what up guys today we are going to do
some etsy print on demand shop reviews
the shop we're going to be looking at is
called sydney tees we're going to be
looking at what they're doing well and
what they can improve upon also just
wanted to let you guys know i wrapped up
an interview
right before this with a big youtube
channel that talks a lot about ebay
and how they go and find products at
places like yard sales and estate sales
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all right let's get started
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alright let's take a look at this shop
all right so the first thing i noticed
i do like that you've got a nice big
header image but it says sydney tees in
the header image and in the profile
picture for the shop but then the shop
name
in text on etsy is paintings for sale so
it's just a little bit confusing because
it's like almost two different names
typically they're all synced up
looks like you've got 15 sales average 5
star review that's great
15 sales i'm sure you wish you had more
but the five star review average is
great
uh you've got the little accolade here
topshop for gifts a buyer bought a gift
from this shop and gave it a five star
review so i like that etsy does that it
almost like
most people that see that don't even
read it they just see like a little gift
icon
some bold text and a five star in there
and they're like okay this is the legit
shop
um let's see you got featured items here
uh you've got a pretty good variety of
products just in that first row
you've got coffee mugs kids clothing
totes and handbags let's check out the
totes and handbags
so i noticed you've got four different
listings of a very similar design
and one thing that you may consider
doing here with this
funny face design is like
listed as one listing with variations
right so the white eyes green eyes red
eyes yellow eyes
um you know you can go in and like kind
of edit the listing together now this
would
then break the passiveness uh
you know anytime you go and make a
manual edit like that it will not be
automatically fulfilled by printful
printify whoever you're using
but it would still save you some money
from the renewal fees instead of having
to split this out into multiple listings
also i mean all the overlap with those
keywords this doesn't even look like
actually like a title you know it just
looks like you typed out lowercase
keywords
that don't really describe the
the design i mean i don't know put to
put it this way at a minimum
use up the full title on etsy and put in
relevant keywords
also i would capitalize the first letter
of those words
um and i i try to just like include
phrases that people would search for
relevant to your listing also just a
personal
uh tip of mine you know my other people
might disagree but like i always
prefer to align the design to the top
or near the top of the canvas space
whereas yours is pretty central there
and i don't know it's just personal
preference of mine i don't think they
look as good when the end result
is seen when you have the designs like
in the center as opposed to vertically
oriented even as a web developer it's
like
we write some css that aligns things
vertically to the top
um because it's just weird if it's in
the middle all right so these tote bags
look really nice though if this is if
this is original artwork
then this is really well done um let's
check out some of these
this this might be your thing you know
those t-shirts didn't blow me away but
these tote bags are really nice
and you may want to consider offering
this on additional products
um you know tote bags i don't know how
well they sell i've heard other big
merch sellers talk about that they were
disappointed with
their amazon merch tote bag sales which
i mean if you can't sell them through
amazon merch prime eligible on the
largest marketplace it's gonna be
probably hard to get sales
through etsy i could be wrong but like
for instance this artwork is beautiful
so to me this should sell
the product type may be holding it back
i'm just guessing
i do think these are really nice um you
know you could sell them on mugs by the
way
it may be you may need to kind of like
optimize your artwork to be
wider instead of square if you're doing
this work by hand but i could see it
translating really well
into coffee mugs or if you do designs
like this where maybe you can pull off
the background
or here you go yeah you can add in a
background there too
i think that looks good and here you've
got the same graphic utilized in
multiple designs
so that is a good usage if you did spend
a lot of time creating that original
artwork
in the center there um then posting it
on multiple designs obviously and like
kind of weaving it in so it is truly a
separate design
unlike the uh the t-shirt that you
showed earlier with the face where it
was replicated you know that's a good
idea
this is gonna have a tough time selling
because the text is so small that we
can't read it from the
thumbnail like if we were going to if i
go to etsy here and i just search for
like
coffee mug for mom
watch this so i think i might be zoomed
in too all right if i go to 100
zoom and then i just replace one of
these whoops
i just replace one of these with the
image with your image
now it's a little bit skewed because i i
copied it from the listing directly but
look how small that is you see how i did
that right there
right here so that text is way way way
too small
and if you can't read it from the
primary thumbnail the likelihood of you
getting a sale is much lower than all of
your competition which you can see here
that we can
you notice something consistent about
them right you can read the text in all
the you know
so sometimes it's okay to go study your
competition also at this
cost 13.75 and free shipping
you may be losing money i mean i could
