As a positive example, I just wanna tell you, I did everything exactly like you said and I am making 2k€ in my third month. Once I hit 10k, I will come for the shop review you promised me in your january video 😊
Best channel for this on YT hands down. No purple backlit room, no looking at irrelivent revenue over a month, no selling shovels to the goldrush. Just good honest BS free information on how to improve your understanding of how etsy works so you can apply it to your own model. 10/10 would subscibe again!
I love how you're super focused on selling and business yet come off as, not a used car salesman, but as the neighbor everyone wants to have. Your channel is gold. Thanks for the learning and all the best.
This is the absolute best channel I've found for Etsy store owners. I'm sure that with all your advice, I can get off to a good start with my store in 2023. It's so refreshing hearing realistic advice and results, unlike so many of the other videos that claim everyone will be making passive income from etsy and doing 6 figures. Great, down to earth and honest, love it!
Thanks Adam, it's really good to know that what I am doing is helping people. Thanks for your feedback and I look forward to seeing you around on my channel more!
I’ve just found your video, and I’m delighted to have your knowledgable tips as a fairly new shop owner. Seapatcards, such fierce competition in this area of cardmaking!! Personalisation is definitely something I will be offering from now. Thank you .
I'm almost giving up on my Etsy shop and I found you here. I have watched so many videos, but the way you speak makes me feel like I am not alone. It is clear to me why no views and no sales. Thank you . I will try.
You basically said "You cannot copy what everyone else is doing." I have known that all along, because I try to be original, but it is one thing the etsy gurus continue to say to newbies. What a load of BS! So glad to hear someone who is honest for a change.
Hi, so all markets are created by leaders and followers, and to some extent everyone copies everyone else, it is the nature of business, 'copy something and make it better'. However I always strive to get my clients to be different and try new things because your business niche needs leaders, in whatever form that may take.
Correct Ricardo, but the world works like this in business doesn't it? I try to tell my clients to look at what is working and make improvements to these ideas.
Not really. It drives innovation and forces you to be competitive. PlayStation came out to compete with Nintendo and they're both video games consoles.
I started my Etsy store off ALL WRONG but have been doing one listing per day, designing products in chunks each week as I see how previous ones do, turned on global shipping, am putting an option to gift wrap with a personalized card (I make plant hangers, so Idk about personalizing the product itself), and added some less expensive products (suncatchers). I also feel very strongly that my ideas are solid and there is a need and a desire for them. I'm planning on offering seed kits for greens as one of my new products and I hope there's an interest in them during these financially tight times. I love the thought of contributing to better nutrition and therefore health in tough times. Anyway, just wanted to say Thank you for the help with my store! I sure needed it, and it's so appreciated ☀
I actually thought this was a video call directed at me.... was listening to this as I was making mock up tshirt designs..... don't even say anything 😂 had to put back up and change products because you're so right. Back to the drawing board..... need dales 😢
This is BRILLIANT!!! I had two Etsy stores and both were unique. I didn't see anyone else doing what I was doing, but my margins were terrible and it wasn't working. So, I have rebranded one as a digital shop and I'm listening to all the 'gurus' and I can already tell I was headed down another wrong road. I am really going to sit with what you have told us here and try to take it on board and get myself steered in the RIGHT direction. Thank you so much for this!! (Ohhh, and someone I hired to look at my shops told me to drop the inventory to 5 or fewer and I always felt that was wrong. I'm off to correct that right now!) Thanks!!!!
Hi Nick, yes I am taking action exactly as you have laid out. just found your channel about a week ago, right before I was going to list my first products, and did a complete turn around and started a new shop with one of your ideas! Working hard to get it right from the ground up. ‘Your info is invaluable and all makes total sense. I look forward to sharing it with you once I get it going. Just added my first three items, day three. Again, thank you and I might be starting a bit late from your Jan advice, but should be ready for Q4.
I was thinking of how a product I already have up could be done so much better. I was shying away from doing it asap because I was trying to get 100 products up. You helped me to understand that though the number of products is important offering a niche product within those numbers or higher will make the store successful in the long run. I started Etsy just after the new year hit... your mentioning of the fall to winter sales being where things change IF one has a niche product changed my mind on the IF I get 100 products and see no sales thereafter I'll drop Etsy. Thank you. I found your video very honest and encouraging. I will get to work on bettering that niche product and stick it out for the fall/winter of 2024.
Thanks so much. My Etsy store is only 3 weeks old and I've already implemented quite a few of your tips. Realising it takes a while to gain traction and you need at least 100 listings helps a lot and takes the pressure off while still requiring plenty of work. As of today I have 31 listings. I've already created the listing I'm adding tomorrow and I'll try to get in the habit of batch creating and saving listings ready to go to make one a day, rather than 3 here, 2 there. I've only watched three of your videos so far but I feel like I have an actual strategy now. Thank you.
One problem I have noticed of late in my field ( journals and sewing notions) is a mass seller based in US but shipping from China. Huge marketing push sponsoring sewing YTers to do 'unboxing'. Examples....stickers I buy locally for $8, T is offering for $3.80. How is Etsy countering this marketing giant? I refuse to buy from T, but the $$ seems to attract buyers 😢 Great video again.
This is the second video of yours that I've watched, absolutely brilliant and honest information. I've already started changing my tags and titles, and I am working on two custom niche market areas to add to my store via POD, I don't think I'll be able to have both of them active, in time for Xmas. But that's fine for me, I can hit the new year running. I'm working through the printful training courses and they are helping. I also have hand made stuff on my shop (chainmaille jewellery, customised leather gloves and horror dolls) the POD is just a way to bulk up my listings (just over the 100 items so far and another 20 in the background to be publishedthis week) Thank you for these videos, it is disheartening, when you put so much work in and seem to get no where. There is light at the end of the tunnel I guess.
I am conflicted about the deep stock suggestion. I have a store with ~200 listings, all my products are made to order, I list each listing with 4-6 (to avoid a pattern) items in stock. 1) so not to overwhelm/paralyze my store if somebody suddenly decided to buy more than 5 items from one listing. 2) the red letters under the title saying, for example, "Only 2 left and in 1 cart" acts as a FOMO trigger for the customer, therefore I justify my choice of low stock listings to be a psychological tactic. And I believe Etsy understands this too, that's why there's such an indicator in red letters. It's circumstantial, and I call bs on deep stock suggestion.
Hi there, thanks for your comment. With my 9 years of being an Etsy consultant the method of deep stock is mostly successful. It's highly unlikely that a customer will buy more than 5 of one item, and in the worst case scenario you can let the customer know that there is only 1 available and offer alternatives. I hear what you are saying about the FOMO trigger, and as I said before, on the whole my method is usually more successful than the scarcity model. At the end of the day you need to do what's best for you and your store.
Thanks for the tip on low stock. In one of my Etsy stores that sells POD items, some of which are kind of expensive, I was editing the stock to kind of control how many could sell at one time since they need to be paid up front. But I see your point and have changed them all back. Fingers crossed someone doesn't come in and try to buy 500 framed posters which means I'll need to go get a new credit card! :D On a serious note this is one of the things about POD that no one ever really explains which is that it is not free to start and it's not a money-printing machine. It has a financial risk just like any other business other than digital. Not remotely concerned about selling all 999 digitals of something but a high quantity purchase of a pricier POD item is a risk.
