Video Clarification: Andreas live in Sweden so his screenshot of sales is in SEK. When you take that number and convert it to USD, you will get the $580k number we are referencing for my US audience
Thank you Cassiy for all the great information! You have been so helpful and literally getting me fired up about my shop!! Started posting my first few listing on 3/7 and today on 3/19 at 90 listings I got my first organic sale!! So pumped! Cant wait to binge watch more videos! 😁
This is the video I needed today confirming I'm on the right track! Because of your channel, I'm at 700 sales since last July! Just cranked my ads up and man, things got real fast! But like you said- it MUST be optimized. I truly felt I wouldn't have been ready for the rush if I hadn't been at it for so long. Thanks again- excited to follow his channel also!
Cassiy you have been one of the content creators out there to actually motivate me enough to start and i gotta say once you talked about the phase called The Dip and im not even 2 weeks in to my shop but i feel lol😂, i dunno if im being way to hard on myself for expecting to see sales with about 5 listings and that short period of time, but here's whats really hurting rhe most about the whole process it takes me about 2 hours total to make 1 single listing and i know thats horrible but i just cant for the life of me make it any faster without sacrificing seo research design quality and the mock ups! Could you do a video about how simplify and organize your listing uploading process i think many of us could use a roadmap when it comes to how to do it and how to make it easier and less time consuming for us Plss thank you so much for all you content❤
Great interview! Just clicked on his channel and I'm a new subscriber for him now! I'm looking at turning my journey and experience, not only with Etsy and POD, but in life too from part of a toxic corp environment and the struggle to find who you want to be in to a YT channel someday. I am sticking with everything until I succeed! Thanks for brining valuable content :) i always enjoy your videos.
You’re a great interviewer, you-tuber and Etsy seller. Thanks for continuing your share all this valuable info. I’ve been watching from the beginning and it’s helped me grow my business. It still does. I sometimes see new sellers saying it’s impossible, over saturated, and that you-tubers don’t actually share their secrets to success but I wholeheartedly disagree. I just think they’re not really putting in the effort and persistence needed to eventually get there. It’s easy but it’s also not easy in some ways. Giving up too fast is a huge mistake. It’s awesome he was able to do this so quickly and it might not be the norm for most people but the persistence gets you more experience, knowledge and exposure. My first designs were horrible 🙈. Some still aren’t great when I’m uninspired but my designs and SEO improved SO MUCH over the last two years and from the start, each month has been nothing but better than the last. Slow growth is still growth and not a sign that it’s not worth your efforts. 😅
Sounds like you're doing great in the process! I've been there too, I literally have thousands of duds but those all lead me to my wins. Sounds like your in the thick of it as of now, continue and you'll get there! ✊
@@wtfamievendoing I hope so. I see how people give up since the beginning requires a lot of time and effort… slow growth is sometimes painful even though it’s also a positive sign that you’re doing something right 😅 You hear about the few people like this that have much faster success and immediately start questioning what you’re doing wrong or what you’re missing or why can’t that be your experience too. I haven’t given up yet even although I wanted to a million times lol Last year (which was my first full year), I did almost half of what he did in revenue. It’s not enough for a full time income for a family (my husband has cancer) but I’m hoping this year it is. 😅😬🤞🏼
@@Katsmom6 Oh I'm so sorry to hear about your husband. That definitely puts things in another perspective, but yeah, it's super hard in the beginning since it's so much to learn. But as time goes by, what I found was that as long as I do some daily progress I hit my target eventually. You can do this and my utmost well wishes to your husband & family!
Cassiy you ask such great questions, the granular details that we're all curious about - not just the general fluff commonplace in other Etsy youtuber interviews
Cassiy your content is so valuable. I’ve spent 150+ hours already and only have 11 listings to show for it. But it takes so much time to learn the tools to get this stuff done! I will be a future student, and his advice on mentoring program really resonated with me. I’m curious,at what point in the journey do you feel this mentoring is “worth it”? I feel like I need to learn more before it makes sense (everbee, printify platform, frabrica, canva,etc.) I’m working up to 10 hours a day. Exhausted but motivated!
We’ve focus our shop on organic and recyclable products and it’s not a huge market or niche because it tends to cost more through pod and usually gets less profit margin… but we love our message, so we’re pressing on.. I’m a mom of four and don’t have the 40 hours to put in, but keep posting listings that are well detailed and mindful with tags and such… but I feel like something’s missing, we’re getting views and shop visits but no sales yet, and I don’t have family to start us off with purchasing a few items, so I feel like customers are afraid to invest in a store that has 0 sales… it’s hard to start! 😅 but I have faith!
Such a great interview with lots of tips and nuggets of wisdom :) One question though- how does one achieve 20% profit with high Printify/Printful prices?
@@chloecrouch1745 It's definitely achievable! TH-cam won't let me link it but I just made a pricing video on my channel, hopefully that video can give some clarity on it!
This video hit my heart. Both of you are an inspiration. Thank you for taking the time and energy to share to help others like myself. You have no idea how much it means, or maybe you do. :) I'm also a fan of Alex Hermozi. It seems good information travels in circles and lands right where it needs to be. Have a wonderful day and continued success.
Aloha Cassiy. I created my shop in February this year after being inspired by the content you create. I have listed 86 items to date and have 100ish in drafts. My early stuff was is sort of weak. I think I have improved but the shop doesn't seem to show. I've only had 100 or so views and visits. I'm looking for some council as to what I may be doing wrong or incorrectly. I appreciate any council you may provide. Again I am very Inpired by your channel and have tried to follow your coaching as best I can.
I want to work on this myself, very insightful. I've been in early childcare for 10 years and I really need a break from the industry. I tried applying for other work and no one is giving me a crack so I'm hoping this will also pay off for me. I recently got married and loved planning our wedding, I'm focusing on Australian based items for our shop so it becomes a common niche but also I can expand it. I also want to provide affordable options for newly engaged couples. Everything is so costly these days.
You can definitely do this! I'm not sure if the Aussie market is big though, if you can, try to expand to the US. But you can definitely do this, there's millions of people buying on the platform each day!
