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I opened my store in November of 2020, we're at 2600 sales and I thought we were killing it. You've opened my eyes to so many more possibilities. 2023 is going to rock. Thank you!
Best teacher of Etsy on RUclips. Cassiy is brilliant and explains everything without any hard sell. Absolutely think she Rocks and if you want to follow and subscribe to anyone on here in regards to Etsy, make sure it's her.
Ok I started T-shirts 2 years ago. On Etsy and Amazon merch. Sales weren't terrific and I kind of let that part of my business go down hill. Now I have binged watched Cassiy videos this weekend and I'm ready to give it another try. I'm very interested in personalization for shirts and Ornaments. Great Videos. Thank you!
I learned soooo much from this video. I am a beginner and I have made mistakes on how I have created customized listings. Thank you. You're a great teacher!
YES! So excited you did this video. I have been wanting to add personalizations to my shop but, I was at a loss of how to go about doing it. You have saved the day! As always your videos are a wealth of information with a no nonsense style. Thank you!
Hi Cassiy, Loving your videos. I like how you get right to the point. I don't know if Etsy changed things since you posted this a year ago, but I am not seeing the same variation options you are? Keep posting girl, keep posting...
Thank you so much! I’m about to open my shop this week and I’m scared but you make it so easy to understand and every video I watch of you gives me so much motivation.
Thanks for a super helpful video. I had so many questions about customizing and you’ve answered most of them. I’m looking forward to trying it myself :)
Hi Cassiy! Thank you so much for another incredibly informative video! I am learning so much from you and cannot tell you how much I appreciate you! I am brand new to this and I am already feeling a bit overwhelmed with organizing the multiple projects I am working on. If you haven't already done so, please consider creating a video on how you organize and save projects and templates in Canva (or elsewhere).
I want to say, I watched a few videos by other people then went to Printify Support and asked them how to set up personalized ornaments in Printify. They sent me a link with a video…it was awful! She talked way too fast, didn’t show us what to ‘click’ on to get where she’s flying to as she’s talking. I was more confused and frustrated AFTER I watched and paused the video three times. I ended up going to RUclips and searching thru your videos. I THINK I can do it now (I took copious amounts of notes lol.) If they left me an option to review the explanatory video I’d say what I did here plus say their instructors need to watch your tutorials to see how it’s done or just straight up hire you. Thank you for your step by step tutorials with visuals. People all learn differently, some can read it and get it, some hear it and some need to see sit being done; I’m in the later group. Thank you again.
This is a great tutorial. For my own art on Etsy, I will need print variations for Wall Art "sizes" for personalized artwork, plus options for print, rolled canvas, mounted canvas and panel mounted. I am preparing the sample images right now just starting out. I would guess this approach would be similar to just create 2 variations with prices to match, plus personalized text area. Personalized.Tshirts and mugs may be later with Printify.
Yes I hope this video was still really helpful in showing you how to start the listing for your personalized items! Thanks for watching and best of luck!
Cassiy, you are absolutely fabulous! Thank you so much for your videos! This one was extremely helpful (as have been your others) for me. Again, thank you so much!
I love your videos, thank you for all the inspiration. Just want to mention the background music is so distracting for me. Sorry I don't want to be an ars. I just have a hard time focusing and want to take in all your amazing info. ❤❤
OMG this is just what I needed! Thank you so much for doing this video. You always make things so clear. I was wondering how exactly to make personalized items and now I know. Will definitely add some items to my store now
Can you do a video on how to put multiple types of shirts (ie. canva 3001, canva3005, sweatshirt, etc) under one listing? Please? I love how you simply show step by step in your videos! Thanks a billion :)
do you offer personalizable items Cassiy? and how much of you store are personalizeable? my end question is... a full time income etsy shop, how much time do you spend making the personalized items? 1 hour a day? I want to do alot of personalized items, but im just nervous that some day i'll get soooo many customers that i dont have time to make the designs... :P im dreaming, i know... i currently have 0 sales xDD
Thanks for this video Cassiy. I'm new to POD and have found all of your videos so helpful! I have a question - I just published my first personalized listing on Etsy. Does this mean I don't need to do anything on Printify until an order is actually placed? TIA for your help, you're awesome!
I just started adding pod to my etsy shop and I hear you talk a lot about personalized products which im sure will help my sales but I am terrified by adding them...I just dont want to mess anything up!!
Hopefully this tutorial helps make you feel more comfortable but if not then don’t do it! You definitely don’t have to to make money, it’s just another angle to try to get a leg up on your competition!
Thank you for this video. I'm just starting out and my very first listings will be personalized ornaments. My main question is prior to beginning your listing on Etsy what do you do in Printify, if anything, as far as putting your nonpersonalized design in there?
Hi ~ when you fill out *who* made it on Etsy ~ I thought you said previously that you made it ??? (Since you did the design?) Thank You ~ AWESOME VIDEOS
Great video! I noticed you added the personalization on the Esty list. Can’t you also use Corjl and allow customer to design the personalization themselves such as allowing font, color and even font size to be done by customer.
You may have done this already & I'm just unaware but do you have a video about the benefits of Etsy Plus? I was wondering why your Etsy looked different than mine and noticed that! I'm curious about the pros and cons for that and if I should invest as a newer store! 💛
I don't have a video on Etsy plus but I do really like it! It's $10/month but you get $5 in free ads and then some free listings so it really only costs you about $3 - $4 per month total. The only difference really is you can have a banner that slides from one to the next for a total of three different images, your banners can be clickable so they can bring you to a certain listing or collection, and you can set up your shop a little different. Instead of just 4 featured items at the top, you can feature whole collections like I have done in my mockup store. This is by no means necessary but I really like the aesthetic so I think it's worth the money. But you can decide if you like those features or not!
