How I Sold Over 500k On ETSY! (and YOU can too!)
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- čas přidán 15. 07. 2024
- In this video I share how I sold my first 500K+ on Etsy using Print On Demand! If you are looking for a way to make money online working from home, then watch this video to learn this flexible side hustle that you can learn and start your very own business today! I'll explain what print on demand is and tell you which print on demand company I personally use, it is linked down below as well.
I go month by month for my first 8 months selling on Etsy in 2020 and share exactly what niches I was selling in, how many sales I made and even how much profit I made from those sales as well. Stay tuned until the end for my reveal of my total Revenue and Profits for 2020!
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0:00 Intro
0:50 What Is Print On Demand
1:30 I Opened My Etsy Store
2:10 Etsy Deactivated My Store
3:57 Got My Etsy Shop Back
7:20 I Started Using Etsy Ads
8:57 Big Etsy Tip
10:05 Something CRAZY happened to my shop!!
14:15 Total Profit
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EDIT TO VIDEO: July 2020 Expenses were $2,920, not $12,920. Sorry for the typo!
Thanks! Could you do a video where you break down what your expenses are? I'm just curious because they seem so high and I'd just like to know what they are
@@saraivy Print on demand costs... 🤷♀️ They print, have shirts & send staff... Blessings 🙏🕊️🌟
Hello thank you for all the information iam new to all of this I just tried to open a shop in Etsy the problem is when I tried to link my bank account to them why it is said with plaid and they will access all my bank information and transactions is there any way we can do it manually iam scared about my personal information thank you
@CassiyJohnson Quick question - With POD through Etsy, you get charged when an order is placed, right? So how did you afford to pay the $44k expenses in Nov 2020, for example?
Wow! I can’t even imagine how excited you were when your notifications were going crazy. A dream come true!! 😅🎉
Hi Cassiy, I just want to thank you so much for all the wonderful content and tutorials you put up. They've been super helpful and I am so happy for how your journey has been so far. Truly well deserved.
I just found your channel. And I’m so inspired. I’m binge watching all the videos. Thank you so much😊
Wow, Cassiy. I'm a new channel subscriber and have been watching your videos only a couple days, but I already opened up a shop and am working on some designs. I came back to your first video to see where you started and you were hot from the beginning! You've got a knack for this. I really enjoy how clear, informative and authentic you are. I already have learned so much. Thank you for making it so much easier for me to start something completely new to me.
I really appreciate that you clarify revenue vs. profit. Thank you!
Thanks Mary! I definitely am trying to make the videos I wish were out when I first started, glad you are liking them!
Thank You So Much, Cassiy!!! Much needed information!!
Beautiful Cassiy!! I am learning soooo much with your course.. Thank you so much!!!!
So glad you are enjoying it, thanks for watching!!
WOW!! You learned a MASSIVE amount in your first month! That's quite an achievement! Your story is such an inspiration! Thank you for sharing with us!
So appreciate you being open and honest about your journey with this. Super helpful and encouraging for others to hear.
I am so glad that you are enjoying my videos! It really means too much to me that you are getting value from them and they are going to help you grow your very own successful business!
Awesome video! And thank you for showing the profit breakdown. People rarely share that part and it's so helpful!
Thank you so much! I really appreciate that. It can be awkward to share personal numbers but I know I appreciated other people doing the same when I first started!
This is on my list of things to do this year. T Shirt is the way to go. Thank you for the content ❤ You are my Etsy coach.
Somehow I stumbled across one of your videos and I haven't stopped watching them since late last night!! Thank you so much for your super clear, concise, and informative videos. A long time ago, I ordered a sample onesie from Printful only to be disappointed (I didn't like the print quality and a corner of the graphic wasn't printed correctly). So I actually gave up on the whole idea of print on demand. This must have been 6-7 years ago! Wow. But now I am inspired to try anew. Your tips are so invaluable, saving me so much time and money. Thank you again Cassiy. I hope you're having a great day!
Wow that's crazy that you heard of POD so long ago!! So glad you have found a new passion for it, thanks for watching!
Great info. Thanks. And CONGRADULATIONS for your persistence.
Your story is so inspiring! Thanks for sharing. So cool to hear how you put your mind to it, leaned into what was working, learned from others, and found success so fast! Video one was so good, can't wait for this next one!
Thank you so much for the kind words, hope you love the video
Cassiy....I have been following LHC, just started their Success Academy, and originally remember "meeting" you on your testomoinal video they did on you. I was so inspired! I have just started watching the videos on your channel and I'm getting ready to open my shop! I've only see a few videos so far, but I have to say that they are phenomenal and I really appreciate how transparent you are and how you reply back to everyone's questions in the comments. This has already all been so helpful! Thank you so much and I look forward to watching the rest of your videos!
I am so glad I could inspire you
Fantastic first year and great motivation. Thank you ☺
Very thankful for this video, its so encouraging.
Thanks for sharing your story, was great you hit it big in 2020. That was the year we hit big on Amazon FBA as well, now that we are fully vested there, I really want to dig into this Merch stuff and see where I can take this thing. You have been a big inspiration in getting me started. Thx.
