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- In this video, I’m breaking down exactly how my brand-new print-on-demand shop hit over $91,000 in sales in just October and November. 🤯✨ I’m sharing what worked, the strategies I used to scale so quickly, and the products that took off. If you’re curious about what’s possible with a print-on-demand shop, this video is for you.
Let me know in the comments what you think of this video, and if you have any questions about scaling your own POD business-I’d love to hear from you! 💬👇
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So inspiring! Me over here being excited that I have 32 orders this month so far in my new shop, 2.5 months old 😬
32 orders in a brand-new shop in just 2.5 months is an incredible achievement-seriously, that’s something to be proud of. Everyone’s journey looks different, and those early wins are such a huge part of building something amazing. You’re clearly on the right track, and the progress you’re making now is laying the foundation for even bigger things ahead. Keep going-you’re doing great!
@ thank you! This is my second shop and I got sales way faster than my 1st shop. My 1st shop has 161 sales and is more niche specific, while my new shop is more general! Took about 6 months to get things going in my first shop and my second shop saw sales the first month! 73 total in my new one in 2.5 months!
Wow nice job! If you don't mind how many listings you've got? I've had my shop for 2 months and i have got 5 orders to this day
@ I have 200 listings in both of my shops.
@ChrisLKFme too😢
i genuinely mean this when i say this.
this is the only video i’ve watched that has actually made sense and has helped me
So amazing to see, Taylor! One thing to take into account, and may be good to remember for planning and boosting your other stores for next year: The time period. You launched in October, just before the holiday rush and it looks like your sales increased dramatically around the later part of Nov. This is no coincidence. I'm a graphic designer for an ecom team at a global retailer with a surprisingly cultish following. The week of Black Friday/Cyber Monday always crushes it in sales for us in comparison to the rest of the FY. Definitely experiment with running some holiday-specific ads /sales for this year's season. I'll bet you'll absolutely soar from 2024's metrics.
wait..did i just find a useful and legit video about growing your etsy store?!? haha! this is solid advice, i feel that anyone could benefit from this because it's about strategy rather than "what product to sell" (which is still fun to know but not always helpful). your advice about advertising is so true. i noticed sellers complain a lot about etsy ads and fees..but if you've ever had your own shop, like a shopify or something you know how much work it is to gain traffic and attract customers, it's likely that you will have to spend money or time generating those leads to your shop, customers are not just going to magically appear. etsy's benefit is that if you use it properly with strategy, you can take advantage of all the traffic and data etsy has. obviously etsy is not perfect but it's actually a lot easier than trying to do it on your own (having tried both).
Yes 100%, even Esty is investing heavily into ads to bring in buyers and sellers. Sellers don't realize that because most take Etsy as a hobby.
I tried a general POD strategy and after 6 months of chasing trends and evergreens and more than 500 designs later I had nothing to show for it. Sales trickling in at a rate that would make you weep and didn't even cover the costs of the various subscriptions I had. I then saw this video and it made so much sense to me. I could design for a niche that I love and make money at the same time. Here I am, a month later and I still have nothing to show for it! I'm just not cut out for this business. 🤷🏽♂️
I started this thing where I run ads for a little bit, and then I look into my detail statser my title or keywords based on how people are finding me, and adjust eith and then I turn them off. It helped me really well with atleast 2 products in my store.
It’s kinda wild how future woman CEOs are only scratching the surface and don’t take the time to read Girl Boss Hustle: Earn 10k from home. Get out of the rabbit hole.
lol
What’s your cats name??!
Tnx for the transparency of all the costs. Not many PoD youtubers do so and they like to hide the numbers... earned new sub from me!
The fact that you made my entire student debt in profit in one month... OK how do I ACTUALLY do this in 2025?! 😅
You dont, its not a rule its an exception.
