I've been following you for a long time now, and I was finally able to put all of this into practice. I made my first store about 3-weeks ago and I uploaded 128 listings in the first 2-weeks. Then I got 2-sales with a 5-star review the day after I finished listing everything. It was really exciting to see. It's not the thousands of sales yet, but it was great motivation. I'll be adding 90 more listings by tomorrow, and I'll be in the thousands soon. Thanks for sharing all this valuable info! I never even would've tried this without it.
Sorry for the late reply y'all. I'm not used to people replying to my comments on here. lol. Since I'm growing organically (no ads) my growth has been pretty steady. I've noticed a huge increase in weekend traffic that happened out of nowhere. I'm now getting hundreds of visits, and up to just a few weeks ago I was only getting 10-20 for the whole weekend. I did study Etsy SEO and improved my store, so maybe that helped, too. I've gotten 12 more sales, but I know it's bc I haven't uploaded enough products yet. I'm now adding more products every week and will have over 600 listings by next Friday. I have a goal of 1,000 by December. If you're on the fence about it I'd say just do it. It's a lot more work than I expected and I work on this outside my work hours (I work full-time) and on weekends for 12-14 hours. Study the winners and follow their formula (without stealing, of course). Success leaves clues. Oh, and ChatGPT is a lifesaver for product descriptions. Thanks for the interest in my journey y'all. I hope this helps 🤙
@@g4b3TehDalek Thanks for sharing your story. I'm on the fence but this is a very controversial topic. Some people say it is already over-saturated and doesn't start. Some online "gurus" sell this as the perfect side hustle. I'm working as well but I can spare 4-5 hours a day and I can invest in ads or other tools if I can persuade myself if ever I can make any sales. So, it is always good to hear real people's stories. I started to believe without a huge social presence it would be difficult to get ranked high but maybe it would take time.
Can you make a video that shows your exact process that you follow each time you sit down to make more listings? Like what order you do things in, do you give yourself time limits, do you set daily goals, do you post at the end of every day or you do you create everyday and post weekly, and what are the steps that you make a habit so it becomes something you can do very quickly in time? People will do what works for them, and everyone probably has a different process but I’m curious to see!
Hello Alek, thank you for always providing such comprehensive content! I wanted to clarify something: in this video you mentioned that it is best to be focused on same product for starters and once it becomes lucrative, add more types of products and even open another shop. At the same time, I recall that in another video you mentioned that you would create hundreds of products by applying the same design to numerous products and that's how you would get thousands of listings. Has your strategy changed ? What would you recommend doing? Obviously, using same designs on numerous products seems a lot more straightforward, but as I am setting up my new shop now, I would love to do it the right way from the get go. Thank you in advance.
Just my perspective from what I've gotten from the videos it's best to start off with one product that targets different niche's and once you see which niche is really selling you can turn it into different products.
@@yousefashraf8572 Hi bro even I'm new in the print on demand business and I'm making a group of hustlers and people who are in pod line. Would you like to join the group where we can discuss and grow together in Print on demand
Still plugging away. Done my first 1000 listings. started in Jan. Keeping the faith for Q4! Thanks Alex, your videos keep me going that it's going to work and I keep polishing and improving as I go.
Maybe purge the 980 that aren't selling well or at all. Keep what's working and drop the rest. Spend less time designing and more time researching what people are actually looking for but are underserved.
Started in April...initially had around 20 products but only 3/4 were selling. Got rid of the ones that didn't sell at all and added some new ones with variants. Not crazy money by any means but the top selling product alone has given me an extra £1000. 2024 I'm going to put a lot more effort into market research and adding new products on a regular basis.
You should of keep the ones that's wasn't selling lol it's take time. I had the exact situation some of my listings wasn't selling i was about to remove it but i didn't. Several months later it's started to get favourites and it's keep getting favourites , I'm glad that i keep it and it's took lot's of time and money to make the design.❤️💕
Loving your content, so informative and easy to understand. You explain things so well and its getting to the point now when I have a question I come looking straight to your videos!
Please don’t listen to the “I’m not buying this” comments. Keep making these videos because it helps all the doers like myself. Commenters gonna comment.
Great advice! Quick question,… are you recommending that we place a thousand listings in one online store? Or should we have 100 listings in ten online stores? I’m concerned that too many listings will overwhelm the customer and potentially lead to fewer sales. Thanks for sharing. I’m a new subscriber.👍
Its my understanding that you create a large quantity of listings to use the law of large numbers. The point is to get the ball rolling, bring in some money and gather data, which will then allow you to open new stores selling your best selling designs in a different product, which could amount to fewer listings. For example you start with shirts, then move onto mugs, posters or whatever makes sense for your design.
all I did was just play around and model after ONE random shirt shop and saw result very quick. im about 3k sales away to MORE than what they sold and I did this this for 2 years and they did since 2016. only reason I chose that shop because I understood their audience. time to start looking for lot more profitable stuff to sell..shirts are ok but its literally the same work that can get me 10x more $
@@pawsstory1288 tshirts and posters. posters in house. but I was starting brand new I probably wouldnt deal with shirts its just lot of work and hassle for little profit. same work can get me way more $ with other stuff. gonna open up other products shop and pay less attention to shirts for now.
