@@nasimamindylaczynski8123you’re very welcome! I felt like my story could help many that think POD is dead. Being encouraged and putting in the hard work will payoff.
@@sunshinedreamsartcenter3008 Thank you so much! Im just a normal person like all of you. This journey has been truly awesome and I can’t wait to see how many people from this community see nice Etsy shop growth.
I have seen multiple comments with questions. I am more than happy to try and answer as many questions as I can❤️. All the positive comments on our interview has been truly heartwarming!
@@kristynkrey6988 First things first thank you SO much for the kind words! You watched it 5 times!!!!!!!!!! I must answer your question because you are dedicated! 😛 1.) So I do a little of both. Let me explain sometimes I will scan though amazon merch. If I see some design on amazon merch doing well and I cross search on etsy and don't really see that design around and I think that it will do okay on I might try it out. Other than that I do stick to etsy one big reason you can see the trends with searches with tools like everbee and erank! Having this data is so useful to see if a niche is worth your time. 2.) I usually consider niche with under 10K listings lower competition. What I have found is these tools do pull in listings showing in ads and also split tested listings. So usually 10k competition really ends up being lower than that. Since etsy is a market place and you have access to the many shoppers that use etsy every day. Nailing your SEO will help put your listings Infront of those customers. It is then up to you to have made a quality listing so that customer converts! Nothing is worst than having perfect SEO and not so great mockups. I really did enjoy doing this interview and if Cassiy ever wants me to come on to do more interviews and or live questions and answers I totally would. If I did not answer your questions as clearly as you would have liked please do mention that! I will be more than happy to elaborate even more :)
This interview gave me more insight now that my shopify and etsy stores are finally up and running. I've watched a hundred videos since then, but this particular one has finally knocked me out of analysis paralysis and into action. Looking forward to the followup.
It’s crazy that he made a general store work, not niche as we’re always being told. I still rather stick to a niche to keep me focused but it goes to show you that anything is possible if you have the right mindset.
So I did start a general store as a let me find what niches I should gear my shop to. But when it blew up and just continued to do well I thought why would I limit my shop now? 😂
Cassiy you're a true one. i never know which one the the etsy coaches who show up in my feeds to really trust but your videos have never let me down. i actually learn good information from your vids.
Cassiy you are absolutely one of my favorites and I’m going down this rabbit hole right now….just starting off. These interviews are so insightful. You want to help people, not just grow your brand, which should be the goal of course but you just are doing it with such genuine content. I wish you success in all its forms! Thanks to Cisco too for all that he shared.
Really appreciate your super nice comment! I do really just want to help people succeed ❤️ this has grown into such a big passion for me! If you told me 4 years ago that I would have my own business, let alone be teaching other people how to do it, then I wouldn’t have believed it lol life is crazy! Wishing you all the best on your journey!
Thank you for a great interview Cassiy! Thanks to Francisco for taking the time to share his POD journey which will only serve to inspire future shop owners.
This was so helpful Ty❤! I’m glad I saw someone say their store is more general. There’s so many that say you must focus on a niche. I have adhd I just can’t. So many ideas 😂
Wow I would love to do that with my POD store. He was already making good money as a software engineer. My friend is a chemist and he tends to and sells plants on the side and I told him he should sell them on Etsy. This was six months ago and now this plant side hustle is doing well for him!
This was a great video and one of the most informative I have seen in the past month. I am trying to start a t-shirt business as well. You guys answered a lot of my questions. This was absolutely great!
This was awesome!! Gave me alot of motivation during a dry time for my store. I wonder what type of marketing Fransisco did outside of thank you cards and Etsy ads that worked for him.
@@Sisco035wow thank you so much for your answer! As someone who is just starting out, it really helps to hear these things from someone like you who has already seen real success ❤❤❤❤
@@helegisyou’re very welcome!! My biggest advice to you work work work! Don’t look too much into your numbers. My friend that inspired me to open my shop. That is advice I give him all the time. If you focus on research what are customers seeking? What type of designs are selling you can then work on providing the market value where value is needed. My other advice don’t look for that one big hit listing. The end goal is to have multiple listings selling consistent for you. Once you start to gain that momentum and you provide your customers amazing customer service you will see great success!
Thank you for sharing this type of stories Cassiy, it is so inspirational 😊 I am growing my shop and learning a lot about research, SEO, titles and all. Thanks to you I took a leap of faith to open my shop and next year (mid year) latest quit my job and work from home and be more available for my boys ❤😊 thank you!😊
Awesome interview and since you are a top New seller it’s time you start your YY channel and join the gang Etsy YT’ers!! Ty Cass for another inspirational video
@@stacyosborn4537 Oh my thank you so much for the kind words! I actually have been thinking about doing that 😀Anything I can do to help the POD etsy community!
Thank you so much for the compliment!!!!!! Currently I don't make content BUT all of the positive feedback this video has gained is pushing me to start creating content :)
Oh my thank you for the kind words! I am just a regular guy! I love to help out when I can so glad you enjoyed. I hope these tips help’s with your business!
This was such a great video!!!! Thank you both for taking the time to share these great tips to those of us that are still researching how to be successful at this!
Thank you for the kind words! If you are asking if you are able to use mock ups you buy off Etsy absolutely. I would be sure the ones you purchase accurately represented the product you are selling. For an example if you are selling Bella canvas 3001 you can’t use comfort colors mock ups or any other shirt types. I hope this helps.
Super super great quality video. Hoping to start implementing some of these strategies soon. May also need to reach out to you directly Cassidy in early 2025.
Totally get where you are coming from, if there wasn’t such a bad problem with stealing then we’d share his store but POD has a really bad issue with people stealing designs and ideas. I appreciate the guests coming on my channel but don’t want to put any of them in a bad position. Hope you still got some good tips and value out of his interview though!
THANK YOU Francisco! I was amazed when you said you were uploading 15-20 listings a day! I struggle to keep up with one a day😅 I wonder if you offered returns to your customers or had a strict no return policy like Cassiy does?
Hello! You’re very welcome! Yes I still to this day crank out that many listings a day. Trust me you will find a flow that works for you! I do indeed follow a strict no return policy. I do sometimes steer from this time to time depending on the situation. Sometimes you do get a very tough customer and I just take my loss and cancel those orders. I will say 9 times out of 10 I have the most amazing customers!
@@Sisco035are all your items dropshipping? You upload quite alot of listings per day. If not dropshipping where do you find the space to store all them items? Thank you and well done.
QUESTION: So making the designs takes time but the most important thing is doing the actual listing with description takes forever because its so important. I cant see how its possible to make more than maybe 4 or 5 listings a day.
I actually think you are making this much more complicated than it needs to be. What I do I have a description typed up and saved to my printify product. My description has all the details and questions a customer might have about that specific product. Once I publish that one hidden to my Etsy I will just duplicate that printify product which will have my pricing and description already completed. I then upload the new design and adjust the tittle if the tittle doesn’t make sense for that design. Publish that one hidden to Etsy rinse and repeat.
Let me clarify a bit when I said I have descriptions pre typed I have info the customer might have as questions like sizing, care instructions, my return policy, product description, etc. So I have a pre typed up description made for each and every product I sell. So when I am ready to post designs on say product A I just duplicate one of those in printify so all I have to do is change the tittle and upload the new design. Since the price and description were already saved to this product I can just publish this hidden to my Etsy. Make my mock ups upload those to the listing, add my tags, change the section the listing goes to. Then this one is already ready to publish. I hope these tips help you speed up your listing creation process. These tips above definitely are the bread and butter with my process of listing creation.
