🎄 LIVE Etsy Holiday Shop Critiques and Prep Tips - The Friday Bean Coffee Meet

good morning and welcome to the friday bean don't spook em i spook em i told him she told me not to spook but i wanted to give it did i spook anybody did i get you halloween is over no more spookies all the spookies no we went christmas shopping decorating sunny today christmas decoration shopping yesterday guys happy friday um today we're doing crop crop said crop shatiques crop shatiques the newest hit on etsy crop chatiques today we're doing shop critiques um for those who are joining us for the first time and you've never been here for one of our shop critique sessions wait don't post your shops yet please don't post your shops yet i will call the fbi you are the fb i am the fbi i am your assigned fbi agent and i am ashamed of your search history um in a few minutes we will be telling you guys to post your shops in the chat however what you don't want to do is post your full shop link because youtube doesn't like that and they won't show it to us yeah don't do that you're going to want to even show you see i told you we were going to use it you're right i told you we were going to use it click on our candle you can't unfortunately zoom that's okay click on our candle or i can just go to your shop oh you have it okay yeah show them what they're going to want the very i can't zoom in on this you can do it right from the shop where the name is by the logo yeah well that doesn't always work this is what you want first this right right here this copy and paste this not yet later and if yours is not this up here if it doesn't match if it doesn't match that i need what's after the last slash here etsy.com shop slash alpha dap i just need that last part but that's only if it's different and that should only apply for those of you that have changed your shop names yes sometimes that link up top doesn't change so yes and sometimes it still just won't work so there's like a 10 chance that i won't be able to pull up your shop but fortunately for you i won't show you it not working so you'll just have to forever live in mystery not knowing which shop didn't get pulled up that's even it will happen it happens every every time yeah but it would be worse to see your shop and think you've been chosen and then it not work and then you feel really bad it only happens like once per stream yeah and we don't know why we think it's because just maybe people forget like to copy the full name and they leave out i don't know you did not listen to when i said please do not post your shot wait one second please stop posting your shot we love you i will tell you when it is time to post your shots otherwise you might not have a chance to get it done yeah just just give us a second we just got to get through it now relax we just gotta get through announcements and then we'll be ready we just we don't want anybody to miss out on the opportunity listen he said she's trying that sugar cookie latte at starbucks i might also have to do the same thing my favorite is that what did we have yesterday chestnut prairie that's not praline we're gonna probably have those again with an extra shot with an extra shot of espresso if you're not aware the secret to starbucks because it's not good coffee the secret to starbucks is to get a grande always a grande not a venti venti suck get a grande with an extra shot it's the same amount of espresso as a venti but with more flavor because not all the water and milk yeah unless you like just milk instead of coffee yeah they just cream it cream it down and don't add any extra espresso it's one extra shot of espresso with like six extra shots worth of milk it's not good anyway continue on yeah um guys a little bit of news before we get started just tiny bit um there are some dates that you want to make sure that you mark on your calendar first date is for next week on november 12th is that friday yeah november 12th uh we're not doing the friday bean because we're doing our annual black friday lifeline uh that is a huge event that we do every year where if you are having a trouble setting up for black friday if you need some guidance if you want examples for some marketing photos your you can hang out with us live we'll be here same time as the friday bean we normally do them at night but that's not fair for like our uk audience i know that we have a pretty big uk audience so doing them at night isn't practical so we'll do it at the same time as the friday bean same place same day it's just not the friday being it's black friday lifeline and it might be a little longer than the friday being we usually do those longer um so mark your calendars for that the video for that like the actual event on youtube is already posted um so you can actually go right to my youtube feed find the black friday lifeline thumbnail click it go to the page and click set reminder that way you know if you have the youtube app on your phone you'll get a reminder that it's coming i'm gonna send you a reminder on monday if you're on my email list i'm gonna send you one on thursday just to make sure that you remember and then friday i will send you the link to join us just in case you need it so um that's going to be a lot of fun we do we do the whole part everybody seems to love that one so yeah we do it every week yeah we do it every year it's fun um that's more personalized help and then other dates that you want to take note of obviously black friday is right around the corner this is kind of crunch time to finish getting ready that's why we're doing critiques today um that way you have the opportunity to fix things however please be aware that if we do not pick you because there are a lot of you if we do not pick you watch the other critiques because we all of these critique sessions we always say the same things over and over again yes the critique sessions are literally the same episode over and over because our advice is almost always the same yeah we're cool with that because it's cool seeing it in a different context every time we do it but you guys even if we don't pick you you can just apply what we've said to the other shops to you if you say oh yes don't be upset there's a chance that we'll review a shop at least somewhat similar to yours yeah and if we haven't we probably have in the past yeah so just little fun things that that we do for you all yeah and if if in reality it's the same advice that we give in our normal friday beans just with context yeah if you're like oh crap i do that too i make that mistake too then you know that you can you can just kind of fix your own mistakes uh other little last-minute state last minute dates that you're going to want to mark on your calendar handmade all the academies opening on december 1st so if you want a step-by-step coaching program that will tell you a to z how to brand market build a fan base not just a fan base but a fanatical fan base how to drive traffic to your own shop without relying on etsy seo but learning how to do etsy seo that way you get that traffic as well if you want 12 free months of e-rank pro if you want tons of bonuses photo editing uh and contact with me if you ever need help along the way if you want access to our 600 member mastermind group of alphas who have already gone through handmade alpha academy this is a program that i made specifically for you so that will be opening on december 1st there's a waiting list linked down below signing up for that does not obligate you to buy the program however it does ensure that you get a massive discount when doors open on december first and foremost and it closes on december 10th for enrollment yes um december 5th is the other is the last date that i need you to mark on your calendars that is our brand planet webinar if you're thinking about enrolling in handmade alpha academy or if you just want to learn something really really cool about branding and how to create your own branded business oh i'm sorry fourth december 4th i thought that was wrong december 4th not 5th 4th we'll be doing the webinar yeah that'll be my brand planet webinar it's my most popular webinar and i presented it live in front of 1200 people at the raw artist event in 2018 i think yeah it was 2018 2019 something like that does mark sell those contacts there's no way his eyes are that blue they are in fact that blue there's no editing nothing there's a little bit of color enhancement from where we use a gopro for this but other than whatever the color adjustments are for that that's just mine in like natural sunlight this is what my eyes look like i do have and i got pretty long lashes too yeah he has the