The people’s record · a small pressBuilt from what people wrote in public

What really worked.Evidence, not advice
The jacket of Selling Your First Design

Book 04

321 people said how their first design actually sold.

Each of them wrote it down in public, in one of 9 communities, most of them answering a stranger who had asked. The book reads all of it at once. What comes out is not the list you have been given.

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Cover: The jacket
CoverThe jacket
Contents: The chapters
ContentsThe chapters
Chapter 1: What people said when nobody asked
Chapter 1What people said when nobody asked
Chapter 2: How long the first one took
Chapter 2How long the first one took
Chapter 3: How many designs were up already
Chapter 3How many designs were up already
Chapter 4: What the first sale actually paid
Chapter 4What the first sale actually paid
Chapter 5: The buyer arrives and nobody says how
Chapter 5The buyer arrives and nobody says how
Chapter 6: The first buyer was already in your life
Chapter 6The first buyer was already in your life
Chapter 7: The questions this could not answer
Chapter 7The questions this could not answer
Chapter 8: What to change when nothing has sold
Chapter 8What to change when nothing has sold
Back cover: The back
Back coverThe back

The chapters

8 chapters · 37 pages

  1. 01What people said when nobody asked
  2. 02How long the first one took
  3. 03How many designs were up already
  4. 04What the first sale actually paid
  5. 05The buyer arrives and nobody says how
  6. 06The first buyer was already in your life
  7. 07The questions this could not answer
  8. 08What to change when nothing has sold

The findings

24 designs

up when the first one sold, taking the middle of the 47 people who counted them. The range runs from 1 to 1000.

25%

of everyone here said what they had CHANGED, not just what happened. That is 81 of them, and it is the question most people never got round to answering.

In their own words

“Took me about 6 months and 200 designs before I made my first sale”
r/redbubble
“I had my first sale within 30 minutes of uploading lol I thought to myself, oh wow this is easy!”
r/redbubble
“I started last year and it took around 4 months to get to the $20 threshold. My first sale was only 35 cents.”
r/redbubble

Quoted exactly. Community named, person never.

Not a method.

No method, no framework, no seven steps. It will not tell you what to do on Tuesday. It says what people wrote happened, which is not always what happened, and the chapter on where the evidence stops being useful is printed in the same size type as everything else.

The small print

People
Public posts, not a survey
Read on
27 July 2026
Left out
8 more posts, read and set aside
Length
7,003 words over 37 pages
Quoting
15 quotations, 4.9% of the text
Price
One email. Nothing else.

Quotations are short, exact, attributed to the community and never linked to a person.

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