Hey there! All my content is from the perspective of doing Etsy in the US as someone who resides outside of the US (I live in Sweden). Hopefully some of the content I post can help, if you want me to cover any specific topics just let me know and I'll see if I can make a video about it! :)
Curious as to how sellers are handling products availability changing. I use Printify and noticed that certain colors and sizes are no longer available for the 3501 long sleeves. I know I am not the only one who has a difficult time fulfilling orders due to this issue and then also items being discontinued and having to replace a product which means redoing all of your mockups and reuploading everything for the replacement on both Printify and Etsy. It's almost impossible to focus on growth with these issues.
Times are always changing, when change happens, I always just pivot. The only constant is change so nothing we can do about that, we just gotta adapt :)
Loved the video, great content as always. Very helpful!!! I was wondering if you already had a video in regards to returns & exchange? If not , How can we manage returns & exchanges via printify? Thanks for the content and sharing the wins and losses! You guys inspire many!
Not sure if this was a question for me but hopefully this will help! I don't really see it like that, when something sells in a niche then it's always best to just double down on it and put more stuff into it. If nothing sells in a niche then it's good to just move on unless you believe in the niche and wanna try some more. That's my take on that :)
This can happens to us all, but if you follow the guidelines and do your best then that's all you can rely on. We can also enter a job and get fired, we can go outside and get hit by a bus, but if we do our best and apply ourselves then it's never time wasted. That's my perspective on that :)
I started my shop in August 2022 and at this point I have only gotten to 36 sales. Not sure if I should keep pressing on or need to close this shop and open a new shop.
Keep on trucking along! I literally have thousands of expired listings that were duds, there is a light at the end of tunnel if you keep on! I personally don't think you need a new shop, but you can definitely do this!
Opening a whole new shop can open a new can of worms like Etsy randomly suspending your new shop or something. The beautiful thing about Etsy is that they don't judge your whole stores quality as much as each listing. So you could start making new listings today that could generate sales if you do things right! Just keep going back to the research and eventually you'll get there
It’s hard to compete with people who can spend $1000 on adds alone… but if you have faith in your designs and listings and press on, I think we will succeed ❤
@@Humming.nature You can do this! If you set a "budget" (this is just a ceiling), Etsy might actually just spend 5$ a day if very few people click the ad. But the upside is that once it sells, you can add fuel to the fire and make the listing really fly. I was very hesitant in the beginning coming from Facebook Ads as they spend the budget you set. However, I've had my Etsy ads set to $1000 a day for almost a year now I think and it doesn't spend anywhere near that unless we're in Q4. But in order for the ads to work we gotta have a proven design together with a great listing offer. And the biggest caveat to the ads is that it should only have SEO that's very targeted to the thing we're selling, if it's kind of off then people might click it and the ad cost will go up. If it's a flamingo shirt, we can't have bird shirt in the SEO, just flamingo and so forth. Hopefully this helps! :)
Cassiy question please. I have really researched my SEO and made simple designs on etsy, however I am not getting the views or being seen. What do you recommend? I just tried a daily budget for my whole store. Also should I delete my etsy store and start a new one if it was not active for several years? Look forward to hearing back thanks
Cassiy, I know you mentioned this in this video or another one (I binged a bunch today!) but do you separate all of your variants out into different listings? Or keep them as one?
So nice to see someone other than a "guru" touting their own horn. I wonder what the percentage of "gurus" who are losing money but claiming "6 figures" is? Excellent interview.
Cassiy has been someone that really strives to help people. Both me and others that I know have garnered so much help from her so she is someone that I can recommend to anyone that wants to learn about Etsy. Thank you for the kind words regarding the interview!
Hi cassiy! Always love your content! I have one question tho, I am going to open a 2nd etsy shop, but I see it says you need to write your other shop name for each one which is something I do not want to do due to competition. I see your mock up store does not state other shop name, do you think it would result in closing my shop down? I am really scared to open second shop afraid if it effects my main shop
Inspiring story! I'm just getting started and want to know should i go with big suppliers or trying smaller companies with more unique products and competitive pricing. I currently found this supplier from Vietnam. They have such diverse catalog but I'm still very hesitant to switch. Not sure they are reliable and trustworthy
Hi Cassiy love how he mentioned he first started a digital shop and switched to POD. Because I feel like I also want to make that switch because honestly with digital it really is a volume game and the margins are so low and I feel like with all the file types and constantly uploading I may aswell just have been better with starting a POD shop. I would love your input to this but I started my store in September 2023, currently nearly 600 sales but I so just want to make the switch to POD and focus on that more as I feel like it has so much more potential and I will be able to meet my revenue goals much faster. So I have started a POD shop on the side and want to focus on that more, do you think I should go all in on the POD store. I already have a strong idea on my product mix and brand and now how to do all the research, listing and mockups. Would love your advice! Ps I’m not even profitable on my digital store yet (sell png designs)!
Hi Cassiy, I know I’ve read somewhere at some stage that you can audit peoples shop to make sure they are set up as best they can be. I am ready launch my shop. The main problem I’ve had is working out the shipping I’m in Australia but I’ve ended up just having the US as the only country I’m selling too. I can’t seem to work out how to do the postage and pricing on my listings 😢. Are you able to check listings how do I go about organising for you to do this?
Quick question… how can you publish 50 listings a day? Is there a bulk editor or software that he’s using? Just listing 2 products takes me all day lol.