bluest eyes people are mega jealous in my eyes and lashes i wish i could just hold them open so you could see them instead of having to do the blue eye guy squint yeah cause we've got studio lights up everybody thinks i'm a stoner because i got a squint like this but it's just because i can't see all right um we got lots of people saying haa's awesome we love you yeah i love you guys lots of lots of love in here somebody said they need three extra shots in a starbucks latte and i say you have a caffeine addiction that's six shots of espresso yeah three three extra would be that would kill me all right oh man well how's your eye jillian asked oh it's good it's good it's been a little sticky here and there yeah i had some issues with it two days ago but it's good all right um guys go ahead and start putting in your shops in the chat amber has two comments there and we will start grabbing shops from the chat from betty white where amber has commented betty white i don't know what the context of that is but i love betty white betty white and wes is in the live stream for the first time in forever so welcome back west we love you don't know where you've been man wes wes has been busy wes has been doing he's been a hostage wes has been a hostage to his business wes was our alpha of the year last year which is another perk for handmade alpha academy peeps while he's picking a shop um when you join handmade alpha academy you get the chance every year to compete by sending in a video basically just saying how the program has helped you how much you've grown on etsy um you know what what you've accomplished since you've been working on your shop and then we let the alphas vote and the winner gets a cool goodie from mark and i and a trophy wes got a dslr camera and i have goodies to go with it amber got a dslr laurie got a smartphone yeah she got a phone oh we ended up just having to give her cash to buy the phone because apparently verizon's a bunch of ding-dongs and they won't let you give away phones as a reward unless i personally purchase it put it on my plan give it to her and have her switch it which is awful dumb yeah and i know that they do them for bigger influencers so it's just verizon being trash all right that's okay though we've got quite a few shops in here thank you wes works two jobs plus etsy plus college plus a girlfriend working the girlfriend huh so i've not been around like at all that's why you're so busy i was just gonna ask you how the camera was working for you i'm good it's working for you man all right all right let's uh we don't have very many shops in here yet so i'm just going to go ahead and like just move my mouse up and down and click all right and that's how he does it randomly he just doesn't look i just i just look away and i scroll up and down and i click and whatever ends up highlighted first is what i go with don't repost your shop name unless i asked to if you if you think your shop name didn't post it probably did if it tells you that it didn't then it didn't yeah and amber is also in the chat kind of watching if if a message uh gets blocked by youtube we can still see it um on the admin side and we'll approve it if it's just youtube being funky uh oh of course the first one that he picked didn't work oh it's because it was slash uk oh yeah okay i have my ways we'll try method number two pull this over here while i'm doing this that's a good idea we have a big screen over there that we work with um find it sold listings oh i don't know why i think it was because of the capitals there we go i got it all right and for anyone before you're offended no i'm not really trying to impersonate a british accent that's the wrong one oops that was a wrong screen the brits don't get offended haven't you learned that by now no we watched a meme video yesterday and watched two of them argue and it was like the most polite fight i've ever seen in my life it was anyway it was beautiful do you know who i am no presents his name and who's that it's me it was a it was a beautiful fight it was wonderful it was very cute all right oh it's almost it's like it's like amber dogs but with a different completely different art style it's it's watercolor so that's super duper cute i do i love that manner yeah that's so cute i love all the i love that the stars glow um immediately getting your your branding cloud jelly beans and there's clouds and jelly beans yeah and you're nailing that watercolor vibe obviously you do watercolor art so i hope so but you did a good job integrating that into your banner yeah super duper cute great listing photos let's start at the top here i also like that you threw in like the stars and stuff like that to kind of off throw the fact that the background would have just been a solid blue color like it was a very well thought out top yes um i would recommend uh if if possible putting a photo of your of yourself rather than your pupper since you already have your pupper over here and i'm assuming this one's your pupper i would put a photo of yourself just oh everything okay i was just moving that so you could see that part of the screen a little better oh okay i would put a photo of yourself in your shop owner photo because your puppet probably doesn't own your shop and if so your pupper is an amazing artist get rid of faces okay we don't need those super cute listing photos we've got some holiday ones we'll do the storefront and then we'll grab a listing got good groupies oh okay okay first thing that i noticed was that you don't have an about section believe it or not etsy factors in shop completion into how they rank you in search if you don't have if you don't have your about section filled out then etsy just kind of sees a gap here and it looks like your shop's incomplete you need to get that about section in there because your about section is how you get to know your audience and how they get to know you if you're selling on a website if there's any any fields left undone you're usually going to be penalized for that unless there's a specific reason why you wouldn't want to do that but for this there's no reason why you shouldn't want to do that yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah so get your get your about section in there get some photos make sure that they're like workspace uh you know if you can get some photos of yourself i understand some people don't want to put photos of themselves but you could totally do like your desk your workspace your pet um and things like that let's go ahead and did i see is there a sheba we have a sheba so i always look if there's a pet shop i always look for a shibby i don't want any shippies i don't see any shippies i don't see a cheby oh okay i will just grab one of the top ones okay so we've got i would put make sure that you're putting a space here not just a forward or not just the slash i know that you're trying to optimize all your keyword space but etsy's reading this is hot dog yeah it's reading it it'd be the same thing as like hat hyphen dog yeah so reading it is one word so you're getting red cockapoo christmas card orange hard orange cockapoo and santa hat dog and elf hat k9 yeah as far as we understand that was that was the last that we knew that they did that so be careful with that if you're gonna do slashes make sure you just do like dog in elf hat space space yeah a couple of these because there's so much redundancy here um you do not need to repeat words in your titles unless they're words that you absolutely want to optimize for but i don't know how many people are specifically searching in orange cockapoo in santa hat and etsy i'm sure if we checked it in e-rank it would be a a very small number so what i would do is just red cockapoo christmas card in santa hat space orange dog in elf hat um and then you could do the canine celebration card you technically don't need to have card in there twice but that's how i would break it down and kind of smash it now with these this disclaimer disclaimer always the disclaimer don't go changing all of your listings all at once if this is performing fine don't screw with it leave it be our advice is general and applies for like new listings and things like that but if this is working fine don't change it absolutely don't change bestsellers and if you are bringing in traffic right now we're doing a critique so take note of these i don't want to see anybody running and changing all of their seo before the holidays don't do that you could screw your whole shop up and it happens one of you will do it yeah don't do it it takes 30 to 90 days for your changes that you've made to your seo to to gain enough traction