I also liked how she said, "Keep it simple," because I think and overthink all the time. I never put it to work and watch too much. She has inspired me a lot. I will do it.👍👍
I just made my 12th sale and it's my first Q4 and all those sales were personalized gifts. I sold not one single holiday design I made. It gives me a vision for the rest of the year ❤️
I opened my store right after Q4 last year. This July I made my first sale. I've sold over 900 personalized ornaments since my first sale. It's been crickets now that it's so close to Christmas and I'm enjoying the break!
I have watched many of your videos and this was one of your best videos yet. Lots of great, actionable information. It had a great timeline that shows many of us that it might not happen overnight and these are the steps you can take to make it happen. Thank you!
I appreciate this video so much. I am like her and for years I've had this on my heart to do and don't know where to start and I have very little money to start (this is one of my hurdles). I've been watching many RUclipsrs through the years to try to put things together. But I'm always coming back to Juna and Cassiy because they seem to both be very willing to help those who have questions. In 2025 I'm going to stop delaying it and just go for it by whatever means I can. This video is really encouraging thank you. To Christine, I just want to say that your drive is amazing and I'm sure your family and kids are very proud of you.
These videos are so inspiring and help me with pushing through every day and keep going. As mentioned I overthink every time I work on my shop and think I should have done this or should have done that but I’m sticking to my original plan and pushing through it. My shop has only been live for a week but I’m trucking along and these videos help me do that, keep my inspiration up and look for the light at the end of the tunnel. I want to thank you for sharing these! One of these days I hope to get to interview with you so I can share my journey and be an inspiration to someone just like me! That’s my goal anyways. 🤗💚 Thank you again! Your hard work is so much appreciated!
@@CassiyJohnson Quick question, Have you ever thought of perhaps doing Etsy POD Shop reviews? I know another youtuber who does it and was wondering if its something you would ever do or consider doing?
This video gave me so much inspiration! The funny thing is, I’ve watched all of Cassiy’s videos, as well as others like Simply Shawna and Mandy. I’ve drawn a lot of inspiration from all of them, but I still feel overwhelmed. Christine said it best: stop watching so many influencers, focus on just one, and simplify. My designs are beautiful but overly complicated, and since starting in March 2023, I’ve only made 70 sales. I keep jumping from one idea to another. Everyone’s been so helpful, but today I made the decision to sign up for Cassiy’s course and commit to it. I’ve already done so much research and groundwork. Now, it’s time to simplify, focus, and move forward!
I just got ur newsletter about 6k mistake...you're the 🐐 for sharing that tip with us.. as most beginners would never think to increase their prices too..God continue to bless u young lady. 🙏🏾 ❤
I'm just reading through your course. Thank you for your "how did you do it" success videos the way you do interviews has improved honing right in on the specifics of what store owners have done or not to make incredible sales in their stores, all the stepping stones along the way. Of course, your other content-focused YTs on how-to's are just as great. Best channel source for putting out incredibly useful information geared toward actionable steps to help everyone succeed on Etsy. Looking forward to being in your internal circle, can only imagine the gems in there all; a little more tech setup, and also want to be in there for accountability. Thanks.
guys this girl has changed my whole life!!!!! I am living in Turkey, and because of this government, life really becomes harder and harder every single day. I've heard this girl from my cousin in CA and got her course from my cousin. I have created my store with her course and really focused like 5-6 months on it and followed every single step very carefully. I never skipped any of it and also watched many videos about store management from YT also followed many topics on the Etsy forum, and now I am growing like a rocket. Maybe getting 75-80 orders every single day and also became a provider for many teams like hotels or wedding planners with my products. Me and my wife are literally living like rich people in Istanbul because of her. We cannot thank her enough, even though we pray for her every single hour. We wish you and your lovely family the best and a healthy new year!!!! Thank you, Cassiy. Thank you for everything. Thank you for your lovely heart and lovely guidance!!! You have a real fan here in Istanbul, Turkey. xxxxxxx
Congratulations!! It is a wonderful story. Really inspiring to hear your testimonial. You did so well and I take it as proof it is possible. Would you be able to share if you are selling in the USA market or elsewhere? I'm not based in the USA and wonder if the knowledge from the course is transferable to the UK market. Thank you so much 🙏🙏🙏
Thanks for this brilliant contant. Am so glad I found this video early into my research journey. You have saved me lots of time as I won't now watch 100 more RUclips videos before getting started! Will check out the free course fist then who knows.
Hi Cassiy, do you know if Christine offers free shipping or if she charges for shipping? Also, does she use the same mockups and colors for most of her listings? I'm finding that customizing my mockups for different seasons, holidays etc eats up a lot of my time and was wondering how I can streamline this.
She uses the same mockups and colors for the majority of her listings and she charges for shipping! I definitely recommend choosing things and making a system so you can just get listings up without having to overthink all the details each time and can get into a good rhythm! Hope that helps and wishing you the best of luck
These videos really help get me motivated again. I struggle with spending to much time on SEO and tags. When she says 5 minutes on designs, does that include these things. If so, i am doing something wrong 😂. Also, really looking forward to utilizing your new mockup tool! That will be an amazing time saver!
So glad you were motivated by the video!! No I think she meant 5 minutes to design, not the SEO. But for seo try to keep it simple, I just look at the top 4 bestsellers seo, take out words that don’t apply or are trademarked and then you could even give those to chat gpt and ask them to give the best 140 character or less title separated by commas using those keywords!
The first sale is the best feeling, especially when you've never sold anything before. I'm considering switching from digital products to physical but im soooo nervous since digital products are so easy and hassle free. When deciding on a physical product to sell, what do you think is a good search volume for a keyword? I think 4-5,000 monthly searches is pretty good. What I'm selling only has 1,200 monthly searches... and i'm thinking maybe that's why i haven't seen higher revenue. Not enough demand.
Thanks for the great content, Cassiy! Just wondering what type of feedback you have had on the quality of the ornaments from Podzilla? I sold ornaments this year for the first time using IYP from Printify I and had a huge problem with blurry prints. Looking to change my provider for next holiday season. Any info would be helpful!
why she have to do this? no one do this, this video is for give you a glimpse about hard work and no one is going to gift this just because you want to check her business, because you are going to copy and spoil the all thing.
