that's got? Com is the world's largest handcrafted marketplace. We Richard stories of eighty sellers more than three dozen times in the history of a programme of most of the time we try to look for it, specific angle, either how someone is, differently there, how they come up with some kind of unique product as they ve grown their business or how they transition from selling on Etsy to their own website, which is often a very good model that one of my favorite stories in this category comes. From Jennifer Brown in Chicago. This was way back an epoch one. Did he too was titles cargo woman cells, seventy thousand dollars a month on Etsy. I guess you can probably tell from the title that she has managed to do pretty. Well now, of course, not all Etsy Sellers, results like that. In fact, most of them don't but there's quite a range of outcomes. Twenty situations I always like to look and see. Ok, what do successful sellers do differently? today's listener is looking for some general advice. I'm getting started with at sea

well as what to look out for the pros and cons and more so let your question then I'll give you a few tips, This is Liz from Albany California. I've been listening to the show for a couple of years, and I love the unique stories useful advice and especially the ponds. I'm an artist with an Etsy store, the jury and I'm considering creating a new Etsy shop for clip our products and principles. I've heard a couple of episodes in which featured people selling products through Etsy. My question is: what are your general thoughts about at sea? Do you have any tips for increasing maximizing sales through the platform? What are the pro and cons abusing at sea verses, another online marketplace, or even starting my own website thanks Chris I thank you so much less so glad your listing. We will indeed try to keep it

Mental here, as we go forward into twenty twenty congrats on that First Etsy Shop, it's interesting to hear about your except an idea for anyone who is not familiar. Etsy can be a great starter platform can sometimes the one to be more than a start, a platform, but for anyone it's a great started platform. It is very is it a less something per se all right away like you about an hour or less, maybe even fifteen minutes or less SAM, depending on how quickly you can answer a few basic questions. There is a big market place of buyers which has great it's not just a bunch of sellers, sometimes with somebody's platforms you know it's our people who are offering a service in very small number of people who are actually buying. So as he does have a good marketplace buyers had they done a good job of of marketing themselves in that way, which ultimately benefits the sellers as well. You can get some real world experience in a shorter and you can begin building IRAN following that you can then take elsewhere. I think that last part is key, at least for a lot of people, so what's not to love

I do love like what is not amazing. Whenever you hear about an opportunity that just sounds you know so good. You always have to ask: what's not so good about it, If it was not easy, wouldn't everybody be doing it. While there is a lot of competition like there are a lot of sense. Out there, there are a lot of people who are trying to sell in some cases fairly similar products. Also Etsy is not a charity, their business to their charging fees, and sometimes people are concerned about the fee is going up or all the fees they have to pay over time. It is called the world's largest handcrafted marketplace, but not everything on the site is truly handcrafted. A lot of stuff is mass manufactured, even though its not supposed to be, and then ultimately here's the biggest concern. I think you end up building s he's business as much as your show when it's a win win. That's fine, of course, but there are some real downsides. So here are a couple of steps to give you an advantage. They first of all. Don't sell a commodity, don't sell something that everybody else is selling, so

here lies as idea about the clip our products and principles. I think it's tricky, because some people are able to be successful doing that, but it's also the kind of thing that can be easily duplicated, not nothing at all run with experimenting. That is again something it's really great. With this platform, you can also experiment with a bunch of ideas and do more. If what works in a book when an insider souls, I told the story, of course, in the Greco she, at sea and try talking about two different things paid attention to white people like the most, what they commented on the most etc and she ended up focusing monogram scarfs. She bought a whole business

it became a low six figure business. They she's gonna do something else now, but the point is she experimented in focused on what people responded to speaking? If focusing, I think it's good to focus the round. A theme episode, six, twenty two six hundred and twenty two year from our archives was titled when the rubber hits the road. This Mama three Ernst, five thousand dollars a month and she urged that five thousand dollars a month, primarily from Etsy. Now, in her case, the store was called, yellow, Bess, but everything she made was sold in the color robins egg blue. I forget exactly why she's called yellow best and everything was sober. This other color. But the point is she had chosen this theme and she really can I built it out. I think that helps a lot, especially when there are a lot of people selling similar items Catching more things you want to write your copy, which is your title, your description in any details in the listing itself with enthusiasm. You have to say, like that, also with enthusiasm. You know you want to be like this clip. Art is so fun

Principles are the best thing I've ever seen hears while you'll love them, maybe not quite like that, but again the point as the enthusiastic. Lastly, Why would I consider spending a small amount of money for it? What they call promoted listings, which are basically ads, were sponsored listings, whatever you want to call them or they call them promoted listings. This will help you get more exposure quickly and therefore learn what works and why she to spend a lot of money, but if you're going to spend a little, I can get you that information quicker than just waiting. We're time just a kind of hammer this in most of our big success stories that feature at sea. Doing that building their own site and in building their own. Following apart from the platform which I think is wise, so for less Anybody else out there as long as you know that and our thinking ahead, it is now all about place to start or experiment or expand

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