@@Sisco035 That reply was worth a thousand minutes of work because I am not the only one that questioned this. When videos are made in youtube often times the little things are left out which can cause a ton of pain and agony for the listener who is trying to duplicate said success. Thanks for the help and the hours of time you saved me.
@@thehandsofstone you’re very welcome! This does save so much time. Since the pricing and description are already completed. All you need to do is printify is update the title and upload the design!
Thank you!! i love these interviews 😍 so much to learn!! How do you deal with your customer service? I rememeber you saying that at one point you would only spent 2 hours a day on etsy, while getting lots of sales… how is that possible considering more sales = more customer service? I don’t understand how people can say this is passive income. During Christmas I had some decent sales, but customer service drove me bananas 🤯 I haven’t heard any TH-camr talk about that
So from my experience customer service took a lot of time. But during busy seasons you can expect that. I would get messages about broken mugs, bad prints, and all sorts of things. What I found worked best for me is I would handle those as quickly as possible. My one strat I used is labels. You can label a message with a customer on the web version of etsy. So I would say label a message from a customer as something depending on what kind of customer service was needed. Say a customer needed a reprint I would label that message a so so I can have a running list of customers I need to provide a new tracking number. This helped me keep every customer accounted for. I seen this way easier than using a spreadsheet to keep tabs on all customers who needed help with something.
@@jmarko8720 honestly on my own! I was like what is this label thing here mean? So I tried it and I was like oh this is cool. So I made some labels for diff things like say if someone messages me about a potential custom design I can label her message as custom and it will just group all your messages together. This just made it easier for me to find and reach back out to those customers quickly
Well done Francisco!!! Great interview as well. A good explanation of your experience without outing your shop. You pushed harder than most i think but still took a while to get traction... good to know. Some great tips, too. About ads, having different coupon codes to track where traffic came from, and about Hello Custom.
Thank you so much for the kind words! Oh yes I didn’t gain traction super quick but I am that person that believes I can do anything I set my mind to. I worked hard and utilized trial and error learned a lot and I continue to learn today. Super happy my tips were helpful to you. Out of this video coupon tips are super helpful. Especially if someone is trying to drive traffic through social media. Having a separate promo code for each stream of traffic is super helpful data. You can then look at the numbers and roughly see how many orders you’re getting from each stream. HelloCustom was a god sent over 4th quarter. The volume of orders I was receiving which were for simple personalization. Would have taken me hours on end to create I was able to review those in HelloCustom and click approve. 🤣 definitely worth checking out if you start to see a consistent order base each month. Definitely recommend holding off until then so you are not setting yourself behind on subscriptions.
That was a great interview! I'm always curious as to how much of that is actually profit though. When he says close to 400k revenue, is that sales before the printify costs and etsy fees are taken out or after?
@Sisco035 okay wow, so still a decent amount of money. That's reassuring. Thanks for replying! I've been looking at starting one up. I'm about to get fired but my partner keeps telling me there's no money in it. It will be nice to prove him wrong :)
@@RivvyWritesAndMakes you’re welcome! You for sure should! There is no secret just use all those tips and tricks I provided and many others have! Find what works for your shop and push on. You can definitely prove your partner wrong 😎
Hello! I can actually explain how I set up a special coupon! What I do is on your sales and discount page you can create a promo code. You can set that promo code to whatever percent off you like. Pick dates you want that special coupon to run or you can make your coupon never end. You can then set up what listings you would like your promo code to be used with or you can set it up to run shop wide!
@@Sisco035 thank you for reply, but specifically I was wondering how the coupon codes do you send out on your Thank you cards work? Sorry I was unclear before.
@@DOCSUNRAY ah yes so how it works I have a QR code that links the customer to my shop which will auto apply the coupon code when they add a product to their shopping cart. After you make the promo code you will be given a url which has the coupon code at the end of it. So when the customer visits that url anything they add to their cart will auto apply that coupon code. Some customers just put the coupon code while in the shopping cart. There is a place in the shopping cart to apply shop coupon.
Thank you for this interview! Congratulations, Francisco! I am new, can you tell us how to create the discounts for the Thank you cards? Also how to create discounts for bundles ? Also how to make scalable designs in Canva and how to upload so many listings a day ? Thank you !
Hey there thank you for the congrats! So for my thank you cards what I did was went to my sales and discount page and created a promo code. I made the promo code for the percent off I normally run on my shop. You set the first duration date as the date your creating the code and you check the box that states no end date. I named my code something meaningful because the customer will see this promo code on my thank you card. Maybe something like THANKYOU or anything really. I than made a QR code using the promo code URL and listed my shop url on the thank you card as well. This helps me be able to look at my sales and discount codes and track how many uses I am seeing from my thank you cards. As far as scaleable designs what I found works well for me is as follows. I have a canva canvas with a template of my common scaleable designs. I can easily just make a copy of that and change out the subject in each design. There is also another way where you can use the Bulk Create canva functionality. You can look up how to use that functionality since its kind of difficult to explain. So my flow to uploading designs is as follows. I do the research gather SEO title and tags, Make my designs, Make all my mock ups for each design, in printify I make a copy of a product I made before, Change the title, Upload my design save and repeat until al designs are in printify, I publish all of them hidden to etsy, In etsy I add my tags, place them in the right section, update my shipping profiles, Upload my mock ups i made to each listing 1 at a time, then publish. So I make my listings in batches instead of doing 1 design from start of my flow to the end of my flow.
Hello, so long story short my shop blew up just out of no where. His shop was on a slower incline. I did give him advice and pretty much was his motivator. I believe his shop is sitting around 400 sales. But he is getting more consistent sales which is great to see!
You just need to go turn on the package inserts option in the branding section! My video next week will be a full walk through though if you need more direction ❤️
Another Awesome video! Very inspiring! Loved listening to Fransisco and hope he continues with his success! Thank you cards sounds like a really good idea! Carol
I have found that it's very hard to compete with other POD because they sell things so cheaply. Please tell me how in the world to compete with these sellers?
@@soon.tobemillionaire And, how would I do that? So many people say to find those that are popular and use those as examples (not to copy) but I'm afraid to make things that aren't as popular because I may be making something that won't sell.
What I want to know is How many initial listings did you have for first time and How much did you put up for investment-subscriptions to printify, marketplace platforms, Listing fees, design related apps,excluding government, legal fees etc? One thing is total Sales and one thing is total profit.
Okay so I took home 30% - 35% profit margin. I price my products in a way where my profits are after all etsy fees so that is a moot point. I paid roughly 825 dollars in business related subs for the year. And I bought probably about 100 dollars in mock ups. (I did experiments on different mock ups to help drive conversion rate) so I spent less than 1k in business expenses which I can write off on my taxes 😎
I am sorry I forgot to answer your other question when I obtained my first best seller I had around 300 listings and that was about 2 months into my shop being open. I then ramped up to well over 1000. I continue to add more and more listings day in and day out. While my older listings work for me and make me sales I have new listings being posted so they can optimize on Etsy and bring more sales in.
@@Sisco035 awesome. Thank you so much for answering. This really would help me have a realistic expectation and draw up computation. Whew! So much to do 😬
@@Sisco035 that's really dependent on purchasing power of one's currency vs USD. Thank you much for the tips. I'm diligently learning and studying. I want to rock this POD biz.