Teachers LOVE a good t-shirt, and I realized I could turn that into a side gig. I usor hilarious teacher-themed designs, grabbed a Cricut printer off Amazon, and started selling them to colleagues. It began as a joke, but now I’m selling to teachers across the district and even funding classroom supplies with the profits. If you're in education, this is a fantastic side hustle!ed Crafted Threads f
I ❤ this
I am OBSESSED with this video, Taylor!! I've been following your journey since the very beginning and find your super inspirational and motivates me in my own POD journey, as I started my shop in 2024. Congratulations on the success on this new shop and can't wait to see how it grows!
Finally really interesting video about Etsy shop in my feed. Thank you so much for sharing and inspiration ❤
Congratulations Taylor! So happy for you! And yes, this was quite inspiring and I have several notes to follow up on. I hope you have a blessed week!
Thank you so much! 🥰 I’m so glad you found it inspiring-and I love that you’re taking notes! Wishing you an amazing and productive week too! 💕✨
Wow I needed this type of breakdown so bad! So many questions answered through this well thought out and explained video!
I thought about doing this at the end of 2023 and was discouraged because it wasn't niche enough and too many competitors. I feel validated now🤭 Not the same products but same idea for store. Congrats on your success!! 💛💛😊😊
Thank you so much! 💖 Honestly, the niche and competition stuff can feel overwhelming, but taking action is what really matters.
Love love love these super helpful talking points and your overall video style (chill and to the point!). Subscribed!
Congratulations Taylor! 🎉🎉🎉 Such an amazing story! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much! 🥰🎉
That's absolutely AMAZING Taylor! Job well done, you ROCK girl!!!
Ahh thank you!! 🥹✨ You're the best-your support means everything! 💕
so informative video specially when you provide screenshots along with. Thank you Taylor :)
Wow amazing 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 I’m a new shop and pretty much just trying to figure this out and see what works! I got 85 orders this past month 😅 Praying to get on your level one day!!
Do you sell POD? I have a digital product store with 1300 sold items and over 200 reviews. I'm thinking of including POD products, but I'm not sure if that's a good idea
@@keyboardwarrior6661 That’s awesome!! Yes I sell POD, but I love the idea of digital products because you don’t have to pay a 3rd party for printing and shipping and you just get to collect the profits. You could try it out and see if you like it
impressive - well done, looking forward to future updates on this store!
Thank you so much!
Awesome!!! I may have to watch this a second time. So many good nuggets of information.
Thank you!! 🙌 So glad you found it helpful!
Really nice transparency. Great video 👌
Thank you! 😊 I’m glad you enjoyed it-I always try to keep it real!
What sucks is like how I had ads that amounted to around 100 orders so I made 100 orders for Etsy.. so Etsy can make all my money. Etsy shouldn’t charge us so much for advertising on THEIR website when they’re already making enough off every other charge.
Ues. Afs will cost money. How much were ads? How many days did you run ads for? You don’t need ads for every item either. I’ve used ads and think it takes time due to all the other ads running.
@ It was pretty much for one item that was selling really good. I kept increasing the ad budget and it was selling a lot more than I was spending on the ad but then sells stopped but it kept pegging out that $50 😂 I sold $2000 worth of items and spent $1000 on ads so that’s where I was like “we’re getting screwed here”. $1000 worth of time and effort all went to Etsy so that’s where I could make $1000. There’s 2 ways of looking at it tho. I could have not sold anything 🤷🏻♀️
We'll, greed 🤑 has NO limits! 🤢🤷
@ Right! What Etsy should do is say “Hey, we will just take 60% of your money and advertise for ya”
I was with Etsy when they began. What I've noticed is the the fees go up everytime they add more celebrities to their site. These celebrities aren't "curating collections" for free. The sellers are paying for them.
Really appreciate you putting it out there! Fantastic video.
The way you capture moments is so beautiful. 😍
Hi Taylor, thanks for the video it really does help. I have been off and on for Etsy selling since July, and I have yet to see any real data for me yet. Hopefully with your recommendations that will turn around for me! Thanks again for the recommendations. Please keep posting, so I know how to improve my Etsy side hustle.
Absolutely spot on! Can’t wait to test it out.
very motivating!