I opened my store in February 2023. I'm selling T-shirts and hoodies for a very specific niche, and I've already come up with 200 designs. My daily views are quite low, and my sales are too. Last month, I started creating custom designs, and I'm hoping to make sales by the end of the year. I'm eager to do the work I need to, so I'm going to implement the tricks and tips you provide in the video. I'll come back here at the end of December, hopefully with some good news.
Hi Nik!! Thanks a lot for the video. On 1 shop l have over 320 items and on the other shop over 250. In the last 40 days it went down 70% for sure and every year this is MY SEASON...not until now😢...posting everyday at least 1 item and working on most of your tips. Fingers crossed Thx once again
I hope what you say about having original designs is true! I feel like the other “experts” only recommend emulating the best sellers’ designs, which makes me think what a boring market we have. I have 125 pod shirt designs in my Etsy shop and after two months still don’t have an organic sale. I will have to get over myself and get some personalized shirt offerings up. Thanks for your advice!
I sell supplies and when I listed 100 to 150 items I saw a lot more sales. I never thought I could get up to that many, now I’m at almost 300. But my items are only around three dollars so I still don’t make that much yet. ~$500/month But I definitely agree on the 100 listings that’s when I totally saw a difference.
Hi, Nick. I watched a lot of your videos, not all, but... everything you say makes a lot of sense. I just opened my store 2 weeks ago. There is a problem with having 100 items with depth stock for any store, especially for handmade one of a kind things. I offer dining and kitchen home textiles, like tablecloths, runners , napkins, and so on. But, my message is unique, one of a kind, things, I do a few as a collection and offer my customer to own something, which is limited edition. So, for me, having 100 items with 100s of each is impossible. How I can accommodate your advice to my situation? I can do personalization and gift ability, no problem. So digital and POD are way different aproach than handmade physical products.
You are so right! I have slacked in adding more products in my Etsy shop. Thank you for expert advice. I will be using your advice more seriously so that I can become successful. Thank you!
I agree with everything you have said about why people are failing to make sales on Etsy. I've noticed that there are so many people duplicating other people's work. I don't know how many stores I've seen that carry the same artwork or digital art quotes! The emphasis without a doubt has to be providing something unique and of value to people. Many of the personalised stores have the same artwork and it is quite disappointing to see copycats or people using copyrighted images or lots of public domain which is unchanged and used as is! All so discouraging for a person starting out. I created adult coloring books on Amazon way back and hit the bestsellers for a few months. Then added POD repurposing the designs. I have been looking at Etsy for some time but most likely not going to go on the platform! Being a lapsed graphic designer I only have one social media platform like Pinterest which reached 6.7m monthly views over 4 months ago. It is now hovering at 5m purely because of the amount of work I put into my boards and KWs over the last few years. I've posted nothing for many months and it is still working with the algorithms. I plan on experimenting with my own e-commerce store and linking that up to Pinterest to capture some of those viewers and converting them into buyers! It would be nice if I can achieve selling to a fraction of those numbers! I've spent 4 years away from the industry and like I said only maintained my social media platform. I've been researching like mad to see where I will go from here and pretty much come to my own conclusion referred to in the previous paragraph to stick with the books and POD (original artwork) and use my own website/e-commerce and social media account to sell. However, I have to admit the reliance on any platform you don't own is a big risk!
Day 1 with 16 items lol 284 views and 10 visits. So I’m just sitting here watching your videos and others to get this together! Thank you for your advice
Thanks for this, Nik! My store has been open for three weeks and I have 9 sales. They're digital items and some are AI with help from Photoshop. Yesterday, I remembered you saying we should make sure that our primary listing images were bright, so I went back and updated them. 🙂 It was more work, but I must say, they do look better! It's helpful to have your advice reiterated from time to time. 😀
Slowly implementing your suggestions. Yesterday I added a video to an item, then added some words to a photo using Canva to point out what's different about it, also followed your SEO in 10mins post & applied those. Today my phone went Cha-ching...for that particular item! Not sure it would have worked that quickly, but it made me do a little jig😂😂😂
So true ppl shouldnt be doing this just to make money, they should be artists enjoying what theyre doing. Everyone just stealing other peoples stuff and using ai to slap junk designs on stuff and post it is just disgusting.
I am In Ukraine, I have created a shop for my wife 2 days ago. Watching your video and following every advice of yours. We ran ads too getting views and clicks but no sell yet. Waiting for first order
Hi there, thanks for your comment. Please see my video on Etsy Ads, it's way too soon to start running ads Links below for: 1) Etsy Ads 2) Your first 3 months on Etsy ruclips.net/video/EzCg5z61QuA/видео.htmlsi=wY90NxzxDndr2YvG ruclips.net/video/4GrTnCReu2c/видео.htmlsi=LFWLa-glhzckCEio
My shop is open since 15 days and i have had 18 orders so far but my views are terrible, i get 15-25 views (since i deactivated etsy ads) on my shop per day and most of them don‘t even come from etsy, they come from my instagram. I sell stickers and i do sometimes come up if i search after my products at the front page. I‘m always really unsure what to focus on because i see so many tips from doing more seo or replacing pictures or trying to market from social media platforms but your advice speaks to me. Now i‘ll focus on getting 100 listings since i only have 33 so far
Will definitely start adding more personalization. Will look into the gift wrapping from Printful. Will start taking more risks with my designs since my views and sales are so low since I started 5 months ago. Nothing left to lose at this point. Thanks!
I created my shop in December, 2022. It took me a couple of months to figure out SEO for my listings. Once I redid my titles. Immediately. I began to have increased views. My shop items are getting favorited frequently. I created over 311 listings to date.
Thank you for advice other than SEO! It's all I hear now, and even when I do everything I can to optimise my SEO, I still get little views and no sales! I only have roughly 10 items, so I'm going to work towards 100 before I get demotivated by lack of sales. Thank you:)
Hey Nick!! I've started POD jewelry not opened the shop yet.. My questions are 1. Should I make 20 listings each for B'days, anniversaries, Bridesmaids etc to make 100 2. What can i offer that's unique when the jewelry is not made by me 3. Is there a chance of personalisation in this category? Thanks. what you're doing is really commendable!!
Hi there, there's a lot to go through to give you a proper answer. I suggest you book a 30 minute zoom consultation with me using the following link: etsy-consultant.com/services/30-minute-zoom-consultation/
thank you for this video. I set up my Etsy shop shortly before Christmas and have been able to sell. I do get many views, but low sales. The sales I have been able to make are from friends and family, so I can't really count those numbers. I would love to offer more items, but I simply can't afford such a risk as a single mom. I will add personalisation and hope it works.
Hi there thanks for your comment. There is a lot of free advice on this channel, if you haven't already please watch my 'first 3 months on Etsy' video and consider subscribing to my channel, there is a lot of good stuff coming up!
