I'm hooked on your videos. I can't thank you enough. You are a breath of fresh air among all these other etsy "experts" that basically encourage you to do what everyone else is doing. You are the only one I've seen so far that has advised your audience to bring their own products to the marketplace and dominate. It makes perfect sense.

Woaaah! I did this product research today like you told and it took me more than 3 hours to do but what an eye-opener! 🔥 I really enjoyed this kind of video where you showed things inside of Etsy! Thanks again!

It’s refreshing to see someone who is NOT trying to sell a tool, like Everbee or Erank, that is all I hear on everyone else’s channel. Although those tools aren’t very expensive, it is still money being spent, and I think people would have to factor those in to their total cost to make the product…when they’re seeing how much profit they are making. Thank you. I am not sure if I understand what you are talking about in this video, but I will watch it until I understand it.

Thank you so much for this! I'm working on my spreadsheet today after just launching my Etsy business in April. Your videos have really been a lifesaver; so happy I found your content.

Well...another valuable lesson. So much to absorb, but without doing the research, you're wasting time and effort. My hubby constantly reminds me " R&D, R&D, R&D ! ".

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I have learned more in 3 hours of binge watching your videos than I have in weeks of watching other confusing tutorials that generally end up with some or other behind the scenes brief or hidden agenda.

Thanks for your great videos. This was very specific and I just canceled a bunch of subscriptions last month trying to thin out my costs. I'm excited to relaunch after the information gathered through your knowledge sharing. Hope to work with you someday! Really awesome - thank you!

This is my next research project! Makes SO MUCH SENSE👍🏻

Love your videos, thank you so much to put all the work to teach us! I am updating my Etsy shop (6 years, 5-star reviews but only 170+ sales ), I put the work for better photos, descriptions, titles, and tags (I watched your other video when I rewrote the tags) now I follow your video to take tips as I go. The best reliable Etsy tutorials.

Great advice, I did check some competitors trying to figure out what sells well, but your method is of course more methodical, I will def. try this.

another brilliant video Nick, please keep going with these awesome tutorials

Thank you so much for all the valuable information you provide for Etsy newbies. I am doing this. I just got started with Etsy selling downloadable prints of wall art. I believe your tips will me be successful over the long term.

thank you for letting us know how to do this properly. embarking on this new journey is much less intimidating. good work!🌹

Thanks Nik (spelling it right from now on!) - another great vid stuffed with super smart info 👍

Hi Nick, I'm a new Etsy seller, and I've already started the same work you did! it was to get an idea about how other stores in my niche are doing, but I've selected just a few of them. I'm gonna keep it to add more stores and products. I think once it is done, it should be updated after a while. I really appreciate your videos and the valuable information you give us.

Yes! Thank you. This is so informative and i will be doing this to put more products in my shop! 😊

Went and did this this evening. Thanks so much, Nik.

I have been putting together a spreadsheet dnd screenshots! You've confirmed my approach so thank you!

This is most useful video for Etsy product research on KZfaq.

Hi Nick, I am SO thankful I've found your channel....🤓..I hadn't touched my etsy shop for almost 18 mths and having watched a plethora of your videos recently, am implementing your suggestions and can't wait to see how they land..this product research video has been superhelpful...google doc at the ready 😆

awesome video really I was impressed with your shared information and will act upon it on searching the product

Ditto the others that are thankful for your information. I started and then stopped and am back hitting it. I do mugs so I know I will have to be good to succeed. I've been creating but am going to take a break and do the research and start creating again. I need to shut down the monthly charges for E rank and such and stay within etsy. Your 10 minute method made so much sense too and I am going back and looking at everything I've done so far. I also took down all my T shirts and am going straight mugs for now. I really enjoy this but I also need this to work. Blessings. Paul

Thanks, Nik, Great as always. I’ve done this, but on paper, not on a spread sheet. My products fall between the high end/high cost leather designer tote bags and low end/low cost cotton grocery bags. I have 3 price levels, looking for a fourth bag at a lower cost, while maintaining quality. Added astrological bags in January (thank you). Keeping my sections evergreen. I’m working on my “twist” in order to differentiate myself from the two main categories I found while doing research.

