Thank you Nick for your advices. I have created 2 Shops on Etsy, the one who is successful, is the one I have created without SEO tools, the other one was created following the Etsy Gurus on KZfaq and I failed, I put months of work and about 700 euros in ads, money in tools…I will close this shop at the end of the month and continue my first one. Thank you for telling the truth❤

You are so right. Rubbish and more rubbish. I have experienced all of the above and you are 💯 % right. I didn't spend a whole lot of money. It's when I started listening to you, I closed my 2 shops with under 20 sales and now I have a shop doing 70 sales in a couple of months and getting better. Thank-you. People laugh as much as you want with this video or cry looking at the garbage videos. Follow the Etsy consultant and you will be following your dreams. Spend your money here. It will be worth it.

I have to say I agree with you on these! I'm just focusing on building my store with things that will sell all year around. I started out listening to these things and kind of thought I needed to throw out all these fall/Halloween and NONE of them have sold. I found my niche, it's small, it's something I know a lot about, and it's fun. I list a few things a night and sometimes a lot but I'd rather have quality over pushing out crap quickly. My store is growing slowly but consistently and that is my goal.

You are the best! Bye bye e-rank! Actually I've been trying to get rid of them and they keep charging me but anyway . . . my favorite advice is no social media!!! I freaking hate social media!

You know how many hours & how much money you just saved for me? I should be forever grateful you made this video! Yes, I was heading for all Etsy SEO videos after this video, but you stopped me from getting trapped in the rabbit hole and spending money. You are a breath of fresh air and national treasure! Thank you a million :)

What!! Insert amazed emoji here. I was lead to believe that social media was absolutely essential to get the word out. It was holding me up, takes too much time to even develop the skills. You're liberating.

You've always got the most sensible advice out there. There are some helpful KZfaq videos out there that are still worth watching, but for the parameters within which to build my store, you've got the most helpful, sensible, and believable content out there! Thank you once again for your valuable videos.

You give the best reality checks! I watch these videos and then think I need to change what I'm doing instead of going with whats been selling in my shop, and then come here and it snaps me back to reality. I cant be everything to everyone lol

Thank you for doing this. You covered most areas that totally make since. A lot of the other KZfaqrs act like it is so easy and you will start making 1000s in no time and little work.

Thank you so much for the advice, especially about social media, that has been a big thing I look at as a drawback, I dislike social media in general I can't imagine trying to make it a constant part of my business life along with making items, and running a business in general.

This is one of your best videos yet! Thank you

Thank you so much for taking the time to help us who are new and need sound good advice. I have white board with your notes in my office and you have been a Godsend. Thank you :)

I'm so so glad I found your channel Nick. A LOT of what you've said in this video (and others you've done) I've tried and then sat and wondered if its even worth it? The answer: No. No! It's not! Lol. And I'd rather be given the bare facts as they are, then waste my time creating things and putting them on products that are just never going to sell. I do POD. I watched your video on POD sellers and I appreciated your honesty in it. - I'm still going to try and give everything I can to my Etsy business as a POD seller because I know I can do it. And with your insights and helpful content on youtube, it makes it much much easier to wade through what is legitimate in other peoples videos and what is not. From here on out I'm not going to stress about SEO anymore. I'm just going to do it the way you taught us, as... it really does make a lot of sense? WHY jump through a billion hoops and use all these tools for SEO when you literally can come up with your titles and tags all on your own, and from it sounds like from you, we'll be better for it in terms of how Etsy reacts to our listings. One question I do have is: Do you suggest we double back on products we've already listed months earlier (or even weeks) and try to fix our SEO the way you do it? Or should we wait until their renewal time comes up and just focus here on out on listing products? Thanks again for all your help! ♥

Thankyou for making this video Nic. I am now very discerning as to whom I listen to on KZfaq and have learned not to believe everything.

Love how straight forward you are. Just in the process of opening my Etsy store and I have to say with all you tubers out there I trust you and am following your advice. I am going to post 1 product then give it several days to make sure everything is cool and then add one product per day. Thank you again.

Many many thanks for the wisdom, the sharing, and... for the humor... great video!

Very Happy to have found you. Thank you Nick

Pretty much have done all of those things... but since our call I've really been focusing on making my store less of a general store and more of a specialty store. Thank you.