The word design is used often in this conversation. I am not a designer per say. I do design to a degree but some people are actuall designers that are inticate in their drawings. That eleminiates 90% of the field.
Francisco, I loved the way you told us about your beginnings in this world... I'm curious, did you already have knowledge of design or marketing? What is your background? Congratulations for the success in your store and thank you for sharing how you achieved that success!
Hello this is an amazing question. Honestly I had no previous design or marketing experience. I honestly still surprise myself today haha. Using canva and Kittl def helps! My background is in IT so I am a Software Engineer. This video is so accurate with how I started. I was talking with a friend on the phone he mentioned something about starting a POD shop he told me the ropes. I did my own research and I dove in and we started our own shops around the same time. What helped me is just research, I cant stress that enough. If you can get your research down and you see best sellers. Figure out WHY is that a best seller. What colors are they using ? what fonts? what mock ups? I can say once I started doing such and spreading this out to different niches I started seeing upward success. The trick of the trade is you are seeing what kind of designs are selling and you can dive into designs in those niches to stand out.
Very informative interview, I have a question though. How to add thank you card to your orders when it all supposed to be done for you by Printify and Itsey ?! Thank you
So on the left side bar in printify there is a branding section. There you can turn on package inserts which are thank you cards. You will have to use a design software like canva to create a nice branded thank you card and you can upload it as a package insert. Print providers which branded inserts are available for will then auto be printed and shipped with all orders.
I've noticed there's a shortage of mockups featuring grandmother aged ladies. There are none with great grandmother models. Would be nice to have some. Maybe you could make some for your store?
This is awesome. I feel like I've hit a wall. I've sold over 100 items made $4,000 or so. But no best sellers. I have great niches, but I'm just not getting there. It's possible that my designs suck, I guess 🤦🏼♀️
Hello! I wouldn’t say your designs suck. I think in this video I did make a point to get small wins. Getting sales are great getting those reviews helps your shop credibility. Those reviews help boost your listings that do sell and over time as you repeat sell those a best seller might happen. I would continue to design and add more value to the market place and you’re bound to grow.
Hi Cassiy, thanks for all your super informative videos. Can you please do one all about shipping fees and different situations? Like when a cutomer orders more than one of the same product, etc. How do I charge for that or set that up on Etsy, etc. Thanks!
Hello I sent out pretty much physical cards. I utilize most print providers which allows for branded inserts. This works wonders when a customer gifts someone one of your products. I see it as you’re expanding your customer base by only spending 10 to 15 cents.
@@Sisco035Do you do customize message cards when it is being sent as a gift directly to someone? If so, how do you do this to tell the recipient who it is from and the message from the giver?
@@jmarko8720so with branded inserts you can offer gift messages as well. So customers will usually fill out a gift message to go along with the gift. If they do so the gift message and my thank you card will both be packaged with the product.
@@gloriafrancis7621keep pushing on research research research. You will get there! Keep improving at designing and adding more value to the Etsy market place. 😎
Hi, Thank you both for the video is super inspirational. My question would be. For some like me that i would be starting from cero. Do you have a course you recommend to learn on how to use canvas and etsy store set up from cero???
Francisco built his biz 100% off of just free YT videos! So it absolutely can be done. I sold about 100k before I paid for any coaching myself! I did get a lot of value out of being in a coaching program like the benefit of having a community to turn to daily whenever you have a roadblock or trouble with anything so that’s why I ended up building my course! It has lessons in all of the steps you’ll need to learn along the way along with a private community of hundreds of other sellers on the same journey as you ❤️ I host monthly live calls and release a monthly trend report as well for more support! Fransico is even joining us next Tuesday night at 6pm EST for a live Q&A session. I will say that most people don’t pick things up as fast as Fransico though, his buddy that started at the same time for example has only sold a couple hundred items instead of thousands like him. So for some people they do really need the more step by step guide to break through and get to where Francisco is! If you want more details, check out my website at Cassiyjohnson.com And maybe Fransico will comment and share his thoughts as well ❤️
I fully agree with what Cassiy!! You could get by with watching free videos like I did. BUT I do feel like most people benefit from courses like this especially to be able to connect with others on the same path. My journey wasn’t easy by no means. But if I had a community I could have fell back on and had that reassurance my journey might have been even more smooth! I do pick up things quickly and I am not scared of change and adapting. That could also be why my shop has grow as quickly as it has.
Hi Cassiy! I love your content! It has helped me a lot but I think I still need more structure that's why I want to take your course. I see that on the roadmap there is information for 2020 and 2021. Does it really apply to today?
Totally understand how you feel, there is just so much to learn! My course is actually fairly new and has only been out for 10 months so everything in it is going to absolutely apply to what you need to know to be successful on Etsy in 2024! I’m also updating things to the course all the time and provide monthly trend reports that are an hour long that cover what is currently selling on Etsy right now, some ideas of ways you can add value and then what you should be designing for 2-3 months out to be ahead of the pack 💪
I really wanted to start an Etsy business so badly but I did a ton of research and all the videos of people crying and bewildered after having their shops shut down terrified me. I don’t trust that platform now. I feel so much for people who were going along making a substantial income, growing by leaps and bounds and in an instant their living vanished. Same thing with kdp. Making $10,000 a month then their whole business is gone.
So here is my take here. Most of those videos of peoples shops being shut down are usually due to the shop owners. If you steer clear of IP related issues and you follow the guidelines of what can be posted you will be fine. If your a pod shop follow the rules list your print providers, use mock ups that represent your product, do trademark checks and you will be fine :). Etsy by far is the best marketplace to have a shop. That doesnt mean I havent launched a shopify store as well ;)
Yes what he said ^. You can always find a negative side of anything you search for on the internet. If you really want to give it an honest try you just have to put your blinders on to those videos and push forward (and follow the rules)! 🎉❤
Yeah they only shut you down for plagiarizing designs and content and copyright issues. If you don’t do that you’ll be fine. Not like Amazon where the can shut you down for nothing or more specifically competing with Amazon.
Thanks to you and Francisco. This is an on time and great video for me. Question: If I heard correctly, both Everbee and Erank were mentioned as research tools. Do you both use both of these tools? What's the difference? Do I need to invest in both? Please reply asap. Thanks again 😊
Hello replying as quickly as I could 🤣 I do use both. I would say they both have great qualities for researching. For your needs I would really try one or the other. I recommend doing some research into both and seeing which one you would like to try using. Reason I say this so you are not putting your self in the hole by subscribing to many things before pulling profits.
@@Sisco035 Thanks for the response. So which do you recommend initially for someone just starting and not making profits? Once the profit generates I'll add the other.
@@elliswashington1149 so in my opinion everbee is very user friendly. With a chrome extension and a subscription you can do all the research you need. So I would probably suggest that one!
Etsy suspended my account immediately after I set up my store, then when I appealed they sent a message that it was permanent and couldn’t be discussed anymore. No email explanation at all. Not how I wanted to start out. Anyone else have this happen?
This is usually the hardest part of the POD journey. One thing I will say in order to be successful you need to be able to narrow down the problems. One tip if you are not seeing success breath and take it one step at a time. My advice change one thing and one thing only at a time and see if you start seeing upward trends. When I say one thing I mean maybe use a different main mock up image. Maybe research and get brand new mock ups and do some split testing. Copy some listings and post them with new images. If you don’t see much traction there then move on and try to make a different change.