Hi Jet! I'm so glad my videos have been valuable for you, and that's so cool that you hit it big on amazon! Congrats!
This. Is. Great. Happy for you! Just starting too so I very much appreciate this info. Thank you again! (You rock!)
Thanks so much for the kind words, really appreciate it and am so glad you are enjoying my content!!
I absolutely love this! Thank you so much for sharing your journey! You have very much inspired me...such great info. I swore off etsy years ago (as you mentioned they can be super frustrating), but you've inspired me to try again!
Wow thank you for this comment today, I am so glad I was able to inspire you to start again!! I really hope you can see the obstacles that come with POD and Etsy as stepping stones to greater things. Don't sweat the small stuff and just take things one little step at a time and you will do great I promise
Awesome story!!! Congratulations to you and your husband!! What an insane such a pleasure knowing we can all have success in this business. Thanks so much for your videos, teaching, instruction and motivation. See you in the next video and putting all these things into daily practice.
Thanks for this wonderful positive comment
Love this Cassiy! Definitely eager for more videos from you, thank you! ❤️
Thanks for the support Susan! Its nerve racking putting yourself out there but I'm excited to help others find success
Straight talking is what I like about these videos...Very very good!
Thanks for the comment! So glad you liked it!!
Watched your interview with LHC. Excited to hear and see more from you!
Thanks for tuning in again!!
Your videos are absolutely amazing. I came across you “randomly” while looking for more info on using Creative Fabrica to make designs to start an Etsy business and have learned more from you in two days than I’ve learned in the past several weeks. I love how you don’t waste any time and get straight to the point. 😊
Thank you so much for sharing your journey, can't wait to see more tips!
Thanks Sam!! I have another video coming out on Tuesday with my Top 10 tips
Amazing journey... great perseverance. Thank you for sharing and wishing you continued success.
Thank you so much for the nice comment and the support, wishing you all the best as well!!
Amazing and inspiring video. You are so clear, and concise. Seriously amazing teacher. Thank you so much for this knowledge! Grateful for your existence.
I’m still really new to teaching online so I really appreciate that, so glad you are getting good value from my videos!
I love that your MIL was your first customer 🥰 so sweet.
She really is the sweetest
This is great information. I am reluctant to just hand over my work and trust that they are doing work that is up to my standards, that Print on demand is something I may try in the future but I really enjoy making t shirts. Not to mention, the amount of profit is higher.
Hey Jana, all good points! With POD there definitely is a chance things can go bad with the print. I sold over 13k items last year and less than 2% of them had an issue, so definitely not super often but still happens. The thing I really like about Print On Demand is you can scale your business to selling 500-2000 shirts per month without having to hire employees or spend all of your time making shirts. So I think it's a good option if you are looking to be able to travel a lot while working on your Etsy shop, or like me I quit my job and now do CZcams full time and Etsy just runs on autopilot while I focus on other things.
I love her she’s the best may god continue bless her I’ve been wanting to start my business but never knew how. She’s giving raw detail I love it.
You are so sweet, thanks for watching and I am so glad to have been able to inspire you on your journey!
Hi Cassiy, thank you so much for doing this and sharing valuable information and tips. I think because of watching your interview on Jarren that got me started my store. Omg I got your mockups with you in them 🥰. I'm looking forward for more awesome videos 👍
Wow Misa, what an honor to have inspired you to start your store! So glad you have started your journey and can't wait to see you succeeding
I ve had one sale for over a week with 50 listings I’ll go list more! Thanks for the advice!
Congrats on the first sale!! Out of my first 50 listings I think only 1 or 2 actually sold well. It takes time to get it just right but keep going and you will get there
Can't wait!!!
Hope you loved the video!!
I like your down to earth approach and non hyping approach to sharing your information. I am recently retired and mostly making things for fun, trying to decide if I should think about trying to sell some items on Etsy because it is not needed, but would support my making adventure. Just trying to figure out real from Hype - heard so many negative things about Etsy - so thanks again for sharing the facts. BTW, I didn't hear why Etsy deactivated your store - did I miss it.
So glad you are enjoying the vibe of my channel! My Etsy shop got deactivated because Etsy's algorithm sometimes thinks new shops are spam and closes them right after opening. It happens quite a lot and its unfortunate but you usually can get your shop back within just a few days now so no big deal!
Congrats on your recent retirement as well!!
Great video Cassiy. Thank you. Here you got a new subscriber :)
Thank you so much Rajvi!!
Thank you Cassiy for your valuable information and advice. We are so fortunate to have you on this platform. ❤️
Thank you so much for your kind words June
That was awesome and super inspiring!!!!!!
Thank you so much Amy!!
Wonderful story!
wow, that is very impressive!! thank you for sharing your story :) really pondering about opening a store... best wishes!
Thank you! Might as well just give it a try
@@CassiyJohnson :) 👍🏻🙋♀️
What a wild first year!! You just can't predict those kinds of ups and downs and surprises! Great storytelling, and thanks for including the numbers as well!