@@maheshdas2927 11:10 - "....but those are like listings that took me less than five minutes and I just changed a few things and relisted it ..." SHE JUST SAID SHE DOES EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE BELITTLING SOMEONE ELSE FOR!!! Why don't you get off your high horse and learn English, since you want to insult people's intelligence, I can play that game as well! What? No, we want to see what works, which if you watch any of the videos about starting Etsy you would know that is a huge part of starting a store, knowing what sells and what doesn't. The whole concept of having niche merch is taking ideas and templates and changing them a little for your store. Yes, we want to check out her business because we want to do what works, DUH! She is extremely successful you think a couple people having similar products (which I'm sure, there are already plenty of items that are similar on Etsy already) is going to "spoil the whole thing"? Where do you think she got her ideas from? How do you think she got her first items up and running? By looking at the "Best Sellers" and doing something similar. If you're going to be rude to people, think about it first, because what you are accusing her of doing is what everyone trying to start out does. She even said, she started by watching others! Lastly, if you're going to talk sh*t to someone, run your insult though a translator or something first because your poor sentence structure and English is horrible. You sound stupid! Everyone looks at what works and does something similar, that's what this whole business model is structured on sweetheart. You really pissed me off with that comment, as if you're better than everyone else. I asked the same thing, where can I see her page, so I can see what works!
So I"m finally making time for my store this year...I have your calendar and pricing document I bought. But when I just got back on Printify it has changed so much haha. Would you recommend going with their new pricing system or putting it in the pricing spreadsheet I have or is fairly comparable. Of course I'm loving my calendar!!! Its helping me set this year up for success. Thank you!!
I don't usually write comments, but I just wanted to say a huge thank you Cassiy! 🙏 I've learned so much from you, and it's been a game-changer for my Etsy shop. Thanks to you, I've been able to really grow my digital prints on Etsy. Now, because I'm so inspired by your POD journey, I'm thinking about starting print on demand and offering my artwork as framed canvas art prints. Do you think I should add these to my current shop, or would you recommend creating a separate shop just for the framed canvas art? 🤔 I'd really appreciate your thoughts on this! 😊 Big hug from Germany!!
I have been trying to reach Cassiy regarding her POD Roadmap course, I sent an email to them but no one has responded. I am considering her course but have some questions, Does anyone know how else to reach Cassiy?
Hey Sherry! I just checked and saw that Coach Sam responded to your email and that you had a question about the office hours, this is just a live 1-2 hour group zoom call where I answer any and all questions the group has live on video! We typically do these 1-2x per month Let us know if you have any other questions at all and we’d love to have you join if it makes sense for you!
I tried getting started with POD and I’m an artist and pro graphic designer, but I couldn’t move forward and got cut short early when I realized in my first sale that Printify charges ME rather than the charged balance the full amount of the item before anything and I don’t have a ton of money that if I got multiple orders I could afford something like that.
Not sure what the problem was. When you get a sale, you are paid, say, $20 from the buyer for a mug, then to fulfill it, you are charged, say, $12 from Printify, Printful, whoever, to fulfill it. Ok, you might have to wait a week to get paid the $20, but you will still have profit.
I have been selling digital products for 3 years. I have tossed the idea around of trying POD but am so afraid to get started. I have a FB that I've had for years that has over 5K mom followers. I keep thinking in the back of my mind I should try that for that page. Is it as scary as I'm making it?
Cassiy, once I enroll in the mentorship program, how long do I have the access to the private Discord community? Also, how often do you post trending product updates on the Discord community? Thanks.
You get lifetime access to the course and community! And I post trend reports monthly usually around the middle of the month but sometimes I post more like in November I posted 3 and in December I already posted one the first week of the month to help get students started with what to be posting for after Black Friday ended! Feel free to email us if you have any other questions at all
Group listings take me a while. How do you do it so fast? I have heard some advice to not add the skus unless the listing starts selling. Is that what you do?
Thank you for sharing your experience! It helps a lot to find sellers that went through the same. That means I still can make it. Could you please share the name of your shop?
Hey so sorry but she agreed to come on but didn't feel comfortable sharing her shop since all of the viewers are also Etsy sellers and might get a little too much "inspiration" on accident but I hope that the video was inspiring for you still!!
I'm definitely feeling the struggle. 2024 was my first year...and I maybe got 10 sales. I think I do a lot of "busy work" as mentioned...feeling discouraged.
Thanks for this great video! Only sell (or list) what’s selling right now… my question is, we have been told to list 60-90 days ahead…? Would love a little clarification on how to balance these two pieces of advice. Thanks!
I would say that posting 60-90 days in advance is a good idea but not the only strategy that I would use. Even for holidays like Christmas, I recommend getting started listing early but then also to keep listing based on what you see trending all the way until Black Friday! I had lots of students in November post items for sale in the 2nd or 3rd week in November and get bestseller badges within a week because they were posting in real time trending items while customer were buying. So do a bit of both! It's a good idea to be looking at what's also selling right now and posting for that as well! So look for bestseller badges and niches/items with 20+ in the cart or lots sold in the last 24 hours and make designs for those and post them right away! I would be focussing on this about 50% of your time listing for you store.
I would like to clarify - what is selling right now might be from totally different niches. So how does it go together with an idea of having an Etsy store for a particular niche? Or I should not concentrate on 1 niche?
I have always thought general stores on Etsy are the best move! I’d recommend posting in lots of niches until you find what’s selling, then make more of what sells, more designs, add those designs to more products etc. Then eventually you’ll probably narrow it down to mostly 3-4 niches that you post for the majority of the time once you find the most profitable ones for you! Better to pick your main niches based on the proof of what worked instead of just which one you think will be best of that makes sense!
Do you have a coupon code for your course? I really want to join but I have already spent so much on other courses and they have not helped. Or do you have an upcoming end of year sale? Do you have an option for just access to your community? thank you!