This video is soo much better than the Etsy Course im doing currently!

Great video! I already kind of did this method, but usually limited it to 5 stores. I definitely need to kick it up a notch and do 50 or so.

Great video🔥Thank you!❤

Great video; thank you for the help. I definitely subscribed.

completely makes sense and I am going to do this

Great video again, thanks!

Thanks Nik will be trying this out

Great advice, you are a true expert.

Thank you so much, I tried e rank a while back, drove me crazy!

Great great video! Thanks!

You are very smart. Thank you !

I follow you Nick from the beginning, well almost from the beginning when I opened my store in October last year. My niche is very personal and for that reason is very difficult to find strong data about what seels and what not. I sell my personal photography so I can't compere my works to anybody else. Since I follow your advice I started to do the research inside the Etsy but this is actually much more deeper and more organise way, and I will definitely do it. What I want to say is that my shop is 4.5 months old, I did sell 2 photos in December and my average monthly traffic is around 180-190 visits, in December over 300. So perhaps this is not certainly the top but I also analyze my statistics and what is significantly growing is my SEO value. At the moment for February it's 67% of my traffic was brought by Etsy itself and this is almost double to compare with 2 months ago for example. This gives me indication that maybe I have still long way to perfect my research and shop strategy but it seems that I go in good direction, and of course your knowledge is a gold for me.

Awesome video. Thank you

Hello, Mate. Your knowledge and approach are excellent! The best information I could find. I wanted to thank you for the valuable information and learning I'm getting from you. I am now finishing a more professional product research that I skipped in the beguiling of my journey few months ago. Not only that, but I followed the advice you gave in this video, but I also put together all the products from 20 stores in an Excel sheet with data from a tool. Although the data may not be perfect, it seems to me that it is pretty accurate. Data such as faves, Est. Total sales, monthly, listing age, etc. Estimated data. I can filter the results and have a more in-depth understanding of bestsellers vs. listing age, and find already proven selling products. Do you think this could help, or is all the data far inaccurate, and that all the work I'm doing is for nothing? I will greatly appreciate your view on this. Thank you so much. Cheers!

Thank you 🙏🏼

Great Video

thanks!

Hi Nick, so glad I found you on You Tube! Definitely saved me wasting my time listening to other videos, your information is so common sense! Just quick question, I am 20 listings in with original digital art. Do you recommend using social media platforms to advertise or is being on Etsy enough?

Thank you so much 😊

Ty. 😉👍❤

I love your videos and advice! I opened up my Etsy shop in 2020 but finally started listing this year. Should I have started a brand new store/account instead of using my old account that was idle? Ive gotten views but no sales yet - I haven’t run ads either. Would love your advice! Thank you!

Hi Nick, I have been watching your videos for a long time and it helps me a lot in my shop. Thanks for that! In this video I want to ask something you mentioned about searching the high demand part, you mentioned half of the work will be done on inside Etsy ( about the hard work, collecting reviews, date, time and analyze it) and half of the work will be done outside Etsy. Can you please tell me about the outside Etsy work? since it will help me and etsy newcomer with the time consuming.

Excellent video, very helpful, thank you. I was trying to find your store, the one you showed but couldn't find it. Did you change the name or do you have other stores? I would love to see them, thanks.

You can make a macro to crawl through these pages and collect all of this data for you. Set it up once and then just go to the page and push play.

Thank you Nik! So glad to hear you are behind on your comments, I thought you not commenting on my comments on the 10 essential... was personal ;P I will reiterate, as someone in Canada and the exchange rate to USD the prices are so huge and the shipping is so expensive. I am hoping dearly you will do a classroom on how to intelligently deal with shipping rates etc. For now I am simply clicking on the shipping profile the POD offers but once in Etsy the sidebar tells me the rate is too high. I feel lost. I would hire you if I had any money lol. I am desperately following all your advice so I literally do not end up homeless. Promise swear though, when I do start getting sales, am following your advice, I certainly will hire you to help me out. Thank you so much!!!!!!

