How To Sell On Teepublic: The Definitive Guide [With 8 Top Selling Tips]

by Michael Essek   ·   Updated: January 5, 2023

Welcome to How To Sell On Teepublic – my comprehensive guide to selling your art on Teepublic.

Whether you’re just getting started with Teepublic – or if you’re a succesful Teepublic designer already – this guide has something useful for you.

I’ll explain how Teepublic works, why it’s a great place to sell your artwork, and give you 8 practical Teepublic selling tips that will help grow your sales.

So let’s dive in!

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What Is Teepublic?

Teepublic

Teepublic is a Print on Demand site, selling a variety of products – from T-Shirts and other apparel items through to stickers and mugs.

Teepublic products

Teepublic is powered by thousands of independent designers who sell on Teepublic, and every sale generates a royalty for a designer somewhere in the world.

teepublic earnings

…and that someone could be you!

If you don’t have a Teepublic account already – what are you waiting for?

It’s completely free, and uploading is as easy as can be. You can sign by clicking the button below: (affiliate link)

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Is Teepublic Good For Artists?

Yes! Teepublic is one of the largest and fastest growing Print on Demand platforms, and there are plenty of reasons why it’s a great place to license your designs.

Here’s some stats on Teepublic’s audience size:

Monthly Traffic*Organic Monthly Traffic*Percentage Organic TrafficOrganic Traffic RankSocial Media Following
6.49M3.6M55%2188,771

*Note: For a full explanation of the above numbers and where the data came from – check out my detailed guide to The Best Print on Demand Sites. (and scroll to the bottom for notes on the data).

Here’s a quick run through of some of the things that make Teepublic an attractive site for independent artists and designers: (most of these are explained in more detail in my Print on Demand Sites Guide)

Teepublic’s Solid Growth

Teepublic has been growing strongly over the past several years, increasing it’s brand recognition and it’s organic traffic reach. (As you can see in this Google Trends graph, showing Google searches for ‘Teepublic’:)

Teepublic Trends

Rapid SEO indexing

Teepublic is the second best POD site when it comes to gathering organic traffic (ie. visitors coming from Google). This chart shows how Teepublic’s Organic traffic has grown over the past 12 months:

Teepublic Traffic

Their strong organic reach is because of their effective Search Engine Optimisation. This means your designs have a good chance of ranking on Google via Teepublic, and often very quickly.

A new design I recently published took just one day to appear on the front page of Google – within the top 5 results.

This is a difficult feat to achieve via almost any other platform – and it’s why I would recommend Teepublic as one the ideal platforms for hot, trending and viral based designs – or for micro-niches with low competition.

Easy Upload Process

Teepublic has a super fast and easy upload process, which means you can get more designs added in less time – making it super easy to sell on Teepublic.

Less Copycat Problems

Teepublic copycats

Teepublic has fixed royalty rates, meaning there is less of an incentive for copycats to steal your designs (because they cannot undercut you on price).

However, Copycats are still a significant problem on Teepublic, and Teepublic does need to do more to resolve this (along with almost every other Print on Demand site).

Fast International Shipping & Production

Teepublic has worldwide shipping, and dedicated websites for several different countries around the world. Teepublic makes a point of highlighting their shipping from Europe – which means customers get their products faster.

Teepublic made in europe

Bulk Uploader Tool

Unlike many Print on Demand Sites, Teepublic offers the ability to upload multiple designs at once. It isn’t quite as convenient as uploading via a CSV, but it’s still a nice feature and can make the always painful uploading process a little bit quicker.

teepublic bulk uploader

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How Much Do You Make on Teepublic?

Artists receive $4 per T-Shirt sale on average, reduced to $2 per Shirt during sales times.

Teepublic Earnings

You can see the Teepublic profit margin breakdowns for every product right here: Teepublic Earnings Chart.

Teepublic’s royalties may not seem overly generous, but because of Teepublic’s effective marketing campaigns, regular sales and high conversion rates – you can actually end up earning much more than on other Print on Demand sites.