Thanks for the support
Wow. I am SO inspired! I have been doing print on demand for about 6 months now on both Etsy and my own website, but I have never heard someone else's experience laid out so well! I so appreciate your complete openess about yours profits and expenses, but especially the information about how many listings you have! Thank you 😊!
I know I felt the same way when I started, sometimes its just nice to have something to compare too! I personally keep a list of shops that I admire in a notepad on my computer. When I find one, I will write down their name, how many sales they have and how many listings so I can check back periodically and see how they are doing overtime and this has helped to motivate me as well!
@@CassiyJohnson oh my goodness you responded! Wow thanks! Yes so something I've struggled with is that all these CZcamsrs say to do all these things but the thing is you don't know if they are ACTUALLY successful, or if they are just throwing advice around, because they don't give any real numbers!
Ok I watched every single video of yours so far. 😅😂 I had a few long car rides where I was able to listen to most of them. I started in late March/early April. I’m trying SO HARD. Your videos are the most informative I’ve found on CZcams. And easy to listen to since there’s no rambling, straight to the point and your voice is very teacher like (a compliment). So I think I’ve applied everything 😬😬😬 and was able to get 263 sales the past 30 days but I’m wondering how long did it take you to get to that point? I’ve been working hard on getting ready for fall, Halloween this month and I’m hoping that I can have a better fall and holiday season. If I can get to where you were able to get to I’d be incredibly grateful! Thanks for your videos! ❤️
Congrats on getting started and taking action!! 263 sales in 30 days is an awesome start!! I don't remember exactly how long it took me to get there but I know in this video I broke down a lot of the numbers for my first 8 months so hopefully it answered it for you! Just keep working towards being ready in advance for Halloween and Christmas and you are going to CRUSH IT!!
Thanks so much Cassiy for sharing your journey. Another video that makes my heart skip a beat at what is possible. I have a new store up n running now and getting a grip on SEO, but not getting any traffic yet. Q. There are many views on using Social to boost sales. What would you recommend as a starting point? Thanks again! P.s. I have be busy making Halloween merch, but you mentioned you started posting for Xmas in September ???
Yes you always want to try to be 8-12 weeks early for holidays! Here is a link to a video I made on how to get your first 100 sales fast on Etsy czcams.com/video/GB5qAqBoB4o/video.html
Thanks for watching!
You are such an inspiration and so informative. I Love your videos. I am 53 and have been diagnosed with Lupus, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and Fibromyalgia as well as another autoimmune disease Sjogrens disease, therefore I only have about 25% vision in one eye and 50% in the other. Going blind is not far away. Not to mention Chronic pain, etc. I have not been able to work in about 8 months now. I spent a year in school getting a degree in the Medical Field, and after just a few months this all began, rendering me from working away from home. So now I am home and my husbands income covers bills as of now, but with inflation as well as high grocery prices its tough. So I'm hoping to be able to start with the $100 dollars I have. My question is when you have the expenses is this money coming from sales to cover this (expenses)? And, how long does it take to get your money from sales? Again thank you for these videos. I need something from home and I'm hoping this is it.
Love your channel and midwestern accent! 😬
hahaha thanks Lulu!! So glad you are enjoying my videos!
Thank you!
You are so welcome! Hope these videos bring you a lot of value!
I 💗 your channel!
I just made my husband watch this. I'm trying to get him to agree to giving me startup capital (I'm a Stay-at-home-Mom). Thank you for showing us the amazing possibilities!
But you don't need a capital to start what she did
This is why u should have your own as a woman so u arent waiting for a handout from anybody😢
Yay!!
Thanks for stopping by, can't wait for you to see it tomorrow!!
Your sincerity blow me away. Thank you cassiy for this video. I honestly want to start a side hustle. Watched so many videos, after some time you get confused and overwhelmed. I have a question for you. Before you started your Esty shop, did you register the business? Did you use a business name or you personal name. If you did you ur personal name ,how did you separate your taxes since you also work in a company. Be glad if you reply. Thanks once again.
So glad I could help inspire you get started!! I started my business just under my own name and social security number. When you go to file taxes, it is just another form of income to add as a W9 along with your W2, its actually super simple. Just need to track your expenses and you only pay taxes on the profit that you make. czcams.com/video/MgcUzg_L8Z8/video.html Here is a video I made all about taxes if you want to check it out and excited to hear about your journey
@@CassiyJohnson, if this is not too much. Did you open an online banking account for your business before starting or you used your personal bank account. Do you also have a step by step video of how you sync printify with Esty?
@@praisetunny562 I still use my personal bank account so no need to rush and open a separate one just yet but definitely a good idea. As for syncing to Etsy no I don't have a video on this just yet but just open your printify account, then go to the top right and click "My Stores" and then click "Add new store" this takes maybe 30 seconds and Is very simple!
Hi Cassiy! Thank you so much for all of your amazing videos! They have been SO helpful to me!