I wish I had found your channel sooner! Thanks for your down to earth wisdom (and no nonsense reality check). I opened my digital shop at the end of June, and currently have 50 active products. I have mostly been experimenting with items for my store (only one sale so far). However, you have inspired me to focus on creating supplies for artists, designers and writers based (instead of making templates for busy mums). I also made the mistake of focusing on seasonal products for Halloween & Black History Month, so time to go back to Evergreen items.
finally got someone who's not just spamming for their so called courses to sell on etsy. Man you did great. Genuine content with real facts. Keep it up Man. I'll try to put all those things into my store. Love from India :) Stay Safe Stay Happy. :)😊
Thank you so much for your strategies! I'm working hard to make my store the best it can be and I will take action on your ideas! I started my shop on April 1 of this year and trying to focus on the end result. I have 127 listings so far and just working and learning each day. Thank you again for your ideas!
Great information, I'm currently at 70 listings and still going. I got a message from Etsy stating my views were good but I still have made a sale, but my products are getting a lot of likes on other platforms. I think I need to build customer trust in order for potential clients to have confidence in me.
Hi there, follow all my tips, there is loads of free advice here on my channel. You can also book a call with me if you'd like to work with me, link below: www.upwork.com/services/consultation/marketing-nicholas-1470757861503000576
Thank you so much for this incredible information. I know I gotta put on the work and am really glad I watched this.will update whe I got over 100 listings that are Ai/ astrology / personalization😊. Every single day learning something new to improve on my craft.
This is the best advises I've had. Very practical and really to the point. Thank you and more power! I just started a digital business and I'm using your advises and tips as a base for my Etsy journey 😁
I strongly agree with what you said. AI is merely a reference and supplementary tool. If used to generate content for profit, it's equivalent to deception. I have also noticed many people selling AI-generated designs on ETSY. I believe that personal style and design philosophy have been lost.
The think that surprise me is that i am an owner of an Etsy shop thats's actually 3 months old,and i am having the numbers you usually tell us in your videos,but sometimes i see videos from this youtubers reviews from their "challenges" shops and they are having numbers that really surprise me,sometimes i think that maybe i am making something wrong...
@@etsyconsultant the amount of sales they are having,I know they have experience in other shops,but in 2 months they are having really good numbers Idk...
Hi Nik, I have done everything that you have suggested, with the exception of offering personalization and still have zero sales. It's most disheartening and very frustrating. I'm still going to continue to come up with new designs and maybe revisit my settings on Etsy.
IMO, Etsy hides some sellers PAID listings, while charging sellers listing fees to show them to buyers. Buyers may end up paying more for items because they never find some things that are actually cheaper. You're not supposed to know. Lots of sellers are discussing this on social media venues, and can easily prove it. Some sellers cant even find their own items (that they paid listing fees for) in their own Etsy Storefront, so there's no way buyers will ever find those items in Etsy's search either. The only thing that would make Etsy change its ways is probably a multi-billion dollar class action lawsuit for charging sellers money to show their listings, but knowingly hiding those listings instead.
Thanks for your comment. You should always find your own listings in your own store with an internal title copy and paste. If you do not find them, this is not because anything is being hidden, but because your store is not indexed, and you should reach out to Etsy to have it indexed.
The more i learn about ETSY the more it seems it is favoured towards digital and Print on demand rather then physical handmade products, if you need more 100 item in a shop to get sales.
I have about 140 items and am a star seller for the past few months but I hardly get any sales....I get some favorites each day but no sales. It's extremely slow and quite disheartening. I look at other shops selling items in the same niche category and they seem to be thriving.
Hi, I hear you. Honestly don't sit their without the answers, book in for a 30 minute consultation with me, and I will quickly get you on to a more profitable path (hard work will be required!)...links to book are below: Upwork: www.upwork.com/services/product/marketing-a-30-minute-etsy-problem-solver-video-call-with-the-world-s-best-consultant-1351219976669429760?ref=project_share Fiverr: www.fiverr.com/s/gBlpDb Website: etsy-consultant.com/services/30-minute-zoom-consultation/
Huge thanks for your videos! I launched my Etsy shop week ago and still got no sales. I produce custom rugs using customers designs and sell already finished ones as well. The problem is that I don’t really know how to promote and grow my shop because it’s kind of unusual and one of a kind items which I try to sell (I sell not ready item). I hope some day ill find here the video in which you ll spotlight this theme.
It’s taken me 1.5 years to get to almost 100 items, as I’ve been listing 1 sometimes 2 a day, and reached 440 sales in this time. I go slow and steady with building my shop, but recently my shop has gone very quite, when I have the most listings available, I joined Etsy forums and had shop critiques and made all improvements also. My shop means so much to me with all the effort I put in to sourcing, listings & pretty packaging. My one of a kind items mean I can’t multi list whatsoever. Is it possible to still succeed? I’m constantly re investing everything and starting to worry of the silence in my shop right now.
Hi there Paige, thanks for your comment. Have you seen my video all about selling one of a kind items? If not link below: ruclips.net/video/zPzDptXFMoM/видео.html
I have over 100 listings. Been open since Oct 2022 with only 26 sales. I love your videos and try to follow your tips. I feel like I get views but not enough sales or people exploring the store. Any advice?
What you're describing is impossible for a true, hand made shop, which is what Etsy started out as. I know times change but just like how malls killed mom & pop stores, so too is this high volume crap that keeps getting pushed on Etsy. I hand make wood crafts. I have 11 items in my shop. In my first 3 months, I've made 20 sales. If I sold one of everything all in the same day, it would take me a week to get it all shipped out, and that's assuming I don't get any other orders until then. I'm one person. It would take me months to "stock" my shop with 20 of each item. I also want to have seasonal items available. In spring time I make outdoor things like squirrel feeders, bird feeders, etc. Now that we're in July, I'm making the switch to Halloween so I can start marketing early. To do that, I need to make those items so I can photograph them so I can list them. In a couple of months I'll be switching again to holiday items. I would like for my sales to increase, but I don't live on my Etsy income. I'm ok with playing the long game and seeing where this takes me. At the same time, I want to maintain the hand made image of my shop and the items I sell. Mass production is not hand made. Your advice works for a segment of the Etsy marketplace, not all of it. You should say that, don't just generalize.
Hi, thanks for your comment, and of course I understand where you are coming from. However, here is the reality: Etsy has long since moved on from what you talk about, what I talk about isn't a segment of the marketplace, it is the overwhelming majority. There are millions of POD sellers alone, before talking about other volume businesses. Out of 100 businesses that I consult on Etsy, I would say 5 to 10 are small handmade businesses, the rest are POD/high volume physical or digital stores.
@@etsyconsultant you're right. And guys like you just keep pushing it further and further away from what it used to be. Videos like yours, about making lots of money on Etsy, are a dime a dozen here on YT. Here's the thing, guys like you have already made your money on Etsy doing the POD and digital thing. Just like the "get rich quick" ads on TV from the 80's, you've switched to telling other people how to do it because that's where the easy money is now.
Hey, I was wondering if it's even worth putting in the effort to create new designs and post more listings. And guess what? You just gave me the answer.
What do you think about if a couple of items were favorited on your store very frequently but you're not getting sales, thank you for all you do for us ❤
Such a positive video! I do digital art work and it is hard, but I am hoping the Niche I choose will get me there in time and of course learning from you. Thank you
Since Etsy is meant to be HANDMADE stuff… and I’m an artist selling Art… how am I supposed to have “stock depth”? I sell unique Art pieces! I understand having more Art to look at, 100 listings.