My personal Teepublic income has grown from zero to over a thousand dollars a month on average. While it took over 3 years to hit that mark, my Teepublic income is holding steady, even whilst other print on demand sites are starting to stall.


How Do Teepublic Artists Get Paid?

Your Teepublic income earnings will be paid monthly, either to a paypal or payoneer account.

How Teepublic Artists Get Paid

Teepublic also lets you know every time you make a sale, by sending out an email with the sale information. You can see exactly what was sold, and how much you earned.

For a more detailed look at your sales, you can download a CSV of your earnings anytime from inside your Teepublic account:

Teepublic Royalties Report

How Does Teepublic Compare With Other POD Sites? (Teepublic vs. Redbubble vs. Teespring etc.)

Teepublic is a strong contender when facing up against other POD sites.

Teepublic is second only to Redbubble in terms of organic traffic, beating other big names like TeeSpring, Zazzle and Spreadshirt.

Teepublic vs. Redbubble vs. Teespring vs. Zazzle

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Is Teepublic Legit?

I’ve been selling my designs on Teepublic for over 6 years, and in that time I’ve never had a missed payment or any other significant issues.

So in short – yes, Teepublic is legit and safe to sell on (in my experience).

Teepublic also maintains a high Trustpilot score, which implies they are keeping customers happy.

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Things You May Not Know About Teepublic

Redbubble owns Teepublic

Teepublic was acquired by Redbubble in 2019 for $41m (source), but so far Redbubble and Teepublic have continued to operate as separate businesses.

Teepublic has an official ‘Fan Art Program‘ (much like Redbubble’s) – allowing you to create and submit designs for various brands and IP from Jurassic World to Fall Out Boy. If accepted, you’ll be able to sell your officially licensed work via Teepublic.

You can see all of Teepublic’s Current Brand Partnerships here.


Teepublic Selling Tips: How To Make Sales On Teepublic

Teepublic Selling Tips

So now you know how Teepublic works and why selling on Teepublic makes sense – how do you actually make sales and grow a sustainable income?

First off, understand that growing a decent income from any POD site takes time – there are no shortcuts. You must have a lot of designs uploaded to your account, and those designs need to be a good fit for your intended customers.

Note: As both Teepublic and Redbubble dominate the organic-search driven Print on Demand space, tips for selling on one are almost always going to apply to the other also. So for that reason, be sure to check out my Redbubble Selling Tips, because a lot of those tips also apply to Teepublic.

That said, there are some specific things about Teepublic that are handy to know – and some tips and tricks that will improve and increase your chances of being seen and making sales.

Let’s dive into them…


1. Pay Attention To The ‘Main Tag’

When you upload artwork to Teepublic, you’ll see various fields for describing your design.

As you can see highlighted below – one of those options is your ‘MAIN TAG‘.

Teepublic Main Tag

Teepublic describes this as the one tag a user would search for to find your design.

After the Title of your design, the ‘Main Tag’ is the most important thing to focus on if you want your designs to be seen.

This is because Teepublic uses this tag in several ways – and places it in locations on their website that contribute significantly to where your design will end up being shown to potential customers – not just on Teepublic, but also on Google.

For example, here’s a current top-selling design on Teepublic – which, as you can see – uses the Main Tag of ‘Stay Home‘: (note how it is followed by ‘T-Shirt’)

Teepublic Selling Tips

That Main Tag is also used in the Page Title and the Meta Description of that design’s page: (both these elements are significant ranking factors for Google)

Teepublic SEO

…it also shows up as a H2 tag within the page itself (It’s assumed Google pays attention to heading tags like this when ranking web pages):

Teepublic SEO Tips

All these factors contribute to where and when your design will be shown to customers searching such terms.

Eg. If you put ‘Funny Dog‘ as your main tag, you are telling Teepublic and Google that this design should be shown to people searching for ‘Funny Dog T-Shirt‘.