I have a question about the expenses per month. Are you actually paying those expenses? For example in your November month did you have to pay those expenses of $44thousand out of pocket? I am just not a math/numbers/money person and I'm trying to understand! Thanks!
Thank you for the great videos. Any chance you could make a video detailing how to create an Etsy listing with multiple Printful products (e.g. Women’s, youth, and toddler shirts) with various colors available?
Hi Rebecca! I don't really use Printful except for backups for random items but I'd be interested in checking it out for you! I'll do some research because I know you aren't my only subscriber that wants to know this. If I can figure out some good ways to do it, then I will make a video for you no problem!
Would love to know more about which resources you used (courses, videos, articles etc). And which ones were most beneficial to you.
In the beginning I mostly just followed the Life Hacker Couples free CZcams videos to get started! Eventually I also started watching Ryan Houge's CZcams channel. Both have tons of great POD info to get you going!
The Life Hacker Couple came out with a course last year though that has really everything you'd need to know if you are just getting started, all in one place and in order which is amazing. Here's the link to my video review of their course if you want more info! czcams.com/video/vDin4mPHBkA/video.html
You don't have to buy a course to be successful in POD but it does help to cut down the learning curve a ton! And there course is on sale right now for $297 instead of $500. Either way good luck, just getting started and trying new things until you find what works is the answer
Hi Cassiy, thank you for the videos, I love them! So straightforward. I was looking at the group listings, eg bridesmaid t shirts, and it seems all the listings I see in that niche are priced ridiculously low, eg $13 or even $10 a shirt. I was wondering how you differentiate yourself with that low pricing?
Hi Estelle! Great question, most of those listings have just one color shirt in size XS that is that price or a baby onesie for that price etc. They don't actually sell the shirts for that cheap, its just a ruse to get people to click their link.
In my opinion, people come to Etsy to buy a unique high quality item not just the cheapest shirt that they can find. I have sold over 20,000 shirts at mostly the $25/shirt price point so trust me, people are willing to pay it. Don't worry as much about competing on price. If you have a great design in a market people are already to looking to buy in and great mock-ups, you will get sales!
@@CassiyJohnson Thank you so much, Cassiy! May your business get more and more successful 🌻
Inspiring video! Makes me want to put more effort into my print on demand store. What type of products do you sell the most of (sweatshirts, shirts, etc). Also are you still a general store where you have a ton of different niches?
HI Sarah, So glad I could provide some inspiration! I actually show exactly how many of each product I sold last year in my video coming out on Tuesday! Spoiler alert though, I sell Sweatshirts most and t-shirts second most. I have a general store with many niches still. I think Etsy is the perfect place for that and then if you ever want to open up your own website, I'd recommend just picking one niche!
@@CassiyJohnson Thanks! Appreciate the tip :) Guess sweatshirts for sure make the most profit
I've been binging on your videos and I love that you've had so much success with Etsy. I've been really considering starting a store. I want a clothing based store with t-shirts, hoodies, totes, mugs, etc., but I also want a digital store for e-books, workbooks, etc. Am I able to create 2 separate stores on Etsy? Also can you do a video on how to properly name your store and a video breaking down your monthly expenses. I noticed that within your revenue and profit photos your expenses were very different. Is it because you sold more shirts? I was a little confused on that and I think a breakdown of expenses would be helpful, if possible. Thanks 😊
Hey Nikki! I am so excited for you to start your journey! My best advice is to just literally open your store today and post something... anything! Everyone I've ever met says they wish they just would have started sooner so do yourself a favor and just get started! For the name, everyone just picks something random and I don't think you should overthink this and you can always change it down the line.
You are able to open multiple shops, just have to open them with different emails. I have my t-shirt shop always open in safari and my mock-up store always open in Chrome!
I'd be happy to break down the monthly expenses if that would be helpful! Maybe I'll do a video on my 2021 sales and breakdown one of the months to make sense. Also if you didn't see the update in the comments, I think its June or July, I added 10k to my expenses one month on accident, but its just a typo lol my bad!
@@CassiyJohnson you're so right. As a coach it's so easy for me to tell my clients to just start but when it comes to my projects I procrastinate because I want it to be "perfect". I want to come out the gate making sales lol.
Thank you so much for the advice and giving me a swift quick in the butt. I'm going to launch my store!
One more quick question my husband and I actually co-own a faith based apparel store but we use printful. We also print on Gildan and Bella Canvas. I've been wanting to launch my own store and I was telling him about Printify. Do you mind sharing the person/company/supplier within Printify that you use for your Bella Canvas 3001 shirts? Thanks again for the inspiration Cassiy!! 💚
@@nikkig9996 Absolutely! I just actually did a review on 8 of the providers for the 3001 on Printify earlier this week, here it is if you haven't seen it yet!
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I prefer using the company Monster Digital, they have god quality and great prices!
@@CassiyJohnson thank you soooo much!!
@@CassiyJohnson I just wanted to let you know that I got my store up. It's a LOT of work but I'm committed to the process. Thank you again for sharing your wisdom and being so inspiring!