I had my Etsy shop for 2 years before I started getting sales lol talk about patience. I’m in a slump right now though. Struggling with my creativity and a direction. I’ve seen some success. I usually have 1 bestseller a year but I only make like a few dollars off that product so I’m not really scaling and it’s got me depressed 😔 Hopefully I can get inspired.
So I have a question. Christine says she's listing items off your trend report as quickly as she can, and getting sales right away. How are those listings getting seen in the algorithm that quickly? I ask because most times it's preached to be designing for something about 3 months out for holidays for example, which makes sense to be ahead of the bulk of the searches. But how do her listings get seen that quickly??
So listing for holidays in advance is a good strategy yes but not the only one, a good way to get sales is to also post right now in niches that are selling today! Then your listings can get seen much more quickly, because customers are actively looking for and buying those items right now
This is such an inspiring video, Cassiy! What a beautiful success story. But I just want to get this right… For those 2000+ sales she made, she had to PAY for all those products, upfront, on Printify, right? So in other words, to make a huge amount of sales, you probably have to have a lot of $$$ in the bank (or available credit on a credit card), to pay for them, BEFORE you get paid from Etsy. Is that right? Thanks for all your incredible videos!
So glad you enjoyed the video 🎉 for the first 90 days or so that your shop is open, you get out on payment reserves and don’t get the money from Etsy until the item ships, so I do recommend having a few hundred dollars saved up to get started! But usually you slowly build your business, it’s not like most people get tons of sales their first few weeks. So you’ll have time to save up your profits as well. Then after the 90 days your money will get deposited the next day in your account from Etsy so it isn’t long that you are covering the costs!
Newbie here, i've been busy putting new listing up and listening to you! is there a way to hide a listing from etsy ubtil further notice, unfortunatly i did a listing for a toddlers shirt and relaised that the sizes are for youth. At the moment im unable to find a supplier here in Australia via printify ,, so would like to hide the product untill one comes available. Thank you so much for all your inspiration. Happy Shopping
Some ornaments do sell throughout the year when there are big events like last year with the solar eclipse for example but no typically they don't make a big income throughout the year. I would recommend getting into some other products to supplement the rest of the year as well but congrats on your sales!! That's awesome
@@CassiyJohnson Thanks, I started my Etsy Shop watching your videos. Hope to be in your roadmap soon. I have 1000 sales already, your guidance and content are invaluable. 🙏🥰
I will never ever use etsy ads. I already pay for the POD supplier, etsy fees, shipping, and tooling for me to create designs. Etsy should be ranking me organically for having a good product. Having an ads section is the antithesis of a search engine.
Sounds like everyone is in agreement that we overthink things too much. Have heard over and over "to keep it simple, stupid", yet we seem to be unable to do so! Wading through the weeds of getting started and wondered if you could share a response? Would like to offer a nice Freebie (DIGITAL DOWNLOAD) to buyers who have chosen an upsell in my shop. How do you get that to only those who have qualified? This would only be available for one of my Sections within the shop. Thanks Cassiy
I don't have a translated version of the course available however I do have other students who speak other languages and they have turned on closed captions on their computer while they watch my course and have said that it works really well!
@@CassiyJohnson oh wow!!! Great then!!!! I think I'm going to trust you, because as Christine says. I'm losing 8 hours watching designs and starting over and putting in draft and I'm passionate.I am also a mother of two young children. I need concrete. Do we have access to the monthly trend? As Christine says? And all she mentioned is in the training in the description? Thank you very much!!! Wow live the subtitles. The subtitles are available in French? thank you
It just means items for groups of people like matching family vacation shirts, bachelorette party shirts or mommy and me matching shirts for example. They buy them separately within the listing still but the idea is that you are selling them for times when people want to buy multiple items. I do have a group listing tutorial on my channel if you want to check it out!
@@CassiyJohnson thx. I have one random question. Lets say tshirt and printify. Your publish and the skus come over and 3 are out of stock. Is printify synced with Etsy in real time? Meaning if out of stock skus come back in will that out of stock message go away? How do you manage the out of stock situtations?
So what you need to do is take the image size that printify wants you to make the shower curtain and then divide it by 3. You can find that number by going to the page where you add the design to Printifg and there will be an “I” on the top right and you can see the pixel size they want for a design. So then that size is probably too big to make a canvas of on Canva so divide the number by 3 and then make that your canvas size on Canva Make your design and then when you go to save it, you’ll see a slider bar on the part where you select png file, slide that over until it gets to the size that Printify said they want and save your file! If you are using AI then you may also need to use an image upscaler, look in the canva App Store and there is one that you can upload your image to that will improve the quality of your design! Hope that helps
Hello, does anyone use international providers? One of the US providers no longer has one item, or it is just out of stock. I got a sale but had to cancel because I didn't have other US providers to fulfill the order. I want to know if i have to pay attention to the shipping or taxes when it enters the US before i switch to using international providers. PLEASE HELP
Can you explain what using the same seo is? Does this mean the same title & tags except changing a few or is it just the description …. I’ve been thinking about this for 2-3 hours now 🤣 do tell!
Very inspiring!!! Thanks for sharing! Question- does printify not have a customer service phone number? How do you reach out when you have an issue with your order? The only thing I see is to reach out to printify via chat, but every time I do that, there’s always like 200 people ahead of me and the chat times out because I don’t have time to sit there and wait. H E L P!!
If you have an order issue then the best way to handle it is to submit an issue on the order - when you click on the order you will see the button. If you just want to check on why something is taking so long to ship, then I wouldn't spend the time waiting in the chat because that's probably why there are so many people waiting. It's normally super fast to get a response but these 2-3 weeks are crazy.
