I just found your videos yesterday and already went through all of them!! Love , love , love them!! May God continue to bless your business and keep these gem videos coming!!
-$100 my first month on Etsy. Stopped running ads 4 days ago, and I got 4 organic sales. So I guess Etsy is starting to reward my efforts a bit. Thank you for this video
Just wanted to say you’re one of my favorite RUclipsrs with your valuable content and I’ve been researching for years these business models for years just haven’t been able to take the plunge but I’m about ready!! I have a few questions! Do you use the same mock-up for all of your listings? How do you decide which to use or how often to move onto another one? Also, what do you listen to while designing? 🎧 Have a good day!!
Best video by far that I've seen! Your transparency is epic and offers so much hope for all of us really hustling to make this successful! Thank you! By the way, not sure if you made a video about marketing your shop, you mentioned using Facebook as a catalyst to drive traffic. What kind of groups do you recommend marketing in?
I am currently working with candles, but look to start with POD soon. I still need to work on making my store. I do own a legitimate business LLC and Trademark, founded in 1-26-22 called "The Double Boiler" so now it's just getting to work this weekend, with being off from my day job. Thank you for your information. It helps so much!
I absolutely love your videos! Simple, straightforward and easy to understand. And an amazing track record! I have been muddling along in this since 2017, and I just haven't gotten any traction in Etsy. You ;mentioned posting in FB groups. Do you mean like making a "for sale" post in groups like local shop & swaps, or are you referring to starting a separate FB business page and levering that somehow? Unfortunately I know less than nothing about online promotion of this type. Do you have any such videos to teach internet dumbies step by step to promote our stores? If not, would you consider making some?
At what point when you started earning money did you decide to seek financial advice from an accountant? Did you have to register your business? How do you handle taxes?
You can start your POD business as a sole proprietor. The liability risk is low for POD. And for liability purposes a business insurance could cover that if you are worry about it. If you would file your taxes yourself, you can create an LLC or LLC taxed as an S Corp. All 3 would work for POD. If you plan on collecting salary and prefer to pay Medicare and Social Security taxes on your salary and not on your entire profit, an S Corp is good for that. If you have a sole proprietor or an LLC, you would pay social security, Medicare tax, and income tax on all your profits whether you distribute it or left it in the business. In general, if your business would involve you spending a lot of time working in it, an LLC taxed as an S Corp is great but has some limitations. An LLC taxed as S Corp or an S Corp allows you to pay yourself and you pay social security and Medicare taxes on your salary and pay income tax on your profit. LLC and S Corp require more tax documents to prepare. If you would learn and file your taxes yourself, starting as an LLC or LLC taxed as an S Corp is fine. If you would hire a tax professional to file your taxes, it would cost you money. In that case, it makes sense to start as a sole proprietor until you start making enough to justify the cost associated with business tax returns (1065 and 1120S). If you start as a sole proprietor and would hire an employee or a contractor, you should register your business with IRS by requesting an EIN. If your sole proprietor would use a name that is not yours, you should file for a DBA (Doing Business as) with your state. In any case, you should check with your city to get approval to do business from home. If you request an EIN from IRS for your sole proprietor, you should register with your state and get theirs as well, along with state sales tax ID if you need it. If you start as a sole proprietor and later want to convert your business to an LLC or LLC taxed as an S Corp, get a Lawyer to file the change with your state for you. It is easier to start your business with the business entity you want it to have. You can file it yourself with your state. But again depending on your choice, you have to be on top of your tax returns preparation. Even if you start your business as a sole proprietor, go to a community bank and open a checking and saving account for your business. If you don't have an EIN, you would open it with your SSN. Do not use personal bank account for your business. If you would use a credit card, get a business credit card or use one of your personal credit card that has 0 expense on it and you could reserve for your sole proprietor business. If you would use a credit card, get a business credit card or use one of your personal credit card that has 0 expense on it and you could reserve for your sole proprietor business.
I’m currently just beginning this journey and am finding the design to take me much longer than to push out 3 per day. I’m lucky to get 5 done per week at this point. Can you share any tips on how you come up with this many design ideas and are they mostly or all text based? Thanks so much! Really enjoying your videos and happy to hear you share so much great info!
