what's up guys today we're going to do
some etsy print on demand shop reviews
now etsy can be a little bit of a pain
in the butt because customers are so
ready and willing to reach out to
sellers which means you're going to have
to do a little bit more customer service
than you might be used to otherwise but
don't sleep on etsy it's a great way of
making additional print on demand
profits
when my etsy account was going full
force it was making over a thousand
dollars a month
consistently and matching my fbm print
on demand sales from amazon and we know
amazon is a bigger marketplace probably
by
quite a bit so anyways guys in this
video i'm gonna review this shop give my
thoughts what they did well what they
can improve upon so let's get straight
to it
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all right so the shop is called fusion
design gifts i'll drop a link to it in
the description
in case you want to check it out
yourself it looks like they are canadian
because it says etsy.com
ca um typically when it's international
shop you see the country code up there
and you can see it looks like they're
from toronto 27 sales
four and a half average uh four and a
half star average review
i do like that look at the usage of the
banner up top it says well not the
banner but the um
heading i don't know what to call it
announcement it says follow us on
instagram it looks like they've got
an instagram page to match their um
their etsy shop that's really nice 105
followers and when is the most recent
post i guess i can't see without logging
in
but that's that's a great idea guys also
if you have never used uh place it place
it is a great way of generating mock-ups
on the fly
of your print on demand products i can
drop a link to place it in the
description below and you can do
so much with it as far as these these
mock-ups that you see here
all right so great i love it and they're
also consistent with their branding the
seller icon behind me is consistent with
their shop icon as well
so that's a another great thing to
recommend it again this unified
presentation to the customer because if
a customer comes and sees your shop and
it looks like crap
then they're probably less likely to
even scroll down where your products
start
and look at your products alright so
last updated may 24 2021 so they're
active on etsy still
288 products live for sale i love seeing
that
it looks like you're running a lot of
free shipping now my personal opinion if
you had to
flip a coin between free shipping or
running a sale
well number one i would say do both but
uh i would recommend running a sale over
running free shipping that's just based
on my personal experience
also one thing i notice you're doing and
i don't know if this is because i live
in the united states and maybe
when people look at your shop it gets
converted to um
canadian dollars i don't know but i
would recommend not selling things at
like
flat pricing uh your featured items here
like 18
19 35 34 how about 17.99
18.99 34.99 33.99 et cetera
there's been plenty of psychological
analysis showing that people are more
likely to
convert if you just shave off and reduce
the left
the left digit by one so you can
literally shave off a penny
and you'll reduce the left digit by one
and that'll increase increase your
click-through rate and your conversion
rate
so run a sale maybe revisit your pricing
strategy
one thing that i would say also standing
out immediately is like
a mock-up like this where the dude is
looking off to the sides
is not necessarily recommended because
it doesn't really highlight the product
itself right nobody's buying the guy's
face they're buying the hat
and they're specifically buying the
embroidery design
on the hat so i think that should be
front center and featured
now if you're using printful to sell
these you can actually like
just grab their default flat mock-up and
it puts the product front and center
with the design front and center and
that's my
recommendation what i used to do is i
actually used to zoom in
to the product itself and try to make
the design like shine
while also still kind of showing the
potential customer
what product it was that it was on so if
you missed my video on how to do
etsy thumbnails you can actually do them
yourself manually i can link to that in
the youtube cards right here as well
all right you've got some pins that's
pretty cool that you're selling pins
looks like you've got some stuff
targeting day july 4th that is an
upcoming holiday so that's great the
seasonal stuff
is a great way of getting some
additional sales and also there's
massive potential upside
if you get to ranking on primary
keywords like funny july 4th shirt
if you're ranking near the top of there
you can make thousands of dollars
i had a hat one time ranking on etsy and
it was a kind of like a flash in the pan
trend
but in a single day i did 4 400 dollars
in sales of that one hat on etsy
it was selling so well that etsy was
running google ads
for me not even charging me that's how
well it was converting so
if you go for something and it ends up
taking off
you know sky's the limit etsy will
actually like pay to bring more
customers to your listing
because i've seen it happen firsthand i
wish everybody could experience that
level of success honestly
um all right so what else you got going
on here see these i like these mock-ups
these are great
like you got the design front and center
it's big it's bold it's easy to read
you've got great color contrast between
the shirt color and the foreground
design
i think it's a great presentation this
is also another great design i'd say
i like how you've executed that i would
maybe put camping life bigger but that's
just like my personal opinion
like in terms of like reality this
design on that shirt
you've designed it really well but in
terms of
you needing to get clicked in search
results amidst
a sea of other options i think etsy puts
like 100