Thank you for the truth, breath of fresh air. I knew that my feelings on a lot of the "advice" was right but i dont have the experience yet to either confirm or debunk. You have really helped so thank you. I am going to go through your other videos as i am right at the beginning of my journey and am just about to open an Etsy store.

You're ALWAYS spot on! Loved this!

Love your videos 😃😃 good vibes! ❤

Yes I wasted time on social media which has always scared me anyway .. then I took your advice I really does not work all my followers were friends or dodgy guys asking if I was having a good day !!!!! Done with all that now. Just concentrating on making beautiful handmade clothing which is my passion and it’s working. Thanks for all you do 😊

Finally some one addresses the reality.

Really interest as always! Although also so intrigued about what they are selling!

Slightly off topic but, does the cat have a name? If not, I think your subscribers should be allowed to vote on one. Some of us have become quite attached to him now 😁 Also, love your content, its a breath of fresh air amid all the KZfaq fog. Thank you

i’m sick of the gurus. really. none of it is working.

Thank you Nick, such insightful knowledge you have imparted here. Much much appreciated. Really separates the "wheat from the chaff" as they say. Absolutely golden 🙂

Thank you so much, Nick for providing this information! We are bombarded with crap on You Tube guaranteeing to catapult new Etsy sellers into financial freedom, if you follow their advice, buy their courses and like, hit and share their garbage!! It's exhausting!

Im sooo glad I watched this before placing an order for a bunch of sublimation mugs and xmas tree decorations 😂 thanks for the advice 👍

Thanks. I did try to use one of those SEO tools at first, but realized it was inaccurate. Dropped it quickly. Tried and dropped Pinterest too. Waste of time. However, years ago when I published a book on college scholarships, I built a following on Twitter. It’s over 17k people now. I do post my Etsy listings there, and have sold to these followers. It takes me very little time, since I have a routine for posting and engaging. -Elizabeth

This one is my favorite of yours, not least because you reinforce my desire to ignore social media :). Seriously it jives with my opinions and what I've observed looking around on esty at what's selling etc. Maybe address that one of those other youtubers you mention is saying that the advice of listing one thing a day is wrong. I think maybe people are not understanding the logic behind that. (I do).

you made me laugh a lot 😂 Thanks Nick you are the best !!! no I did not apply the advice of these youtubers because universe put you on my path and I knew that you had good advice intuitively so I followed you and thank God I did well 🙏

Thanks for this video I needed this one of course I need everyone of yours to get my store to selling. But I'm still trying thanks again you are the only one I'm listening too anymore. Kelli

I need to stop watching all of those videos. I can’t tell you how many times I wanted to change the theme of my store because of them and now I can’t decide what I want my store identity to be. I might just sign up and be a client because I love your videos and need to make my Etsy income a full time business. Thanks Nick, you are the only voice of reason when it comes to Etsy

So helpful, thank you! I think a big question for many people is, what is the best way to build a store that creates a good full-time income on Etsy? How do we correctly research the market. I have tried to do this through looking at the stores doing well on Etsy, but it certainly hasn't helped me! That is how the gurus appeal showing the six figure Etsy stores they use as examples. I suspect most people starting Etsy stores want or need a decent income to make putting many hours, 20-50 hours a week, of work worthwhile. What you said about wasting time is so important. Any chance you could do a video on realistic figures for a good quality new Etsy store? Also, I see six figure mug stores on Etsy itself. I see Christmas ornaments as bestsellers. Could you possibly give any more advice on what we need to consider or remember when looking at these best selling stores. I see so many with 15k or 30k or 50k sales, not just mugs, but from notebooks to shirts, how do we best estimate what is now likely to work best for a new store in 2023? In terms of POD I have no idea if it's okay to add multiple different product types or not. But it seems Etsy needs to define you as a specific type of store, before you are likely to make sales? Thank you very much!

I fell for 😂 Most of the top 10, but have learned that it is crap advice! Thank you for putting it out there, hopefully new Etsy sellers will see this! I have had some sales since opening, not as many as I’d like, but it is a work in progress.

