Great advice Heather! Refreshing the stats is a habit I need to get out of. I’ve been opened for almost three weeks. Eight sales so far. Got my first stranger order yesterday! Super pumped. Gonna keep hustling. It truly is trial and error.
Thank God your video is on my recommendation!! I'm a new Etsy seller and what you said about mindset are all true! I'm so inspired by your video and I'll keep going on with my shop even though i don't get any sell yet. Thank you for sharing and inspiring!
Great video! I sell printables (not POD) but I still think this advice applies to digital listings. Several of my first designs flopped. I started seeing more views and eventually sales when I got to about 30-35 listings. I just listed my 100th design the other day so hoping I continue to see the momentum I’ve started. Thanks for your great videos, I’ve found them so helpful since day 1!
I agree! It's definitely a thing I see in all businesses is just knowing that your first product is never going to be the best product. Thank you for the kind words and watching!
Thank you for this video! I’m new to this game and want to succeed and not get down. I’m so thankful to have found you and will continue to learn from you!
Hey Heather. I just started my POD business and I’m roughly 3 weeks in with about 50 listings and rising. I know that all my designs are not a hit (although in my mind they are 😎) so I do ego checks with friends and family and they have no issue bringing me back to reality 😒… I watch a lot of your videos and they’ve been very helpful, thank you for that. I just watched this video and wanted to ask; if 8 months later do you still stand by everything you say in this video or is there anything you would change or add based on changes in the market, business strategy, new common issues you hear about or your personal experiences? Thanks again for paying it forwarded!
Good advice, thanks!! I am trying to avoid these mindsets. I watch videos on how to help me with my business. I opened my shop 2 weeks ago and no sales. I know it takes time and more listings. I know I can do better to help get sales. It takes time. I wish everyone luck with their business!!! We can all do it!
Great video, Heather. I've watched many of your videos and learned so much. I'm six weeks in with my store and have had seven sales from friends and family, but no organic sales yet. I'm in my shop and posting new listings every day. This video reminded me to be patient and keep designing. I agree with you completely, this is a trial and error business and through all my listing "trials" so far I've learned much from my "errors" and improved both my designs and listings. Keep up your amazing work, Heather. And please keep the bloopers in your vids. I end up smiling or laughing at the end of every video! 😃
I'm on around month 4! Digital & Tee's etc on etsy, This is all true, I cranked out a ton of listings in the first couple weeks, I'm at 38 sales now. They did not come quickly but a few here and there all random. I'm trying to start my brand now on shopify and this seems to be much harder so I've layed back on product/listing production at this point and I'm cranking out on free marketing myself in videos on social media with my products! I'm excited to see how this works out. Thanks for all the great info!
Love your videos! Would love to see how you make a tiktok video for products. The process from Placeit(or if you use something else) to uploading on tiktok. I've looked on RUclips and haven't really found a walk through on that. It would be super helpful! Thank you. ❤️
Yes I would like to see all Heathers graphics also ! I saw she is selling suitcases, candles as well. I would like to see where those products are coming for please! Maybe she will do a step by step video on these Items !! Thank you in advance. !
Because so many pod shops are just people taking stock pictures and dumping them on things. Zero effort zero care … etsy was supposed to be for quality items so naturally when it starts to look cheap and tatty people will click off. It’s not a discount store
Thank you for this video! I will work on these areas as I work on my shop. Ibfouldntbhelp but be curious about the books in the background. They look very engaging. Could you please do anvideo on book recommendations or books that keep you motivated as an etsy creator? :)
Trial and error cost money especially, when you have lots of listings (Etsy fees) plus third-party fees every month to create your items. Like the saying goes "You have to spend money to make money".
Heather,Thanks for the great content. I love your channel. Would you please explain Titles vs. Tags? Should they match, or are tags for additional SEO? thanks.
The biggest problem is that fees are way too high on Etsy, all you can do is scale up your profit , but then you get even less sales.. I had my first sale , calculated everything , but additional cost appeared which they didn't told me about and I made a minus buisness. The site is not really transparent.
