hey everybody welcome back to another video i'm mandy and today i'm going to be sharing with you
how i make a thousand dollars a month selling digital products on etsy and how you can too
i've been selling products on etsy for about five months now this is one of my favorite ways that i
make money online at the moment because you do it once you set it and you sort of forget it and it
sort of just been snowballing on its own without me really doing much i mean you create a product
one time and you can make money off of it forever and i love that sort of passive income so i'm
going to share with you my top tips in how i believe that i've done it and how you can as well
okay so i'm just gonna quickly share my screen here and so the number one piece of advice that i
would give is to pick one niche it makes it a lot easier for etsy's algorithm i think to recommend
products if you're doing things all in one similar niche so personally as you can see on the screen
here i've gone with a mental health and spiritual niche because it's something that i genuinely am
really passionate about and i have a lot of knowledge on and i've actually written a lot
of these journal prompts in my personal journal over the years that i've actually just given now
as printables for other people to use so this is my shop here so that would be my number one
piece of advice pick a niche and stick to it there there are so many different niches that
you can do as far as for printables and for doing digital products you just have to really hone in
and figure out exactly what you have knowledge on and what you can create the products around
generally i always recommend for everything in online and e-commerce being something that you're
interested in because otherwise you're just going to lose obvious interest in it and not continue on
with doing it i guess with this not that big of a deal because you can kind of do it once
and then it's over but if you don't have very very good discipline like me um you might find yourself
um giving up on it if you're not interested so that's probably my number one piece of advice
so as you can see for my shop from everything that i've learned with ecommerce a brand is what makes
your online presence so much stronger and so i've kind of created my etsy shop into a brand
which i highly recommend doing as well this can be done just through canva so i don't actually
sell these products or do anything anywhere else yet i haven't figured out another avenue that
i want to go with mindfully mandy creating the brand and having your color scheme and branding
makes it look so much better and makes it a lot easier for you know people looking just makes you
look more professional rather than just being someone who just checked up something on the
internet and you they want you want them to buy it i actually i do have a bit of graphic design
experience but i actually just made this branding really quickly out of canva as sort of like an
experiment to see how quickly i could get this going and it's worked really well so it can be
done you can create your own branding through canva you just i just recommend going more of
the minimalist route like i have just to keep it simple as soon as you start adding too many like
elements to your branding it sort of starts to look a little tacky if you do it yourself
in my opinion but each to their own so i even created like a little catchphrase and stuff like
that here i put my instagram there as well it's always good to just sort of leave your digital
footprint across all platforms i've also made sure this is another thing that i would recommend doing
is that my listings relate to my branding as well so everything sort of flows and when you
when someone comes to my store they can see that all these items that i have look fairly well the
same and they all relate to one another and are the same branding it just looks a lot better it's
a lot easier for people to navigate and you just look more professional that way so i will touch
on more on creating a more of like a brand on etsy probably in another video because i feel
like it's quite a large extensive component if you're new to branding it's sort of a lot to
understand how you can create a brand out of these types of products but it's sort of just
how you speak to your customers the same way and being consistent and understanding
who you're speaking to and who you're trying to target with your products as well so if you look
here on my store you'll see that i have quite a few different products but what i've done is
i've actually taken a lot of the products that i've created and just bundled them differently
so you can see like i've done like a therapy bundle which pretty much includes everything that
i've created in my store i've also done like an inner child and shadow work journal because they
were like frequently purchased products together so i just created another one sort of to upsell
to people to entice them to want to buy the two together rather than just buying one because it's
a better deal and it's gone really well so i do recommend doing that because it actually just
improves your average order value which is really important if you're wanting to hit
that thousand dollars getting creative with the with what you bundle together and figuring out
what people are purchasing more likely together or what you think yourself would go good together
as an upsell highly recommend doing that just to improve how much people are buying from you
and it also just makes things easier for your customers so a little hack that i figured out
as well this one's one of my better sellers this um inner child workbook so what i do
to make sure that i'm gonna get the sale i have a really high percentage of people purchasing and
there i feel like one of the reasons for that is because i do offer a free gift so this um mental
health daily mental health tracker printable is actually available in my store but i decided like
because it's just one page like i do sell quite a few of these but i decided because it's just one
page i can just use that as an upsell in every one of my listings as well so it's cheaper obviously
just to buy that one page but this gets people to if they see that they get that actually for free
with a more expensive product they're more likely to buy the expensive product that gets the free
the freebie so that's a little hack that i figured out myself and since i started doing
that i definitely saw a peak in my sales go up for that one so just having that in your product
listing photos really makes a big difference in my opinion another thing that i would recommend doing
a lot of people don't fully read things when they're purchasing um so sometimes i'll get
little mess sometimes i've received messages people asking hey i haven't received my
my product yet just because they didn't look through the full listing so i even still get
that and i have it printed pretty much everywhere but i do recommend putting this in your product
photos just saying that this is a digital product that they'll receive via email and then i also
have i actually have on my newer this is an older listing but in my newer ones i actually
have on there as well that it has to be printed via desktop which is for all digital products on
etsy but i do have that there on the page i've also got the bonus gift listed on there as well
and just to make sure that everyone's on the same page and they understand