So to make the most of your main tag, follow these tips:

  • Append your Main Tag with ‘T-Shirt’ in your head when deciding what to write in there. Does your Main Tag make sense when followed by the word ‘T-Shirt’? (Because this is what Teepublic is going to add). If so, go ahead. If not, re-think it.
  • Your Title should contain the most relevant description of your design, including important key words and terms that you think potential buyers will search for. You can think of the Main Tag as a condensed version of the title – such as in the example above – where ‘Quarantine Social Distancing Stay At Home Festival 2020 T-Shirt‘ has been condensed to just ‘[Stay Home] T-Shirt‘.
  • Your Title should be specific, and can be long where necessary (such as the example above) – but your Main Tag should be short and to the point. Imagine a potential buyer isn’t looking for your specific design (if they were, they would have typed in something similar to your Title) – but is rather looking to find designs like yours – designs on the same theme, topic, subject or niche. What does that potential buyer search for? Answer: ‘(blank) T-Shirt‘. Whatever (blank) is, should be your Main Tag.

2. Get Specific In Your Tags & Descriptions

As we’ve already seen, Teepublic is a master at gathering organic traffic – largely because it serves the ‘long tail’ of searches.

Here’s what Teepublic’s Director of Marketing Adam Lasky had to say about this:

Adam Lasky Teepublic

The real power behind our SEO isn’t so much the big terms like Harry Potter or Star Wars, but more the long tail,” says Lasky. “Because we are so specific and we have such breadth of content, we get people coming to the site for super specific things like ‘rainbow unicorn blue t-shirt’ because we’re one of the only platforms that have the content to support those [niche] searches, and we have a pretty high visibility in Google, because we have the breadth of content—we have literally tens of millions of SKUs.

(emphasis mine. Source: Teepublic Follows Trends and Marketing Metrics – Chief Marketer)

So what does this mean for you?

It means you shouldn’t be afraid to get specific in your tags and descriptions. As long as it is relevant and describes your design – try to cover as much ground as you can.

For example, you could:

  • Describe the style of your design (vintage, cartoon, retro, 90s?)
  • Mention every element featured in the design itself. Are there stars? rainbows? clouds? trees? Give as comprehensive a description of the design as you can – hitting all the potential elements someone might include in a Google search.
  • Include demographics where appropriate. Is this design best for kids? boys or girls? Age? Location? These are all potential categories of keywords you could include in both your descriptions and tags.
  • Mention colours if they are significant or relevant. These could be colours used in the design or the colour of the shirt that the design works best on (like the example Adam gives above – ‘Rainbow Unicorn BLUE T-Shirt’)
  • However: don’t go overboard. Keep it relevant, and don’t keyword spam. But wherever there are relevant descriptive words, include them. You never know who is searching for what.

3. Your Teepublic Secret Weapon: Google Analytics

Unlike Redbubble and some other POD sites, Teepublic doesn’t have a handy stats dashboard to help you track your sales.

Sure, Teepublic sends you an email every time you make a sale – but it’s hard to get a birds-eye view of your account just from that info. 

So what if you want to see which of your Teepublic designs are getting the most views? Or where the traffic is coming from? Or whether you’re getting more or less eyeballs than last month?  

The answer is: Google Analytics.  

Teepublic Google Anayltics

Teepublic allows you to hook up a Google Analytics account to your Teepublic account – and once hooked up, you can track a wealth of information, such as…

  • How many people viewed your designs
  • Which of your designs receives the most views
  • Where your visitors came from (Google…Paid Search…Social Media…)

…and more besides!

How to get found on Teepublic

Perhaps the best thing about this data is this: no-one else has it. 

(Ok sure, Teepublic also has it, but apart from that, it’s real-world data that only you know about)

So if you have a design that suddenly gets a ton of views – you can spot that within Google Analytics… and no one else needs to know. 

You can see it ahead of the competition, create more and better designs for that market, and maximise your sales. 