Hello Cassiy, I appreciate what you provide in your videos. I'm just getting started on Etsy and gathering some information about custom products. I need to understand this point from your video please: In case we want to make a personalized product and we start the listing on Etsy without filling in the SKU numbers, how can Printify catch our order from Etsy when somebody buys the product since it's not connected?
Loving your videos - thank you so much. Questions - how are you able to offer free shipping and still make a profit? If I offer free shipping on top of trying to keep competitive prices on Etsy, I feel like there wont be any profit left over. Would love to hear how you do it. Thank you!!!
Can you explain the difference between this personalization tutorial verses the one that eventually all SKU’s have to be copied and pasted. Or was that for group orders? Was that your video or Heathers? 😂 I watch both of you! I remember the process was started in Etsy like this one in the event Nobody ever orders it you wouldn’t have to do all the SKU changes or additional ones for different sizes/color variations. Was that an old version of doing personalization, not your way of doing it - Heathers-or a group order? -Also have you done a Hello Custom tutorial yet? -I had to reach out to Printify (and I made sure to give you, Mandy, Heather and Hannah major praise for being so thorough and informative) - I need some help on making a requested design patchwork (appears like a quilt) big enough for large projects such as shower curtain or blankets that are NOT a pattern. All elements needed to be inside the template and it kept leaving white space, I tried turning into a SVG as Mandy offered me support too, but same issue and eventually I found it easier to upload into printify as they recommended-one by one (a pain) they also recommended using their text box for personalization, so all changes could be done right there, but I wasn’t fond of the limited fonts or that process bc as in Kittl there are no grids/rulers (Kittl has a tad more than they did). But I did like the option to add the layers for text in Printify and not having to go back to Kittl or Canva to change the template and upload again. I’m NO Ps person and that’s the issue! Do you ever add your personal layers within their system? I’d been told to turn it into a PDF, then a PNG and I had issues in Canva doing that. It was a bad day and I gave up! Is there a way you could do a tutorial (I see many ppl asking and there are only 3-4 videos and they are either patterns or super simple and not very detailed very basic big product. Mandy has done blankets and they are awesome but only patterns, like I said she tried helping me also. If you could do a tutorial that had personalization, a few large elements where some of the elements are layered on top with an image and personalization throughout it so therefore the product has to be big enough to upload in printify. I know this is A LOT, but I know by reading every comment I am not the only one having this issue of getting the size big enough to apply to largest product and it would mean the world to me. I have tried this 10 times and failed. If not, I understand and TY as always
How do you keep up with items and their stock level? Also, how did you get the order to show up in printify? Maybe I missed something. Thanks for your amazing videos by the way!! Your such an inspiration for me!
Cassiy when you create a personalized shirt do you send a proof to the buyer for approval and to confirm accuracy before sending it to the printer? If you do, what is the process you follow?
I don't always no, especially if it's just the words they are changing but not anything else and they already know what the layout will be. But if you want to send proofs, then I would send them the picture of the design and let them know to reply back about any changes within 12 hours or after that timeframe no changes will be accepted. Then send the order to production after the 12 hours.
If we use 2 POD partners (Printify and Printful), how can we make sure the personalized order will show in Printify and not the other POD company (since we didn't attach a SKU or publish through Printify first) ?? Thanks!
I have had plenty of success with both! I prefer model mockups for single shirts and flat lays for group shirts most of the time. But the most important things to consider is if the thumbnail is easy to read from the tiny picture and if it makes the item look flattering for the customer.
Hi Ms Johnson, thanks for the videos. I'm just getting started with my shop and learning a lot from your videos and others. I'm shopping around for womens shirt mockups and trying to narrow down to a few types, Bella Canvas, Gildan, etc. What type would you recommend for 30+ yr old, including most body types? I noticed Bella canvas kinda caters to the slim or fit. What about relaxed fit, regular fit, etc?
So glad you have been enjoying my videos!! I sell only the Bella 3001 in my store personally and have had overall great feedback from customers. I'd probably start there and then if you ever feel the need to add different types to your store, you can. But in the beginning I think it's best to just keep things really simple for yourself. Best of luck!
Hi Cassie. I noticed when you went back in the 'add the color variation' you did not check any boxes (e.g. Prices vary...., SKUs vary....). Do those not need to be checked for Color as you did for the sizes, or was it an oversight?
Thank you for this video. I am new to POD. I have a question: What if a person orders a size and color that is out of stock? Since we don't start from Printify, this information is not available to the customer to see what is in stock and what is not. Thanks
Even when you post things normally, it does not automatically update stock on Etsy when things are out of stock. The nice thing about Printify though is there is almost always a different print provider that will have that size/color in stock so you can just switch printers. Worst case though you just message them and ask them to pick another color
Is there a way to have a mix of non personalized and personalized versions of a product in one listing? For instance, I have a listing of a dog mug with either mom or dad on them. I’d like to offer an option with the dogs name in place of mom or dad. Would I 1) add to my existing listing or 2) would I make a different one to add the dog name or 3) scrap my current listing and offer strictly personalization- name, mom, dad, aunt or whatever someone wants?
Hi Cassiy, thanks for this video. One question though. Do I understand correctly that because you make this listing in Etsy instead of Printify, you could set your other listings made in Printify automatically? As far as I understand it, this isn't possible with HC? Looking forward to hearing from you. Have a great day, Miriam
Hey Cassiy! I was wondering what kind of mockups you prefer - flat lay or modeled? I keep questioning myself about the potential audience I am appealing to when using a woman modeled mockup over a flat lay mockup that has no association to gender. Thanks!