I like your content and you have earned a follow. I would recommend adding a video detailing the upfront costs incurred with drop shipping and how it works inconjunct with Esty
Great video, as usual! Thanks for all you do. If I may ask, while building an Etsy store, do you recommend paying for Etsy ads, or to try and start organically?
Did my first 700 listings and got 9 Sales over the course of 2 Months and keeping your tips from this Video in mind. I don‘t know, if I do sth wrong, or if I should give it more time to „snowball“. :/ I‘ve seen so many comments, that other people got there growing much faster and thats kinda discourage me, and makes me a bit insecure. I‘ll try to stay positive!
Would be super useful from you to make a video on how exactly Etsy fees are working, how are the numbers are at the very end with a concrete product. Listing fees Shipping Label fees Transaction fees VAT Pattern Advertising fees Etsy Payments and deposit fees
I don't use Etsy, but have friends that have in the recent past. They say it's pretty complicated using it, and costly as well. I realize you've got to spend money to make money, but from what I hear about Etsy, it's really difficult to say it's actually worth using it. Could somebody prove these people wrong? It wouldn't hurt my feelings really....😊😊😊
Hey! I've been following you for a while and I'm finly getting ready to start. A business. I do have a question. Should I make a store for each type of product I'm going to sell? Like a store only for phone cases, a store only for mugs, etc. Or one store containing everything is good? I have to keep watching more and more videos.
Thank you. What plan do you have with AULRA? I signed up with growth for one month only. I searched for revenue in the clothing category as you suggested, and the highest sale was $150,000, not $3 million.
Hi Alex, thanks for all the good information. When listing a mug with 11 oz and a 15 oz option how do I make the correct shipping charge so up when someone places an order? Thanks
I can tell you had a lot of fun making this video. You looked very happy and almost seemed like you were holding back laughter.... that's great.... the info is great as well. Thanks again for the into....
Hi，Alek! May I ask if you could show a video of the entire step-by-step process of collecting and recording the best-selling T-Shirt design styles and creating a list? And how many BEST-SELLING DESIGNS does this list typically need to collect?
love the side shot man!!! wow, as someone who studies youtube that adds such a good dimension to the talking head video. Great job at coming up with a new angle, pun not intended but still, funny :P
Thank for sharing your knowledge. Your content is precise, organized and no nonsense and has helped me a lot. Could you please touch on the pricing aspect, as I see a lot of t-shirts listed for around 15.00 to 20.00 with free shipping but thats very close to the product cost with shipping. What kind of markup should we be aiming for to make us competitive, while also covering cost and making a decent profit. And could you touch on the best way to make designs for dark shirts vs light shirts, it is taking me a lot of time reversing the colors especially with the graphics, to make the graphics/lettering work on both light and dark shirts, Thanks much appreciated
If I see a new shop with a higher price than already established shops, I wouldn't buy from them as a buyer. So you have to check the competitors and price them the same or lower.
I ended up studying this process over and over only to find out that Etsy will most likely be in favor of hiding your listing because they arent handmade on a platform that is all about selling handmade products, this is after fully automating my store one day after realizing how much time I was spending order the prints and hand pressing my self. I feel as if etsy almost blacklisted me for doing this, any thoughts on this?
Hey Alek, you mentioned that it's best to focus on one product in one's own Etsy shop. Do you think it's necessary though? I have so many ideas and I would love to make designs for different items (but all in the same niche, more or less) but now I am insecure 😅 would love to hear you feedback! Thank you :)
Hi Alek, I recently subscribed to your channel. I started my shop a little over a month ago and things have been very slow. I have decided to target the US market even though I'm an Italian living in Japan, do you think that might be a reason I'm struggling to make those first organic sales? Does your physical location affect your position on the algorithm hierarchy, or maybe it keeps away US buyers? Since I use Monster Digital for most of my products, what if I put their address as my location, would that get me into trouble?
Most people are not capable of thinking and building upon IDEAS that are selling … they’ll go rip off a best selling design and then wonder why it’s not selling. Well duh, why buy from you when the original ranks higher and has tons of reviews? Some great ideas in this video!
In another vid you had a t-shirt templete.for down load. There after.i sure I saw one with both T-shirts and coffee mugs with templates for each. Link? I'm sure many would appreciate it! Tanks for the good work.
i get myself confused with the shipping costs and profit margins. just found out one of my listings is shipped from canada and has like a +$10 shipping fee. but it showed U.S shipping on printify so i dont know why it changed automatically to Canada.I live in the U.S
Alek, you are always dropping straight up valuable knowledge! In all seriousness, someone could learn more from your site that gets them more opportunities in life than wasting a CRAP load of money on a college degree.