Hi Taylor,
I'm a new Etsy seller and started in July. After trial and error, my revenue shot up to $13k in November, and I've been consistently making $1k daily for the past two weeks. I've raised prices by 40% to slow orders, but I’m struggling to cover upfront costs since Etsy payouts are delayed. Any advice on this? Could raising prices this much hurt my shop?
You can change your Etsy payouts to daily instead of weekly, if you haven't done so already. Raise your prices slightly and you will likely still get sales, maybe not quite as many but you'll at least be making a bit more. (I've been an Etsy seller for 10yrs) Best of luck!
Hi there! First off, congrats on your amazing growth-$13k in November and $1k daily is incredible! 🎉👏 The advice from the other comment is spot-on-switching your Etsy payouts to daily (if you haven’t already) can definitely help with cash flow.
On top of that, using a business credit card is often a great solution for busy shops like yours. The credit limit gives you a bit more flexibility to cover upfront costs. If you’re already using a business credit card and are hitting your limit, I’d recommend reaching out to your card provider. Explain your situation and ask for a limit increase-it’s pretty common for businesses experiencing rapid growth to need more room. You’re doing amazing-keep it up!
This is SO inspiring, wow!
Hi! I'm Jeff,
I have the exact same problem. I've started my Etsy shop the last week of September 2024 and made my first sale within a week. Sales were going great, but since December it has skyrocketed to now having 50-60 orders daily, meaning I'm paying a lot of costs upfront and my 'available for deposit' stays on 0$. I was paid for november sales the 2nd of December ($700 of the 3k net profit I made that month), but there is $11k+ in current balance and somehow it is not getting ready for deposit. I have my pay out set up weekly, but I did not receive a pay out this week since there is $0 to deposit as of now. I called with Etsy support but that didn't help. When I check my CSV from mid November sales, it said "funds will be available 9th of December', but they are not available. Now when I check again it says they will be avaialble on 10th of December, and like this it keeps going on...
Do you have any idea what to do? Is this normal? I'm making a lot of profit but somehow it is not getting to my bank account which I need to keep selling to more customers. I'm already raising my prices slightly because I'll be having a huge cash flow problem in 1-2 weeks, especially during the holiday season and this was perfect to get loads of orders and reviews to continue to build my store. Also it is just very scary to me that I'm dumping all my money into products to sell to customers and that it just keeps sitting there without me getting a hold of it.
I am having this SAME problem. Contacted etsy and they have a 90 day reserve period for new sellers that make it so you have to wait almost 45 days to get money from a previous purchase. I’ve just had to invest in new credit cards but unfortunately my Etsy shop growth is very limited to my credit limits. I’m hopeful once the reserve period gets lifted after 90 days payouts will be much much quicker.
Appreciate all the details you’ve shared!
We just opened a shop advertised too! Got 5 sales in one day
Yay! Been waiting! I know you’re a busy woman!
Ahh thank you for your patience! 🥹💕 I’m so glad you’re here-busy, yes, but always excited to share with you all!
Gosh this was so inspiring
I’m curious, how did you get your customers to buy multiple items? Did you have a whole collection in one listing? Great video, thanks for sharing!!
Great question, thank you! 😊 For this shop, I’ve been organizing sections by specific events so when customers visit the storefront, everything they need is right there in front of them. I also like to include a listing image that highlights other related products-they’re more likely to grab a few things when they see how it all ties together!
@@TaylorPOD How do you get listing images with different products? I have been struggling with the thumbnails and mock ups. Where do you find professional looking ones from?
@@TaylorPOD Thank you!
Came from upvote. You're doing great! Keep going!
Wow. Thank you very much for sharing such valuable and inspiring info. Congrats on your success, too 🎉
I have a hard time with creating a workflow for creating the title, descriptions, and tags. Can you do a video going through your process of how you do that efficiently? Do you have templates that you copy and paste? Do you use some of the same tags?
We’re your products personalized? and if so how did you keep up with the order volume. Also in my own personal experience once my shop scales quickly I don’t have the means to upfront the money to printify for the first week or so. How did you front the $40,000? Loved this content please do more like this !
