what's up guys welcome to Etsy Shop
reviews this is episode number 60 and
today we've got a shop from a true
beginner so if you fancy yourself a
beginner when it comes to Etsy print on
demand you may be able to relate to what
you see in this shop and I'm gonna do my
best to give some good high level advice
to help get that first sale and improve
quality across the board let's go
so the shop is called Lucidity many
pursue pleasure with such haste they
hurry past it alright from California
they got three sales and a pretty
interesting Banner there
um some interesting stuff going on with
the designs and whatnot some of it's
definitely lost on me but let's check
out and it looks like uh behind me here
the shop owner's last name loose city so
maybe it's Lucidity uh the last name
plus the letter t
23 products for sale only three sales I
mean that's a good sale to products
ratio I guess
um considering that they're not all like
fully optimized now
the first thing you kind of notice is
that it's probably safe to say that your
thumbnails for your products
your primary thumbnails at a minimum you
know the ones we see right here this is
the equivalent of looking at search
results by the way if we looked up like
just don't quit shirt it would be you
and it would be all your competition
uh you'd want to do what you can to
stand out for instance I'm almost never
a fan of like a white shirt framed on a
white background
a lot of times when you push products
from a production partner uh regardless
of which one you use they typically
offer a default mock-up against a white
background because Amazon requires a
white background
Etsy doesn't require the white
background so you don't want to just
settle for the minimum you want to go
and you know there's a couple different
ways to go about doing this
they really don't have to take a long
time I guess I could even I didn't plan
on doing this but like I could even just
show you like Photo P all right
photopea.com this is like a free online
version of Photoshop
um what I can do here is grab your image
and of course I click the white ones
probably the worst example because it
might have trouble
um
grabbing the background all right and
I'm just gonna paste this here
into photo p and I'm not actually doing
this the way I would do it in real life
like if I'm really running my shop I
just want to show you really quickly uh
how this can be done so then you would
magic wand I'm going to really lower the
tolerance because again the white the
white shirt is not going to be easy to
do yeah um the white shirt is probably
the worst example possible but what I
was really trying to show you is that
you know you can go in here to photo p
and make you know even if it's just a
simple colored background again ignore
the fact that you know the magic wand
you know you'd have to go in there and
probably manually cut it out or use
there's a website called remove.bg
um another good option that would
probably not not struggle to get the
white shirt cut out from the white
background
anyways I just wanted to show you that
you know if this was your
prod your primary thumbnail it would
look better I think and draw more
attention than just the white shirt on
the white background you know what I
mean and you can get that done in a
couple minutes you know you can create a
template uh even photo P here you can
save you can file save as PSD and then
you've got the PSD file to reuse in the
future so changing the background color
is like the the least you should do okay
beyond that um in your pricing forty six
dollars that is a lot for a long sleeve
shirt you may want to consider reducing
your price
um also it's worth mentioning like
your first keyword in this title is all
over print all over print men's Raglan
long sleeve all cotton t-shirt so before
you even say anything
about what it is you're selling
it just says a bunch of generic words
related to the product type you
typically want to
make your designs
um the keywords so the primary keywords
associated with your designs you want to
front load your title with so if I was
like rewriting your title I would
probably
um do something like this where oops I'm
trying to like actually write it in
there
um is it going to let me
I'd probably do something like this
where I would say like just don't quit
you see so the first things if the
design says just don't quit the first
words I would do right there would say
just don't quit and it sends a strong
signal to the Etsy algorithm that hey we
want to be associated with these
keywords this phrase
um Etsy even says in their help section
which you may benefit a lot from reading
and of course subscribing to my YouTube
channel uh that you know you you can
actually send Etsy a strong signal like
they outright say you want to front load
your your title with the strongest um
the most relevant keywords so consider
that sorry for interrupting I wanted to
let you know that Linked In the
description you can find my free print
on demand mini course that is completely
new for 2023 if you sign up it'll help
you get your first sale and down there
you'll find a link to my print on demand
Facebook group I hope you'll join the
community
uh beyond that I mean you can also crop
your primary photo
uh in Etsy you don't even have to do it
in you know graphic editing software
like Photo P you can actually crop it in
Etsy now it looks like you know that
because these top two over here that I'm
pointing to over my shoulder they look
cropped uh so that's okay but I just
wanted to make sure you were aware of
that I mean this mug too like just
compare these two mugs side by side this
mug looks pretty good you know you can
tell it's a coffee mug I might even zoom
out just a little bit so that the top
and the bottom aren't cut off
but then over here it's a coffee mug but
the design isn't like forward-facing so
we we don't see maybe 15 of the design
itself uh I think that's sub-optimal if
you're charging 24 for a coffee mug also
you may want to just check out your
pricing I mean you have a 24 mug right
next to a 19 mug that has free shipping
so make sense of your pricing in case
somebody does come to your shop you want
to present kind of a consistent story
and not not make people stop and like
think twice about why one thing's more
expensive than the other
um one thing I noticed here you have
some uh nebula wall art from the James
Webb Telescope I thought this was cool
uh you hopefully are capturing a decent
amount of profit too at these price
points your smallest one an eight inch
by eight inch is 37
um going all the way up to like a 28 by
40 inch for 123 dollars if you guys can
see over my shoulder you've got some
nice mock-ups here I think this looks
actually really nice here on the wall
above the bed so that's really nice um
whoever you're using for your production
partner they have some good mock-ups
assuming you're using theirs out of the
box maybe you use place it or something
I just wanted to show you that you can
jump over to allora this is a tool for
I would say not beginner Etsy sellers
but I mean it's actually a nice way of