Hey Alek! I watched one of your older videos about making the design templates with Figma. I was wondering, how do you actually get them out of figma and onto your printfy or printful page? Thanks! Edit: Theres an export button on bottom right xD
Just curious, when you use this strategy, do you take into account competition at all? I feel like everyone and their mother does tshirts, just curious. Thanks
Hi Alek! Thanks for the interesting videos and useful information. I always watch them with great pleasure. I want to register for Printify using your link, tell me the code word is still valid? And another question, please tell me how to print products that need to be personalized first on Printify ? How to do this correctly, please tell me! Thank you!
Hi, Alek. how to super strategically stay organized to list these designs along with SEO Block within one niche to test listings' data? How to adjust the data and make decisions ?
That's all good stuff you're telling. How do you fight people who sell a hoodie for $12 on Etsy when the hoodie is $22( Printify) + % shipping + % Etsy = 44$ ????
Hello, Alek! I hope you are doing well. My name is Sebastian Grassino, I am Argentine and currently living in Brazil. I am following Etsy tutorials to start selling online, but I am having trouble with the mockups. I bought some in digital format on Etsy, but when selecting a product on Printify (such as a mug), the design does not fit correctly to the mockup I purchased online. Can you help me with this?
Question, so Etsy charges a 0.20 cents fee per listing, plus a 6.5% transaction fee, + 3% +0.25 cents payment fee, which equals a total of 9.5% fees? am I correct? is that all?
Hi Alek, thank you for your awesome videos. I am considering doing the sixgigurestorefront course, however, I live in South Africa. Can I only sell in South Africa on Etsy, or can I sell in the USA / UK as well for digital art? Can I set my store for the USA to ship print on demand using Printify from the USA, and for the UK store to ship print on demand from the UK Printify? I don't want to sell on South Africa and ship from South Africa.
Thank you for all the informative videos! I have a question. If I have a variety of unrelated products I want to sell on Etsy, such as physical (handmade) epoxy art and small furniture, digital downloads for planners or templates, and lets say.. t-shirts, would you recommend separating them, or showing all items in one shop?
How can you know if an Etsy product is licensed? My daughter wants a particuoar handmade line if Disney products.. I told her to hurry before it gets shut down, but what if the shop is licensed? How would I know and can I get a license for my type of product too?
Great videos! Would you set up a separate Etsy shop if you lived in another country just for US with a local POD supplier or duplicate listings in the one shop?
hey MAN I THINK you should make a video or youtube short on Etsy violations ,,, that is ... things that will get you banned , copyright .... i'm confused if i'm able to use certain characters on my shirts like a famous celebrity or some old school cartoon character ,,,, i have some wicked nasty designs i wanna use but dont wanna get banned lol
You can't. You can't use anything owned or created by another person or company. So no celebrities no characters ect. You can maybe use a famous quote if you check copywrite first
I have the same question... and piggy backing off that: I'm wondering if it's better to totally specialize in one product, like just candles with typography... or it it works just as well have typography and artistic designs and to perhaps offer both candles and wall art and t-shirts? I do notice that from my perspective as a consumer, I am more visually attracted to shops that have a really uniform theme/ look.
Hey Alek, I've gone through your Etsy Tutorials including the AI ones. Recently I read online that Etsy has a habit of suspending people for no reason, and with the lynch mob out to get AI creators, I'm worried about losing access to my Etsy shop. Also, for some reason there is a seller verification in India (maybe because of high volume of sellers of scammers). Apparently many people get rejected during the seller verification process itself. I think they might be on the lookout for AI creators during this verification process too. What's your take on al these things?
They suspend almost all shops affter the first sale it's annoying af. About 40% won't make it past that suspension since they'll never email you to tell you why you were suspended but want you to appeal it blindly.
I dont completly follow, so your basically buying from another etsy store, send them the custom font and text to print for you every time you get a sale? I thought the idea was to source from printify..
So much value in your videos. Thanks for sharing, Alek! I've been inspired and motivated by your content so I just created my first store, or at least I'm midway through the process of creating it. I have a question: how do you go about creating your very first listing, the one they require as part of the process of opening your store for the first time? I'm asking because, from what I understand, at this stage you're not able to connect it to Printify yet, because the store does not technically exist yet. Should I just create a fake listing? Could I get banned because of this? Does anyone have any suggestions for this?
I just did this today, opened my shop yesterday. Was wondering the same thing at first. I just left the tab open, made my first listing through printify , published it, and then went back to the Etsy onboarding tab to fill out the “first listing” form and made a random $5 listing for a “watercolor print” with just the image i used for the design on my printify product , filled out all the mandatory fields , and then it allowed me to go through the steps to completing setting up my store. Then I just deleted the $5 listing immediately after . Didn’t have any issue
@@lightinmanifest thanks for your reply! I'm gonna give that a try. One last question: after you did this and deleted this "first listing", was the one you had created through Printify already/still there?