Hi there, thanks for your comment. Please see my video on how to sell 'one of a kind Items on Etsy' I explain the reason for stock depth and how to make it work for sellers like yourself who won't have stock depth: ruclips.net/video/zPzDptXFMoM/видео.htmlsi=JvqO_dHceYIqjTTV
So glad I came across your channel! Thanks for the information! New subscriber here. Just finished watching your video about social media (I was beating myself up because I hate running social media for etsy but as it turns out, we shouldn't anyway. LOL).
Adding value and not offering what everyone is selling.....I hear you. Does that mean that t-shirts and sweatshirts with POD is a dead end and keeping adding listings with those is a waste of time and money?
Hi Nick, I've been searching for SEO info for more than a year, probably more than two, and you have just saved my life. I am a children's illustrated book author. I have two books completed in E & Print format, in 16 languages in each format. Can you please give me some guidance for my Etsy launch. Regards, Mike
I’m wanting to book a 30 mins consultation but the website is not letting me move forward with booking a date. I would like to book it asap, if possible
Hi, I have just checked it, and you can select a date no problem. Please be aware I am fully booked until 28th August, that might be what you are seeing. Please contact me via the website so that I can assist.
I am a soap maker. I don't see how it is possible to have a minimum of 100 items in my store, and keep all that inventory especially if sales are low... Just don't have the space or the funds to keep that much inventory.
The problem I am having is that to make my inventory I need a lot of money so every time I makes a pair of shoes for display its cost me about 60 dollars so 100 items will be tough and I am at 25 items I guess I will need to get another job to fund it
Hi there, thanks for your comment. I appreciate that this is not always possible, just do what you can. Feel free to book a call with me so that I can help you with this: etsy-consultant.com/services/discovery-call/
What if you made a handmade that is very unique and only one of a kind item? You can’t have stock more than 1 type of items. I make items from recycled fabrics.
I sell vintage items that for the most part are just one off and unique. I can't have higher stock depth for items that are vintage. 99% of the time it's just the one item and when it sells it's done.
Hi Luna Thanks for your comment, if you haven't seen it already my video on selling 'one of a kind items' covers this. ruclips.net/video/zPzDptXFMoM/видео.html
As for the number of items, I have been watching a store that opened 6 months ago and it has more sales than I have after 10 years. Now their sales were 6 yesterday, and they have 40 items. I had 0. so I understand what you say as to numbers having items. Both stores are selling digital downloads. The only difference I see is they are doing just coloring pages. I do a lot of digital products, my one product that sells is a maze puzzle book. Should I have 2 different stores?
Hi Jess Thanks for your comment. The store could be directing traffic from social media. Also its as though they are focusing on one specific market, colouring pages. To help you decided on your store have a look at my 'niche vs general' store video. ruclips.net/video/heGhss1r-_4/видео.html
Hi there thanks for your comment. There is an option for buyers to add a 'gift message' for any 'Printful' orders and you may like to check out this link which explains custom wrap options: www.printful.com/print-on-demand-with-custom-packaging
As a positive example, I just wanna tell you, I did everything exactly like you said and I am making 2k€ in my third month. Once I hit 10k, I will come for the shop review you promised me in your january video 😊
Amazing, I look forward to reviewing your store, in fact I might use it as a case study.
Looking forward to seeing how you did it and what your products are. ❤
Well done! Congrats to you! 🎉
@@colleenhurley7507 Will be a good review that's for sure.
@@realricardoruiz indeed!
Best channel for this on YT hands down. No purple backlit room, no looking at irrelivent revenue over a month, no selling shovels to the goldrush. Just good honest BS free information on how to improve your understanding of how etsy works so you can apply it to your own model.
10/10 would subscibe again!
Thanks I appreciate your feedback!
I love how you're super focused on selling and business yet come off as, not a used car salesman, but as the neighbor everyone wants to have. Your channel is gold. Thanks for the learning and all the best.
Thanks for the feedback Kent, always good to hear what people think.
It's always great listening to you. I have over 200 items in my store and I barely get views, and I'm getting no sales. I'm concerned
Hey Keesha, drop your store name and I will tell you what the problem is.
CasarahDesigns
Love your products, really like how bright they are. But am seeing a lot of Christmas and Easter themed articles. Maybe that could be a reason?
This is the absolute best channel I've found for Etsy store owners. I'm sure that with all your advice, I can get off to a good start with my store in 2023. It's so refreshing hearing realistic advice and results, unlike so many of the other videos that claim everyone will be making passive income from etsy and doing 6 figures. Great, down to earth and honest, love it!
Thanks Adam, it's really good to know that what I am doing is helping people. Thanks for your feedback and I look forward to seeing you around on my channel more!
I’ve just found your video, and I’m delighted to have your knowledgable tips as a fairly new shop owner. Seapatcards, such fierce competition in this area of cardmaking!! Personalisation is definitely something I will be offering from now. Thank you .
I'm almost giving up on my Etsy shop and I found you here. I have watched so many videos, but the way you speak makes me feel like I am not alone. It is clear to me why no views and no sales. Thank you . I will try.
You can do it!
You basically said "You cannot copy what everyone else is doing." I have known that all along, because I try to be original, but it is one thing the etsy gurus continue to say to newbies. What a load of BS! So glad to hear someone who is honest for a change.
Hi, so all markets are created by leaders and followers, and to some extent everyone copies everyone else, it is the nature of business, 'copy something and make it better'.
However I always strive to get my clients to be different and try new things because your business niche needs leaders, in whatever form that may take.
The thing that bothers me is that a lot of youtubers are incentivizing the audience to just copy other artists work. That's lazy and dishonest.
Correct Ricardo, but the world works like this in business doesn't it? I try to tell my clients to look at what is working and make improvements to these ideas.
This aches me so much, Etsy has become a garage sales yard.. Everyone bought a Cricut and became an artist overnight..
Not really. It drives innovation and forces you to be competitive. PlayStation came out to compete with Nintendo and they're both video games consoles.
@@isthattrue1083 Innovation is coming up with something, not copying. If they are so innovative why did they not come up with it first?
@@isthattrue1083 Non creative people copy
I started my Etsy store off ALL WRONG but have been doing one listing per day, designing products in chunks each week as I see how previous ones do, turned on global shipping, am putting an option to gift wrap with a personalized card (I make plant hangers, so Idk about personalizing the product itself), and added some less expensive products (suncatchers). I also feel very strongly that my ideas are solid and there is a need and a desire for them. I'm planning on offering seed kits for greens as one of my new products and I hope there's an interest in them during these financially tight times. I love the thought of contributing to better nutrition and therefore health in tough times. Anyway, just wanted to say Thank you for the help with my store! I sure needed it, and it's so appreciated ☀
Hi Kim, great to hear all your ideas and things you are doing to help your store, keep going!
A really honest and truthful video, a wake-up call. Thanks I needed that.
No problem, I'm glad I could help
ETSY is for scammers@@etsyconsultant
I actually thought this was a video call directed at me.... was listening to this as I was making mock up tshirt designs..... don't even say anything 😂 had to put back up and change products because you're so right. Back to the drawing board..... need dales 😢
I hear you!
