Such a great video! I wish I had found your videos when I started 6 months ago. Everything you said is spot on as I personally experience it with my shop. Thank you.. 🙏🏻

I was just doing some research and I couldn’t believe how many people misspelled words, on their POD shirts, and they were considered “best sellers.”😮 They were not misspelled as in a joke word, they were just bad at spelling. I couldn’t believe that people would be buying it.

Dear Sir, I wanted to express my gratitude for all the amazing tips you provided for my Etsy shop! Your kindness and expertise are truly appreciated. I have subscribed to your channel and look forward to watching more of your videos. Thank you once again and have a wonderful day!

these have been soo incredibly helpful, thank you for all the insight!

I’ve watched a number of your videos and you are spot on. I’ve been on Etsy for 14 years and seen how it’s changed over the years. I do find Star Seller annoying, but you’re probably right it’s going to play an integral part of their rankings.

Love your channel!

Thanks for this :) About 8 years ago, when it was a good thing and before Etsy translated, I added in tags as well as blurbs in my description in German for my fairly large long hair community base there. From what I'm hearing now, it's better if I keep everything in English and let Etsy translate? I think I have about 40-60 listings with mixed language. Out of 230 listings I have 2 best sellers, so I sell 1-10 close to daily...about 50 good sellers that sell 1-5 times weekly, and then fillers that sell seasonally better or trickle in sales, and then about 30 artisan style OOAK that usually sell within a few months to a year....then there's always a few duds that don't sell so they get scrapped in January.

Oh my God i just started and spend $100 on etsy ads and profit is $50 you are right 💯

I plan on figuring out how to do all that you've said. I'll let you know how it goes

My items are art - one of a kind items and when they're gone, they're gone. Should I remake them and renew the listing rather than add them as a new listing? Thanks for the video - much more helpful and insightful than most I've seen. I'll watch them all.

Good morning, recently started following you. You have the most straight forward videos. Question how do i check to see my listing scores. New to etsy and managed to reach the 100 sales last month. Took a year. I am wondering if my listing are perfectly optimized for the holidays. Can you give me some feedback please?

I'm in the us but I get my stuff from temu in china. My goal is to order stuff ahead of time to ship from america because i know how unreliable those places are, and sometimes customers get mad if they see you are in the us but order from china. If it gets too expensive for some of the items to ship, I may have to do some drop shipping too, since temu does not charge shipping. I am following all your advice.

Can you please record a video about Etsy's new refund policy $250... it seems scary and super important to understand fully!

Hey Nick, hope you're well! Thanks, as usual, for a terrific video. I have a few questions regarding pod t-shirt listings and ranking. Specifically, does the Etsy algorhythm rank a store and/or a listing differently for a simple listing (one design), and a complex listing (more than one design, combining several products from my print provider and entering the SKUs for each variation manually)? I like creating complex listings, I feel they add dimension. But it's quite time consuming. Am I doing more work for the exact same ranking result as a simple listing? Also, would creating these more time consuming listings garner more interest in my store in the long term, making them worth my time and effort? One more question (lol, I just want to get this right). What would you think about many separate listings instead of one complex listing? For instance, the exact same graphic and text, but a different skin tone on the person in the graphic for each listing, using 3 skin tones. Thanks so much for taking the time to consider my questions.

I really love your tips. I have a question, if I make new changes to my published listing, how long will it take to reflect in Etsy? How much time should I give it to analyze if it's working right?

BIG JOB MAN

Thanks for your video. Very helpful. How do you keep your shop active once you have listed over 1, 000 products? Do you keep creating listings?

my main thing i am selling is fancy bar soap molds that will be used for a bath, maybe throw a couple guest soaps in. Other than a few guest soaps, I 'm not doing small shaped soaps. I am not doing any animals, but I am wondering if I should do Halloween soap molds. I am going to put some lots on too. Should I forget the guest soaps and lots all together?

1. Can you send a link to your store when thanking for the purchase? 2. Among the photos of a certain product, can you insert a photo collage with other products that can be found in your store? Thank you

Will Etsy charge the 0.20$ when we change a listing or update it with new content i.e. different colour and photos? Secondly, can I change my shop location? Thank you so much for all the info, i have recently subscribed and love the brutal honesty. Keep going

I've just started my digital download store 3 weeks ago. Currently 36 sales on 13 products! My question is how long do you give a product until you take it down? My sales have come from 7 products, but also everything is very new. I am taking your advice and posting 1-2 new listing's each day - mixture of seasonal listing's and more generic items. Aiming for 200 items. Thanks so much for your videos, they are SO helpful!!

Hi. You mentioned about renewing listings. Were you referring to allowing them to autorenew every 3 months (I think that’s the timeline), or did you mean make updates and improvements to the listing? Thanks!

