I Built a PROFITABLE Etsy Store in 24 Hours
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- I set myself the challenge to try and build a PROFITABLE Etsy store in 24 hours..you don't want to miss this.
There's lots of ways to make money on Etsy in 2024, from print on demand to selling digital downloads - so I wanted to put it to the test to see how much money I could make online just using Etsy.
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You can apply what I learnt to your own Etsy store whether you're starting a print on demand t-shirt business or selling pngs.
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Bro got scammed and kept it in the video, happens to the best of us, proper no nonsense channel, good man
he didnt get scammed tho
@@ambientsounds5832 he was going to be scammed lol
@@sickening_love1154 but he didn't
womp womp
Love that you still posted this without the classic “drastic” results. This is the kind of honesty I’m looking for. It’s just about finding what works and then tweaking it to make it better. Much appreciated. You’ve gained a sub!
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This is actually a good idea.
Digital Products might be better though so you
don't share profit margins with a third party like Printiful
I am confused. How did you switch it from the digital product review (.99)over to the t-shirt review (11.99)?
There is something that I do not understand. Isn't Printiful supposed to ship the product from a printing point close to the customer who bought it? So there shouldn't be any manual configuration. Otherwise, doesn't it contradict the automated service that Printiful claims to offer?---> 12:29
Yes please and respect for doing these videos!
Keep it up
I've been watching quite a few videos about making money on Etsy and yours is by far the best one. Thank you for all the tips!
how ia it going
For all viewers seeking to be successful keep in mind one big thing: if you see a video like this telling you they can make a successful shop on Etsy, or any profitable business within 24 hours or days, chances are they can. WHY? because they have been grinding for years working on their craft and understand what they need to do. So, if you think your gona just copy what they did and make it quick, it's not the case. It's a long journey to reach their level. Just keep grinding, learning and pushing to master any business you set your mind to. It's a marathon to reach a level where your rolling in cash every day. This is the biggest lesson I've learned in my journey to succeed online. I keep watching videos like this is thinking I can make it with just a few months of little effort. Only to get frustrated by the lack of results and just quit. Now, I'm trying again, and this time, I'm in it for the long haul.
Good luck bro thank u for the advice
FACTS! This is me!
He doesn't even understand how Etsy ranking works. He wasn't really ranking first. Etsy customizes search ranking based on the products you view and search for, so that's why you'll see your own items on the first page, but a customer might see it on the 18th page. I just used the same search term and couldn't find any of his shirts on the first three pages.
Second, it takes 90 days for the Etsy algorithm to finish analyzing your listing and to understand what keywords it should show up in. You can get that info from a site like eRank. It's highly unlikely he got an organic sale after 24 hours; he likely dumped a bunch of money into Etsy ads or promoted his listing on one of his other socials.
I've been an Etsy seller for 3.5 years. It is not as easy as he or other gurus make it seem. And the market is flooded with POD t-shirts, because that's a common niche for Etsy TH-cam "gurus" telling people they can make bank on Etsy.
Etsy always puts new listings at the top for the first 24 hours. Those listings will tank to above 500 after that if they do not get any sales.
I am not yet an etsy seller. Still planning on it as I slowly prepare items more handmade.
And from what ive heard, this can get very profitable as time goes on. Ive heard that etsy rewards profitable sellers with more opportunity for attention. So with diligence and time, this is a snowball effect that starts slow, and increasingly moves faster as momentum is built up. And the diligence is needed to keep that ball rolling and allow it to pickup speed.
@@Liz-ic6jbhow do you use pintrest?
@@Liz-ic6jb wow! I've been at it for 10 months and I'm still averaging 1 sale a day since March.. does pinterest bring in most of your sales?
@@Liz-ic6jbmay I know how you did! Did you connect your store to Pinterest with etsy
hey bruh can u tell me if this realy works for you ?
Forgive me, I have not gotten my etsy account set up. I actually started focusing on other stuff that took my attention away from it. Perhaps in the future I'll get to it.