Thanks, this was good to know as a newbie! .... Any chance you could make a video outlining an efficient system to go through the process of loading to Etsy ie; canva design, then load to printify, then do mocks, then publish, then do SEO on Etsy...etc...ie; is that a good flow chart for publishing in bulk? Do you do start to finish on one prodct then move to the next or do you do multiple designs in canva then load to printify etc etc .... I get so muddled bc I jump around all over the place lol ...And also, how do you organise all the designs into folders on your computer etc...TIA !
off topic of this video, but good information, very helpful. I've been looking at marketplaces and seems Etsy "fees" you to death. I understand Etsy to an Amazon, very different, but Amazon's fee structure is more straight forward. What are your thoughts? Cheers and thanks.
I have a question! For someone starting out, but ready to start NOW.. I’m not sure what to do as far as banking goes. I want to get started and get an LLC once I get some money from this. In the meantime, I still want all of the business banking to be separate. Can you recommend a way to do this? PayPal puts a hold for weeks at a time which will make my business fail before it’s even begun! 😮 I’m at a standstill with the banking part and I don’t know what to do :(
Hi Heather, love your take on this as a business. 😊 I have created a bunch of planner pages for professionals in my line of business, but they are still stuck in my Adobe Indesign, and I haven't decided in what form to sell it, as printables, print-on-demand through a print shop, direct sales to companies offering their logo printed on the products, or alternatively selling it as templates to other sellers in print-on-demand. Does your business coaching cover this form of products for marketing and sales? Or just pod for artistic designers?
Hello Heather thank you for the insightful video. I have started with digital calendars and note pads but can't see myself designing more than a 100 of these. I know I have to stay in my nische. Will it be "ok" to add digital art to this or will it confuse the customer?
Hello. Sorry to bother you. I deleted all my profiles for shipping out of my etsy account and then tried to make new profile shipping labels. But when I went back to printify they all said unpublished. And when I try to republish them they say publishing error. What can I do?
@@itsheatherstudio thank you heather. I have already lifehacker academy and videos of Cassiy but I follow you also. Do you have more information in your Academy?
I created my etsy shop on the 1st of august and i have more than 300 listing and only 249 views and no sales. Do you think I should keep uploading listing or i better wait for my first sale?
Hello Heather. I created a few nice designs on Printful and I try to sell them on Etsy, but it still doesn't work for me. I decreased all the prices to have my first sales, but finally I had to pay out of my pocket because of the Etsy fees. :) What marge would you recommend to have a good profit? The thing is that the items are pretty expensive and a polyester crop top would cost around $40-45 for the costumer. I think this is too much. How is it possible to make these high profits everybody is talking about? It sounds so easy. :) It's not just about the mindset, also the price right? :)
I think the first issue is that you’re using Printful. Printful is high production fees and this can cause a huge loss of profit over time(there’s a Cassiy Johnson video where she goes over that if she used Printful she would have lost thousands in profit- highly recommend watching). I recommend a $7+ profit after fees(so aim for $10 profit margin on Printify or Printfuls backend so after fees you have at the least $7). The high profit margins is through Printify usually though and doing Printify Premium when you get to over 25 orders a month the membership really does pay for itself. If you sign up for Printify, use code HEATHER30 for printify premium- by the way this isn’t a sponsored comment lol I just really prefer them because I don’t want to see anyone who follows me not get more profit in their businesses and leaving money on the table.
@@itsheatherstudio Thank you sooo much dear! I appreciate your time you took to answer me. And thanks for the code. I do have good designs and hopefully I’ll sell more with Printify. Thank you. 😊
I will be opening an original art and print on demand (of my art)store. So I need over 100 items to start.? I was told 15-20. Yikes! I planned to add items every few days after that.
You need 100 to make sells, but 15-20 is your first step. Then you just add more designs over time. It is also different with original art and "easy designs" as most people do. You have more to offer in the long run:)
@@politerabbit3100 are you selling pod and customized art or both? Also have you tried ads? A few weeks ago I saw you can get 100$ in free credit on reddit ads
I saw on your other social media that you drive traffic to your store and that’s why you were so successful. Can you do a video on social media traffic. I find it hard when our stores don’t have a niche or target audience. 🤍
My Etsy store like 5 years ago all free traffic and I never promoted on any social media platform. Got sales over and over. Now I have to use ads for promoting my shop.