That is where you sell items meant for a group of people to wear or use at the same time like family vacation shirts or bachelorette party shirts or matching cups! So one customer buys multiple items instead of just one
Honestly, I am so discouraged with my shop. I am trying to fix all staff, I made a lot of mistakes when I just started (in the end of September). I still have just 20, lots of favorites stuff. And no sales in this year at all. Honestly I maybe ready to delete my shop . I spent lot of time for learning. SEO,tips, optimization,research. But no results
i cant even sell 10 items and I've been there 13 years 8( im a hand made artist, tried to get into everything everyone else is doing but POD isn't working for me either i give up
Hey sorry to hear that! I think artists sometimes have trouble because selling on Etsy usually is more of selling what people are looking to buy already and less of making up something artistic that you like. If you want to give it a try again then I hope Christine’s advice of posting items for sale that are selling on Etsy right now and keeping your designs really simple will help!
@ thank you for your reply I’ll go over this again soon and I really don’t want to give up but I’m lost in the dark here and love this channel and have learned a lot I’m just not sure what’s up with my Etsy but I’m willing to do the work and revisit this again^^ I hope you’re having a good day be safe and have fun!!! Xoxoxo love storm
I guarantee this seller didn’t make any PROFIT in the end. Etsy Ads are a scam if you let them take advantage of you. Also with the amount of time she’s been doing this paying for Canva Pro, Courses she bought, Erank Subscriptions, etc. over two years. Her profit that she made after the Etsy ads probably don’t even cover what she’s had to Invest overall. She says “probably” 7,000 dollars bc she’s not actually managing her cash in cash out numbers.
She did say that in 2023 she didn't make very much profit because she was running too many Etsy ads and they were eating into her budget but in 2024 she has made significant changes to how she runs her ads and her business and has absolutely made profit in her business even after all of those expenses mentioned. The reason she didn't have the exact numbers for the past few weeks is that she hadn't completed her income/expense report for November yet because it's a busy time of year fulfilling orders and such but totally understand the skepticism but it really is possible to make money with Etsy/Pod
@@CassiyJohnson yeah Cassiy, she beat everyone here and now someone is trying to find faults...jealous behavior. We must admire this person because actually I dont do this kind of videos because everyone is going to parasite and copy my success and way of business and spoil my hard work. You are a hero Cassiy for convince this girl to speak something about her success.
Why people gotta hate? Life is hard enough as it is - she’s a busy mom and still hustling! Atta girl, Christine! Get it! Thanks @CassiyJohnson for having interviews like these that help inspire us all in the trenches! I absolutely LOVE content like this - seeing normal everyday people working to better their situations. ❤
Some RUclipsrs have recommended maxing out your ads budget to get sales but this strategy doesn't work for everyone and can lose you money if you don't really know what you're doing for sure like she said in the video. I recommend starting with a smaller budget like $5-$10 per day to start and learning how to get those ads to be profitable before scaling up to more money per day on ads
Great advice and motivation - I have everbee and not sure how to utilise to see whats selling right now without typing in something in particular. Am I missing something?
I would type something specific in like "Shirt" and then use the product analytics tool on the side to analyze the whole search results. Then use the filter buttons Everbee has to filter to see all results instead of just that page at the top. Then use the filter buttons to search for smaller thing like listings that are only 3 months old for example and then sort by which ones have sold the most! Hope that helps
How do you even come up with and hand make 1000 items . Us as handmade sellers are getting so screwed by all these want to be artists and print on demand and plastic 3d print garbage.
I also liked how she said, "Keep it simple," because I think and overthink all the time. I never put it to work and watch too much. She has inspired me a lot. I will do it.👍👍
I just made my 12th sale and it's my first Q4 and all those sales were personalized gifts. I sold not one single holiday design I made. It gives me a vision for the rest of the year ❤️
Congrats on your 12th sale!! Excited for your business to grow in 2025!
@@CassiyJohnson thank you Cassiy. You are one of my three RUclips coaches ❤️
Happy for you🤍
I opened my store right after Q4 last year. This July I made my first sale. I've sold over 900 personalized ornaments since my first sale. It's been crickets now that it's so close to Christmas and I'm enjoying the break!
Way to go! Keep it going and double down on anything you are selling. 🎉😊
Great interview, lots of juicy content. What a humble girl Christine is. 3 kids, and a job and doing Etsy. My God what a woman.
I have watched many of your videos and this was one of your best videos yet. Lots of great, actionable information. It had a great timeline that shows many of us that it might not happen overnight and these are the steps you can take to make it happen. Thank you!
I am so glad that you got some good info and inspiration from this interview with Christine! Wishing you all the best with your POD business!!
I appreciate this video so much. I am like her and for years I've had this on my heart to do and don't know where to start and I have very little money to start (this is one of my hurdles). I've been watching many RUclipsrs through the years to try to put things together. But I'm always coming back to Juna and Cassiy because they seem to both be very willing to help those who have questions. In 2025 I'm going to stop delaying it and just go for it by whatever means I can. This video is really encouraging thank you. To Christine, I just want to say that your drive is amazing and I'm sure your family and kids are very proud of you.
These videos are so inspiring and help me with pushing through every day and keep going.
As mentioned I overthink every time I work on my shop and think I should have done this or should have done that but I’m sticking to my original plan and pushing through it.
My shop has only been live for a week but I’m trucking along and these videos help me do that, keep my inspiration up and look for the light at the end of the tunnel.
I want to thank you for sharing these!
One of these days I hope to get to interview with you so I can share my journey and be an inspiration to someone just like me! That’s my goal anyways. 🤗💚
Thank you again! Your hard work is so much appreciated!
Congrats on getting started
@@CassiyJohnson
Quick question, Have you ever thought of perhaps doing Etsy POD Shop reviews? I know another youtuber who does it and was wondering if its something you would ever do or consider doing?
@@CassiyJohnson So my shop has only been open just a little under 2 weeks and I just got my first organic sale!!! I am beyond freaking out right now
@@mistell89 Aww yay congratulations and good work on taking action right away!! Here is a video on what to do after getting your first sale
Cassiy! I hope you make a video about printify new personalization feature, im so confused, what if the customer doesnt just order one? etc
First... THANK YOU for this video! So many nuggets!!! 2nd...CONGRATULATIONS CHRISTINE 🎉🎉🎉
Thanks for watching, so glad you got some good nuggets from her interview and I am sure she will be so glad to see your congrats!!