I'm in no way a master on the topic, but I figured I'd let you know some of the tips I've picked up to save time along the way that have reduced my work time :) *Simple Sells. I've seen a lot of the bestsellers on Etsy that were literally just one or two words in a simple font *Learn keyboard shortcuts. Can a and Photoshop (and most other apps used for design) have keyboard shortcuts to make tasks faster, such as pressing T to place a text box. *Color Palettes. Create color palettes you can reference for popular color schemes that sell well or that you like *Draft. Give yourself a few minutes of draft up composition ideas for text placement, graphic colors, etc. This makes it easier to envision the final product *Practice. Just like with any other trade, practice makes perfect. You'll find that the more designs you do, the faster and more efficiently work. *Don't focus on how long it takes. especially in the beginning, focus on the quality of the work. It's better to get out only a few good designs a week as opposed to posting hundreds of lazy, ugly designs. Hope these help someone!
Just found your channel today! New subscriber here!:D I've been on etsy for a year, around 100 sales and about 20 reviews :) i'm trying etsy ads now, and so far it's been pretty good! I hope later on I can rank better and dont have to use etsy ads anymore😅 fingers crossed!
Hi Heather amazing videos! ;) You mention that your best sellers were white and black but in another video you say that you had so many issues with the black that you stopped selling it. So would it be a safe bet to go for white and dark gray? Or what colors are the best? Also a lot of people suggest just offering a few colors instead of all the colors due to analysis paralysis. I would honestly go for 2-3 colors max. What are your thoghts? Keep it up and congrats!!!!
Wow ...Just discovered this channel and Heather is gorgeous... I have this Etsy store, running for 2 months, no sales yet. Apparently could be because of my keywords. Been running Etsy ads still no sales.
Love your channel! Thank you for great details. Can you please share how POD works with orders going in and how/when you pay Printify etc. I think you mentioned you pay with credit card. What can one expect?
Huge 3 questions about multiples! 1. How do you deal with using multiple p.o.d. partners and platforms in the same shop? Like say you want to sell jewelry, posters, stickers, and mugs. Then you've got Printify AND ShineOn AND possibly Gooten hooked up to the same shop? How do the orders not get all confused and what goes where? 2. If someone orders a top and a sticker from printify, but they come from different providers like Monster Digital and Circle Graphics so that you have 2 shipments going to the customer... How would you deal with the seperate shipments? Is it better to only have one kind of product or production partner in shop in your opinion to avoid this? If not, can you show us if you have multiple partners in a shop and how that would work? And 3! How would you sell a "set" of items like a bundle of stickers, say, if the profit margins are too low to sell individually? Do you have to go into printify and change the order manually for that? I'm curious how you sold bundles with your shirts. :) I really love and appreciate your content! Thanks for making it, I'm enjoying it.
Your videos have been so helpful! You have done so much of the legwork and put in so much time and gifted it to your audience-thank you so much! What is the name of your Etsy store? You make me want to buy things! 😁❤️
can you also shed some light on how you do the face book group ads, and do u have a biz account or a personal one? and is free ads or paid one and generally how to do them? thanks
That’s an amazing story and great result for all the hard work with regular postings. Sounds like the Facebook Group posts in March were key to getting the initial traffic to help kick start the Etsy algorithm for organic traffic. Do you have any FB groups you’d recommend?
A new subscribe here, love your videos and thank you for sharing these valuable information 😍. I've seen many POD videos and your materials are gold information. Would you please go into detail on how to leverage the Facebook groups. That would really help 👏😇. Thanks again.
Hey there! I know this is an older video and I’m not sure if you’d even see this msg, but by the end of the year, your profit was 250k but your take home was only 80k. I’m just curious, who got the rest of the income (170k difference). I understand that there is a cost for POD but is it truly more in their favor then the sellers, or was there Etsy ads as well? Ty for being so transparent. ❤ ✌️
Hi, thanks for the video. Could you make a video showing how to list group shirts? My wife and I have been selling some shirts in the wedding niche, but it’s all single items, we’d like to start to put them together into one listing so we can sell several shirts at a time.
thanks so much for this video and all the info you shared - so generous of you! i have one question…do the long ship times cause any problems? people want stuff so quickly these days, i’m just curious about people being ok with waiting on their order??