Same and I'd also like to know!
I see she hasnt answered
I also sell on demand via Etsy, and although I don’t make as much as $40k, there are weeks when I earn around $300. I cover the production costs using previous sales I’ve made through Etsy. Try setting aside a certain amount of money to fund your orders and then recoup it once you’ve been paid. I believe there’s also an option to access your funds earlier once you’ve reached the minimum threshold to avoid the extra $2 transaction fee.
I’ve been trying to learn and I’m confused on POD. It seems printify charges so much for, say a hoodie, that by the time you would post it in your Etsy shop, they take their cut, you’d never make profit?! Help!
Are buying PNG images good ? Or is it better to buy mockups and make more unique designs
Great question. Time is money so I look at it as I can buy a $3 png or I can spend an hour making one. I've done both. Also depends on your skill level.
I can just hug you! I am just getting up and running with Etsy. Thanks for kindly sharing theses gems❣
Aw, thank you so much! I’m so glad you found it helpful. 😊
Happy for your success. What worries me about Etsy is that I have seen too many heartbreaking stories lately of shops being suspended or closed for no reason. Etsy makes the rules, which dictates how much I need to charge so I can pay all the fees, whether I need to offer free shipping, where in the sea of thousands my shop will show up, etc. I wouldn’t own it. Whereas I would own my shop if it was my website. I understand people start there because of traffic. But how scary! I don’t need to put in a ton of effort and time for the risk of running into such headaches. As an experienced seller there, I’d love to know your thoughts. Is this fear legit?
No. I have a big building and 5 employees relying only on Etsy. The only thing that’s scary is sometimes listings will disappear forever and they’ll claim it’s spam because their bots have found the same images on other sites. Duh some of those items I sell on eBay too. They’ll be good to you if you’re making them money.
Grateful for you and all your efforts.
But what are you even selling?? Like notebooks or something? I'm really confused about all this, it just seems so vague. I know you don't want to give away what your doing b/c competition, but I'm confused. Also, do you design the stuff yourself or what is on this stuff you're selling. All the videos like yours draw people in with the big $$$ but there isn't a lot of other info to go from. It would be great if we could hear more details and actually get a better idea of what's actually going on.
I feel like I couldn’t have been more clear, lol. In the video, I shared that I got started by selling signs for events, and the whole shop is themed around events. I even gave examples of the types of events right there in the video.
A full deep dive into every single detail of print on demand would be wildly long, but if you’re confused about the process, I’d recommend checking out the 100+ other videos on my channel-I really do break everything down throughout them. 😊 Hope that helps!
Great video!! But one question: Does that mean you had to pay 75.000 $ in advance? Since Etsy pays only about 3 weeks after the money was received from the buyer.
Would really appreciate an answer, or maybe a video how to manage the upfront costs with the 3 week time delay of Etsy. My shop is starting to take off a little and I have to pay so much upfront… that’s something nobody tells you about :/
Most sellers use a cash back credit card. You have approximately 30 days to pay the balance and by then Etsy has paid you.
@@BoxerlovinMama Ah I see. Thanks for the info!
Great content! I learned something new today!
Were your products personalized at all, i would be afraid I couldn’t keep up with the demand to get that much volume in a month!
How did you manage to keep up?
Thank you for this awesome video.
Great info and video! Thank you for sharing
Hi 🎉 thank you for making this 😊 im so excited to get started 😁
This was incredibly useful, thanks a lot!
So grid abd motivating, thank you Taylor.
So far, I'm getting good visit to view ratio, but no sales. I'll keep working on it. Good advice here.