Love your videos! I create art prints not t-shirts but I still find the information in your videos helpful! What is the name of your Etsy shop?
Hi Cassiy, I have consistent $300 profit each month with 2000 listings. Would really like to bump up my sales. I saw your videos talked about advertising, can you do a video on how to manage advertising for listings? I'm definitely listing in a lot of niches, just not sure how to get sales like yours! Thanks in advance.
Sure I'd be happy to make a video sometime but I don't do anything crazy, I just run ads on items that have sold over 3ish times recently and watch to make sure they are not spending more than I am making in profit over a week long period!
Thank you so much for all the awesome content you provide. I am considering opening an Etsy shop so I am watching lots of videos about the subject to learn. I need to make $$$ asap. I would like to know if in order to be sucessful do I have to do "You Tube videos" and postings on social media? How long does it takes to start receiving revenues? Thank you in advance.
I would say that I wouldn't expect to start a shop and make money fast, this is more of a long run type of business. It really usually takes 3-4 months to start making real money at it. You do not have to do any social media to sell on Etsy since there is tons of free organic traffic coming to your store if you make sure to have good SEO, designs and pictures!
I've been binge-watching your channel and you're getting me inspired to do this! But, I have a question that's been holding me back from really jumping in. I work in IT full time and am worried that if I start seeing success on my Etsy or Amazon store, that will start getting people calling me during the day while I'm at work like for returns, questions, etc. Is this an issue? Did you have to hire someone to deal with this? There is no way I could handle that extra workload on top of my full time job and just running the store(s) by myself. But in the beginning I won't be able to afford to pay someone to handle those customer support calls. How did you handle this? Thank you!
Thank you for all the info. I am in the UK, I have tried to open my shop with your link but I’m having issues - was your link only for us sign ups? I am not sure what I am doing wrong - stuck at the billing section!
I already have an Etsy shop for my tumblers I make. Do u recommend I start another shop for apparel or add it to my current shop?
Hi Cassiy, thanks so much for your awesome videos! May I ask what you price your tees/sweatshirts at? And do you include shipping in the price?
I price my Bella Canvas Shirts at $24.99 with free shipping and my sweatshirts at about $36.99 with free shipping but it all depends on what you are selling. You ideally want to be making at least $9/shirt and over $10/sweatshirt. So just make sure to see how much the item you are selling will cost you including shipping and then decide what you want to price them!
Hi Would you still recommend paying for ads today?
Hi Cassi, your tutorials are fab, I only wish I had found you earlier. I have a ?. What is the minimum number of listings and how many different niche designs, that you would recommend having ready to go , before making your shop live?
I would make your shop live right away before you make a design! There are so many little things to learn and set up and trust me, you will never feel ready. So just take the small easy steps in the beginning and open your shop, get your logo and all of the settings set up. THEN make just one listing and post it! You will learn a lot doing this and start feeling more sure of everything instead of putting it off and designing a bunch of stuff and then maybe not even posting it because now it's not trending or something. Just don't overthink it is my best advice
Your video would be alot better if you added actual screenshots from Etsy itself and not just your notes and points of the video, but anyways great video! Were you runnning Etsy ads also on your listings?
Hey Cassiy, new subscriber here! Thanks for all the great videos. I am super interested in trying to figure out how to do this for myself. I am wondering how the taxes on something like this works? Do you have to pay taxes on the revenue, or just the profit? Silly question! Lol. Also do you need to file to become a small bussiness owner, or just do some sort of special paperwork? This may need it's own video! Haha. Thanks for all your help! - Amanda
Hi Amanda! You would pay taxes off the profit and you would use a Schedule C to determine your profit for the IRS.
Do you add shipping cost or do you recommend free shipping? I'm seeing a lot of sellers that are putting free shipping and their price on shirts are so low on normal sized tshirts (sm, med, lg) that they wouldn't get a profit after fees and paying for shipping.
Question. I got the spreadsheets from you and I am trying to modify the values bc of the price changes and I need to put in the correct fees. Do I put the fee amt or the new %? Thanks
I would pay for a list of profitable FB groups you used to advertise! So hard to find good ones
I don't have one but it would be a cool thing to sell! It all depends on the random niche you are selling in, but if you can find a good one, then you can do really well!
This is so encouraging, thank you for this wealth of information!! I'm starting out on this journey and a little lost as to how to gain momentum and make enough designs... When you say you had 500 listings do you mean that you have 500 unique designs or some were same design but different variations? 🤔
At that time they were probably mostly all unique designs, I'd say 350-400 of them at least because I did start putting items on sweatshirts, mugs and totes at one point when I listed them as well but its hard to look back and remember when I started that.
For you, I'd focus on coming up with a few "design templates" so find a style for a shirt like a rainbow with a nice easy to read cursive under it, or the same words repeated in different colors on a shirt etc. and model it off of best sellers you have seen before. Don't copy but make sure it looks trendy like other things that have sold. And then make a bunch of designs for different niches with the same design template. You don't have to recreate the wheel every time you design! Hope that helps you get off in a good direction!