You growing so fast. Love this for you 🙌🏽 came across your page a week ago at 600 something subscribers. Thank you for being genuine. Thank you for helping us. You helping us in ways you wouldn’t understand ❤️❤️
Thank you for the info.. I just joined your channel. Nice work! Ok so to sum it up you think posting every day,at 5 listings a day helped to increase sales? I'm new to Etsy as it's not really that big in Australia although many artisans use it. Personally I haven't dived in but I'm ready 🥰
Hi, im starting on etsy, im wondering if you offer refunds/exchanges, I'm not sure if I can afford it if printful won't refund me. Could you explain a little on how that works?
Hi, thank you so much for this video. For the FB groups you mentioned posting in - were those groups that related to the type of designs you could see in your store? Like a teacher FB group and you shared some teacher designs or some other type of group
Would you be able to take a look at my Etsy store and see what improvements need to be made to at least start making sales? I am putting as much work as I can into it but could use the help.
I love your videos! Question... how do you handle quality control? I have a jewelry shop on Etsy, I ship my own items in unique packaging! However, when I start my POD for mugs, I will not be able to ship them directly to my customers, so I am concerned about how they are received! I'd love your thoughts on this!
Im so confused xD What exactly do you do? You sell T-shirts? Are you linking them to a print on demand service or are you purchasing all the shirts yourself by hand and shipping them to your Etsy customers? Processing 1200 orders a month seems a lot of work XD
I sell t-shirts and sweatshirts! I have a POD company that prints, ships and fulfills, all I do is provide the designs. integrate with Etsy and do the customer service. Only about 10 hours of work each week. About 20 hours at peak holiday seasons. :)
I am just starting out on Etsy using prettify so I can’t fathom the income you made and obviously your revenue does not reflect the taxes that you owe by being self-employed. My other comment is do you make better profits using Shopify and do you use Shopify because your clientele shops on Shopify?
Wow That is mind blowing 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯… Can you advise in what month of this journey you realize that had to open a LLC or Legally open this as a bUsinesss ???? 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓. I will be awaiting your response 🥰🥰🥰🥰
Hi!! Thank you for your great content. I see a lot of people saying, “only offer one color per listing” in your experience, does this make sense to do? And why would not offering different colors be a good idea?
I have found success in multiple colors per one listing. The reason behind this is that if someone doesn't like the color they won't buy so you item in search will not show. If you offer different colors they will have more likelihood of buying per the color they like and that boosts you listing. You can always experiment doing multiple listings with different colors as the main mockups(but the items are the EXACT same listings with multiple colors options) and go from there as well.
@@itsheatherstudio Hi I love your every video and your explanations are always on point and are so easy to understand. Thank you so much for that, Now I'm your regular viewer. As it's only 1 and 1/2 months, since I opened my Etsy shop I am also facing the same issue of not getting traction on Etsy, and as you said to get help from some Facebook group can you please tell me more about this topic? means in what kind of FB groups we should post..etc.It would be a great help for all of us. Thank you. we all love your video. Keep sharing your valuable knowledge.
I’m confused what you were spending so much money on every month that you needed to increase your credit limit? Usually with print on demand there are no costs to you. When the customer pays that pays the POD company. It would be nice if you shared what niches helped you to grow and what SEO strategies did you use? You said you researched the Etsy algorithm, can you share some info on that?
Hi Sharon, POD works by that when you get a sale, the POD company does not take direct payment and you do not get the profit from the sale until a few days later(It can take up to 3 days with a holiday plus a weekend). The customer pays you, the you have to pay the POD company for the order. Etsy or the platform you sell on usually pays you after a few days(you have to request it). If you wait for the funds, you can essentially pay the item, however this method is very difficult and becomes confusing over time and doing your pay offs on a weekly basis is the best practice. For example, my Etsy and Shopify payout is every Tuesday. If I have returns, order cancellations or anything else during the week and withdraw during that time it can get confusing. On Tuesday that's when I subtract my credit card amount from the revenue Etsy pays and I get my profit. Then I put 30% of profit to taxes, 10%+ to business savings and the rest is takehome. I personally got a credit card because 1) You get points(I've made 5K in credit card rewards in the past year) 2) There's many other benefits to the business credit card 3) It establishes your business credit 4)You want the quickest possible shipping so by paying the POD company before the check comes in from Etsy or anywhere else, you pay for shipping to quick start your production especially when December hits and POD stores are behind. I have videos coming next going over these topics though! :)
@@itsheatherstudio wow thank you for explaining that! I’ve watched so many videos on print on demand and no one has ever mentioned that! This is a big deal because many people starting a business are choosing print on demand thinking there is no upfront cost. This really helps! And thank you for your quick response!
