However, you can decide whether to cover the cost of shipping yourself or pass that cost on to your customers. Most sellers choose to get paid weekly. In this case, payments are sent to your bank account every Monday, and then it will take another two to three days before the payment is available. You can choose to get paid daily, weekly, monthly, etc.
Therefore, you shouldn't be discouraged if your store opens to little or no traffic. Just like brand-new brick-and-mortar stores, it can take time for your Etsy shop to build up a fan base.
And once you do land your first sale, encourage an ongoing dialogue with your customers. Check your messages inbox regularly, respond to questions promptly, address their concerns and ask for their feedback. Other than the obvious pleasure of treating your customers respectfully, a perk of great customer service on Etsy is the potential for five-star reviews. Ultimately, your energies are best focused on doing what you love: creating unique, high-quality products.
Excellent products are the biggest draw for new and returning customers, plain and simple. In-depth: How to open an Etsy shop. Create an Etsy account. Set your shop preferences. Choose your Etsy shop name. Four to 20 characters long. No spaces or special characters. No trademark infringements.
No profanities. Add items to your shop. Choose your payment preferences. Set up billing. Open your shop. Customize your shop. Etsy fees. So, what are Etsy fees? Etsy listing fees. Etsy transaction fees. Etsy payment processing fees. Additional Etsy seller fees. Tips for selling on Etsy.
Take professional or professional-looking pictures. Curate your store. Make your store searchable with SEO. Price your goods properly. Keep your finances organized. Frequently asked questions. How much does it cost to set up an Etsy shop? How do Etsy sellers get paid?
Who pays for shipping on Etsy? How long does it take to get paid from Etsy? The bottom line. Thanks for your time. I think people have to come to a decision about what their longterm goals are for their business and how much their willing to stake for it. I dislike Etsy. They close down shops complaining that you are not listing correctly, yet leave other shops on there that are listing the same exact item or item that you can tell are not handmade and or fake items.
A big fraud if you ask me. Etsy is not right for everyone… and building a fully-functional website can be tough too. There are a bunch of Facebook shop applications that let you build stores right inside of your Facebook business page check out ShopTab.
Great article, I found this awhile ago when helping my sister research about setting up a web store. Her needs were really simple, she just wanted an online store to post some products and to be able to accept credit cards. Most of the existing stuff was too expensive or complicated for what she needed.
So I built a really simple web app for her to do that. Thanks and good luck everyone! George, I took a look at your bulavard venue, and from what I saw I think that it is great.
I like the simple look of your site. Do you have a sample store that a potential seller could look at? I would like to see an example of what my store would look like before I signed up. One thing that may work against you and your site sellers is the spelling of your site domain name. When people ask a person where they sell online, and they say boulevard, and the person that they told goes to visit the site, they will not be able to find your site.
Or, they will find something else, because they did not use the correct spelling when they tried to visit your site. Interesting thoughts — never really considered the disadvantages of Etsy. WooCommerce and other eCommerce platforms seem to be a bit more work, but perhaps they are worth it in the long run.
This article is one-sided. I have my own websites and am a qualified web designer. I also have stores on places like Etsy, Zazzle etc. They ALL have their good and bad. I use my websites to drive traffic to those stores as well as other income revenues. Far back in this thread I posted how etsy got stupid and greedy then I found Artfire. Well Artfire got stupid and greedy as well now. Ads suddenly appeared all over everyones listings. And not off to the side where you know they are ads, but in with the descriptions.
Want to see my beautiful hand made pen? Click here for some cheap made in china junk. It was horrible! Complaints filled their forum board.
The PR person they had already left Artfire. Sales had tanked about the same time he left. Just search google for anything. Does Artfire even show up anymore? I never see it. And the CEO flat out ignored everyones posts. They start out great.
So did etsy. So did ebay. But one by one they ALL get bitten by the stupid and greedy bugs. So to anyone reading this, if you want these third party, totally out of your control to do what ever they want when ever they want sites, you ALL should first build your own. Three pages. Briefly, entry pages have to be short and to the point. This is what this site is about.
This is what we offer where you have some pictures and better descriptions. Of course you can build your own store from here. This way, when one gets stupid and you either pull out or they boot you out for complaining about the greed too much, simply change the link on your own site to where ever you find next. Sure saves on business cards this way if nothing else. As for me personally?
Not to mention the countless HOURS listing, promoting, tweeting, pinning just to bring business there only to be treated like an old shoe. Or forget about it. Since non of them do that, forget about it. Etsy is good place to start but you should have an own website to grow.
Depending on how you plan to expand your business, choose the appropriate tool. You should know that free plans are always have some limitations external links or free subdomains which sometimes poorly affect on SEO or make your bussiness little unprofessional. When choosing free website pay attention for shop addons pricing. They are good, no question about it, but remeber awesome tools not make your profits its your work make it. Sometimes start can be difficult and you may notice poor effectiveness of your site, so you should constantly analyze actions of visitors and learn lessons from your marketing efforts.
External website also gives you ability to sell through Google Merchant Center. I dont think views have dropped on etsy, I have a lot of items for sale though,it does vary daily however.
A lot of sellers that I look up to are doing just fine in sales. Some have been on etsy for 5 years while others have only been on for 2. I do notice that most dated within the year have few sales. I also have noticed on numerous occasions that the more listings you have, the better. I have not sold anything on either Etsy or Artfire for almost two years.
I am doing other things now. I would like to make a suggestion for everyone no matter what you sell or where you sell your products. Facebook advertising is what I would like to recommend.
I highly recommend Facebook advertising over renewing on a constant basis, not counting when the listing expires. You will have to be willing to spend some money on trial and error first with Facebook advertising.