You're my new hero lol

more important knowledge to have to have any chance of success - thank you so much. Just one question about doing this research into successful Etsy shops. Can you get access to the tags they use for their products? How good would it be to use that information to guide (not copy) your choice of tags.

I am struggling with selling in digital download or physical print (POD) , do you have any suggetion? You're the first one I've asked a qustion so far on KZfaq. Like the other video you mention about: do not waste time on those KZfaq Channel! Thank you for creating this apropos channel!

Thank you for yo😮r complete supportive😊

How to get conclusions just by collecting data such as store names, items, sales (1000), store open, and prices? How do I find a winning product? And what should I do next once I have finished collecting this data? I don't understand yet, can you provide a bit more detailed explanation? Thank you very much for your kindness in explaining..

Always such great info thanks! I saw on another recent post that if u have opened a store 3 months ago and didn't do anything with it then u should close it and start another. Here's my question - I opened a store 10 years ago and didn't do anything with it, forgot I had it!! 2 months ago I decided to do something with it and just picked up where I left off and now have 210 products in there. I'm starting to get traction / views / favors and great 5 star reviews. Do I really need to start again ??!! I've put so much work into the past couple months and can't bare the thought of starting again when things are starting to pick up, thoughts? Maybe I can open another store and slowly transition over?

Hi Nik.. Great videos - I have learned a great deal many many thanks - I have a quick observation / question.. not sure if this is just me or not, but some stores appear to not share their sales data? i.e. when you go to their shop and click on their sales there is no hyperlink to the sales. Just wonder if this is something you have observed yourself ? it would seem there must be an option on Etsy not to share this data which i guess is to stop other people mining this data.

Following your video, I've visited dozens of Etsy shops. 2 things : - I am stunned by the numbers of shops that do sell but haven't set up their shop... forget nicely, make it complete and informative at the bare minimum !!! With all your good advice, I would say it gives us a MAJOR head start ;-) - Looking for French stores, I have a hard time to find that many which sell over 1000 items for my king of items. Should I do my keywords and niche research on the US market (knowing that Etsy will probably post my store over there after translation)... or would you have a lower number for European countries/marketplaces ? Or maybe the keyword I searched is too narrow focused?

Thanks for the good info. I've fallen into using those apps so it was great to get a different perspective. My question is what if the shops you are finding sell more products than you wish to do. How can you break out just those products. I am thinking about doing POD adult puzzles and nearly all those shops sell a wide variety of gifts. When I filter for just puzzels - it's typically a small percentage of what they do. (Is that my answer?) 🙂

I am having difficulty accessing the sales list by clicking on the store sales numbers as you show in the video shown in the video. Do you have any idea why this might not work? Your videos are amazing! I planned to launch my shop by the end of this month, but after watching your videos, I've come to realize that I need a few more weeks to make sure everything is done correctly.

Thanks for the tips, Nik! Do you think i can sell t-shirts and digital products or should a narrow down?

Hi, so what about tools like everBEE and such, the info they are collecting is BS? Cheers! Great info!

Hi Nick, thanks for another great video!🤩 I sell candles and I'm based in Australia. ATM I'm only selling in AU because I don't think people from overseas would buy a candle from the other side of the world (at least I wouldn't, with the risk of breaking the glass, expensive shipping etc). Then my questions are: who is my competition? Just Australia based shops? Or should I still get data from shops around the world? And do you think I'm making a mistake not shipping overseas? Thank you 💝

Once again you "show" your work by "proving" out your method. I have watched so many Etsy videos based on title and wasted hours of my life because afterword's I was like......I learned nothing that had any meat to it, just fluff. When I sit down to watch your videos I have at least 2 pages of "workable notes!" I can then take those notes and actually create a "workable plan" to put in motion. It's changed my whole attitude from being unsure of myself to .......whoa.....hey, I got a PLAN. Watch out Etsy, here I come!!!!

