I am Starting my Own POD Business For FREE and Documenting Everything! Finding Niches is so Easy?
Hi everyone and welcome back to another post about my brand new POD Business I just started. I this post I will be talking about how my store looks, some customization issues I had when creating my store on Redbubble and, the most important thing, how to find good niches that sell?
If you haven’t seen my other post about this new series I started, then check it out right here.
In the last post I talked about where I am going to be creating and uploading my designs, and much more!
I am sorry because this post was uploaded after so much time.
I was in some kind of a mini vacation and haven’t been spending enough time to either Medium or POD.
For that I am ashamed, but I can not change the past, only the future and I am not going to find a single excuse for my laziness.
Let’s get right into what this post is about!
How Does My Store Look Like?
My store is as simple as possible right now, but I will be improving further down the line.
Here is a little photo.
I know it’s very simple but this is what I did so far.
As you can see in the picture my name is Alex Daniel, meaning that I am named Daniel too :)
Redbubble doesn’t allow you to use any letter outside the english ones.
I don’t have a cover photo yet, but I will be talking about why in the next section.
Creating your own store and designing it is pretty easy and straight forward, it should take around 10 to 20 minutes to set up everything and in regards to your profile picture and cover photo, as much as you’ll like!
What Problems Have I Encountered So Far?
Well, my first and biggest problem was that I couldn’t and still can’t at the moment of writing this post, upload a cover photo.
I searched it on Google and it says to complete the other information your account needs to be complete, but I’ve already done that and nothing changed.
I will keep searching for a solution which I hope to find as quick as possible, because the image of your store matters a lot on Redbubble.
And the cover photo is about 80% of what a person will see when they first visit your store.
Another problem aside this one that was inside Redbubble, I had a hard time finding a good niche and I learned that you can’t sell literally any design.
If a design is trademarked then you can’t use it to create your own designs.
I was lucky to learn this very quickly.
I a future post I think I will be making a step-by-step tutorial on how to check If your niche/sub-niche is trademarked.
Next I will be talking about finding good niches.
How To Find Good POD Niches To Sell In?
After you have a niche you think is good, the only thing that remains is to create catchy designs.
This is not hard, If your niche is a good one, you’ll only need some good lookin’ text and that’s all!
I haven’t searched for a lot of niches, but I have found two little trends or sub-niches that caught my attention.
For the matter of competition I will be reviewing them in some future posts.
But let’s talk about how to actually find good niches and for free also!
If you search for “how to find good POD niches” on YouTube you’ll get a lot of videos, but not every single one is great.
At this moment I have two main ways of finding good niches with low competition for Redbubble.
The first one is based of Amazon.
I got this method from Philip Andres on YouTube, you can check him and the video here.
I will also explain how to do it so let’s begin.
You need to have some Chrome extensions and patience.
You’ll need Merch by Amazon Trademark Protection, AMZ Suggestion Expander and DS Amazon Quick View and a word generator.
I know you need some stuff, but this way of finding niches is pretty fun to do.
Now, you start by searching on Google for a random word generator, I am using Random Word Generator, literally the first site that pop up.
Then you choose a word you think has potential and search on Amazon with the word t-shirt or shirt or sticker or whatever you want to design.
Now, before searching you can enter a zip code to change your location in order to see how the product you search for sells in a particular country.
This is very helpful because you can target a specific country.
And the good thing about Redbubble it’s that it have a lot of visitors from countries like the US.
I will of course be using a US zip code.
If you don’t live in US and want a zip code you can simply search for one online!
As you can see AMZ Suggestion Expander shows 3 more suggestions.
Usually you get more though.
This word isn’t the best but it’s ok for an example.
Watch how many products exist.
In this case there are 1000 products already so the niche isn’t so good.
But let’s imagine there are 200 products.
You can see a ranking under each product.
If the number is low it means the product is selling.
You should search for products like that, in this example the gray one is arguably good.
But you should strive for as low as possible.
After you click on the product with the lowest ranking number, you should see the 4 boxes right above the product name.
Check the first box which says MI Trademark Check and click on a the highlighted words in the products name.
Then, If it says typeset you can ignore it and If it says text click on it.
There you can see If the words are trademarked.
If the badge is in a green circle it means it’s trademarked and you can’t use it, If is in a red circle is good to go.
I don’t know how accurate is this, but it’s pretty easy to do.
In a future post I will be showing you a better way to check this!
Now the last step, search on Redbubble to see If the niche is low or high competition.
If there are more than 200 products it’s to much competition.
And also check to see If the products that pop up are selling.
This was the first method!
The second one is easier and I think works better.
You’ll need to go to PodCs.
Then go to the left side and click on the second circle, with the Redbubble logo, and go to Redbubble Trends.
Once a window like this pop up, click on the right side of products on the little arrows twice to sort them from the lowest competition products to the highest.
Here all you have left to do is to go through the products and see which is selling and can do yourself.
But be careful for trademarked trends like nimona which you can see in the picture!
That was all!
Alex Gîndea
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