This is BRILLIANT!!! I had two Etsy stores and both were unique. I didn't see anyone else doing what I was doing, but my margins were terrible and it wasn't working. So, I have rebranded one as a digital shop and I'm listening to all the 'gurus' and I can already tell I was headed down another wrong road. I am really going to sit with what you have told us here and try to take it on board and get myself steered in the RIGHT direction. Thank you so much for this!!
(Ohhh, and someone I hired to look at my shops told me to drop the inventory to 5 or fewer and I always felt that was wrong. I'm off to correct that right now!) Thanks!!!!
Awesome Carla, please keep me informed of your progress, and yes, low inventory is a terrible idea.
Hi Nick, yes I am taking action exactly as you have laid out. just found your channel about a week ago, right before I was going to list my first products, and did a complete turn around and started a new shop with one of your ideas! Working hard to get it right from the ground up. ‘Your info is invaluable and all makes total sense. I look forward to sharing it with you once I get it going. Just added my first three items, day three. Again, thank you and I might be starting a bit late from your Jan advice, but should be ready for Q4.
That's great, do let me know how it is going later this year, I am always interested to know.
Brilliant video! My goal for my new store this year is to make 100 listings💪🏾 it’s not easy when the creative juices don’t flow but working through it
Hey LR, yes it is tough sometimes, like you said you just have to keep working.
I was thinking of how a product I already have up could be done so much better. I was shying away from doing it asap because I was trying to get 100 products up. You helped me to understand that though the number of products is important offering a niche product within those numbers or higher will make the store successful in the long run. I started Etsy just after the new year hit... your mentioning of the fall to winter sales being where things change IF one has a niche product changed my mind on the IF I get 100 products and see no sales thereafter I'll drop Etsy. Thank you. I found your video very honest and encouraging. I will get to work on bettering that niche product and stick it out for the fall/winter of 2024.
Good luck, let me know how you go.
Thanks so much. My Etsy store is only 3 weeks old and I've already implemented quite a few of your tips. Realising it takes a while to gain traction and you need at least 100 listings helps a lot and takes the pressure off while still requiring plenty of work.
As of today I have 31 listings. I've already created the listing I'm adding tomorrow and I'll try to get in the habit of batch creating and saving listings ready to go to make one a day, rather than 3 here, 2 there.
I've only watched three of your videos so far but I feel like I have an actual strategy now. Thank you.
Hi there, thank you so much for sharing! Keep going!
As a new shop owner, this is such valuable information. Im following everything you said. Thank you
Hey, thank you very much and keep us updated about your progress!
One problem I have noticed of late in my field ( journals and sewing notions) is a mass seller based in US but shipping from China. Huge marketing push sponsoring sewing YTers to do 'unboxing'. Examples....stickers I buy locally for $8, T is offering for $3.80. How is Etsy countering this marketing giant? I refuse to buy from T, but the $$ seems to attract buyers 😢
Great video again.
Hi Susan, thanks for your comment. Unfortunately this is the Etsy of today and we have to do our best with our own business.
This is the second video of yours that I've watched, absolutely brilliant and honest information. I've already started changing my tags and titles, and I am working on two custom niche market areas to add to my store via POD, I don't think I'll be able to have both of them active, in time for Xmas. But that's fine for me, I can hit the new year running.
I'm working through the printful training courses and they are helping.
I also have hand made stuff on my shop (chainmaille jewellery, customised leather gloves and horror dolls) the POD is just a way to bulk up my listings (just over the 100 items so far and another 20 in the background to be publishedthis week)
Thank you for these videos, it is disheartening, when you put so much work in and seem to get no where. There is light at the end of the tunnel I guess.
Thanks for your comment, I am glad I can help you, keep going.
I am conflicted about the deep stock suggestion. I have a store with ~200 listings, all my products are made to order, I list each listing with 4-6 (to avoid a pattern) items in stock.
1) so not to overwhelm/paralyze my store if somebody suddenly decided to buy more than 5 items from one listing.
2) the red letters under the title saying, for example, "Only 2 left and in 1 cart" acts as a FOMO trigger for the customer, therefore I justify my choice of low stock listings to be a psychological tactic. And I believe Etsy understands this too, that's why there's such an indicator in red letters.
It's circumstantial, and I call bs on deep stock suggestion.
Hi there, thanks for your comment. With my 9 years of being an Etsy consultant the method of deep stock is mostly successful. It's highly unlikely that a customer will buy more than 5 of one item, and in the worst case scenario you can let the customer know that there is only 1 available and offer alternatives. I hear what you are saying about the FOMO trigger, and as I said before, on the whole my method is usually more successful than the scarcity model. At the end of the day you need to do what's best for you and your store.
I wouldn’t trust a shop that had 30-50 items deep and over 100 items in the store. I would think they aren’t handmade.
Thanks for the tip on low stock. In one of my Etsy stores that sells POD items, some of which are kind of expensive, I was editing the stock to kind of control how many could sell at one time since they need to be paid up front. But I see your point and have changed them all back. Fingers crossed someone doesn't come in and try to buy 500 framed posters which means I'll need to go get a new credit card! :D On a serious note this is one of the things about POD that no one ever really explains which is that it is not free to start and it's not a money-printing machine. It has a financial risk just like any other business other than digital. Not remotely concerned about selling all 999 digitals of something but a high quantity purchase of a pricier POD item is a risk.
Very true, but for most people they are just selling mugs and t shirts, your situation is definitely a minority, thanks for your comment.
I opened my store in February 2023. I'm selling T-shirts and hoodies for a very specific niche, and I've already come up with 200 designs. My daily views are quite low, and my sales are too. Last month, I started creating custom designs, and I'm hoping to make sales by the end of the year. I'm eager to do the work I need to, so I'm going to implement the tricks and tips you provide in the video. I'll come back here at the end of December, hopefully with some good news.
Hi there, great to hear. Keep us updated with your progress.
Hi Nik!! Thanks a lot for the video. On 1 shop l have over 320 items and on the other shop over 250. In the last 40 days it went down 70% for sure and every year this is MY SEASON...not until now😢...posting everyday at least 1 item and working on most of your tips. Fingers crossed
Thx once again
No problem Juliene, good luck!
I hope what you say about having original designs is true! I feel like the other “experts” only recommend emulating the best sellers’ designs, which makes me think what a boring market we have. I have 125 pod shirt designs in my Etsy shop and after two months still don’t have an organic sale. I will have to get over myself and get some personalized shirt offerings up. Thanks for your advice!
Hi, and thanks for your comment. All markets for every product ever made only ever move forwards through innovators. It is true.
I sell supplies and when I listed 100 to 150 items I saw a lot more sales. I never thought I could get up to that many, now I’m at almost 300. But my items are only around three dollars so I still don’t make that much yet. ~$500/month But I definitely agree on the 100 listings that’s when I totally saw a difference.
Awesome Kai, good to hear!
Hi, Nick. I watched a lot of your videos, not all, but... everything you say makes a lot of sense. I just opened my store 2 weeks ago. There is a problem with having 100 items with depth stock for any store, especially for handmade one of a kind things. I offer dining and kitchen home textiles, like tablecloths, runners , napkins, and so on. But, my message is unique, one of a kind, things, I do a few as a collection and offer my customer to own something, which is limited edition. So, for me, having 100 items with 100s of each is impossible. How I can accommodate your advice to my situation? I can do personalization and gift ability, no problem.