What is a good CTR? Percentage of visits from views (not for adds)? I also love that your videos target the basics and the rest will come (sales etc.). Everyone else talks about how to get 100 sales fast etc., but it’s not sustainable and doesn’t help long term.

Can you please do a video about the "honeymoon" phase on etsy? I put up new listing this morning and sold 2 in the afternoon. I'm not running ads, I just did some research for the keywords I used. I would like to know how long this honeymoon phase lasts and how to capitalize on it.

Hey Nick, have you thought about doing videos where you ask your subs to maybe send in their Etsy shops and you can talk about what you see good and bad with them as another learning tool for others?? If so I'd love to submit mine as the first in your series!! haha :) If you don't ask you don't get :)

Hi Nick, thank you for this yet another great tutorial! Quick question, I have a history t-shirt niche and my sub-niches are different periods in history e.g. Roman Empire, Napoleon Bonaparte etc. I recognise these are quite sub-niches (no massive demand here but I believe history lovers can potentially love my designs :-) ) therefore it is very difficult to find strictly history-related accounts and research in this way. Such t-shirts are usually offered by generic stores that sell all type of different themes so it's very difficult to figure out what's happening in my niche. Would you just focus here strictly on the product so what type of history-related t-shirts sell and then try to offer sth different? thank you!

Sooo, I have 2 questions 👀 1. Is does going on holiday mode affect your visibility when you come back? If so, 2. Is there a minimum amount of time you can use it where the damage would be minimised?

Hi Nick, I have a question about how to choose the right price for our products. Most of the shops in the digital clipart niche are running constant discounts from 30% to 70%. What price should we look for in that case to form our price, the diсcount one or the original one?

Hi, just after some thoughts 🙂 Im planning on opening a new etsy shop selling digital and printed greeting cards, then maybe some other bits like digital prints ect. Im niching down to animals > cats...what im trying to decide is, should that one store have everything in that niche only? So when I want to move onto another niche, should I open a new etsy store for that niche (Nature/flowers for instance) or should I put them all into one shop and separate via sections? would that then dilute the sub niche? Hope this all makes sense! Thanks for any advice

what are your thoughts on etsygpt?

Hello, Nik! Does duplicating a listing count as creating a new listing from scratch? As a new store, do I make a mistake by posting new listings only by duplicating and then editing existing ones? Thanks!!

The question may be a bit unrelated to the video, but I can't find a better person to ask this than you! I love anything digital and designing. And often times I have various kinds of ideas that can be translated into different kinds of products: for entrepreneurs, for gifting, for home decor, etc. Is it possible to have a shop which will have this wide variety of digital products without focusing on one particular thing? Like a general store?

Hi Nick, Just to let you know that the YT notification always is around 3-5 minutes late. I knew this from before and was here before. I Hope this helps in some way.

Hello, how should we apply the “20 In Cart” data? Does that contribute to understanding high demand products?

Should you do it in cognito mode? Thanks look forward to speaking with you on October the 9th.

Hey Nik, if I have 5 new items, is it better to list one a day for 5 days, or can I do all 5 in one day? Thanks so kindly...

Hey Nick, you have also mentioned do not use social media for your etsy store, so do you recommend getting pattern by etsy? (Etsy's own version of shopify)

Hello. About Etsy Material section. Can I write there tags, which did not fit into the main 13 tag box :)? Or is it better not to do that?

With a UK based store.. or anywhere outside the US, what are your thoughts on separate POD listings that offer free US shipping (because that listing is fulfilled in the US) as opposed to a domestic listing? Any other tips for getting cheaper or offering free shipping for foreign customers? I imagine most Etsy sales are from the US, so without fulfilling and shipping orders there am I more likely to miss out?

"There is no substitute for doing the hard work" cannot be said enough as it's nearly unheard of on click-bait filled KZfaq!

