I would suggest doing that, but have someone that has no experience whatsoever that you coach. Anyone can do it that has a platform with experience, but inspiring people that, if you know how to do it right when you literally start from nothing has a bigger impact.
I'm making a video about starting out in this space and the challenges I've faced along the way. I'm going to quote you on that last line, "Nothing replaces effort and sweat." It's so true. Gotta have that persistence, there is just no way around it.
Thx about Figma - going to learn it this week. My goal is 100 listings by the end of June - at 68 now. I've been mimicking the best sellers this past week and my views have gone up exponentially. First sale coming soon :)
Hey Alex, great video. I think that people, if they are really thinking about themselves as a business they should be serious and start by setting themself up as a business. I know the goal for many is to make money but, with the ease of establishing themselves as a business takes little time these days as well. That way everything is separated from the get go and no co-mingling of anything. They can probably get all that done and start their journey on Etsy the same day. Just a thought. Thanks for being there to assist people to step out into their dreams!!
Alek, I have been watching your videos for a few months and am grateful for your guidance and support. I needed the reminder to stick to a plan that works, and will continue with my process. I am currently 60 days in and almost to 300 listings. I keep picturing that LOTTERY LISTING you speak of and find your videos invaluable. Also, thanks so much for the Figma download, I will certainly check it out!
Alek arguably this is one of your best videos ever. Your down to earth and straightforward approach is an excellent approach for those hoping to achieve the dream of at least $10,000 a month. Please continue to pump out videos like this as they provide excellent information.
I listen to you, Cassie, and Heather but you're my guy you're the one I follow and and pay the most attention to because if it wasn't for you I probably would not have started my journey and I'm grateful and thankful for you everyday.
Hi Alek. Can you please create a video - if you haven’t already - about whether to sell multiple product lines in one shop or split them up by category? Thanks so much for the great content!
Was thinking something similar. Or something along the lines of explaining to beginners if you use multiple shops from the beginning to get started. For example having a mug shop and then a separate tshirt shop.
Hi Alek. Did I understand you correctly? You recommend that for an Etsy store (beginner) one should NOT position itself in a specific niche, but rather look for ONE product (e.g. mug, poster, t-shirt) and offer it in the same store for different niches (with different designs) and produce a lot of listings ? I always thought choosing a niche is like the golden key to success.
Once I viewed a video by you I began viewing several more and making notes. I've been putting off purchasing a new laptop, however, with the content you've shared along with the app you've offered, I'm ready to purchase the laptop and follow your videos. With some prepared ideas and awesome tutorials from your videos I have a good start and a better shot to reach $10,000mo. Thank You Alek! 😊 ❤
I have great products and designs...did the research, found the products competitors are selling...but no one is.FINDING me. I need to know how to get found.
It is so frustrating not to get traffic! I am almost to 1,000 sales and it has taken me two years. Here is what has helped me: (1) Alek’s advice to list 20 items per day. Hard to do every day if you work a full time job, but when I have, I notice a huge difference in traffic.if you can’t do 20, do 5 or 10. Just make sure to stay consistent. (2) Run at least $1-3 in Etsy ads per day to get started if you haven’t already. (3) A/B test. If you feel really confident in your SEO, copy your listings and switch out your listing thumbnail with a different color trendy mock-up. Doing all these things together should help! Hope it does!
So, if I'm selling T-shirts right now ( I'm working on expanding that) and I want to get into mugs and tumblers would you suggest opening another shop or should I add it to my current shop. I'm still new and working on my t-shirt I have about 26 listings, 6 sales, 1, 5 star review. Thanks!
its better not to mix. keep it just for t-shirts. or, you can mix A BIT - and only for items that are in the same "perceived" category ---> for ex: you can sell sweaters, hoodies etc. with t-shirts, but even then, make sure that the main thing of your shop are the t-shirts. because Etsy's algorithm will understand that yours is a t-shirts shop and will send shoppers that look for t-shirts. if you mix too much, the algorithm won't understand what your shop is really about and won't send any shoppers to you anymore.
Hi, Alek. I have few questions around POD companies. Lots of people use printify, even Shimmy Moris switch from Printfull to printify. Can you answer, why prinitfy is the best in your opinion? From my research, it provides lots of products compare to other companies, but the shipping is more expensive and could take longer than Gelato or Printful. From research, Gelato and printfull charge much less than prinitfy. The shipping time is also longer, if I choose monster digital it can take almost 2 weeks to deliver to Europe. My fav. company to go with after few research is Gelato and printify is my third option. Can you and others if you read this comment answer my question, why in your opinion is printify you favorite?