Thank you for sharing your great experience here. You mentioned 4 stars rating as good and 3 stars rating as neutral. I recently noticed a strange thing: the sales noticably decreased after 4 stars and finaly stopped after a consequent 3 star review. There were just four 5 star review prior them. Is it ok and things could get better or should I simply drop this 4-months-old store and start the one(s)?

I have 67 listings and only about 6 sell well. I have had best sellers that are no longer best sellers. How does that happen.

Hi, thanks for the video! Just a question: can keywords in the title be mixed? For example, if the keywords are "tropical art" and "vintage landscape," is it better to maintain the order of the words in the title, or is it the same if I mix them like "Vintage tropical landscape"? thank you!

Great video, thanks ! I have a question regarding location : I live in France, I opened a POD Etsy shop for the US market (although I may sell internationally). Do you think Etsy can penalize me for displaying a shop location in Illinois, USA while my legal adress is in France ?

Hi Nik, question here, is store location mandatory to declare for stores only selling digital downloads? If so, does it affect ranking? Thank you very much for this awesome content.

As per your advice, I'm cleaning out old listings that have not sold in over a year.. If I deactivate a listing vs deleting it completely, does it still pull down the quality score of the shop?

Absolute gold - thank you! Regarding the Translations, Location and Language in number 3, I am based in Australia selling digital products worldwide, but I was recently in the UK for 6 weeks (and still listing around 3 product a day) and my weekly views went from an average (in Australia) of 45 to over 400 whilst in the UK, would this have been to do with my IP address being in the UK? If so and as the local market is so limited in Australia would it be worthwhile changing location with a VPN - or wouldn't that work?

i have about 83 listings but no sales 3 months old digital prints store with 6 sales only pls make a detailed video for digital print store the one video of yours I have seen about digital print but pls describe more about what payment to put SEO etc thanks

Hi, Nick, my store has 320+ items, and I do not know how the number 5 *Regency* (don't let your store sleep: publish listings, renew listings, so Etsy sees your store is active/doing something) will apply in my case. I only sell digital cross stitch patterns, if you remember. In the last six months I managed to sell a little bit over 100 Euro every month. Could you please, give me an advice regarding the Regency thing in my case? Thank you!

Hi Nik, thank you for the great info. Newbie here. My question is: what about long shipping times when drop-shipping items from China - does that lower rank?

hi,i i had a new order of new listing,it is good to raise the price a little,because its get a little boost,or i sould not change anything of a new product that sell on the first time? thanks.

Do you do reviews on Etsy stores that sell vintage items, mostly one off items? Thanks!

About the location, I am in the Netherlands, but I see only digital downloads, so in my shop banner I do not disclose the country. Would this be a problem to sell more?

Hello! When setting up a new shop, is it better to gradually add new listings -or- add a large amount of listings at one time? Also, does adding new variations to an active listing affect recency? And lastly, is each listing "ranked" separately, or is the shop ranked as a whole based on all the listings? Your videos are super helpful .. thank you!

Great video! If I only sell digital items, could I change my location to USA to boost sales, even if I am located in europe? I have seen many sellers doing this. Could my shop get suspended for this? Thank you!

Is there a way to SEE which keywords resulted in a sale on etsy or erank? I only see which ones had views but nothing connected to a specific sale I had - it would be a major help to see which keywords exactly was typed by a customer and made that sale - every sale. Views don't tell much, there doesn't seem to be enough info or reddit/quora etc... Do you maybe have a video on this topic, Nick?

Any special advice for one of a kind listings/shops that can't rely on repeat sales to boost listings? Thanks.

One question…I am just starting my first shop for digital planners …as the planners will be in german language, i will make the shop in german language too. I am wondering to open a second shop niched to english audience for all my planers I translate later on into english. What do you think, have one multingual shop or two separated shops each niching down for the specific language for this purpose?

I'm in canada but would love to get the location boost so would it be a problem if I just fill in as a US seller? Or is that banned by etsy? What about a vpn route? Thanks a lot!

I haven’t done videos as I am printing on demand, I have videos of me painting though? Do you think it’s worth ordering a product to video it?

my bank is located in hungary and so am i, does thsat mean i get cut off from the global market significantly? since etsy localises search results? I want sell digital and pod

if we are running a digital download store, can we skip the location part and put no specific location? or is it a bad idea to skip it? one more thing i am wondering is, can etsy locate our location even if we don't put it and rank us according to where we are? TYI

Hey Mr E.C. Very interesting about the importance of location. I've started POD jewellery aimed at U.S market because that is where my supplier is, but my location is U.K. Could this explain why I haven't sold anything yet? I'm adding listings every day to get to the magic 100. 28 so far. Should I be concerned? Thanks for insightful content. Really appreciate it. 😊

Is the locale of the shop taken into account for search results if the product is digital?