It gets a lot faster once you get into a groove! Here is a video I made on some of the time savings hacks that worked for me while listing so I could get 50 listings done in a day th-cam.com/video/9RHGt876_pM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=d4SFWbDRtMU6GhFU
Wow, your comment about veganism..... 17 years hard core here, ( yes high raw also) my health also fell apart two years ago. Then discovered Dr.Wallach. Definitely had to pivot and it wasn't easy. Now helping others.:)
Hi, if i have group listing with Printify (no personalization) and where i put the SKUs. Does etsy/printify takes care of tracking notifications? Or did i have to do it manually
you know how some people can upload a ton of products super fast? Like, I’ve been struggling to upload even one, and it’s been 4 months and I’ve only done a hundred. I’m just wondering, like, what tools are these people using to make it look so easy? I meant with different designs? I watched Cassie’s video on uploading 100 products, but it doesn’t work for me since I want to upload different designs
Myself what I like to do and Andreas can maybe comment on his thoughts as well, but I like to make 3-8 designs for every niche that I find. So I sit and make all of the designs at once, then I list them all at once. Since they are the same niche but just different designs, the SEO if basically the same for all except some slight changes if I made some group shirts or personalized for example. Then the listing process because quite quick eventually when you get into a rhythm. If you missed it, this is the video where I go over my listing process with Printify to make it as quick and easy as possible
Hopefully this can help! I uploaded a bunch of designs, thousands of them and none of them worked. However, if you make sure to design based solely on research and all you do is fully custom designs that just say something like: "Your Words Here", then you are not constrained by any niche or so. This way you can ramp up your designs, test out whichever design works with a higher likelihood of selling as fully custom designs have higher conversion rates AND you're not constrained by any niche. Once you have a design that's selling, you'll also notice that you get a lot of the same requests for the same wording in the custom design. You can then just add those to Etsy as you own the copyright to all designs you make. At this stage you also have a great design that you can add into in demand niches on Etsy overall. I hope that helped but that's my take on how to do it :)
Depends on if the design really changed enough to need different tags, if it's a very similar design just different look, then I'd use the same tags! @@MyGenXLife-1946
SimplyPODMandy has a good video on this as well, she calls it "batching" and it helps! And then recently Shawna has a video fairly new also about how she designs a bunch of designs and then lists and the main thing I took away from that was that she finds it boring and takes breaks. Which is great because I felt the same. Sometimes you just have to fight through that boredom haha but I hope that batching series helps!
Introvert here as well 👋 Cassiy has loads of helpful videos that helped me a lot. If you can diagnose the problem you're facing, hopefully you can search her channel for the video that will crack the problem for you
Thank you Cassiy! Thank you and Andreas for such a great interview! I've asked this of others, what do you think please: If we combine Kittle, Canva et al artwork, fonts, elements, etc., to make them not 'stand-alone', why do they still get at people for selling commercially? What about copyrighting our ideas while using their combined elements and fonts to make our unique artwork or logos for sale, unless it is for or personal not-for-sale business logo(s)? Is there a company that we can use their work 100% free without restriction, etc., as copy and sell? I'm an artist who creates my own ideas and hand drawn, painted, photographed, etc. work, but sometimes would like to incorporate something such as fonts and elements. Thank you :-) ~~~~ Also, how can a shop do personalized items in the hundreds per month? :-)
It's all about licensing. Just get the paid version of Kittl, Canva, Creative Fabrica etc and you should be fine. Those hosts have to pay creators to offer licensed elements, so it's only fair that sellers should pay their share too.
Not sure if it's a question for me but I'll try to help out! :) I don't think I understand the question fully, however when you have created a design you own the copyright to it. If you combine an elements that you have a commercial license to sell and then you add other elements like text to that design then you technically have the copyright to that specific design. I don't think you can trademark logos using a logo created in Canva per their license. But from what I know, you can sell designs made in Canva that you hold the copyright to as long as you also hold licenses for all elements used in the design. Last question is quite a tricky one, Cassiy has a big library of videos and all of those can definitely help with getting a store like that taking off. Hopefully that helped! :)
Hi Hannah! I have my course the POD Roadmap available on my website Cassiyjohnson.com, this is a pre recorded training on everything I teach, then it comes with a private community where I answer your questions in the group publicly or privately as needed, we do monthly live group coaching sessions with additional lessons and I also provide a monthly trend report. For an additional fee of either $100 or $200 you can pay for a private shop review if you are a student within the course as well if that is something you still feel like you need after joining.
Is this still worth doing? It seems Andreas is worn out from all the work involved and stress dealing with customers. All for around 10k per month profit.
Hi Cassiy! I’ve been watching all lot of your videos, started my Etsy shop and listed my first 4 shirts. Now, I’m thinking I need to start learning more in depth about the Sales so I’m considering buying your course. Is there a way to message you privately before I invest? I have a couple of questions. Thank you
I'd love to have you join if you decide my program resonates well with you! Here is a link to the page with all the info, feel free to message me if you have any questions! www.cassiyjohnson.com/PODRoadmap
Question, when you first put a design up on Etsy and advertise it, do you put all your advertising on just that one product or do you let the rest of the products you have in your store stay under that advertisement?
Not sure if it was a question for me but I have most of my listings on ads. It starts with when they're first listed, if they hit the target ROAS I keep them on after 10$, if they're under the target i turn them off.
I've not heard of people having that issue personally and I have listed 20-50 listings in a day plenty of times myself. But that's not to say that it couldn't potentially have caused an issue with someone before but I haven't heard that being a wide spread issue myself!
Actually just saw a comment from Andreas below and he said that he once did over 65 listings in a day and got suspended! So now he stays below that. Probably why I never ran into the same issue since I never did over 50 a day
hah they did actually! Once I did about 65-70 in a day and they suspended my account. Never did over 60 listings in a day after that lol. Got it back quick after the suspension though!
He lives in Sweden so his currency is in SEK but the numbers we talk about in the video are converted to USD! Sorry for the confusion but hope you enjoyed the video
Sorry for any confusion lol, seems like more people found it confusing. So I'm actually Swedish and that number is in my Swedish currency. The 5 million SEK translates to roughly $580K
Yep sorry for the confusion on the currency since he doesn't live in the US! But like he said, if you google the translation then you'll see the numbers we're talking about. Hope you enjoyed the interview!
@@wtfamievendoingplease please make a video how different currency other than USD can work on etsy. Its very confusing. Do they charge for turning your shop to USD instead or is it better to just stay with own currency.
@@clarzr8719 I'm going to make a pricing video actually, I'll make sure to include this in it. But in short, all prices are displayed in the currency depending on where the customer is located. I've always kept the currency in my shop to SEK (which is my Swedish currency) however, I don't know this for sure, but there is a possibility that you might end up with an extra conversion fee if you set your store currency to USD if you live abroad. Every time they pay out they will have to convert it to the currency in your bank and that will get very costly as time goes on, I haven't experienced this conversion fee for myself but what I can say is that I use my native currency in my shop and it works great.