But to your question, I had just listened to multiple people who knew their stuff about etsy, very well. Either people that knew the "background" algorithms for how easy works or people that had just built strategy for effective selling, And this principle seemed to be the common denominator of them all. Start small, stick to it, gain momentum. Diligence and patience are key ingredients. So I actually wrote this comment not from my own experience, but actually what I had heard from listening to others (as the comments says multiple times), and it just made sense.
I see that comment is a year old, but from what it says, I trust its still rings true. And i would defiantly go by it if I were to start an etsy right now. So don't let me not having an etsy discourage you. Its is not because my plans and efforts failed. Its because other things became priority and I never started. So I encourage you to start yours and see where you are after even just a few weeks or months. Bless you 👍
3 sales in 24hrs. 🤯 it took me 3 months to get my first sale.
You’re a straight G bro. 🤙🏼
How's your business going?
Good luck with the business bro I'm thinking of starting my own Etsy store
What’s the update? How’s the store going?
Its a lie bro, notice how the "sale" comes from a new profile? My wife and I have done about 6 Etsy stores now, up to about 1200 or so a month each. Theres no way to get real results this fast. Notice how the video is sponsered by the print on demand? One rule of thumb I always use to see through marketing. If this dude is making so much money from Etsy, why is he making youtube videos? IT's because Etsy pays decently, if your patient, just like youtube. He needs both sources of income to really make a good living. Take just about everything this man says with a huge grain of salt, hes not one of the super honest ones.
@@86ajmn Exactly. I'm also an Etsy seller and this video is so misleading.
Fantastic video. First time viewer. This is reality and you didn’t sugar coat it. Love it. You just gained a subscriber.
The cool thing is rising to create an online store with research & design products in 24hrs! That's a Win. Thanks for the inspiration to do a challenge.
Nice! I started my drop-shipping business 6 months ago after spent time with it now I earn 200-300 dollars a day. Not too bad I guess. Now I have just got Etsy shop trying to explore on this platform, gotta spend time with it.
Thanks for sharing your story. That is amazing
Will you please share how you drive traffic? I can’t get any
Where did you start?
Where did you sell?
My only question is how can i automate the shipping process like how people do with shopify where as soon as a customer buys it instantly goes to the supplier and its their problem not mine
Any chance you have an America based recommended print partner? I think for the product I'm going to do I need a US and UK based company in order to maximise sales because of the delivery.
I love that you talk through the things that went wrong and make it real rather than just making out you're this perfect thing! It's so refreshing!
this is amazing. I have a coffee mug store on etsy. I know this works...I made my first sale last year, and when that sale came through, mannnnnn i knew it was real.
How much do you make a month now from it?
@@Monarch204It says right on Etsy that their average successful sellers make around 44k per year. If that is more than you make right now, this is something for you to look into. If it's not, then keep doubting and wasting your day not learning how to do the thing that other people are paying their bills with.
Holy shit dude. As someone who's been trying to sell on etsy for a good few months now without success, this is extremely impressive.
I think I'm gonna have to give this a go
How does Printful gets the order and how they know whom to ship?
Love this video. Appreciate your honesty and taking the time to share all the step-by-step tips. Many video's out there but people just talk and show us zero . Actually starting to think that they make their money by us watching their video's..
Im a new happy subscriber
Hey Liam. Thanks to your tutorial, I created a profitable Etsy store for zero out of pocket. I get my first payment tomorrow. New year + new business = happy girl! Happy 2024 and bright blessings to you and yours.💖
I just read briefly that it cost $30 a month to start an Etsy store as a subscription. Did you start a store without that?
How is going now?
I appreciate the honesty in the video and the step by step process. Subscribed ✔️
Thanks for the honesty at the end i thought I'm going to see a $1000 in sales that will be impossible but yeah $61 looks Legit!
😂lol
The girlfriend "critique" was a nice touch to the video! Sacrificing your first runs, with "hard hitting" opinions that ....sent you back to the drawing board! 🤣 Great overall video!
you are so amazing. i have an etsy store more as a hobby for handmade jewellery. when I did put tshirts, stickers and mugs up they never sold - maybe because I don't deliberately go for what is trending. But love you are showing everybody how to do it and hope someone who needs some extra money and a side hustle can follow your steps. Esp with the rising costs, as Tesco says: Every little bit helps and your step by step videos are just want someone may need.