Yes, you are so right. I have watched a few of those videos but never quite believed them. My store is all handmade and makes regular consistent sales. Nothing crazy a few items a day and truly that is all I can handle and still have a life. I also don't do social media or pinterest or mugs or ornaments😅. Thanks for your honest advice. You are so far the only Etsy real deal on KZfaq!😊

Thank you Nick. I watched your10 minute SEO 2024 video last night and it was a game changer. I'm very grateful

As a fellow Etsy KZfaqr, this is a beneficial video. I agree with all apart from the SEO tools tip. Keep it up bro 😎

the best advices ever 🎉 Thank you, really Thank you for your sincerely and help 🙏

I think you are genuine. I am so happy I found you, and you're channel. I was about to list so much crap as fast as I could but I won't. LOL I only wish I found you sooner, because I put alot of money into my products. Live and learn. LOL

Just want to thank you for sharing your knowledge. I am starting on etsy and your advice is very welcome

Hi nick😊 I had so much fun during watching and feel so lucky to find someone genious like you in my etsy journey!! My question is you often say that a growing store must add one item a day. What about 2 .i have so much ideas to design actually:) so can we add at least 2 listings a day? Thank you very much for being honest and helping us🥰

At this point I guess I have to unsubscribe to a couple KZfaqrs lol 😂

Thanks Nick great advise as always!

I’m just getting started on Etsy and I found your channel and so far it’s been a gold mine of information and I’ve only watched 2 videos! I’m a 3D hard surface artist/sculptor and I just got a 3D printer so I thought I’d try my hand and selling some ‘hand made’ stuff. It’s a bit tough to get a lot of listings up quickly as I can only model and test print 1 product every day or 2. If it fails or doesn’t meet my quality standards it takes me another day to fix it between my real job and this. But once the model is set it’s fairly passive to mass produce more of the same item very quickly. Hoping to have at least 50 unique items up by next Christmas. I’m thinking of using color variations as separate listings of each item to pump up the quantity of listings I have for now until I can get a solid base of uniques, then I’ll merge the colors into singles listings. I’ve heard mixed reviews of using this method to inflate my number of listings but I don’t see any other way for me to produce more that quickly unless I were to invest a more printers (which are not that cheap). Look forward to watching more of your stuff!

Great Video as usual Nik. And you are such a hoot. You make me laugh. But your advice is golden. I've listed 30 products so far and following your guidance. No sales yet, but I know that will come. I did get a bee in my bonnet and pushed out a couple Valentine's Mugs. Don't shoot me.

Thanks for that. Makes absolute sense and cuts straight through the BS.

Bless you brava you save people money ,time and love the honesty I'm just beginning and wish I had the funds to place you in my corner! You are a rarity thank you!

Thank you your advice will save me a lot of time!

Hahaha as soon as you said mugs and Christmas tree ornament I new you were right! 😂

I stopped listening to these Etsy Gurus a while ago. I figured if they were really making all that money they say they are making, they wouldn't have time to be selling snake oil on KZfaq. Great video, especially the part about being a mug😅

Honestly it's a breath of fresh air watching your video's and I wish I'd have seen them when I was first setting my Etsy shop up. Hopefully I can take your advice & get it functioning as a shop! The low stock thing is a real problem for me because I tend to make unique one off pieces and don't buy in bulk. I'll buy a gemstone strand (like raw diamonds) and then make a chain, bracelet & earrings but then run out of beads to make anything else 😂. Hopefully, I can put your advice into practice and at least put improvements in place. Thankyou for being a genius & for being straight forward in your approach x

Thank you for your help!♡ I am a new shop and really value your advice 😎👍❤️

Omg! This is sooooooo GOOD! Guilty of low stock (will improve this, even though I often have 10+ items in physical stock, I’ll still put there 3😂) and almost the social media thing/Pinterest (so boring btw, such a waste of time) and also almost the SEO eRank etc. tools too😅 “Almost” because luckily I never felt comfy or intuitively I didn’t see it as a thing building a giant TikTok or IG page (I do have both with just some of my own customers where I occasionally post updates and 1-2 per year a giveaway (speaking of that, giveaway just gotten me people who were fishing for free stuff as a habit, attending EVERY giveaway possible and never purchasing anything after so I guess I won’t be doing them that much- it was mainly for the fun of it but not really growing my page. So yeah thanks so much!!! I’m enjoying it thoroughly- very valuable!!! ❤

Well! This just saved me some $ and a lot of time! You are GOLD ❤

You have great common sense advice. I never wanted to waste my time on social media anyway. LOL thanks for saving me time.