This video gave me so much inspiration! The funny thing is, I’ve watched all of Cassiy’s videos, as well as others like Simply Shawna and Mandy. I’ve drawn a lot of inspiration from all of them, but I still feel overwhelmed. Christine said it best: stop watching so many influencers, focus on just one, and simplify. My designs are beautiful but overly complicated, and since starting in March 2023, I’ve only made 70 sales. I keep jumping from one idea to another. Everyone’s been so helpful, but today I made the decision to sign up for Cassiy’s course and commit to it. I’ve already done so much research and groundwork. Now, it’s time to simplify, focus, and move forward!
Biggest takeaway: Stop watching videos, use the strategies you've learned to that point, keep it simple and list.
Thank you both so much!!
Love the takeaway!! So glad you enjoyed it
I just got ur newsletter about 6k mistake...you're the 🐐 for sharing that tip with us.. as most beginners would never think to increase their prices too..God continue to bless u young lady. 🙏🏾 ❤
I'm just reading through your course. Thank you for your "how did you do it" success videos the way you do interviews has improved honing right in on the specifics of what store owners have done or not to make incredible sales in their stores, all the stepping stones along the way. Of course, your other content-focused YTs on how-to's are just as great. Best channel source for putting out incredibly useful information geared toward actionable steps to help everyone succeed on Etsy.
Looking forward to being in your internal circle, can only imagine the gems in there all; a little more tech setup, and also want to be in there for accountability. Thanks.
So glad that you are getting some good info and inspiration from my content
Awesome information. Thank you Christine and Cassiy!!!!
guys this girl has changed my whole life!!!!!
I am living in Turkey, and because of this government, life really becomes harder and harder every single day. I've heard this girl from my cousin in CA and got her course from my cousin. I have created my store with her course and really focused like 5-6 months on it and followed every single step very carefully. I never skipped any of it and also watched many videos about store management from YT also followed many topics on the Etsy forum, and now I am growing like a rocket. Maybe getting 75-80 orders every single day and also became a provider for many teams like hotels or wedding planners with my products.
Me and my wife are literally living like rich people in Istanbul because of her. We cannot thank her enough, even though we pray for her every single hour. We wish you and your lovely family the best and a healthy new year!!!!
Thank you, Cassiy. Thank you for everything. Thank you for your lovely heart and lovely guidance!!!
You have a real fan here in Istanbul, Turkey. xxxxxxx
Wow this is an amazing comment, congrats to you for putting in the work and I am so so glad that you are seeing some great life changing results
Congratulations!! It is a wonderful story. Really inspiring to hear your testimonial. You did so well and I take it as proof it is possible. Would you be able to share if you are selling in the USA market or elsewhere? I'm not based in the USA and wonder if the knowledge from the course is transferable to the UK market. Thank you so much 🙏🙏🙏
@ i am only selling in US thats pretty enough for me as of now ☺️☺️☺️
@@mothernature1218 Thank you so much for getting back to me. Much apprecited. All the best with your business 💰🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟💗
@ thx so much for your kind words !!! Wishing you the best
I love your posts, each one of them leaves me with something important to implement in my designs and my Etsy store, thank you so much!!!😃
Aww I am so glad that my videos have been helpful for you, thanks for watching!!
Thanks for this brilliant contant. Am so glad I found this video early into my research journey. You have saved me lots of time as I won't now watch 100 more RUclips videos before getting started! Will check out the free course fist then who knows.
So glad you enjoyed it! Excited for you to get started and wishing you all the best on this new journey 🎉
Hi Cassiy, do you know if Christine offers free shipping or if she charges for shipping? Also, does she use the same mockups and colors for most of her listings? I'm finding that customizing my mockups for different seasons, holidays etc eats up a lot of my time and was wondering how I can streamline this.
She uses the same mockups and colors for the majority of her listings and she charges for shipping! I definitely recommend choosing things and making a system so you can just get listings up without having to overthink all the details each time and can get into a good rhythm! Hope that helps and wishing you the best of luck
Wow this is exciting - thanks so much for sharing! 🤩👍
Thanks for the comment Carol, thanks for watching 🎉
Thank you Christine!! So helpful!!
These videos really help get me motivated again. I struggle with spending to much time on SEO and tags. When she says 5 minutes on designs, does that include these things. If so, i am doing something wrong 😂.
Also, really looking forward to utilizing your new mockup tool! That will be an amazing time saver!
So glad you were motivated by the video!! No I think she meant 5 minutes to design, not the SEO. But for seo try to keep it simple, I just look at the top 4 bestsellers seo, take out words that don’t apply or are trademarked and then you could even give those to chat gpt and ask them to give the best 140 character or less title separated by commas using those keywords!
The first sale is the best feeling, especially when you've never sold anything before. I'm considering switching from digital products to physical but im soooo nervous since digital products are so easy and hassle free. When deciding on a physical product to sell, what do you think is a good search volume for a keyword? I think 4-5,000 monthly searches is pretty good. What I'm selling only has 1,200 monthly searches... and i'm thinking maybe that's why i haven't seen higher revenue. Not enough demand.
Amazing video. Very motivating. Thank you 🙏🏼🙏🏼🥰🥰
Thanks for the great content, Cassiy! Just wondering what type of feedback you have had on the quality of the ornaments from Podzilla? I sold ornaments this year for the first time using IYP from Printify I and had a huge problem with blurry prints. Looking to change my provider for next holiday season. Any info would be helpful!
I try I try I just try 9 sales.. wow congratulations christine💕
Thank you so much! Amazing information and super helpful.
Hi 👋 i don't see a link to Christine's etsy, I would love to check out her business.
why she have to do this? no one do this, this video is for give you a glimpse about hard work and no one is going to gift this just because you want to check her business, because you are going to copy and spoil the all thing.
@@maheshdas2927
11:10 - "....but those are like listings that took me less than five minutes and I just changed a few things and relisted it ..." SHE JUST SAID SHE DOES EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE BELITTLING SOMEONE ELSE FOR!!! Why don't you get off your high horse and learn English, since you want to insult people's intelligence, I can play that game as well!