I'm new to POD, can I ask, is your success is pushed by ads and then creating more products on listings that are doing well? Sorry for the silly question, I'm genuinely trying to learn what works...I'm brand new and haven't even added 1 product yet, so lots to learn.❤
OmG I love Riga !! So beautiful
Hello Taylor thank you for sharing and encouraging us. I have a question about having the funds to cover the printify costs when sales grow this fast. Did you have to have at least $20000 available funds to make sure you could pay printify so that the product would be shipped? Thanks
Hi Taylor - I think I started my Etsy shop about the same time as you - I am going into my 3rd year in Jan - have had moderate success - about 8k sales and about 220K in revenue. I also started a 2nd shop in September but on Shopify. I do a general store but I mainly have one main niche that is broken down into categories as well as a few other niches. My question is - would your community program help someone like me learn how to grow my shopify store or are you primarily teaching Etsy? And is this primarily for people just starting? Thank you so much - great video!!
What do you sell¿
@@TrishhMakes Shirts, Hoodies, sweatshirts
@@cindyleinwand5062 Can you help me just a bit? Im in the POD space. 550ish listings; branded sizing chart and other stuff. Unique-ish designs. Ads running. 103 sales almost 20 reviews. Im running sales and have multiple repeat 2x and 3x customers. High quality proven mockups, etc. Shop open since late Jan. Im spread across many niches almost like a general store. There's a disconnect here. Everything looks nice clean and professional etc.
Doesn’t Etsy charge you shipping when the sale is made? So example, if you sell 100 items that’s shipping cost $x100 coming out of your bank account if you have that available before you have earned anything from said sale? Just want to ensure I understand Etsy correctly! Thank you for sharing and great job on your shop growth!
Love your videos!
This was super informative. Thank you! Typing this mid-video but how much did you use for the first round of ads?
But where is your etsy??? I would love to see it . Someone knows if she actually has one ?
So I was really happy hearing you have success from ads. So I tried it. Basically I’m getting a lot more views. I have 116 right now. But no clicks. Does this mean my thumbnails are bad or is it something else?
I would suggest changing your pictures
Very inspiring!
I started my etsy shop, i have views and clicks, on was favourite in less than 3 days. I had one sell but i believe it was cancel, its a very specific niche like you. I wanted to know how did you increase your sales ? Thank you!
Did you say up to $500 a day for advertising? So for how many days did you do that? Thank you, very interesting.
Yes, I do have my max budget set to $500 per day, but I’ve only been spending around $200-$300 per day on average. I’ve been running ads consistently since October 1st, and that’s been working well for me so far!
Did you get that many sales just from Etsy ads alone or different forms of ads or social media ?
Heyllo! How were you able to cover the costs of purchases? Were you using a credit card?
Hi! Thank you so much for this video. Can you share which item you used on Printify? Very inspiring as always!
Super inspirational! I would love to hear how your shipping is set up when selling so many different products and getting many orders for multiple different items. Are your profit margins just large enough that you don't need to worry about losing money to shipping on those kinds of orders? Or do you set up your shipping profiles to charge high shipping on all items, even in a combination order when Etsy uses the 'additional item' shipping cost? Hopefully that makes sense.
Hello Taylor! This is so inspiring, i recently started my shop and slowly figuring things out. But i am definitely struggling to get sells, do you offer any personal coaching? Thanks.
I hear a lot of complaints from others in facebook groups saying that people are stealing their designs like crazy & so many say Etsy can cancel your whole shop. I want to get started but I’ve been hesitant because of these reasons. Do you suggest you have a back up shop somewhere else? And should we just be prepared our designs will get stolen?
This was such a great video - thanks for doing this and laying it out. What products are sold in your first shop? (just curious) I've been an Etsy seller for several years, and I'm in need of help looking at analytics. Is this something you offer?
Thanks so much! -Mary
Good job Taylor!
Go you! Very inspiring!! I’ve had my shop a bit over a year and have somewhat backed myself into a corner with soooo much personalization! Are your signs non-personalized? In 2025 I need to pivot a bit and resonate with my customers without so much customization! Thanks for this video…clearly there’s hope for us all for Etsy success!🎉
Hi Taylor, do you think it's a good idea to switch to a POD store in my case?
I have a digital product store with 1300 sales and over 270 reviews(got to that point in less than 2 years). Unfortunately, it's not enough to make a living since my products are low ticket.