Thank you, really appreciative of all the info you put out there! Only part I feel hesistant about is not listing a lot, if I look at stores with most sales started in 2023, the majority of them seem to have somewhere around 5x the number listings compared to the nubmber of day's they've been open. I've heard you recommend 1 item a day in the past, so not quite sure how to think about that?

Thank you I appreciate your help 😊😊😊

Great video @etsyconsultant, I did hate the sound of spending hours posting on social media so pleased you said this, but do you have a video of 10 things we should concentrate on, love to see that if you do and what tools if any you recommend.

these are awesome and funny!! xD. Glad you made these. I thinking of doin that pintrest one cuz they said but then thought a bout it...just too much work. Might as well put my time doing designs and focusing on My shop. Also I think I made a mistake of opening an online store (after etsy suspended my 1st new shop and took 4ever for them to reopen it)

I appreciate all of the tips.

I sell a fair amount of designs using AI art but each design required lots of editing and learning how to prompt to get better results. It’s definitely not just slapping an Ai image on a shirt. Regarding social media: I keep telling every new seller to not waste time with untargeted social media spam and use this time to make more good designs instead. If you fill your store with quality listings with good SEO, Etsy will drive far more traffic of people who are actually looking to buy, not just curious. Really the most important point to tell every new seller is: spend more time designing and learning how to make better designs, stop wasting time on all the nonessential things.

thanks for the chuckle!!

I scheduled a consult with you next week! Can't wait to hear all of your suggestions ☺

I agree that most tools are rubbish but one I do use is by Dave Guindon craft inspector and another one he does. I love your honest videos and this is a particularly good point. I’ve been an online entrepreneur Phone nearly 2 decades now selling mainly digital products and downloadable books I was around before Kindle started and there are very few tools I use but I do like Daves because they are actually using the Search function on websites to gauge interest and how people are looking for solutions or products in their own lingo. I do find that useful because it gives me the full picture about how people might use what I’m selling, rather than how I think they’re going to use it. being aware of your own bias marketing anything is so important, figuring out how your product or service fits what they are looking looking for. I like what Nick says in all his videos because there's no hype just real advice I find myself nodding in agreement to.

Thank you! I’m so glad I stumbled across you about a month ago, most of what you’ve pointed out in this video, I’m guilty of several- I’ve of course since fixed what is fixable, will continue to keep you in my pocket for info! Great job! Glad we all have you!

One item a day is perfect and works. Yes, there is a bunch of crap on KZfaq! You are RIGHT RIGHT RIGHT!!

I started my shop almost a year ago and have watched all the videos you talk about and do most of it. I have almost 1,000 listings, 74 sales but I have managed to be a Star Seller with good reviews and favorited items. Unfortunately I get very little traffic and I’m about ready to throw in the towel. I really want this to work but I’m pretty discouraged. Thank you for your channel.

Thanks for sharing your top 10 list.

Great advice as always 😊

I've watched this video before and i forgot to say thanks! Everything what you say is TRUE

Thanks Nick, your advice really resonates with my own experience, particularly the effectiveness (or lack of) of Pinterest and Insta, where I have wasted too much time already. Your last point of not listing many products too soon was interesting - as a fairly new store should we aim for just 1-2 new listings and do this everyday, or what number should we be targeting?

I loved how practical your video is. I’m about to open an Etsy shop and will be using Printify as my POD. Why no mugs? Is it breakage or something else? I was going to have a mix of apparel and mugs with inspirational quotes on them.

I agree about the AI art. I admit I do use AI art but I spend a lot of time creating a final graphic using AI generated images because I often have to generate 3 or 4 AI images just to composite into one graphic. I'll need to fix hands or take a head from one image and comp into another image or I'll create an AI image then have to use AI again to remove certain elements or add elements to the image. I have never just generated an AI image and said, well, that's perfect! Next! Using AI still takes time and talent to end up with usable images. It also helps that I've been a computer graphic artist for 30 years so I know what looks good and what looks lazy.