Thanks for all these videos Alek! Im learning a lot about POD. Im seeing that almost everyone teaching about POD uses Etsy. The thing is that Etsy is only available in some countries, but unfortunately in Latin America is not. What site or method would you recommend in this case?
Alek I’ve been following your videos for a while. And I also started 3 shops inspired by your videos. I did wonder I thought Etsy forbid copying other items on Etsy shops although I see it done all the time.
Thank you so much for the Figma tutorial Alex, you read my mind! I was just teaching myself how to use Figma the last few days. I have gone through your tutorial and Steps 20 and 21 ('Colour Pattern Text' and 'Text Warp Effects') have the same text as Step 19, I would love to learn how to do them as well. Thank you. :)
Loved the video!💕 Just started my comic book collection and found Toon Haven. They offer a huge variety of digital comics for every genre, and lifetime updates too!😍
Thank you for another insightful video @alekSheffy. Would you or someone else in this thread mind to share more information or a link on the processing of returns when one is running a 'print on demand' business?
Hi Alek! You probably already answered this a million times, was trying to find it in your videos. Do you stay away from personalized listings for shirts/mugs? I definitely want to stay away from personalized, I have dealt with customer service and with my previous digital downloads store and it's usually never a simple edit and is always time consuming, especially if a lot of orders come in 😓 but maybe it's best to have one or more for the growth of the store/algorithm? Thank you soo much for your videos they are wonderful!! 🙌🏼🤙🏼
Custom stuff is always good to get started with. It'll help you get sales early on, I just stopped selling it because I don't have to. At this point my time is better spent doing other things than fulfilling custom orders - but yes. They sell really well.
The Issue I have in the UK is that you can't use Printify unless you have a business account and a VAT number. I thought that you could trade as a sole trader first until you hit a cash limited then you need to think about registering. How do you get round registering on pritify without a VAT registered number?
Hey Alek. i have this question about location. Is it a crucial step to get more sales, or no metter were you live you just need to target different countries in your shop?
Etsy may be OK if you don't get banned for life after listing 10 products and before you sell anything. It's also no use in appealing the decision because you get an email telling you they will not tell you what you did wrong and will not react to any contact from you. Over and out.
I need to ask you the following question, at the moment you have a sale you have to pay the whole process of the order in printify, and how long does it take for etsy to pay you, or once your customer buys etsy gives you the money and you follow the process with printify, thank you very much for the info.
Not going to lie I struggle with motivation, made about 450 listings across a lot of niches to only get about 20 sales across maybe 5 products. my daily views don't scale with listings they just remain the same from 40 listings to 400. its nice that I am generating any passive income but even $500 a month would be nice.
Hi Alek, and thanks for the videos. I'm grateful i discovered your channel. I can't find the mug mat to import for the Figma Walkthrough. I downloaded your guide, but there's no mug mat in it to import. If anyone can help, I'd really appreciate it.
So one type of product (for example mugs) with a range of designs appealing to lots of different people/ interests is better than focusing on one type of person (for example, women 40+ into yoga/ self care/ inspirational messages etc) and producing a range of lifestyle products catering to them? My idea was the latter but I'm rethinking that now!
By the way: the uploader doesn’t work for all shipping profiles. Have tested it using a US Profile and a German profile, everything else the same. It only works wit the US provider.
Hi, if I look at the competition and the product I am looking to sell does not have any best sellers showing on Etsy, should I then try to find another product?
What app do I need to be able to download and use your free figma pro designer. I have tried to download it but it did not open for me. Let me know because I am very interested in taking your course, but if I am not able to open the program I am scared to enroll and not be able to download or use your recommended program.
how to set dimensions to metric in printify? eventhough I´m using european suppliers all sizes remain imperial. Since my target audiance uses metric I want to show them metric sizes... heeeeelp?
I have make some design [ car guy, self motivation and gym motivation ]you can use for POD [ print on demand ] if anyone like to buy my designs permanently then let me know
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Should I bring back the $0 to $100k challenge? 👍 or 👎
Heck yea best videos you made inspirational to me
I would suggest doing that, but have someone that has no experience whatsoever that you coach.
Anyone can do it that has a platform with experience, but inspiring people that, if you know how to do it right when you literally start from nothing has a bigger impact.
The Figma is not beginners user friendly at ALL! It's frustrating just to try!😢
Omg yes pleaseee
Yes !
I really appreciate the repeated emphasis on "the grind" in each video. Nothing replaces effort and sweat.
I'm making a video about starting out in this space and the challenges I've faced along the way. I'm going to quote you on that last line, "Nothing replaces effort and sweat." It's so true. Gotta have that persistence, there is just no way around it.