@@GIVEMEGRACELIFESTYLEyou’re welcome! I hear it all the time when people reach out about these very questions. Some people try to change to many variables at a time. By doing this you won’t know what actually did the trick or not 😂
This is up to the seller but I can say my shop is a all around general store. since most people use the etsy search when shopping having multiple niches inside one shop can be beneficial
Hey Cassiy! Love your channel, I'm new to creating journals and want to sell them on Etsy, wanted to know if you had any tips on testing your products and ordering one to make sure quality is good before listing? Thanks!
I have done sample orders before. You can make a product and just make a custom order and ship it to yourself to see if its something you would want to add to your shop as products you offer :)
Hello! HelloCustom is a paid service where you can automate personalizing orders. There is some set up involved but here is a rough sketch of how it work’s. You have a listing that is to personalize a EST year for say a nurse shirt. When the customer orders and places the year in the personalization box HelloCustoms will pick that order up. You can then login to your HelloCustoms and you have the ability so review all your personalized orders in your approval queue. You just make sure the software personalized your orders correctly and you just click approve. Once you hit approve it will send that personalized design to printify add it to that product and attach it to that customers order. This helped me drastically during Christmas time when I was recieving 40-100 personalized orders a day.
That is amazing!!!!! Those reviews you are getting now will for sure help boost your sales in the future. You are establishing a credible store which really does help with conversion rate.
I currently own and operate two Etsy stores, my newer POD store that I started last year and my mockup store where I sell digital downloads! My first Etsy store got leaked and was getting tons of views everyday of people just stalking my shop so I decided to shut it down as I had been putting time into my new store anyways.
I’d say in your first month I would have a goal of 50-100 but I would probably just stick to one product type until you start to get some consistent sales so that you can learn that one really well. Then overall for your first year, if you want to have results anything like Francisco’s then I would recommend trying to get up to 1000-2000 listings. So this will look like consistently making around 5 listings every single day!
So I don't share specific niches and or keywords. What I can say with proper research tools and the drive you could find those hidden gem niches. One big reason why I don't share those niches people would become reliant on others to direct you on what niches to design for. You will always be behind the curve if that is the case. So I do encourage you to spend a day or two just strictly doing research.
Yes I personally answer all questions that I'm tagged in within the community and am in it daily other than the weekends I usually take off. I also do live calls monthly and answer questions on there as well!
@@CassiyJohnson great! I just wanted to make sure it’s what I thought it was before I spent money on it. It will Prob not be until may ( it will be my birthday gift) because I’m getting my daughter set up for college right now n we are having to travel out of state a lot but I’m excited to get hit for my birthday In may and with my youngest going off to college I’m going to have more time to work on my Etsy shop and need a lot of questions answered lol ok talk to you then😁
@@CassiyJohnson ty for everything . Just your videos alone got me to open it and for me that’s a lot I’m so bad with computer stuff. I watched your video of taxes and had mine don on Saturday and because of what u said I brought my bank stuff wrote off my subscriptions and my computer and Etsy stuff. I wasn’t sure it would work for me but u were so right. She also told me when u buy your program I can write that off also and I asked a lot of questions I never thought I would be asking. So ty again n I can’t wait til mid May when I get to learn even more from you and your program😊💜
Here is a tutorial on how to make thank you cards like Francisco talks about in this interview
Great interview thanks so much for sharing this with us
It was such a pleasure doing this interview with you.
Thanks for coming on and sharing your story Francisco! It was super inspiring, can't wait to see how 2024 goes for you!
Absolutely! It was fun sharing information with your community!
Such an inspiration- thanks for sharing your story
@@nasimamindylaczynski8123you’re very welcome! I felt like my story could help many that think POD is dead. Being encouraged and putting in the hard work will payoff.
@@Sisco035thank you for sharing. I feel so overwhelmed trying to start this up. So I'm very grateful for your tips and information
Fransisco seems so genuinely kind, like he ACTUALLY wants to help others succeed. Great interview!
@jenlin956 Aw that is so sweet! I am a kind person. I do try and help lift others to succeed as well. ❤️
Ya hes a Doll!
@@sunshinedreamsartcenter3008 Thank you so much! Im just a normal person like all of you. This journey has been truly awesome and I can’t wait to see how many people from this community see nice Etsy shop growth.
I have seen multiple comments with questions. I am more than happy to try and answer as many questions as I can❤️. All the positive comments on our interview has been truly heartwarming!
@@kristynkrey6988 First things first thank you SO much for the kind words! You watched it 5 times!!!!!!!!!! I must answer your question because you are dedicated! 😛 1.) So I do a little of both. Let me explain sometimes I will scan though amazon merch. If I see some design on amazon merch doing well and I cross search on etsy and don't really see that design around and I think that it will do okay on I might try it out. Other than that I do stick to etsy one big reason you can see the trends with searches with tools like everbee and erank! Having this data is so useful to see if a niche is worth your time. 2.) I usually consider niche with under 10K listings lower competition. What I have found is these tools do pull in listings showing in ads and also split tested listings. So usually 10k competition really ends up being lower than that. Since etsy is a market place and you have access to the many shoppers that use etsy every day. Nailing your SEO will help put your listings Infront of those customers. It is then up to you to have made a quality listing so that customer converts! Nothing is worst than having perfect SEO and not so great mockups. I really did enjoy doing this interview and if Cassiy ever wants me to come on to do more interviews and or live questions and answers I totally would. If I did not answer your questions as clearly as you would have liked please do mention that! I will be more than happy to elaborate even more :)
I had to favorite this video because I'm combing through all the gems you put out in this interview and taking notes. Thank you bro.
@@gnryushi you’re welcome!
When first starting your business, how did you fund the POD orders? Your interview was really informative. Thank you
@@kcusa1973 I am not sure I understand your question?
Probably THE most helpful Etsy related video I have watched. You are an inspiration Francisco.
Thank you for the kind words! I hope this pushes you! Good luck on your journey!
This interview gave me more insight now that my shopify and etsy stores are finally up and running. I've watched a hundred videos since then, but this particular one has finally knocked me out of analysis paralysis and into action. Looking forward to the followup.
Love hearing that this video has inspired you
It’s crazy that he made a general store work, not niche as we’re always being told. I still rather stick to a niche to keep me focused but it goes to show you that anything is possible if you have the right mindset.
So I did start a general store as a let me find what niches I should gear my shop to. But when it blew up and just continued to do well I thought why would I limit my shop now? 😂
Cassiy you're a true one. i never know which one the the etsy coaches who show up in my feeds to really trust but your videos have never let me down. i actually learn good information from your vids.
Loved this interview! Francisco thank you for sharing so much and Cassiy excellent as always.
So glad you enjoyed the interview, Francisco is awesome!
His attitude is so positive, very inspiring!! Wishing him all the best!
I def am a very positive person.
Started my store this year - this was so encouraging thank you 🙏 ❤
Good luck!!!!! Maybe you will be the next one in a interview! I definitely did this interview to encourage others :)
Cassiy you are absolutely one of my favorites and I’m going down this rabbit hole right now….just starting off. These interviews are so insightful. You want to help people, not just grow your brand, which should be the goal of course but you just are doing it with such genuine content. I wish you success in all its forms!
Thanks to Cisco too for all that he shared.