Just made my 1,000th sale but it took over a year! 😁😁😁 Still super pumped about it! 😁😁😁
Congratulations Rebecca!!!
I am very happy for you! I wish you more success~~~
Oh my God...congrats!!!!!
Thats actually really fast lol. Averaging 3+ orders a day is an incredible start.
That's so awesome! How long did it take to get your first sale?
Great advice Heather! Refreshing the stats is a habit I need to get out of. I’ve been opened for almost three weeks. Eight sales so far. Got my first stranger order yesterday! Super pumped. Gonna keep hustling. It truly is trial and error.
Great advice! It's definitely not an overnight thing and you HAVE to be willing to learn and adjust as you go.
Thank God your video is on my recommendation!! I'm a new Etsy seller and what you said about mindset are all true! I'm so inspired by your video and I'll keep going on with my shop even though i don't get any sell yet. Thank you for sharing and inspiring!
Great video! I sell printables (not POD) but I still think this advice applies to digital listings. Several of my first designs flopped. I started seeing more views and eventually sales when I got to about 30-35 listings. I just listed my 100th design the other day so hoping I continue to see the momentum I’ve started. Thanks for your great videos, I’ve found them so helpful since day 1!
I agree! It's definitely a thing I see in all businesses is just knowing that your first product is never going to be the best product. Thank you for the kind words and watching!
Thanks Audrey.
How is your digital store doing?
Do you never do POD?
Thank you for this video! I’m new to this game and want to succeed and not get down. I’m so thankful to have found you and will continue to learn from you!
Hey Heather. I just started my POD business and I’m roughly 3 weeks in with about 50 listings and rising. I know that all my designs are not a hit (although in my mind they are 😎) so I do ego checks with friends and family and they have no issue bringing me back to reality 😒… I watch a lot of your videos and they’ve been very helpful, thank you for that. I just watched this video and wanted to ask; if 8 months later do you still stand by everything you say in this video or is there anything you would change or add based on changes in the market, business strategy, new common issues you hear about or your personal experiences? Thanks again for paying it forwarded!
Time to start making a whole bunch of designs for my future shop. 😌
Good advice, thanks!! I am trying to avoid these mindsets. I watch videos on how to help me with my business. I opened my shop 2 weeks ago and no sales. I know it takes time and more listings. I know I can do better to help get sales. It takes time. I wish everyone luck with their business!!! We can all do it!
What’s the store name? Always looking to support other businesses!
any sales yet?
It's always such a delight to see your videos.
This was a great video. I needed to hear this just opening a store. Thanks again Heather!
Great video, Heather. I've watched many of your videos and learned so much. I'm six weeks in with my store and have had seven sales from friends and family, but no organic sales yet. I'm in my shop and posting new listings every day. This video reminded me to be patient and keep designing. I agree with you completely, this is a trial and error business and through all my listing "trials" so far I've learned much from my "errors" and improved both my designs and listings. Keep up your amazing work, Heather. And please keep the bloopers in your vids. I end up smiling or laughing at the end of every video! 😃
Haha thanks John, keep up the good work, I'm sure after a few more trial and errors you'll see that random organic sale!
I'm on around month 4! Digital & Tee's etc on etsy, This is all true, I cranked out a ton of listings in the first couple weeks, I'm at 38 sales now. They did not come quickly but a few here and there all random. I'm trying to start my brand now on shopify and this seems to be much harder so I've layed back on product/listing production at this point and I'm cranking out on free marketing myself in videos on social media with my products! I'm excited to see how this works out. Thanks for all the great info!
Love your videos! Would love to see how you make a tiktok video for products. The process from Placeit(or if you use something else) to uploading on tiktok. I've looked on RUclips and haven't really found a walk through on that. It would be super helpful! Thank you. ❤️
I would love a video showing how you organize all of your created/purchased fonts and graphics. It's so hard to find what I'm looking for 😒
Yes I would like to see all Heathers graphics also !
I saw she is selling suitcases, candles as well.
I would like to see where those products are coming for please!