and get enough engagement and search in order for your listing quality score to increase enough that it's being seen by more people so what happens when you go in and you start tweaking things that are already doing well is that you fall back down in search and it takes 60 to or 60 to 90 days i'm sorry 60 to 90 days to climb back up you don't have 60 to 90 days so when we're talking about seo during this critique session i want everybody to make sure that you're making these changes only to listings that are not bringing in any traffic at all small changes here and there new listings and then like he said make small changes here and there i would do one listing at a time like if you haven't added your black friday listings or your holiday listings yet now is the time to do that and do them correctly yeah but don't go in and tweak right now if anything is bringing in any traffic at all don't touch it only touch listings that are not performing at all or new listings and honestly when it comes to tweaking listings i would even i would wait until after the big holiday rush um because black friday is when we're gonna see the most shoppers on etsy like i said if they're not performing at all you're probably okay because what's there to lose um but yeah so don't go in and change everything all at once i'll get your question after we're done with this one tara but try to save y'alls questions until like in between i think we'll ask for questions because they people will continue to resubmit their shops as we go and your questions will actually disappear out of the chat to the point that we can't see them so yeah just wait we got you we got you all right so let's go through oh okay so there's a couple different options i like the one with the cookie that made me very happy mr cloud jellybean i love it very cute i love a derpy smile from a doggy super cute i don't really have uh any critiques here i mean obviously if you wanted to add a listing video etsy really really likes those you don't even have to do anything for a listing video if you use canva you can just basically find a similar background to this within their video section and have like the lights like wiggling around or moving around um you can use uh the motion leap app to add like a little flickering candle beside the card for your listing videos um make sure that you're updating these but this is not a father's day card i assume that you copied a previous listing so but the first thing i saw was father's day card whoopsie poopsie oopsie poopsie you do that too it's fine yes um but you can you can actually edit your description without fear etsy doesn't read your description it's not going to affect your seo it's just your tags and titles love that etsy's kind of got well actually i don't love this because if you uh if you update your descriptions for all the different holidays and stuff just make yourself a folder with text documents in them and label each text document the holiday and paste your holiday text for your listings into those and then you can have them saved and ready to edit for every year not have to rewrite them and whatnot i realize what's wrong you've got a signed into a uk vpn right now that's why it's having issues not signed into a uk i'm not inside into any vpn oh well it thinks we're in the uk and we're not signed in is this a uk shop petford england yeah they're in the uk well it's because we were signed into the alpha dap shop but it's not it's not signed in now that's very odd i'm not using a vpn and then someone had mentioned in the chat um that this text isn't aligned in any particular way um yeah it kind of throws off my ocd i would if if you've got this document saved somewhere where you're able to edit it i might center align these the balance is kind of weird um i didn't notice it right away but i think it's because i was looking so much at the at the critters but i would center align these because there's almost like a big blank space here i would try to move things around a little bit but um other than that it's super cute i did notice you don't have a shop announcement this is a great place to put things like your holiday shipping cut-off dates and things like that so i would try to get a shop announcement up but other than that it looks really really nice and it's very well branded all right i will switch to using my browser you just have to be very careful not to click in the search bar or go to my profile because all of the alphas after dark stuff gets done there and you don't want that stuff showing up no and occasionally we have to look at anthony's keyword data for the 18 plus second just immediately what i'm gonna do actually is just sign out that should remove the top bar yeah we have to and we have to go through and refuse it oh uk just close it don't worry about it it's not hurting anything to happen that's very it's just very odd whatever it doesn't matter it's not unless there's anything you're selling that can't be sold in the uk but i doubt there's any shops like that all right yeah we have to curate the the 18 plus section on e-rank and we do all of that from my profile so sometimes things that aren't supposed to be 18. actually jan does it now but sometimes things that aren't supposed to be in the 18 plus sections they end up in there and sometimes there's terms that we don't know even though we're you know all knowledgeable and kinky and whatnot but sometimes sometimes we don't know and i have to put it into etsy and find out and sometimes i'm disturbed so it's whatever sometimes we have to look up terms we've never heard of it we learn lots of new things about new things okay did you have any other last minute things you wanted to say about that shot no i liked it other than the couple little goofs up in the descriptions it was it was bummed okay johnny said if we're using mark's browser can i post my shop i just looked at your shop the other i've got your shop favorited the one that starts with a p okay scroll through scroll through oh and somebody had asked a question yeah go ahead and grab them grab any questions and then we'll move through that way we don't lose them is it good to change your cover photo by the holidays to update to a christmas theme you can yeah totally fine that won't affect you any as long as it's a good picture that won't affect you we have a video about that go back and watch our friday bean episode from a couple weeks that was called branding for the holidays i'd cover that more in depth there must be some naughty words words pictures shops everything yeah alpha's after alpha's after dark it's 18 plus my entire shop is just 18 plus stuff oh yeah because every time we have to click around through through the shops it just that's all ezzy recommends so or maybe we just have a really good marriage who knows it's it's okay we don't have a good marriage [Laughter] okay i know it's really boring listening or watching us do this here let's take off the uk i think that that's what's messing it up oh it's because i wasn't doing slash shop there we go there it is it's still showing it's uk i don't care i don't care yeah i'll have to just clear my cookies at some point all right all right boink here we go super cute i love that you're that you're marking off when um so you've got your sales event but weeks uh that's super cute three and four are already over so she's marked them off that's really cute and i love that you didn't just do a box so you can kind of see that there's something going on there that's cool i love it because people are gonna wanna now i wanna know i'm like i'm curious what's what is under the what's under it yeah wow what's under the box that's so cute the surprise i love your branding colors very cohesive i love that you have that bottom bar with the boho and cottage accessories that's so cute and it's the ground under the trees yeah but it gives a nice divider for the actual for the actual what do you sell okay your scars that's that's what i figured seeing this okay so we have you in your shop owner photo you're wearing one of your products yes very cute and i love that we see like the blue the blue the blue i love when these three elements have um pieces of the same colors together the shop photo which if you're on mobile this is all you see so you want to make sure that this looks nice give me your mouse the banner and the shop owner photo you also have your vip list here that's perfect this is great if you offer a discount code because if someone knows that they can get 24 off of their order right now they're likely to sign up yeah for sure let's see you've got this uh your tagline keyword optimized for