@@itsheatherstudio Excellent information...I have been trying to post 3-4 new items in my shop a day since I discovered POD just last week and I had NO idea this was how it worked. I was under the assumption when a buyer purchased that money would go from Etsy right to the production partner and I would just be paid my profits.
Was this selling products that were unique and not yet tapped into (aka. Saturated)? Can an etsy seller still be successful selling a product that is already being sold heavily by other etsy sellers? Or do you need a unique idea not yet tapped into yet? What are your thoughts?
After your profits that you mentioned.... do you still have to pay taxes to the IRS out of those profits, or was that already included in ur deductions? Also if I may ask, do u pay the IRS taxes quarterly or yearly?
Yes! You take 30% and set aside for taxes. However, I had my books reconciled and 10K was after taxes. I made 16K in November. I do pay quarterly taxes! My next video is over taxes/ LLC things as well since I've had many questions over this. :)
@@itsheatherstudio aww mehn!!! Thank you so much! I’ll be looking forward to that video bc I knw earning is fun but I dnt want the legal side to hit me unexpectedly 🙏🏾
No you do not! Usually most credit card companies require a document relating to your business registration so I did have to register a DBA with my local county office. It took less than 1 hour to do in person and then I submitted it to the credit card company.
@@itsheatherstudio Ok thanks. Do you recommend opening a separate bank account just for that as well, so things don’t get all mixed up with personal life bills, etc…?
Do you actually sell on Etsy? I can not find you on Etsy nor any online connection to you and products being sold on Etsy. Please link to your Etsy shop so we call all be certain that what you are stating here is indeed factual. Thank you.
Congrats on all your success! Love to hear that this is possible.
I just found your videos yesterday and already went through all of them!! Love , love , love them!! May God continue to bless your business and keep these gem videos coming!!
Thank you so kindly!
-$100 my first month on Etsy. Stopped running ads 4 days ago, and I got 4 organic sales. So I guess Etsy is starting to reward my efforts a bit. Thank you for this video
thank you for your tips! BTW you look amazing! glowing and i love your hair colour
Excellent content. Congrats on your perseverance, it gives me the courage to keep posting.
Thank you very much for sharing. I'm inspired to continue my Etsy. More Power to you. 👍
Just wanted to say you’re one of my favorite RUclipsrs with your valuable content and I’ve been researching for years these business models for years just haven’t been able to take the plunge but I’m about ready!! I have a few questions! Do you use the same mock-up for all of your listings? How do you decide which to use or how often to move onto another one? Also, what do you listen to while designing? 🎧 Have a good day!!
This is just the beginning. Wait till you start seeing your youtube income . Congrats on your success.
Your videos are so motivating and you deserve all the success you've experienced!! Thank you x a million :)
Good for you!! You have inspired me so much. Thanks a bunch and I wish you all the best. Keep up the great work!!! 👏👏👏🙏🏼❤️😎
been watching you for the past week and learned a lot! Can you do a video about getting a business credit card, LCC and taxes. thank you
Best video by far that I've seen! Your transparency is epic and offers so much hope for all of us really hustling to make this successful! Thank you! By the way, not sure if you made a video about marketing your shop, you mentioned using Facebook as a catalyst to drive traffic. What kind of groups do you recommend marketing in?
I am currently working with candles, but look to start with POD soon. I still need to work on making my store. I do own a legitimate business LLC and Trademark, founded in 1-26-22 called "The Double Boiler" so now it's just getting to work this weekend, with being off from my day job. Thank you for your information. It helps so much!
I absolutely love your videos! Simple, straightforward and easy to understand. And an amazing track record! I have been muddling along in this since 2017, and I just haven't gotten any traction in Etsy. You ;mentioned posting in FB groups. Do you mean like making a "for sale" post in groups like local shop & swaps, or are you referring to starting a separate FB business page and levering that somehow? Unfortunately I know less than nothing about online promotion of this type. Do you have any such videos to teach internet dumbies step by step to promote our stores? If not, would you consider making some?
At what point when you started earning money did you decide to seek financial advice from an accountant? Did you have to register your business? How do you handle taxes?