Is your Etsy store still doing well now?
reality is its never a side hustle
Your ad timing is everything, its the same as watching TV
Thank you for this! I love that you showed the mistakes and that you still had success. You've inspired me to give it a go.
got my first sale in less than 12 hours! i hope it can be consistent cause etsy takes a lot of money off ur sales
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Love this guy so determined to pass through everything to his things done
What a sympathetic video :D thanks for sharing and being so honest. It recently opened my Etsy Store to sell my comics and made 51 € in the first 48 hours 😅 "reinvested" it in having some burritos with my wife 🤗 but the T-Shirt design idea is great and I already add a design via Printful, so thanks again
Made ? As in profits or revenue ?
This was a cool experiment/case study! You should do more like this.
One of the few who practice what they preach. That’s inspiring. I overthink my ideas way too much
Thats a trade mark look it up
You will rank high in the first instance because Etsy boosts new shops to see how well the audience will engage with it - you keep converting, you keep ranking. Soooo many new shops don't understand that this 'honeymoon period' is crucial for getting your foot in the door. Also.... not to downplay your success, but I have a bit of a suspicion that Etsy has bots which purchase from new shops - they would of course say it's to root out scammers, but I think it's to encourage you to keep listing. I've been on Etsy for well over a decade and I've never seen such a regular pattern of 1 sale soon after opening that I see in so many new shops now. Lastly, it's not against TOU to have a friend buy and leave a review! They request that the review should be honest, but yeah you can do it and definitely should as review-to-sale ratio is factored into rank.
Agree with everything here excluding the bot buying. No shot Etsy is throwing money out the window like that
@@jakechakravorty7609 I'm not saying it's happening (just a bit of paranoia after 16 years of their nonsense!) but they absolutely would do it financially, it's a very small expenditure to get someone to spend more $ in listing fees and perhaps even advertise. Bushnell's Law!
@jakechakravorty7609 it's true I received a weird one sale from Emmy on my store.. left no review or anything. Emma had no profile pic, just a grayed out pfp and I didn't find it strange but I felt encouraged to list more and I did, but seeing this comment made me understand that etsy sale I made could've actually been a bot sale.
What if i sell something fora ridiculous amount
@@DenneyDos to get the bots to bite? Well if they exist, it's worth a try 🤣🤷
We need more challenge type of videos
Yeah it was fun to do as well so going to keep it up if this video performs well and people like them
@@LiamJamesKaycould you do these type of videos with social media affiliate marketing too ?
I really enjoyed the video, very valuable. Challenge videos like these are actually entertaining.😊
Best way to learn the processes from beginning to the end. Pls more and thx a lot
Fantastic video Liam... really appreciated it and it gave me a ton of new ways to work Etsy
Great to hear! Good kuck
you're a legend mate im going to give it a go, respect your transparency, $13 might be gold for some people still
Your determination and creativity in tackling this 24-hour Etsy store challenge is truly inspiring! What would be your top advice for someone looking to start their own successful Etsy store from scratch?
I agree! Another key is, Participating in Etsy forums, teams, and community events to connect with other sellers, share experiences, and gain insights.
Amazing! More success and best of luck Liam.
1. Have a TH-cam channel with a lot of followers
2. Post a video on said channel with a link to your new store.
3. Watch some sales come in then claim it as an overnight success.
That's usually what these TH-camr Etsy folks do.
Excellent Video Content Keep it up
@@davidt510 my psychiatrist once suggested for my financial troubles to just sell things to my friends. Thanks, doc, sounds great...
Thank you for this. This is all I need to get started. OK, so you made only a few pounds or bucks. You know what? I made 0 bucks between today and yesterday by not selling stuff. It is time to get off my butt and start designing and selling. You earned another subscriber.
And dont forget folks, while these few sales didnt make him enough to fit a weeks worth of groceries, its a new store, he/you will add more and more designs and compound that number and you’ll have a nice addition at the end of the day/week/month/year(s)
Yes, definitely a numbers game.