I am following you for a while. My question to you is mixing font, color design from different top sellers sounds good but is not true that certain designs only work with specific colors, fonts, or because they are from top selling items it may work with any other design.
Questions: when someone buys from the etsy listing and they are sent the order to print full are you charged, or does it come out of the money from etsy
Hey @@alekSheffy - thanks. Alura just got back to me and confirmed that it's been removed, so it may be that you have an old version - don't update! ;) They did seem to suggest they may bring it back if users request it.
Hey@@alekSheffy Alura have confirmed that it's been removed - it might just be that you have an older version, so maybe don't update ;) It did sound like they may consider bringing it back if users requested it.
@@loungermusic you can still do a similar thing by going into the "shop analyzer" section. but you have to pay for one of the plans to sort the results by earnings etc. I ended up using etsy hunt. as it does a similar thing. but is only $4 a month. Also, a lot of the data is apparently super inaccurate on Alura
I have a question.. I just started a Etsy shop I made a mistake on filling out the tax forms.. they froze my shop I tried to fix my mistake when I get in to the part I need to change I clicked on the edit part and it won’t allow me to correct it .. why and Etsy is not returning my emails.. it’s been 2 weeks now I was wondering can I delete my account and start over again.. thanks..
Hello! I want to use a character from Marvel and appropriate it with my own design that was edited my ai. What would i need to legally sell a shirt design like this? Is it impossible?
No, you can't use Marvel's intellectual properties without their permission - no matter how much or how little you change them. And if you could afford to license their characters, you probably wouldn't be selling on Etsy. You would be selling to Walmart and Target.
Etsy is over saturated with POD and drop shipping. The only people making money are those who are very skilled in marketing or those selling courses on ‘how to sell on Etsy’
Alek, thank you for this video. A question, I have. Hope you see it and answer it: how do you get to that page where all a successful product tags are shown?
Etsy is maybe good for your C average stuff because it is going to be modified (stolen) in less than a week. If your have a really good design get a copyright. If you are using a character you deigned get it trademarked, otherwise you will be far game. Don't use Ai because it is not protected unless you don't care.
Everything you said have no point... Because on Etsy now a lot of people from China and they are selling tshirts with images for $6.99... and you can't beat them ... Never!!!!!
I've been following you for a long time now, and I was finally able to put all of this into practice. I made my first store about 3-weeks ago and I uploaded 128 listings in the first 2-weeks. Then I got 2-sales with a 5-star review the day after I finished listing everything. It was really exciting to see. It's not the thousands of sales yet, but it was great motivation. I'll be adding 90 more listings by tomorrow, and I'll be in the thousands soon. Thanks for sharing all this valuable info! I never even would've tried this without it.
Its been a month, hows he shop the doing? I am debating on giving it a try myself
Yeah, can you update us about your journey?
update us!!! lol
Sorry for the late reply y'all. I'm not used to people replying to my comments on here. lol. Since I'm growing organically (no ads) my growth has been pretty steady. I've noticed a huge increase in weekend traffic that happened out of nowhere. I'm now getting hundreds of visits, and up to just a few weeks ago I was only getting 10-20 for the whole weekend. I did study Etsy SEO and improved my store, so maybe that helped, too. I've gotten 12 more sales, but I know it's bc I haven't uploaded enough products yet. I'm now adding more products every week and will have over 600 listings by next Friday. I have a goal of 1,000 by December. If you're on the fence about it I'd say just do it. It's a lot more work than I expected and I work on this outside my work hours (I work full-time) and on weekends for 12-14 hours. Study the winners and follow their formula (without stealing, of course). Success leaves clues. Oh, and ChatGPT is a lifesaver for product descriptions. Thanks for the interest in my journey y'all. I hope this helps 🤙
@@g4b3TehDalek Thanks for sharing your story. I'm on the fence but this is a very controversial topic. Some people say it is already over-saturated and doesn't start. Some online "gurus" sell this as the perfect side hustle. I'm working as well but I can spare 4-5 hours a day and I can invest in ads or other tools if I can persuade myself if ever I can make any sales. So, it is always good to hear real people's stories. I started to believe without a huge social presence it would be difficult to get ranked high but maybe it would take time.
I would literally pay money for this information in a course, thanks for being awesome and adding value to the populace for FREE! What a man.
Can you make a video that shows your exact process that you follow each time you sit down to make more listings? Like what order you do things in, do you give yourself time limits, do you set daily goals, do you post at the end of every day or you do you create everyday and post weekly, and what are the steps that you make a habit so it becomes something you can do very quickly in time? People will do what works for them, and everyone probably has a different process but I’m curious to see!