Really appreciate your super nice comment! I do really just want to help people succeed ❤️ this has grown into such a big passion for me!
If you told me 4 years ago that I would have my own business, let alone be teaching other people how to do it, then I wouldn’t have believed it lol life is crazy!
Wishing you all the best on your journey!
Thank you for a great interview Cassiy! Thanks to Francisco for taking the time to share his POD journey which will only serve to inspire future shop owners.
Thank you both for your practical and inspiring information - continued blessings and success! xoxo!
What a beautiful interview!!! Go Francisco!
This was so helpful Ty❤! I’m glad I saw someone say their store is more general. There’s so many that say you must focus on a niche. I have adhd I just can’t. So many ideas 😂
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Super helpful and encouraging, thank you Francisco and Cassiy!!
Awesome video! Thank you for both of you ❤
This is amazing! Congratulations and this is just the beginning :) I had a wild Q4 as well!!!
So glad to hear that!! Congrats on your success so far
@@CassiyJohnson Thank you!
Wow I would love to do that with my POD store. He was already making good money as a software engineer. My friend is a chemist and he tends to and sells plants on the side and I told him he should sell them on Etsy. This was six months ago and now this plant side hustle is doing well for him!
Hello! You can certainly do it as well :) Hard work does pay off in the end.
This was a great video and one of the most informative I have seen in the past month. I am trying to start a t-shirt business as well. You guys answered a lot of my questions. This was absolutely great!
This was awesome!! Gave me alot of motivation during a dry time for my store. I wonder what type of marketing Fransisco did outside of thank you cards and Etsy ads that worked for him.
Hello ❤️ I actually didn’t do any marketing outside of Etsy ads and thank you cards.
@@Sisco035wow thank you so much for your answer! As someone who is just starting out, it really helps to hear these things from someone like you who has already seen real success ❤❤❤❤
Oh u are an angel thank you for answering 💗
@@Guesswho-w3b you’re very welcome! I am trying to respond to everyone! ❤️❤️
@@helegisyou’re very welcome!! My biggest advice to you work work work! Don’t look too much into your numbers. My friend that inspired me to open my shop. That is advice I give him all the time. If you focus on research what are customers seeking? What type of designs are selling you can then work on providing the market value where value is needed. My other advice don’t look for that one big hit listing. The end goal is to have multiple listings selling consistent for you. Once you start to gain that momentum and you provide your customers amazing customer service you will see great success!
Thank you for sharing this type of stories Cassiy, it is so inspirational 😊
I am growing my shop and learning a lot about research, SEO, titles and all. Thanks to you I took a leap of faith to open my shop and next year (mid year) latest quit my job and work from home and be more available for my boys ❤😊 thank you!😊
I love his energy. Super proud for him. 😊
🤣🤣 this is me all day everyday ❤️
Super advise ty for sharing sisco. truly inspirational. TY Cassiy too.
That was extremely helpful. He said a couple of things that I did not even think about.
I am so glad I could add more knowledge!
What a great dude! Rooting for you my man!
Thank you!!
Congratulations Francisco 🎉 so happy and excited for you! Thank you for sharing 🙏🏽
You’re welcome!
Loved hearing from Francisco! He mentioned he had $60K in revenue this month. How much of that does he take home after business expenses?
My business expenses are pretty low I have a few subscriptions but my profit margins are between 30-35%
crazy ideas from him. really really inspiring. thank you fransisco.
So glad I could inspire you!
Awesome interview and since you are a top New seller it’s time you start your YY channel and join the gang Etsy YT’ers!! Ty Cass for another inspirational video
@@stacyosborn4537 Oh my thank you so much for the kind words! I actually have been thinking about doing that 😀Anything I can do to help the POD etsy community!
Congrats to him!!!
great and informative interview and I really love his attitude and determination. I am positively influenced. Thank you for this great content.
Such an inspiring and interesting video! Congratulations to Francisco! And thank you both for sharing!
Thanks Cassiy, your videos are so informative
Really appreciate that, thanks for watching!
Very inspiring and genuine guy! Does he have a TH-cam channel?
Thank you so much for the compliment!!!!!! Currently I don't make content BUT all of the positive feedback this video has gained is pushing me to start creating content :)
@@Sisco035 I think you should! I will be the first one to subscribe brother 😊
Loved this, he was so personable and kind hearted. Thank you so much for all the tips.
Oh my thank you for the kind words! I am just a regular guy! I love to help out when I can so glad you enjoyed. I hope these tips help’s with your business!
This was such a great video!!!! Thank you both for taking the time to share these great tips to those of us that are still researching how to be successful at this!
You're very welcome! :)
Thank you guys! Awesome inspiring video! ❤
Can I spend a couple of days with one of you guys to help my shop??? What a great interview!
Great interview! And I loved the questions you asked, Cassiy. It's helped me alot.
Thanks, Cassidy, for this info. What's the start-up cost for this business venture?
woww.. Great to see this.. Congratulations Francisco.. Are we able to use etsy mockups? Great Interview ❤❤❤❤❤❤ Thank you Cassiy and Francisco
Thank you for the kind words! If you are asking if you are able to use mock ups you buy off Etsy absolutely. I would be sure the ones you purchase accurately represented the product you are selling. For an example if you are selling Bella canvas 3001 you can’t use comfort colors mock ups or any other shirt types. I hope this helps.
Thank you very much for your reply Francisco ❤. best wishes for an amazing journey ahead ❤❤❤❤❤
@@kethmahanthage3276 you’re very welcome! I try to respond to everyone ❤️
Super super great quality video. Hoping to start implementing some of these strategies soon. May also need to reach out to you directly Cassidy in early 2025.
Very inspiring 🤗
So inspiring Sisco 🤞🏼
This was such a great interview and I love his tips! Definitely going to incorporate the Thank you cards!! Thank you and Francisco for this video!
You’re very welcome! I hope my tips can help! If you are determine I know you can do it also!
Thanks for replying. These videos are inspiring but lack credibility unless I can see the store for myself.
Totally get where you are coming from, if there wasn’t such a bad problem with stealing then we’d share his store but POD has a really bad issue with people stealing designs and ideas. I appreciate the guests coming on my channel but don’t want to put any of them in a bad position. Hope you still got some good tips and value out of his interview though!
THANK YOU Francisco! I was amazed when you said you were uploading 15-20 listings a day! I struggle to keep up with one a day😅 I wonder if you offered returns to your customers or had a strict no return policy like Cassiy does?
Hello! You’re very welcome! Yes I still to this day crank out that many listings a day. Trust me you will find a flow that works for you! I do indeed follow a strict no return policy. I do sometimes steer from this time to time depending on the situation. Sometimes you do get a very tough customer and I just take my loss and cancel those orders. I will say 9 times out of 10 I have the most amazing customers!
You are so sweet to respond. Keep crushing it!
@@CarolineWessels thank you so much! Will do! I am trying my best to respond to all!
@@Sisco035are all your items dropshipping? You upload quite alot of listings per day. If not dropshipping where do you find the space to store all them items? Thank you and well done.
@@Android1X hello! All of my products are POD so I have nothing to store! The only thing I do store away are all my designs 🤣
QUESTION: So making the designs takes time but the most important thing is doing the actual listing with description takes forever because its so important. I cant see how its possible to make more than maybe 4 or 5 listings a day.