Thank you for this insight! I have only just got started but I have created maybe around 6 designs thus far with a few variations of each. Some black only with text and line art, others with coloured images and text... I don't think I have found a set style yet but interesting what you mentioned abt not reinventing the wheel, I will bear this in mind for sure. Your journey is definitely inspirational!!
HI! Thank you so much for all your video's.. I guess seeing this video makes me think about how little you actually make versis the expenses.. I am like just begginng .. And those numbers are making me doubt all this. :(
Wow I am surprised by that Dawn! There are usually expenses that comes with starting a business. I would recommend looking at just the amount of profit and considering if that's worth it to you. These were my first 8 months of sales, I worked full time for 4 of those months so this was truly my side hustle just done after work for half of that time and I made 32k Profit after paying taxes. That is what a lot of people make in a year working full time.
You have to decide if that's worth it to you or not obviously but there are ways to do this with less expenses. You could start a digital download store instead, you could sell the pngs for other people to put on their shirts, then there is only the fee of the design software you use and Etsy fees.
Good luck either way! Just don't let these doubts hold you back from starting your own business. It may not be perfect but its better than working for someone else forever!
Hi Cassiy! I know it is possible to use Printify with Etsy for the items in your shop, but is it possible to also list things that I have personally made and would ship out myself within the same Etsy store?
Hi Cassiy - I'm a huge fan of your videos!! Can you do a video on COLORFUL fonts? I've downloaded a font with a floral, colorful pattern within it (from creative fabrica), but when I install it in Canva, it comes up solid black! Have you done a video on this, or could you share some insight on how to correct it? Thank you so much! also sorry for the spam, I'm just hoping you see the message.
Great video, thank you for sharing! I'm curious about how many hours do you put in a week running this business?
Thanks Ryan, so glad you enjoyed it! In the beginning I wasn't working so I put in at least probably 20 hours per week just learning everything. Then when I went back to work probably something similar, but now that I've been doing it two years and get consistent sales, I probably spend less than an hour per day just maintaining it and answering questions etc. As we get time to start getting ready for the holidays though, I will probably spend 10 hours per week on new Etsy listings to prepare!
I have seen this video again and again, you are such an inspiration, I would like to get a tip of what a work flow you were doing to get 300 listings in a month, that is where I have a problem, did you make a day where you made like 50 design and one day for doing mockups and listings, did you have a special method how to list many items with a fulltime job? And yes, we would like to see a video for 2021 as you say in the video. Thank you CASSIY
I am so glad my story could bring you some inspiration Agnes!! The way that I was able to get so many listings made is I will make one design "template" or design style. Then I will use that combination of colors and fonts to create 100's of t-shirts! So All I have to do is change the words on the shirt, make new mock-ups and find the SEO. I really try to make sure everything I do is scalable and repeatable so I don't always have to be slaving over new designs if that makes sense. I'll have to make a video about this soon!
@@CassiyJohnson Thank you Cassiy! Yes! I try to follow you but maybe I missing the understanding what do you mean with design style or design template? Do you mean one writing like 'I run a girl gang' made with different colours and different fonts? Or you have already 100 different colour and font combinations and you only change the words? Yes, please make a video about this, that would be really helpful.;-)
@@26agica Sorry I wasn't more clear, so I come up with a combination of fonts and colors and then use that combination for lots of different word combinations.
So for example, maybe having cursive on top and blue letters in a block font under it, then changing the words out for different designs like First Grade teacher, Second grade teacher, Chemical Engineer etc.
Hope that makes more sense! And yes I will definitely make a video about this in the future!
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Hello, cassiy! Thanks for your sharing this true story!
I want to know whether it is Etsy SEO Traffic or FB group marketing ads that you mentioned in the video about sharing your t-shirt design and getting hundreds of sales orders in 24-48 hours ?
And how do you carry out FB group advertising marketing?
Can you give a more specific case study, such as how to add niches groups, social group marketing, etc.
@@CassiyJohnson ah ok! Yes! It's make more sense!!! Instead I am making a new design for all! Yes, with your method I can go much faster!!! I will implement it now! Thank you!!!!
I am super interested in doing this the only thing holding me back is the fear of something going terribly wrong with the printing company and me having to try to fix it when I am not the one able to control production, print quality, shipping, etc. I'm a very detail oriented person and the thought of giving another company that much control is terrifying, but i am also trying to expand more into the "passive" income areas. How much customer service is involved? Do you wake up to an endless pile of messages from customers asking where their order is? I feel like 2 weeks is a while and customers get so impatient. Any insight would be appreciated!
Totally understandable to be wary of this but these print companies do a great job! Out of 13k orders last year, less than 2% had an issue and some of those were shipping issues. But Printify stands behind it and if anything is ever wrong, just send them a picture and they will either refund it or send a replacement! If something is lost in the mail, they make you wait 7 days for it to see if it updates, if not then they will send a replacement. So try to trust them, they really make it as easy as possible!