Maybe she will do a step by step video on these Items !!
Thank you in advance. !
Hi Heather, Thank you 🙏 so much for your advice. I was getting a little despondent but since listening to you I feel much better x
Thank you! 3 weeks in and needed to hear this.
Thank you , needed this today! Mindset is key 🙌
For all those who have been successful, should one get rid of the items no one looks at?
Can Canva be used to make a brand video for a new Etsy Shop?
Because so many pod shops are just people taking stock pictures and dumping them on things. Zero effort zero care … etsy was supposed to be for quality items so naturally when it starts to look cheap and tatty people will click off. It’s not a discount store
Hi heather! Thanks for this great advice. If i want to sell home decor and apparel, do you recommend to put them into 1 shop?
I just started on Etsy last week, posted a few shirts and looking for more tips to grow and expand my knowledge on it
Thank you for this video! I will work on these areas as I work on my shop. Ibfouldntbhelp but be curious about the books in the background. They look very engaging. Could you please do anvideo on book recommendations or books that keep you motivated as an etsy creator? :)
Great advice! Really thank you your experience and reminder to grow are so helpful. We live in a I want it now world.
Trial and error cost money especially, when you have lots of listings (Etsy fees) plus third-party fees every month to create your items. Like the saying goes "You have to spend money to make money".
Really loved this video! This was so needed :) Thank you so much!
Heather,Thanks for the great content. I love your channel. Would you please explain Titles vs. Tags? Should they match, or are tags for additional SEO? thanks.
The biggest problem is that fees are way too high on Etsy, all you can do is scale up your profit , but then you get even less sales..
I had my first sale , calculated everything , but additional cost appeared which they didn't told me about and I made a minus buisness. The site is not really transparent.
Thanks! Great content. What software did you use to edit your video?
Thank you for these tips Heather 🙏
Thank you! I needed this video today 😘💕
Thanks, this was good to know as a newbie! .... Any chance you could make a video outlining an efficient system to go through the process of loading to Etsy ie; canva design, then load to printify, then do mocks, then publish, then do SEO on Etsy...etc...ie; is that a good flow chart for publishing in bulk? Do you do start to finish on one prodct then move to the next or do you do multiple designs in canva then load to printify etc etc .... I get so muddled bc I jump around all over the place lol ...And also, how do you organise all the designs into folders on your computer etc...TIA !
Your fb group is so helpful!! Thank you
off topic of this video, but good information, very helpful. I've been looking at marketplaces and seems Etsy "fees" you to death. I understand Etsy to an Amazon, very different, but Amazon's fee structure is more straight forward. What are your thoughts? Cheers and thanks.
I have a question! For someone starting out, but ready to start NOW.. I’m not sure what to do as far as banking goes. I want to get started and get an LLC once I get some money from this. In the meantime, I still want all of the business banking to be separate. Can you recommend a way to do this? PayPal puts a hold for weeks at a time which will make my business fail before it’s even begun! 😮 I’m at a standstill with the banking part and I don’t know what to do :(
Hi Heather, love your take on this as a business. 😊 I have created a bunch of planner pages for professionals in my line of business, but they are still stuck in my Adobe Indesign, and I haven't decided in what form to sell it, as printables, print-on-demand through a print shop, direct sales to companies offering their logo printed on the products, or alternatively selling it as templates to other sellers in print-on-demand. Does your business coaching cover this form of products for marketing and sales? Or just pod for artistic designers?
thank you for the video. i gotta say the sound effects are incredibly annoying to me. i mean it as constructive criticism.
Also when you are new, your store doesn’t have a good quality listing score because you don’t have any reviews or sales.
Fpund you on another guys page where your talking about this subject. im definitely subscribing
Hello Heather thank you for the insightful video. I have started with digital calendars and note pads but can't see myself designing more than a 100 of these. I know I have to stay in my nische. Will it be "ok" to add digital art to this or will it confuse the customer?
I sell digital products SVG digital art and shirts and people never confused... I have multiple niches
@@brendamorales3366 Thank you for taking the time to reply Brenda.
Hey Heather! Thank you for your videos! I was trying ti sign up for your corse but it says that it currently out of sale. Is it correct?