You can start your POD business as a sole proprietor. The liability risk is low for POD. And for liability purposes a business insurance could cover that if you are worry about it. If you would file your taxes yourself, you can create an LLC or LLC taxed as an S Corp. All 3 would work for POD. If you plan on collecting salary and prefer to pay Medicare and Social Security taxes on your salary and not on your entire profit, an S Corp is good for that. If you have a sole proprietor or an LLC, you would pay social security, Medicare tax, and income tax on all your profits whether you distribute it or left it in the business. In general, if your business would involve you spending a lot of time working in it, an LLC taxed as an S Corp is great but has some limitations. An LLC taxed as S Corp or an S Corp allows you to pay yourself and you pay social security and Medicare taxes on your salary and pay income tax on your profit.
LLC and S Corp require more tax documents to prepare. If you would learn and file your taxes yourself, starting as an LLC or LLC taxed as an S Corp is fine. If you would hire a tax professional to file your taxes, it would cost you money. In that case, it makes sense to start as a sole proprietor until you start making enough to justify the cost associated with business tax returns (1065 and 1120S).
If you start as a sole proprietor and would hire an employee or a contractor, you should register your business with IRS by requesting an EIN.
If your sole proprietor would use a name that is not yours, you should file for a DBA (Doing Business as) with your state.
In any case, you should check with your city to get approval to do business from home.
If you request an EIN from IRS for your sole proprietor, you should register with your state and get theirs as well, along with state sales tax ID if you need it.
If you start as a sole proprietor and later want to convert your business to an LLC or LLC taxed as an S Corp, get a Lawyer to file the change with your state for you.
It is easier to start your business with the business entity you want it to have. You can file it yourself with your state. But again depending on your choice, you have to be on top of your tax returns preparation.
Even if you start your business as a sole proprietor, go to a community bank and open a checking and saving account for your business. If you don't have an EIN, you would open it with your SSN. Do not use personal bank account for your business. If you would use a credit card, get a business credit card or use one of your personal credit card that has 0 expense on it and you could reserve for your sole proprietor business. If you would use a credit card, get a business credit card or use one of your personal credit card that has 0 expense on it and you could reserve for your sole proprietor business.
I’m currently just beginning this journey and am finding the design to take me much longer than to push out 3 per day. I’m lucky to get 5 done per week at this point. Can you share any tips on how you come up with this many design ideas and are they mostly or all text based? Thanks so much! Really enjoying your videos and happy to hear you share so much great info!
I'm in no way a master on the topic, but I figured I'd let you know some of the tips I've picked up to save time along the way that have reduced my work time :)
*Simple Sells. I've seen a lot of the bestsellers on Etsy that were literally just one or two words in a simple font
*Learn keyboard shortcuts. Can a and Photoshop (and most other apps used for design) have keyboard shortcuts to make tasks faster, such as pressing T to place a text box.
*Color Palettes. Create color palettes you can reference for popular color schemes that sell well or that you like
*Draft. Give yourself a few minutes of draft up composition ideas for text placement, graphic colors, etc. This makes it easier to envision the final product
*Practice. Just like with any other trade, practice makes perfect. You'll find that the more designs you do, the faster and more efficiently work.
*Don't focus on how long it takes. especially in the beginning, focus on the quality of the work. It's better to get out only a few good designs a week as opposed to posting hundreds of lazy, ugly designs.
Hope these help someone!
@@Write-or-Wrong Thanks so much! Great tips! I definitely agree I'd prefer to have fewer good designs vs. a ton of mediocre work.
Just found your channel today! New subscriber here!:D I've been on etsy for a year, around 100 sales and about 20 reviews :) i'm trying etsy ads now, and so far it's been pretty good! I hope later on I can rank better and dont have to use etsy ads anymore😅 fingers crossed!
Hi Heather amazing videos! ;) You mention that your best sellers were white and black but in another video you say that you had so many issues with the black that you stopped selling it. So would it be a safe bet to go for white and dark gray? Or what colors are the best? Also a lot of people suggest just offering a few colors instead of all the colors due to analysis paralysis. I would honestly go for 2-3 colors max. What are your thoghts? Keep it up and congrats!!!!
Wow ...Just discovered this channel and Heather is gorgeous... I have this Etsy store, running for 2 months, no sales yet. Apparently could be because of my keywords. Been running Etsy ads still no sales.
