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The NEW Etsy COMPETITOR Is HERE (Who's This For?)
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- čas přidán 6. 06. 2024
- In this video Scott and Chris discuss the NEW Etsy Competitor that is getting some attention and if it's worth selling your products on.
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They will only grow if we the makers talk about them, push them and support them
I watched a podcast with the owner yesterday and he seems to be very grounded and a great person. All handmade and digital. No POD
I am completely handmade. I make chocolates. I was finally able to join a year ago. I am among from what I see one of 3 other chocolate makers on the platform. I knew when I signed up it was not going to draw in the huge sales I get on etsy, but I see the potential and love their mission. So for $10 a month, im hoping eventually people will learn about the platform and start checking it out. I'm in for the long haul. I've had a few sales but nothing astounding. I've seen more videos such as yourselves talking about it. Which is great! I've also been asked to be an ambassadorship program which they just came out with. I have a good feeling about goimagine. But will never give up etsy. It's just another revenue stream.
Agreed! Another potential revenue stream for handmade sellers.
I think there's potential for this site. I started on Etsy in 2009 so getting started in the beginning worked to my benefit in the long run. Same could happen here.
The head guy over there is incredibly awesome. He transferred all my listings for me 2 years ago, but I’ve been so busy with Etsy I just haven’t opened yet. Gonna ask him to help me update them and get open ASAP. Been paying the $10 monthly since it started.
I let Starla know about this video. She has asked Jon Lincoln to contact you guys by email, so you should hear from him soon. Thank you for supporting Starla, by the way. I’m one of her HAA students, and several of us have told her how supportive you are of her.
@@rachelprovenza1942I’m in HAA too! Jon was great on Friday Bean also. I just hope as a Fine art Photographer I will be able to add my work soon. I also am a POD seller, but very new at all of this. At some point will be doing more handmade things. 🐺❤
@@j348011Yaay you!!
I feel like most of your content is about POD and not handmade items. I have been watching your videos for 6 months to help me understand how to start selling on Etsy. I make one of a kind handbags and I do get a lot of great information from both of you. I am not an Etsy shopper myself as I want to support someone like myself who makes their products by hand. This is the reason why I will try the new site. But you are right with the amount of traffic that Etsy has right now they can’t compete. I will do both.
But that is how Etsy started but they do the frequency capping and I find out that is a very nasty and unfair practice. Too many competitors already that do not sell a thing.
Etsy is mostly pod now. Which means it’s really just a bunch of designers not makers or artisans.
I agree with you. Although, I wouldn't even call them designers. It's mostly a collection of images from Creative Fabrica (which seems to be overflowing with the same Ai images from MidJourney). There's nothing original, hardly anything personalized. "They" just open a Printify shop, add the files they got from Creative Fabrica, and charge a couple of bucks over the Printify fee, undercutting genuine handmade makers, artisans, and designers.
I like the fact that the site’s profits go towards children’s charities. And the $10mth for a website is a bonus. Shopify’s fees are simply too much for someone just starting out. Most sellers simply will not recoup that cost for a long while, if ever. Plus, having to drive your own traffic to Shopify is, again, beyond many people. Most small Makers just want to create and then have the ability to sell on the cheap.
Starla Moore mentioned and she also mentioned that she wants CZcamsrs to promote it and she showed you guys. I did and I love it
She’s gross though
I think I can see myself trying this site. I sell original paintings and prints of paintings and on Etsy I currently get hardly any views let alone sales with all the competition on there. I might have success on this new site with much less traffic and competition to sell a painting for $200.
This doesn't look like a site for me. I'm strictly POD (Resin 3D Printing, Printify). This might be good for my sister-in-law who has a crochet business.
“Not a competitor at all”…I’m sure that’s what Walmart thought about Amazon in the 90s 😂. I wouldn’t sleep on this site or dismiss it simply because it’s new. To compare traffic at this point is almost ridiculous. It’s like comparing a toddler’s results to a full grown adult. It’s still growing. Also, all those things you mentioned like growing an email list or driving your own traffic to make sells, you still have to do those things with Etsy which makes it even more frustrating because they millions of visitors each month. I’d rather have smaller traffic but more opportunities to be seen then Etsy’s millions but still be invisible.
Thank you! I’m going to try this growing business.