Hello. Sorry to bother you. I deleted all my profiles for shipping out of my etsy account and then tried to make new profile shipping labels. But when I went back to printify they all said unpublished. And when I try to republish them they say publishing error. What can I do?
Hey is there any way I can talk to you about print on demand billing?
How do you handle businesses wanting to buy your product in bulk for retail?
I don't find link for Academy. Where is it?
Thank you for this comment! I forgot to link it, it is here: studio.heatherxstudio.com/print-on-demand-academy-enrollment-open-100-seats-available-1-1
@@itsheatherstudio thank you heather. I have already lifehacker academy and videos of Cassiy but I follow you also. Do you have more information in your Academy?
I created my etsy shop on the 1st of august and i have more than 300 listing and only 249 views and no sales. Do you think I should keep uploading listing or i better wait for my first sale?
what are u listing? thats a lot of listings. keep it up
@@Almay20 tshirts
Try advertising!
Thank you. This is very helpful.
❤ Shirley
Hi - I’m an Etsy rookie and just subscribed to your channel. It would be worth it just for the blooper reel :)
Most businesses are trial & error, unless it's a franchise, but there will still be some trial & error. It's all about data.
must watch ❕
Great video. Thank you.
Hello Heather. I created a few nice designs on Printful and I try to sell them on Etsy, but it still doesn't work for me. I decreased all the prices to have my first sales, but finally I had to pay out of my pocket because of the Etsy fees. :) What marge would you recommend to have a good profit? The thing is that the items are pretty expensive and a polyester crop top would cost around $40-45 for the costumer. I think this is too much. How is it possible to make these high profits everybody is talking about? It sounds so easy. :) It's not just about the mindset, also the price right? :)
I think the first issue is that you’re using Printful. Printful is high production fees and this can cause a huge loss of profit over time(there’s a Cassiy Johnson video where she goes over that if she used Printful she would have lost thousands in profit- highly recommend watching). I recommend a $7+ profit after fees(so aim for $10 profit margin on Printify or Printfuls backend so after fees you have at the least $7). The high profit margins is through Printify usually though and doing Printify Premium when you get to over 25 orders a month the membership really does pay for itself. If you sign up for Printify, use code HEATHER30 for printify premium- by the way this isn’t a sponsored comment lol I just really prefer them because I don’t want to see anyone who follows me not get more profit in their businesses and leaving money on the table.
@@itsheatherstudio Thank you sooo much dear! I appreciate your time you took to answer me. And thanks for the code. I do have good designs and hopefully I’ll sell more with Printify. Thank you. 😊
Thank you Heather 🤗💕
in those 2 months to get the first sale, you have established sellers stealing your designs.
Persistency?
thank you trial and error
I will be opening an original art and print on demand (of my art)store. So I need over 100 items to start.? I was told 15-20. Yikes! I planned to add items every few days after that.
You need 100 to make sells, but 15-20 is your first step. Then you just add more designs over time. It is also different with original art and "easy designs" as most people do. You have more to offer in the long run:)
@@bluebellbell3725, thank you.
@@politerabbit3100 hey how are you doing now
I am also a artist looking to start
@@Kentarius, much slower that I expected. I've only sold one on Etsy and two more outside of Etsy. I hope you have more luck than I have.
@@politerabbit3100 are you selling pod and customized art or both? Also have you tried ads? A few weeks ago I saw you can get 100$ in free credit on reddit ads
Well said
You are so beautiful Heather. I kept looking into your eyes. Pretty you. Thank you for this video
100% 👌🏻
100 listings... hold my beer
Your very pleasant, informative and cute!
This aint get enough views for the lack of replies to questions😂
Damn you bad af
Hi beauti I love you 😍 💗 💓 💖
You need to focus on advertising, advertising and advertising, you will see that it will work
I saw on your other social media that you drive traffic to your store and that’s why you were so successful. Can you do a video on social media traffic. I find it hard when our stores don’t have a niche or target audience. 🤍
My Etsy store like 5 years ago all free traffic and I never promoted on any social media platform. Got sales over and over. Now I have to use ads for promoting my shop.