Thx about Figma - going to learn it this week. My goal is 100 listings by the end of June - at 68 now. I've been mimicking the best sellers this past week and my views have gone up exponentially. First sale coming soon :)
Did you sell anything yet?? Im currently grinding making designs right now
Keep going! You got this!
Did you reach your goal?
Did u Guys make it ?
@@weesepoel89did it work ,?
Hey Alex, great video. I think that people, if they are really thinking about themselves as a business they should be serious and start by setting themself up as a business. I know the goal for many is to make money but, with the ease of establishing themselves as a business takes little time these days as well. That way everything is separated from the get go and no co-mingling of anything. They can probably get all that done and start their journey on Etsy the same day. Just a thought. Thanks for being there to assist people to step out into their dreams!!
Yes bring it back. Thanks for the Figma guide I needed it. Your arms are getting bigger every video bro
I'll have more Figma stuff too. I'm trying bro
Alek, I have been watching your videos for a few months and am grateful for your guidance and support. I needed the reminder to stick to a plan that works, and will continue with my process. I am currently 60 days in and almost to 300 listings. I keep picturing that LOTTERY LISTING you speak of and find your videos invaluable. Also, thanks so much for the Figma download, I will certainly check it out!
Alek arguably this is one of your best videos ever.
Your down to earth and straightforward approach is an excellent approach for those hoping to achieve the dream of at least $10,000 a month.
Please continue to pump out videos like this as they provide excellent information.
Thank you that 🙏
I listen to you, Cassie, and Heather but you're my guy you're the one I follow and and pay the most attention to because if it wasn't for you I probably would not have started my journey and I'm grateful and thankful for you everyday.
I think Cassie is great too, I'm glad you got started 🙏
Can you talk about how to price, benchmark and profit margins? Your videos are gold btw!
Hi Alek. Can you please create a video - if you haven’t already - about whether to sell multiple product lines in one shop or split them up by category?
Thanks so much for the great content!
Good idea
Was thinking something similar. Or something along the lines of explaining to beginners if you use multiple shops from the beginning to get started. For example having a mug shop and then a separate tshirt shop.
@@bazz94 This!
Thanks @@blubreezer
Hi Alek. Did I understand you correctly? You recommend that for an Etsy store (beginner) one should NOT position itself in a specific niche, but rather look for ONE product (e.g. mug, poster, t-shirt) and offer it in the same store for different niches (with different designs) and produce a lot of listings ? I always thought choosing a niche is like the golden key to success.
Man, you are so talented. You speak really structurely. You could do business learning lessons.
Thanks
Once I viewed a video by you I began viewing several more and making notes. I've been putting off purchasing a new laptop, however, with the content you've shared along with the app you've offered, I'm ready to purchase the laptop and follow your videos. With some prepared ideas and awesome tutorials from your videos I have a good start and a better shot to reach $10,000mo.
Thank You Alek! 😊 ❤
So true about watching too many people.
Value Add. Again and again on this channel. Thanks Alek!
Can’t wait to get my shop started tomorrow. Got my ideas
Tomorrow? nooooo do it today.
How’s your store now
@@Imehiko slow and steady. Happy to have started
Does etsy allowed you to sell your designs. Actually Etsy doesn't allowed people from some countries to sell like in my case i.e India
I have great products and designs...did the research, found the products competitors are selling...but no one is.FINDING me. I need to know how to get found.
I think you should add more tags to your products it helps me a lot
And maybe you can do one or two paid advertising on Etsy so you can be more known
It is so frustrating not to get traffic! I am almost to 1,000 sales and it has taken me two years. Here is what has helped me: (1) Alek’s advice to list 20 items per day. Hard to do every day if you work a full time job, but when I have, I notice a huge difference in traffic.if you can’t do 20, do 5 or 10. Just make sure to stay consistent. (2) Run at least $1-3 in Etsy ads per day to get started if you haven’t already. (3) A/B test. If you feel really confident in your SEO, copy your listings and switch out your listing thumbnail with a different color trendy mock-up. Doing all these things together should help! Hope it does!
So, if I'm selling T-shirts right now ( I'm working on expanding that) and I want to get into mugs and tumblers would you suggest opening another shop or should I add it to my current shop. I'm still new and working on my t-shirt I have about 26 listings, 6 sales, 1, 5 star review.
Thanks!
its better not to mix. keep it just for t-shirts. or, you can mix A BIT - and only for items that are in the same "perceived" category ---> for ex: you can sell sweaters, hoodies etc. with t-shirts, but even then, make sure that the main thing of your shop are the t-shirts. because Etsy's algorithm will understand that yours is a t-shirts shop and will send shoppers that look for t-shirts. if you mix too much, the algorithm won't understand what your shop is really about and won't send any shoppers to you anymore.
