My 1st Month On Etsy Selling Digital Downloads (Results) 💸 Realistic New Etsy Shop Owner Tips
so it's actually been a month and a half since I posted my first ever Etsy listing and I've made 17 sales so far in the first month I made 10 sales and honestly I was debating whether or not I should make this video because I was researching some other Etsy videos and like how much people made in a month and some people made like hundreds of sales so I'm like should I even make this video if I made 10 sales but you know what I think this is all part of the journey and I think for me like this level of progress that I have it's it was very realistic for me like I did not expect to make hundreds of sales my goal was actually to make 10 sales so I did hit my goal and the first 2 weeks of starting the Etsy Shop like I actually only had two listings up so I think it's actually very good progress so far in this video I'm going to share five things that really helped me get these 10 sales in the first month and especially if you are just starting an Etsy shop I think these will be helpful and do subscribe if you want to follow along on my Etsy Journey so first what you sell on Etsy is actually really really important like having the right Niche this is probably one of the biggest struggles of new Etsy owners cuz you want to make sure it's like something you know how to do but then you have to make sure there isn't that much competition out there or even if there is a lot of competition like is there a way where you can do something different or do something unique or do something just like better than other people by the way you might be wondering like Dina what is your Etsy shop and I think for right now I don't want to reveal what I'm doing but I will tell you that it is a kind of it's like digital downloads for a kind of a small business owner so I'm not selling any physical products I'm not shipping so this is actually a niche I discovered back in July and now it's December and I was actually thinking about this idea for like the longest time before I actually like took any action and before I actually made my first listing I did do a lot of market research on whether or not this is a good Niche or not so I looked at Etsy I looked at e Rank and I watched a couple of videos on YouTube on how to do market research so definitely if you're in the phase of just thinking about what you're going to sell I would definitely recommend watching like some market research videos and in the end I knew I could do a lot more market research but I figured that like I might as well just start because I felt pretty confident in the niche and I'm just going to start and then see how it goes that's why I kind of was kind of half-assing it at the beginning like I made two listings and then I didn't really do anything but then I started to make sales and I was like oh my God and another really good way to do market research is actually just to use Etsy and search for that thing and look at what other people are doing how many sales they're getting look at shops that are newer so I did a lot of that as well my next tip for you is to make the product actually really really good so for me to make my first digital download it took me like actually like it took 2 months to finish the whole thing and it was kind of off and on but like it just honestly it took me forever to research everything to look at everybody else's listings to figure out like what I should include and to really think about things from a customer's perspective like I'm making a digital download and for some people like they might not know how to use the digital download so I actually also had to make a demo video and then I also made a couple of bonus is because I saw that other people on on Etsy were like making these bonus things so like making the actual product making the demo video and then making the bonuses took like 2 months for me to do so really take your time with the first product and you also might be kind of figuring out like how exactly to design things so it will take longer but trust me like it will get so much faster and now I have nine listings I think yeah it's a lot faster afterwards super duper worth it to make the first product really good though my next tip for you is the listing photos slide and SEO really matter like the whole marketing stuff really really does matter so I told you how I spent like 2 months working on the actual product it actually also took me so so long to make the listing photos and the video because here's the thing you can have a really really good product but if your marketing sucks no one's going to buy the product so you need to make the marketing as good as the product and my product is kind of a thing where it it's kind of like an aesthetic thing that people use so if the marketing is not good like people kind of get a sense of what the product is like so like it took me forever to the to do the marketing because I knew it was super duper important and a tip for you if you are trying to make like photos um for the Etsy listing you can use canva and you can also use canva to make the video as well just make sure you click the animate like you can put a bunch of things and then click animate and then it turns it into a video make sure it is a 5-second video though because yeah the Etsy video needs to be more than 5 Seconds long I don't think I'm an expert on Etsy SEO but I think the best tip I can give you for now is to like when you make your title and description and like the tags you use make sure it's actually describing the product itself and you're not going too much into like the related products because when people search on Etsy they're looking for something like pretty specific so you want to make sure that everything you write about your product is that one specific thing there might be different ways to describe it but make sure it's not going too much into the other other related things my next tip is to share your Etsy Shop with a couple of friends that you think might be interested in your products and if they're interested in the product they can purchase the product and leave a honest and unbiased review Etsy does have some policies on transactions between like you and like your friends and family and it says that that transactions and reviews between friends and family are not considered Shilling as long as they reflect the honest unbiased opinion of the buyer and meet the following criteria the transaction must occur on Etsy the buyer and seller may not share a material connection like a bank account or something credit card financial interest in the shop being reviewed and the buyer must not be paid or otherwise compensated for the review unless this is available to all buyers such as a discount offered on next purchase for leaving an honest review and the sole purpose of the transaction may not be to leave a review so definitely share your Etsy shop with friends and family and honestly like getting your first couple of reviews is really hard so it does help