Why you're not making sales on Etsy and what you need to change to get more sales.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ต.ค. 2024
- Selling on Etsy for beginners (or non-beginners) can be hard, but what's harder is hearing the truth about why you might not be making sales. Admitting this to yourself is the first step in getting over your roadblocks.
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I felt so attacked when you said "not go on TH-cam to look at cat videos" !! But it's cats Kara! How can I say no to the cat videos? 😅🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
LOL. IKR? She just called me out also.
Hey, these are things I have to tell myself too.
Love your new hairdo! But especially LOVE your faster, more concentrated, and more professionally edited conversation. Less wasting of time, straight to the point. You are in the right direction!
Thanks, I appreciate that!
Love this video right on target for my Etsy shop. Need to list list list.
Me too.
I literaly made one more new listing while listening to this video. Thanks so much! 🙏
Thank you for this! I have been hitting a wall every time I try to list my products and I don’t know why I lose motivation to put in the work. I have all of my products and photos for my listings finished yet I seem to get stuck when it comes to doing the descriptions and SEO/tags. I keep changing my photos and the look of my shop because I want it to be perfect. It may just be an underlying personal issue with being afraid to fail that’s stopping me - but this video helped me get in the mindset of just putting my head down and getting it done! Thank you for sharing all of your great and REAL knowledge of Etsy. I get so overwhelmed with all of the fluff and crazy “must dos” that others talk about in Etsy videos and I appreciate your simplistic view of how to create a successful shop.
Can you do a video about how you stay motivated and inspired and what your work day looks like?
I don't know that it would be helpful to see my day...I did that in another video a while back, but basically I work and try not to waste time. And if I do waste time, I don't beat myself up for it, I just get back to work.
Ah yes the human nature of enjoying things and procrastination lol.
For me, I struggle with bookkeeping and listing new things. I make the product, do the keyword research make a draft page and then idk I procrastinate on staging and editing photos. It’s so tedious and such a process! I like it, but it takes so long. I always struggle at the end of the marathon I get there and see the finish line, but drag myself to get there lol! I’m not sure what it is but I’ve always been like this even when I was in school I’d have no problem starting and getting things like 85% done and then just get frustrated with it.
When I started my shop last year, I was pushing myself too much too soon and it actually caused me to procrastinate more because I was overwhelmed and burned out with my full time job and the pandemic. I ended up taking a break for a few months after the holidays and scaling back. It helped me get my mojo and creativity back too.
What’s also helped me is to journal and make an agenda for the day or month. I prioritize 3 big things that need to get done then smaller things. I also turn on lofi or podcasts about business or art, I find if I make my environment feel more professional then I’ll act that way for some time. If I watch videos it’s usually streams of people working in their own shop in the background. Idk what it is but it’s like if I’m at a gym or see someone cleaning or eating healthy, it motivates me to get off my butt and do it too.
I also learned to optimize my time by working with what my brain prefers. I’m more productive first thing in the morning versus later in the day because then I’m worrying about dinner and other things. If I work at night I’m too stimulated and can’t sleep.
Your callouts actually reminded me that before I go on vacation I really need to back up my shop photos and such to my cloud and hard drive. I’ve been meaning to do that, but have neglected to do it… along with adding some current expenses to my quick books. You would think I’d learn last year when I did it all in January during tax season lol, but I just haven’t wanted to which is stupid because everything took me at most 3-4 hours on the weekend. 🤦🏻♀️ I’m going to write that in for this weekend to do list.
We totally need to hold ourselves accountable, but I think we also need to remember to give ourselves breaks and time away from making and selling. I get it’s some sellers only income, but for me the constant grind for months drove me to procrastinate more and well fall behind!
Definitely holding ourselves accountable, but not beating ourselves up when the cat videos were too tempting.
@@KaraBuntin right? It’s all about balance.
This basically sums me up. So glad we're all feeling it. There is comfort in the shared procrastination!
Don't get comfortable with it, though! Go do something!