Hi, my store name is Gurumad. I was added both digital (svg, wallart) and physical items(t-shirt, watches, necklaces earrings) in my store. Is it right or wrong.

I’m located in Europe and i have a POD store on Etsy. I especially choose a print company in the US because i know this is the main market and I don’t want to ship overseas because i know this will be a turn off for many customers. So will my location still be a disadvantage if all my items are made and shipped from the US? Customers see that it is shipped locally.

I have had a shop for about 5 weeks and only sold one digital print. I'm adding new prints all the time but I'm not sure which will sell so trying several types at present us seasonal designs. Should I just keep going?

well what to do with the items they dont sell? i will say 90%+ of over 140 items dont sell. i am working on better pictures right now and hoping that will change to positive

Does "location" mean that unless you are located in the USA, you cannot really meet success? I'm in a small country but trying to sell to US customers

Wait so.. I am based in sweden, but I do print on demand, and my items are printed in the us and therefore shipped from the us, and so I want to target the us market. But since my shop technically is in sweden, do I show up more for the european market rather than the us market?

If I'm a new new store in I only have a few listings but I'm editing my shop what kind of announcement would I make?

The frustrating issue if star seller starts affecting rankings is that many UK sellers can't offer tracking as standard & still maintain competitive shipping prices, unlike US sellers. Not a happy bunny. Thanks for the video though! EDIT Thanks to Vesperto below for correcting me & pointing out all labels printed through Etsy contribute to star seller, whether Tracked or not

Was there a major change to Etsy in the last month ? I have sold for 8 yrs and had a steady income, and i am down to zero sales. 2 shops and both turned off like a light switch …

Just curious if having an Etsy seller account from 2013 with one item that i totally forgot about and never sold has affected my overall store now that I am actively trying to build it?

Should i stop Etsy Ads at once can you suggest it only gets 4 sales

you mentioned shop location. I am based in Israel, and thinking of opening a shop to my wife's jewlerry, but I don't think there's a lot of traffic locally here in Israel, and want to ship to the US or EU as well ... Is that going to limit my exposure?

How many reviews do you need on etsy before marketing? I do implement 1 product a day and my views are increasing daily I will ask friends to buy and give reviews is there a diffrence between 5 and 10?

I have about 300 listings of knitting patterns. Been open for 10 years. I have a few very good sellers and others that occasionally sell. If I get rid of non sellers and put them in the deactivated - what happens if I go below 100 products. Knitting patterns take a long time to produce so I cant just produce them in a morning. I think my non sellers are down to me not knowing the stuff that I know now so photos are not good and seo probably non existent - rather than them being un sellable. Shall I just re invent them?

In over a year I have made 3 sales. I have sold 2 POD items and one digital item. My sells were back in May and June of this year. Both POD items were the same item. No family involved in my purchases. Maybe my products aren't great or Maybe I have too many different items, maybe I need better photos, maybe I'm over priced? I have had larger creators take from me, I was surprised by that! Do I just leave it where it is and see what happens? I don't want to open another store if my designs are 💩 lol. Frustrated in Texas 😏

Is there an actual quality score number we can see?

Yes, I have around 200 items (I just purged a lot) and there are four items that sell much better than everything else…. Bringing up I that Location aspect you talked about this is something that’s always annoyed me about Etsy - I’ve suspected what you said for a long time. I live in Canada. I want to target the US market. But if US residents are seeing locally relevant listings first then my items will have to struggle that much harder to be seen….

Hello, Im from Philippines and it shows in my store but Im only selling in US using POD.. Its also indicated in my profile (bottom part) that I have a print provider from us and that it ships from there.. Per my understanding in your video, location matters.. do you have any advice?

some gurus say you should avoid editting listings often. so you suggest editting them more frequently?

if we have a number of digital products ready, is it better to release them one a day, or just drop them all at once?

Please can you tell me how I can get my first sale I literally have been searching on the internet for hours on end and they constantly say ughgg just remove negative reviews improve your photo quality improve Seo list 50 items of sellling products I have doing it for the past month and I still don’t haven’t got my first sale I want deep guidance no bs how I can get my first sale and how to maintain sales from there but I need my first sale first and I really need help with it Because it has been months since I stated selling on Etsy

Is store location relevant for digital items?

I love your content almost as much as the fat cat pillow on the couch 🐱 🛋

That's a bit harsh and the second video you mentioned it. Maybe those stores are selling jewellery for tea cups.

I get like 20-30views and 15-25 visits, but don't get any sales. I've got 6sales till now with 106 listings, Am i doing something wrong?

i saw something about using a vpn to sell to diffrent countries but isn't that illegal, like if you get caught with it bet you gotta pay up big xD

Your video has great content. However you need to make them more intrective fast paced and get straight to the point. And add a lot of graphics and dynamicity cuz they're too steady.

I dont understand the part with 50 sales you said at the end

How can I make sales without Etsy ads??