How Many Listings Do You Need on Etsy? & How Often To Add More! | Type Nine Studio
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Let's discuss why "Etsy Gurus" say to post 1 listing a day, or that you need 100+ items! (If you're brand new, don't panic! I have some tips specifically for you!)
I'm putting my money where my mouth is and doing 1 listing a day right along with you (if you choose to do it, that is!).
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Howdy! My name is Abby and I've been selling on Etsy since 2016, and have been full-time since 2020. I love sharing my knowledge and advice about Etsy and running a small business!
I’m new to Etsy. I listed 1 product
I do about a couple listings per month right now. Started my shop Sep 2021, and sitting at 199 sales so far with mostly 5 star reviews. My advice for new people starting out is to make sure you do a quality check of your products before you list them. If your shop starts getting bad reviews due to poor quality, this could spell the end before you even begin.
What do you sell?
@@milaberi9491 graphic t-shirts.
I remember having 2 hundred listings and no sales for almost 2 years. I paid etsy for listing more than anything lol
@@clandestineclara9355 It happens. POD is simple, but definitely not easy.
If you have managed to go full-time then that is amazing.
Excellent set up and presentation👌 Freaking brilliant, real information.. This is why I love RUclips, every now and then I stumble upon a real and very helpful channel that doesn't want us to buy a class or buy sponsored product. Fantastic channel.. At best, considering my art I might make 3 pieces at most a month.. I want to maintain quality.. You are truly inspiring me!! My anxiety even starting my shop is getting less.. Thank you!!
That's great to hear, it definitely was my goal to give real info! 💙
I was thinking exactly the same!!
First time I have seen your videos. Great information, thanks for the advice! I am a longtime (12 years) Etsy seller, with over 16K sales and over 1200 listings. I have at least 400 items that need photography and to be listed, but it takes time! Also have many new items I want to make to offer, but just can't keep up with orders, photograph the items, and then even make more items. I have so many materials - it is kind of an addiction and hoping I can find the time to create. But at least now I don't feel so bad for having so many listings.
I feel that - buying materials and actually using them or making things is completely different 😂
I can 100% confirm your advice is correct.
I’ve been adding at least 1 new product a day since watching that on your TikTok. It has absolutely increased my sales. Previously I would mainly get sales over the weekend which was when I was doing bulk uploads, but now I upload at least once a day I receive orders any day of the week.
I may also renew an item that has sold out, but will also upload a new item. I’m not sure how much longer I can continue this for as I’m running out of storage space so may need to make it every couple of days soon.
Thank you for sharing relevant and honest content :)
That's awesome! Yeah after a while you'll run out of ideas or space 😂 by that point, your quality score on the existing items should be building up so they will sell more too. I'm glad it was helpful!!
have you added your produts to tiktok in every day?
@@TypeNineStudioRUclips showed me this video from you when I was searching the topic 'etsy how often to list' and I'm so happy I found you! I sell all sorts of vintage items I source at yard sales, and when I have a good day of listing items I usually just olpost them all to "get them out there" so they can be seen and, hopefully, bought. I know there's a school of thought that's says to build a draft bank and just fire off a draft to active status every day and I've been breaking that rule just to get what I list up in my shop, however, now after hearing your video I am going to resist that temptation and just bank all my drafts once I've activated my one a day. I think it will be fun to see what difference in my sales that makes. Can't wait to listen to more of your vids. Thank you 🙂🌷
I just started an Etsy shop and I feel like I hit the goldmine with your RUclips channel! Thanks for the great content🥰
Knocking on 300. Listings and sales slowed down. I added 3 new listings in one day and bam! 5 sales in 1 day. Thinking 1 listing a day keeps the paychecks okay!
Hi, thank you for this informative video. My shop is 2 weeks old and I was wondering when I should start running ads. I haven’t had any organic sales yet.
I wouldn't suggest running ads until the organic sales come in. Then only run ads on listings that sell already, since ads only bring more eyeballs.
@@TypeNineStudio thank you so much!
Please make a video on tags for jewelry etsy store
80/20 rule applies. 80% will be losers and 20% will be winners. After 4 month listing time frame drop the losers and focus on the winners! Yes many shops have many listings but the real sales are only on a few and the losers will never sell.
Great vids!! (I actually don't hear any airplanes . . . 😛)
By 'upgrade', I have good titles, tags (as best I can), photos and careful descriptions. My "competition' has a live model, makes a cheaper (looks and material) product. I have five star ratings, communication, shipping and glowing reviews since I started in 2013, but average a sale a month. Not worried over that star seller BS...until Etsy starts shoving them to the top of search, anyway. Yet, no one in my tiny niche has yet to get star seller, either.
