what's up guys this is episode number
one of my etsy print on demand
series for 2021 and beyond
i'm gonna walk you through everything
you need to know to succeed as a
print-on-demand seller on
etsy in the near future i'm gonna give
you everything you need to do step by
step
in the order you need it so all i'm
asking in return is drop an early like
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miss anything i'm also going to try to
put all these videos in order on a
playlist so if you miss anything you can
just revisit that
and get you all caught up so this video
this one that you're watching right now
is going to walk you through how to
start your etsy shop so if you've been
holding off
like you're for some reason waiting like
oh maybe there's some trick to it that i
don't know
don't worry i'm gonna walk you through
what you need to do step by step so
let's get started
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every day for eight days walking you
through how to get started on etsy which
is also what i'm gonna be showing you in
this video
and a link to my print on demand
facebook group okay so step number one
to open your etsy shop is to use the
link in the description or go to your
web browser type in bit dot
ly forward slash ryan's method with no
apostrophe
when you use this link you're gonna get
40 free
etsy listings now they charge 20 cents
per product listing
but if you just use this link when you
open your shop you get 40 for free so
there's
really no reason not to use it um you
know what's funny is before i made this
video i googled
start selling on etsy and the first link
took you to etsy but it was like
searching for those keywords so it
didn't actually take you to where you
need to go
to open a shop so i just thought that
was weird it's silly of etsy not to be
like advertising with the proper link
in my mind anyways um but yeah use that
link in the description you get 40 free
listings and then i'm using my
girlfriend's account here for these
tutorials so she'll also get like 20 or
40 free listings
now before you hit this screen you may
need to provide some additional
information to etsy if you didn't
already have an account now we did this
on my girlfriend's computer she already
had an etsy account from shopping on
etsy
so we skip straight to the shop
preferences page and now we begin the
five-step process to create your shop
in the shop preferences step you need to
set your language
your country and your currency now this
is where your shop is going to primarily
cater to which is most likely going to
be
in the united states the largest market
on etsy
which of these best describes you we put
i sell part time and that's how i like
it now the answer to that question won't
change anything
in your shop opening process next you
need to name your shop
here you can just you know type in
whatever you want to call it hit check
availability and when you find one
that's available you can move on to the
next step
now you need to stock your shop as part
of this
opening your shop process now a lot of
people probably get stuck here they're
like oh i wasn't ready for this
i thought this would come after the fact
don't worry i'm going to walk you
through the steps you need to know
right now so first click add a listing
now the creation of product listings on
etsy the
the wizard if you will the the interface
it's very busy and it looks like you're
gonna have to provide a lot of
information but it's not that bad once
you've done it a few times
the first thing you're gonna wanna do is
add a photo up at the top
now i recommend just going to so here's
the thing
we are going to sell through the
printful integration in this tutorial
meaning what we're going to create right
now is just to appease
etsy they're requiring us to do this so
we're going to do it manually
without using printful as our production
partner right now
and the way i like to teach this is we
will come back later and delete this
listing
all right so we're going to set one up
manually but this is just a placeholder
so that we can move forward with
everything else so what i typically do
is i'll just go to google
google funny coffee mug find an image of
a coffee mug
download it to my computer upload it
right here again
we're not actually selling this product
so just grab a picture of a coffee mug
upload it and we move on all right so
you have to upload a photo there
uh here in the listing details you
should add a title
i believe they'll make you answer about
this listing so who made this
put i did it's a finished product and
it's made to order
category i typed in mugs and then it
suggests some categories
so anything with an asterisk indicates
that it's required
down here your renewal options now in
this screenshot i have it set to
automatic but since this is just a demo
product that we're going to delete it
actually doesn't matter if you put
automatic or manual
uh when we circle back around to this
it'll be probably
in i think part three of the series when
i walk you through how to set up your
first product listing
uh type physical alright unless you're
selling a digital product you would
always leave it on the default which is
physical