Love your channel! Thank you for great details. Can you please share how POD works with orders going in and how/when you pay Printify etc. I think you mentioned you pay with credit card. What can one expect?
Fantastic, and I love to hear things like this. Thanks for sharing ❤️
Your channel is going to BLOW UP
You are incredible!
WELL done! 💪
Thank you so much for the kind words!
Hi can you make a video on if you had to go get an llc for your business
Huge 3 questions about multiples!
1. How do you deal with using multiple p.o.d. partners and platforms in the same shop? Like say you want to sell jewelry, posters, stickers, and mugs. Then you've got Printify AND ShineOn AND possibly Gooten hooked up to the same shop? How do the orders not get all confused and what goes where?
2. If someone orders a top and a sticker from printify, but they come from different providers like Monster Digital and Circle Graphics so that you have 2 shipments going to the customer... How would you deal with the seperate shipments? Is it better to only have one kind of product or production partner in shop in your opinion to avoid this? If not, can you show us if you have multiple partners in a shop and how that would work?
And 3! How would you sell a "set" of items like a bundle of stickers, say, if the profit margins are too low to sell individually? Do you have to go into printify and change the order manually for that? I'm curious how you sold bundles with your shirts. :)
I really love and appreciate your content! Thanks for making it, I'm enjoying it.
Your videos have been so helpful! You have done so much of the legwork and put in so much time and gifted it to your audience-thank you so much! What is the name of your Etsy store? You make me want to buy things! 😁❤️
can you also shed some light on how you do the face book group ads, and do u have a biz account or a personal one? and is free ads or paid one and generally how to do them? thanks
Would you be able to share your Etsy store link?
That’s an amazing story and great result for all the hard work with regular postings. Sounds like the Facebook Group posts in March were key to getting the initial traffic to help kick start the Etsy algorithm for organic traffic. Do you have any FB groups you’d recommend?
Thank you for your videos, they are so honest and helpful!
A new subscribe here, love your videos and thank you for sharing these valuable information 😍. I've seen many POD videos and your materials are gold information.
Would you please go into detail on how to leverage the Facebook groups. That would really help 👏😇. Thanks again.
Hey there! I know this is an older video and I’m not sure if you’d even see this msg, but by the end of the year, your profit was 250k but your take home was only 80k. I’m just curious, who got the rest of the income (170k difference). I understand that there is a cost for POD but is it truly more in their favor then the sellers, or was there Etsy ads as well? Ty for being so transparent. ❤ ✌️
What kind of FB Groups did you promote your products?
Hi, thanks for the video. Could you make a video showing how to list group shirts?
My wife and I have been selling some shirts in the wedding niche, but it’s all single items, we’d like to start to put them together into one listing so we can sell several shirts at a time.
Thank you for this!!
Hi! Congratulations on this great achievement.
May I just ask what you product was? And how did you pick your niche? Thank you. More power!
thanks so much for this video and all the info you shared - so generous of you! i have one question…do the long ship times cause any problems? people want stuff so quickly these days, i’m just curious about people being ok with waiting on their order??
You growing so fast. Love this for you 🙌🏽 came across your page a week ago at 600 something subscribers. Thank you for being genuine. Thank you for helping us. You helping us in ways you wouldn’t understand ❤️❤️
Thank you so much for the kind words and following along these past weeks!
Thank you for the info..
I just joined your channel. Nice work! Ok so to sum it up you think posting every day,at 5 listings a day helped to increase sales? I'm new to Etsy as it's not really that big in Australia although many artisans use it. Personally I haven't dived in but I'm ready 🥰
Hi, im starting on etsy, im wondering if you offer refunds/exchanges, I'm not sure if I can afford it if printful won't refund me. Could you explain a little on how that works?
Hi, thank you so much for this video. For the FB groups you mentioned posting in - were those groups that related to the type of designs you could see in your store? Like a teacher FB group and you shared some teacher designs or some other type of group
Heather great video. How do you go about finding good Facebook groups to post in?
Nice content 👌❤️Could you please also tell which products you were selling on etsy?
Hi Heather.. You mentioned a FB page where your sales boosted.. Is that a private group or can you say the name of the group?
Tks
It is possible to see the store you are referring to in these videos?
What type of facebook groups were you posting in?
Which Facebook groups were you posting on?