Not exactly, see the budget as a ceiling. It can't go over that, I have my ceiling set to 1000$ a day but then it usually spends about $150-$200 a day since this is all pay per click. I also get sales with a ROAS of 3,3-4,5 usually and that means that for every 1$ I spend, I get between $3,3-$4,5 back. So the ads gives fuel to the fire and makes everything kind of skyrocket so to speak
So here I am wondering totally unrelated stuff. Somehow I immediately got the vibe that this guy is from Sweden and plays in a metalband. So now I’m stuck wondering about that instead of actually paying attention to the video. 🤡🙄
How do you get POD things selling instead of people just favoriting the item only to find they’re just stealing your idea and it’s clearly uploaded later by them?!
I'd say that you would need to diagnose the issue here. It could be the images, it could be the price, it could be the offer in and of itself, it could be too low reviews on a store etc. There's so many things, but if you are getting visits, then you can know that the mockup and the design is most likely not the issue here. If they enter your listing and don't purchase, then it's something on a listing level that's the issue. Hope that helps!
He says he's a musician and he also is doing extremely well on Etsy. That success should free up time for his to what??? Be a musician. But instead he want to start a TH-cam to be an Etsy guru? Hmmmmm. Interesting. I need to see evidence of all the success he is claiming to believe it.
Being a talking head here on TH-cam is a place where I definitely feel I can help a lot of people and in the same time also diversifying my income and opportunities. I thought long and hard about if I wanna enter the TH-cam space since I already have Etsy but I came to the conclusion that since I just talk about stuff that I already know, it doesn't take too much time away from me and I can actually do both. I can grow my artist project the way I want to without sacrificing the artistic part and help people through TH-cam at the same time. Trying to be as transparent as possible!
Hello Cassiy. I came across your TH-cam channel and finding it very inspiring. I just need more confidence in doing POD business. I am nearing my retirement and wanting to get ready in 4 years (more time). I am not tech savvy and still loving the old school of shopping but wanting too change my mindset about online business. I learned some tricks🥳 using canva following your step by step tutorial. It works and told myself...OMG I can't believe I did it because of you! 😃
Thank you both for the video. And thank you Cassiy for all you do, I just started a POD Etsy shop and your videos have been very helpful. Please I have 2 questions. @cassiyjohnson I have other handcrafted items that I can make, would you suggest I include that with the POD shop or just have the general POD shop like I'm currently working on? @wtfamievendoing please how do you handle shipping to other parts of the world since you mentioned that you're in Sweden, I'm in the UK. Thanks again for your help 🔥🔥🔥
I don't focus on any other markets than the US as there's just tons more hassles for little to no reward in other markets than the US. I'd highly advise to stick to the US as of now in 2024
Video Clarification: Andreas live in Sweden so his screenshot of sales is in SEK. When you take that number and convert it to USD, you will get the $580k number we are referencing for my US audience
Cassiy How can one talk to you for help with an Etsy shop to boost it ?
I need to know what to do to boost my shop and start making money, how can I talk to you about it Cassiy?....please I need help
Thank you Cassiy for all the great information! You have been so helpful and literally getting me fired up about my shop!! Started posting my first few listing on 3/7 and today on 3/19 at 90 listings I got my first organic sale!! So pumped! Cant wait to binge watch more videos! 😁
This is the video I needed today confirming I'm on the right track! Because of your channel, I'm at 700 sales since last July! Just cranked my ads up and man, things got real fast! But like you said- it MUST be optimized. I truly felt I wouldn't have been ready for the rush if I hadn't been at it for so long. Thanks again- excited to follow his channel also!
Congrats on 700 sales, that’s awesome! Sounds like you are for sure on the right track. Thanks for the support and keep up the hard work ❤️
Awesome! Keep it up and thank you for subscribing to my little channel as well :)
Thank you Cassiy great interview and I really needed your encouraging words today to keep on going. I’m glad you’re rooting for me.😊
So glad my words came at a good time
Cassiy you have been one of the content creators out there to actually motivate me enough to start and i gotta say once you talked about the phase called The Dip and im not even 2 weeks in to my shop but i feel lol😂, i dunno if im being way to hard on myself for expecting to see sales with about 5 listings and that short period of time, but here's whats really hurting rhe most about the whole process it takes me about 2 hours total to make 1 single listing and i know thats horrible but i just cant for the life of me make it any faster without sacrificing seo research design quality and the mock ups! Could you do a video about how simplify and organize your listing uploading process i think many of us could use a roadmap when it comes to how to do it and how to make it easier and less time consuming for us Plss thank you so much for all you content❤
Great interview! Just clicked on his channel and I'm a new subscriber for him now! I'm looking at turning my journey and experience, not only with Etsy and POD, but in life too from part of a toxic corp environment and the struggle to find who you want to be in to a YT channel someday. I am sticking with everything until I succeed! Thanks for brining valuable content :) i always enjoy your videos.
Thank you for watching Sarah, I am so glad to hear you are inspired and ready to put in the work until you make it happen!!
Thank you for subscribing! 😊Love the spirit, that's the main thing we all need to make stuff happen! ✊
Thank you both for this video!!!🔥🙏🏻
Woohoo, familiar faces!! Andreas, you’re so super inspiring! 💪
Mel
You’re a great interviewer, you-tuber and Etsy seller. Thanks for continuing your share all this valuable info. I’ve been watching from the beginning and it’s helped me grow my business. It still does. I sometimes see new sellers saying it’s impossible, over saturated, and that you-tubers don’t actually share their secrets to success but I wholeheartedly disagree. I just think they’re not really putting in the effort and persistence needed to eventually get there. It’s easy but it’s also not easy in some ways. Giving up too fast is a huge mistake. It’s awesome he was able to do this so quickly and it might not be the norm for most people but the persistence gets you more experience, knowledge and exposure. My first designs were horrible 🙈. Some still aren’t great when I’m uninspired but my designs and SEO improved SO MUCH over the last two years and from the start, each month has been nothing but better than the last. Slow growth is still growth and not a sign that it’s not worth your efforts. 😅
Sounds like you're doing great in the process! I've been there too, I literally have thousands of duds but those all lead me to my wins. Sounds like your in the thick of it as of now, continue and you'll get there! ✊
@@wtfamievendoing I hope so. I see how people give up since the beginning requires a lot of time and effort… slow growth is sometimes painful even though it’s also a positive sign that you’re doing something right 😅 You hear about the few people like this that have much faster success and immediately start questioning what you’re doing wrong or what you’re missing or why can’t that be your experience too. I haven’t given up yet even although I wanted to a million times lol Last year (which was my first full year), I did almost half of what he did in revenue. It’s not enough for a full time income for a family (my husband has cancer) but I’m hoping this year it is. 😅😬🤞🏼
@@Katsmom6 Oh I'm so sorry to hear about your husband. That definitely puts things in another perspective, but yeah, it's super hard in the beginning since it's so much to learn. But as time goes by, what I found was that as long as I do some daily progress I hit my target eventually. You can do this and my utmost well wishes to your husband & family!