those who don't know this is a spot that you can add some keywords into let's see super cute listing photos and i love that you're keeping the background relatively cohesive without them all being in the same place all super cute they don't have to all be in front of the same background just having something that fits not having something that looks right um and and that fits together and has the same overall vibe too i love that you're selling the sets too yeah and i think that look this was like more like summer photos and then we're going into more fall photos so it fits um custom order listing doing that right oh yes using shop updates i mean there looks like you haven't done one in a while but that's okay because the thing is we don't really see shop updates um in real time when we post them i any more shop updates are just additional like marketing tools for your storefront itself which is great you always want to make sure that you're offering them a different view of the product that differs from the thumbnail photo because if you're just making the thumbnail photo bigger you're not adding any value there and what you're doing is showing different views of the same product but showing it at different angles and in different ways so that's perfect you've got your about section filled out i love that you've branded the edges of your photos as well yeah i like that very very are the nice of them go scroll up are the edges of them branded because they were social media posts and they're in a specific format and she branded the side of them to reuse them i don't know either way they look really nice they're very clear i don't think i mentioned this with the last shot but make sure you fill out your shop member section this is another thing that if if you aren't completing it etsy just sees it as incomplete yes and if you're the kind of person like there's a reason you can't put your actual face or name or whatever publicly on your shop put it put a put a put a character put a cartoon put an animal that represents you like put something there we understand some people have circumstances where they can't post their face or name online we get it some of you all have some some some creepers from the past that you got to avoid but put put something that represents you there that way people have something to connect to yeah all right and faq sections are great for around the holidays i recommend everybody add some if you don't already have them the good thing about your faqs is that if there's something that you can't fit into your um policies or if you're not able to edit your policies because i know that we're very limited on what we can put in there you can use your faq section as an extension of your policies so she talks about her gift wrapping the shipping estimate um oh shipping estimate was too high that's that's awesome shipping and delivery times you want to make sure that you're putting your holiday shipping deadlines everywhere because no matter how many places you put them people will still miss them so i honestly recommend having holiday shipping deadlines um in your banner if you can in your shop announcement within your listing photos not in your description people don't look at descriptions um and then i don't i do but most people don't and then down in your faqs as well you could use some little christmas emojis or something just to make them stand out we'll grab i will say as a caveat when we say that people don't look at descriptions that isn't necessarily true if you sell the kind of product that is specifically made for a purpose or something that it has to be a very specific size like furniture and stuff like that then it's very important to make sure that you have your descriptions nailed down and easy to like they're cohesive easy to read it just etsy makes them really hard to see something like clothing or something like this like an accessory most people aren't gonna they're not gonna read it yeah um gray pineapple shawl made of reclaimed wool hand crocheted warm triangle shelf for women elegant wooden shoulder wrap with tassels a woolen looks like looks like you've keyword optimized and you have a lot of listing photos that is perfect you want to get as many of those as you can and i love that you've added a close-up that way people can kind of guess the texture you got some information about your products you've got your um vip you've got oh and where to find it in the listing description so they can go in here grab it that's super cute i love that um overall really really nice i don't have a lot of critiques for you i love that you've got um this section for the holidays i hope that you're promoting it on social media if i were you i would show almost the exact same image in a square format and then post it through the dates and reveal it every day that way they they can follow along and check back every day to know what's going on i'm pretty too although there's a pattern yeah so let's look at one of your patterns too just to see what your um pdf you've got a video some you've got reviews that's so cute and for those who don't know you can make these in canva very easily canva they have a free membership i have their paid membership and i love it that's super cute that is cute all right not a lot of critiques here i think it looks very very nice and it looks like you've been doing really well with your keyword optimization all right we'll do one more from this first little bundle and then we'll have people resubmit did have this guy said i got i pay for facebook ads but two views what should i do then you really can do make sure you're optimizing where your where your demographics are with facebook ads the thing is is you can take a photo and put it in front of a million pic people and if people don't like the photo it doesn't matter how many eyes you put it in front of which happens to everybody everybody posts a marketing photo that doesn't do well um learn from your mistakes if people aren't engaging with it it's probably a good sign that you need to pull back your advertising and do a different marketing photo for your ads you can't you know if i walked up to you guys and i was selling i don't know let me reach down in your trash can okay what's mark out in this trash can mini muffin package if i said guys it's you look we we we'll pretend that i have a million people watching this stream and i have this mini muffin package and i'm selling it and i'm showing it to a million people right now here is my magic mini muffin package and i'm selling it at a really great price here's the link to buy it it doesn't matter that i'm showing it to a million of you nobody wants my mini muffin package because i'm not showing it in a really cool way and i'm not i'm not promoting it the very best way that i can so and that's obviously an extreme example but usually you just need to kind of play around with how you've presented your product photo or your marketing photo and sometimes that takes time and learning and failing and trying again so my advice is to use it as an experiment amber said what are mini muffins they're muffins that are small i buy teeny tiny muffins yeah that's literally what they they're more cake than they are muffin they're they're basically little cake bites you wanna go get me a pack of mini muffins i will eat one no no i really don't i'll totally eat some mini muffins all right i'm gonna go ahead and get to this shop uh if you all want to go ahead and repost your shops that way i'm not critiquing shops for people that aren't even here go ahead and do that and we'll and anyone above marjorie casey's comment here won't get critiqued if they don't repost their shot we'll use amber as the marker since she says one or many muffins all right on to this shop here we go bye all right are you getting me mini muffins no you are aren't you no oh i'm not i'm literally not i'm really upset now you don't need them i love mini muffins there there are childs i probably shouldn't eat them all right rubber dog gear first thing that i notice is banner there's no banner that is the largest piece of real estate that you have to brand your business with within seven seconds i should know how to feel when i enter your shop and right now i i've got river dog which you know i'm thinking river dog that's outdoorsy that's naturey i want to see a banner that reflects that because nothing about what i'm seeing makes me feel like nature i see what you're trying to tell me but i don't feel it and really that's what branding is it's the invisible feelings that help to build a perception about a brand uh it's why people can charge insane prices