Video engagement is probably the best way to go when you run an ad. You should be able to get clicks on your video for less than 5 cents per click. If not, you are doing something wrong. Be sure to keep your videos short, which means that they should be only about one minute in length. The longer the video, the greater the drop off rate will be.
You can also run ads for clicks to your website. I would not send people to your Etsy shop only a website. This is much better than SEO.
I am all for SEO, but Google is all about making money and they want you to spend money on advertising in order for your website to show up on their search results. It use to be that in about one to two weeks of putting up a website you could show up in the Google search results but that is no longer the case.
With Facebook advertising you will get people seeing your products within hours rather than months or years. The target market audience can be narrowed down using Facebook advertising. Finding the right audience to target is the key to a successful ad on Facebook. Maybe target one state or one city. For example, if you live in California, you may want to target one of the large cities in that state such as Sacramento or a large city you live in or live near.
You can adjust the radius of the area around the city you are targeting. Be sure to have some content on your Facebook fan page before you start running any ads. You should have at least four posts on your Facebook page besides the ad. While this article makes many good points- it is missing the single most valuable point of using Etsy as a selling platform- TRAFFIC, and cheap traffic- sure you can start your own store website, but the marketing dollars to generate anywhere near the traffic that a moderately successful Etsy shop has is why Etsy does so well.
We all know that diversification is essential to longevity in online retailing, but Etsy is IMHO the easiest way to build an online business for artisans. My product is an investment for the future. Thank you for such an informative article.
We lost everything because all it took was litterally a handful of unhappy customers out of hundreds on top of hundreds. Absolutely none. Their will always be unhappy people. We had one post a 2 stars reviews because it was a gift and the person loved it but she felt she could have had the item before the due date and could have paid less elsewhere for her custom order.
That two star triggered a shop review because we had someone accidentally open and close a case while trying to message us as a thank you. It is true Having a presence in Etsy is fine but along with it having a website of your own is even more effective and helpful to sell your products. It is easy to start first you need to know some business fundamentally then you can easily do a startup. In your article I learnt a lot things. What an absolute crock.
Including Shopify. Etsy really is simple for a startup. Their pricing structure is fair and lower than most of their competitors. If you want to make money you have to spend dollars and time no matter what you do.
Totally agree with Steve. No matter how good their platform is, be it Etsy, Ebay, Amazon or any others, you are at their mercy. They are in business and gaining profits is their priority no matter what. I am with Etsy for a year plus, although it does bring me quite a number of sales, I have never think that it will be in long term. I have my own website, but I find that recently sales have been more via Etsy. I do have my own brand, which is new but prominent and have repeat customers from there.
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What is an Etsy store? Is it worth selling on Etsy? Note: This post above may contain affiliate links, which means that I may receive a commission if you make a purchase when clicking a link. Please consult our privacy policy for more information. Artfire is in my own opinion the best selling venue for handmade, supplies, and vintage. Artfire has a low monthly Pro studio fee with no listing fee or final value fee.
Aftfire also provides great tools and guides for their sellers. Artfire also provides a blog for their Pro sellers. I want to find these stores n support them. Come and see what we have to offer and how different we are to Etsy and Ebay. We are Artfire!
Pointing your domain does not help your SEO because your site simply redirects to Artfire depending on how you set things up So to sum it up.
Keep an eye on ArtFire over the coming two weeks. You will see a lot of amazing things. Cheers, Nathalie. Can you have tiered pricing for quantity discounts? Can you have bundled discounts? Can you have private sales for special customers? Is there an email newsletter management system? Full Analytics integration using custom vars via javascript 7.
Can you automatically export sales data to quickbooks? Can you zoom in on your product pictures? Free shipping if you purchase Item X These are just a few things that come to mind….
The complication is credibility. Steve asks: 2. Steve asks: 3. Steve asks: 4. Steve asks: 5. Steve asks: 7. They have info posted on their blog here: Steve says: 9. These are just a few things that come to mind… I hope I have managed to answer you to your satisfaction.
Oh, and to clarify since I cannot edit my reply above. My pleasure Steve. Hopefully I have brought you some new newsletter subscribers. I have enjoyed reading all the comments. Hi Steve, my experience was the reverse. Hi Steve, I just wanted to let you know that all Artfire studios now have a new look and a new shopping cart.
I believe that you will be given your first month for free when you sign up with Artfire. I wish you much success whatever you decide to do selling online.
Steve, I accidentally emailed you instead of posting here my comment for Leanna Richmond. I am sure that she will find that out soon enough if and when she puts a website online.
It could be changes in the search engine criteria as opposed to something Etsy has done, no? I nearly forgot about this discussion. I could identify with the article point about — all the stores look the same on etsy. It is true.. Like your content and your little girl is so cute.. Pea's Perspectives. Hi Jenny, For the most part, I agree with your comments except for this one. Are you basing your comments on personal experience?
So good luck to you. Your in middle school? So under 18 then right? If I had something that I wanted to sell I would probably sign up to sell there. Good article! Test several ads and see which ad works the best. We had a shop for years making solid 6 figures. By looking at what other sellers are doing, you can gain inspiration for your own store. Before you listen items, make sure that you have ample inventory and that the items are ready to be shipped.
Your inventory should be completely ready to go, so that once your store is open, all you have to do is focus on making sales. You can do this by writing listing titles and descriptions that include searchable keywords. That way, buyers will see your listings when they search relevant terms.
In addition, you should market your Etsy store on other platforms. If you need additional financing to purchase inventory, materials, or other expenses, you may want to consider a business loan for your Etsy store. Once you receive a small business loan , you can use it to invest in your business. World globe An icon of the world globe, indicating different international options.
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