I do tell people I am "addicted to Etsy", but only with certain things that I like to do within Etsy, like filling orders and taking and editing photos for new listings, which will remain as draft listings for a while until I get around to researching keywords and double checking the dimension and other details. This video is a good reminder for me to get busy listing new items in my second supplies (destash) shop!
I apparently will be listing things in my vintage shop next week since I wrote it in my planner...I'll watch this again then to yell at myself to do it.
@@KaraBuntin Haha! Hope it works. I was just telling my 20 year old son that when you are an adult you have to "parent yourself", meaning since no parent is telling you what to do or not do, you have to learn to tell yourself.
And we know your planner tells you what you need to be doing.
Thanks for the reminder. I'm a pro when it gets to start, but it helps a lot to be reminded of the neccessitiy keep going. It's like you're cheering my marathon from the sideline. Soooo helpful, thank you!
Thanks for watching!
I'm doing that just now lol, it's 9am time to close off social media and get those listings done, enjoy and appreciate your work Kara
"Avoid the dopamine hits" was some basic good advice I heard recently. It's harder to do it than to say it, though.
Laughed out loud at your opening, Kara. Funny how we all share the same struggle to list. Very good advice, thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is the kick in the behind that I needed. I literally paused this and went and added my 2 new listings. In my other shop I have 10 more listings I need to add. ughhhh
Get to work! :)
I need to hear this today! Just published one of the listing in my draft. Thanks, Kara!
You're so welcome!
I feel like this is directed at me...THANK YOU! I needed this!
If people are honest, everyone needs this reminder, myself included!
I wish that we could make a listing for draft without photos, or with photos and no wordage. Some days I can write a pretty good description but not be able to take a decent photo and vice versa. I think I have 50+ items in draft mode, just waiting for the thing to become Etsy vintage or for the lighting to be right to get proper colors.
I love the thing about waiting for it to become vintage.
@@KaraBuntin I have a Lucy Liu doll that just became vintage. She is beautiful 😍
This was a great video and one I definitely needed to hear. I am very bad at procrastinating. It also takes me 2 hours to look up seo for my listings. I am going to try just 10-15 minutes. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Sage advice, thanks Kara! Now back to watching cat videos.... oh wait, no. Time to photograph new listings. Got it!
Have fun!
Thank you for this! The most sensible video I've found to get me started.
Glad it was helpful!
Great advice, it's good to hear the reminders!
Thanks for watching!
Thank you. I’m learning a lot from you 😀
I'm so glad!
I needed to hear this! Just get it done!
yes, it's the basics.
Thanks for the push!
Any time!
Kara acting, love it 😂
It's only going to get worse!
@@KaraBuntin I enjoyed it and the advice.
Thank you for sharing. When I list items in my Etsy shop I make the deal with myself to list an "old" photographed one and then I can do a "newly" photographed one. That works for me. This year I have a goal to list minimum 20 items each week. That's just 3 a day. I get better and better at it. Most weeks I succeed, but not all. The goal should be a bit hard to hit, right?
I don't know about the goal being hard to hit, but if you have a goal and don't get to it, the important thing is to just get back at it and not look at it as a complete and utter failure. It's just a temporary delay.
Great Advice, Kara... but I do LOVE cat videos!
Me too!
Hi 👋
I’m kind of new to Etsy (well I had one then closed it waited a few years, tried again, failed and now I’m back at it again 😁
I make handmade vegan Watercolor paints and original artwork. I’m a seller from France.
Ive had 2 sales in 5 months. Erank rated me at A for my SEO…… I’m feeling a bit frustrated at not knowing what else to do. I’ve updated my photos….. re typed titles and tags and description.
Thank you for any extra advice you can give 🙏😊 will be going through your videos again.
Don't pay attention to the tools at first, use your stats on Etsy. The grades that they give you aren't given by Etsy so they don't mean a lot. They're just there to let you know if you need to check something or not All of my listings have a B grade or lower on purpose!
@@KaraBuntin hi 👋 thank you 😊 I use the grade as a guide but particularly because of the keyword saturation tool. If I use for example ”handmade watercolors” as a keyword it’s totally saturated search term.