They are starting remember when Etsy started. I rather be on a platform when is starting and be there when they succeed. Of course I will keep Etsy
What a wonderful new!!! With the frequency capping that Etsy does many of the sellers do not sell anything or few things only. We need to move to this new platform and leave Etsy behind. They have done a disservice to many if us for too long. Lets go sellers!!!
I’m totally handmade. Hope this will grow……I’m joining.
I started selling handpainted miniatures on Etsy in 2019. I bought the figures plain and unpainted and applied my skills. It was free to start up a shop. It was free to list. There were no penalties for shipping to other countries. They were a certified B corporation. When I need to contact support, there was a real person to chat with. Then Josh Silverman took over and the company went public. Fee after fee started, they required you to almost be an import tax lawyer on your own to ship to other countries, I couldn't figure out the right code for what I was making and stopped international sales. They added the bs about "offer free shipping and just jack up your prices!" Literally got an email saying to do that. No. I want to charge actual shipping because the amount I could jack up didn't cover Alaska, Hawaii and the territories, places that would be a lot more expensive to ship to. I wouldn't sell if I charged enough to cover all that. The beginning of the flood of drop shipped mass manufactured items started. I occasionally checked out my competition to see what their skills were and what they were charging and found a seller selling the actual plain minis I painted, but unpainted, just as they came out of the package, marked as handmade and charging 3x the price of the manufacturer's msrp. I reported that seller and sent images and links from the manufacturers website of the exact items they were selling, but Etsy did NOTHING. My last straw was when they required conversion to plaid, a company that requested your bank login and password (don't ever share your fricking password!) and who was sued just before that for data breach. I closed my shop. It seems I got out at the right time, watching the news about etsy, now I hear there's even a fee to list. I was able to opt out of offsite ads while I was there, but I've heard you can't anymore and they charge you for that, too. Not to mention all the shop suspensions, money withholding for arbitrary reasons, and no human communication. Josh Silverman destroyed Etsy. I like that this new site has a lot of rules against ai. Unscrupulous Sellers on Etsy use a lot of ai generated images. I think it should be considered an alternative to Etsy, but if we're honest, everything but Etsy should be considered an alternative to Etsy at this point. I mean eBay is cheaper and is less of a headache to ship internationally. Would love to see this new site thrive!
I agree with a lot of your views. Etsy has always charged 20cents to list. I think you may have meant, if you are a new Seller - opening a brand new shop, you have to pay a one time fee of $15. Offsite ads are optional - Unless your shop sold over $10,000 USD or more in the past 365 days. Which sucks if your shop had a bad year and you didn't sell 10k or more, you still are stuck in the offsite ads. I sold over another threshold where I have a "lifetime" discount on my mandatory offsite ad fee, lol (such BS). Although, I don't mind the fee. It only applies if someone actually clicks on the link and makes a purchase in your shop (30 countdown). I assume I wouldn't have made those sales otherwise. So far, GoImagine seems great!
WELCOME!
I am mostly handmade and have added some print on demand to add more choices to a nit. I’m already in. It’s not doing well my handmaid as well. I’m 71 years old and I don’t need to have a eight hour day shop or creating and doing stuff every day I work a couple hours a day I get a couple sales a day of course it’s seasonal sometimes I’m in the cruise industry For selling things going on cruises but originally when I started my shop 13 years ago, I was 100% embroidered baby items so the market has turned on that and has gone more too sublimation and print on demand so it’s a roller coaster right now but I’m OK with it. I don’t need to be any more busy, I’m fine with the amount of money I bring in. It’s definitely not thousands and thousands every month but it’s definitely a nice little cash flow.
We are completely handmade girls twirly dresses. I might try this new platform for a long term strategy.
I plan on using both. Their profits go to child based charities. If enough of us join maybe Etsy will get their act together!
No they do have advertising is on the seller profile you can run them with whatever amount you want
I LOVE Goimagine!
completely hand made. You could reach out to Jon and get all the answers you are asking. He is very approachable
I sure hope they expand to Canada soon but it makes sense to start in one country to build the company and iron out any kinks before going international.
you should say its just for U.S.A. at the beginning.
Been watching them for a few months. Was disappointed that it was US sellers only but they will be opening up to Canada next (just don’t know when). I will jump when they are ready. So sick of Etsy.
We’ll have to wait some years to see if they can match or better Etsy as Etsy has a 16 year lead on them? Thanks for the video, best wishes, Colin.
I bet they are tons better about caring about their customers (human). EVs were tiny and folks laughed...
I guess time will tell as more people start using the platform.
