🛑 Stop Selling Digital Products on Etsy
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- Ok, we're going to have to talk about this whole "throw digital products up on Etsy" thing, it doesn't work - here's why and what you should do instead!
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OKAY go on ya rant but remember we all gotta start somewhere. Newbeez don't even know what branding is, but at least somebody is willing to step out and try. Give some hope to the uneducated and slow learners down here. 🤪
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Agreed! Now I’m just defeated and don’t know anything more about how to do it right
Exactly 💯 I am so passionate about the digital product I'm creating, it's my sanity to get it out my mind and out into the world to help transform at least 1 person. So when I go online and see so many teaching how to do this and copy paste that because it's trendy & a money generator, I ask myself am I rare or something because I invest my energy into building things from a place of passion, not for get rich quick scheme. And you are on it! My goal is to transition from the digital product to building an app, and selling on my own landing site allows me to build a database to transfer the audience to create a powerful community as I am able to elevate the business! Appreciate hearing a creator speak out on the subject!
I don't know what you guys are talking about. I started last year selling digital products on etsy and am averaging $17k to $25k profit a month. Yes it's hard work and dedication but like everything else you get what you put it into it. And no I'm not mentioning my type of products I sell and I learned by researching etsy not watching youtuber gurus.
So what did you use to research and find niches? Not sure if I fully believe this.
I just want to add to those thinking about creating and selling digital products on any platform, it's a LOT of work, time, effort to do it, if you want to have qualify products. And generally, you should have a lot of listings to make serious money, aside from all the marketing etc that needs to go into it. If you're not willing to or have the time to devote to the "upfront" effort and maintenance ongoing, don't waste your time. Just my take on it!!
THANK YOU for spelling it out that it is PARAMOUNT to build a brand around the products (ANY product really) to be able to sell them. Keeping it REAL as always X
Facts. I've had my Etsy shop for a year and a half and just got to 60 sales. It's a slow grind building an audience or you have to have alot of ad spend. You see other shops that just opened that have tons of sales but it's obvious that they already have a following or are spending a large amount on ads.
Some of what you are sharing is correct. Some is not. For example, there are THOUSANDS of companies that market items that they do not give a shit about....but they did their research and decided to market specific product lines that they knew were high in demand. So...in essence, they did not care about the products and still sell CRAP TONS of that product. So, you DO NOT need to love the products you sell. Selling products isn't always about LOVING what you are selling. It can be able serving an industry because you know it can create income flow. I have sold many things that I give two shits about, but have made a LOAD of money selling them.
Exactly. No one really thinks about how much time you spent. The end result and if it’s needed is what will convince them to buy
100%!! Just because I wouldnt hang it on my wall doesn't mean I wasn't completely dedicated to making an item for someone else. It doesn't have to be on brand or even to my taste as long as it sells and im providing a quality product. Taste is subject and business is business.
I completely agree. I've made numerous religious products, I'm an atheist. But they sell and that is what matters sometimes. It helps me to keep the income and interest flowing when the products I DO love aren't selling as well. I personally believe in a balance.
What do u Sell?
This is perfect timing. Cause we all want to make money, but most of the people showing this quick Etsy digital product/PLR videos make money or gain something from the videos…. not because that’s how they made their money. It’s frustrating.
As an actual professional trained and schooled designer, a ton of these oversaturating Etsy and otherwise fail BECAUSE they use templates and clip art and so forth that they did not create originally
Fr, its saturated with people who watch a dumb “make 50k a minth on etsy with ai art” and hundreds of people flock to ai and just copy other crappy ai art and thats why almost all art on etsy now is just bland and boring ai art.
Thank you thank you thank you!!! I'm in the very beginning of starting my digital product business and everyone, except you, says the same thing about throwing things up on Etsy! I so appreciate your honesty and transparency for us newbies just starting our research and trying to figure things out!
Completely agree it's not as easy as people think it is. But if you're willing to work - just with anything in life - it could really pay off. I'm a freelancer and there's been months when my digital product Etsy shop paid my rent. Now I'm hoping to grow it. But people thinking it'll be quick & easy is what the problem is.
I agree with Jessica. I see such a huge saturation of digital products on Etsy now, it's definitely not something I feel that someone can expect to do and stand out from the crowd without making a serious effort.