Question! Was your "take home" less than the money you had to spend? Or did you make a profit? I'm looking to start my own business selling on Etsy! :)
hi Taylor, Will the SEO and design mini-courses be available soon?
Definitely inspiration
Are views on Etsy stats unique views or does it include each time I view my items
How are you liking profittree? I’m trying to learn it and am so confused lol
My main fear is if i have too many listings I will get too many orders at once and not be able to fulfill them fast enough then get low stars because of that.
Amazing! Super inspiring 🙌
Did you offer a digital download option for your signs or the physical product only? I am doing research and a lot of them offer the digital download. It's hard to tell how many sales are from physical products being sold vs people buying digital products. I also have a POD shirt business and am not keen on selling my digital file 😬
Woohoo! Congratulations! Were these customised / personalised products?
I’m not fully through the video, but I am wondering….So have Signs been the best selling product?? Or did you find another product??
I started with signs, and they’ve definitely been one of my top sellers. Once those started doing well, I added additional products to complement them. 😊
Hi Taylor, do you have any assistants? Even with hello custom you still need to manually submit each order, I was just curious if you do that yourself manually or have someone help you with that piece of it. We are trying to figure out things with our shop as we grow 😅
Did you use a sales strategy on this site?
I am a little confused. Would it be benefical to create different shops for different niche? or is it okay to have one shop with muliple niches?
Thank you so much for sharing! I may have missed it, but how much did you start your daily ad budget at? I have been doing $5 daily for months and only last week felt brave enough to increase it to $25.
You go girl! 🎉
One question please...Wouldn't the reason you have high visibility while running Etsy ads is simple because you are running ad(s), not because the title/tags are working?
Thank you. This is helpful. Question(s): I thought you said you weren't paying shipping fees 4:20? Did you reconsider and start paying? If so, what made you change your strategy.
Great question, and I’m glad you found the video helpful! 😊 Just to clarify-free shipping has never been part of my strategy in this shop. At the 4:20 mark, I was explaining how Etsy mentioned that shops charging over $6 for shipping could face limited visibility. Since the product I’m selling is more expensive to ship, my shipping cost is higher than that. I decided to stick with my current pricing structure, and I haven’t seen any negative impact on visibility despite the higher shipping price. Hope that clears it up!
I would love to just sit down with you in person and show you what I’ve been doing so you can show me what I need to change 😂
Hahahahaha yes girl! 😂 Join my community in the new year and let’s make it happen-I’d love to work with you! 🙌✨
Did you do personalization?
You rock girl 🎉 one of my favourite POD TH-camrs. Congratulations on your success ❤
Thanks for the video! If you don't mind me asking how much money did you use to get this store started? Say i only have $1000 in the account im using to pay Etsy for listing and printify for printing etc and my shop blows up and I don't have enough money to cover all the orders? Is this something that could happen?
Just so this newbie can wrap her head around POD on Etsy, I should assume before taxes around 20-30% profit, correct? In the end, after taxes it would be about 10-15%?
Love your content you have helepd grow my non POD so fast and thanks I even re designed my logo and am rebranding all of it into my new brand! Question I REALLY want to try POD but I already own a copyright and LLC. can I do a POD with my soap and candle shop and do your free shipping over 35/40 to get more soap sales so I don't have to remake an entire new brand whats your opinion!? I am ready to dive in!
You can absolutely integrate POD into your existing brand, and honestly, I think it’s a brilliant idea. You already have a customer base that loves your products, so adding POD items could be a great way to expand without the heavy lifting of making everything yourself.
Thanks so much I been thinking about this so much. I wanted to ask a pro! 🎉😂 I'll keep you posted! Hope to get into your bookings coming up!
How do you handle Customer is at order and the products come from different print providers. Do you have some sort of explanation in your messages or how is that handled?
Good question.
Yes, if an order includes products from different print providers, I just let the customer know that their items will arrive separately. I’ve done this in both of my shops and haven’t had any issues-customers are usually totally fine with it as long as you communicate clearly.