Thank you so much so informative video
Thank you! I am on my 9th week in. Sales are starting to come in and this is great information to hear!
Help! I am brand new just going to start. I have been working at products on printify to use with my own products. I was wondering if are use the pictures from the website that you mock up?? Or if you order a sample and take pictures from that. I am so sorry if that is a dumb question but I am brand new to the game thank you thank you! I loved your video thanks so much
I'm on a tight budget, so I was thinking about phasing out the low sellers and just keep replacing them until I can afford more.
Thank you very much for your efforts !!
I’m just starting and your info is so helpful! Thank you!
Thank you! Good luck! 🥰
Thanks for the great advice! I have been selling on Etsy since 2009 and didn't know this. Does it matter if items keep selling though? Because it sounds like what you're saying is to keep adding listings as if they will accrue and stay there. I have been trying to get up to 800 listings for about 5 years but they keep selling.
Can you pls give tips or tricks on how to revive an old shop?
Thank you so much for this video; VERY informative; new subbie here!
I have 6 premium unique products but can probably get 15 if I make travel sizes lol
That's a good idea, so they can try it out before getting a bigger size - or a sampler set!
My concern is having so many materials, just waiting for a sale. The more listings I have, the more supplies I need to store indefinitely. I know this is part of doing business. It just makes me nervous, especially if I need the same supplies for multiple listings.
I understand that 100%, and still struggle with it tbh. Sometimes I have a particular material (like a certain color of fabric) that I use for multiple things, then panic if one sells and think what if I sell the others too and run out. It usually ends up with me over-buying materials 😂
I try to prevent that now by having as much stuff ready-to-ship as possible, so I know for sure I can fill the order. But then if you do personalization it gets complicated.
Does the description matter much for search purposes? I’m having a hard time getting views, but I thought I did a great job with SEO. I used all characters in titles, long tail keywords. Trying to understand where I can make better changes
Yes the description matters too - really just the first few sentences. Having the main long tail keywords repeated in title, tags, and description solidifies to the search that this is exactly what your item is. I put at least 1 or 2 of the long tail keywords naturally in the first sentence of the description. This also shows if your listing happens to come up on Google or the offsite ads, it's referred to as the "meta description".
I was terrified that you were gonna say less is better lol I don’t have time to post every single day but I built up my inventory before opening my shop so I can post steadily enough.
Yeah every day is a lot especially when the items are actually handmade!
Thank you for sharing this, it was really useful information without a lot of pushing to buy a "course". Very much appreciated 😊
Question, do you pay for your listings? I mean for every listing that you create? Or do you have a free listing from the referral reward which is getting 40 free listings? TIA
If you're asking about me personally, I pay for most of them. I've had maybe 10 or so people use my referral link, but the free listings from that also count towards sales and renewals, not just new listings. So they get used up pretty quick.
@@TypeNineStudio thank you for your response! Unfortunately, my free listings that I was supposed to get as a reward didn't reflect on my account 😥
Any tricks for listing 2 items in one listing, like a matching shower curtain and floor rug?
I've also wondered about a link in the description to another listing, that possible?
Matching sets is perfectly fine! Then you can use keywords like "bathroom set" etc. You can put links in product descriptions, but I would link to sections rather than individual listings. If a listing sells out, it changes the link when you restock.
@@TypeNineStudio What I don't get is the actual mechanics of the link. you can't use html and I don't see any type or link options when writing the description. Does that mean I just write "buy the shower curtain here, If you want the towel go here" and the write out the link?
Yes I am that dumb.
About your question @1:00, I actually only listen to RUclips audio while I work. I’m ok as long as it’s clean and conscize
I think it's better to keep it real 💯 without fancy setup you doing fantastic.
Thank you for the tips and you are beautiful
I really enjoyed and learned from your advice. I'm a fairly new seller and still learning.
Excellent informative video, thank you.
Hi, thanks for the tips!
I have a question about your video i've just discovered, when you open a shop on etsy, the listing should be all about the same idea? or is it ok to mix, not niches, but products. Let me explain, i am making all sort of drawings, realistic portraits, geometric paintings, abstract paintings... that i m offering as a digital download, or a printed version of it. But i also offer those drawings as phone cases, pin buttons or else.. How etsy is coping with this kind of shop offering different kind of products? Is it ok, or should it be better to create one shop for one kind of product. Thank you.