description i just typed this is just a
demo product that no one will buy
okay and also you see production partner
there we're going to circle back to that
as well
when we walk through the printful
integration but right now
we can just skip it
all right inventory and pricing just
type in any price this is just a demo
product okay we're going to delete this
later just for reminding okay so i put
25 bucks quantity i put one
you can leave sku empty and again move
on
shipping prices uh i just input the
basics here to get through
this listing creation because when you
integrate with printful printful will
create shipping profiles and then
automatically select the right shipping
profile when you create your products
so right now you can't really do
anything wrong just kind of input
whatever you need to
to get through this prompt so shipping
prices i put i'll enter fixed prices
manually
shipping origin i put united states
processing time three to four weeks
then you have shipping carriers set up
for united states first everywhere else
and again this stuff really doesn't
matter right now
all right item weight they require you
to input that so i put one pound
item size i put six six six whoops i
probably should have done like 777
instead of 666 but again we're going to
delete this listing anyways so don't
worry about it
and then i hit save and continue
okay now when you hit save and continue
you
may or may not actually okay this time
it's not going to make us hit publish
all right that's different
when you create any other product
listing it's going to make you hit
publish this time though it's just going
to make us say
save and continue now we are back at the
stock your shop screen
we've got our one product set up and we
can move on to step number four
in the shop opening process this is
called how you'll get paid
now you're gonna have to answer some
questions about your tax situation
really there's not much for me to walk
through here because whether you're an
individual
or a business is gonna make the
questions you have to answer after that
dynamic
if you're wondering what your tax id is
if you're an individual it's typically
your social security number
if you are a legal entity it's your ein
which you'll get when you open up your
business
which by the way you can go to legalzoom
and open up a business pretty quickly
provide them information on where your
bank's located because you're gonna get
paid out
via a bank direct deposit
next you're in step five of five you
need to set up billing
this is because etsy charges 20 cents
per
uh listing that goes live on their
catalog and again you're gonna get
40 free listings for using that link in
the description but um
also like every time your product sells
it renews
and that's 20 cents also every three
months if it doesn't sell
if it's set to automatic renewal you're
going to get billed 20 cents
again so if you have a product listing
that doesn't sell for a year but
automatically renews it's going to cost
you 80 cents a year
just so you guys know upfront there
aren't too many fees associated with
selling on etsy so i wouldn't worry too
much about it just provide a credit card
that they'll keep on file
and provide your billing address and
then at the bottom click that big button
that says open your shop congrats
you have opened in etsy shop
successfully you'll see a screen that
looks like this
now you can go ahead and click edit shop
and you can do things like provide a
banner image
provide a seller profile photo and a
little bit of information about yourself
you can add a photo for your shop icon
it's all optional the reality is most
customers never see your etsy shop they
perform a keyword search on etsy they
click your listing they add to cart and
then they check out without ever seeing
your shop does that mean you shouldn't
spend
five ten minutes setting up your shop
making it look nice of course not i mean
i'm a fan
of making your shop look professional it
really doesn't have to take that long
i didn't plan on doing a video in this
series
touching on how to do that but if you
guys would like me
to do that let me know in the comments
below and then i'll consider doing it
later but
my plan is in the next video of this
series
to do a in-depth tutorial on how to
integrate with printful
including how to get your first product
listing set up on
etsy via the printful integration so
that when it sells
printful will fulfill it and ship it out
to your customer
and upload tracking information
automatically while you sleep
it sounds too good to be true but trust
me it works i've done it thousands of
times on my etsy shop
so guys that's all i'm going to cover in
this video if you haven't already hit
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one also a quick reminder i have a full
print on demand course
10 modules over 100 lectures one of the
modules is the
printful etsy integration but there's
plenty of other stuff in there lots of
valuable
information showing you how i make six
figure print on demand sales every
single year so check that out if you're
interested
and that's it guys i will see you at
part two
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