what's up guys welcome to Etsy Shop
reviews this is episode number 56 we're
going to be looking at another Etsy
print on demand shop submitted by you
the viewer so let's see what they did
well what they can improve upon and all
get better together at selling print on
demand products on Etsy
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out alright our Etsy shop today is
called surf Mesa surf Mesa they've got
rave reviews averaging 4.8 or higher and
kind of interesting Banner if it doesn't
if your banner doesn't add anything to
like your you know shop in this case
you're a t-shirt shop if it's not adding
anything to your shop you don't have to
use a banner
um I guess it fits the theme of your
shop but you might want to put something
up there that you know some text
something that's like welcoming and
communicates to the buyer hey if you're
looking to buy T-shirts we got what you
want 65 sales though so well done that's
great
um you've got an announcement last day
to order for Christmas delivery is
December 11th so you're trying to cover
your bases there
um you know your shirts the the
thumbnails aren't like anything too
special but at the same time they're
definitely good enough you know it's
communicating that it's a shirt it's
showing the designs and that honestly
like if you just zoom out you know this
this may not be the top one percent Etsy
seller approach
that being said uh it's certainly
working now of course look at the the
number one best-selling shirt on your
shop and number two
um just so happen to be you know
infringing on the Dallas Cowboys which
is definitely a No-No right
um I just don't get like on Etsy so many
people so many uh go the infringement
route you know what I mean and it's like
it's it's just like a short-term cash
grab
you know when you're selling these
shirts at 1950 with free shipping so
how many how much money are you making
per sale like three dollars four dollars
maybe four dollars and change Max so
you've got 65 sales
6 12 18 24 so maybe you're making like
200 in like 40 bucks
to do this it's probably not the best
use of your time given you know how much
time it probably took you to open the
shop
link it to a production partner create
the design upload do the SEO you know
what I'm saying it's like is it worth
because you're gonna lose your shop due
to selling this it's just a matter of
when you know
um and then the Steelers here I wouldn't
recommend doing this either
for obvious reasons
it's a big No-No so gotta just lead with
that so over here in the sidebar we can
click where it says 65 sales and we can
see basically how this Shop is making
their money now look at this you know
what I mean obviously many many many of
these are
the the married into the Steelers
married into the Cowboys
um beyond that though you're still
making some money selling the
you know shirts where you have the
intellectual rights to S to sell them so
I would recommend strongly that you
delete the Dallas Cowboy and Steeler
shirts and uh you know go into a more
like long-term
view long-term time Horizon with your
shop and not go for the short-term cash
grab that's definitely high priority
um like I'm saying like your thumbnails
aren't the best like obviously you can
go to Etsy do a keyword search on some
high value keywords look at um look at
like what is performing really well uh
alternatively you know you can go to
Insight Factory here and just go to Etsy
keyword Search tool and you can type in
um like maybe you you can sell football
shirts by the way to the football fans
without infringing on the team
specifically
um so why don't you type in like funny
football shirt all right and inside
Factory I'll link to this in the
description basically they're data
mining Etsy and creating their own kind
of replica database that we can
um query and they've got all the useful
information that we need as well you
know one click away like copying the
tags of the best performing shirts for
instance
um we can sort by like seven day sales
and get the most successful ones so you
can see the top selling listing right
here says I just hope both teams have
fun all right from a shop that has 37
000 sales and 5800 reviews well done
you can also see how they're framing
their designs nothing too spectacular
nothing too fancy but hey like who knows
how long this shop's been active on Etsy
like 33 37 000 is a lot but maybe it's
over a really long time Horizon because
I mean I think they could probably
improve this if they really tried
um so worth considering uh I can't my
kid has practice a game something you
know what I mean the parents who are
just overwhelmed by all the uh from
having kids and all their sports stuff
um 14 sales in the last week the other
one had 18 sales in the last week here's
another
uh what does this one say
okay customizable football themed shirts
your name your name your name so um
they've got personalization enabled
right here my name is Ryan you guys see
how I did that right here and if you
want to enable personalization on your
listings all you have to do
it's like a one-click toggle and then
you can include
a message so you can see what message
that this seller opted to include right
here it says please check color charts
first all age group Styles have
different color options price for One
Piece all right so it's just for one all
right they have a quantity drop down
here but they do use this opportunity to
remind people uh by the way 132
000 sales that is incredible please add
name and color or and printing color so
they can print in a different color as
well example Oliver Black texting so
just a quick example if you want to go
down that rabbit hole of offering
personalization if you have the time and
ability to do that
um definitely worth
it I mean we saw that shop has over 100
000 sales
here's another example I just hope both
teams have fun so inside Factory again
they're they're data mining Etsy
constantly they're giving us the sales
estimates on recent time Horizons which
again if you're trying to make sales now
you should probably be looking in inside
Factory and sorting by at the top here
Seven Day sales all right that's that's
a good way of seeing what happened in
the last week which is probably a good
predictor of the you know next week
looks like you've got a Buffalo Bills
version of the shirt too
would not recommend obviously this RDL
what is this oh darts okay so you're in
the dark Niche and I know you made some
sales we saw when we were spying on your
sales
um by the way speaking of sales you
might want to run a sale on your
listings
so the customers feel like they're
getting a deal
it's it's something that we're just
accustomed to seeing on Etsy plus when
you're in search results you know it
tags your listing a lot of times with
you know sale price so RDL rally dart
league I wonder if you're if somebody
asked for that specifically otherwise
how'd you come up with rally you know
and also if that's a specific location
right like Rally North Carolina I think
um why not offer personalization and say
you know would you like to change the
year and the location just let me know
you know and save this design template
so you can execute those customization
requests uh quickly and easily
um you've got some interesting like
Christmas leggings you got a sloth doing
meditation uh OBX Pride OBX Pride so
pretty interesting stuff here like
overall you've got a lot of different
designs I think they're framed up pretty
well like I would be careful
zooming in too much on your designs and
not showing what the actual product is
like you did here with the Hops and the
sloth that says Adventure awaits
um also price point twenty dollars 25
cents
why not make that 19.99 you know um I
think you'll see a higher click-through
rate and conversion rate generally
speaking pricing psychology
um says that you will or that you should
um but overall I mean I think we've
probably seen enough right I think like
your shop has potential it looks like
based on your recent sales that at some
point recently uh you kind of decided to
start selling like NFL team logos on
your products which I'm surprised
whoever you're using as your fulfillment
partner is actually printing these I
know that printful would not do that you
know what I mean so you definitely want
to be careful because yeah this is going
to get your shop closed down if you
don't delete those
um really quickly guys lesson learned
the main takeaway do not go for the
short-term cash grab because it's not
worth it in the long term you're gonna
give you're going to sacrifice all the
long-term money that you would have made
for a little bit of money in the short
term it's not worth it guys
um that's really it thanks for watching
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