Here's one way to write a decent description: Pretend you are describing it over the phone to a relative so they could find it on a shelf. Pretend you show them the item and ask them, "What is this"? "What is it for?" "What occasion?"
Don't overthink it.
Good tips.
Is it a good idea to pay a web engineer to drive traffic to your store? I don't know how they do it, or where they get the traffic . . . It's not expensive but I haven't heard it its effective. What are your thoughts?
Absolutely not. If you start letting people do shady things to drive traffic, Google will find out eventually and that can wreck your site.
Thanks , you're a great teacher 🍀
Thank you! 😃
what is the focus app you are using that you showed briefly?
That’s on my computer, it’s a windows app.
Thank you Kara!
Any time!
Good reminders! 😃
Thanks!
Great info...very relevant.
Glad you liked it
Thx for those great advices !
I started my shop about 2 month ago, I got 4 sales from friends and family, and 1 sale from someone I have no connexion with. I get 5 to 10 visits a day on my shop, but what drives me crazy is that more than 80% of the trafic comes from google... And almost none from etsy search. What I sell doesn't have much competition on etsy, so I wonder why my shop doesn't show up in etsy search while my listings are often in the top 3 organic search results in google shopping, same for google shopping ads. I didn't focus on building google SEO at all, in fact, I tried to follow your valuable advices for etsy SEO. Any ideas ? Maybe I should build my own website... I don't know really.
Build your own website. If there's so little competition that you're being found on Google that easily, it would be good to do that.
@@KaraBuntin Thx I'll try to see if there are some great ways to start out on a low budget (wanted to try webflow, 12$/month, idk if it's worth it, I want to have some sales first to cover that cost 😂 !)
Hi, I am a graphic designer. I decided to open my Etsy and submitted the form for verification. Yesterday they called me and asked about my shop and I answered. Then they told me that they will get in contact. Till now my shop is not in active mode. Can you please tell me?
I don’t know anything about that, sorry. Usually you just open the shop, I’ve never heard of them calling for verification of anything.
thank you so much
You're welcome!
Thanks
Thanks for watching
Do Etsy publish sales volumes? I get the impression it's not good, I appreciate the effort you and others put in, but to be honest I think I would lose the will to live trying it out!
They make a ton of sales and a ton of money overall, but the average Etsy seller makes a little less than $3000 a year, according to a statement they made at one point by accident (probably.) You have to take into account that that's an average, which is a terrible way to measure anything because one outlier will drag the number way up or down. I personally make around $100K on Etsy for the past 3 or 4 years, but that's after being on the platform for 10 years and actually treating it like it's a job. A lot of people do it part time so their income isn't going to be as high, and that will lower the averages too. The people in my EShop program tend to increase their incomes after joining, but some of that is the fact that if they join my program they're not looking for easy tips and tricks and shortcuts, they want to run an online business the sustainable way. But it is possible to make Etsy and selling online a full-time business if you do the work.
I understand what you are saying. But in reality, if we only worked when we felt like it, we would never be successful.
Well, that's what I said in the video, so I agree.
Not me watching this video and putting off my draft listings 👀
At least it's not cat videos
New subbie. What is “marmalead”(sp?)
Marmalead is an Etsy SEO keyword research tool.
Don't worry about dripping listings in any more? I'm trying to add 200 more, so I've been adding two a day.
Just add them in, people can't buy them if they're not listed. The dripping them in thing never made any sense.
People that have stuff to list and dont list or leave it in draft, must be so comfortable and have enough money that they dont really need etsy🙂
My main shop is a full time income, so that's why I don't feel the incentive to list other things. But I guarantee you that if it's not listing things, there's something else that people don't do because they don't like doing it, it isn't just listing things.
With a vintage shop it’s all about listing “new” items. As all are OOAK it does take up a lot of my time. So it’s not that I don’t “need” Etsy I just have a constant high flow of items.
Omg, Im taking hours for one listing making sure everything is perfect. 😫
Nah, there's never anythingthat's perfect because things can always be changed, and things always change!