@@Panoskythat makes sense, thank you.
Going through The Basic Design Skills Book. Very helpful. Thank You.
Hi, Alek. I have few questions around POD companies. Lots of people use printify, even Shimmy Moris switch from Printfull to printify. Can you answer, why prinitfy is the best in your opinion? From my research, it provides lots of products compare to other companies, but the shipping is more expensive and could take longer than Gelato or Printful. From research, Gelato and printfull charge much less than prinitfy. The shipping time is also longer, if I choose monster digital it can take almost 2 weeks to deliver to Europe. My fav. company to go with after few research is Gelato and printify is my third option. Can you and others if you read this comment answer my question, why in your opinion is printify you favorite?
Thank you for this video. You gave me really good insights and I've now changed my view on listing count, product selection, etc.
U are my teacher and iam proud of you ❤
Thanks for all these videos Alek! Im learning a lot about POD. Im seeing that almost everyone teaching about POD uses Etsy. The thing is that Etsy is only available in some countries, but unfortunately in Latin America is not. What site or method would you recommend in this case?
Probably shopify / tiktok
Alek I’ve been following your videos for a while. And I also started 3 shops inspired by your videos. I did wonder I thought Etsy forbid copying other items on Etsy shops although I see it done all the time.
I’m so excited for that Figma plugin!!! Do you mind sharing how it will be priced?
Probably around $2/mo 👍
Alek do you recommend Figma over Photoshop????
Thank you so much for the Figma tutorial Alex, you read my mind! I was just teaching myself how to use Figma the last few days. I have gone through your tutorial and Steps 20 and 21 ('Colour Pattern Text' and 'Text Warp Effects') have the same text as Step 19, I would love to learn how to do them as well. Thank you. :)
I'll update this 🫡
Your videos are my motivation. 3 months with Etsy.
How much have you made in 3 months? If you don't mind me asking
@Tap_on_it_ how do I add you
Loved the video!💕 Just started my comic book collection and found Toon Haven. They offer a huge variety of digital comics for every genre, and lifetime updates too!😍
Thank you for another insightful video @alekSheffy. Would you or someone else in this thread mind to share more information or a link on the processing of returns when one is running a 'print on demand' business?
Am starting with Printful a long time ago. i listed a lot of products. Do you advise me to keep going on it ?
Hi Alek! You probably already answered this a million times, was trying to find it in your videos. Do you stay away from personalized listings for shirts/mugs? I definitely want to stay away from personalized, I have dealt with customer service and with my previous digital downloads store and it's usually never a simple edit and is always time consuming, especially if a lot of orders come in 😓 but maybe it's best to have one or more for the growth of the store/algorithm? Thank you soo much for your videos they are wonderful!! 🙌🏼🤙🏼
Custom stuff is always good to get started with. It'll help you get sales early on, I just stopped selling it because I don't have to. At this point my time is better spent doing other things than fulfilling custom orders - but yes. They sell really well.
What about Amazon merch? Is this good place to start?
First!🙂 Thank you for the great content!
The Issue I have in the UK is that you can't use Printify unless you have a business account and a VAT number. I thought that you could trade as a sole trader first until you hit a cash limited then you need to think about registering. How do you get round registering on pritify without a VAT registered number?
Try Printful, i do my print on demand stuff with them, is a bit easier
appreciate for sharing this with us, excellent video
very helpful, worth the watch
ill definitely try that, thanks!
absolutely incredible info! thank you so much
Love this video and it's content! Thank you, Alek!
👍 Awesome video as usual! Thanks, Alek!
Hey Alek. i have this question about location. Is it a crucial step to get more sales, or no metter were you live you just need to target different countries in your shop?
Hello Alek, would you say that your methodology can also be applied to the European market? Or would you say that the USA market is more profitable?
I think you can sell to both
THANKS A BUNCH, AMAZING VIDEO!!!
Etsy may be OK if you don't get banned for life after listing 10 products and before you sell anything. It's also no use in appealing the decision because you get an email telling you they will not tell you what you did wrong and will not react to any contact from you. Over and out.
Why is this happening?
After you pay the store fee that costs 30 dollars?😂 I would sue them
wow, great video. thanks so much
Thank you, really helped me!
I appreciate you for sharing this, excellent!
Thx Alek for the information, i agree with all you said.
One question what is the plugin color pattern text? or where i can find it?