Great Video! especially on youtube when theres so much misleading video. What are your thoughts on high ticket etsy stores? Could you possibly do a video on how to approach this?

You're 💯💯❤❤❤Appreciate.. I always find social media is bad for business..

This was funny because one of the most successful sellers I know on Etsy specializes in Christmas tree ornaments. But that's all she does. Totally understand the point though. Nobody wants to see five Christmas tree ornaments in your furniture store. Lol

Really interesting to hear your thoughts about 'mugs'... That was what got me first setting up my Etsy store. I designed loads (which I enjoyed) though I only listed a few before getting side-tracked with another shiny object(!) Anyway, sold a couple which wasn't bad considering the few I'd listed and the lack of attention I'd given my store. What I did learn through the process though, was that it would seem the mug has to be quite highly-priced to see any return (my first sale lost me a couple of dollars, and through my second sale I made a couple). So I got disheartened with that because I didn't really want to price the mugs any or much higher than I had (seemed ridiculous to do so). I'd be interested to learn what items you do give the thumbs up to sell in the POD world... In the meantime, I'm on to learning about printables / digital products (I've just watched your video - "How to Really Make $10000 in Your First Year on Etsy - All The Details") Now, just on to considering what are the best digital products to start creating in that niche you suggested... 🤔Onwards and upwards 😃

Thank you man 👍👍👍

Ok i agree with everything. I do wonder when you are talking about tools does that include ones that show you the search volume on tags? There is one that i use and i only use it because it will tell me words i have misspelled and missing pictures. I can see if the tags I use are valid. Can you elaborate on that?

Great video 🎉 What should we follow as etsy seller - make video on this please

love your channel. Can you expand on why you advise against Pinterest? AND- Do you have a top 10 best pieces of advice (I do POD)??? Thanks!

Hello Sir, I have been following you from quite some time. And trying to follow the steps you point out. I am getting some traction on my etsy. I started actively and consistently putting stuff in august.

Thanks for all your advice, love your honesty, unlike most just wanting to monotise on youtube whit lies, so i see you talking about ai generated art won't sell, what about digital hand made wall art does that sell well on etsy.

Aw man I was just about to go all in on ornaments 😅

Thank you 🙏🏾

I love your advices and videos. To comment for #1. How many items do you suggest we should start with when opening a store?

Great video Thank You!…Don’t get me started on “steal my strategy “ advice and mean while they have paid thousands for ads😢

Thoughts on KZfaq folks saying to max out your etsy ad budget 1,000k a day? I watched your recent etsy ad video.....super appreciate your channel. I am a 15 year Etsy seller!!

Thank you😊

Thank you for this video! Regarding the low number of items available. I run a vintage store, where most of the items are unique ones and I already have noticed how listings with more available items perform better, but I can't make it work with most of the unique items 🥺 Do you think the algorithm takes into account that a shop is a vintage one and the parameters could somehow be adjusted? Wishful thinking..but..thank you!

Niko ευχαριστω!!! 😍 Greetings from Athens!

So what does work for a POD business? I’m a retired nurse at 67 and I need this to work desperately!

Right after you talked about AI art an ad popped up for a service that does AI art and they talked about using it to do POD. 😜 But I knew not to click.

Your advice against Christmas tree ornaments breaks my heart! I haven't started the line yet so I can easily change course. But my niche is personalized gifts for new babies and families, and these ornaments will follow that. "Our first Christmas as a family of 3" or "Baby's First Christmas". Cute illustration, personalized with names and date of birth. Please tell me I'm an exception to this advice??!! Serious question, but following the fun tone of your video. :)

Re low stock - all my listings have low stock as I often only make one of each product. It’s only a hobby business and mainly seasonal, but surely part of the attraction is there is often only one item that isn’t replicated 🤔 variants on one listing.

I normally sell digital knit and sew patterns - but I have a few kits. Uploaded a new knit yesterday and got very entangled with the question of Tariff numbers for sales to the EU (and elsewhere) and also the packaging nightmare ( to Germany and Poland etc) not to mention the price hike from royal mail... Can you do a video on this stuff?

well thank you so much for this video

I have a store with 172000 sales in 10 years, jewelry, there are some real gems in this list … happy I done fall for any of those.