So digital and POD are way different aproach than handmade physical products.
Hi there, thanks for your comment. You don't need to physically have 100 of those items, it just helps with the algorithm.
You are so right! I have slacked in adding more products in my Etsy shop. Thank you for expert advice. I will be using your advice more seriously so that I can become successful. Thank you!
Keep me in the loop with how it's going Ana.
I agree with everything you have said about why people are failing to make sales on Etsy.
I've noticed that there are so many people duplicating other people's work. I don't know how many stores I've seen that carry the same artwork or digital art quotes! The emphasis without a doubt has to be providing something unique and of value to people. Many of the personalised stores have the same artwork and it is quite disappointing to see copycats or people using copyrighted images or lots of public domain which is unchanged and used as is! All so discouraging for a person starting out.
I created adult coloring books on Amazon way back and hit the bestsellers for a few months. Then added POD repurposing the designs. I have been looking at Etsy for some time but most likely not going to go on the platform! Being a lapsed graphic designer I only have one social media platform like Pinterest which reached 6.7m monthly views over 4 months ago. It is now hovering at 5m purely because of the amount of work I put into my boards and KWs over the last few years. I've posted nothing for many months and it is still working with the algorithms. I plan on experimenting with my own e-commerce store and linking that up to Pinterest to capture some of those viewers and converting them into buyers! It would be nice if I can achieve selling to a fraction of those numbers!
I've spent 4 years away from the industry and like I said only maintained my social media platform. I've been researching like mad to see where I will go from here and pretty much come to my own conclusion referred to in the previous paragraph to stick with the books and POD (original artwork) and use my own website/e-commerce and social media account to sell. However, I have to admit the reliance on any platform you don't own is a big risk!
Great comment, thanks for sharing a bit of detail about your journey.
Day 1 with 16 items lol 284 views and 10 visits. So I’m just sitting here watching your videos and others to get this together! Thank you for your advice
Hi there, you're welcome, keep going!
Thanks for this, Nik! My store has been open for three weeks and I have 9 sales. They're digital items and some are AI with help from Photoshop. Yesterday, I remembered you saying we should make sure that our primary listing images were bright, so I went back and updated them. 🙂 It was more work, but I must say, they do look better! It's helpful to have your advice reiterated from time to time. 😀
Hey Danielle thanks for the update, good news on advice repetition, that is guaranteed to happen!
Man, this is the realest video I have seen for new etsy shops. Thank you, sir. ❤
Glad it was helpful!
Slowly implementing your suggestions. Yesterday I added a video to an item, then added some words to a photo using Canva to point out what's different about it, also followed your SEO in 10mins post & applied those. Today my phone went Cha-ching...for that particular item! Not sure it would have worked that quickly, but it made me do a little jig😂😂😂
Great to hear, thanks for sharing.
this guy is like a breath of fresh air. thank you
Thank you very much for your comment!
So true ppl shouldnt be doing this just to make money, they should be artists enjoying what theyre doing. Everyone just stealing other peoples stuff and using ai to slap junk designs on stuff and post it is just disgusting.
I agree Nicky
I don't have an Etsy shop yet. I am just learning how to create my art using Affinity Designer. I appreciate all the helpful information you share.
Thanks, I appreciate you being here.
I am In Ukraine, I have created a shop for my wife 2 days ago. Watching your video and following every advice of yours. We ran ads too getting views and clicks but no sell yet. Waiting for first order
Hi there, thanks for your comment. Please see my video on Etsy Ads, it's way too soon to start running ads Links below for:
1) Etsy Ads
2) Your first 3 months on Etsy
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ruclips.net/video/4GrTnCReu2c/видео.htmlsi=LFWLa-glhzckCEio
My shop is open since 15 days and i have had 18 orders so far but my views are terrible, i get 15-25 views (since i deactivated etsy ads) on my shop per day and most of them don‘t even come from etsy, they come from my instagram. I sell stickers and i do sometimes come up if i search after my products at the front page. I‘m always really unsure what to focus on because i see so many tips from doing more seo or replacing pictures or trying to market from social media platforms but your advice speaks to me. Now i‘ll focus on getting 100 listings since i only have 33 so far
Hi, yes get to 100 listings, focus on creating sales from within Etsy.
Look forward to this, it’s one of my issues. Thank you for always listening and covering what people ask.
I’m working really hard to come up with original stuff! Thank you ❤
No problem, I try my best!
@@sonz4205 Great, that is always going to be better than copying someone else.
Been contemplating for years to open a store... Since I'm a graphic designer artist and love astrology so this sounds pretttyyyyy interesting idea💕🙏🏻
Hi there, go for it!
Will definitely start adding more personalization. Will look into the gift wrapping from Printful. Will start taking more risks with my designs since my views and sales are so low since I started 5 months ago. Nothing left to lose at this point. Thanks!
No problem at all, risk brings the chance of reward.
I created my shop in December, 2022. It took me a couple of months to figure out SEO for my listings. Once I redid my titles. Immediately. I began to have increased views. My shop items are getting favorited frequently. I created over 311 listings to date.
Good going, that's a solid number of listings.
Thank you for advice other than SEO! It's all I hear now, and even when I do everything I can to optimise my SEO, I still get little views and no sales! I only have roughly 10 items, so I'm going to work towards 100 before I get demotivated by lack of sales. Thank you:)
You got this!
Hey Nick!! I've started POD jewelry not opened the shop yet.. My questions are
1. Should I make 20 listings each for B'days, anniversaries, Bridesmaids etc to make 100
2. What can i offer that's unique when the jewelry is not made by me
3. Is there a chance of personalisation in this category?
Thanks. what you're doing is really commendable!!
Hi there, there's a lot to go through to give you a proper answer. I suggest you book a 30 minute zoom consultation with me using the following link:
etsy-consultant.com/services/30-minute-zoom-consultation/
thank you for this video. I set up my Etsy shop shortly before Christmas and have been able to sell. I do get many views, but low sales. The sales I have been able to make are from friends and family, so I can't really count those numbers. I would love to offer more items, but I simply can't afford such a risk as a single mom. I will add personalisation and hope it works.
Hi there thanks for your comment. There is a lot of free advice on this channel, if you haven't already please watch my 'first 3 months on Etsy' video and consider subscribing to my channel, there is a lot of good stuff coming up!
I wish I had found your channel sooner! Thanks for your down to earth wisdom (and no nonsense reality check). I opened my digital shop at the end of June, and currently have 50 active products. I have mostly been experimenting with items for my store (only one sale so far). However, you have inspired me to focus on creating supplies for artists, designers and writers based (instead of making templates for busy mums). I also made the mistake of focusing on seasonal products for Halloween & Black History Month, so time to go back to Evergreen items.
Thanks for your feedback, and go! Good luck!
This was the most refreshing, honest advice. You got my attention. I will change some things in my store. Thank you.
Great to hear!
finally got someone who's not just spamming for their so called courses to sell on etsy. Man you did great. Genuine content with real facts. Keep it up Man. I'll try to put all those things into my store. Love from India :) Stay Safe Stay Happy. :)😊
Thanks for your support I appreciate it.