And without using them, I wouldn't have been able to scale as fast as I have! So the trade off is so worth it in my opinion. The hours I would have spent printing and shipping my own items, I got to spend making new things to sell instead and because of that, I have made tons more money!
As for customer service, I'd say anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour per day. During the peak few weeks around Christmas, it might be an hour - two hours per day at the worst and that was when I sold 100k in one month, so usually it should be very manageable!
Cassiy, My Etsy store got deactivated too! Saturday 5/28. I was listing my first item and just shut down with no warning. I was so sad. So I am trying to figure out how to prioritize my time or what steps to take meanwhile my account is being under review. Thank you in advance for your time.
So sorry to hear that Karla! It happens to a lot of us though so don't worry! Just email them and in the meantime focus on finding new niches to design for. Make the designs, find the SEO, make the mock-ups and everything. You can even upload these to Printify and save them as a draft. That way as soon as your shop is back, you can just publish those designs and be rocking and rolling right away!
Just make sure to try to login everyday since sometimes they don't email and let you know your account is back. Best of luck, don't let this hold you back, you got this!
Amazing video! Thank you! One thing I do not understand. When you say Revenue and profit, what are all expenses, what they are include? And what was the average dollars you made on a shirt?
Hi Agnes! The Revenue is total sales on Etsy, then my expenses are things like buying mockups, paying for design services like Canva or GoDaddy, and the cost of the t-shirt that I have to pay for when Printify prints it.
The average I made per shirt definitely changes month to month as I tried different prices, and sold more expsive items like sweatshirts but if I take the average of the whole time I've been selling, it would be somewhere between $7 - $10 per item! Hope this helps!
@@CassiyJohnson Thanks Cassiy, do you suggest to set a lower price until first sale? Now my shirts are on 21.99 but no sales.
@@26agica Hi Agnes! This can be a really great way to gain some sales right when you start but most people suggest doing a breakeven price on a shirt just to get its first sale quickly.
I did this for awhile but now that my shop is a little bit more established, I list all my shirts at the regular price of $24.99. In my opinion personally, a $22 shirt and a $25 shirt are the same thing when I am shopping. But a $16 shirt would stand out.
Do some testing yourself and see what works best for you! But never keep your prices low, your time and your creativity is worth a lot and don't undervalue yourself
@@CassiyJohnson Yes! Great advice! I would like to get the sales starting so I will lower the price as you adviced and see what will happen. Or I will run a sale of 20% on the whole shop.
I have severe CFS/ME. Maybe I missed this part: I always used a rule of: Taxes for self owned business are around 50% of whatever a person brings in monetarily. Ive been told it's probably around 40% but I always ere on caution. I'm missing something in the #'s posted. Looking at one if your square graphics: Do you set aside 40% of the First line so you have the money to pay your U.S. Fed Government taxes when the time comes? Thanks so much for your high quality, we'll thought out videos. Thanks for taking your valuable time to help us.
It works the same as regular income and would go off of the same tiered tax system. I would typically recommend setting aside 30% of total profits for taxes. You only have to pay taxes on the total profits, not on the total money generated if that makes sense.
I am so glad you are enjoying my videos!!
@@CassiyJohnson WOW! You're super quick at replying, too! Yes, that helps!
Hello ❤ I noticed you said you record your videos with your iPhone. What do you use to edit them - Thank you so much I appreciate you !
I use the free iMovie app on my MacBook and have started to pay an editor for some of my fancier videos!
Thank a Million @cassiy johnson, it was v very informative and inspiring. My wife and I have been looking at creating another form of income to help us out, specially something we can do from home and we are taking action immediately, thank you.
Do you have a tutorial for how you set up your store, how you searched for niche, made the designs, etc? It would be great , you've done so well and I wish you and your husband tons of success.
So excited for you and your wife to start this and make money! Here is a video I did that walks you through the whole process from finding a design, making it, making the mockups and listing it using Printify! czcams.com/video/pSs0nMfRqZc/video.html
@@CassiyJohnson Fantastic, that's awesome. I love the interviews you've made, they have been very helpful and I hope you do more in the future.
Have a day full of blessings
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I want to start a print on demand business on Etsy but I am worried about branding and packaging
I just realize something I may be doing wrong, not a dog if I have a sweatshirt that I offer different colors, do I make those six different listings? And then when you go in see different colors. Am I doing wrong?
Good
Thanks for the support!
Hi Cassiy I know this is an older video but I’m binging your videos and I’m very interested in doing print on demand. I have a creative designs that I wouldn’t mind selling and making some extra cash. I have a question regarding the expenses it takes from the Etsy shop and Printfy…do you have to pay printfy up front or will they take it out once a sell is made? I’m sorry if you mentioned this.
Hi Bianca! So glad you’re enjoying my videos! When you make a sale on Etsy, Etsy communicates with Printify to make the order, and Printify charges you for the item. So Printify doesn’t charge you until you make a sale, hope that clears it up! :)
@@CassiyJohnson yess thanks so much. I am working on opening my shop this week!
Hi,please can you do video like for 2021.
And how do your do niche research or find hot selling items.
