Hello, everybody, welcome back to my channel, Jennifer Marie VO, where I teach you different
ways that you can make money online working from home. If you are one of my subscribers,
you know that I like to talk about all sorts of different ways that you can make money online.
And the difference between my channel and other channels is that I have actually tried all of
these methods. And with many of these methods, I have made 1000s of dollars. And in today's video,
I'm going to tell you about my experience selling on Etsy. Now when I first heard of Etsy,
I thought you could only sell physical products that you made yourself and that you had to go to
the post office and ship out these products all around the world to your different customers.
However, that is not true. There are 1000s and 1000s of different people selling printables
or PDF files that you design online and your customers pay just for the PDF digital download.
So I decided to try this out a few years ago and opened up my own Etsy shop selling printables I
have 19 different printables in my shop and I have made over 11,000 almost $12,000 selling
these printables on my shop since I started it a few years ago, it probably took me a couple days
to design my printables and upload them to the shop. And since then all of this income has been
passive. Once you create your listing on Etsy and upload your files that you're going to sell Etsy
does all the work for you. etsy will automatically send the printables to the customer. And the only
time you have to interact with the customer is if they have a question about the printable,
or if for some reason they haven't received it from Etsy and then you can manually email it to
them yourself. So this has become a passive income stream for me. Sometimes I'll make 100 200 $300 in
a month just from selling these printables. And I don't have to do anything. Since I created my
shop years ago, I haven't done anything new to the printables I've just kept them on the shop. And
every day I make $4 sometimes $10 sometimes $12 it just depends on the day. So in today's video,
I'm going to talk to you about how exactly you can get paid through Etsy. Then I'm going to show
you several different examples of different shops that are selling digital downloads or PDF files.
And some of these are super simple and super easy that you can make on Canva or Illustrator or
Photoshop or any sort of graphic design software. And then I'm going to show you my dashboard within
Etsy so you can get an idea of how much money I am making selling printables and before we get
started, if you haven't already subscribed to my channel, make sure to subscribe by clicking on the
button below. I will be releasing more different tutorials on how to set up your own shop on Etsy
and even other tutorials on how to design your own printables for free so you can get started opening
up your own shop and get started selling online and creating your own passive income stream.
So let's get started. Okay, before I get started and show you my stats on how much money I have
made on Etsy, and before I start discussing different types of digital products that you
can sell on Etsy, I want to explain the payment process. Because of course you don't want to start
opening up a shop if you're not going to be able to make money because you're in a country where
Etsy payments is not supported. Or if you don't have a PayPal account. The first question I am
sure you'll want to know is Is it free to set up a shop on Etsy and to create listings. It is not
100% free but it will only cost you 20 cents to list your first item. So let's say you create 10
different printables and you put all 10 printables in your Etsy shop you'll only be paying $2 total
to list all of these items. And then you can see that the listings are active for four months or
until they sell so you're only risking losing 20 cents. And you'll have four months to sell
your item it'll be another 20 cents to renew your listing to have an active for another four months.
So once an item sells there is a 5% transaction fee on the sale price including the shipping price
you set. Of course for us we're focused on digital products so there will be no shipping price.
And if you accept payments through Etsy payments, we will also collect a 4% plus 30 cent well this
is in euro payment processing fee when an item is sold. So how exactly do you get paid on Etsy now
I have this setup through Etsy payments so I get a direct deposit into my Canadian bank account.
So as you can see here, Etsy payments with Etsy payments, buyers can use most payment
methods to purchase from your shop, you get direct deposits to your bank account, this is what I use.
Or if you're based in a country where Etsy payments isn't available yet. You can have buyers
pay you directly through PayPal. Okay, so if you are living in a country where PayPal is supported,
you can do it this way. Alternatively, you can do it through Etsy payments to get a direct
deposit to your bank account. And these are the countries that are eligible for Etsy payments.
So again, if your country is not listed on this list, then You can accept payments through PayPal.