Hello Alek, thank you for always providing such comprehensive content! I wanted to clarify something: in this video you mentioned that it is best to be focused on same product for starters and once it becomes lucrative, add more types of products and even open another shop. At the same time, I recall that in another video you mentioned that you would create hundreds of products by applying the same design to numerous products and that's how you would get thousands of listings. Has your strategy changed ? What would you recommend doing? Obviously, using same designs on numerous products seems a lot more straightforward, but as I am setting up my new shop now, I would love to do it the right way from the get go. Thank you in advance.
Just my perspective from what I've gotten from the videos it's best to start off with one product that targets different niche's and once you see which niche is really selling you can turn it into different products.
Started my first store last month and made my first sale a few days ago. Thanks for these videos!
Hey, can I contact you and assist me with my store I started 10 days ago on Pinterest?
@@yousefashraf8572
Hi bro even I'm new in the print on demand business and I'm making a group of hustlers and people who are in pod line.
Would you like to join the group where we can discuss and grow together in Print on demand
Still plugging away. Done my first 1000 listings. started in Jan. Keeping the faith for Q4! Thanks Alex, your videos keep me going that it's going to work and I keep polishing and improving as I go.
How much has it sold so far and what do you sell?
How much money have you made from these 1000 listing?
Maybe purge the 980 that aren't selling well or at all. Keep what's working and drop the rest. Spend less time designing and more time researching what people are actually looking for but are underserved.
absolutely no - this dropshipping twaddle is just that. these videos are boosting his ads and nothign else @@vasilischristodoulou6884
How much profit so far?
Started in April...initially had around 20 products but only 3/4 were selling. Got rid of the ones that didn't sell at all and added some new ones with variants.
Not crazy money by any means but the top selling product alone has given me an extra £1000.
2024 I'm going to put a lot more effort into market research and adding new products on a regular basis.
You should of keep the ones that's wasn't selling lol it's take time.
I had the exact situation some of my listings wasn't selling i was about to remove it but i didn't.
Several months later it's started to get favourites and it's keep getting favourites , I'm glad that i keep it and it's took lot's of time and money to make the design.❤️💕
Such a different strategy to a lot of others I’ve seen. Very interesting and clear step by step explanations.
About time you return to your roots. This genre of content is what made you popular. Keep up the good work.
Loving your content, so informative and easy to understand. You explain things so well and its getting to the point now when I have a question I come looking straight to your videos!
Please don’t listen to the “I’m not buying this” comments. Keep making these videos because it helps all the doers like myself. Commenters gonna comment.
Complainers complain. Winners win 😈
Great advice! Quick question,… are you recommending that we place a thousand listings in one online store? Or should we have 100 listings in ten online stores?
I’m concerned that too many listings will overwhelm the customer and potentially lead to fewer sales.
Thanks for sharing. I’m a new subscriber.👍
Its my understanding that you create a large quantity of listings to use the law of large numbers. The point is to get the ball rolling, bring in some money and gather data, which will then allow you to open new stores selling your best selling designs in a different product, which could amount to fewer listings. For example you start with shirts, then move onto mugs, posters or whatever makes sense for your design.
all I did was just play around and model after ONE random shirt shop and saw result very quick. im about 3k sales away to MORE than what they sold and I did this this for 2 years and they did since 2016. only reason I chose that shop because I understood their audience.
time to start looking for lot more profitable stuff to sell..shirts are ok but its literally the same work that can get me 10x more $
What are you selling?
@@pawsstory1288 tshirts and posters. posters in house. but I was starting brand new I probably wouldnt deal with shirts its just lot of work and hassle for little profit. same work can get me way more $ with other stuff. gonna open up other products shop and pay less attention to shirts for now.
I like your content and you have earned a follow. I would recommend adding a video detailing the upfront costs incurred with drop shipping and how it works inconjunct with Esty
Great video, as usual!
Thanks for all you do.
If I may ask, while building an Etsy store, do you recommend paying for Etsy ads, or to try and start organically?
Did my first 700 listings and got 9 Sales over the course of 2 Months and keeping your tips from this Video in mind. I don‘t know, if I do sth wrong, or if I should give it more time to „snowball“. :/
I‘ve seen so many comments, that other people got there growing much faster and thats kinda discourage me, and makes me a bit insecure. I‘ll try to stay positive!
It's not as straight forward as some people make it out to be.
You need to upload high quality designs. Or you have horrible tags or both.
@@mason3297 That's not true. Some of the biggest selling t-shirts on Etsy are a single word on a t-shirt in a basic font.
Can you give any tips for us living in Europe/Nordic countries? Should one sell in US or we cant ? If you want to target the largest buying group
Go for US business. Wholesale Ted has some more information about that. I’m also from Europe targeting solely US.