I have been posting on some of them not many people are coming from them😭☹️
Excellent content. One question come in to my mind that do you make Facebook advertising?
Hi! Love your videos! I just found you! Do you make your own designs, purchase them or both?
You were posting your designs on facebook and that's what brought in all the traffic?
I'm unsure if you've covered this, but were you also using social media marketing?
Yes I have used social media on Facebook (for free through FB groups) and instagram( for free as well, only posting every day).
Would you be able to take a look at my Etsy store and see what improvements need to be made to at least start making sales? I am putting as much work as I can into it but could use the help.
I love your videos! Question... how do you handle quality control? I have a jewelry shop on Etsy, I ship my own items in unique packaging! However, when I start my POD for mugs, I will not be able to ship them directly to my customers, so I am concerned about how they are received! I'd love your thoughts on this!
Which Facebook groups should we join? Do we join the ones that are in the same Niche as we are to post and try to make sales?
Wow look at you grow your channel!! Wtg friend!!
Whats better? variations in one listing or multiple listings?
Hi just wondering if you continued posting on Facebook groups after that first time you mentioned it or was all the Etsy traffic after that organic?
What kinds of Facebook groups did you use to share your store and how did you present your products in them?
I was just wondering the same! What kind of FB groups. Right now I'm averaging 2-3 sales a day... I'm looking to 10x that for sure! 💕
Im so confused xD What exactly do you do? You sell T-shirts? Are you linking them to a print on demand service or are you purchasing all the shirts yourself by hand and shipping them to your Etsy customers? Processing 1200 orders a month seems a lot of work XD
I sell t-shirts and sweatshirts! I have a POD company that prints, ships and fulfills, all I do is provide the designs. integrate with Etsy and do the customer service. Only about 10 hours of work each week. About 20 hours at peak holiday seasons. :)
You uploaded five to ten designs a day? Were these simple text designs or elaborate graphic designs?
Do you offer one on one coaching?
Wow inspiration 👏
So inspiring
Please explain why the expenses were so high ?
Hello, what kind of Facebook groups do you mean?
I tried to fill out the application about a product but I just don't understand it
You're awesome.
Can you share some FB groups with us? I have no idea what to search for
I am just starting out on Etsy using prettify so I can’t fathom the income you made and obviously your revenue does not reflect the taxes that you owe by being self-employed. My other comment is do you make better profits using Shopify and do you use Shopify because your clientele shops on Shopify?
Wow That is mind blowing 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯… Can you advise in what month of this journey you realize that had to open a LLC or Legally open this as a bUsinesss ???? 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓. I will be awaiting your response 🥰🥰🥰🥰
In May I decided to open the LLC! 🥰
How many listings do you currently have?
I currently have 460 listings! :)
@@itsheatherstudio what is your store
I’m not seeing the name of your Etsy shop anywhere… anyone found it?
Insipiration!
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Hi!! Thank you for your great content. I see a lot of people saying, “only offer one color per listing” in your experience, does this make sense to do? And why would not offering different colors be a good idea?
I have found success in multiple colors per one listing. The reason behind this is that if someone doesn't like the color they won't buy so you item in search will not show. If you offer different colors they will have more likelihood of buying per the color they like and that boosts you listing. You can always experiment doing multiple listings with different colors as the main mockups(but the items are the EXACT same listings with multiple colors options) and go from there as well.
@@itsheatherstudio i have some home decor products..can u help me launch them? we can work on some deal like revenue sharing like that
@@itsheatherstudio Hi I love your every video and your explanations are always on point and are so easy to understand. Thank you so much for that, Now I'm your regular viewer. As it's only 1 and 1/2 months, since I opened my Etsy shop I am also facing the same issue of not getting traction on Etsy, and as you said to get help from some Facebook group can you please tell me more about this topic? means in what kind of FB groups we should post..etc.It would be a great help for all of us. Thank you. we all love your video. Keep sharing your valuable knowledge.
you sold $29k and only made a $4k profit? I was wondering how I was going to keep up with the printify fees to get orders out in the beginning.
I’m confused what you were spending so much money on every month that you needed to increase your credit limit? Usually with print on demand there are no costs to you. When the customer pays that pays the POD company. It would be nice if you shared what niches helped you to grow and what SEO strategies did you use? You said you researched the Etsy algorithm, can you share some info on that?