Okay, so now let's get into different Etsy ideas of different digital products that you can sell on
Etsy. Honestly, there are so many 1000s and 1000s of different ideas, I cannot share with you the
product that I am selling because of course, I don't want to give away my niche and then have a
lot of people try to recreate the product that I'm having success with. But I will give you different
ideas to show you what other people are selling on Etsy. So you can see here, you can type in
calendar printable, and you can see all of these different calendar bundles. Look at this woman,
for example, we click on this ad here, she's selling a 2021 2022 principle calendar.
This is very simple to make. I mean, how simple is this, you just chosen a nice font 2022. And then
just filled out the calendar. It's so simple. And you can see here, it's a digital download
to PDF files. She's selling this for two euro and she's made 139 sales. This is so simple,
you know, you could make this in 10 minutes using Canva. This woman has a bit more of a beautiful
calendar, she's got, you know, nice font, a nice little design, she has over 81,000 sales.
I mean, come on this one, she's selling an entire 2021 calendar for the whole 12 months. And it's
very beautiful. But again, very simple. If you can use some beautiful artwork from different
royalty free websites, and you add that to the top, you can make a beautiful calendar and she's
selling this for five euro. Again, it's a digital download. And Etsy will automatically take care of
that. So when I'm selling my digital downloads, when someone purchases one of my printables,
Etsy automatically emails them the download every so often I get people who messaged me saying they
have troubles with the download or they didn't receive it. Usually, they just have to wait
another 10 minutes and it will come through and if not, I will just email them the file directly. But
it's super easy. And the majority of the time, you know, they don't even contact me because they get
the download directly. Let's click on this woman's shop, when you can just see she has so many
different types of you know, finance planners, productivity planners, budget plans, all of
these are so simple to create, you can create these in Microsoft Excel or in Microsoft Word.
But some people rather than create their own planner, they prefer just to buy someone else's
planner for $2. And this woman is making a fortune. I mean, she has over 81,000 sales,
you can imagine how much money she has made. It's brilliant. Here's another example of someone who's
created very simple, different plans. And she's selling this whole package for almost 30 euro. Of
course, this is a very, you know, complex package. But you don't even have to do something like this,
when I if I recommend you get started, just you know sell things for a euro two euro just to start
getting reviews, because once you start getting reviews is when you'll be able to sell more and
more and more, because people will you know, know that you're a good legitimate shop. So we've got
ideas for calendars, creating, you know, calendars for 2021 2022. We've got agendas, planners,
all sorts of things like that, that you can consider selling. But say you're an artsy person.
And let's say you're really good at graphic design and you know, creating art, you can sell your art
that people can print out themselves and frame and put on their walls. So type in printable
wall art or printable art. And you can see all sorts of different ideas. I mean, this one here,
for example, personalize add your child's name, so they have different artworks, and then you know,
they'll add the name to customize it. And if you add customization options, especially when it's
Mother's Day or Valentine's Day, or child's birthday, or a wedding, the wedding industry
is huge. Women are willing to spend a lot of money on their weddings. Look at this, these are
printable table numbers. And really, it's just table one, table two, How simple is this, and
she's selling this pack for, you know, over seven euro have a digital download of four PDFs. And you
can so easily create this using Canva using any popular graphic design program, like Photoshop or
Illustrator. And this person, again has over 6000 sales really, the options are endless.
If you know how to use a computer, a lot of people don't know how to design,
they don't want to do it themselves. They'd rather spend five euro $5 to have someone else do it for
them. And they just print it and they're on with their day. But if you know how to do this sort of
thing, you can make so much money on websites like this. It is unbelievable. This person for example,
custom name print, they're literally going to put your name and then maybe the definition of your
name. Maybe this is Let's say someone has a baby. And they've named their baby Charles. And they're
going to put, you know, Charles means and they'll put whatever it is that it means they know how
to customize it, they could they have a template on their computer, just fill in the information,
send you the printable, and then you can print it off as you as the customer. If you know how to do
this sort of thing, you can sell the services on Etsy and make a lot of money, something like this,
you wouldn't have it be automatic, you would talk with the customer, they would tell you
what they wanted, and then you would, you know, manually send them their file. So it wouldn't be
as passive, this would be a bit more of an active income stream. But again, it wouldn't take you
very long, especially if you have a template already lined up for this particular product.