Here’s couple of other use cases:

  • If you see that you’re getting a lot of views to a particular design, but no sales – you can deduce that your design is not hitting the mark for some reason – and improve it. 
  • If you see that views to a particular design suddenly start to fall – you can go and investigate, and see if a copycat or infringer is drinking your milkshake. 
  • From a month to month basis, you can see if your views across Teepublic are growing or not. If you’re regularly adding new designs, but aren’t seeing growth, it tells you something is wrong with your strategy – either with your target market or your keywords.
  • You can investigate the traffic sources for your bestselling designs, so you can better understand why and how you are getting sales. If it’s from Google – you can take steps to sure up or improve your rankings on Google. If it’s from a referral site, you can investigate why this site is linking to you (and perhaps reach out to them to suggest more designs they might want to link to).

…that’s just a taste of how you can make sure of this data – but the bottom line is this: this data is available, it’s free, and it’s yours alone – so use it!

Oh and the sooner you get your Google Analytics account hooked up, the sooner you’ll have some data to track – so go do it asap.

All you need is a Google Analytics account (free). For step by step instructions, checkout this article on Teepublic.

Teepublic Google Analytics

Note: Redbubble also offers Google Analytics integration, and you may also find it offered on other Print on Demand sites too – so it’s well worth checking and hooking it up wherever available. 


4. Repeat Your Keywords In Your Title, Description & Tags

This tip is simple enough, but I like to make sure I have my key terms in the title, repeated in the description, and in the tags as well.

(‘Key terms’ – or keywords – just means the words or phrases that are most relevant to my design, and most likely to be searched for. )

Notice how ‘Stay Home‘ is included here in the Title, Main Tag, Description and in the Designers Applied Tags:

Teepublic SEO

Many designers will include their key terms in the title, but will forget to include it in both the description and as a tag.

You want to give Teepublic as much information about your design as possible – and by repeating your keywords several times in different places you are just hammering home your message: THIS DESIGN IS ABOUT (X) SUBJECT. SHOW IT TO PEOPLE SEARCHING FOR THINGS LIKE (X), (X) and (X).


5. Get More Relevant Keywords From ‘Customers Also Search’

Once you’ve uploaded a design, Teepublic will include some relevant terms beneath your own tags, in the ‘Customers Also Search‘ area:

Teepublic Tags and Keywords

So after you’ve uploaded a new design, go and check this area for any relevant terms you might have missed. You can then add those in to your own tags, or work them into your descriptions or Title if they are especially strong.


6. Don’t Rush The Product Setup

Teepublic strips any padding from your original artwork file, so be sure that the position of your artwork on each product looks as it should. I often have to fine-tune mugs and notebooks to ensure the design looks right.

For example, the highlighted products below obviously need attention:

Teepublic Artwork Fit

Also be sure to select the best possible primary background colour for your Shirt – because this is how your artwork will be shown in the search results, and how it will appear in Google Images.

Consider choosing a primary background colour that will ‘stand out’ against the competition, where possible. A lot of designers will default to black or navy – so if you can create a design that works well on a bolder or lighter colour, you could draw a customers eye that way.


7. Target Less Popular Products & Categories (not just T-Shirts)

This is a tip I shared in my Redbubble Guide too, but it bears repeating here.

Teepublic sells a lot more than T-Shirts – and the best-selling designs for T-Shirts are often different from the bestselling designs on Mugs or Stickers.

By focusing on a product category other than T-Shirts, you may find lower competition opportunities.

Teepublic Kids Trends

By taking a good look at the bestsellers in any given product (eg. as above in the ‘Kids T-Shirts’ Category) – you can get a better picture of what kinds of designs are working best for each product.


8. Design For Teepublic’s Market

If you want to make regular sales on Teepublic – then you need to create designs that are a good match for Teepublic’s customers.