for things that aren't you know that aren't extravagant in their selves yes tina we are like tiffany and co selling a paper clip for 200 it's not the fact that it's a paper clip it's the fact that tiffany and co has branded and positioned themselves as a premium brand so we all know and we know what to expect from a brand like tiffany and co i want to see a dog in a river i want to see you know a beautiful photograph i want to see a dog wearing one of your um one of your vests there's so many things you could do here and if you don't want to use your own photo go to a site like unsplash or pexels or pixabay uh feel free for someone if someone wants to type those into the chat pixels unsplash and pixabay and find yourself a good stock photo of a dog in a river um it's a good way to get people to remember your brand visuals are what people remember they're if they forget your brand name then they're never going to be able to find you to come back to you but if you help to solidify that uh that brand name by giving them something that they can grip on to then they'll be able to remember you a little bit easier and then obviously being consistent with your branding colors which you already have a logo and branding colors i would try to incorporate them into your banner even if it's just taking your logo and putting it on your banner as well when i see a shop without a banner it feels more like a search result than like i'm actually pulling on a shop and it can be kind of confusing to people yeah like it feels like etsy is just providing me search results for something not actually a shop um next thing you have your email list however when posting an email list you want to put it above the fold people don't think to click read more unless you have an emoji pointing down at read more that says click read more um people are very visual and they if i saw this i'd be like what oh she forgot to put it she forgot to put the link i would put get rid of all this or put bump it down i mean take this right here and bump it up all the way right under this line because you have a space you get two lines that you can put here i would make sure that the link is right there that way they don't even have to click read more it's called putting something above the fold um that's like back from newspapers the most important thing in a newspaper would be above the fold of the newspaper right if there's a headline piece of news it's always before that actual fold in the paper and that's how your page should be as well so let's see you've got this uh tagline keyword optimized you've got a photo of yourself which is perfect always what i like to see you have a cohesive background which that's that's great if you wanted to add in some type of prop or something you know you you totally could but i actually like the white background i think that the fact that you don't have a banner is the only thing that makes me feel like the shop is kind of sterile with the white background but if you were to add that banner and just that little splash of personality so that i could really feel the intentions of your brand then that would that would tie it all together because i just i don't know how to feel um when i look at a brand that isn't branded and that would help me to have like a feeling and then a positive association so we'll go ahead and scroll down oh super cute i'm still just post your shop here now i tell people to post them every little every once in a while go ahead and post your shop here and if it if it runs under my mouse i will i will do it yeah all right so a couple things um your photos aren't sized for your about section it's cut off i would make sure that you're scaling these down or resizing them because um all i see is my hero wears a and i wears a dog uh even then my hero wears a dog it wouldn't be right either there's got to be another word in there same with these photos make sure that they're aligned um river dog gear order i'm sure that there was another word here that we're missing yeah i would make sure that you're um use your about section for more of you this is a great place to put some photos with permission of customers wearing your products um customer dogs obviously um but trying to incorporate in some more personal elements because you know these are cute but i don't feel a lot from these i'm not getting like fuzzy feelings i'm not feeling that outdoorsy naturey um or even a service dog vibe it's it's cute but it's just kind of not really triggering any emotions and that's what i want to feel here but your about section is really supposed to be about you and letting your buyer get to know you as a person and it looks like you're doing that as a story which is great so maybe incorporate yourself in here as well you've got your shop owner section put a photo of yourself you need to if you can yeah she's up she's got a photo of herself up on the top okay um if you want to incorporate indoor dog add your dog as a shop member and do like um you know package inspector or treat eater or just something cute if you want to incorporate your dog in looks like you have your faqs i love that you've separated them out with nice clean bulleted lists go ahead and scroll to the top and we'll just pick a random listing forgive my ignorance how often do on friday beans do you do shop critiques once every other month usually yeah we try to do them once a month we'll probably do a bunch in december um yeah we usually do them around ajay time yeah we'll probably do a bunch in december just because um well and after haa the holiday lull will be there and people will be cleaning up and you know yeah people want to get their shops looked at yeah so we'll grab this one i love these leashes by the way for for service dogs don't touch my dog yeah don't talk don't talk to my dog don't stare at my dog don't let your kid try to grab my dog don't even ask if you can touch the dog just don't touch a service dog yeah this is really nice though and i love that you have your actual um products branded with your tag that's really nice um embroidered stop no touch no talk eye contact one inch leash um i see there's nothing about service dog in here i would make sure that you have something service dog related you've got plenty of characters i would do some some quick searches within e-rank to see if you can find some more keywords because you could totally get some more in here and getting in oh it's the it's the actual wrap for the leash got it yeah you could get some more photos i would try to get one in use if you've got a dog you could just stick it on your dog's leash um i would definitely try to get some more and then maybe since you've got 10 photo slots to fill every photo slop slop every photo every photo slot is an opportunity to convince that person to actually purchase your product i would recommend actually adding in some photos with text on them like what we've shown from some of the other shops and maybe add just like information about the product and what it helps do because someone might click on this and not understand you know what is this for you know use it as a chance to educate them do you have a service dog have you ever experienced this problem have you ever had someone try to touch your dog your working dog while he's working um you know here's a solution or you could use it as an opportunity to talk about your shipping times you know all products ship within x days if you need it sooner contact me um put your email list want to get this product for 20 off here's the link to my email list uh type it into your browser um there's a lot of different ideas that you could that you could incorporate in because i know that it's hard when your products just kind of small and there isn't a whole lot to show off about it but there are things that you can do oh yeah um this here let's see custom embroidered dog leash wrap featuring stop no touch talk eye contact logos it's one of the leashes attached okay that that makes sense i read that wrong at first it's just because of the type of product it looks like there it's seo spamming you've got this um you've got your link here but most people don't read the descriptions so i would make sure that you're adding like go copy uh there's coupon link in my description uh find it and copy and paste into your browser something like that overall super duper cute um i think you could work on keyword optimization a little bit and just a little bit of branding but other than that your products are very practical um i think that getting some different keywords in there and trying to incorporate like working dogs um service dogs um and things like