@katel.2475 thank you so much
Would be super useful from you to make a video on how exactly Etsy fees are working, how are the numbers are at the very end with a concrete product.
Listing fees
Shipping Label fees
Transaction fees
VAT
Pattern
Advertising fees
Etsy Payments and deposit fees
I don't use Etsy, but have friends that have in the recent past. They say it's pretty complicated using it, and costly as well. I realize you've got to spend money to make money, but from what I hear about Etsy, it's really difficult to say it's actually worth using it. Could somebody prove these people wrong? It wouldn't hurt my feelings really....😊😊😊
Hey! I've been following you for a while and I'm finly getting ready to start. A business. I do have a question. Should I make a store for each type of product I'm going to sell? Like a store only for phone cases, a store only for mugs, etc. Or one store containing everything is good? I have to keep watching more and more videos.
Thank you. What plan do you have with AULRA? I signed up with growth for one month only. I searched for revenue in the clothing category as you suggested, and the highest sale was $150,000, not $3 million.
Can you talk about protecting the digital download image on etsy
Hi Alex, thanks for all the good information. When listing a mug with 11 oz and a 15 oz option how do I make the correct shipping charge so up when someone places an order? Thanks
march 4, I have gotten the coupon for 2 months. Free ssubscription activated. thanks Alex
I can tell you had a lot of fun making this video. You looked very happy and almost seemed like you were holding back laughter.... that's great.... the info is great as well. Thanks again for the into....
Hi，Alek!
May I ask if you could show a video of the entire step-by-step process of collecting and recording the best-selling T-Shirt design styles and creating a list?
And how many BEST-SELLING DESIGNS does this list typically need to collect?
Getting sales is good but being profitable is better. Thanks for the sharp info.
love the side shot man!!! wow, as someone who studies youtube that adds such a good dimension to the talking head video. Great job at coming up with a new angle, pun not intended but still, funny :P
Very helpful. wondering why it is that you’re helping us out so much! So pure of heart
He gets kick backs when you use his links, so its a win-win for everyone when he makes these
Affiliate links. No one on youtube is showing people how to make money without them. Get over the idea of anyone doing anything for free.
People make more money off aspiring POD sellers, then they do off POD sometimes
His process looks amazing
Thank for sharing your knowledge. Your content is precise, organized and no nonsense and has helped me a lot. Could you please touch on the pricing aspect, as I see a lot of t-shirts listed for around 15.00 to 20.00 with free shipping but thats very close to the product cost with shipping. What kind of markup should we be aiming for to make us competitive, while also covering cost and making a decent profit. And could you touch on the best way to make designs for dark shirts vs light shirts, it is taking me a lot of time reversing the colors especially with the graphics, to make the graphics/lettering work on both light and dark shirts, Thanks much appreciated
If I see a new shop with a higher price than already established shops, I wouldn't buy from them as a buyer. So you have to check the competitors and price them the same or lower.
It’s having four of the exact same framed photo on the wall for me
I ended up studying this process over and over only to find out that Etsy will most likely be in favor of hiding your listing because they arent handmade on a platform that is all about selling handmade products, this is after fully automating my store one day after realizing how much time I was spending order the prints and hand pressing my self. I feel as if etsy almost blacklisted me for doing this, any thoughts on this?
Hey Alek,
you mentioned that it's best to focus on one product in one's own Etsy shop. Do you think it's necessary though? I have so many ideas and I would love to make designs for different items (but all in the same niche, more or less) but now I am insecure 😅 would love to hear you feedback! Thank you :)
You could try lots of products! I've only had big success with single product stores.
thank you for your answer! :) @@alekSheffy
why do you have 4 of the same art print on your wall
Hi Alek, I recently subscribed to your channel. I started my shop a little over a month ago and things have been very slow. I have decided to target the US market even though I'm an Italian living in Japan, do you think that might be a reason I'm struggling to make those first organic sales? Does your physical location affect your position on the algorithm hierarchy, or maybe it keeps away US buyers? Since I use Monster Digital for most of my products, what if I put their address as my location, would that get me into trouble?
I have the same question!
I have the Same question!
Me too. I’d love an answer
On a different note... Those Fred Armisen clips are hilarious !😂
Most people are not capable of thinking and building upon IDEAS that are selling … they’ll go rip off a best selling design and then wonder why it’s not selling. Well duh, why buy from you when the original ranks higher and has tons of reviews?
Some great ideas in this video!
In another vid you had a t-shirt templete.for down load. There after.i sure I saw one with both T-shirts and coffee mugs with templates for each.
Link? I'm sure many would appreciate it! Tanks for the good work.
i get myself confused with the shipping costs and profit margins. just found out one of my listings is shipped from canada and has like a +$10 shipping fee. but it showed U.S shipping on printify so i dont know why it changed automatically to Canada.I live in the U.S
Alek, you are always dropping straight up valuable knowledge! In all seriousness, someone could learn more from your site that gets them more opportunities in life than wasting a CRAP load of money on a college degree.