I actually think you are making this much more complicated than it needs to be. What I do I have a description typed up and saved to my printify product. My description has all the details and questions a customer might have about that specific product. Once I publish that one hidden to my Etsy I will just duplicate that printify product which will have my pricing and description already completed. I then upload the new design and adjust the tittle if the tittle doesn’t make sense for that design. Publish that one hidden to Etsy rinse and repeat.
Let me clarify a bit when I said I have descriptions pre typed I have info the customer might have as questions like sizing, care instructions, my return policy, product description, etc. So I have a pre typed up description made for each and every product I sell. So when I am ready to post designs on say product A I just duplicate one of those in printify so all I have to do is change the tittle and upload the new design. Since the price and description were already saved to this product I can just publish this hidden to my Etsy. Make my mock ups upload those to the listing, add my tags, change the section the listing goes to. Then this one is already ready to publish. I hope these tips help you speed up your listing creation process. These tips above definitely are the bread and butter with my process of listing creation.
@@Sisco035 That reply was worth a thousand minutes of work because I am not the only one that questioned this. When videos are made in youtube often times the little things are left out which can cause a ton of pain and agony for the listener who is trying to duplicate said success. Thanks for the help and the hours of time you saved me.
@@thehandsofstone you’re very welcome! This does save so much time. Since the pricing and description are already completed. All you need to do is printify is update the title and upload the design!
Thank you!! i love these interviews 😍 so much to learn!! How do you deal with your customer service?
I rememeber you saying that at one point you would only spent 2 hours a day on etsy, while getting lots of sales… how is that possible considering more sales = more customer service? I don’t understand how people can say this is passive income. During Christmas I had some decent sales, but customer service drove me bananas 🤯 I haven’t heard any TH-camr talk about that
So from my experience customer service took a lot of time. But during busy seasons you can expect that. I would get messages about broken mugs, bad prints, and all sorts of things. What I found worked best for me is I would handle those as quickly as possible. My one strat I used is labels. You can label a message with a customer on the web version of etsy. So I would say label a message from a customer as something depending on what kind of customer service was needed. Say a customer needed a reprint I would label that message a so so I can have a running list of customers I need to provide a new tracking number. This helped me keep every customer accounted for. I seen this way easier than using a spreadsheet to keep tabs on all customers who needed help with something.
@@Sisco035thank you for sharing this! I’ve never heard anyone talk about labeling customers! How did you figure this out?
@@jmarko8720 honestly on my own! I was like what is this label thing here mean? So I tried it and I was like oh this is cool. So I made some labels for diff things like say if someone messages me about a potential custom design I can label her message as custom and it will just group all your messages together. This just made it easier for me to find and reach back out to those customers quickly
Thank you Cassiy!
Well done Francisco!!! Great interview as well. A good explanation of your experience without outing your shop. You pushed harder than most i think but still took a while to get traction... good to know. Some great tips, too. About ads, having different coupon codes to track where traffic came from, and about Hello Custom.
Thank you so much for the kind words! Oh yes I didn’t gain traction super quick but I am that person that believes I can do anything I set my mind to. I worked hard and utilized trial and error learned a lot and I continue to learn today. Super happy my tips were helpful to you. Out of this video coupon tips are super helpful. Especially if someone is trying to drive traffic through social media. Having a separate promo code for each stream of traffic is super helpful data. You can then look at the numbers and roughly see how many orders you’re getting from each stream. HelloCustom was a god sent over 4th quarter. The volume of orders I was receiving which were for simple personalization. Would have taken me hours on end to create I was able to review those in HelloCustom and click approve. 🤣 definitely worth checking out if you start to see a consistent order base each month. Definitely recommend holding off until then so you are not setting yourself behind on subscriptions.
Love all of your videos Cassiy! Thank you!
That was a great interview! I'm always curious as to how much of that is actually profit though. When he says close to 400k revenue, is that sales before the printify costs and etsy fees are taken out or after?
My profit was 30-35%
@Sisco035 okay wow, so still a decent amount of money. That's reassuring. Thanks for replying! I've been looking at starting one up. I'm about to get fired but my partner keeps telling me there's no money in it. It will be nice to prove him wrong :)
@@RivvyWritesAndMakes you’re welcome! You for sure should! There is no secret just use all those tips and tricks I provided and many others have! Find what works for your shop and push on. You can definitely prove your partner wrong 😎
Hi Cassiy, request here: when you do next week's video, please include a tutorial for the Etsy end, setting up a special coupon, etc. Thank you
Hello! I can actually explain how I set up a special coupon! What I do is on your sales and discount page you can create a promo code. You can set that promo code to whatever percent off you like. Pick dates you want that special coupon to run or you can make your coupon never end. You can then set up what listings you would like your promo code to be used with or you can set it up to run shop wide!
@@Sisco035 thank you for reply, but specifically I was wondering how the coupon codes do you send out on your Thank you cards work? Sorry I was unclear before.
@@DOCSUNRAY ah yes so how it works I have a QR code that links the customer to my shop which will auto apply the coupon code when they add a product to their shopping cart. After you make the promo code you will be given a url which has the coupon code at the end of it. So when the customer visits that url anything they add to their cart will auto apply that coupon code. Some customers just put the coupon code while in the shopping cart. There is a place in the shopping cart to apply shop coupon.
Great video! Thank you to you both!!!
Moose Tracks is my fav!
Thank you for this interview! Congratulations, Francisco! I am new, can you tell us how to create the discounts for the Thank you cards? Also how to create discounts for bundles ? Also how to make scalable designs in Canva and how to upload so many listings a day ? Thank you !
Hey there thank you for the congrats! So for my thank you cards what I did was went to my sales and discount page and created a promo code. I made the promo code for the percent off I normally run on my shop. You set the first duration date as the date your creating the code and you check the box that states no end date. I named my code something meaningful because the customer will see this promo code on my thank you card. Maybe something like THANKYOU or anything really. I than made a QR code using the promo code URL and listed my shop url on the thank you card as well. This helps me be able to look at my sales and discount codes and track how many uses I am seeing from my thank you cards. As far as scaleable designs what I found works well for me is as follows. I have a canva canvas with a template of my common scaleable designs. I can easily just make a copy of that and change out the subject in each design. There is also another way where you can use the Bulk Create canva functionality. You can look up how to use that functionality since its kind of difficult to explain. So my flow to uploading designs is as follows. I do the research gather SEO title and tags, Make my designs, Make all my mock ups for each design, in printify I make a copy of a product I made before, Change the title, Upload my design save and repeat until al designs are in printify, I publish all of them hidden to etsy, In etsy I add my tags, place them in the right section, update my shipping profiles, Upload my mock ups i made to each listing 1 at a time, then publish. So I make my listings in batches instead of doing 1 design from start of my flow to the end of my flow.
Great interview - tons of inspiring info!
What about your friends shop? Did he also see good results?
Hello, so long story short my shop blew up just out of no where. His shop was on a slower incline. I did give him advice and pretty much was his motivator. I believe his shop is sitting around 400 sales. But he is getting more consistent sales which is great to see!
just gotta keep going great video
Thank you for this interview. How can we send thank you cards through Printify? Can you please expand on this? Thanks
You just need to go turn on the package inserts option in the branding section! My video next week will be a full walk through though if you need more direction ❤️
Thank you. That was so interesting and inspiring
So glad you enjoyed the interview!!
thanks for this interview and great questions and tanks dude for the tips n tricks and experience
You're welcome! :)
Another Awesome video! Very inspiring! Loved listening to Fransisco and hope he continues with his success! Thank you cards sounds like a really good idea! Carol
Thank you so much for the well wishes! I hope this inspires your shop ❤️
This is a great video. Thank you for sharing
I have found that it's very hard to compete with other POD because they sell things so cheaply. Please tell me how in the world to compete with these sellers?