Now let's look at this. This is my favorite. This is something that I could create in 10 minutes on
illustrator, it is scribble love heart. It's so simple, it's minimalistic, it's beautiful.
And she's selling this for five euro. I mean, and then here you've got these pictures of a,
you know, item arrived very quickly, it looks lovely in a frame in my living room. Again,
she just paid for the printable, she printed this off. And this customer is super happy with this.
You can make this yourself you can make artwork. That's right now everyone's into minimalistic art,
which is great, because that's the easiest kind of art to make. You start making little things like
this. Think about these big money industries, nurseries, baby showers, wedding gifts,
these are huge million billion dollar industries. capitalize on that make products that people
want that people are willing to pay money for birthday cards, birthday invitations,
all sorts of different things. If you start doing the research, and you can come up with some really
easy, great popular products, you can make a fortune on Etsy, it is amazing how much money you
can make. Honestly, even looking at all of these myself, I want to start adding more items to my
shop because I created my shop years ago. And I've just left it and not added any more items. And I'm
sure I could make more money if I even put out more items just like this one on my shop. Okay,
so now it's time for me to show you my stats of my shop. Now as I said before, I cannot share with
you my exact shop name and the types of printables that I am selling this is because of course,
I've worked really hard to create this shop and set up my printables. And I'm not looking
to try to get 1000s of competitors. This has been working for me for quite a few years. So
you know, you're going to have to go and find your own digital printable to sell.
But I just want to show you that it is possible to make a lot of money or to make pretty good money
on Etsy by selling your printables. So you can see here Today is March 7. And so far today I have had
67 visits to my shop and two orders. So a total of $8. Yesterday, I don't believe I made anything.
But in the last seven days, I've made $54.50 14 orders 724 visits. So the conversion rate is not
great, I could probably make some changes to my listings I maybe I should add more listings to my
shop because I am getting quite a bit of traffic. And if we scroll down here, people are finding
my shop through the Etsy app and other Etsy pages and through Etsy search. So this is great.
Also social media. I'm getting a lot of people from Pinterest. And that's because I made sure to
pin my listings as well to Pinterest. So you know people are finding it through Pinterest as well.
Let's look in the last 30 days. I've made $216 and you can see, you know how many visits I've
been getting to my shop. So that's 60 orders and over 3000 visits to the shop.
And then let's check this year since the beginning of January. I've made $534 and I've had so many
different visits and only 152 orders. So I really should be trying to make more shop listings maybe
even changing the price to see if I get you know if I made it a little bit cheaper. My product
maybe I would even get more sales. And then let's look at all time and you can see here I started my
shop in 2016 and you can see that I have had almost 3000 orders and I've made a total of
$11,415 since I started so you can see that you know, this shop has been going strong
since I started back in 2016. So last year I made $2,586 with my Etsy shop and really I just put 19
different listings in my shop. So 19 different printables, left it there and I haven't really
done anything since and I've made almost 12,000 US dollars and that just continues. So this
is just passive money I'm getting every month this just helping me pay a few different bills.
And it's great. And I really I could be working even harder to make this shop even more successful
and just make even more money. And that's something I plan on working on this year as well.
So I just wanted to show you that it is possible to start your own Etsy shop to make this money
and this money gets directly deposited into my Canadian bank account. So you can set it up with
whatever you want, or with PayPal as well, if you you know, can't do it with Etsy payments directly
into your bank. So if you're an artist and you want to sell prints of your work, you can do it
on Etsy, you know, maybe you can't sell it for $100 per print, but maybe you can for $5 per
print. And then people can print it off themselves and put it on their wall. Or if you want to create
planners or calendars. There are so many different options and people are on Etsy. They're searching
on Etsy for these sorts of things. They're browsing, and for some people who have money
spending a couple dollars so they don't have to design something themselves is worth it. So
I really encourage you to go on Etsy, start doing some research, look up different digital printable
ideas and think about what you could start to create to sell in your own little shop on Etsy. So
stay tuned to this channel. Make sure to subscribe because I will be creating more videos teaching
you how to make your own printables and teaching you how to start your own Etsy shop Step by Step.
Make sure to drop in the comments below if there's any other questions you have for me regarding Etsy
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