Hi Sharon, POD works by that when you get a sale, the POD company does not take direct payment and you do not get the profit from the sale until a few days later(It can take up to 3 days with a holiday plus a weekend). The customer pays you, the you have to pay the POD company for the order. Etsy or the platform you sell on usually pays you after a few days(you have to request it). If you wait for the funds, you can essentially pay the item, however this method is very difficult and becomes confusing over time and doing your pay offs on a weekly basis is the best practice. For example, my Etsy and Shopify payout is every Tuesday. If I have returns, order cancellations or anything else during the week and withdraw during that time it can get confusing. On Tuesday that's when I subtract my credit card amount from the revenue Etsy pays and I get my profit. Then I put 30% of profit to taxes, 10%+ to business savings and the rest is takehome.
I personally got a credit card because 1) You get points(I've made 5K in credit card rewards in the past year) 2) There's many other benefits to the business credit card 3) It establishes your business credit 4)You want the quickest possible shipping so by paying the POD company before the check comes in from Etsy or anywhere else, you pay for shipping to quick start your production especially when December hits and POD stores are behind. I have videos coming next going over these topics though! :)
@@itsheatherstudio wow thank you for explaining that! I’ve watched so many videos on print on demand and no one has ever mentioned that! This is a big deal because many people starting a business are choosing print on demand thinking there is no upfront cost. This really helps! And thank you for your quick response!
@@itsheatherstudio Excellent information...I have been trying to post 3-4 new items in my shop a day since I discovered POD just last week and I had NO idea this was how it worked. I was under the assumption when a buyer purchased that money would go from Etsy right to the production partner and I would just be paid my profits.
How many listings do you have in your shop? Sorry if I asked already I can’t remember haha
I currently have 450 listings, you're fine I don't think you asked this!
@@itsheatherstudio what’s your shop link?
@@thesoutherncamellia7411 somehow can't ever find her. Is this fake?
What type of Facebook groups were you in? Most of the ones I’m in are for POD or they’re related to virtual classes I’ve taken
Yes, can you give more details about the groups you entered and facebook? How can we reach these groups?
And what did you say in your posts? A video on that would be super helpful!
Good videos
What exactly do you post in the Facebook groups and which groups…? Guess I’ll have to activate my FB account again 😔
I post advice, answering common questions that you may not know you had that other people ask, and POD memes haha!
@@itsheatherstudio Can you please suggest us which kind of FB groups we should post and what ?
Was this selling products that were unique and not yet tapped into (aka. Saturated)? Can an etsy seller still be successful selling a product that is already being sold heavily by other etsy sellers? Or do you need a unique idea not yet tapped into yet?
What are your thoughts?
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Very insightful video. Thanks.
Can I connect with you? I like the videos you share and I'm also a RUclipsr
After your profits that you mentioned.... do you still have to pay taxes to the IRS out of those profits, or was that already included in ur deductions?
Also if I may ask, do u pay the IRS taxes quarterly or yearly?
Yes! You take 30% and set aside for taxes. However, I had my books reconciled and 10K was after taxes. I made 16K in November. I do pay quarterly taxes! My next video is over taxes/ LLC things as well since I've had many questions over this. :)
@@itsheatherstudio aww mehn!!! Thank you so much! I’ll be looking forward to that video bc I knw earning is fun but I dnt want the legal side to hit me unexpectedly 🙏🏾
Was this drop shipping?
Do you need an LLC for a business credit card?
No you do not! Usually most credit card companies require a document relating to your business registration so I did have to register a DBA with my local county office. It took less than 1 hour to do in person and then I submitted it to the credit card company.
@@itsheatherstudio Ok thanks. Do you recommend opening a separate bank account just for that as well, so things don’t get all mixed up with personal life bills, etc…?
I’m not on Facebook so this leaves me at a disadvantage.
1:40 ... man, my heart broke for you. It's so frustrating when your hard work doesn't pay off.
Do you actually sell on Etsy? I can not find you on Etsy nor any online connection to you and products being sold on Etsy. Please link to your Etsy shop so we call all be certain that what you are stating here is indeed factual. Thank you.
She don't have a store it's all about her selling you her blueprint for $$$$$
@@irepairapples she's talking about a store she has. So she should have a store.
What Facebook groups did you post in?
How many listings do you currently have?