I tend to use women model mockups the most since those are the niches I mainly design for personally. But for group mockups, I tend to use more flat lays because you can get them a lot closer in the frame together. But I wouldn't overthink it too much. You just want to make sure your design is really nice and easy to read from the tiny thumbnail and that the photo is flattering for the shirt so they think it will look nice on them!
@@CassiyJohnson Awesome! Thank you for the help. Also, I notice a lot of shops that are doing very well are pricing their items very low, and not offering free shipping. Do you think that free shipping is a necessity over an item that is shown as cheaper, but charges for shipping?
Hi Cassiy! You’re videos are always so helpful! I also purchased your expenses spreadsheet - game changer, thanks! I was wondering if you could share your thoughts on how in the world to make a profit selling sweatshirts?? I can work out to 25/30% profit for tshirts, but with sweatshirts it seems that in order to even get to 15/20% profit I have to have the sale price set to well above the average selling price on Etsy (which is about $30-$40). I can’t figure out how people selling sweatshirts (and I’m not talking about the $10 ones) are making it worthwhile. Are they just making a small profit and not worried about it, are these people who make them themselves and don’t use a print provider? Do they all have Printify Premium and therefore the price to the seller is $5 less so they make a profit because the cost of the shirt is less for them? Any insights would be appreciated. Thanks so much! ❤
Thank you for another great video! I have an unrelated question. When I first started I only purchased a few mockups in just a few colors. I’m slowly adding more as I go to my mock-up repertoire. How do you edit a listing on Etsy to include new color options? Do you edit in Printify and publish it to Etsy? I’m unsure how that works or how you can edit prices on listings so that it’s all connected together. I’ve had listings not be synced correctly before so I don’t want to make that mistake again. I’m also wondering if I wanted to offer children sizes if I should make a new listing or add it to an already existing listing. Thank you so much in advance and for all your videos!!
Okay, I followed along but am confused by the skew part. You mentioned skews early on but never followed through with what to do with them. Do we keep the skew blank on etsy?
If I already created custom listings in Printify just like a regular listing, how do you recommend changing it. Thankfully, I haven't received any orders from these!
Question: Does Printify show this order from Etsy shop in OTHER ORDERS, even though at this point in time, when order is made by customer, it is not attached in any way to printify? Or is it somehow attached to Printify through an unpublished template type of listing?
Thank you so much for another great video. I’ve been working hard on my store but have been too afraid to list custom items. I made 3 to see how it goes. I was wondering why you need the sku variation and why set the quantity at 999 (if it is an automatic renewal will Etsy re-list it?). Also, I spent a month listing 500 items (lol), and have them all set to automatic. I recently heard you say in another video you choose manual. Can you tell me the difference? Thanks again! You really are an inspiration for me and your videos make it easy🥰
Hi Cassiy! I watched and created a listing. My question is about colors and prices transferring from Printify to Etsy when the SKU is copied and pasted? The 3 boxes in the top left corner in Etsy in the variations about quantities, color and pricing need to be checked or unchecked? My prices or colors did not transfer. I added a variation for color and that seemed to work. But still the prices were all 0. Should the prices transfer or do they each need to be added manually for each size variation also? Thank you
Hey so sorry but I’m not offering any 1:1 coaching right now because I’m working on creating my course, but I hope my RUclips videos can help you a ton in the meantime!!
Hey Cassiy I have a question and I’m hoping you can help me out since I’m fairly new to the whole POD world…. How are you supposed to cover the costs upfront selling from Esty/Printify? (Like if you are unable to get a credit card) and don’t have the money in your bank account to keep up with your orders. Say for example you have $500 worth of orders to submit but you only have $200 in your account to pay upfront. Idk if that makes sense lol. Thanks in advance!❤❤
Hi Cassiy, I have been watching your videos the past few months and you have been so helpful. I just opened my Etsy store last week and would really like to add personalized items. When someone places an order for a personalized item and it's sent to Printify in other orders does this mean it would not be sent to production until you modify and place the order yourself?? I have Printify set to automatically send orders to production at a certain time everyday and was nervous if this would affect personalized items. Thank you again for all your help!!!
Hi Cassidy just wanted to find out if Etsy would be expanding the list of countries available to do print on demand. I’m eager to be a part of this fantastic opportunity but that’s the drawback and I don’t know if there’s any short term solution available at this time.
Hi Cassidy! I’ve been watching all your videos, thank you so much for sharing all your knowledge! Can you please help me by answering me if I can sell t-shirts on Etsy with Creative Fabrica designs without edit them? Or do I always need to modify it to sell? Thank you!
You need to look at the license for each creative fabrica design you considering selling. Under the title of the design there will be a link that tells you if it has commercial license or a print on demand license. It’s important to read both of these licenses to make sure you understand how you can use things. If it has a POD license, then technically you should be able to list it as is on an item without making changes. BUT you would need to take that design out of your store if you ever cancelled your subscription. Also designs can be stolen and sold on that website. So for that second reason, I try to only use parts of designs to make my own unique design to try to avoid getting any copyright infringements. Hope that helps!
Hello cassiy, I'm making designs for up coming holiday or valentines designs when it is good time to list them. Do you recommend straight away to put ads on them?
