Lifehack logo

Print on Demand: Do this ONE Simple Thing to Increase your Redbubble Passive Income Profits in 2023!

Simple but effective

By Michiel SchuerPublished 3 years ago 3 min read

By default, Redbubble sets a 20% profit margin on all your products. However, this means that for some products, you’ll barely earn a just a few cents... come on.

For example, a greeting card. If you sell one, at 20% profit you get what… 30 cents? 40 cents? I don’t recall exactly but I know it’s not worth it.

While we’re talking about Greeting Cards; here I have set my profit margin to 160.99%:

Why? Because if you buy a greeting card in a store, it will cost you also a couple bucks, right? So, let’s be realistic and set realistic profit margins.

Pricing psychology

You’ll notice that all my prices end at .95 or .98 or .99 — Why?

One word: Psychology.

Even though everyone knows $4.99 is basically $5, yet people will be attracted more to the $4.99. Don’t ask yourself why, don’t question the science, just do it :)

image created by me in canva

Do research and compare

When it came to pricing these products, I went to various webshops across the internet and compared the prices of the products there.

For example — what’s a poster priced on a poster webshop? This is an example of what I found:

In comparison, the SMALL sized posters from Redbubble are 41.8 x 58.5 in dimensions. The original price of the screenshot above is around 22 euros (without the discount) — so my Redbubble price should be around 20 euros as well. I priced my posters at €17.99 — a markup of 76.4%.

Perhaps I could go even higher, but this price is going quite well for me.

Important: If people really like your design, they’ll buy it, regardless of the higher price!

Look at the stickers I sold today with a profit margin of 121%:

Focus on your most important products

What are your designs optimized for? T-shirts? Posters? Stickers?

Make sure you do research on those! Mine are:

  • Clothing (T-shirts, Sweatshirts and Hoodies)
  • Stickers
  • Wall Art (Posters)

Focus on pricing your most important products first, do a bit more research. Finding the perfect price for your T-shirts has a higher priority than wasting time trying to find the perfect price for your pet bandana.

Focus on the LOWEST price

The lowest price is the one that the customer will see.

So, make sure that one looks alright.

My pricing settings

Below you can find the most important profit margins I’ve configured. As you might notice, my store currency is Euro, so the margins will vary if your store is in dollars.

A few more things...

1) Upload often

First of all, I have noticed something funny about Redbubble and getting Redbubble sales: Every time I am inactive for a few days or weeks (meaning, not uploading anything) - I don't or barely get any sales.

But when I then upload something again, the next day I magically get a sale :) It's as if they reward their creators for uploading content regularly, they boost it somehow.

The same thing goes for Teepublic.

2) Review your pricing now and then

You have to review these prices once in a while, because Redbubble changes product costs regularly.

Just make sure that you do the pricing right according to the pricing psychology I've written above (like pricing your items at 9.99).

Good luck with your Redbubble Sales!

I write about Print on Demand & Making money online all the time. If you'd like to get your financial journey started, make sure to check out the other articles on my account and/or follow me to read more!

-

If you find this piece interesting, please consider leaving a ❤️, or subscribing to see more of my stories! Your support means a lot to me!

IllustrationInspirationProcessTechniqueshow tolisttech

About the Creator

Michiel Schuer

Enthusiastic about learning new things, side-hustles, and translating my personal experiences into motivational stories.

Reader insights

Be the first to share your insights about this piece.

How does it work?

Add your insights

Comments

There are no comments for this story

Be the first to respond and start the conversation.

Sign in to comment

    Find us on social media

    Miscellaneous links

    • Explore
    • Contact
    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms of Use
    • Support

    © 2026 Creatd, Inc. All Rights Reserved.