How You Can Begin Making Passive Income Through RedBubble Today
A side-hustle worth trying
Growing up as a semi-artistic individual was exciting until it was drilled into my mind that the concept of being an artist as a full-time career was not feasible in adulthood. — Fast forward to being 23 years old, graduated after studying Political Science and Marketing for 4 years, and still without work. This is all true and so is the fact that the other students I studied with are now making decent money and remaining employed in the midst of a pandemic, all while being Digital Creators of some sort.
I wish I knew then that in 2020 we would be living in a world where Art and Design are profitable, and my debating skills are a lot less prominent. It only took me a lay-off and a lot of free time to engage in some creative searching to find just how can I make a little bit of money without finding myself wrapped in a pyramid scheme.
RedBubble is a completely free website to sell your designs on products with absolutely no overhead costs. If I had known this when I was 16, I probably would have been able to spend a little less time babysitting and a little more time getting creative in my work.
RedBubble is known primarily for purchasing stickers. Every college girl and potentially every high school girl can tell you this. These stickers are trendy for sticking on laptop cases, hydro flask water bottles, and much more. Creating a design for one of these stickers is not only fun, but entirely profitable. The process to do so is simple and easy. To begin, you simply need to make an account, start creating artwork and uploading it to the site, from there you decide where you want to put the design on a product and start building your shop. When someone buys, you make a margin of the profit, this margin can simply be altered in your settings, so if you want to markup the prices to gain a greater profit, that is your choice. (Do be careful because you still want your designs to sell)
This is a resource that all Artist should take advantage of. If you are still not convinced it is worth your time, get this — RedBubble will promote your work for you at no cost. If a person searching on RedBubble comes across your design and clicks on it and then leaves the page, RedBubble pays for Ads to show up in that persons next web browser to direct them back to that product. Your designs will be getting more exposure at no additional cost to you.
I began making designs on my iPad, a helpful but not essential tool in this process. Designing is fun and simple, sometimes it takes me less than a minute to create a design and I have already sold some. I bet you have a nice photograph that you took on your phone right now. Maybe it is of nature, maybe it is of a dog or a cat, heck maybe it is an iguana. I am here to tell you that somebody out there is interested in buying that! There are also many resources online, like this article you are reading now that will explain the process and even how to understand RedBubble’s algorithm to get better exposure for your shop and your designs.
Take my word for it, and start your own account today.