I really recommend having listings for holidays up 8 - 12 weeks for the holiday ideally but then to keep listing more variations as you get closer to the 4-5 week mark depending on what is working for you already by adding more variations etc. So definitely go ahead and post the Valentines day ones! You'd be surprised how early people shop for those things. And if you haven't seen it, I do have my Niche calendar available on my website with over 40 niches to design for throughout the year and when to post them! 📚💸 Download Your Yearly POD Niche Calendar Today: www.cassiyjohnson.com/offers/jXvUBSxW
Hi Cassiy, your videos are great, I'm watching as many of them as I can, thanks for the helpful info. I'm just opening a shop and today I spent hours doing my first listings with pretty mockups etc. but realized my pricing was probably a little too aggressive, so I went into Printify to change them all, and when I went back to my Etsy shop, all of my pretty mockups and other images are gone, replaced with Printify's mockups. This means hours of work lost. Can you advise how to edit a Printify listing so that it doesn't delete photos on Etsy? Many thanks.
Congrats on getting started but I am so sorry that happened to you! First I will let you know to only ever update your pricing on the Etsy side after publishing. The pricing does not need to match between Printify and Etsy, this information does not affect anything since Printify does not send any type of invoice to the customer on how much they paid and it costs you the same to pay Printify no matter what. Here is a video I made on how to bulk change prices on Etsy for the future ruclips.net/video/JCqcBay21SM/видео.html If you do need to edit anything within Printify in the future like update a design, then when you get to the publishing page on printify, there will be options to uncheck right at the bottom of the page before you push it to Etsy. The section will say "Product details to sync with your Etsy store" and uncheck anything you don't want to have it redo like the mockups and title. Hope this helps!
Ok got POD -thank you, but where can we find a company that does EOD (etching on demand) wine, glasses, etc. it’s all over Etsy but after hours of research, I can’t find a company that doesn’t charge a monthly fee to do it. And that was only one that does it at all. Just want true POD or EOD for Wine glasses etc. any ideas?
When you offer free postage, how do you cope with someone from another country purchasing the item and incurring a huge shipping cost for you from Printify?
I only offer US shipping but you can change the settings in the shipping profile to offer free shipping US and then a larger amount for each of the countries you want to sell in!
I have a question about Etsy's free shipping guarantee: If the cost of the merchandise is $31, for example, and the shipping is $5. Is the $35 free shipping threshold based on the $31 price, or on the $36 price?
I also wanted to add free shipping but it kept asking me the weight and size of packaging. I looked for the info on printify and can’t seem to find it. How were you able to have your shipping as fixed priced rather than calculated price? If I didn’t want to have free shipping, could I select the same shipping info as another listing for the same style and company?
Thanks for all your info-I've been re-watching all your videos but I am really stuck on just getting my store open. I followed the tutorial and put a mock listing (I now have two) and I get the message "congratulations on you listing you will be charged .40 when you open your store. I have also created two products in printify and used your code for the first month. I have connected to store and when they show up in my branded storefront. But when I click on them they say "product not available" And the two mock up ones do not show up there. When I try to stock my shop with draft listing and open shop I get a message saying "You need to complete your shop" Any ideas? I have check that all my payments and billings are set up and emails are verified.
There is not an automated way to do this that I know of just yet but I do know someone who is working on software right now to achieve this so I will share once it's released and try it out to see how it works!
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Yeah they tried to get me I told them to buzz off
Hi cassiy. Are you still doing store reviews? Also when will you issue your course. I am very interested.
Yup! I think the scammer replied to my comment I made earlier today!
Thank you for this video
I opened my store in November of 2020, we're at 2600 sales and I thought we were killing it. You've opened my eyes to so many more possibilities. 2023 is going to rock. Thank you!
Congrats on your success so far 🔥 can’t wait to see what you do next!!
Best teacher of Etsy on RUclips. Cassiy is brilliant and explains everything without any hard sell. Absolutely think she Rocks and if you want to follow and subscribe to anyone on here in regards to Etsy, make sure it's her.
Ok I started T-shirts 2 years ago. On Etsy and Amazon merch. Sales weren't terrific and I kind of let that part of my business go down hill. Now I have binged watched Cassiy videos this weekend and I'm ready to give it another try. I'm very interested in personalization for shirts and Ornaments. Great Videos. Thank you!
Glad you’re giving it another go 🎉
Wow, thank you so much for this! I can’t tell you how long I’ve been trying to figure out the best way to list personalized POD items!
I learned soooo much from this video. I am a beginner and I have made mistakes on how I have created customized listings. Thank you. You're a great teacher!
I am so glad this video was helpful for you Cathy
THANK YOU SO MUCH CASSIY. YOU ARE MAKING THIS PROCESS SO UNDERSTANDABLE. Much appreciation for all that you share.
Great video Cassiy! Thanks for all of the excellent value you share with our community! I wish you a happy and successful 2023!
Hey Brenon! Great to hear from you
Deeply appreciate this video. I’ve been afraid to do personalized items. Thank you
So glad I could make it a little less intimidating for you
Soooooo helpful. Thank you for taking the time to create this video.
You are so welcome, I hope you got some good value from it!!
So helpful, trying to set up some more custom listings 😄. Thanks for ur patient, step by step instructions!
Oh my! Thank you, thank you! This was not an easy design! But, with your help, I did it! Took me two days but I did it! Thank you!
Best Etsy teacher on RUclips.
Aww you are too nice, thank you!!
YES! So excited you did this video. I have been wanting to add personalizations to my shop but, I was at a loss of how to go about doing it. You have saved the day! As always your videos are a wealth of information with a no nonsense style. Thank you!
Hi Cassiy, Loving your videos. I like how you get right to the point. I don't know if Etsy changed things since you posted this a year ago, but I am not seeing the same variation options you are? Keep posting girl, keep posting...
This is super helpful, Caisay. Thank you so so so much, Now I am not afraid to do personalised items anymore.