@@etsyconsultant can you please look into my store and tell what am i doing werong?
As a new shop owner, this is such valuable information. Thank you for this!
You're welcome
Thank you so much for your strategies! I'm working hard to make my store the best it can be and I will take action on your ideas! I started my shop on April 1 of this year and trying to focus on the end result. I have 127 listings so far and just working and learning each day. Thank you again for your ideas!
HI there Pamela, great to hear and keep going!
Great information, I'm currently at 70 listings and still going. I got a message from Etsy stating my views were good but I still have made a sale, but my products are getting a lot of likes on other platforms. I think I need to build customer trust in order for potential clients to have confidence in me.
Hi there, follow all my tips, there is loads of free advice here on my channel. You can also book a call with me if you'd like to work with me, link below:
www.upwork.com/services/consultation/marketing-nicholas-1470757861503000576
Thank you so much for this incredible information. I know I gotta put on the work and am really glad I watched this.will update whe I got over 100 listings that are Ai/ astrology / personalization😊. Every single day learning something new to improve on my craft.
Great, I genuinely would like to hear of your progress, so let me know, thanks.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I love your no-bull approach.
You are so welcome! Thank you for your feedback.
Thank you!! I will def strive to increase my listings as well as my inventory. Your LEGO video helped me to understand that.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks Nick… some times it feels super demotivating to keep going, but you always give me hope; will keep trying!
Hey Emy, yes it is hard especially when we enter the quiet period of the year (summer), but keep going, Q4 is around the corner.
Such a helpful video thank you
So glad!
Not on Etsy, but all this applies to niche dropshipping. Great tips and very well explained.
Glad it was helpful!
This is the best advises I've had. Very practical and really to the point. Thank you and more power! I just started a digital business and I'm using your advises and tips as a base for my Etsy journey 😁
Hi there, great to hear. Please share your success!
I strongly agree with what you said. AI is merely a reference and supplementary tool. If used to generate content for profit, it's equivalent to deception. I have also noticed many people selling AI-generated designs on ETSY. I believe that personal style and design philosophy have been lost.
Hi there Joanne, thanks for your comment!
The think that surprise me is that i am an owner of an Etsy shop thats's actually 3 months old,and i am having the numbers you usually tell us in your videos,but sometimes i see videos from this youtubers reviews from their "challenges" shops and they are having numbers that really surprise me,sometimes i think that maybe i am making something wrong...
Hi there, thanks for your comment. 3 months is early days, what surprised you?
@@etsyconsultant the amount of sales they are having,I know they have experience in other shops,but in 2 months they are having really good numbers Idk...
Hi Nik, I have done everything that you have suggested, with the exception of offering personalization and still have zero sales. It's most disheartening and very frustrating. I'm still going to continue to come up with new designs and maybe revisit my settings on Etsy.
Hey Pat, send me your store name, I will see if there is a problem.
Hi Nik,
That would be wonderful and greatly appreciated! Could you provide me with your business email address so that I can forward my info to you?
Thanks Nik. I'm on the case and it's like you're reading my diary. I hear you say what to do and I go , well, I'm doing just that.
IMO, Etsy hides some sellers PAID listings, while charging sellers listing fees to show them to buyers. Buyers may end up paying more for items because they never find some things that are actually cheaper. You're not supposed to know. Lots of sellers are discussing this on social media venues, and can easily prove it. Some sellers cant even find their own items (that they paid listing fees for) in their own Etsy Storefront, so there's no way buyers will ever find those items in Etsy's search either.
The only thing that would make Etsy change its ways is probably a multi-billion dollar class action lawsuit for charging sellers money to show their listings, but knowingly hiding those listings instead.
Thanks for your comment. You should always find your own listings in your own store with an internal title copy and paste.
If you do not find them, this is not because anything is being hidden, but because your store is not indexed, and you should reach out to Etsy to have it indexed.
The more i learn about ETSY the more it seems it is favoured towards digital and Print on demand rather then physical handmade products, if you need more 100 item in a shop to get sales.
100 items is not essential, it is just an achievable number for most sellers to aim for, to prove product viability.
I have about 140 items and am a star seller for the past few months but I hardly get any sales....I get some favorites each day but no sales. It's extremely slow and quite disheartening. I look at other shops selling items in the same niche category and they seem to be thriving.
Hi, I hear you. Honestly don't sit their without the answers, book in for a 30 minute consultation with me, and I will quickly get you on to a more profitable path (hard work will be required!)...links to book are below:
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Thank you Nick!
Wish me luck with my 187th item today. Growing slowly and constantly.
Kind regards,
Nada
Good luck!
Thank you for this. I’m new to Etsy and I want to be on a good footing. I’m in it for the long haul so I want to get the basics right.
You can do it!
250+ views, 179 listings and 4 months later I'm at a whopping 0 sales. Feels like all my efforts are going to waste 😔
Drop your store name Chad, I will tell you why you are not selling.
@@etsyconsultant Maayaa Studio Posters. Thanks a lot
Update: got my first sale last night
Hi sir @etsyconsultant, do you have any tip for me?
Same , 354 views , 3 months , 110 items , no sales yet.
Huge thanks for your videos! I launched my Etsy shop week ago and still got no sales. I produce custom rugs using customers designs and sell already finished ones as well. The problem is that I don’t really know how to promote and grow my shop because it’s kind of unusual and one of a kind items which I try to sell (I sell not ready item). I hope some day ill find here the video in which you ll spotlight this theme.
Dafuq, watch this:
ruclips.net/video/zPzDptXFMoM/видео.html
It’s taken me 1.5 years to get to almost 100 items, as I’ve been listing 1 sometimes 2 a day, and reached 440 sales in this time. I go slow and steady with building my shop, but recently my shop has gone very quite, when I have the most listings available, I joined Etsy forums and had shop critiques and made all improvements also. My shop means so much to me with all the effort I put in to sourcing, listings & pretty packaging. My one of a kind items mean I can’t multi list whatsoever. Is it possible to still succeed? I’m constantly re investing everything and starting to worry of the silence in my shop right now.
Hi there Paige, thanks for your comment. Have you seen my video all about selling one of a kind items? If not link below:
ruclips.net/video/zPzDptXFMoM/видео.html
I have over 100 listings. Been open since Oct 2022 with only 26 sales. I love your videos and try to follow your tips. I feel like I get views but not enough sales or people exploring the store. Any advice?
Keep going Desiree, those stats are OK and are telling you to keep developing your store, push in to what is working.
What you're describing is impossible for a true, hand made shop, which is what Etsy started out as. I know times change but just like how malls killed mom & pop stores, so too is this high volume crap that keeps getting pushed on Etsy.
I hand make wood crafts. I have 11 items in my shop. In my first 3 months, I've made 20 sales. If I sold one of everything all in the same day, it would take me a week to get it all shipped out, and that's assuming I don't get any other orders until then.
I'm one person. It would take me months to "stock" my shop with 20 of each item. I also want to have seasonal items available. In spring time I make outdoor things like squirrel feeders, bird feeders, etc. Now that we're in July, I'm making the switch to Halloween so I can start marketing early. To do that, I need to make those items so I can photograph them so I can list them. In a couple of months I'll be switching again to holiday items.