Quality, quality, quality and bloody quality.
Hello Francisco here 😎 if you provide quality designs and you are utilizing eye catching mock ups you can definitely compete.
Finding new products that are less popular and a supplier that offer them in good price. I found it incredibly helpful to pit against other sellers.
@@soon.tobemillionaire And, how would I do that? So many people say to find those that are popular and use those as examples (not to copy) but I'm afraid to make things that aren't as popular because I may be making something that won't sell.
@@Sisco035🎉
I would like to know how much of the 372, he put in his pocket
30-35% profit margin
What I want to know is How many initial listings did you have for first time and How much did you put up for investment-subscriptions to printify, marketplace platforms, Listing fees, design related apps,excluding government, legal fees etc? One thing is total Sales and one thing is total profit.
Okay so I took home 30% - 35% profit margin. I price my products in a way where my profits are after all etsy fees so that is a moot point. I paid roughly 825 dollars in business related subs for the year. And I bought probably about 100 dollars in mock ups. (I did experiments on different mock ups to help drive conversion rate) so I spent less than 1k in business expenses which I can write off on my taxes 😎
I am sorry I forgot to answer your other question when I obtained my first best seller I had around 300 listings and that was about 2 months into my shop being open. I then ramped up to well over 1000. I continue to add more and more listings day in and day out. While my older listings work for me and make me sales I have new listings being posted so they can optimize on Etsy and bring more sales in.
@@Sisco035 awesome. Thank you so much for answering. This really would help me have a realistic expectation and draw up computation. Whew! So much to do 😬
@@DemystifyingMaria you’re welcome the overhead for a POD business is rather minimal.
@@Sisco035 that's really dependent on purchasing power of one's currency vs USD. Thank you much for the tips. I'm diligently learning and studying. I want to rock this POD biz.
Wow I love his energy! 🌟
Another inspiring and informative video! Thank you!
Great story!! Hope I can get interviewed by cassiy one day, let me make some sales first 😅
The word design is used often in this conversation. I am not a designer per say. I do design to a degree but some people are actuall designers that are inticate in their drawings. That eleminiates 90% of the field.
Francisco, I loved the way you told us about your beginnings in this world... I'm curious, did you already have knowledge of design or marketing? What is your background? Congratulations for the success in your store and thank you for sharing how you achieved that success!
Hello this is an amazing question. Honestly I had no previous design or marketing experience. I honestly still surprise myself today haha. Using canva and Kittl def helps! My background is in IT so I am a Software Engineer. This video is so accurate with how I started. I was talking with a friend on the phone he mentioned something about starting a POD shop he told me the ropes. I did my own research and I dove in and we started our own shops around the same time. What helped me is just research, I cant stress that enough. If you can get your research down and you see best sellers. Figure out WHY is that a best seller. What colors are they using ? what fonts? what mock ups? I can say once I started doing such and spreading this out to different niches I started seeing upward success. The trick of the trade is you are seeing what kind of designs are selling and you can dive into designs in those niches to stand out.
It was so inspiring, thanks for sharing it with us 😊
So glad you are feeling inspired!! Thanks for watching! ❤️
Very informative interview, I have a question though. How to add thank you card to your orders when it all supposed to be done for you by Printify and Itsey ?! Thank you
So on the left side bar in printify there is a branding section. There you can turn on package inserts which are thank you cards. You will have to use a design software like canva to create a nice branded thank you card and you can upload it as a package insert. Print providers which branded inserts are available for will then auto be printed and shipped with all orders.
I've noticed there's a shortage of mockups featuring grandmother aged ladies. There are none with great grandmother models. Would be nice to have some. Maybe you could make some for your store?
This is awesome. I feel like I've hit a wall. I've sold over 100 items made $4,000 or so. But no best sellers. I have great niches, but I'm just not getting there. It's possible that my designs suck, I guess 🤦🏼♀️
Hello! I wouldn’t say your designs suck. I think in this video I did make a point to get small wins. Getting sales are great getting those reviews helps your shop credibility. Those reviews help boost your listings that do sell and over time as you repeat sell those a best seller might happen. I would continue to design and add more value to the market place and you’re bound to grow.
Hi Cassiy, thanks for all your super informative videos. Can you please do one all about shipping fees and different situations? Like when a cutomer orders more than one of the same product, etc. How do I charge for that or set that up on Etsy, etc. Thanks!
Simple. In the shipping section you have an option to add a shipping cost for additional items.
Thanks so much.
You never miss 🔥
Hello, and thank you for your valuable information! Did Francisco send physical cards, or digital ones?
Hello I sent out pretty much physical cards. I utilize most print providers which allows for branded inserts. This works wonders when a customer gifts someone one of your products. I see it as you’re expanding your customer base by only spending 10 to 15 cents.
@@Sisco035Do you do customize message cards when it is being sent as a gift directly to someone? If so, how do you do this to tell the recipient who it is from and the message from the giver?
@@jmarko8720so with branded inserts you can offer gift messages as well. So customers will usually fill out a gift message to go along with the gift. If they do so the gift message and my thank you card will both be packaged with the product.
I am absolutely inspired by his story. Thsnk you for sharing.
❤ I hope this helps you during your journey!
@Sisco035 Most definitely. I've just started mine. 40 days in. There are no sales yet, but I'm just pushing on .
@@gloriafrancis7621keep pushing on research research research. You will get there! Keep improving at designing and adding more value to the Etsy market place. 😎
Hi, Thank you both for the video is super inspirational. My question would be. For some like me that i would be starting from cero. Do you have a course you recommend to learn on how to use canvas and etsy store set up from cero???
Francisco built his biz 100% off of just free YT videos! So it absolutely can be done. I sold about 100k before I paid for any coaching myself! I did get a lot of value out of being in a coaching program like the benefit of having a community to turn to daily whenever you have a roadblock or trouble with anything so that’s why I ended up building my course!
It has lessons in all of the steps you’ll need to learn along the way along with a private community of hundreds of other sellers on the same journey as you ❤️ I host monthly live calls and release a monthly trend report as well for more support! Fransico is even joining us next Tuesday night at 6pm EST for a live Q&A session.
I will say that most people don’t pick things up as fast as Fransico though, his buddy that started at the same time for example has only sold a couple hundred items instead of thousands like him. So for some people they do really need the more step by step guide to break through and get to where Francisco is!
If you want more details, check out my website at Cassiyjohnson.com
And maybe Fransico will comment and share his thoughts as well ❤️
I fully agree with what Cassiy!! You could get by with watching free videos like I did. BUT I do feel like most people benefit from courses like this especially to be able to connect with others on the same path. My journey wasn’t easy by no means. But if I had a community I could have fell back on and had that reassurance my journey might have been even more smooth! I do pick up things quickly and I am not scared of change and adapting. That could also be why my shop has grow as quickly as it has.
Thanks!!!!🙏
Hi Cassiy! I love your content! It has helped me a lot but I think I still need more structure that's why I want to take your course. I see that on the roadmap there is information for 2020 and 2021. Does it really apply to today?