Thank you for another great video!! You always add the details that help me understand the process you use.
Thanks for watching, so glad you found it valuable!
Such a helpful video. It's just what I was looking for. You are a good teacher!
Thank you... I was afraid to tackle this type of order. 😊
Thank you so much! I’m about to open my shop this week and I’m scared but you make it so easy to understand and every video I watch of you gives me so much motivation.
Yay! I'm so glad my content has been valuable for you!!
This was a great video! Thank you so much. I have been avoiding personalized items because ainwasnt sure that would work.
This is so good and helpful. I was hoping that you would do a video on this. Thanks sooooooo much.
So glad I could make a video that was helpful for you! Thanks for watching
Wonderful video! This is helpful for SO many different niches.
So glad this was helpful for you
Very, Very, Very Helpful!!! Thank you, Cassiy
So glad this was helpful for you!! Thanks for watching!! ❤️
Thanks for a super helpful video. I had so many questions about customizing and you’ve answered most of them. I’m looking forward to trying it myself :)
So glad I could help!! Best of luck
@@CassiyJohnson thanks. Can I ask are you able to fulfill customized orders for digital products?
Thanks Casey!!! You are pure VALUE!!!!!
Thank you for this tutorial! Explained what I needed to know without a lot of fluff!
You're so welcome!! Thanks for watching!!
Great video. Doing this step by step
Hi Cassiy! Thank you so much for another incredibly informative video! I am learning so much from you and cannot tell you how much I appreciate you! I am brand new to this and I am already feeling a bit overwhelmed with organizing the multiple projects I am working on. If you haven't already done so, please consider creating a video on how you organize and save projects and templates in Canva (or elsewhere).
I want to say, I watched a few videos by other people then went to Printify Support and asked them how to set up personalized ornaments in Printify. They sent me a link with a video…it was awful! She talked way too fast, didn’t show us what to ‘click’ on to get where she’s flying to as she’s talking. I was more confused and frustrated AFTER I watched and paused the video three times. I ended up going to RUclips and searching thru your videos. I THINK I can do it now (I took copious amounts of notes lol.) If they left me an option to review the explanatory video I’d say what I did here plus say their instructors need to watch your tutorials to see how it’s done or just straight up hire you. Thank you for your step by step tutorials with visuals. People all learn differently, some can read it and get it, some hear it and some need to see sit being done; I’m in the later group. Thank you again.
This was an awesome tutorial. I have just recently found your videos. Brand new to POD. Thank you for the info and the walk through.
This is an amazing step by step tutorial. Thank you so much!
Happy New Year, Cassiy! Here's to a wonderfully prosperous 2023! Thank you for sharing your wisdom and knowledge.
A very Happy New year to you as well Karla
Thank you so much for your videos! Your videos are some of the best and easiest to follow!
Thank you for this! As always you were super detailed and explained everything so well ❤️❤️
Really appreciate that compliment, thanks for watching!
Another must-have tutorial. Thank you again.
This was SO HELPFUL. Thank you!!
Ur detailed instructions r always so helpful!! Thanks for ur teaching! 🎉
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This was such a brilliant explanation. Thank you so much.
This is a great tutorial. For my own art on Etsy, I will need print variations for Wall Art "sizes" for personalized artwork, plus options for print, rolled canvas, mounted canvas and panel mounted. I am preparing the sample images right now just starting out. I would guess this approach would be similar to just create 2 variations with prices to match, plus personalized text area. Personalized.Tshirts and mugs may be later with Printify.
Yes I hope this video was still really helpful in showing you how to start the listing for your personalized items! Thanks for watching and best of luck!
Cassiy, you are absolutely fabulous! Thank you so much for your videos! This one was extremely helpful (as have been your others) for me. Again, thank you so much!
I love your videos, thank you for all the inspiration. Just want to mention the background music is so distracting for me. Sorry I
don't want to be an ars. I just have a hard time focusing and want to take in all your amazing info. ❤❤
Very helpful - as usual - Thanks! :)
Thanks for watching
OMG this is just what I needed! Thank you so much for doing this video. You always make things so clear. I was wondering how exactly to make personalized items and now I know. Will definitely add some items to my store now
So helpful per usual!
Thanks for watching, so glad you continue to get value from my videos!
Can you do a video on how to put multiple types of shirts (ie. canva 3001, canva3005, sweatshirt, etc) under one listing? Please? I love how you simply show step by step in your videos! Thanks a billion :)
do you offer personalizable items Cassiy? and how much of you store are personalizeable? my end question is... a full time income etsy shop, how much time do you spend making the personalized items? 1 hour a day?
I want to do alot of personalized items, but im just nervous that some day i'll get soooo many customers that i dont have time to make the designs... :P im dreaming, i know... i currently have 0 sales xDD
THANK YOU! I am so grateful for you!
Thanks for this video Cassiy. I'm new to POD and have found all of your videos so helpful! I have a question - I just published my first personalized listing on Etsy. Does this mean I don't need to do anything on Printify until an order is actually placed? TIA for your help, you're awesome!
I just started adding pod to my etsy shop and I hear you talk a lot about personalized products which im sure will help my sales but I am terrified by adding them...I just dont want to mess anything up!!
Hopefully this tutorial helps make you feel more comfortable but if not then don’t do it! You definitely don’t have to to make money, it’s just another angle to try to get a leg up on your competition!
@@CassiyJohnson thank you Cassiy!! This video has definitely helped my fear lol! I will try with one listing and see how it goes!!! Xoxo
Thank you for this video. I'm just starting out and my very first listings will be personalized ornaments. My main question is prior to beginning your listing on Etsy what do you do in Printify, if anything, as far as putting your nonpersonalized design in there?