To get an understanding of Teepublic’s customers, you can look at the following sources:

  • Current Bestsellers (sorted by popular). At teepublic.com/t-shirts you will see the current most popular designs on Teepublic. This is a good page to browse to familiarise yourself with what kind of designs are currently working well on Teepublic.
  • The Teepublic Front Page. The Teepublic homepage changes regularly, highlighting new designs, products and trends that Teepublic wants to promote. You can also scroll down to the ‘Editors Picks‘ to see designs that Teepublic wants to highlight. All this is valuable information communicating the styles, trends and type of work that Teepublic thinks will be popular with it’s audience.
  • Teepublic’s Social Media. Taking a regular look at Teepublic’s social accounts is another way of getting a picture of the kind of stuff Teepublic is into. Here are the links:
  • Top Tags. Back at teepublic.com/t-shirts, you’ll find a ‘Top Tags’ section in the left hand column, right at the bottom. This is another good place to look for trends and popular topics:
Teepublic Top Tags

Update: Teepublic has begun hiding designs by default from it’s marketplace. This seems to affect new users in particular. For more on this issue, see my article here: Why aren’t my designs showing up in the Teepublic marketplace?


So there you have it – my complete guide to selling on Teepublic.

If you’ve discovered a new tactic that you’re going to try right away, please let me know by leaving a comment below.

And if you don’t already have a Teepublic account, sign up now via the button below (affiliate link) to get started selling your art on one of the best and fastest growing POD sites:

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57 Comments

  1. Great guide Michael. TeePublic has really come on for me in the past 6 weeks. When the pandemic first hit they nosedived like the others for 2-3 weeks, but man they’ve come back raging. The last three weeks of April were great and I’m headed to my best month with them ever in May. I might make $400 on TP alone which would be awesome. And lastly I like TP’s upload interface the best of all the sites. So simple and easy.

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  2. This is some super useful info! But before I can put it to use, I have to have designs ready to upload first! So what’s the best way to find topics/niches to sell in? Should I just pick stuff I like, or is there a way to find topics that are more profitable? (Lower competition, decent search volume etc.)

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    • designing for topics, niches and markets you like and know something about is the best place to start – because you likely have insight that other’s won’t. In the ‘Teepublic Selling Tips’ you’ll find some ways to get an impression of what is currently popular.

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    • Once of my best secrets but Pinterest have now listed there top 100 trends for 2020. If you take a look you will find what’s trending in many different sectors. They list top home trends, fashion trends, teenage etc. Go for something you love or know something about, cars and gaming or gardening and cats or soccer and rugby. just start somewhere. You can also go on etsy and just type in top gardening t shirt or top baseball t shirt. good luck.

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  3. Hi Michael
    Thanks for this. Once I’ve got to grips with Redbubble I intend to branch out to this too.

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  4. Hi Mike, I must say I do love the information that you provide to readers like myself who are looking to getting into selling t-shirts online.However I have a huge stumbling block I some advice on. I have a concept in my head but I can’t draw a lick! Is it a good idea to try and hire a local artist to help me get this idea on paper or is there another way for someone like myself to go? Let me know what you think.

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    • Hi Larry. If your concept requires custom illustration then hiring an artist is indeed the way to go. You can search on sites like Behance, Dribbble or 99Designs to find designers online.

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  5. This is super useful informations thank you for sharing your amazing experience

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  6. Hi Michael, thanks for a very useful and informative post with some nuggets of gold, although I already do a lot of what you suggest having made £2000 to date this month on TP. One of my shirts has been hovering between the top 1st and 3rd place for the last 3 months (it’s in your screengrab!) It only takes one design to go viral and be inspired to create more, but it has taken 2 years to get here. The trick is to not listen to the naysayers and never give up.

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    • awesome stuff Lee, and thanks for your comment! very true, it just takes one to go viral and can lead to big paydays. Long may it continue for you!

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  7. Awesome stuff! Thank you for great tips!

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  8. Thanks Mike.
    Are TeePublic and Redbubble non-exclusive like Merch by Amazon and Teespring?