What's EV?
it is a whole new world. Im slowly sliding out of Etsy. Goimagine allows me to not have to mark my prices up to cover all the etsy fees. Amen!
Yes they do ads
Goimagine pays for the ads, I dont think that goimagine sellers can purchase ads. I may be wrong/
I tried to reach their site from Poland but I couldn't. It looked like a scam site - all straight from code looking like some sites in 1998. No photos etc at all, no functionality. I don't know - if they were attacked? Something broken? But for sure as long as it can't be seen and used worldwide - they won't ever take Etsy's place.
I started my own website in 2022 with Shopify, sure I pay $39.99 per month now but I have complete control over my own business. I am handmade + POD & selling higher priced original paintings so hopping over to another platform that I have to pay monthly and maybe pay listing fees for kind of seems counterintuitive. It’s better to have your own website.
No listing fees is included on your membership. I have the $10 includes my own website that I have full control over it and 1000 listing
@@mercyguerrero5240 okay, I did say maybe (because I wasn’t too sure). But that’s great for you ❤️ thanks for sharing!
Using someone else's platform (Shopify) means you have zero control. IT professional here.
@@ticktock2383🙃 yeah totally 🙄.
I joined a couple of weeks ago just to claim my shop name. It would be nice if they grew.
What about "creative market"? How is this website to sell digital products & pod products?
No POD unless YOU are doing the printing. Digital I “think” yes.
There’s many digital marketplaces. It’s not very easy to get onto creative market tho, there’s a process and they don’t take everyone. There’s several others too
@@karenl8837 can you tell me other marketplace? I just opened my shop in the creative market.
once you apply a team reviews your items and shop.
Handmade
The site has no traffic when compared to Etsy . Not in Canada yet.
I mean really, there isn't site that compares with Etsy, other than Amazon - comparing traffic, not handmade. Not even Handmade at Amazon compares. When Etsy started, Artfire and Rubylane were way better (IMO). Every platform has to start somewhere.
I am on Etsy too, but I no longer sell outside of the USA. so for me this is a win!
Pod is NOT hand made, I hope that go imagine never allows such garbage.
Agreed, but if YOU are printing an image on an item yourself they do allow that.
Sadly there wont be a competitor until theres a handmade site that is open worldwide and that deals with all the taxes like an international marketplace has to.
Monthly fee is a turn off.
The top fee a month is $10! no other fees, except the CC fee. No listing fees, no 12% to the offsite ads. At the most I will pay $120 a year and that includes my own direct website! Last year I lost 38% of my sales to etsy fees. ($7K to etsy)
It it’s not a true competitor to Etsy when it’s restricted to the USA only🤷🏻♀️
Agree, as a handmaider I imediately rushed to register there! Only real handmade! So ecxited! Only to discover they don't have ANY countries except USA alone.
When Etsy started, they restricted the countries sellers could operate in, though not the countries buyers could purchase from. Every platform has to start somewhere.
They still do!
@@Walperion_Music Jon has not said "no" he has said " not yet" There is a growing process. At some point he may consider it.
Cant wait till goimagine come to europe so we can join them too :)
I cant imagine them "banning" AI, since really AI is around 1959 and corps have been using it on the down low forever. If I trained my own AI on my own photographs how would anyone know it was not mine.I have tons of jewelry we make piece by piece by hand but to outlaw AI seems like they are trying to cater to the etsy whiners instead of realizing a larger spectrum of creativity ...
handmade and very small niche
Your number will probably go up just because you’re doing a video about it. I’ve never heard of it.
It could, but their traffic is still pretty low.
@@brandcreators I just went and looked at their website. They only have about 350 sellers at the time that article was written but one interesting thing is they have an article about they don’t allow infringement yet on the first two pages of searching through baby items I see Disney I see the Grinch and a couple of other things so obviously they’re not staying on top of that which is a big no-no in my book and I don’t wanna be selling on a platform that allows that it is bad enough in fact, it seems horrible with it, but I do sell Etsy
If you would like to know more about GoImagine, hop over to Starla Moore where she questioned Jon about GoImagine (the Friday the 7th video). He provides great insight into the now, future, and they're offerings for handmade Sellers.
Haha just like shopify stores 11000 traffic just nothing compare with etsy 🤭😅
Nah. I don't see long term success. Its a private company. Low traffic. It's not something better than Etsy. When you say to people Handmade Website they will tell you Etsy. The hardest thing is to change the Perception of the people mind.