that into more of your listings might be might be useful because i mean most of yeah service dog but this just says strap wrap custom embroidered to fit this doesn't make any sense to me this could mean anything straps for what yeah you could be buying a strap for a purse right and that would come up in results for that yeah this says nothing about a dog it says nothing about a service dog it says nothing about a working dog this doesn't make any sense and this is what etsy seeing and it's just gonna type if someone types in strap wrap i mean they're not going to understand so i would make sure that you're trying to keyword optimize your tags and titles here so a couple things that you can work on um i you know i told most people not to worry about editing their seo before the holidays right now you don't have any right now you don't have any um this isn't nobody's going to type this into etsy this is just a really strange combination of words that i don't think anybody's specifically searching for um i would recommend going into erank.com and maybe just trying to add a couple new keywords into some of your listings i know that you have a lot of sales which is great so don't touch the listings that are selling i think that you've got yourself a great niche but look at some of the listings that you have that aren't selling right now what are some things that you listed that just you know that they're great products but they're not getting the attention that they deserve choose some of those and start working through erank.com and trying to add in some more variety keywords into your title and tags if you haven't done that already anything that's selling right now don't touch you've likely already built a good listing quality score maybe it's through social media marketing maybe it's just because your products are so niche maybe you've got some strange keyword combination within your tags that is getting you boosted in visibility either way don't touch anything that is selling even if you know that the seo isn't the best um because your listing quality score is what actually gets your listings in front of people it's what etsy uses to show your listings to more people and that listing quality score is accumulated through repeat sales repeat reviews and um you know just good buyer experiences for singular products so that is enough and trying to tweak your seo can actually hurt those listings but like i said anything that's not selling that you really want to show to more people you've got a little bit of time if you wanted to do a couple of them i would say you know you've got 131 listings maybe pick five of them pick five things that aren't selling and optimize them this weekend and see if you can get any traction on them before the holidays and then if that works then you'll know that maybe on january 1st or whenever you decide to do your big uh new year's resolution cleanup you could go in and do a couple more so all we're right hello lots of comments right there in that one excuse me if there was anything super important thanks for your answer my quesno thank you for my uh my question what should i do for sale is the key in ads or hashtags or should i make a lot of listings really kind of none of that none of those go through some of our old videos and watch things like seo and nvidia and your pictures and descriptions everything that we're describing here this is all important stuff yeah there's no one thing that's going to make you sales etsy is a system of gears that all work together in order to help boost you in search and you can't just have one gear one gear turning on its own isn't going to work a machine you have to have a lot of gears that are plugged together and they're all equally important within those gears the things that you need to research are photography if your photos suck nobody's going to buy your products it is the most important thing that you can do for your brand second thing is your search engine optimization you can do that with e-rank.com mark and i both work for e-rank i am a manager he is their data analyst uh start with a free plan and then if you decide that you need it they also have a 5.99 per month plan and a 9.99 per month plan but nobody needs that starting out just start with a free one until you get a little bit of your know-how down on search engine optimization i have tons of videos on my channel that'll teach you how to do that so just go to my channel and search for seo uh and then branding branding is what makes people feel something about your brand if they don't feel anything about your brand then you cannot out you cannot outshine competitors that do have strong brand feelings if there's a branded if there's a strongly branded shop and then your shop isn't branded at all people are going to go to the shop that's more branded so you want to make sure that you're establishing some type of feeling and branding your shop to actually appeal to emotions those are the three most important things so start there i've got videos on all of those things and i've got my brand planet webinar coming up on december 5th that's a live master class that i host every year so a couple people reposting uh shops you don't need to do that don't repost your shops unless i ask too yeah we've got them we just we don't want to lose everybody yeah you're pushing you're pushing the chat up yeah the chat gets like bumped way far up so we can't read it how do i not get here on time i had a bookmark to watch an alarm and it didn't go off did you are you in the uk uk clocks got set back ours didn't ours don't get set back until this weekend we're in the us how important is it to have a second site that you sell items on most people only do most people only use etsy to sell it's only as important as you make it it really doesn't matter yeah you can use etsy as a funnel you can have your standalone site there's you can put all of your energy into just sending people to etsy uh there is always that risk of doing something wrong on etsy and getting your shop shut down which isn't good um so i do i don't like the idea of having all your eggs in one basket just in case you know something were to happen and your shop were to get shut down and for some reason you couldn't get it back for sure but i mean that's entirely up to you yeah i never had a standalone website so it just depends on if you want one is it better to list the same design with several colors or different names or skin tones separately or together into one listening how many listings are too many before it confuses people i have a video on that um if you go back to my channel there is an episode of the friday bean where i am fishing on the thumbnail it's from like i think it's from two years ago actually and it's called something about reeling in the etsy customers how to reel in the etsy buyers um i'm standing in front of a lake holding a fish on a fishing line uh if somebody can find that video quickly if they're able to do that feel free to to try to grab it but look for starla fishing and i've got a whole video explaining that i heard getting sales from social media doesn't contribute to etsy listing quality score is this true no it's not no that's who told you that that is so untrue getting sales getting a sale is getting a sale it doesn't matter where it comes from as long as it's from the etsy platform that the sale is being made etsy loves it when you drive traffic to their platform they get money um what does it count is if you post your link and everybody goes and favorites it doesn't do anything etsy doesn't give you any type of boost for getting your listing favorited because you posted it somewhere if you sell it that does help your listing quality score now etsy does if somebody organically find your listing by going to etsy searching for some keywords finding your listing in search and favoriting it apparently you get a little boost there but it's so minuscule that really what you want to aim for is sales yeah sales are where it's at but if you've got to do product and use and you list it post it on social media all of those sales will help your listing quality score just make sure nothing all right uh if you're starting to get too many sales at once almost more than you can keep up with would it be better to put on my shop on vacation mode or raise prices i feel weird raising prices right before christmas race prices raise prices and wait i mean unless you're already kind of at that like fine line of charging way too much for your product i mean there is there is a point of too much it depends on what the product is i think though raised prices um i i'm all for