What? No, we want to see what works, which if you watch any of the videos about starting Etsy you would know that is a huge part of starting a store, knowing what sells and what doesn't. The whole concept of having niche merch is taking ideas and templates and changing them a little for your store. Yes, we want to check out her business because we want to do what works, DUH! She is extremely successful you think a couple people having similar products (which I'm sure, there are already plenty of items that are similar on Etsy already) is going to "spoil the whole thing"? Where do you think she got her ideas from? How do you think she got her first items up and running? By looking at the "Best Sellers" and doing something similar. If you're going to be rude to people, think about it first, because what you are accusing her of doing is what everyone trying to start out does. She even said, she started by watching others!
Lastly, if you're going to talk sh*t to someone, run your insult though a translator or something first because your poor sentence structure and English is horrible. You sound stupid!
Everyone looks at what works and does something similar, that's what this whole business model is structured on sweetheart. You really pissed me off with that comment, as if you're better than everyone else. I asked the same thing, where can I see her page, so I can see what works!
So I"m finally making time for my store this year...I have your calendar and pricing document I bought. But when I just got back on Printify it has changed so much haha. Would you recommend going with their new pricing system or putting it in the pricing spreadsheet I have or is fairly comparable. Of course I'm loving my calendar!!! Its helping me set this year up for success. Thank you!!
Gracias Cassiy . Quiero comprar tu curso. Trend report es diferente al PoD road map? O es un solo curso. ❤❤gracias siempre
Los trend report los hace dentro de su curso POD roadmap :)
I don't usually write comments, but I just wanted to say a huge thank you Cassiy! 🙏 I've learned so much from you, and it's been a game-changer for my Etsy shop. Thanks to you, I've been able to really grow my digital prints on Etsy. Now, because I'm so inspired by your POD journey, I'm thinking about starting print on demand and offering my artwork as framed canvas art prints. Do you think I should add these to my current shop, or would you recommend creating a separate shop just for the framed canvas art? 🤔 I'd really appreciate your thoughts on this! 😊 Big hug from Germany!!
I have been trying to reach Cassiy regarding her POD Roadmap course, I sent an email to them but no one has responded. I am considering her course but have some questions, Does anyone know how else to reach Cassiy?
Hey Sherry! I just checked and saw that Coach Sam responded to your email and that you had a question about the office hours, this is just a live 1-2 hour group zoom call where I answer any and all questions the group has live on video! We typically do these 1-2x per month
Let us know if you have any other questions at all and we’d love to have you join if it makes sense for you!
Thank you Cassiy for both you and Sam reaching out. We will begin your PODRoadMap Course on 1/1/2025. Kicking off the New Year in a Positive Way.
I tried getting started with POD and I’m an artist and pro graphic designer, but I couldn’t move forward and got cut short early when I realized in my first sale that Printify charges ME rather than the charged balance the full amount of the item before anything and I don’t have a ton of money that if I got multiple orders I could afford something like that.
Not sure what the problem was. When you get a sale, you are paid, say, $20 from the buyer for a mug, then to fulfill it, you are charged, say, $12 from Printify, Printful, whoever, to fulfill it. Ok, you might have to wait a week to get paid the $20, but you will still have profit.
I have been selling digital products for 3 years. I have tossed the idea around of trying POD but am so afraid to get started. I have a FB that I've had for years that has over 5K mom followers. I keep thinking in the back of my mind I should try that for that page. Is it as scary as I'm making it?
Cassiy, once I enroll in the mentorship program, how long do I have the access to the private Discord community? Also, how often do you post trending product updates on the Discord community? Thanks.
You get lifetime access to the course and community! And I post trend reports monthly usually around the middle of the month but sometimes I post more like in November I posted 3 and in December I already posted one the first week of the month to help get students started with what to be posting for after Black Friday ended! Feel free to email us if you have any other questions at all
Group listings take me a while. How do you do it so fast? I have heard some advice to not add the skus unless the listing starts selling. Is that what you do?
Thank you for sharing your experience! It helps a lot to find sellers that went through the same. That means I still can make it. Could you please share the name of your shop?
Hey so sorry but she agreed to come on but didn't feel comfortable sharing her shop since all of the viewers are also Etsy sellers and might get a little too much "inspiration" on accident but I hope that the video was inspiring for you still!!
what is group orders?
That is where you sell matching items like group cruise shirts or mommy and me matching valentines shirts for example!
I'm definitely feeling the struggle. 2024 was my first year...and I maybe got 10 sales. I think I do a lot of "busy work" as mentioned...feeling discouraged.
Thanks for this great video! Only sell (or list) what’s selling right now… my question is, we have been told to list 60-90 days ahead…? Would love a little clarification on how to balance these two pieces of advice. Thanks!
I would say that posting 60-90 days in advance is a good idea but not the only strategy that I would use. Even for holidays like Christmas, I recommend getting started listing early but then also to keep listing based on what you see trending all the way until Black Friday! I had lots of students in November post items for sale in the 2nd or 3rd week in November and get bestseller badges within a week because they were posting in real time trending items while customer were buying.
So do a bit of both! It's a good idea to be looking at what's also selling right now and posting for that as well! So look for bestseller badges and niches/items with 20+ in the cart or lots sold in the last 24 hours and make designs for those and post them right away! I would be focussing on this about 50% of your time listing for you store.
@ Thanks so much for the clarification! And thank you for all you do to help others succeed.
How do i join your course Cassidy ?
Hello! You can check out the details on my website anytime at Cassiyjohnson.com , we’d love to have you join!
Hey cassiy
I would like to clarify - what is selling right now might be from totally different niches. So how does it go together with an idea of having an Etsy store for a particular niche? Or I should not concentrate on 1 niche?
I have always thought general stores on Etsy are the best move! I’d recommend posting in lots of niches until you find what’s selling, then make more of what sells, more designs, add those designs to more products etc.