Cassiy you ask such great questions, the granular details that we're all curious about - not just the general fluff commonplace in other Etsy youtuber interviews
I’m so glad you’re finding my content valuable! Thanks for watching!
This was a wonderful interview! Thank you, Cassy!
Cassiy your content is so valuable. I’ve spent 150+ hours already and only have 11 listings to show for it. But it takes so much time to learn the tools to get this stuff done! I will be a future student, and his advice on mentoring program really resonated with me. I’m curious,at what point in the journey do you feel this mentoring is “worth it”? I feel like I need to learn more before it makes sense (everbee, printify platform, frabrica, canva,etc.) I’m working up to 10 hours a day. Exhausted but motivated!
We’ve focus our shop on organic and recyclable products and it’s not a huge market or niche because it tends to cost more through pod and usually gets less profit margin… but we love our message, so we’re pressing on.. I’m a mom of four and don’t have the 40 hours to put in, but keep posting listings that are well detailed and mindful with tags and such… but I feel like something’s missing, we’re getting views and shop visits but no sales yet, and I don’t have family to start us off with purchasing a few items, so I feel like customers are afraid to invest in a store that has 0 sales… it’s hard to start! 😅 but I have faith!
I feel the same way too. No family to support.
I’m doing organic/recycled products as well! It is tough but it is important. So glad to find someone else trying to do this. Best of luck to you!
@@Sunlumiinousthen it's time you start social media, art fairs, maker markets, putting ads on podcasts etc
@@Blue.Camelopardtough but important 😂 Said the starving artists of the past millennia
@@TingTingalingyI agree 💯that you need to get yourself out there.
Such a great interview with lots of tips and nuggets of wisdom :) One question though- how does one achieve 20% profit with high Printify/Printful prices?
Wondering the same! I want to offer a discount but that means I will make no profit lol!
@@chloecrouch1745 It's definitely achievable! TH-cam won't let me link it but I just made a pricing video on my channel, hopefully that video can give some clarity on it!
Awesome interview Cassiy..always dropping the gems!
This video hit my heart. Both of you are an inspiration. Thank you for taking the time and energy to share to help others like myself. You have no idea how much it means, or maybe you do. :) I'm also a fan of Alex Hermozi. It seems good information travels in circles and lands right where it needs to be. Have a wonderful day and continued success.
Aloha Cassiy. I created my shop in February this year after being inspired by the content you create. I have listed 86 items to date and have 100ish in drafts. My early stuff was is sort of weak. I think I have improved but the shop doesn't seem to show. I've only had 100 or so views and visits. I'm looking for some council as to what I may be doing wrong or incorrectly. I appreciate any council you may provide. Again I am very Inpired by your channel and have tried to follow your coaching as best I can.
Great info! Thank you! ❤️
Great video but why does the image at 0:07 show 5million and not 500k?
So I'm actually Swedish and that number is in my Swedish currency. The 5 million SEK translates to roughly $580K
Yes sorry for any confusion
Makes complete sense. Thank you both for the clarification!
@@wtfamievendoingI'm in Poland, I've hoping to come across another European seller! 😊
@@KateTheMama Hey that's awesome! Greetings from Sweden 😊
Alex Hormozi, Let's gooooo!!!!
I want to work on this myself, very insightful. I've been in early childcare for 10 years and I really need a break from the industry. I tried applying for other work and no one is giving me a crack so I'm hoping this will also pay off for me. I recently got married and loved planning our wedding, I'm focusing on Australian based items for our shop so it becomes a common niche but also I can expand it. I also want to provide affordable options for newly engaged couples. Everything is so costly these days.
You can definitely do this! I'm not sure if the Aussie market is big though, if you can, try to expand to the US. But you can definitely do this, there's millions of people buying on the platform each day!
Absolutely keen to expand :)
Andreas, I believe you are outside the US…I am living in Portugal and would love to chat about how you run a US store from abroad.
Hey there! All my content is from the perspective of doing Etsy in the US as someone who resides outside of the US (I live in Sweden). Hopefully some of the content I post can help, if you want me to cover any specific topics just let me know and I'll see if I can make a video about it! :)
Curious as to how sellers are handling products availability changing. I use Printify and noticed that certain colors and sizes are no longer available for the 3501 long sleeves. I know I am not the only one who has a difficult time fulfilling orders due to this issue and then also items being discontinued and having to replace a product which means redoing all of your mockups and reuploading everything for the replacement on both Printify and Etsy. It's almost impossible to focus on growth with these issues.
Times are always changing, when change happens, I always just pivot. The only constant is change so nothing we can do about that, we just gotta adapt :)
Cassiy, please tell us more about your classes, do you have meeting, is it weekly…how much is it to join😊?
@cassiy_jmentor she's a great mentor.
Loved the video, great content as always. Very helpful!!! I was wondering if you already had a video in regards to returns & exchange? If not , How can we manage returns & exchanges via printify?
Thanks for the content and sharing the wins and losses! You guys inspire many!
So glad you enjoyed the video ❤️ here is a link to my returns/exchanges video for you! th-cam.com/video/J8MVU8OxryM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Mhh1CDHITspog69k
How many listing in one niche do either of you generally do before moving on to a new niche?