what they're getting and that they're not getting an actual physical product it's something that
they have to print themselves as you can see on the left here i have gotten quite a few reviews
and i've been a bit slack lately because we have been traveling and working so much
on other things that i haven't been asking for reviews but generally every week i will go back
and send direct messages to people on etsy and ask for a review and i'll show you the message that i
send to people that's like non-intrusive and just really friendly asking for review and how much it
helps my store but you can see that it's worked because obviously not everyone's going to leave
a review that's just the way it is but they do really really help your store and just as well
for social proof like reviews are everything in the online space we teach this in our online
course i have more information about the online course down below if you're interested we teach
everything about e-commerce online reviews are everything and getting that social proof people
will be very hesitant about being the first one to purchase from you if they don't see that someone's
already had it and trial it themselves so the more reviews the better you can't ever have too many
good reviews on your products i gotta get better at sending out these messages and
get on top of it but i will go into my messages here okay so i've just zoomed in so i can get rid
of the person's address and name so i've just put hi amanda i just want to check in and see
how you are finding the journal prompts i would love to hear your feedback by leaving a review
these reviews help my store immensely um and then just tell them how they can leave a review
so i've put that there as well and i got this off another youtube video i'm not sure exactly
where i learn a lot of my stuff via youtube so i don't want to take credit for someone else's
message but um i for the life of me can't remember who um i got this off but thank you and then just
saying thank you for your order it means the world to me so obviously not everyone's gonna leave the
review that's totally fine but a lot of them do and when you are doing something a lot more
heartfelt and asking for that review and how much it helps you it really helps your store out as
well so another thing that i would really really recommend is understanding how important keywords
on etsy are like i i think they are the be all and all honestly for etsy to get your product
seen and ranked and recommended to people and to help people actually find your listing
is using correct proper keywords that people are using to find whatever you are selling i'm on
page one now for 365 journal prompts for beginners mental health printable journal pages so you can
see that i've used a lot of different keywords in that in what i know people are searching for
it's related to everything that's in there it doesn't necessarily make sense
like if i was just to say i'm just selling a yellow pillow i'd recommend describing what the
fabric is if it's handmade more niche keywords of what people would actually be searching for
try and be as descriptive as possible in your keyword title and also in your
in the first couple lines of your product description is so important so this is how etsy
just figures out what your listing is actually about so having that in the first couple lines
as well as the description that's how etsy's gonna know where to place your product listing
i recommend putting pretty much your title of your listing in the first couple lines because
that just sort of solidifies that that's what it is and that's what etsy is going to list it as and
put it in the correct place for people to find it it just optimizes it a lot more for seo purposes
this is sort of how i write out my etsy listings you're welcome to copy and use it sort of similar
i always include what's what you'll what they'll receive in it and i always also include like
a review in the listing this one's a little bit older usually i've got like two or three
uh reviews on my listings but but this one's just got one but i definitely recommend doing that
because it sort of just reminds people that it you know more social proof you can reuse those reviews
on your product listing so i think that's really helpful and then i just pop a bunch of keywords
down the bottom of my listing as well just to sort of really solidify what is this listing about and
to help anyone find it so if anyone's looking for any of those types of things hopefully my listing
will pop up for it another thing i would recommend doing is for your tags using the same keywords in
the first few tags as well again just helps with seo purposes and just being really diligent with
these things that you are really certain what your listing is about and it's just really going to
help etsy once again so um in the tags this one's my deep journal prompt so i've got deep journal
deep prompts thought provoking so just things that i've used in the description that's going to help
just recommend doing that as well the other thing to think about that i would recommend is doing a
product video so doing a product video really helps when they're deciding whether or not to
purchase your digital product so they can actually see the entire thing that they're purchasing
and also etsy even recommends that buyers are really liking it so that means that etsy's going
to favor listings that have a video option on it i will create another youtube video showing how
to actually create a fully optimized listing so make sure you hit the like button and subscribe
to my channel for that one near in the near future the last bit of advice that i would give
is just to respond every single message that you get on etsy because your goal should be
to become a star seller because once you do your account will get catapulted like i started seeing
so much more sales once i hit my star cellar and it took me longer
unfortunately than it should have i was traveling at the time and didn't have any wi-fi and i missed
out on responding to a message within 24 hours and i missed my chance to become a star seller
for that month i do recommend really staying on top of that because once you do become a star
seller that's when you'll start to see the higher numbers for your etsy account another
piece of advice that i would give is your name for your store should relate to what you're selling
so that's why i went with mindfully mandy because we're being mindful with our journaling and our
journal prompts and being spiritual so that's why i went with mindfully mandy it just helps
people again understanding the brand and what they're coming to my store for and so when and
your goal should be for people to favorite your shop because every time you list a new listing
they'll be notified that you're selling something new which is so valuable and my last piece of
advice would just be to create something that is quality over quantity you only have to create
these products once and you can make money off them forever so take your time creating them and
make sure that it's something of value so people will want to come back and buy other things from
you i hope you've found this video helpful in any way i will be uploading more about etsy
and how i've made a thousand dollars a month in just a few short months selling digital products
on etsy and i want to help other people be able to do this and make money from home
so don't forget to hit the subscribe button and i will see you guys in the next video bye
you