My Top Etsy Selling Tips for Beginners 2023

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[tierneycreates]

Oh my goodness Hannah you have some amazing business acumen! I’m sitting in front of my sewing machine, making items for my Etsy shop and watching your videos, and I am so inspired and learning so much! Thank you😀

[hayleysummer_]

You’ve become the only person on YouTube I can trust when it comes to building and growing this kind of business. Most YouTubers now are making 10-15 min long videos about getting “rich quick” without saying anything informative just so they can try and sell you a course at the end 🙄
You’ve taught me soo much and I’m always taking notes while listening to your videos because I know you’re being HONEST.
I hope you continue making real content so you can help more people. Thanks girl! 👏🏼

[hzkvjsl]

I have yet to run etsy paid ads since I began selling on etsy in 2011, however I have my off site ads that run continuously and I can see how much extra revenue I make monthly using off site ads. I also run daily/weekly sales and I can track the additional revenue from those sales monthly too. I would recommend to those sellers who are not running etsy paid ads to at least run off site ads and sales in you shop. I know that by doing just these two things to promote my shop etsy has pushed my listings up in their algorithm. After all etsy is a business that wants to make money any way they can through their sellers. I hope one day I can feel comfortable spending hundreds a month on paid advertising. 😊

[sharongifty]

Thank you! I soo needed to hear this! Really appreciate your videos!

[sapphire.silhouette]

Thank you for being real, I feel like I've been wasting my time taking bad advice only to learn the hard way when I was trying to avoid wasting my time from the get go

[CarolynCase]

Finally some up front, common sense advice!! I appreciate this so much!

[audreywalton]

Thank you for saying tip one!! Information overload has caused paralysis

[kevinaustin]

Thanks Hanna for sharing your valuable knowledge. I don’t understand why anyone wouldn’t want to run adds. The largest budget for a majority of all companies is their marketing budget. Companies spend millions on advertising for a reason. It’s part of doing business. If you do find it difficult to do so, look at it as an investment in your company as oppose to an expenditure. There’s a formula. And a significant percentage of revenue goes to advertising for the simple fact these companies know for every dollars they invest in advertising the ROI will be 2, 3 or more times that. If it weren’t for the advertising they wouldn’t be as successful as they are. Promote yourself every way imaginable. It’s for the long game. Not a few months. Real, authentic methods of doing business requires commitment and dedication to the process and having the discipline to see it through. Then after whatever amount of time you set for yourself, reassess your parameters and make adjustments. Then continue with another ad campaign. Always advertise and know as you grow so too will your advertising budget. Which again, over the long play, will make you more successful. Not to mention the tax write off you’ll get. You doing a disservice to yourself if you don’t. Possibly setting yourself up for failure. With it being a tax write off makes it a win. Especially with the data it will provide you for future guidance and attention.
I’m in the research mode of this new endeavor and I’ve been learning a lot from listening to experienced an successful Etsy shop owners like Hanna. I appreciate you taking the time to share these wonderful nuggets of information. I’m gaining a much better understanding of what I’ll be getting into and how to set my expectations.

[brandonestelle]

Thank you so much, Hannah Garner!For a great tpis tutorial videos!Its very helpful!

[Erikannm]

Thank you this is super helpful! By any chance you have any videos about doing taxes as a small business owner?

[xzxjessxzx]

Your videos are very motivating for me. I'm coming to the end of my 7th week of selling digital downloads (60 sold so far). Only a handful of my sales have come from my ads, so my ad spend is higher than the revenue they are generating at this early stage. I was unsure if I should put them on pause, but I'll keep them going and see how things change in the next few months.

[adorablePanda-bd]

Hello Hannah, thank you for all amazing tips, i have been binging on your vidoes.

I have question about posting same product with different Mockup or different keyword / description/ tag. Do you post say a listign with 3 different SKU on one day and next day you post different versions of those SKU ? Or do you post one SKU with its 3 different versions on same day ?

[CryptidMom]

Me with a digital and POD shop currently, but wanting to chase my true love of physical crafts: 😐

[myrissablanco]

Can you tell me how you got your account back after it was deactivated for 3 months? I'm so sad they suspended my shop

[vasilisgeorgiadis]

I am europe citizen and i want to open an etsy shop in US and i want to do print on demand but i don't have EIN or TIN. Can i open shop whitout this in us? what can i do?

[shahshagun]

My store has over 2000 products so how would you recommend I advertise shall I advertise all or just pick about 100 or something

[---rybj]

Hello! I have a question. I want to sell digital wedding invitations on Etsy which will have about 10 files there will be an option for people who want to buy only 2 files and my question is how can I make those people receive a link with only those 2 files instead of all 10? Is there an option on Etsy to make it automatically send different links for different orders? Thank you

[CreativeClover-xk]

If you don't have money just yet to spend money on ads, when is a good point to start spending on ads? would you say to set aside a percent of the income that you make to go towards ads? -- thanks

[CeccoAMV]

Hi Hannah,
I have digital store for over 4 months now and to made it more automated I should work for a while more because it is kind a competitive niche but it is giving me some great results so I cannot complain.
I was thinking to open a pod store and run them togheter but maybe focusing more on the pod store because it is new and like split with the digital one and doing so.
You think it is a little bit to soon ? What do you think about it ? Thank you! 🙂
Last question is I recently became a star seller and do you think I should take advantage ot that and run ads ? (i'm under 100 sales) Thank you for your time! 😄

[shontal_ceramic]

What do you think about the offsite adds