Not sure if this was a question for me but hopefully this will help! I don't really see it like that, when something sells in a niche then it's always best to just double down on it and put more stuff into it. If nothing sells in a niche then it's good to just move on unless you believe in the niche and wanna try some more. That's my take on that :)
What happens if the Etsy store is closed? This is my biggest concern. I can invest money, time, and they can close it with no reason.
This can happens to us all, but if you follow the guidelines and do your best then that's all you can rely on. We can also enter a job and get fired, we can go outside and get hit by a bus, but if we do our best and apply ourselves then it's never time wasted. That's my perspective on that :)
@@wtfamievendoing thank you for reply. I agree, but I can fund a job with a better salary, but Etsy is a unique place.
Thank you for doing videos like these
I started my shop in August 2022 and at this point I have only gotten to 36 sales. Not sure if I should keep pressing on or need to close this shop and open a new shop.
Keep on trucking along! I literally have thousands of expired listings that were duds, there is a light at the end of tunnel if you keep on! I personally don't think you need a new shop, but you can definitely do this!
Opening a whole new shop can open a new can of worms like Etsy randomly suspending your new shop or something. The beautiful thing about Etsy is that they don't judge your whole stores quality as much as each listing. So you could start making new listings today that could generate sales if you do things right!
Just keep going back to the research and eventually you'll get there
It’s hard to compete with people who can spend $1000 on adds alone… but if you have faith in your designs and listings and press on, I think we will succeed ❤
@@Humming.nature You can do this! If you set a "budget" (this is just a ceiling), Etsy might actually just spend 5$ a day if very few people click the ad. But the upside is that once it sells, you can add fuel to the fire and make the listing really fly. I was very hesitant in the beginning coming from Facebook Ads as they spend the budget you set. However, I've had my Etsy ads set to $1000 a day for almost a year now I think and it doesn't spend anywhere near that unless we're in Q4.
But in order for the ads to work we gotta have a proven design together with a great listing offer. And the biggest caveat to the ads is that it should only have SEO that's very targeted to the thing we're selling, if it's kind of off then people might click it and the ad cost will go up. If it's a flamingo shirt, we can't have bird shirt in the SEO, just flamingo and so forth.
Hopefully this helps! :)
Definitely keep listing new things in your current shop! Most new shops have to go through suspension hell nowadays.
Cassiy question please. I have really researched my SEO and made simple designs on etsy, however I am not getting the views or being seen. What do you recommend? I just tried a daily budget for my whole store. Also should I delete my etsy store and start a new one if it was not active for several years? Look forward to hearing back thanks
Cassiy, I know you mentioned this in this video or another one (I binged a bunch today!) but do you separate all of your variants out into different listings? Or keep them as one?
Great video, but can you clarify something? He made over $500k revenue his first year doing print on demand?
So nice to see someone other than a "guru" touting their own horn. I wonder what the percentage of "gurus" who are losing money but claiming "6 figures" is? Excellent interview.
Cassiy has been someone that really strives to help people. Both me and others that I know have garnered so much help from her so she is someone that I can recommend to anyone that wants to learn about Etsy. Thank you for the kind words regarding the interview!
Thank you for this informative video.
Cassidy excellent interview my question refers after you finish digital marketing and canva how do I sell on etsy
Hi cassiy! Always love your content! I have one question tho, I am going to open a 2nd etsy shop, but I see it says you need to write your other shop name for each one which is something I do not want to do due to competition. I see your mock up store does not state other shop name, do you think it would result in closing my shop down? I am really scared to open second shop afraid if it effects my main shop
Thanks Cassiy and Andreas this is my second time watching this and learning so much more.
Love it! Glad you are finding value in this video! :)
Is this mostly just for print-on-demand?
Yeah so in the interview we mainly talk about print on demand
Hi Cassie! I’m interested in doing POD t-shirts. How many colors do you recommend per shirt?
Hi Cassiy, what advice do you have for new sellers now that China is coming as a competitor? I found it very scary and discouraging
Inspiring story! I'm just getting started and want to know should i go with big suppliers or trying smaller companies with more unique products and competitive pricing. I currently found this supplier from Vietnam. They have such diverse catalog but I'm still very hesitant to switch. Not sure they are reliable and trustworthy
Hi Cassiy love how he mentioned he first started a digital shop and switched to POD. Because I feel like I also want to make that switch because honestly with digital it really is a volume game and the margins are so low and I feel like with all the file types and constantly uploading I may aswell just have been better with starting a POD shop. I would love your input to this but I started my store in September 2023, currently nearly 600 sales but I so just want to make the switch to POD and focus on that more as I feel like it has so much more potential and I will be able to meet my revenue goals much faster. So I have started a POD shop on the side and want to focus on that more, do you think I should go all in on the POD store. I already have a strong idea on my product mix and brand and now how to do all the research, listing and mockups. Would love your advice! Ps I’m not even profitable on my digital store yet (sell png designs)!
Thanks!
Thank you for the super generous tip ❤️ so glad you’re getting good value from my videos!!
Hi Cassiy, I know I’ve read somewhere at some stage that you can audit peoples shop to make sure they are set up as best they can be. I am ready launch my shop. The main problem I’ve had is working out the shipping I’m in Australia but I’ve ended up just having the US as the only country I’m selling too. I can’t seem to work out how to do the postage and pricing on my listings 😢. Are you able to check listings how do I go about organising for you to do this?
@cassiy_jmentor a mentorship program 🎉
@cassiy_jmentor you should check out her private channel
Quick question… how can you publish 50 listings a day? Is there a bulk editor or software that he’s using? Just listing 2 products takes me all day lol.