Mixed products is a great idea, so if someone likes your artwork they have options of products and different price points. The recommendation system does this pretty well, at least from what I see as a buyer. They know the artwork I like and I get recommended different shops that may be similar. I'd make sure to mention in your descriptions and in a listing photo that the print/design is available on other products too.
Great tips!
This isn't related to Etsy, but to video production: How'd you set up your lighting for night time filming? I have fairly low amounts of natural light in my studio later in the evening (and obviously none at night) and would love to shoot more vids at night that still look good!
I'm still working my way through your uploads so I apologize if this has been answered already, but I'm also wondering about titles/descriptions and SEO. I've picked up a few tips here and there, but I've been trying to implement them in my shop and I struggle with it a lot. What are the best practices and what sorts of things should Etsy sellers keep in mind when deciding how to title and describe their products?
For the lighting - I have a cheap ring light and I point it towards my white closet doors so it's not too harsh (and so there's not a glare in my glasses) and I replaced my ceiling lights with daylight bulbs so the light is less yellow. It took a bit of playing around with the angles to get a spot where there wasn't a shadow since I can't move the ceiling light.
I can definitely do a video on SEO! The main things to keep in mind are to use long-tail keywords (like "pink winter hat" instead of just "hat" etc) and make sure you use all 13 tags with those long-tail keywords.
thank you so much! very helpful
video
Views don't come to my shop either??
Thanks for the video
Hi there, I bought you a coffee for listing review but yet to hear back..thanks
Hi! I responded to your Ko-fi message just now, I was away for a while to move house. The "buy me a coffee" is just a donation or a tip, the shop review is separate on the "shop" section of my ko-fi!
Very informative. Thank you.
Hi Abby, thanks for the great tips. What is the name of your Etsy shop? I could not find it.
It's CrueltyFreeStitchery!
Great thank you so much
I'm thinking of starting Etsy store. I have been making soap for four years and now I feel like I could sellainen them. But having 10-12 different soaps to start with 😵 I was thing of six and later adding some candles and shower steamers..
I came from tiktok, I just reasently downloaded it and I saw your video, one of the first videos in there that I watched.
6 is a good place to start! You could also do sampler bundles for a few extra listings - samplers go pretty well. Like half bars of a few different scents then they can come back and get full sizes of their favorite!
@@TypeNineStudio that is a good idea! Thanks!
If I am in a very small niche and no one in my niche seems to get a lot of views, either, what can be done to "upgrade" our listings?
We all have the same problem of limited keywords, as our items are generally foreign words (Yiddish & Hebrew).
What we get found for in search is a HOOT! Nothing to do with the items at all.
Really surprising for a search engine based in NYC.
It sounds like there may not be as much demand for your niche on Etsy. It seems like it has everything, but maybe not so much search volume. Your keywords may have to venture into the more broad categories versus the specific item.
I would even expand into similar categories with new listings to bring traffic to the shop.
Add keywords to your tags that you think will turn up in searches regardless of whether they're related to your products or not, buyers don't see them so it doesn't matter. You've kind of answered the question yourself in that buyers are already finding you through unrelated searches.
Very clear and helpful..your a good communicator..thanks
Thank you! 💙
Thank you
As someone who doesn't really care whether you're shooting in a studio or not, I think having your sewing machines and things in the frame gives you a sense of credibility as an actual creator of crafted items. Also who cares about the planes, nobody's listening for that! Nice video
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What updates can be made in the listing or store without hurting the algorithm
I would just stay away from completely changing a listing that has a good sales history, but maybe adding a new photo here and there, updating your shop announcement (even if just a few words so it shows as recently updated) etc. There's also a function in the Sell On Etsy App called "shop update" under the social media section where you can post a photo to your shop page and tag the product and it sends it to people who have favorited your shop!
@@TypeNineStudio thank you so much for letting us know that! I had no idea!
I have over 300 listings and on 43 sales :( now what?
Make sure they're optimized with SEO, good photos, thorough descriptions, etc! I have videos on the channel about SEO, getting views, and getting sales.
@@TypeNineStudio I feel like I have done all of that, I'm using seo that is working for other listings...I'm not sure why it's not working for mine...
@@rachel9130 Maybe do a sale for 15% off
Basically I am a dropshipper on etsy. So this technique of increasing a listing per day works for dropshipping? Does it make the algorithm aware that i am a dropshipper or not?
For print-on-demand yes. But as far as dropshipping products that aren't allowed (i.e. not handmade or designed by you) then the issue would be more listings = more likely to get caught.
Try not to work Sundays.....You're funny :o)