You also have to pay taxes on your profits, depending on country, if you make a certain amount.
unless... you know how to increase your deductions.
Did exactly like you did in this video, my first 1000$ in business ever, just 2 days in! Compared to ~300$/month salary i had before this is just freaking awesome!
What kind of niche are you selling in print on demand on Etsy?
@@VisualVortexArtStudio The same like in the video, tshirts for women sports. If you can get a sale in 24h, imagine what happens with paid Ads
you made 1k in two days??
@@michaelregeer Yep, same strategy as what he posted in video, but with 100$ invested in Ads
Lmao!! 10:51 Your face! 😬
I would totally have done what you did in my earnest to make a sale. Lol 😂
Great perspective at the end , informative and kept it real. well done mate
Bro... I loved this video man. Inspired me to try one of these challenges.
Thanks man, glad you liked it 😎
Love videos like this! We need the inspiration!
This is a very great challenge. Very engaging and informative
This was great to make sales so fast is amazing!
Good until ETSY cancels your account and doesn't tell you why.
Been there
Same thing
Do they take the money away
You did something wrong
@@QuakerBakerno they will send it a month later
This is the realest video out. Thanks for the information
Thx man for the great video!
At least you admit that pumping out endless design shit isn’t “as easy as it looks.”
'Women's world cup wasn't the best IDEA' - definitely the best dialogue of the entire video 🤣🤣
This video has made me subscribe. Excellent
make sticker. the all around cost is 1000$ for a high quality printer and a plotter. cost per sticker is around 14ct you can easy sell a good one for 5 bucks
Hi was just wondering if you could comment on if your store was delisted and if so was there a reason for this, I searched for it on Etsy and says that it does not exsist I wanted to see it just to know how well the shop was doing but to my surprise it is no longer on Etsy please comment if you took it down or they did and if so why so we don't make the same mistake
Why do so many sellers steal from each other but Etsy doesn’t care? I’m talking about items made via POD. But I have heard they do close down shops of people accused of stealing -- get this: the ones that make physical products! It’s a lot harder to steal those!
Inspiring! Awesome video, Liam!
Nice video, can you show exactly how to list a physical item and a digital item in the same listing? 😅
Great Content like Always. Thank you so Much!💪
It's not about time, it's about knowledge and experience you gained over years of working
Thank you for the content. I do have a question. So when you leave a review on someone's Esty shop, does that review show on all of their listings, or just the listing they purchased? I'm wondering how the digital file review helped with your other listings. Thank you in advance!
Hmmm i feel Liam is a real deal… why do i feel this way? He suggests starting his research w google trends! Hah! Sure the extensions help, but trends is a great start for folks who dont want to pay for the services those extensions provide just yet. Im subbing!
The only thing that u do its just edit photos? How the customer will get the products?
well done, actually beneficial man, keep it up
Soooooooooooo good. Excellent video. Thanks for sharing everything!!
So when you have a new idea following trends do you make new stores for different themes or do you follow a trend for a bit then delete everything and start over fresh again on that same store?
Thank you so much for the secret tip!
Thanks for sharing- I'm tempted to start a store. HOW many listings did you end up adding within the 1st 24 hrs? Guessing 40+?? Would that be what helped you rank at top in search?
There’s a way to set up automatic emails with a discount when people abandon their carts.
how do you create good mock ups? do you purchase them?
POD products undermine the spirit of etsy. I'm an artisan seller who's been on the platform for a decade, as well as a customer of etsy shops. People go to etsy for handmade items and get burned by mass produced POD crap.
Thanks James! Enjoyed the video! We love to create a etsy store in the near future ;)
Really interesting watching your process. For mock ups did you just use the Printiful ones?
You can use printiful ones, or you can buy mock ups, or even create your own using canva, of course. This requires pro. Or even make your own at home using pictures of the item blank and a nice surrounding, and then even this bit can be used to sell those mockups. Just in that question alone, there is money to be made. It is how you look at it ❤
Good luck!