It's coming out 👍 Not out yet tho
@@alekSheffy Thanks for the answer. Keep making this excellent content. Have a good day!
Over time the roots of those orchards would damage and dissolve the stone too.
YES! JUST WHAT I NEEDED, TY!!!
I need to ask you the following question, at the moment you have a sale you have to pay the whole process of the order in printify, and how long does it take for etsy to pay you, or once your customer buys etsy gives you the money and you follow the process with printify, thank you very much for the info.
It depends but they usually pay out weekly
@@alekSheffy Thx
Fantastic vid!!! Thanks a lot!
Nice vid thank you for sharing with us
I heard something wrong with
ESTY?
The product uploader app doesn't work, there is no product anymore. could you please refill it for us please.
Not going to lie I struggle with motivation, made about 450 listings across a lot of niches to only get about 20 sales across maybe 5 products. my daily views don't scale with listings they just remain the same from 40 listings to 400. its nice that I am generating any passive income but even $500 a month would be nice.
Hi Alek, and thanks for the videos. I'm grateful i discovered your channel. I can't find the mug mat to import for the Figma Walkthrough. I downloaded your guide, but there's no mug mat in it to import. If anyone can help, I'd really appreciate it.
AWESOME it really helped me
thats amazing, ty for sharing
So one type of product (for example mugs) with a range of designs appealing to lots of different people/ interests is better than focusing on one type of person (for example, women 40+ into yoga/ self care/ inspirational messages etc) and producing a range of lifestyle products catering to them? My idea was the latter but I'm rethinking that now!
By the way: the uploader doesn’t work for all shipping profiles. Have tested it using a US Profile and a German profile, everything else the same. It only works wit the US provider.
I HIGHLY doubt it
That's an amazing tool
Nice. thanks for sharing
amazing vid!!! ty
Is ther a faster way fo find best sellers on Etsy? Are there othere websites that provide that information?
Thanks, Alek!
You are AWESOME!!! TY
Hi, if I look at the competition and the product I am looking to sell does not have any best sellers showing on Etsy, should I then try to find another product?
when will the plugin release?
Have you moved away from Alura to ProductFlint?
What NAICS code can we use for our print on demand (Shopify store) business?
So if I want to sell from Europe to US users I won't need a VPN or anything else?
I did that with etsy. Then they banned me. Now it‘s over…
Don't talk about reality I'm trying to grow my RUclips channel and coaching business
Did what?
What app do I need to be able to download and use your free figma pro designer. I have tried to download it but it did not open for me. Let me know because I am very interested in taking your course, but if I am not able to open the program I am scared to enroll and not be able to download or use your recommended program.
how to set dimensions to metric in printify? eventhough I´m using european suppliers all sizes remain imperial. Since my target audiance uses metric I want to show them metric sizes... heeeeelp?
Thank you Alek
Of course 🙏
Why is my product not uploading onto my Etsy store ?
great content. ty
1:17 Is that sticker design a promotion for the current month?
Hi Alek, can you recommend a good POD company for ornaments?
I have fulfilled ornament at merchize for 2 years. I am very satisfied with their quality and service.
Printify all the way
People from some countries like India are not allowed to sell on Etsy . Can you recommend me some other alternatives for etsy
Thx brother.
Can I still do it if I’m not 18?
Any solutions for us in Africa, coz my country is not supported on Etsy
What should I do to sell on etsy from Europe and not have my store blocked? Thanks from Italy
You can really sell whatever. They shouldn't block you just from being from Italy.
@@alekSheffySo if I wanted to sell to US users I don't need a VPN or anything else?
Hi Alek,
I am 17 and looking at starting this but how do i go about opening an etsy account before im 18?
Thanks
Sadly you'd need to use your parents info. Other wise I'd start getting everything ready to hit it hard when you're 18
@@alekSheffy ok thank you, I will start prepping my designs to launch when I turn 18.
So what about using illustrator and Photoshop to design?😅
Rookies don't know how to use professional design tools. Figma is for ppl who aren't real designers
hi where is the link for prinfity sign up?
It's in the quickstart guide
Never start with etsy!
Is anyone else having trouble with the Figma Pro Designer Download link?
me
Does anyone know if the Figma Pro is available on Windows? I've just D/L and it only has a MAC folder... 😥 😥
is it actually that easy? wow
How do you get those files into figma?
You'll receive a guide to your email
If I get rich I owe you
So you mean no to niche? A general store?
One product that targets lots of niches with the designs 👍
Let’s go
I have make some design [ car guy, self motivation and gym motivation ]you can use for POD [ print on demand ] if anyone like to buy my designs permanently then let me know
👍