I would like for my sales to increase, but I don't live on my Etsy income. I'm ok with playing the long game and seeing where this takes me. At the same time, I want to maintain the hand made image of my shop and the items I sell. Mass production is not hand made.
Your advice works for a segment of the Etsy marketplace, not all of it. You should say that, don't just generalize.
Hi, thanks for your comment, and of course I understand where you are coming from.
However, here is the reality: Etsy has long since moved on from what you talk about, what I talk about isn't a segment of the marketplace, it is the overwhelming majority.
There are millions of POD sellers alone, before talking about other volume businesses.
Out of 100 businesses that I consult on Etsy, I would say 5 to 10 are small handmade businesses, the rest are POD/high volume physical or digital stores.
@@etsyconsultant you're right. And guys like you just keep pushing it further and further away from what it used to be.
Videos like yours, about making lots of money on Etsy, are a dime a dozen here on YT.
Here's the thing, guys like you have already made your money on Etsy doing the POD and digital thing. Just like the "get rich quick" ads on TV from the 80's, you've switched to telling other people how to do it because that's where the easy money is now.
Very good and succinct. There are some action grabbers there for me to work on. Very much appreciated, and generous of you to provide
Thanks Michael, keep going!
The 100 products is the hardest part for me. Especially when you're a perfectionist...
Hi I know, and I hear you! Keep going, you will get there.
Hey, I was wondering if it's even worth putting in the effort to create new designs and post more listings. And guess what? You just gave me the answer.
Great to hear!
What do you think about if a couple of items were favorited on your store very frequently but you're not getting sales, thank you for all you do for us ❤
Honestly, nothing. Favorites don't mean anything worthwhile for making store business decisions.
Such a positive video! I do digital art work and it is hard, but I am hoping the Niche I choose will get me there in time and of course learning from you. Thank you
Hi there, great to have you here and thanks for the feedback, good luck!
Since Etsy is meant to be HANDMADE stuff… and I’m an artist selling Art… how am I supposed to have “stock depth”? I sell unique Art pieces!
I understand having more Art to look at, 100 listings.
Hi there, thanks for your comment. Please see my video on how to sell 'one of a kind Items on Etsy' I explain the reason for stock depth and how to make it work for sellers like yourself who won't have stock depth:
ruclips.net/video/zPzDptXFMoM/видео.htmlsi=JvqO_dHceYIqjTTV
So glad I came across your channel! Thanks for the information! New subscriber here. Just finished watching your video about social media (I was beating myself up because I hate running social media for etsy but as it turns out, we shouldn't anyway. LOL).
Good to have you hear Monique!
Adding value and not offering what everyone is selling.....I hear you. Does that mean that t-shirts and sweatshirts with POD is a dead end and keeping adding listings with those is a waste of time and money?
It's really hard Evelyn, so many people are doing it. You can still succeed but a ton of time needs to be spent on designs/branding.
Hi Nick, I've been searching for SEO info for more than a year, probably more than two, and you have just saved my life.
I am a children's illustrated book author.
I have two books completed in E & Print format, in 16 languages in each format.
Can you please give me some guidance for my Etsy launch.
Regards, Mike
Hi there, glad it was helpful! Please book a call, link below:
etsy-consultant.com/services/30-minute-zoom-consultation/
Love watching your videos !!!
Thanks Frances
Hi Nik, what about a shop that sells unique antique pieces with stock deep. The instruments and bows I sell are unique pieces
Hi, please watch the video below:
ruclips.net/video/zPzDptXFMoM/видео.html
Thank you. Have 119 products but am a new store.
Keep going!
I’m wanting to book a 30 mins consultation but the website is not letting me move forward with booking a date. I would like to book it asap, if possible
Hi, I have just checked it, and you can select a date no problem. Please be aware I am fully booked until 28th August, that might be what you are seeing. Please contact me via the website so that I can assist.
Exactly what I needed to hear. Great video. Thank you!
No problem Amber.
Once again a great video. Thank you. I will be making afew changes to my shop tomorrow x
Awesome Louise, pop back in and let me know how it is going.
You are a wise man. Thank you.
You're welcome
I am a soap maker. I don't see how it is possible to have a minimum of 100 items in my store, and keep all that inventory especially if sales are low... Just don't have the space or the funds to keep that much inventory.
Just do as best you can Brooke, you have to adapt my advice to fit your situation.
cool. for last 10 months i have to admit . its hard. :D now applying this stuff
Best of luck!
I'm going to try A B testing going on what i do compared to this, both going to be new listings. look forward to seeing the results.
Best of luck!
The problem I am having is that to make my inventory I need a lot of money so every time I makes a pair of shoes for display its cost me about 60 dollars so 100 items will be tough and I am at 25 items I guess I will need to get another job to fund it
Hi there, thanks for your comment. I appreciate that this is not always possible, just do what you can. Feel free to book a call with me so that I can help you with this:
etsy-consultant.com/services/discovery-call/
What if you made a handmade that is very unique and only one of a kind item? You can’t have stock more than 1 type of items. I make items from recycled fabrics.
Hi there, thanks for your comment. Please see my video on how to see one of a kind items:
ruclips.net/video/zPzDptXFMoM/видео.htmlsi=StfToXVN6wrtNc1x
Great video. Useful and practical tips. Number 4 is crucial. Thanks!! 🙏
No problem Rod, thanks for watching.
Thank you. You gave a good suggestion I've forgotten about: giftability of the items.
Glad it was helpful!
Hi Ric, thanks for your comment, go for it!
Thank you so much for this advice. You are the best expert i have listened to on this and i am going to give it my best shot..
Go for it Kelli, and update me with how you are doing.
@Etsy Consultant thank you so much I will do that..
Could you do a video for sellers that do have sales but have hit a wall and can't seem to get consistent sales/full time income? Thanks!
Thanks Anna, noted.
I sell vintage items that for the most part are just one off and unique. I can't have higher stock depth for items that are vintage. 99% of the time it's just the one item and when it sells it's done.
Hi Luna Thanks for your comment, if you haven't seen it already my video on selling 'one of a kind items' covers this.
ruclips.net/video/zPzDptXFMoM/видео.html
As for the number of items, I have been watching a store that opened 6 months ago and it has more sales than I have after 10 years. Now their sales were 6 yesterday, and they have 40 items. I had 0. so I understand what you say as to numbers having items. Both stores are selling digital downloads. The only difference I see is they are doing just coloring pages. I do a lot of digital products, my one product that sells is a maze puzzle book. Should I have 2 different stores?
Hi Jess
Thanks for your comment. The store could be directing traffic from social media. Also its as though they are focusing on one specific market, colouring pages. To help you decided on your store have a look at my 'niche vs general' store video.
ruclips.net/video/heGhss1r-_4/видео.html
Some good advice, but as far as I can tell, Printful DOES NOT offer gift wrapping. Am I missing something?
Hi there thanks for your comment. There is an option for buyers to add a 'gift message' for any 'Printful' orders and you may like to check out this link which explains custom wrap options:
www.printful.com/print-on-demand-with-custom-packaging
You are amazing :) Lots of useful and important information that no one else provides
Glad it was helpful!