Do you love photography or creating artwork? Have you considered selling and exhibiting your work in an art gallery? What about an online art gallery?
Red Bubble is an online art marketplace and creative community. You can sell prints, greeting cards, posters, T-shirts and other products based on your own photography, artwork or design. With $0 outlay. All you need to do is sign-up for a Red Bubble account (free), upload your work, choose the products that you wish to sell, and start selling.
Red Bubble simply gives you a base price and you just add your mark-up price. Whatever it is you add, you keep. Yes, it pretty much works like CafePress. Except maybe a bit more high end. Lots of good quality stuff.
How do artists/sellers get paid? From the site:
RedBubble will transfer your earnings on or before the 7th day of each month for your previous month’s sales by either direct bank / PayPal transfer or by posting a cheque – depending on which payment option you choose. Bank / PayPal transfer will be paid out when you have accrued at least 20 USD (or equvalent in GBP/ Euro/ AUD) and cheques will be sent to you once you have earned at least 100 USD (or equivalent in GBP/ Euro/ AUD) – currency depends on your settings. Your earnings will continue to roll over each month until they reach these minimum values.
If you would like to be paid straight away, for a 5 USD fee we will send you a cheque or make a direct bank transfer on demand.
A much better deal, compared with CafePress, if you ask me. I especially like the low pay threshold that can be paid via Paypal. Now, that’s cool.
The site also has a great interface, a vibrant community, and feedback I’ve read so far seems pretty great. Check out their Sell page or their FAQ section. Will definitely explore more.
Share your feedback here if you’ve got experience buying or selling on Red Bubble.
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I’ve got some of my photos at RedBubble, it’s a fun place and a good alternative to Imagekind, where I also have some stuff.
There are sure lot’s of Print on Demand places to choose from, something to fit just for just about every artist or photographer.
I saw one of the RedBubble guys, Mark Mansour, talking at Web Directions last year. I wasn’t particularly interested in the content of the site, but the insight he provided on how the site was built and monetized was quite interesting.
Dear Re Bubble,
I am interested in my art work and posted some art work by mail to san francisco red bubble and dont know if you have recieved my art work. I like to draw pencil sketching and am interested in selling my art. It would be good to start earning from art work. Please inform me via email
because it has been a week since I posted the picture drawings.
I really like to make some money with my art I have been an artist all my life but never really considered selling my art. I like to get into the art field but with a full time job I just don’t have the time if I could find a sponsor to fund me money I could work on my art and start selling, because at this point my work is considered professional, I just need the means to become great.
y art work can be viewed at the website http://www.greeting2u.bravehost.com.
Hi I would like people hand me lots of cash for terrifics picture I make. I make painting and sell is great for me to make money with arts. I wait for some one to give me money so I don’t work anymore–just sell pictures. I can’t with full time job. I am professional. Look at my work below.
http://www.delusionalwannabe.com
yes, right, just hope to live from that. I don’t know how these people sell, but it seems no one is buying anything from this crap sites. wankers. maybe they take your art, morons and print it on t-shirts then sell those to you back in malls ! it looks to me that this “schemes” like redbubble is made by “smarties” to gather cool artwork FOR FREE, from people who hope to sell online. They sell lies and you give them money in the form of your artwork. They just cut the design costs and classically sell your art to make millions. So, is cheap for redbubble to employ 10 baboons to maintain a site, pay them cheap and have tons of artwork basically for free. Those models otherwise could cost them billions. And so, that’s why no one is selling nothing on this crap sites. They are made to milk you and sell you back what you designed as cheap as possible. It looks like crap.
Im only moderately familiar with RedBubble, but I was a cafepress shopkeeper and affilaite for a while, anything that is not cafepress is a good idea! I was considering zazzle as the leading frontrunner for the replacement, but looks like redbubble is worth a peak to
not familiar with the internet at all in fact tattoo art was the biggest form of commercialized artwork i have done yet,and through the love of a beautiful lady and what seemed graced life ,mortality hit my life in a bad to worse to bad, way and made my being here insignificantly small and tragic actually,during which time my art died,and dreaming of ways to let my art do good in this life for more people than my tattoo gun could have ever gotten to gave me some interesting to beautiful ideas, that i hope all of you will think so to….though these are a few years old now also….future isn’t certain.
I have become disillusioned by RedBubble selling “pro-Hitler merchandise”.
Now redbubble’s own lawyers have quit over the issue
http://firmspy.com/law-disorder/5613/exclusive-oh-heil-arnold-bloch-leibler-represents-company-spruiking-neo-nazi-propaganda