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Hello my name is Katy Fryd and I'm an artist and I'm making these videos to help out other
artists who are just starting out or artists that have been going for a while but they
just maybe you know they haven't thought of some things so some of these videos might
be helpful to you just some extra things for you to think about or to do todays video is
about redbubble when I did my video on buying cards of your work but I was talking about
going to a printers and having buying a large amount some people messaged me and said You
know but I can't afford a huge lot of money all at once and then I've got a load of cards
and I don't want to have them in my house I don't want to be storing them there is the
one option that I did which is to crowdfund so I sold the cards before I actually bought
them I raised money on sponsume.com the crowdfunding site and so I presold the cards so that was
that is one way of doing it but another way of doing it if you don't want to have your
cards printed yourself and have to deal with selling them and also the beauty of redbubble
is if you are really busy you just need to set it up and then it is there and you just
have to drive traffic there so you get less on a card so the cards maybe slightly more
expensive or you have to pay postage as well actually the prices aren't too bad but you
have to pay postage as well to get them so if you buy a lot if somebody wants to buy
five or six of your cards then they only have to pay one lot of postage so that can work
out quite well if you have a few different designs you can have so but the only thing
is you as an artist get less money per card but that is fair enough after all you are
not printing it packaging it up sending it off to people you haven't got all those costs
so you are just uploading the photograph and doing the settings and the details and then
it is there for life so time wise if you want to be a really if you want to create a lot
of free time to do more creating and you don't want to be going down the post office all
the time posting things to people I think Redbubble is a good way to do it. So I've
got some of my cards here I did have some paintings but I've removed them recently because
I didn't my picture weren't a good enough quality so I'm going to reupload with better
quality and some different pictures as well so all I've got there at the moment if you
check out my I'll put a link below the video if you check out my redbubble account it's
got some of my photographs that I've taken so do if you like photography as well as I
have taken some pictures that can be bought as cards and things so here's one of them
this is trafalgar mill in burnley in lancashire beautiful stonework on this this is a magnolia
and this one is thorny bank mill also in burnley in lancashire I just really like these old
mills I am fascinated by them and also the derelict buildings up in burnley as well so
what is really nice is they are really good quality cards from redbubble so you know your
customer is getting a really good quality card that they are not going to be disappointed
they also print out on the back they do actually say Redbubble but that is fine that can be
good because that can mean people who receive the cards go back to the website and search
for you if they like your card they might buy some themselves so that is quite good
yeah it's also got it's actually got the account where the redbubble account as well so they
can find your account um and you put in a title and a name and that gets printed on
the back as well so that looks really smart really professional really good quality card
you get a nice envelope with it and they actually put that all in cellophane I think I'm not
sure if that is something you request or if that is automatic I think you might have to
request it in cellophane but it comes ready packaged so if you really don't want to be
sitting there putting your cards in envelopes to sell them and you just want it like that
looking good that is a really good way to do it so that is my recommendation I really
like redbubble I think it is a good site but you need to drive the traffic same as all
the other stores like etsy, redbubble, cafe press, you need to drive the traffic there
although I think with redbubble they probably do have some people who go on there looking
for certain things because they know there is cool stuff from artists and designers on
there but you really do need to sort of let people know that you've got that account I'm
not sure of people watching this video who know me already know that I had a redbubble
account so I don't go on about it enough so I do say do go on about it more hopefully
now you've watched this video you know I've got one so you can go and visit it. It says
it's katyfryd.redbubble.com I've never tried that I might try it straight from that address,
so yeah if you liked this video if you think it is helpful or you go and set up a redbubble
account then come back and tell me that it was helpful um and it's a really good service
and yeah put your comments below the video, like subscribe for more videos that will hopefully
help you and yeah so I really hope that you go and set up your redbubble account oh and
do post if you do set up a redbubble account or if you've got one already please do post
it below so I can check it out, I do like to see the people that are following me I
love to see what they've done because I've recommended it so please do that I know that
there were people who said that they couldn't buy job lots of cards so I'd like to see if
those people would set up on redbubble because they may find this is a good way for them
to get a little bit of money from each card but no hassle and they can put all their pictures
up there. so yeah please do let me know okay thank you bye!