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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 market your tees for 25% off. That sounds great to any shopper.

Here are a few ways to get the word out about this promotion:

1. Announce the sale in a journal article and suggest a few best-selling (or new) designs to shoppers.

2. Use your blog, social networking hangout, or other webpage to promote your sale. You can use the graphics that we provide below, or create your own. If you create a graphic (or template) and want to share it with other RedBubble members, simply link to it in the comments area below.

3. Create a unique sales event about:

1. New work. “See my newest t-shirt designs and get 25% off. Tees start at around $20!”

1. Seasonal sale. “It’s winter, so stock up on long sleeve tees featuring my new designs.” “It’s summer in the US – perfect short sleeve weather…”

1. Limited Editions. Offer a design for the week of this sale only. Then put it in storage for 6 months. Limited Editions and sales promotions work well together.

1. Use email to spread the message. If you have a large contact list or are concerned about spam filters, services such as Campaign Monitor allow you to send emails for 1 cent per email. Plus, services like this one offer free email templates that do not require a knowledge of programming languages such as HTML.

One member remarked in the article about email marketing, “I have been doing this for years and I can vouch for the fact that it works.” Read more about how to promote your work using email.

If you send an email, remember to: only use a list of people that agreed to receive your emails; note the promotion deadline; check your links; and send only 1-2 emails about the promotion – one at the beginning of the promotion and one 24- or 36-hours before the promotion ends. More email tips are here.

Happy selling!

The RedBubble Team

p.s. If you have an interest in learning more sales techniques, check out the Sales Group and our free Selling tips and tricks.

Offer ends Thursday, 23:59 US Pacific Time.

Promotional Images for RedBubble, blogs, MySpace, etc.

Below are three middle page units (MPU, 300×250 pixels) that you can use on your RedBubble Profile page, blog, MySpace page, etc.

On a Mac, hold down the Control key and click the mouse. Download the linked file. On a PC, right-click on the image and download the file.

1. Instructions for placing this image on your RedBubble profile page are here.

1. Instructions for placing this image on your blog, MySpace page, etc. are here.

Promotional Images for Facebook

Below are two images that can be used in Facebook ads or on your profile page. For more information about using Facebook to promote your work, click here.

On a Mac, hold down the Control key and click the mouse. Download the linked file. On a PC, right-click on the image and download the file.