It gets a lot faster once you get into a groove! Here is a video I made on some of the time savings hacks that worked for me while listing so I could get 50 listings done in a day th-cam.com/video/9RHGt876_pM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=d4SFWbDRtMU6GhFU
Wow, your comment about veganism..... 17 years hard core here, ( yes high raw also) my health also fell apart two years ago. Then discovered Dr.Wallach. Definitely had to pivot and it wasn't easy. Now helping others.:)
Hi, if i have group listing with Printify (no personalization) and where i put the SKUs. Does etsy/printify takes care of tracking notifications? Or did i have to do it manually
you know how some people can upload a ton of products super fast? Like, I’ve been struggling to upload even one, and it’s been 4 months and I’ve only done a hundred. I’m just wondering, like, what tools are these people using to make it look so easy? I meant with different designs? I watched Cassie’s video on uploading 100 products, but it doesn’t work for me since I want to upload different designs
Myself what I like to do and Andreas can maybe comment on his thoughts as well, but I like to make 3-8 designs for every niche that I find. So I sit and make all of the designs at once, then I list them all at once. Since they are the same niche but just different designs, the SEO if basically the same for all except some slight changes if I made some group shirts or personalized for example. Then the listing process because quite quick eventually when you get into a rhythm.
If you missed it, this is the video where I go over my listing process with Printify to make it as quick and easy as possible
Hopefully this can help! I uploaded a bunch of designs, thousands of them and none of them worked. However, if you make sure to design based solely on research and all you do is fully custom designs that just say something like: "Your Words Here", then you are not constrained by any niche or so. This way you can ramp up your designs, test out whichever design works with a higher likelihood of selling as fully custom designs have higher conversion rates AND you're not constrained by any niche. Once you have a design that's selling, you'll also notice that you get a lot of the same requests for the same wording in the custom design. You can then just add those to Etsy as you own the copyright to all designs you make. At this stage you also have a great design that you can add into in demand niches on Etsy overall.
I hope that helped but that's my take on how to do it :)
@@CassiyJohnson Do you use the same tags for every design in that niche or change them per design??
Depends on if the design really changed enough to need different tags, if it's a very similar design just different look, then I'd use the same tags! @@MyGenXLife-1946
SimplyPODMandy has a good video on this as well, she calls it "batching" and it helps! And then recently Shawna has a video fairly new also about how she designs a bunch of designs and then lists and the main thing I took away from that was that she finds it boring and takes breaks. Which is great because I felt the same. Sometimes you just have to fight through that boredom haha but I hope that batching series helps!
The 40 free listings didn’t appear after I signed up through your link. Not sure what happened.
Just signed up for your course! I am SO excited :)
how'd it go? did you start making sales
Can you help an introvert person? Been in etsy for 4 years but had not had any sales. Desperate.....
Introvert here as well 👋 Cassiy has loads of helpful videos that helped me a lot. If you can diagnose the problem you're facing, hopefully you can search her channel for the video that will crack the problem for you
Thank you Cassiy! Thank you and Andreas for such a great interview! I've asked this of others, what do you think please: If we combine Kittle, Canva et al artwork, fonts, elements, etc., to make them not 'stand-alone', why do they still get at people for selling commercially? What about copyrighting our ideas while using their combined elements and fonts to make our unique artwork or logos for sale, unless it is for or personal not-for-sale business logo(s)? Is there a company that we can use their work 100% free without restriction, etc., as copy and sell? I'm an artist who creates my own ideas and hand drawn, painted, photographed, etc. work, but sometimes would like to incorporate something such as fonts and elements. Thank you :-) ~~~~ Also, how can a shop do personalized items in the hundreds per month? :-)
It's all about licensing. Just get the paid version of Kittl, Canva, Creative Fabrica etc and you should be fine. Those hosts have to pay creators to offer licensed elements, so it's only fair that sellers should pay their share too.
Not sure if it's a question for me but I'll try to help out! :)
I don't think I understand the question fully, however when you have created a design you own the copyright to it. If you combine an elements that you have a commercial license to sell and then you add other elements like text to that design then you technically have the copyright to that specific design.
I don't think you can trademark logos using a logo created in Canva per their license. But from what I know, you can sell designs made in Canva that you hold the copyright to as long as you also hold licenses for all elements used in the design.
Last question is quite a tricky one, Cassiy has a big library of videos and all of those can definitely help with getting a store like that taking off.
Hopefully that helped! :)
I posted my 100th item in my niche. My goal is to list 300 a month.
Yay that’s awesome!! Keep up the good work!! 🎉
Cassiy what is your mentor group?
@CassiyJohnson - Do you do private mentorship? How can we work with you for some help with our shops?
Hi Hannah! I have my course the POD Roadmap available on my website Cassiyjohnson.com, this is a pre recorded training on everything I teach, then it comes with a private community where I answer your questions in the group publicly or privately as needed, we do monthly live group coaching sessions with additional lessons and I also provide a monthly trend report. For an additional fee of either $100 or $200 you can pay for a private shop review if you are a student within the course as well if that is something you still feel like you need after joining.
Is this still worth doing? It seems Andreas is worn out from all the work involved and stress dealing with customers. All for around 10k per month profit.
Hi Cassiy! I’ve been watching all lot of your videos, started my Etsy shop and listed my first 4 shirts. Now, I’m thinking I need to start learning more in depth about the Sales so I’m considering buying your course. Is there a way to message you privately before I invest? I have a couple of questions. Thank you
I may need this mentorship
I'd love to have you join if you decide my program resonates well with you! Here is a link to the page with all the info, feel free to message me if you have any questions! www.cassiyjohnson.com/PODRoadmap
i am interested in your mentorship ..how can i join?
Question, when you first put a design up on Etsy and advertise it, do you put all your advertising on just that one product or do you let the rest of the products you have in your store stay under that advertisement?
Not sure if it was a question for me but I have most of my listings on ads. It starts with when they're first listed, if they hit the target ROAS I keep them on after 10$, if they're under the target i turn them off.
Great interview!!!
He mentions the teachings of someone named Stephen. Anyone know which channel that is?
His channel is Hello Custom here on TH-cam!
What was the name of the ad strategist he mentioned? Steven something? CC doesn't convert the name correctly to look up.
His name is Stephen and he owns a software called Hello Custom, here is a link to his TH-cam channel www.youtube.com/@HelloCustom
@@CassiyJohnson thanks Cassiy appreciate all your videos and the time into making them. Gives me more energy to create
Don't you risk getting banned if you post too many listings in a short period of time?