Totally understand how you feel, there is just so much to learn! My course is actually fairly new and has only been out for 10 months so everything in it is going to absolutely apply to what you need to know to be successful on Etsy in 2024! I’m also updating things to the course all the time and provide monthly trend reports that are an hour long that cover what is currently selling on Etsy right now, some ideas of ways you can add value and then what you should be designing for 2-3 months out to be ahead of the pack 💪
♥@@CassiyJohnson thank you!
I really wanted to start an Etsy business so badly but I did a ton of research and all the videos of people crying and bewildered after having their shops shut down terrified me. I don’t trust that platform now. I feel so much for people who were going along making a substantial income, growing by leaps and bounds and in an instant their living vanished. Same thing with kdp. Making $10,000 a month then their whole business is gone.
So here is my take here. Most of those videos of peoples shops being shut down are usually due to the shop owners. If you steer clear of IP related issues and you follow the guidelines of what can be posted you will be fine. If your a pod shop follow the rules list your print providers, use mock ups that represent your product, do trademark checks and you will be fine :). Etsy by far is the best marketplace to have a shop. That doesnt mean I havent launched a shopify store as well ;)
Yes what he said ^. You can always find a negative side of anything you search for on the internet. If you really want to give it an honest try you just have to put your blinders on to those videos and push forward (and follow the rules)! 🎉❤
Yeah they only shut you down for plagiarizing designs and content and copyright issues. If you don’t do that you’ll be fine. Not like Amazon where the can shut you down for nothing or more specifically competing with Amazon.
Thanks to you and Francisco. This is an on time and great video for me.
Question: If I heard correctly, both Everbee and Erank were mentioned as research tools.
Do you both use both of these tools? What's the difference? Do I need to invest in both?
Please reply asap.
Thanks again 😊
Hello replying as quickly as I could 🤣 I do use both. I would say they both have great qualities for researching. For your needs I would really try one or the other. I recommend doing some research into both and seeing which one you would like to try using. Reason I say this so you are not putting your self in the hole by subscribing to many things before pulling profits.
@@Sisco035 Thanks for the response. So which do you recommend initially for someone just starting and not making profits? Once the profit generates I'll add the other.
@@elliswashington1149 so in my opinion everbee is very user friendly. With a chrome extension and a subscription you can do all the research you need. So I would probably suggest that one!
Thanks for the video awesome tips❤
Etsy suspended my account immediately after I set up my store, then when I appealed they sent a message that it was permanent and couldn’t be discussed anymore. No email explanation at all. Not how I wanted to start out. Anyone else have this happen?
What were you selling?
Where you using a VPN?
Congratulations! I wish I could figure out what I’m doing wrong.
This is usually the hardest part of the POD journey. One thing I will say in order to be successful you need to be able to narrow down the problems. One tip if you are not seeing success breath and take it one step at a time. My advice change one thing and one thing only at a time and see if you start seeing upward trends. When I say one thing I mean maybe use a different main mock up image. Maybe research and get brand new mock ups and do some split testing. Copy some listings and post them with new images. If you don’t see much traction there then move on and try to make a different change.
@@Sisco035 Thank you so much. I appreciate your reply and will do your advice.
@@GIVEMEGRACELIFESTYLEyou’re welcome! I hear it all the time when people reach out about these very questions. Some people try to change to many variables at a time. By doing this you won’t know what actually did the trick or not 😂
Loved this video!
Do I make different stores for different niches or all in one store?
This is up to the seller but I can say my shop is a all around general store. since most people use the etsy search when shopping having multiple niches inside one shop can be beneficial
Hey Cassiy! Love your channel, I'm new to creating journals and want to sell them on Etsy, wanted to know if you had any tips on testing your products and ordering one to make sure quality is good before listing? Thanks!
I have done sample orders before. You can make a product and just make a custom order and ship it to yourself to see if its something you would want to add to your shop as products you offer :)
Thank you I appreciate your help! Blessings!@@Sisco035
Great interview!!! So what is “Hello Custom”?
Hello! HelloCustom is a paid service where you can automate personalizing orders. There is some set up involved but here is a rough sketch of how it work’s. You have a listing that is to personalize a EST year for say a nurse shirt. When the customer orders and places the year in the personalization box HelloCustoms will pick that order up. You can then login to your HelloCustoms and you have the ability so review all your personalized orders in your approval queue. You just make sure the software personalized your orders correctly and you just click approve. Once you hit approve it will send that personalized design to printify add it to that product and attach it to that customers order. This helped me drastically during Christmas time when I was recieving 40-100 personalized orders a day.
I use both the Bella Canvas 3001 and the Gilden 18500 for hoodies. Which brand/model is a go to for sweatshirts?
The Gildan 18000
I started using inserts in my packaging, and I noticed a steady increase in customers leaving reviews.
That is amazing!!!!! Those reviews you are getting now will for sure help boost your sales in the future. You are establishing a credible store which really does help with conversion rate.
How do you include inserts when you do print on demand?
Hey Cassiy, how many Etsy storefronts do you currently own and operate?
I currently own and operate two Etsy stores, my newer POD store that I started last year and my mockup store where I sell digital downloads! My first Etsy store got leaked and was getting tons of views everyday of people just stalking my shop so I decided to shut it down as I had been putting time into my new store anyways.
For a brand new seller, how many products do you recommend lanuching?
I’d say in your first month I would have a goal of 50-100 but I would probably just stick to one product type until you start to get some consistent sales so that you can learn that one really well.
Then overall for your first year, if you want to have results anything like Francisco’s then I would recommend trying to get up to 1000-2000 listings. So this will look like consistently making around 5 listings every single day!
@@CassiyJohnson wow- that's in credible. I can't even think of that many products I use. But great info, I love all your videos. So informative.
awesome video!!!
Unfortunately the true details are never spoken on. What specific niches? What were those keywords? Thanks for the imput on the thank you cards.
So I don't share specific niches and or keywords. What I can say with proper research tools and the drive you could find those hidden gem niches. One big reason why I don't share those niches people would become reliant on others to direct you on what niches to design for. You will always be behind the curve if that is the case. So I do encourage you to spend a day or two just strictly doing research.
I was just wondering about your road map program . Do you really personally answer questions and communicate to ppl in it?
Yes I personally answer all questions that I'm tagged in within the community and am in it daily other than the weekends I usually take off. I also do live calls monthly and answer questions on there as well!
@@CassiyJohnson great! I just wanted to make sure it’s what I thought it was before I spent money on it. It will
Prob not be until may ( it will be my birthday gift) because I’m getting my daughter set up for college right now n we are having to travel out of state a lot but I’m excited to get hit for my birthday In may and with my youngest going off to college I’m going to have more time to work on my Etsy shop and need a lot of questions answered lol ok talk to you then😁
Congrats to your daughter on her new journey! I look forward to you growing your business and I am happy to help when you're ready
@@CassiyJohnson ty for everything . Just your videos alone got me to open it and for me that’s a lot I’m so bad with computer stuff. I watched your video of taxes and had mine don on Saturday and because of what u said I brought my bank stuff wrote off my subscriptions and my computer and Etsy stuff. I wasn’t sure it would work for me but u were so right. She also told me when u buy your program I can write that off also and I asked a lot of questions I never thought I would be asking. So ty again n I can’t wait til mid May when I get to learn even more from you and your program😊💜
I am so glad that my videos made everything just a little bit easier for you