Eight months ago, I started
selling on Etsy...It really is a short time but gained a good experience and
earned in this period more than 34k dollars.
I tie up my Etsy account with
the printful ( You sell products on your store, and printful automatically
process and fulfill them when orders come through, and ship them out to your
customer, without any monthly fees), I add more than 12 design shirts I was
optimistic I would get sales.
Did I?
Yeah! Just a day after adding
my Shirt designs I was asleep and dreamed I got 3 sales and I woke up quickly
and opened my phone and I was really surprised that I got 3 sales, I was
shocked by a dream come true.
Anyway, I was happy when I watching
printful fulfillment my orders, and start to make money on Etsy and in the next
day I got two sales.
But I was disappointed because
my design was rejected due to intellectual property rights because the designs
were for a movie and a brand "Gucci"
I got help from my friend (graphic designer) and we
worked together and made a perfect profit
This is my short story about selling on Etsy using printful, Let's now begin to
explain how to sell on Etsy and make money
1-what is Etsy ?
Etsy is the global marketplace for some unique and
inventive good, it's the universe of special exceptional items.
2- What
can you sell on Etsy?
You can sell handmade goods, vintage items and
craft supplies.
3- how to
set up a shop on etsy ?
Once you've got a profitable idea, it's the time to
create your shop. go to Etsy.com and sign up
It’s simple practicability: Sign up, click the
"Sell on Etsy" button and fill in all information, such as your Etsy
shop name and billing information...
To learn the basics from other store owners, like
as to how to take wonderful pictures of your items or Write an ideal
description of your store, check out Etsy’s seller handbook
4- What
are the Fees and Taxes for Selling on Etsy?
selling through marketplace Etsy isn't for free.
You will be charged a listing fee of $0.20 USD for each item when the listing
is published. For private listings, however, the $0.20 fee will be charged and If you make a sale through
Etsy, you will be charged a transaction fee of 5% of the price for each listing
plus the amount you charge for shipping.
5- how to
get more views on Etsy for free?
I will talk about some ways to drive traffic to
your Etsy shop. Views of my shop Etsy divided into the following figure:
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Etsy.com 38%
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Pinterest.com 30%
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Google.com 21%
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Other 11%
To get views from google you would use AdWords keyword planner To see the size of the
search and other previous metrics for your keywords, as well as expectations
for future performance.
Pin your products on Pinterest is perfect to drive
more traffic to your Etsy shop, You can search for the boards has a lot of
followers, or create your boards and add
people to it they have a good number of followers, for example, more than 5k.
Creating a Facebook page or Instagram account for
your shop also is good to get more views on your online store.
6- how much money can i make
on etsy?
Through my experience on Etsy, you can earn money
that can exceed 100k dollars a year, you need just a profitable idea and
traffic
Just remember that “creativity
and continuity is the origin of success”
