize Your Profile Page for Sales

Posted 4 months ago

Your Profile page and Bubblesite are your consumer-facing galleries (some would say shops or storefronts). Here are some simple ways to make them both visually appealing and sales focused.

A brand called you
Your Profile page should contain an image of you. Many artists dislike this idea, but a happy, smiling image of you helps buyers connect. A photograph, painting, etching, drawing, e…

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