Very informative! Thank you for going step by step over this Alek!
Hey Alek! I watched one of your older videos about making the design templates with Figma. I was wondering, how do you actually get them out of figma and onto your printfy or printful page? Thanks!
Edit: Theres an export button on bottom right xD
There is export button at the right bottom side
Just curious, when you use this strategy, do you take into account competition at all? I feel like everyone and their mother does tshirts, just curious. Thanks
Hi Alek! Thanks for the interesting videos and useful information. I always watch them with great pleasure. I want to register for Printify using your link, tell me the code word is still valid?
And another question, please tell me how to print products that need to be personalized first on Printify ? How to do this correctly, please tell me! Thank you!
Hi, Alek.
how to super strategically stay organized to list these designs along with SEO Block within one niche to test listings' data?
How to adjust the data and make decisions ?
That's all good stuff you're telling. How do you fight people who sell a hoodie for $12 on Etsy when the hoodie is $22( Printify) + % shipping + % Etsy = 44$ ????
Hello, Alek! I hope you are doing well. My name is Sebastian Grassino, I am Argentine and currently living in Brazil. I am following Etsy tutorials to start selling online, but I am having trouble with the mockups. I bought some in digital format on Etsy, but when selecting a product on Printify (such as a mug), the design does not fit correctly to the mockup I purchased online. Can you help me with this?
This makes so much sense to me Alek, thank you
7:50 which app or software he use to make such kind of chart ????
Does this include trademarks? Creating a logo and a brand and protecting it? If not, anyone can steal your stuff without a single issue or worry.
Question, so Etsy charges a 0.20 cents fee per listing, plus a 6.5% transaction fee, + 3% +0.25 cents payment fee, which equals a total of 9.5% fees? am I correct? is that all?
yeah and you forgot to say that these t-shirts are selling so good because the price appears as 8$ but when you checkout, it's for baby suit :D
Hi Alek, thank you for your awesome videos. I am considering doing the sixgigurestorefront course, however, I live in South Africa. Can I only sell in South Africa on Etsy, or can I sell in the USA / UK as well for digital art? Can I set my store for the USA to ship print on demand using Printify from the USA, and for the UK store to ship print on demand from the UK Printify? I don't want to sell on South Africa and ship from South Africa.
Well not as easy you say, nearly three months and no sales
I'm trying to find the video and database you showed people how to use in one of your videos to search for phrases to make sure it is not copywritten?
Do we have to pay printify first to deliver the order?
Thank you for all the informative videos! I have a question. If I have a variety of unrelated products I want to sell on Etsy, such as physical (handmade) epoxy art and small furniture, digital downloads for planners or templates, and lets say.. t-shirts, would you recommend separating them, or showing all items in one shop?
Separate shops. Niche down. Make sure the shop name says what the niche is.
Another great video! Thanks so much!
How can you know if an Etsy product is licensed? My daughter wants a particuoar handmade line if Disney products.. I told her to hurry before it gets shut down, but what if the shop is licensed? How would I know and can I get a license for my type of product too?
What’s a good laptop for starting up ?
Great videos! Would you set up a separate Etsy shop if you lived in another country just for US with a local POD supplier or duplicate listings in the one shop?
Keen to know too.
So do I need a llc before I start selling on Etsy?
Hi Alek great info amazing with Alura
Hello dear.... Thank you for this information. Please, can i create many stores in my sole name or not?
I want to sell digital prints. How do i upload the prints so the photos are already standard print sizes?
What can I use to remove the background from design?
hey MAN I THINK you should make a video or youtube short on Etsy violations ,,, that is ... things that will get you banned , copyright .... i'm confused if i'm able to use certain characters on my shirts like a famous celebrity or some old school cartoon character ,,,, i have some wicked nasty designs i wanna use but dont wanna get banned lol
You can't. You can't use anything owned or created by another person or company. So no celebrities no characters ect. You can maybe use a famous quote if you check copywrite first
Should I make multiple shops for the physical products (POD) and then separate ones for the svgs? Or just put those under the same shop?
I have the same question... and piggy backing off that: I'm wondering if it's better to totally specialize in one product, like just candles with typography... or it it works just as well have typography and artistic designs and to perhaps offer both candles and wall art and t-shirts? I do notice that from my perspective as a consumer, I am more visually attracted to shops that have a really uniform theme/ look.
Hey Alek, I've gone through your Etsy Tutorials including the AI ones.
Recently I read online that Etsy has a habit of suspending people for no reason, and with the lynch mob out to get AI creators, I'm worried about losing access to my Etsy shop.
Also, for some reason there is a seller verification in India (maybe because of high volume of sellers of scammers). Apparently many people get rejected during the seller verification process itself.
I think they might be on the lookout for AI creators during this verification process too.
What's your take on al these things?