When doing product research what, if any, relevance does store country have? Does the algorithm favour local stores for organic search, and does it vary by product type? Thanks.

I just found you in Paphos from your video. is this correct? Do you make offline consultations as well?

Hey Nick, This is great 'accurate' sales data, but how can we see how the shops are driving traffic? Can we see if they are paying for Etsy ads - offsite ads - social media etc. ?? Thank you 🤔

How often would you suggest doing this type of research?

I got analysis paralysis and do research for years to scared to get started. Next video How to get out of it? Also do i have to do 300 listings to get started as a digital download artist? it takes me weekes to finish something how do I post something new everyday for 1 year =(

My first shop was banned when I researched through reviews. I scraped the reviews of one of the Etsy shop using an automated scraper tool 😅

I noticed when I try to figure out how many sold of something, and read the reviews, the reviews are often not just for that item but reviews for all the items in their store, so how do you know how popular that item is?

Hey how can I know how many people have purchased a single item like sales on particular items

I opened my store in Nov 2022, but I only uploaded 5 items. I just came across your video explaining importance of uploading UpTo 100 items. Please will the times I left the store dormant after the store, can I start it to upload more item or I need to open another store? Please help🙏

New to all this and have a serious question… when for example you search “women’s jewelry”, the listings that show up on the first page, second page, third page, arent those the highest selling items w that keyword? Like if I did the research the way you explained, wouldnt I basically just come up w the same items that show up on the first second and third page bcuz etsy shows me the highest selling items (ignoring the sponsored etsy ad items).

After you get a good idea of what’s selling, what do you do? Do you enter the category and provide a different flavour?

I get what you’re saying in this video but I’m still not sure what to do with all that information afterwards. I mean I can adjust pricing and see what types of products are selling but I still struggle with how to make my product different or stand out. I’m annoyed that Etsy took away the search results also. Whenever you type something in the search bar it now say over 1,000 with ads no matter what you type in. I like to know how much competition I’m dealing with.

Since this video came out, Etsy has removed the true number of items are available when you do a search if the search returns more than 1000 items. It just says 1000+. Do you have a work around for this?

I think people who found the high demand low competition products are simply not looking for help, they're swimming in gold coins like Scruge McDuck 😆. That's my theory of why you haven't seen much of these products :)

I did the spreadsheet for 10 shops similar to mine (so far) and the numbers are all over the place for sales vs number of items in the store. I'm looking at digital art for this. The store with the most items does not have even close to the amount of sales the top seller has (even though they are close in number of items). Then we've got stores with very low inventory but crazy high sales. We've got stores with low sales, medium inventory and opened 9 years. Stores with medium inventory, high sales and just opened this year. So, unfortunately I'm not finding the spreadsheet all that helpful. I guess I'll dive deeper and take a look at their top sellers....although I have already done this over the last 4.5 months. It feels like you basically have to win the etsy lottery....and if you don't, you've absolutely wasted months and months of your life. Its only been just over 4 months for me on Etsy and I've got 34 sales....so I'm trying to be patient. Crossing my fingers all this hard work will eventually pay off.

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Hi..how do u hit more amount of money or revenue per month with a $3 or $2 store... Do i need more than 100 listings or only few listed as bundles of $5 ....pls address this in your next video... My goal is to hit $2000 monthly

Hello! I really enjoy your content. There is something that I have found and I would like some validation, if possible: When I look at my stats, I'm able to use the search terms that people are using to find my items and either (1) using those same keywords (that I may have missed) in my titles and tags, and (2) using those search terms to figure out what people are looking for so I can make more of it. Would that be a fair assessment?

We are interested in hiring you to help us with our Etsy store. I have a few questions for you before. What is the best way to reach out to you?

After watching this video four, yes four times I still don’t understand. So I say I have two in stock, but I don’t. I have ten more items but they are totally different, but I say they are they are the same. What am I missing? You tried to explain it to me in a mini consult and I still don’t understand. Maybe I’ll understand the written word. Thanks.