This was so refreshing to hear. Too often we hear about all the quick money making hacks that are not a reality at all. It just makes us lazy and entitled thinking we can get all the rewards without putting in the deserved effort. Give me the cold hard truth. Hard work needed and good.
Jessica, you're probably the first RUclipsr I came across when I went down that rabbit hole, and I'm so thankful for that! Nice, honest video :)
I’m currently going down this rabbit hole, because I would love to sell my photography online. It’s just not being found… 😢 that’s why I’ve been considering Etsy.
@@r.l.bookreviews This space is very saturated, it's very hard, but not impossible.
Yes!!! Thank you for speaking the truth. I have been really disheartened by seeing all that "experts" on RUclips making it seem so easy! It makes it sound scammy and I'm not there for that!
I subscribed to one, what she was saying seemed very reasonable and different from others, I started follow her on Instagram, went to her site to see the price of her course and mentorship, it didn’t have, so DMd her asking about the cost, she then began to making me a lot of questions, how much I wanted to make, I said in 1.5 years I’d like to make X amount of money, then I asked again how much it is for the mentorship and course, she took a while to answer, after that she said it cost almost 200$ per month for the course for the 1.5 years, and maybe almost 400$ per month for 1.5 years for the mentorship.
I know courses who cost only 150$,200 that are legit.
That seemed very scammy for me, why doesn’t she has the price of the courses or the mentorship?
Besides she posts reviews on her socials, but i only saw the instagram page of one of her students, if they are real and not purchased testimonials don’t they have they own socials?
This is an amazing woman! ❤
I love her character and light when she speaks
Love this video because it’s the truth. I’ve been selling digital products on Etsy for the past 5 months and I’m at 97 sales and almost $1k. Now I’m trying to figure about how I can scale my business off the the digital products I created.
Thank you for sharing this and speaking the truth! I created my brand 3 years before offering digital product in Etsy, and the sells started to come fast. It became a success.
Fast forward years later, Etsy became over-saturated, sellers are lowering their price to match their competition, and people are copying each other work which lead me to create my own website.
Now I make way more than I did with my own website, gain loyal customers with my own email listing, and have a website that’s more organized and categorized for customers shopping experience.
Finally I found someone who speaks reality and does not clickbait. Yo go girl!
Please
it is clickbait though lol...
Thank you! I'm so relieved that someone's addressed this. I'm inundated with these kind of make 10k months with 1 digital download videos. They are cheap and sleazy and not sustainable way. 😠
The choice is simple...build business on a platform you own (long-term) or risk wasting time and money building business for Etsy. You don't own your customers..Etsy does. Own your email list. (Right on Jessica). The landlord can always kick you out of the store you're leading but not when you own it. Big difference.
Hi .. um i am new to all this.. can u explain me what email listing means ??
Thank you for keeping it REAL Jessica. There are sooooo many videos on RUclips right now about digital products or even print-on-demand, like creating a mug shop or sticker store, or digital stickers, and supposedly you'll make thousands, but they are leaving out the REALITY part.
YESSSS, it drives me bananas!
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Finally someone said it. Tons of videos titled "make a digital product with me" or "how to make x-amount by selling this digital product" or "digital planner tutorial", but none of them showcases an actual, profitable product that people will buy. And for a good reason - why would profitable creators give out their trade secrets and share their niche? I'm currently building my first digital planner and it has been weeks of work so far, trial-and-error mostly, until I had one page that's something I feel I could work with. I will put it out in the coming weeks, and then I'll see how my SEO performs. No such thing as easy money, no matter how they put it. Young entrepreneurs should learn that dudebros and girlbosses are making money by selling them this dream.
You, my friend, are a breath of fresh air! Truth! I needed to hear this. Thank you!
You tell it like it is. So many people on TT that are not teaching the long term model. Great video!
So while I agree with you about most of the things you've said, right as you were saying "you're not gonna build an email list with Etsy," I was looking through an Etsy shop that in the announcement had a link to sign up for their newsletter, and if you did, you'd get free goods. People are getting creative! lol
Hey Jessica, I just want to simply say thank you so, so much for this video.
I, like many others have bare hand witness to many of these you mention regarding Etsy, and it does literally and figuratively blatantly just sell you into 'u can make money by doing this as so many others are doing' yes and no, like you said of course it is possible but it's all about the brand, shop name, creation that you, yourself create, if you love something enough it's bound to love you back right and I think myself that is the true defined basis to encourage anyone to do what they want of they truly believe it, it can truly be achieved I think.