Then eventually you’ll probably narrow it down to mostly 3-4 niches that you post for the majority of the time once you find the most profitable ones for you! Better to pick your main niches based on the proof of what worked instead of just which one you think will be best of that makes sense!
@@CassiyJohnson thank you so much for the answer and also for your helpful videos!
Do you have a coupon code for your course? I really want to join but I have already spent so much on other courses and they have not helped. Or do you have an upcoming end of year sale? Do you have an option for just access to your community? thank you!
Did you guys happen to say the name of her store? If so I missed it, would you mind telling me?
I had my Etsy shop for 2 years before I started getting sales lol talk about patience. I’m in a slump right now though. Struggling with my creativity and a direction. I’ve seen some success. I usually have 1 bestseller a year but I only make like a few dollars off that product so I’m not really scaling and it’s got me depressed 😔 Hopefully I can get inspired.
I am from India.I watch all of your videos. I want you upload more videos regarding printing on fabrics from home printer. Thank you
So I have a question. Christine says she's listing items off your trend report as quickly as she can, and getting sales right away. How are those listings getting seen in the algorithm that quickly? I ask because most times it's preached to be designing for something about 3 months out for holidays for example, which makes sense to be ahead of the bulk of the searches. But how do her listings get seen that quickly??
So listing for holidays in advance is a good strategy yes but not the only one, a good way to get sales is to also post right now in niches that are selling today! Then your listings can get seen much more quickly, because customers are actively looking for and buying those items right now
This is such an inspiring video, Cassiy! What a beautiful success story. But I just want to get this right… For those 2000+ sales she made, she had to PAY for all those products, upfront, on Printify, right?
So in other words, to make a huge amount of sales, you probably have to have a lot of $$$ in the bank (or available credit on a credit card), to pay for them, BEFORE you get paid from Etsy. Is that right? Thanks for all your incredible videos!
So glad you enjoyed the video 🎉 for the first 90 days or so that your shop is open, you get out on payment reserves and don’t get the money from Etsy until the item ships, so I do recommend having a few hundred dollars saved up to get started!
But usually you slowly build your business, it’s not like most people get tons of sales their first few weeks. So you’ll have time to save up your profits as well. Then after the 90 days your money will get deposited the next day in your account from Etsy so it isn’t long that you are covering the costs!
Newbie here, i've been busy putting new listing up and listening to you! is there a way to hide a listing from etsy ubtil further notice, unfortunatly i did a listing for a toddlers shirt and relaised that the sizes are for youth. At the moment im unable to find a supplier here in Australia via printify ,, so would like to hide the product untill one comes available. Thank you so much for all your inspiration. Happy Shopping
Yes, you can place your listing on hold. Click on the gear icon to edit your listing to change the status.
How many hours per week do u work u think?
Hi Cassiy, I did some ornaments and got more sales than I imagine, do you think ornaments can sale all year round?
Some ornaments do sell throughout the year when there are big events like last year with the solar eclipse for example but no typically they don't make a big income throughout the year. I would recommend getting into some other products to supplement the rest of the year as well but congrats on your sales!! That's awesome
@@CassiyJohnson Thanks, I started my Etsy Shop watching your videos. Hope to be in your roadmap soon. I have 1000 sales already, your guidance and content are invaluable. 🙏🥰
I will never ever use etsy ads. I already pay for the POD supplier, etsy fees, shipping, and tooling for me to create designs. Etsy should be ranking me organically for having a good product. Having an ads section is the antithesis of a search engine.
How's your sale so far?
Ads should boost what is already working.
Sounds like everyone is in agreement that we overthink things too much. Have heard over and over "to keep it simple, stupid", yet we seem to be unable to do so! Wading through the weeds of getting started and wondered if you could share a response? Would like to offer a nice Freebie (DIGITAL DOWNLOAD) to buyers who have chosen an upsell in my shop. How do you get that to only those who have qualified? This would only be available for one of my Sections within the shop. Thanks Cassiy
I can't find embroidery except for a small square..is there someone that does it all over?
Can you translate the information in your course? :( I speak Canadian French and I use Google Translate to discuss.. is it possible💕?
I don't have a translated version of the course available however I do have other students who speak other languages and they have turned on closed captions on their computer while they watch my course and have said that it works really well!
@@CassiyJohnson oh wow!!! Great then!!!! I think I'm going to trust you, because as Christine says. I'm losing 8 hours watching designs and starting over and putting in draft and I'm passionate.I am also a mother of two young children. I need concrete. Do we have access to the monthly trend? As Christine says? And all she mentioned is in the training in the description? Thank you very much!!! Wow live the subtitles. The subtitles are available in French? thank you
what does she mean group sales? they buy in qty or is that a bundle? like items?
It just means items for groups of people like matching family vacation shirts, bachelorette party shirts or mommy and me matching shirts for example. They buy them separately within the listing still but the idea is that you are selling them for times when people want to buy multiple items. I do have a group listing tutorial on my channel if you want to check it out!
@@CassiyJohnson thx. I have one random question. Lets say tshirt and printify. Your publish and the skus come over and 3 are out of stock. Is printify synced with Etsy in real time? Meaning if out of stock skus come back in will that out of stock message go away? How do you manage the out of stock situtations?
I WANT TO USE aI AND CANVA FOR SHOWER CURTAINS. hOWEVER i CAN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO GENERATE AN IMAGE FOR PRINTIFY AND KEEP QUALITY PRINT
So what you need to do is take the image size that printify wants you to make the shower curtain and then divide it by 3. You can find that number by going to the page where you add the design to Printifg and there will be an “I” on the top right and you can see the pixel size they want for a design.
So then that size is probably too big to make a canvas of on Canva so divide the number by 3 and then make that your canvas size on Canva
Make your design and then when you go to save it, you’ll see a slider bar on the part where you select png file, slide that over until it gets to the size that Printify said they want and save your file!
If you are using AI then you may also need to use an image upscaler, look in the canva App Store and there is one that you can upload your image to that will improve the quality of your design!