Hi ~ when you fill out *who* made it on Etsy ~ I thought you said previously that you made it ??? (Since you did the design?)
Thank You ~ AWESOME VIDEOS
Thank you 😊
Thanks for the great info! Question for you. Can sublimation designs be used for POD shirts?
Yes as long as they are in a .png file format, they should work perfect I believe!
Great video! I noticed you added the personalization on the Esty list. Can’t you also use Corjl and allow customer to design the personalization themselves such as allowing font, color and even font size to be done by customer.
How do you set up shipping info for personalized listings?
You may have done this already & I'm just unaware but do you have a video about the benefits of Etsy Plus? I was wondering why your Etsy looked different than mine and noticed that! I'm curious about the pros and cons for that and if I should invest as a newer store! 💛
I don't have a video on Etsy plus but I do really like it! It's $10/month but you get $5 in free ads and then some free listings so it really only costs you about $3 - $4 per month total. The only difference really is you can have a banner that slides from one to the next for a total of three different images, your banners can be clickable so they can bring you to a certain listing or collection, and you can set up your shop a little different. Instead of just 4 featured items at the top, you can feature whole collections like I have done in my mockup store.
This is by no means necessary but I really like the aesthetic so I think it's worth the money. But you can decide if you like those features or not!
@@CassiyJohnson thank you so much for the thorough response! I may have to think about that in the near future.
Hello Cassiy, I appreciate what you provide in your videos. I'm just getting started on Etsy and gathering some information about custom products. I need to understand this point from your video please: In case we want to make a personalized product and we start the listing on Etsy without filling in the SKU numbers, how can Printify catch our order from Etsy when somebody buys the product since it's not connected?
It will show under your “other orders” when you get an order that was not connected!
This was great. Thank you! Are the steps any different if embroidery is used?
Loving your videos - thank you so much. Questions - how are you able to offer free shipping and still make a profit? If I offer free shipping on top of trying to keep competitive prices on Etsy, I feel like there wont be any profit left over. Would love to hear how you do it. Thank you!!!
Can you explain the difference between this personalization tutorial verses the one that eventually all SKU’s have to be copied and pasted. Or was that for group orders? Was that your video or Heathers? 😂 I watch both of you! I remember the process was started in Etsy like this one in the event Nobody ever orders it you wouldn’t have to do all the SKU changes or additional ones for different sizes/color variations. Was that an old version of doing personalization, not your way of doing it - Heathers-or a group order?
-Also have you done a Hello Custom tutorial yet?
-I had to reach out to Printify (and I made sure to give you, Mandy, Heather and Hannah major praise for being so thorough and informative) -
I need some help on making a requested design patchwork (appears like a quilt) big enough for large projects such as shower curtain or blankets that are NOT a pattern. All elements needed to be inside the template and it kept leaving white space, I tried turning into a SVG as Mandy offered me support too, but same issue and eventually I found it easier to upload into printify as they recommended-one by one (a pain) they also recommended using their text box for personalization, so all changes could be done right there, but I wasn’t fond of the limited fonts or that process bc as in Kittl there are no grids/rulers (Kittl has a tad more than they did). But I did like the option to add the layers for text in Printify and not having to go back to Kittl or Canva to change the template and upload again. I’m NO Ps person and that’s the issue! Do you ever add your personal layers within their system?
I’d been told to turn it into a PDF, then a PNG and I had issues in Canva doing that.
It was a bad day and I gave up! Is there a way you could do a tutorial (I see many ppl asking and there are only 3-4 videos and they are either patterns or super simple and not very detailed very basic big product.
Mandy has done blankets and they are awesome but only patterns, like I said she tried helping me also.
If you could do a tutorial that had personalization, a few large elements where some of the elements are layered on top with an image and personalization throughout it so therefore the product has to be big enough to upload in printify.
I know this is A LOT, but I know by reading every comment I am not the only one having this issue of getting the size big enough to apply to largest product and it would mean the world to me. I have tried this 10 times and failed. If not, I understand and TY as always
How do you keep up with items and their stock level? Also, how did you get the order to show up in printify? Maybe I missed something. Thanks for your amazing videos by the way!! Your such an inspiration for me!
Cassiy when you create a personalized shirt do you send a proof to the buyer for approval and to confirm accuracy before sending it to the printer? If you do, what is the process you follow?
I don't always no, especially if it's just the words they are changing but not anything else and they already know what the layout will be. But if you want to send proofs, then I would send them the picture of the design and let them know to reply back about any changes within 12 hours or after that timeframe no changes will be accepted. Then send the order to production after the 12 hours.
If we use 2 POD partners (Printify and Printful), how can we make sure the personalized order will show in Printify and not the other POD company (since we didn't attach a SKU or publish through Printify first) ?? Thanks!
Great video! Thank you for sharing. Do you find flat lay mock-ups or model mock-ups sell better?
I have had plenty of success with both! I prefer model mockups for single shirts and flat lays for group shirts most of the time. But the most important things to consider is if the thumbnail is easy to read from the tiny picture and if it makes the item look flattering for the customer.
@@CassiyJohnson awesome thanks for the help!
Hi Ms Johnson, thanks for the videos. I'm just getting started with my shop and learning a lot from your videos and others.
I'm shopping around for womens shirt mockups and trying to narrow down to a few types, Bella Canvas, Gildan, etc. What type would you recommend for 30+ yr old, including most body types? I noticed Bella canvas kinda caters to the slim or fit. What about relaxed fit, regular fit, etc?