I've not heard of people having that issue personally and I have listed 20-50 listings in a day plenty of times myself. But that's not to say that it couldn't potentially have caused an issue with someone before but I haven't heard that being a wide spread issue myself!
Actually just saw a comment from Andreas below and he said that he once did over 65 listings in a day and got suspended! So now he stays below that. Probably why I never ran into the same issue since I never did over 50 a day
Congratulations Andreas, I'm surprised Etsy didn't freak out and ban you when you were listing 50 a day!
hah they did actually! Once I did about 65-70 in a day and they suspended my account. Never did over 60 listings in a day after that lol. Got it back quick after the suspension though!
@@wtfamievendoing Phew!
His revenue says 5 million. What is that about?
He lives in Sweden so his currency is in SEK but the numbers we talk about in the video are converted to USD! Sorry for the confusion but hope you enjoyed the video
Am I crazy or it that 5 million, not 580K?
Sorry for any confusion lol, seems like more people found it confusing. So I'm actually Swedish and that number is in my Swedish currency. The 5 million SEK translates to roughly $580K
Yep sorry for the confusion on the currency since he doesn't live in the US! But like he said, if you google the translation then you'll see the numbers we're talking about. Hope you enjoyed the interview!
@@wtfamievendoingplease please make a video how different currency other than USD can work on etsy. Its very confusing. Do they charge for turning your shop to USD instead or is it better to just stay with own currency.
@@clarzr8719 I'm going to make a pricing video actually, I'll make sure to include this in it. But in short, all prices are displayed in the currency depending on where the customer is located. I've always kept the currency in my shop to SEK (which is my Swedish currency) however, I don't know this for sure, but there is a possibility that you might end up with an extra conversion fee if you set your store currency to USD if you live abroad. Every time they pay out they will have to convert it to the currency in your bank and that will get very costly as time goes on, I haven't experienced this conversion fee for myself but what I can say is that I use my native currency in my shop and it works great.
That was a good interview but it's hard to understand him.
Sorry, I'm not that versed in talking to a camera yet lol. But I've started doing subtitles on my own videos to help with that lol!
hello, where does andreas live? europe?
He lives in Sweden!
Hi how can I join your mentorship
It's in description box ...👍
I have watched all kinds of videos on this topic and I still don’t understand it. Maybe I’m just that stupid.
No you're definitely not stupid. It takes a while to get this going and some concepts can be hard to grasp. We've all been there and felt that too
He says “we” he has a partner that helps him?
Sorry for any confusion, I'm the one that has grown my own Etsy shop. I don't have a partner that's helped me with my Etsy shop.
1000 a day in ads??? That’s 365,000 a year in advertising!
Not exactly, see the budget as a ceiling. It can't go over that, I have my ceiling set to 1000$ a day but then it usually spends about $150-$200 a day since this is all pay per click. I also get sales with a ROAS of 3,3-4,5 usually and that means that for every 1$ I spend, I get between $3,3-$4,5 back. So the ads gives fuel to the fire and makes everything kind of skyrocket so to speak
So here I am wondering totally unrelated stuff. Somehow I immediately got the vibe that this guy is from Sweden and plays in a metalband. So now I’m stuck wondering about that instead of actually paying attention to the video. 🤡🙄
How do you get POD things selling instead of people just favoriting the item only to find they’re just stealing your idea and it’s clearly uploaded later by them?!
I'd say that you would need to diagnose the issue here. It could be the images, it could be the price, it could be the offer in and of itself, it could be too low reviews on a store etc. There's so many things, but if you are getting visits, then you can know that the mockup and the design is most likely not the issue here. If they enter your listing and don't purchase, then it's something on a listing level that's the issue. Hope that helps!
the guy has a crush on Cassy fore sure!
Sure, he did.
0:06 that is $5 million tho. What is going on?
He is from Sweden so that is the amount in SEK, if you convert it to USD, you'll get the $580K USD that we're talking about! Sorry for the confusion
@CassiyJohnson oh I didn’t read the pinned comment. Thanks for your reply ❤️
How do I reach you😊
@cassiy_jmentor she's good at what she does
Hello mam, Are you looking for professonal youtube thumbnail designer?
I am not at this time but thank you for reaching out!
He says he's a musician and he also is doing extremely well on Etsy. That success should free up time for his to what??? Be a musician. But instead he want to start a TH-cam to be an Etsy guru? Hmmmmm. Interesting. I need to see evidence of all the success he is claiming to believe it.
Being a talking head here on TH-cam is a place where I definitely feel I can help a lot of people and in the same time also diversifying my income and opportunities. I thought long and hard about if I wanna enter the TH-cam space since I already have Etsy but I came to the conclusion that since I just talk about stuff that I already know, it doesn't take too much time away from me and I can actually do both. I can grow my artist project the way I want to without sacrificing the artistic part and help people through TH-cam at the same time. Trying to be as transparent as possible!
I hate the word niche
lol it is an odd word and I say it a lot in my videos 😂 so sorry in advance!
wow ! subbed #59 😊
Glad to have you! 😊
Omg this is so me right now, I am at a point where I have to succeed no matter what, dear Cassiy how do I contact you?
Hello Cassiy. I came across your TH-cam channel and finding it very inspiring. I just need more confidence in doing POD business. I am nearing my retirement and wanting to get ready in 4 years (more time). I am not tech savvy and still loving the old school of shopping but wanting too change my mindset about online business. I learned some tricks🥳 using canva following your step by step tutorial. It works and told myself...OMG I can't believe I did it because of you! 😃
Thank you both for the video. And thank you Cassiy for all you do, I just started a POD Etsy shop and your videos have been very helpful. Please I have 2 questions. @cassiyjohnson I have other handcrafted items that I can make, would you suggest I include that with the POD shop or just have the general POD shop like I'm currently working on? @wtfamievendoing please how do you handle shipping to other parts of the world since you mentioned that you're in Sweden, I'm in the UK. Thanks again for your help 🔥🔥🔥
I don't focus on any other markets than the US as there's just tons more hassles for little to no reward in other markets than the US. I'd highly advise to stick to the US as of now in 2024
@@wtfamievendoing Noted and thank you so much for your reply