raising prices because then you will forever be known more for quality and i guarantee you that your sales will still keep coming in yeah and if it ends up just completely tanking your sales to absolutely nothing there's nothing stopping you from dropping them back down yeah that is an easily reversible thing that you can do are you doing vintage shop reviews too or just him it don't doesn't matter matter no all right wait wait until we'll do one more and then we'll have people post them again please don't post your shops one second please on the momento portfolio because we don't want to lose you and here we go remember when i said that your branding should create a feeling i have feels right now it is so nice um i love it very very pretty love it and i love that the theme is different too and you've got your cat i do a little bit of disconnect with your cat and the work like i understand your brand name i almost want to see like a silhouette of a cat behind your tiger white studios logo because i'm just like wondering why there's a cat like i read the i read the name of the brand and that makes sense to me but i feel like just some something to tie it all together because i'm still kind of confused about cat clay jewelry don't have an email list link yet that's fine if you don't have one going but you're a star seller star seller awesome um you've got a carousel banner lots of cute elements here it's all cohesive consistent you have a photo of yourself um handmade clay jewelry you've got a keyword in your tagline very nice cohesive backgrounds for your photos i love the the pretty cohesive backgrounds this one's a little abrasive just this photo in particular if if you ever want to freshen up photos the light shining directly on these and creating these sharp shadows stood out immediately compared to the other it's hard to tell what they are immediately yeah yeah i would uh try to get sometimes for the quick scrollers yeah get your lighting environments the same um this is the only one though that i see that sharp light with so maybe it was just the sun shifting take a quick scroll down so you've got your about section but for one it's all photos of your products and i want to know about you when i go to an about section for two the sizes are off uh and for three you don't have an about section filled out which means etsy's still kind of seeing this as an incomplete section of your shop so i would i would start by scrapping all of these photos they're nice i mean maybe have one of your products in here show your workspace get some lifestyle in there yeah show a picture of you working show a photo of you packaging orders show a photo of your desk show a photo of your cat show a photo of you and your cat show a photo of all of your products all lined up together after you've made a bunch of them um give me more of a glimpse of you and then fill out that about section i know it's super hard but just talk very very briefly about what has inspired you to do what you do because when we write our about section i mean really let's be honest our customers don't really care a whole lot about us as people they want us to give them one good reason why why should i trust this person why should i buy from them what what about them makes me want to connect with them right it's not just just that you sell the product that they're looking for it's also that you're selling a product that they know they're going to receive and is going to be worthy of the quality that they're expecting for the money that they're spending they want to trust that they're going to order something and it's going to show up and it's going to be what they expected and not something different yeah and you can't really do that just through photos alone i mean photos definitely i photos of the products alone i mean you need to be able to make them feel comfortable it's the same as walking into like like if you're going through a strip mall and you walk into one store and all the products are really nice but the carpets all stained and the ceiling's gross and the lighting's bad and half the lights don't work and you see cockroach and then you walk into a shop next door that's selling the exact same thing and it's all like super clean and the people welcome you the moment you walk through the door and it smells nice and like like you're trying to give off that same kind of vibe through your shop yeah absolutely um and not only that but your about section is a great opportunity for you to talk about how your buyer is your world i love making my handmade jewelry for my buyers i you know making people happy is my goal like you're basically telling them how you are your whole life revolves around being there for them and making great things for them um so it's almost like you're talking about yourself but in a way that is appealing to them rather than being like when i was 12 years old i fell off my bicycle and especially with repeat customers too because if repeat customers are those people that are really going to build that connection and they're going to talk and they're going to tell their friends and they're going to post places like those you really want to build a human connection with people as much as you can looks like you've got some good keywords in here um is a couple things we use but it's only really at the end so it's fine yeah um if you're if you're strapped for ideas i would even try to get like minimalist in here geometric um minimalist tree i don't see like you know someone might use these as tree ornaments too rather than just gift tags lots of good photos and how it is packaged with it being around the holidays i would definitely try to throw in something about your holiday shipping deadlines just so people know because with these being holiday products they need them before the holidays so you should try to get some holiday shipping deadlines in there as well especially since you're shipping from the from the uk it looks like so if i ordered them i wouldn't want to make sure that i'll get them and sometimes we know that this here that this right here this isn't always accurate and we want to we want to speak louder than etsy does i like having a photo because the photo is bigger than what etsy says and people are going to look at all 10 of your listing photos got some details back products overall really really nice though yeah i have anything bad to say no it's all it's all great we never say anything bad it's never anything bad it's always constructive but i think that you've you've got a really really well thought out shop and obviously you're doing pretty good your star cellar all right fuzzy sweaters make noses itchy commented again said actually i understand seo i know you rank how work and i work with 599 plan i work with my brand i'm a photographer and a designer so i know the photo should i use only problem is i don't get sales but you're saying you've got everything worked out but you're not getting sales which means you don't have everything worked out yeah right so like if we don't get to critiquing your shop here maybe head over to our public facebook group and ask for a shop critique yeah ask for honest opinions from other people that might do the same thing as you because it sounds like you're very confident in your product but there's obviously something that's not connected there that people aren't connecting with that's making them not buy or you've got a product that's so abstract that nobody wants it which is probably not the case yeah so the thing is when someone says i've done everything i know immediately that they haven't done everything yeah if you say that like i know this i know this i do this i do this that's kind of an overconfidence thing go go post in the public group for real and ask for people to critique your shot people there are pretty honest yeah i mean it could be something where you think that you've got it you you you look at it and it looks good but maybe there's something huge that you're missing which it sounds like there is even we make mistakes yeah you need you need other eyes to tell you what is going on exactly you need those fresh eyes to come in and really look and the handmade alpha facebook uh community is linked down below so feel free that's the only time you're allowed to post your shop is if you're asking for doll post products and ask people to buy because we'll just check out but uh yeah feel free to post in there and say hey you know does anybody see anything that i could improve yeah that's what miranda here said the more you know the more you know you don't know that's sad exactly how it is we got good at doing this stuff