So glad you have been enjoying my videos!! I sell only the Bella 3001 in my store personally and have had overall great feedback from customers. I'd probably start there and then if you ever feel the need to add different types to your store, you can. But in the beginning I think it's best to just keep things really simple for yourself. Best of luck!
Hi Cassie. I noticed when you went back in the 'add the color variation' you did not check any boxes (e.g. Prices vary...., SKUs vary....). Do those not need to be checked for Color as you did for the sizes, or was it an oversight?
Hi Cassiy. Thank you for your tutorials ❤
Which file type should we be downloading as from CF?
Thank you for this video. I am new to POD.
I have a question:
What if a person orders a size and color that is out of stock? Since we don't start from Printify, this information is not available to the customer to see what is in stock and what is not.
Thanks
Even when you post things normally, it does not automatically update stock on Etsy when things are out of stock. The nice thing about Printify though is there is almost always a different print provider that will have that size/color in stock so you can just switch printers. Worst case though you just message them and ask them to pick another color
i know there are different SKU per size but is there different SKU for color variations?
Is there a way to have a mix of non personalized and personalized versions of a product in one listing? For instance, I have a listing of a dog mug with either mom or dad on them. I’d like to offer an option with the dogs name in place of mom or dad. Would I 1) add to my existing listing or 2) would I make a different one to add the dog name or 3) scrap my current listing and offer strictly personalization- name, mom, dad, aunt or whatever someone wants?
Cool video!!!!!!
Hi Cassiy, thanks for this video. One question though. Do I understand correctly that because you make this listing in Etsy instead of Printify, you could set your other listings made in Printify automatically? As far as I understand it, this isn't possible with HC? Looking forward to hearing from you. Have a great day, Miriam
Hey Cassiy! I was wondering what kind of mockups you prefer - flat lay or modeled? I keep questioning myself about the potential audience I am appealing to when using a woman modeled mockup over a flat lay mockup that has no association to gender. Thanks!
I tend to use women model mockups the most since those are the niches I mainly design for personally. But for group mockups, I tend to use more flat lays because you can get them a lot closer in the frame together. But I wouldn't overthink it too much. You just want to make sure your design is really nice and easy to read from the tiny thumbnail and that the photo is flattering for the shirt so they think it will look nice on them!
@@CassiyJohnson Awesome! Thank you for the help. Also, I notice a lot of shops that are doing very well are pricing their items very low, and not offering free shipping. Do you think that free shipping is a necessity over an item that is shown as cheaper, but charges for shipping?
Hi Cassiy! You’re videos are always so helpful! I also purchased your expenses spreadsheet - game changer, thanks! I was wondering if you could share your thoughts on how in the world to make a profit selling sweatshirts?? I can work out to 25/30% profit for tshirts, but with sweatshirts it seems that in order to even get to 15/20% profit I have to have the sale price set to well above the average selling price on Etsy (which is about $30-$40). I can’t figure out how people selling sweatshirts (and I’m not talking about the $10 ones) are making it worthwhile. Are they just making a small profit and not worried about it, are these people who make them themselves and don’t use a print provider? Do they all have Printify Premium and therefore the price to the seller is $5 less so they make a profit because the cost of the shirt is less for them? Any insights would be appreciated. Thanks so much! ❤
Thank you for another great video! I have an unrelated question. When I first started I only purchased a few mockups in just a few colors. I’m slowly adding more as I go to my mock-up repertoire. How do you edit a listing on Etsy to include new color options? Do you edit in Printify and publish it to Etsy? I’m unsure how that works or how you can edit prices on listings so that it’s all connected together. I’ve had listings not be synced correctly before so I don’t want to make that mistake again. I’m also wondering if I wanted to offer children sizes if I should make a new listing or add it to an already existing listing. Thank you so much in advance and for all your videos!!
Okay, I followed along but am confused by the skew part. You mentioned skews early on but never followed through with what to do with them. Do we keep the skew blank on etsy?
If I already created custom listings in Printify just like a regular listing, how do you recommend changing it. Thankfully, I haven't received any orders from these!
Question: Does Printify show this order from Etsy shop in OTHER ORDERS, even though at this point in time, when order is made by customer, it is not attached in any way to printify? Or is it somehow attached to Printify through an unpublished template type of listing?
Great video. Thank you a lot. Could you share withe us the name of your ETSY shop?
To protect her livelihood she does not. She wants to help people do their best on their own journey.
Thank you so much for another great video. I’ve been working hard on my store but have been too afraid to list custom items. I made 3 to see how it goes. I was wondering why you need the sku variation and why set the quantity at 999 (if it is an automatic renewal will Etsy re-list it?). Also, I spent a month listing 500 items (lol), and have them all set to automatic. I recently heard you say in another video you choose manual. Can you tell me the difference? Thanks again! You really are an inspiration for me and your videos make it easy🥰
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Hi Cassiy! I watched and created a listing. My question is about colors and prices transferring from Printify to Etsy when the SKU is copied and pasted? The 3 boxes in the top left corner in Etsy in the variations about quantities, color and pricing need to be checked or unchecked? My prices or colors did not transfer. I added a variation for color and that seemed to work. But still the prices were all 0. Should the prices transfer or do they each need to be added manually for each size variation also? Thank you
Which everbee plan should I pick I only have two weeks that I opened a store on Etsy and have no clue which one is best !
Hi Cassiy. Do you have a minimum for your coaching sessions? Can I just get one? What do you charge? 😊
Hey so sorry but I’m not offering any 1:1 coaching right now because I’m working on creating my course, but I hope my RUclips videos can help you a ton in the meantime!!
@@CassiyJohnson ok Thank you
Hey Cassiy I have a question and I’m hoping you can help me out since I’m fairly new to the whole POD world….