Do you sell t-shirt and sweatshirt
Hello! I will be doing a video in the future for 2021! I sell t-shirts, sweatshirts, mugs and tote bags. I typically only sell in the larger niches like Teachers, Bachelorette shirts, etc and then find sub niches from there just based on what I see in the search results.Or for Bachelorette shirts, I would for example, go online to see the top themes for bachelorette shirts for 2022 and make shirts for all of them. I'll be making more videos on this in the future!
You mentioned you did a free tshirt giveaway.... how did you actually do this? Did you give the persona coupon to use on your store or did you ship them the tshirt directly from your printer or is there another way. I tried creating a coupon code, but it won't let my winner checkout.
I just had the winner tell me what shirt they wanted and had it shipped directly to them from Printify!
Hi Cassiy. Thanks for this video. Very inspiring. I have about 250 listings but very few sales. I started in November. I feel like I must be doing something wrong. What do you think
Hello! Great work on getting started but I know its frustrating when you don't get many sales. You started at a hard time. You typically want to post things 8-12 weeks before the particular holiday to really have time to rank well and get some sales before everyone starts buying. January and February are the slowest months of the year so it can be tough to break in when you did unless you are selling what people are currently buying.
Just try to focus on bigger niches that are selling currently or are coming up. A few ideas are Teacher Shirts, Family trip shirts, Cinco De Mayo, Autism Awareness month, Mothers day and Fathers day. Just keep trying until something hits!
@@CassiyJohnson thanks very much for getting back to me. I appreciate it. And for the great advice! I’ll keep at it !
Pretty awesome details. Have you ever hired any outside designers ? Do you have any graphic design background? I am just curious about the best software for design. I've designed on Canva but not sure if that's going to cut it.
Great questions Patrick! I have never had any previous design background and have made probably 95% of my own designs using the Go Daddy Studio App/Canva. I have hired a few designers for things I can't make on Fivver and also have purchased a few different pre-made designs on Etsy before.
You'd be surprised at how simple most best selling designs really are, simple really does sell! I'm going to make a video soon of some of the best selling design styles on Etsy, hopefully that one can give you some confidence!
Thanks Cassiy,🙂
Does Etsy take the fees the 5% and 20 cents per listing at the time of purchase?
Cassiy, You have all these different niches you are in. Do you have one Etsy store with a mix of niches? Do you let the Etsy search organize your designs?
Hello! I have 1 Etsy store for all of the niches, I have them separated somewhat into 20 different categories in my shop but more are just in a general category. I did make a video on the benefits of having a niche store vs a general store as well. Definitely check that one out as well if you haven’t yet!
We're you selling 800 products you designed or drop shipping from other companies?
hi cassy loving your videos, do you think there is a magic number of listing to have before you start getting consistent sales. just wondering roughly how many you have?
Hi Justine!! There is no magic number, its more about making designs that are trending now, and having what is selling right now. If you follow my advice and always make designs 8-12 weeks in advance for holidays/seasons, then you will start to see consistent sales by forever living in the future instead of trying to catch the train of what's already selling. For some people, they start getting sales consistently after 200 listings and for others its closer to 500-1000. I didn't follow this advice at first so I was in that second group personally.
Thanks you great advice!
How long did it take to get your Etsy store back? I’ve set up my own printify/Etsy store, it was suspended after my first sale, then a few days later I got it back, then they suspended it again for no reason and I’ve answered security questions again and they’re ignoring me now. It’s been 9 days and they no longer reply to me. Spent so long putting it all together too. I have over 100 designs on printify. Etsy are a nightmare to deal with. I’m in the UK I’m thinking trading standards complaint? They’ve debited all my Etsy fees but and allowing me in my account 😕
Do you end up paying taxes on the expenses portion of your sales or just your profit after fees to Etsy & Printer & Shipping?
When you had about 800 listings, does that translate to 800 designs? Or do you still do what Jarren suggested and are doing 1 colorful more intricate design and 1 simple one as 2 separate designs?
HI Sabrina! I do what Jarran teaches and make different versions of designs as well, I didn't do that at first though because I was starting as his videos were coming out so that was probably 600 unique designs but its hard to say for sure looking back on it after all this time.
Definitely recommend doing that and then making even more for each one as they start selling! There is always going to be a lot of competition, better to have it be against yourself than someone else!
@@CassiyJohnson thanks Cassiy!! Great to know! Trying to get past the hump of making designs and putting up listings day after day with no sales. I know that means I need to up my designs and or SEO. I gotta trust the process and my path I guess. Your video today really helped reaffirm that I just gotta stick with it and keep pushing!
@@TheSabrinaBacungan So glad I could help inspire you!! You've got this! Also make sure to be selling in the niches that are selling right now, that can help! Looking forward we have things coming up like Easter, Bachelorette Parties, Autism Awareness Month, Mothers Day and Fathers day
How do you price your items? It seems like the competition has super low prices and includes shipping but the products on Printful, Printify, etc. are high when you calculate shipping!
I am wondering this, too…