For anyone who wants to do this, research is important or follow the right people, like Jessica, keeping it real and saying it as it is/how it should be. Again, I am so, so glad to have found you, like a breath of fresh air.
I can most certainly start something with ease and much more confidence within, for sure. 🙂
Thank God I found you. Really. This is what i wanted to find since I discovered the "digital products" thing. Thank you again ♡
Yes! I was in a group this week where someone complained their products weren’t selling on Etsy. I asked where she was marketing them. Nope. Not at all. Hmm, I think there’s the answer as to why they’re not selling!!
I am planning to create digital products. Thank you for this - I needed to hear these things 🥰
Hey Jessica Hey..... I am so glad that you made this video because back in January I did make digital products to sell on Etsy in my shop..... But to me it was over-saturated and I barely had any sales.... So unfortunately I just closed down my shop on Etsy ... And now I'm trying to find other avenues or places where I can sell my digital products..... Like kids activity pages, templates , daycare forms and much more... I'm really trying to start my RUclips channel very soon on digital products and how to make digital products
It's like RUclips is not oversaturated? Not enough people here repeating all the same things after each other? Come on! 😏
You either know how to stand out at ANY market or you do not. As simple as that.
Came into this skeptical but it was actually very helpful and insightful. Big love
Thank you for this. I want to put up my digital products on a platform (these are what I use in my existing business….not just something to throw up on there) and this helped me make the choice.
I make digital portraits for my friends and family for fun and my idea was to sell custom digital portraits on Etsy
It took me around a year to get a few of digital products and I've had sales since but there's no getting rich out of them. Seriously. Plus there's customer service.
I've just discovered your channel and I'm a big fan already!
Thank you for the insightful video, Jessica! 🙏 Your analysis was enthusiastic 🤩 and greatly appreciated. I am excited 😃 about the possibility of collaborating on future content together.
OOF! This should be posted every where. So much real talk! This also applies to drop shipping.
Thank you so much. So tired of RUclips feeding this junk to us. People are teaching Get Rich Quick Stream. Thank you for speaking the truth.
I mean, it just like everything else. Don’t just put something up for sale and expect it take off immediately. It takes a lot of effort to make something successful. Also, if someone’s product did take off immediately, they probably already had a following before they started selling.
I been watching the videos you are talking about. 🙃 thanks for keeping it real
Thank you for enlightening me. I am tired of some people here feeding junks to us
There's cons to just about anything. You got to really research before diving in
Good and honest content! Thanks. 🙌🏻🙂
Follow your instincts and have a happy 2024 ppl.
Thank YOU for the REALNESS! :)
I was interested in digital planning because i am a photographer. Who git tired if buying tons of massive calenders and planners that was taking up too much space so i decided to see if there was a way i cpuld create a digital planner for photographers by a photographer. I wanted and will make something that will not only benefit me, but also fellow ohootgraohers in the community. I love a good planner and since we are already on our ipads, samsung tablets, and desk top, a digutal plannet would be great and easiky excessable
Question, Would it make sense to sell on shopify and Etsy?
great content! just subscribed and opted in for digital product blueprint! thanks
I agree 1000%. Everything is completely saturated. It really is. The one's that weren't, I didn't care to make. Etsy is just not my thing. It's turned into a garage sale.
???Ok SO I NEED ADVICE. I WRITE MY OWN QUOTES AND PHRASES . I DECIDED TO PUT IT ON FRAMES AND SHIRTS. DO I SELL THAT DIGITAL ON ETSY OR ACTUAL PICTURES OF PRODUCTS. OR DO DIGITAL SO ITS ALL MADE TO ORDER .AND CUSTOMERS CAN CHOOSE COLOR SIZE AND FONTS?????
I would like to learn how to create my own digital pages for my own personal paper crafting and decoupage. Im not interested in selling them. What platform or programs would you recommend i use? I make journals and decoupage on multiple product types. Thanks for sharing 😊
You know there are some very successful people that are only selling digital that sold other things before. It is not super easy to do but possible with a very good strategy and a lot of work.
AMEN SISTAH!
this is SUCH a good video!!
Awesome!