How are you supposed to cover the costs upfront selling from Esty/Printify?
(Like if you are unable to get a credit card) and don’t have the money in your bank account to keep up with your orders. Say for example you have $500 worth of orders to submit but you only have $200 in your account to pay upfront. Idk if that makes sense lol. Thanks in advance!❤❤
Hi Cassiy, I have been watching your videos the past few months and you have been so helpful. I just opened my Etsy store last week and would really like to add personalized items. When someone places an order for a personalized item and it's sent to Printify in other orders does this mean it would not be sent to production until you modify and place the order yourself?? I have Printify set to automatically send orders to production at a certain time everyday and was nervous if this would affect personalized items. Thank you again for all your help!!!
Thanks for watching! The “other orders” tab will sit there h til you manually finalize the listings!
@CassiyJohnson Okay. Thank you so much!
Hi Cassidy just wanted to find out if Etsy would be expanding the list of countries available to do print on demand. I’m eager to be a part of this fantastic opportunity but that’s the drawback and I don’t know if there’s any short term solution available at this time.
I've been just holding my orders on printify and manually changing the order. Is this wrong?
I was looking for you on Esty. Could you help me out please. What's the name of your store(s).
Thanx in advance for your help... Rick
Hi Cassidy! I’ve been watching all your videos, thank you so much for sharing all your knowledge! Can you please help me by answering me if I can sell t-shirts on Etsy with Creative Fabrica designs without edit them? Or do I always need to modify it to sell? Thank you!
You need to look at the license for each creative fabrica design you considering selling. Under the title of the design there will be a link that tells you if it has commercial license or a print on demand license. It’s important to read both of these licenses to make sure you understand how you can use things.
If it has a POD license, then technically you should be able to list it as is on an item without making changes. BUT you would need to take that design out of your store if you ever cancelled your subscription. Also designs can be stolen and sold on that website. So for that second reason, I try to only use parts of designs to make my own unique design to try to avoid getting any copyright infringements. Hope that helps!
@@CassiyJohnson Thank you so much!!!
Do we need Canva Pro in order to edit text as we need to change out the personalized name to another name as a new order comes in?
Hello cassiy, I'm making designs for up coming holiday or valentines designs when it is good time to list them. Do you recommend straight away to put ads on them?
I really recommend having listings for holidays up 8 - 12 weeks for the holiday ideally but then to keep listing more variations as you get closer to the 4-5 week mark depending on what is working for you already by adding more variations etc. So definitely go ahead and post the Valentines day ones! You'd be surprised how early people shop for those things.
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Hi Cassiy, your videos are great, I'm watching as many of them as I can, thanks for the helpful info. I'm just opening a shop and today I spent hours doing my first listings with pretty mockups etc. but realized my pricing was probably a little too aggressive, so I went into Printify to change them all, and when I went back to my Etsy shop, all of my pretty mockups and other images are gone, replaced with Printify's mockups. This means hours of work lost. Can you advise how to edit a Printify listing so that it doesn't delete photos on Etsy? Many thanks.
Congrats on getting started but I am so sorry that happened to you! First I will let you know to only ever update your pricing on the Etsy side after publishing. The pricing does not need to match between Printify and Etsy, this information does not affect anything since Printify does not send any type of invoice to the customer on how much they paid and it costs you the same to pay Printify no matter what. Here is a video I made on how to bulk change prices on Etsy for the future ruclips.net/video/JCqcBay21SM/видео.html
If you do need to edit anything within Printify in the future like update a design, then when you get to the publishing page on printify, there will be options to uncheck right at the bottom of the page before you push it to Etsy. The section will say "Product details to sync with your Etsy store" and uncheck anything you don't want to have it redo like the mockups and title. Hope this helps!
Sooo helpful!!
Ok got POD -thank you, but where can we find a company that does EOD (etching on demand) wine, glasses, etc. it’s all over Etsy but after hours of research, I can’t find a company that doesn’t charge a monthly fee to do it. And that was only one that does it at all. Just want true POD or EOD for Wine glasses etc. any ideas?
When you offer free postage, how do you cope with someone from another country purchasing the item and incurring a huge shipping cost for you from Printify?
I only offer US shipping but you can change the settings in the shipping profile to offer free shipping US and then a larger amount for each of the countries you want to sell in!
Hi Cassiy, I've been hearing a lot about Etsy reserves recently holding back seller's profits. Have you ran into this issue with POD?
I have a question about Etsy's free shipping guarantee:
If the cost of the merchandise is $31, for example, and the shipping is $5. Is the $35 free shipping threshold based on the $31 price, or on the $36 price?
I also wanted to add free shipping but it kept asking me the weight and size of packaging. I looked for the info on printify and can’t seem to find it. How were you able to have your shipping as fixed priced rather than calculated price?
If I didn’t want to have free shipping, could I select the same shipping info as another listing for the same style and company?
Thanks for all your info-I've been re-watching all your videos but I am really stuck on just getting my store open. I followed the tutorial and put a mock listing (I now have two) and I get the message "congratulations on you listing you will be charged .40 when you open your store. I have also created two products in printify and used your code for the first month. I have connected to store and when they show up in my branded storefront. But when I click on them they say "product not available" And the two mock up ones do not show up there. When I try to stock my shop with draft listing and open shop I get a message saying "You need to complete your shop" Any ideas? I have check that all my payments and billings are set up and emails are verified.
Can personalisition be automated? Customer fills in themselves what their name is or alternate text.
There is not an automated way to do this that I know of just yet but I do know someone who is working on software right now to achieve this so I will share once it's released and try it out to see how it works!