or like 90-something products on page
one they put a lot
you need to get clicked amongst all of
those other options and one way that i
like to go about doing that is to make
the text
super easy to read by making it bold and
big so i like to maybe put camping on
its own line
make it bigger put life underneath it
make it bigger
just thinking out loud here i know that
may not translate into as good of a
finished product but
nobody's going to see the finished
product if they don't if they don't
actually buy from you right because it's
print on demand you have to
you have to get the sale first um these
pocket designs i think are awesome but i
would
zoom in both of these right here i think
these are great i would zoom in on the
pocket design itself though
but like show like a sleeve or two of
the shirt so that they still know it's a
t-shirt because they can see the sleeves
that is how i would have gone about
doing it um something like this mock-up
i think looks good
uh just thinking out loud here though
you can probably like
in etsy typically when you upload your
primary thumbnail you can reposition it
it says drag to reposition you can
actually like drag this up
and vertically center it and that's my
recommendation there because i'm just
saying like this is a good thumbnail
but it's just off center like you see
i'm talking about hopefully you guys can
see this like
it's a little bit down and it's like if
you could just push it like
more centered like that i think that
would be
hopefully that that shows i've never
actually looked and confirmed that that
shows when i'm recording
but i'm really just trying to say like
zoom in on the uh the design itself the
rainbow and the part that says teacher
um so far though i mean this is a great
shop you're off to a great start
uh how long have you been on etsy does
it tell us no it doesn't say
um and you know designs like this where
the
is actually cut off like you can
definitely crop this you know you can
crop this to show the design
instead of the guy's face because i mean
that's more important obviously
um if you guys are just watching this
video for like what they did well i'm
not trying to say you did all this stuff
wrong you're doing a great job
you've also done a great job using
sections so check this out on the left
hand side summer shirts
women's shirts fall masks teacher shirt
workout tees
it seems like there's like niches mixed
with product types
that's perfectly okay over time you may
want to refine that
and decide whether it's going to be
niches or product types
i mean you could always do both but um
i'm just thinking out loud here i think
it would make sense to
to pick one or the other because most of
the top tier shops you do see doing that
and product types is a good good way of
doing it unless you've got like a
best-selling collection for
halloween or something so i like that
you've got face masks in its own section
we know that those were selling really
well for a period of time
it looks like you did a lot of like
designs optimized for
all over print which is a good strategy
if you're going to
um sell you know i mean what's the flip
side right the flip side is you can
convert a t-shirt design which is
optimized in
portrait which is vertical and try to
put that on a
mask which typically doesn't look good
unless you pattern it which
a different story for a different day
you can do that pretty easily on
redbubble it's not as easy to do in
printful
so i think this is a good strategy for
masks one thing i would say though is
like
a lot of these more generic like
landscape-y masks
i don't think they sell nearly as well
as if you went the
comical route you know like what sells
best online like memes
things that are funny a lot of these
shops i've done reviews on uh redbubble
every saturday i'm like alternating etsy
shop reviews or redbubble shop reviews
the best-selling masks to me appear to
be the ones that are kind of like poking
fun
you know a lot of the ones like maybe
have like a cartoon face on it
or i've seen some masks that are like
skin colored and they just have a face
and makes people think you don't have
one on
those things are pretty funny that's
just me thinking out loud like i would
i'm guessing that when you did these
masks you didn't actually do much
research into like what was selling
so before you go and like you know how
make however any masks you did however
many masks you made
i would just evaluate the best sellers
and see if you notice a common thread
right and then you can kind of let the
creative process begin where you at
least have a starting point of
you know these convert well you know not
these but i meant like you know probably
the
comedic ones the funny ones um what else
you got wedding
okay so probably are these bride and
groom shirts okay that's funny postcards
accessories homemade decor so i love the
variations and different product types
that you've got available for sale here
um you can already guess i'm gonna say
like zoom in on the pillows i would
probably do that
and these phone cases i would probably
zoom in a little bit more as well but i
do like that you've mixed it up here
quite a bit hopefully you're also on
redbubble because with redbubble you can
upload a design and they'll
automatically make it available for sale
on all these different product types
whereas on etsy
it's kind of like one listing one
product type and when i make an etsy
listing i typically recommend
putting something in the description
over here right here that says like
available on additional products shoot
me a message
that way you can save on like creating
too many listings because they do charge
20 cents quarterly
and uh you know you can just have
somebody message you and you can kind of
work out a price
for maybe putting this design on
something else a sticker a t-shirt a
sweatshirt whatever
anyways overall great job with this shop
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