They suspend almost all shops affter the first sale it's annoying af. About 40% won't make it past that suspension since they'll never email you to tell you why you were suspended but want you to appeal it blindly.
Etsy suspends a lot fo POD sellers for no reason
I dont completly follow, so your basically buying from another etsy store, send them the custom font and text to print for you every time you get a sale? I thought the idea was to source from printify..
So basically don't use Etsy. Because someone will use software to view your shop data to use your ideas.
So much value in your videos. Thanks for sharing, Alek! I've been inspired and motivated by your content so I just created my first store, or at least I'm midway through the process of creating it.
I have a question: how do you go about creating your very first listing, the one they require as part of the process of opening your store for the first time? I'm asking because, from what I understand, at this stage you're not able to connect it to Printify yet, because the store does not technically exist yet. Should I just create a fake listing? Could I get banned because of this? Does anyone have any suggestions for this?
I just did this today, opened my shop yesterday. Was wondering the same thing at first. I just left the tab open, made my first listing through printify , published it, and then went back to the Etsy onboarding tab to fill out the “first listing” form and made a random $5 listing for a “watercolor print” with just the image i used for the design on my printify product , filled out all the mandatory fields , and then it allowed me to go through the steps to completing setting up my store. Then I just deleted the $5 listing immediately after . Didn’t have any issue
@@lightinmanifest thanks for your reply! I'm gonna give that a try.
One last question: after you did this and deleted this "first listing", was the one you had created through Printify already/still there?
Yep! sure was.@@brumagency
I am following you for a while. My question to you is mixing font, color design from different top sellers sounds good but is not true that certain designs only work with specific colors, fonts, or because they are from top selling items it may work with any other design.
You're charged.
Wait, what are you saying at about 9:01?
How did you do the table at 7:50 ?
Figma Tutorial incoming? :) Love your content!
Where are free 40 listings?
Where is the Etsy Link?
started my store but i have it on. both mugs And candles. should i make it just ONE?
I'd probably pick one
@@alekSheffy goodbye my beautiful candles
Omg. Thanos. Hahaha! I loved that. 🤣
Questions: when someone buys from the etsy listing and they are sent the order to print full are you charged, or does it come out of the money from etsy
You are charged. Then you get paid from etsy after they take out all their fees.
Hi. Does Alura still offer "Best Selling Shops" as an option?
yes
Hey @@alekSheffy - thanks. Alura just got back to me and confirmed that it's been removed, so it may be that you have an old version - don't update! ;) They did seem to suggest they may bring it back if users request it.
Hey@@alekSheffy Alura have confirmed that it's been removed - it might just be that you have an older version, so maybe don't update ;) It did sound like they may consider bringing it back if users requested it.
@@loungermusic you can still do a similar thing by going into the "shop analyzer" section. but you have to pay for one of the plans to sort the results by earnings etc. I ended up using etsy hunt. as it does a similar thing. but is only $4 a month. Also, a lot of the data is apparently super inaccurate on Alura
How I do with the ads?
So where is the 40 free listing link?
I have a question.. I just started a Etsy shop I made a mistake on filling out the tax forms.. they froze my shop I tried to fix my mistake when I get in to the part I need to change I clicked on the edit part and it won’t allow me to correct it .. why and Etsy is not returning my emails.. it’s been 2 weeks now I was wondering can I delete my account and start over again.. thanks..
How do I do that ?
from Nigeria I have no business how can I register without a business name
Hello! I want to use a character from Marvel and appropriate it with my own design that was edited my ai. What would i need to legally sell a shirt design like this? Is it impossible?
No, you can't use Marvel's intellectual properties without their permission - no matter how much or how little you change them. And if you could afford to license their characters, you probably wouldn't be selling on Etsy. You would be selling to Walmart and Target.
Etsy is over saturated with POD and drop shipping. The only people making money are those who are very skilled in marketing or those selling courses on ‘how to sell on Etsy’
Copyright cutscene made me geek 😂
super good video
Etsy closes accounts for nothing they don’t even give a reason 😡
Alek, thank you for this video. A question, I have. Hope you see it and answer it: how do you get to that page where all a successful product tags are shown?
Etsy is maybe good for your C average stuff because it is going to be modified (stolen) in less than a week. If your have a really good design get a copyright. If you are using a character you deigned get it trademarked, otherwise you will be far game. Don't use Ai because it is not protected unless you don't care.
The title says "guaranteed sales" but his first sentence says "almost ensure" lol
discord invitation is not working for me :(
You like la Tour Eiffel a lot 😊
Thanks!
40 free listings where?
Everything you said have no point... Because on Etsy now a lot of people from China and they are selling tshirts with images for $6.99... and you can't beat them ... Never!!!!!
Unfortunately Etsy can't pay sellers from my country 😢
which country is that??
@@kaydesignsofficial Algeria 🇩🇿