I have both an etsy and a woocommerce. I personally haven't had much luck on etsy myself. with operating your own store, how does one get traffic there since they don't have the etsy audience? what woocommerce plug ins (free and paid) do you recommend for running the digital product store?
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Some ppl just want some extra change in their pockets.. not necessarily making it a whole business to market your shit! Maybe to add on your bio but not anything serious girl! Yes we all know you have to work for it. But you seem more serious about this than others that just need some change. You’re making it your whole life 😅
But you have so many videos with title easy money 🤔
Etsy’s entry level is too low..it’s like swimming against the stream
Where else can I sell digital products aside from etsy?
What's the market to sell your own digital astrophotography images on Etsy?
I've been designing and selling digital scrapbooking kits online since 2003. Self taught. I've been around so long I've got a Blogger blog 🤣 anyways... I was on a site YEARS ago that sold scrapbooking kits that moved into the digital arena. I was contacted by them to sell with them/for them and I did well there until they shut down their digital section. So now I'm on etsy and have been for years and I pay more to etsy than I make. I spend a lot of time making each of my products but I'm failing. 😭 So it's not easy even with a name I already had established (not the name I use on here). Any tips? 🥺
It's possible iam selling like crazy with my own digital ideas on etsy.
iam not copying the youtubers !!
It’s obvious you are offended by the situation. Some people are okay with being…simple. Don’t encourage people to not do it at all just because it’s not the way you do it.
Those who don’t study design professionally slap things together most times and compete with others who use the same stuff to design is the problem. That’s what has created the oversaturated problem, and that people sell at junk low prices.
So many high fives and leg kicks to all of this!
I needed to hear this. I've been looking at possibly doing some digital products to sell online and im having a hard time deciding what is going to work best for me. I don't have a shop name yet but have toyed with a few ideas. Most videos i see lately promise riches but don't help you plan it out and tell you the important details of actually getting the sales.
People don't realize how bad Etsy is for digital products too. They take out a lot, still. I'm glad I decided to actually build my digital products around a niche I care about and want to put out a book in at some point.
Exactly!
Hello Jessica! Thank you for the video. I want to do digital products. I'm an educator and I have ideas for a few. I have a CANVA account but what is LIGHTROOM? Can you do a video about that tool? Thank you!
Lightroom is a photo editing app :)
There's no such thing as easy money. You always need to put some work. If something is easy, then there's competition you need to fight with. There's always work, smart approach and rest is patience or money. No workaround. You need to pay time or money to speed it up.
Any good alternartives for etsy? Shopify maybe?
Shopify is great, if you already have an audience because it’s around $29/month. They still take a portion of a sale and now you have to pay for marketing to drive traffic to your site whereas Etsy drives the traffic for you There’s a give and take :)
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I don’t know what a digital tumbler is…
@@jessicastansberry i mean tumbler designs
What is “Dude Bro?” 😫
Clickbait title!👎
A "selling" mindset over a "creating" mindset doesn't work long-term. Products become unoriginal and income dries up quickly...
NICE Clickbaity title lmao
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She’s talking craps, if you go on Etsy then you see how much peoples sels on Etsy you’re gone be Astonished 😧 Is a lots of Sells out there, but depends on what you selling, of course not all sells but it still a lots of sells and not sells to
Here is my complaint about Etsy. The law says that they have to have an unsubscribe button if they send you an email. But they don’t have any!
I have complained to them in the past about getting unsolicited email and it stopped. But now it has started up again!
I really resent them sending me info I never asked for. This makes me not trust them in general.
Ugggg; that’s annoying!
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I have a question please...I'm an artist, mostly paintings but some mixed media and glass works as well, who has a large body of work. I have digitized most of the work and was thinking about selling some as digital downloads. My question is...would you recommend I sell them as a digital printable file ie; .pdf/.jpg or as an already printed item on glicee, poster and canvas? Thanks for making useful content.
it sounds like you have already lots of your original art to sell, that is already so much further ahead of most people, so I would build my own gallery / website with a shop and focus all my energies to drive traffic to the site
You’re definitely going to have more overhead selling the physical prints so if you still need to build an audience, I’d start with digital and if your audience wants physical, move to that later
Are you saying it’s not saturated? What about the reserving that’s going on? And the people posing as homemade when the items are from alibaba?