Thanks for the great video! Quick question- what country do you say your items ship from? (since they can ship worldwide from different factories) can Etsy let you put multiple countries? I don't want buyers in Europe thinking the product is coming from the USA, but also don't want to close myself off to US buyers by saying my store is in Europe? Also, how do you calculate how much fees & taxes you will be charged before setting up a selling price? Thanks again!
I am Waiting for an answer to this until now haha
Say any first world country and you’ll be fine. People tend to think “America! Fair wages, definitely not a sweatshop!” If you write USA.
13:30 You look like Gordon Ramsey when your lit by a window, lol 😂
Etsy is really growing very strongly!!!
Best video perfect explanation thank you very much
Awesome video! You’ve inspired me to give it a try. How do we get the 40 free listings?
Agreed 💯
What is that floor light you have? that backlight is sick
My esty was permanently closed within 2 days, i only started selling my own printable digital download designs, they are not responding, what I can do?
I’m having the same problem you had with it saying it’s shipping from the US but can’t change it! How did you do it?
Great video! It brings me hope that I will succeed with my store...eventually lol
I just opened an Etsy store, I added 1 product like I have to per Etsy's instructions, and in under 4 hours my store was suspended. Have no idea why, now I have 2 wait up to 2 weeks for my appeal response.
Hi, really helpful UK based advice. However Liam - when you notice on the video that your Etsy store is still set to US thus offering elevated shipping costs, you say 'oh, I'll just change that...' - it's not as easy as that, is it? Printful push through their shipping rates to Etsy and they are always set to dispatch from US. You then have to deselect their shipping and set up an Etsy shipping profile manually for each country from Printful's shipping rate listings. This is correct, isn't it? Is there a quicker workaround? Do you have a video on this as this is a huge stumbling block.....
Amazing to watch 😊😊😊😊
Glad you enjoyed it
Quick question... would you not face any copywriting issues with the design of the England women's players? I find that sometimes I find it hard to hop on trends due to copywriting issues.
No worries regarding copyright issues?
Well done Liam! Just a little patience is all is needed...
TBH I'm surprised that you'd assume most ppl would think it's not a great turn out. I am thinking about opening my own pod store and working on designs atm, and I'm not holding my breath on my first sale being within the first 24hrs. More like in the first month! Haha.
On a separate note, can I ask how you tackle the issue of sales from/into UK/US since Brexit messed everything up shipping/tax wise?
I'm considering using printify (note you use Printful) and I'm not sure how to approach it. Considering opening two separate stores, one for UK one for US to avoid shipping and charging issues. Any thoughts?
I'm pretty sure as far as shipping goes, there are lots of different people who provide for printify, so I'd recommend whatever one with the lowest shipping cost.
Good luck ❤
Start your store it's the fastest way to learn 😊
I do handmade jewellery , only just started but not doing very well , how do u get noticed? ?
And made a crazy amount off TH-cam views - 🎉 congrats bro
Good love ur honesty Keep it up
If I want to sell in different countries, do I have to open a separate Etsy store for each country?
E.g. USA for dollar | UK for pounds | GER for EUR
or is there a way that one shop can serve all countries?
What are some good key words you used?
Does space between words in tags matter? I've been hearing conflicting reports. What do you recommend?
Do You Pay for anything upfront? or the shirts are printed when they ordered?
Kinda overlooked the whole mock-up bit which takes a good amount of time and research
No, Printful creates them automatically
So, im with you on pretty much everything, however, how could you have possibly ranked at all let alone numbers #1 and #3?
This was great to make sales so fast is amazing!
why don't any of these channels ever post a link to their own store? idk anything about selling stuff on these shops but i hear them talk about driving traffic from social medias to the store but they never have their store linked, just wondering why that is
Good day Liam, I don't know if you will see this message. I have a question that you are most probably asked a lot. I live in the UK and just started selling on Etsy in the UK. How do I sell outside of the UK, like in the US? I basically was everything that is made in the US to be only delivered there etc.
your listing should be shown all over, but if you do POD - the products will be shipped from the facility closest to your customer location.
And don't forget - that shipping indicator mistake might have made a (big?) difference right after launch.
Why you shop has closed? True reason please so we won't do the same mistake.