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  9. Hey Micheal,

    Love the guide. Out of curiosity, how many designs do you have on Teepublic?

    Thanks

    John

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    • hi John, I think it’s around 1200 right now. It’s been a while since I added any new designs. hope this helps!

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  10. Coool this is awesome Michael, I just tweak the tag little bit like you wrote on this article and then boom !!! not only 1 but 4 of my design become top of the categories, they send my design also as top categories on mail as well … this is so coool ,thanks a lot Michael

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    • that’s awesome Karnadi – thanks for sharing! glad these Teepublic tips have helped already 🙂

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  11. Thanks for the wonderful tips. Look forward to kickstart my TP.

    Abit out of teepublic topic. 2 questions, regarding trends research.
    1) which forum would u suggest to join.
    2) how would u use them to full advantage i.e drive traffic, trend ideas etc
    ( should i post / promote ?)

    So far Im in Quora, Reddit & Discord , getting some insight..
    Thanks in advance

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    • hi Stann. I would say that any forum where people gather related to your topic or subject of interest is where you want to be. You can also make sure you follow relevant people or keywords / hashtags on twitter or Instagram. Generally it’s tricky to promote in groups unless you are providing a lot of value for free – it’s hard to do without coming off as sleazy or trying to advertise. hope that helps!

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  12. Can i upload my Redbubble design to Teepublic?

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  13. Thanks for your valuable content, keep posting

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  14. Hi Michael, a very useful article, I’ve been selling on teepublic for a year now, I tried to find my work through a search, but I don’t see them, have you encountered this?

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    • Hi Iroslav – it can be difficult to find your work through a Teepublic search. If you are not making sales then you may want to reach out to Teepublic for help, also I would do a search in google for one of your designs page urls (eg. “site: https://teepublic.com/your-design-url“) – to see if it is indexed in google. Hope this helps.

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      • I have the same problem and contact them. This is their answer:

        “Hey,

        Thanks for reaching out, and before we review your request, please make sure that you have added a profile image, banner, bio, social media links, and at least 10 designs in your storefront. Any account that does not meet these requirements will not be reviewed further for search. Please let us know if you have already fulfilled the requirements and we can go from there. Thanks!

        Cheers,
        DJ

        The TeePublic Community Team

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  15. Hi! I´m a graphic designer who just graduated and I´m from a south american developing country. Just found your articles I I really think they help me A LOT. It´s really hard in here because nobody pays for design. Yesterday I found a girl selling logos for $3.5 usd. It’s a nightmare. Sorry for the long message and thank you so much for this!

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  16. Hello Michael,

    These are high-value tips, thanks!
    However, It does not seem to make a difference if I implement them or not (I have) because my designs never seem to show on the marketplace (I have done very specific searches). I have sent multiple emails and received the same generic response (they have seemingly automated a response instead of answering). I even deleted my whole account and tried starting over. Do you have any idea as to what is going on? I am selling on RedBubble and it is going very well over there.

    // Ceasar

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    • Hi Ceasar – I don’t know exactly what is going on – but Teepublic seems to be limiting results in their internal search. I would check whether your stuff is indexed in Google – as actually showing up in Teepublic’s search may not be all that important. (I think most of my Teepublic sales come via Google anyway).

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  17. Hi Michael. Great article. Just a quick question. So whenever I type in a word in the search box, I can only see how many pages that niche covers. Is there a way to see exactly how many designs are there in that particular niche?

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  18. Hey, just a minor typo I spotted in this sentence: “Teepublic does need to more to resolve this” I think there should be a ‘do’ after the first ‘to’. Hope that helps! 😉

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  19. Thank you for the awesome article! Question for you, what programs or processes do you use to create your designs? Are their specific formats that work better than others when uploading?
    Thanks again

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    • I use Photoshop and Procreate to create my designs – as long as you’re uploading a hi-res PNG you should be good!