fast forwarding your way from being a
beginner Etsy seller to a medium or you
know higher end Etsy seller
it's got a whole bunch of functionality
I could do a probably a 30 minute video
just trying to demo it but I really
wanted to show you is just some
low-hanging fruit waves that you can
maybe say Hey you know of all your
listings that I looked at in your shop
here I thought that some of the outer
space ones the James Webb Telescope
stuff
um it's an interesting Niche and they're
the ones that stood out to me so I came
over here and I just typed in into the
keyword finder James Webb okay like are
there some additional keywords that
maybe you can um fit into your title
your description down here all right it
looks like also you spent more time on
this listing than maybe some of your
other ones
um you can see here they give you the
number of views uh for this phrase in
this case not just this keyword but this
phrase number of favorites your
competition score how many sales take
place the average price so
a 54 plus average price it's actually
pretty healthy that's pretty nice and it
is probably given the subject matter you
know with James Webb
implying you know outer space solar
system uh satellite or telescope imagery
right it probably lends itself better to
wall art so it makes sense that wall art
has a higher price point okay got it
um then you get keywords now you don't
have to use any of these keywords but
maybe you overlooked using jwst you know
at a glance you might be like oh that's
just a typo oh wait no it's not James
Webb Space Telescope right like do you
have the word jwst no see you don't have
jwst on your on your listing and just
like that allora is putting that right
there in front of you so that you know
to integrate that into your listing
because you're missing quite a few like
look at this the views are 258 000. you
know what I mean you're missing out on
quite a bit there by not being indexed
on that
um by not signaling to the algorithm
that hey this is relevant to my listing
NASA Space Telescope jwst James Webb
Telescope telescope astronomy Galaxy
nebula NASA poster and you can hit load
more and keep going they have some nice
suggestions also over here on the
product Seeker you know maybe you have a
bunch of really nice
um James Webb Telescope images
and you don't know necessarily how to
maximize the value of them in your shop
well you can come over here to the
product Seeker
and just seed it with James Webb they
also have other filters that you can use
but it's not required you can just hit
search like this
it's going to go look at all the
Etsy data that has access to
try to present you with a list of
suggestions of products related to your
Search terms in this case James Webb
based on what's already out there what's
already selling by the way you can
filter by the total sales or the monthly
sales
um I don't know about you I'd probably
go with monthly sales personally
uh 37
sales a month this is a poster all right
and check this out I mean that's really
interesting I think I saw something
similar on your
your shop yeah you do have something
similar so that's actually interesting
that basically that is the same same
image although this looks a little bit
like grainy and poor quality here in
your shop you may want to try to hunt
down a higher resolution version
but you're on to something guys uh sorry
guys you're onto something like you can
see their poster here actually has some
text underneath it webs first Deep Field
so they put some text underneath
um like a heading some text problem
guessing like a date is there as well
okay and they have the tags right here
so if you wanted to pursue potentially
something very similar here we go uh
Webb's first Deep Field object name
instrument distance exposure dates
there's definitely a lot you can do in
this Niche anybody watching um this may
be a niche that you may want to look
into since I'm assuming
the the sellers here don't have
exclusive rights maybe I haven't looked
into how NASA and the you know Space
Telescope works but I'm assuming hey if
it's paid by tax dollars and we pay
taxes then we should have some don't
take that don't take me literally there
I don't want anybody I don't get anybody
in trouble but yeah definitely go look
because but also just take note if
you're trying to sell wall art in the
future
it's easy to be lazy and just kind of
like dump an image and say look it's a
graphic but how about doing something
like this where you actually add text
underneath and make it look a little bit
more presentable a little bit more
professional I actually really like this
idea and again where did this idea
originate well the idea you could say
originated from our shop review but we
took it on over here to the Alora
product Seeker just typed in James Webb
sorted by monthly sales and this is
doing about 37 sales a month
um for a healthy
6365 a month in projected Revenue
that's pretty darn good guys
um or that says projected Revenue sorry
let me make sure I didn't just misspeak
uh how much are they charging 12 goes
for between yeah they're probably making
at least that look at the price range
here
um so yeah guys that's what I really
wanted to show you for this shop review
um you have three sales by the way like
perhaps you know
double down on what is working you know
what I mean you know what is selling
you have 23 products you have a kind of
a wide range that you're covering but
why don't you focus in on launching more
listings in the niche
where you're already making sales
consider consider that a validated Niche
at least on a relative basis to your
other products that haven't sold and you
know even if it's not necessarily at the
niche level maybe you just take the
design that's sold
and go list it on additional products
you've got some interesting stuff here
too like a luggage cover
um you know that's definitely out there
that's out of the box
um also one thing you can do have a
friend or family member
drop you your first shop review you can
do that no problems launch a digital
download for 99 cents send it to you
know your brother or sister whoever your
friend and have them drop you a five
star review
all right that's your homework hopefully
you'll get that done soon and get your
shop you know I mean it's great that you
got to start
um got started you know what I mean if
this was like a college course you just
completed the 100 level you need to go
on to the 200 level after 200 level you
go to 300 level 300 level to 400 level
then you graduate and you become a Etsy
Millionaire right um but yeah you got
some work to do so I hope this helped
guys I will drop a link to the shop in
the description check it out I also have
a link to my full print on demand course
in the description
Etsy is included as one of the modules
but it's like a full Etsy course just as
one of the modules included with your
enrollment so I hope you check that out
it's linked in the description you'll
get a lot out of it if your shop looks
anything like this for sure and over
time it for sure pays for itself alright
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