be wrong here but like typically
the base cost of a coffee mug like even
if you're using custom cat
uh an 11 ounce white mug would be like i
think 395
plus shipping minus the etsy fee you'd
be making
very small royalties so i would revisit
your pricing
on amazon it's okay to sell at a loss
for a while and boost your organic rank
but
even with like print on demand coffee
mugs i wouldn't take that risk i would
just try to lock in profits at all times
plus on amazon if i was really going for
something big like that i'd be doing fba
coffee mugs which you can actually do
through gear bubble which is one edge
that gear bubble has
um here again it's like one two three
four five six seven eight
nine ten at least ten designs that are
very very similar and that's
20 cents per listing so what is that oh
man it's so early
why can't i do the math that's like two
dollars times four so it's like eight
dollars a year that you're paying
i believe if my math is correct eight
dollars a year just in renewal fees
um when you could just consolidate that
into one listing
and try to you know increase the variety
of what you offer on etsy
if these are your original artworks
though this is really good
um let's check this out so again this
design's good but like make it bigger
vertical align it
i would say you use better titles here
stuff in more keywords that are relevant
um this christmas design also isn't bad
but just blow it up you know if you go
do a search on amazon
for the top selling christmas 2020
shirts you're going to notice something
uh shared amongst the top results that
they they're big
they're bold people can see them and
they're more likely to click them right
and that's a part of the buyer
experience if they're going to purchase
your product
they have to go do a keyword search look
at the search results and click
you instead of other people so
play the game right as i always say play
the game i like this
design well i this has potential right
pizza shirts are just one of those
evergreens that sell all day
one thing i don't like is the text like
i don't know it just to me
isn't working the pizza design too is a
little bit weird
that's just personal preference um you
know it seems like it's kind of a
departure from
the really good artwork that you've got
on your shop especially with the totes
and handbags section that you created
or you know the flower power design i
think is great it seems like really your
tote bags are your
um some of your best looking products
here you've got some leggings where you
did a pattern with that frog
design that you had earlier the only
thing i'd say about the frog design is
it looks like it's low quality like i'm
not accusing you of doing anything but
it
it looks like it could possibly have
been like ripped from google images you
know because typically
designs don't look like that they don't
look pixelated
um in the mock-ups unless you upload
something that's pixelated
so i i could be ho i hope i'm wrong
let's put it that way
um let's check out the tote bag yeah i
mean even here
it's like look at the design quality
there you know
i don't really understand why it is
looks like low quality like that
hopefully
you know if these are original designs
you should have them in higher
resolution hopefully
and um that will definitely translate
into
better looking mock-ups which translates
into more sales
also speaking of sales i would
personally
turn off free shipping and run like a 10
off sale
in my mind i think you'll get a higher
click-through rate
and it's just to me i don't know a sale
will not cost you as much
free shipping will almost always cost
you more like if you run
a 10 off sale on a 1999 shirt you're
gonna take a dollar ninety nine off and
shipping is almost assuredly gonna cost
you more than a dollar ninety nine
so you still get that tag in search
results
but also i like the way a sale looks
they cross out the first price they put
in a second price in a green color
and you know it stands out right so
that's that's a personal preference of
mine
when i am um you know doing whatever i
can to stand out and differentiate
myself
on etsy so i think you're on the right
track uh you've done
a great job with like getting your shop
optimized you've got what
94 products listed for sale
i would look at your data for your 15
sales hopefully you're also posting to
other platforms
see what product types are most popular
amongst your customers
double down on those product types right
design specifically for those product
types if it's mugs
hit him with coffee mugs if it's
t-shirts do t-shirts if it's the tote
bags and i'm wrong
in my guesses do tote bags but figure
out what's working for you
and my recommendation would just be to
yeah like hit that hard
also one thing that like you know since
i just mentioned earlier on the intro
that i was i did an interview with a
really
um successful ebay seller
is you know that interview's gonna be
dropping on my channel so make sure you
guys are subscribed
but like take your designs that are
selling
on etsy make sure you list them on ebay
it takes like two seconds to list on
ebay
and the way you approach things for etsy
translates into ebay like very
there's a lot of parallels there like i
think each marketplace is unique but
there's a lot more parallels between
ebay and etsy in my mind than there are
amazon to etsy
or amazon to ebay so definitely you have
15 sales at least if you
if you're on other platforms like you
hopefully are uh just you know evaluate
what's selling make sure you've got that
cross posted to multiple platforms and
like i said
consolidate uh different listings that
look very similar like these four
into a single listing and save yourself
the renewal fees all right so that
pretty much sums up what i wanted to
cover
for your shop thank you so much for
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