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  20. I am having no luck getting my designs to show up on the Teepublic search. They are in my storefront. I am entering in my specific keywords and getting none showing. I have set up my account, storefront, and payment account fully. Does anyone know how to solve this issue? I’ve emailed support, but I can’t seem to get any answer as to what is going on or what to do to solve it.

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  21. Uploaded 170 Designs to TP and none of them are searchable on the platform. Cant find them, even if i put in the full title.

    And this is the answer i got from the support:

    “First off, thank you for uploading to TeePublic. We appreciate how much work goes into each design, and we thank you! While TeePublic is an open platform where anyone can host and sell from their own storefront, our site’s discovery tools is more curated. Due to creative reasons, your designs will not show up in search or on the “new” or “browse” areas of the site. However, you will still be able to sell your work through the direct link to your page or to the individual product pages.”

    So that means no organic traffic for my designs.

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  22. Hi Michael, great article, I just want to know that can we make multiple account on TP? Or they will ban us for making 2 or 3 account from the same pc?

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  23. Hey Mike, I got a big question: On Fine Art America they print your art, frame your art, and sell your art, does Teepublic do this, or is it just kind of a T-shirt operation? I do not have anything against T-shirts, but I need to sell art. Reviews for FAA are so bad I am not putting my art on FAA.

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  24. Great article. Easy to digest because of great graphics. Thanks for taking the time.

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  25. As an artist, I’d say just create designs that you love. Chances are someone else out there loves it too. I only have 6 designs on my TP but I’ve been able to make sales enough that TP actually contacted me saying they would like to promote my store but I need at least 10 more designs. Working on that. The more designs you have, the bigger your footprint is on their site, and they like that. I won’t get into whether you should create your own art or not, thats for you to decide. I personally feel however that a few good designs will always beat out a lot of bad designs. The trick with all of this is, it’s exponential. The more options you have the easier it is to find your store. More options also mean not every design has to be a banger (but you should strive for that).

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  26. Thank you for the Info Michael, but I’ve run into a problem with Teepublic, my designs wouldn’t just show up on the marketplace no matter what I search, I contacted support but they say I have to promote my own store, which is like an automated reply, do you have any advice what can be done here

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  27. Hello Michael,

    Thank you so much for the information! I’ve been wanting to put my designs on Teepublic for awhile and this helped so much! I’m a long time artist, but a new digital artist. I deleted everything off my Instagram art account so I could start fresh. Would this effect any selling in the eyes of Teepublic?

    Just a quick question- in your opinion, would it be more beneficial to start by putting my designs on Teepublic or Redbubble? Or does it not really matter?

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  28. good point

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  29. Thank you Sir for this article. I have learnt a lot especially on usage of ‘main tag’. There lies a great selling secret, I think. I have also learnt from comments that one needs to set their profile to completion (Profile Image, Banner, Bio, Social media links and at least 10 designs) to increase your chances of making a sale. I wasn’t concentrating on these smaller details which actually aren’t small.

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  30. Thanks for tips and clarity on the main tag field and that it can be repeated in the tags area. I now know better how all the fields are used. I am new to POD and started off with Redbubble, so wasn’t quite following TeePublic’s model correctly. Also, I have been plagued with my items being hidden on the site, so will be reading your article about this next. Thanks again for taking the time to provide insight and supporting others in their hopeful success in the POD world.

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  31. Hi Michael,

    Thanks a ton for the great articles and detailed info you are sharing.

    Can you enlighten me about the category of TP? I am talking about Artisan and Apprentice. I am a very beginner and signed up on various PoD sites. TP was the easiest one for me to upload designs and I was very happy about everything till I discovered the categories when I checked mine it was falling under apprentice. As a disappointment, I deactivate my account from TP and decided to focus on RB and Zazzle, Society6 etc. Now when I am reading your article about TeePublic, I am confused about whether I did right or wrong.

    Also, can you guide me if an artist creates mature content, what will be the best practice to make money by PoD.

    Many thanks

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