Hope that helps
Hello, does anyone use international providers? One of the US providers no longer has one item, or it is just out of stock. I got a sale but had to cancel because I didn't have other US providers to fulfill the order. I want to know if i have to pay attention to the shipping or taxes when it enters the US before i switch to using international providers. PLEASE HELP
How can we calculate our shipping income? I’m kind of confused about that since it doesn’t show it stats.
You just need to look at your finances tab at the monthly numbers and it will show you the total including shipping!
@@CassiyJohnson thank you!
What is her store name
Can you explain what using the same seo is? Does this mean the same title & tags except changing a few or is it just the description …. I’ve been thinking about this for 2-3 hours now 🤣 do tell!
you already get the point, just do like this.
Very inspiring!!! Thanks for sharing! Question- does printify not have a customer service phone number? How do you reach out when you have an issue with your order? The only thing I see is to reach out to printify via chat, but every time I do that, there’s always like 200 people ahead of me and the chat times out because I don’t have time to sit there and wait. H E L P!!
If you have an order issue then the best way to handle it is to submit an issue on the order - when you click on the order you will see the button.
If you just want to check on why something is taking so long to ship, then I wouldn't spend the time waiting in the chat because that's probably why there are so many people waiting. It's normally super fast to get a response but these 2-3 weeks are crazy.
@@CassiyJohnson okay gotcha! Thank you so much for your response. I’m glad to know this is not the norm, makes me feel better haha!
What are group orders?
That is where you sell items meant for a group of people to wear or use at the same time like family vacation shirts or bachelorette party shirts or matching cups! So one customer buys multiple items instead of just one
@CassiyJohnson Thank you
Honestly, I am so discouraged with my shop. I am trying to fix all staff, I made a lot of mistakes when I just started (in the end of September). I still have just 20, lots of favorites stuff. And no sales in this year at all.
Honestly I maybe ready to delete my shop . I spent lot of time for learning. SEO,tips, optimization,research. But no results
i cant even sell 10 items and I've been there 13 years 8( im a hand made artist, tried to get into everything everyone else is doing but POD isn't working for me either i give up
Hey sorry to hear that! I think artists sometimes have trouble because selling on Etsy usually is more of selling what people are looking to buy already and less of making up something artistic that you like. If you want to give it a try again then I hope Christine’s advice of posting items for sale that are selling on Etsy right now and keeping your designs really simple will help!
@ thank you for your reply I’ll go over this again soon and I really don’t want to give up but I’m lost in the dark here and love this channel and have learned a lot I’m just not sure what’s up with my Etsy but I’m willing to do the work and revisit this again^^ I hope you’re having a good day be safe and have fun!!! Xoxoxo love storm
Is there a way to message you directly? I have a design specific question I was hoping you could help with and possibly share with others?
Very inspirational
I guarantee this seller didn’t make any PROFIT in the end. Etsy Ads are a scam if you let them take advantage of you. Also with the amount of time she’s been doing this paying for Canva Pro, Courses she bought, Erank Subscriptions, etc. over two years. Her profit that she made after the Etsy ads probably don’t even cover what she’s had to Invest overall. She says “probably” 7,000 dollars bc she’s not actually managing her cash in cash out numbers.
She did say that in 2023 she didn't make very much profit because she was running too many Etsy ads and they were eating into her budget but in 2024 she has made significant changes to how she runs her ads and her business and has absolutely made profit in her business even after all of those expenses mentioned.
The reason she didn't have the exact numbers for the past few weeks is that she hadn't completed her income/expense report for November yet because it's a busy time of year fulfilling orders and such but totally understand the skepticism but it really is possible to make money with Etsy/Pod
I pay for etsy ads, mydesigns, canva & kittl and i am still making a profit.
@@CassiyJohnson yeah Cassiy, she beat everyone here and now someone is trying to find faults...jealous behavior. We must admire this person because actually I dont do this kind of videos because everyone is going to parasite and copy my success and way of business and spoil my hard work. You are a hero Cassiy for convince this girl to speak something about her success.
Why watch this if that's your mindset? Take the negativity elsewhere!
Why people gotta hate? Life is hard enough as it is - she’s a busy mom and still hustling! Atta girl, Christine! Get it! Thanks @CassiyJohnson for having interviews like these that help inspire us all in the trenches! I absolutely LOVE content like this - seeing normal everyday people working to better their situations. ❤
I love how you give no link to her socials or her business. Really a new strategy to sell a course on sellin on etsy
Lol the reason why they don't do that is because it kills the conversation rate on their store and stops copycat listings too.
I would love to be a POD provider to you or make products for your shop :)
Comments worth reading 😊
Now I see why it is useless for me to try to sell my original design hand-sewn sofa pillows on Etsy.
Well not with that attitude
What do you mean $1000 a day on ads😮?
Some RUclipsrs have recommended maxing out your ads budget to get sales but this strategy doesn't work for everyone and can lose you money if you don't really know what you're doing for sure like she said in the video. I recommend starting with a smaller budget like $5-$10 per day to start and learning how to get those ads to be profitable before scaling up to more money per day on ads
Did I heard right? Revenue $250,000 and profit $7,000?
i think she said that profit was from a span of 5 weeks
Yes sorry for the confusion, that was just in the past few weeks that she shared the profit from.
Thank you Cassiy! I love these videos, so many good tips. Do you think this would apply to digital sellers as well?
Great advice and motivation - I have everbee and not sure how to utilise to see whats selling right now without typing in something in particular. Am I missing something?
I would type something specific in like "Shirt" and then use the product analytics tool on the side to analyze the whole search results. Then use the filter buttons Everbee has to filter to see all results instead of just that page at the top. Then use the filter buttons to search for smaller thing like listings that are only 3 months old for example and then sort by which ones have sold the most! Hope that helps
I doubt anyone does that well right off without help from the inside. She knew someone who works there.
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How do you even come up with and hand make 1000 items . Us as handmade sellers are getting so screwed by all these want to be artists and print on demand and plastic 3d print garbage.
Just signed up! Excited to learn 🩷
So excited to have you in the group
@@CassiyJohnson I just signed up too. It's been truly a dream come true!!! 🙂
Thank to both of you. 🤍