by doing this stuff a lot we spent the time researching and doing the work and putting in the work and that's why you're here to watch us because we've done it you've done it we help you do it and then you watch people on our channel and then like they're here for a little while and then they don't show up anymore it's because they've learned what they needed to know they've learned to do the research on their own or some of people stick around because they like us but then they move on and they do well and they do their thing like freaking yeah wes wes he is the first live stream he's been in in like three weeks because he's so freaking busy doing stuff with life come on i you know what one of my fears is you go ahead and find someone while i'm while i'm ranting i don't want to be someone's um someone's face it makes me feel we have been so many times it makes me sad when i when there's someone that because believe it or not like i gained a connection with you guys i i see your names and i see you every week and then like every once in a while one of you will disappear and you'll stop being here and i won't see you on facebook very much and then i'll and then i'll wonder like did they stop selling on etsy was i just their face and i know that now we're getting like to the point where we have over 20 000 people but when i see you all the time every week i know who you are i start to memorize all of your names and it makes me sad it makes me sad when i realized that like oh i was just you know someone's a little fleeting face which that's normal like i i'm not so you know some some people realize that etsy isn't for them or they you know maybe they find a different coach it's me being selfish yeah letting you guys know that i do have an emotional tie to you guys and i get really sad when you know some of you just want to feel the cool tickle of my mustache kiss that's just how it is the musk mustache tickle the mustache who's here just because they they dream about my mustache come on be real i'm just kidding they dream about smarkla i stream about smartla all right i stick around you always say something that sparks a new idea and that's that that's the thing too we're always learning too we try to stay at the forefront so we have something to provide to you guys but when we learn something new you guys are the first to know like when yes when i found out that instagram reels were gaining people thousands of followers first thing we did was run into two episodes how to use canva to build your instagram reels and the whole like i think i did one all about instagram reels being my new favorite marketing tool like yeah yes all right next shop i know a couple people posted questions we'll ask for questions maybe we'll do like one more after this and then we'll start maybe doing questions that'll put us at like 1 30. one more shop are you guys ready oh we'll do one more after this yes so this is if everybody suspends come for the mustache stay for the etsy tips that's how it happens man all right all right let's do it we have cohesive branding which is what i love to see i love cohesive branding big victorian vibes um kristin gonna be real sad if i scroll down and i don't get those same vibes so i'm gonna do it here in just a second but you've got your eep url above the fold thank you perfect i love that you've got a little fountain super cute draws attention to the fact that there's text there for some reason when i come to this the the folds always opened and when i open a new shop it's always opened i forgot the refresh oh look at her background she's got like the flower in the background digging it and uh oh a masquerade mask she kept the victorian vibe i will say that the lighting on some of them is inconsistent with some of the light like the first row the lighting is all like immaculate and then the second row it's very like dull could it just be the white balance with the darker prop i think that's what it is i think it's i think well they were taken on different days that's also might be because the products are darker and they don't reflect light as much it might be the exact same setup i don't know it's hard to tell but they look it looks like the lighting's different but again we're also looking at a monitor that's right next to a big bright light these are so pretty i love how the light like shines into the beads very pretty um a couple little things i'm kind of confused about the hats they're just kind of there's not a lot of them i mean i guess you know what if i were you what i would do because i am confused about the hats i thought that it was going to all be jewelry i think it's the color differential that throws it off i think the the colors like you'll have like the light tan and that stuff and then you'll have a bright purple hat like i feel like if the hats were organized in with things that were a similar color scheme to they kind of are i would make sure that with all of your listings it's always like hat bracelet that matches hat bracelet that matches if you're gonna have a hat yeah and make sure they're on the same line i think yeah it's it's because they're not on the same lines they're being thrown off i would yeah the hats go with the bracelets i figured the hats go with the bracelets but because of the way that etsy organizes the listings they're not quite showing up the way that i think that they should is that just because we're zoomed in will it show more no yeah i would i would just go into rearrange mode now if i refresh it's going to show me like what he thinks i want yeah it's going to be totally different but the first time they visit your shop it'll be in whatever order you put things in i would definitely try to keep everything in like one line this one seems to be i mean it looks like you've done that quite a bit is that our dog that is our dog it sounds like there's somebody at the door no there's somebody in my door we're fitting to fight but i can definitely see what you're doing have you considered making a bundle or doing a couple bundles just to see you know do like the hat and the bracelet and putting it in one listing photo just to see if somebody would be interested in buying all of those pieces together as one purchase and putting it in one photo might be something interesting to experiment with because then it's not like oh you know the max that you could sell is whatever your most expensive item is they could get that full bundle and then you could have some really high priced items in your shop that would you know really give you some of those big sales oh i love these shop updates these are so pretty it was a package oh package extra large age and aids incorporated ew are you serious oh i never know with you he'll buy things just to stay never his car yeah you're right but extra large marital aides incorporated do you not get what that means yeah i think okay all right back to the back to the to the shop back to the shop now we're the most like pc way that i could do that he messes with me and i do i like to do it on live stream because it's embarrassing when there's 200 people here watching to listen to that it is so guys when i talk about having photos of yourself in your workspace this is what i mean um this tells yeah this tells me that you're not a big company you're not just bought re like buying things on ebay and passing it off as handmade like you know some people do this shows me that you've got an office and that you are dedicated to making everything and i can see all of your stuff in the background i would love to see more photos in this um you know i i would love to see just a couple more but honestly this to me is the best photo that you could have in here and then you have a filled out about section so that is perfect you've got your shop owner photo in um there's oh there's one faq i would get your holiday shipping deadlines in your faq as well just since you don't have them in your banner yeah um and then i'll just click on this one because it was the first yeah that one really draws i really like that it's cute all right so you've got some good keywords in here um if this one's sold at all leave halloween in here for a little while i know that it's like it makes like when you see that the word halloween is somewhere you know it feels outdated but if it's sold uh leave it in until it like stops selling because you can kind of still milk that listing quality score one left anyway yeah well they might be one-of-a-kind it could be cute very cute um could you get a couple more in here do a top down do you get one on your wrist yeah one on your wrist um give me something that will give me an idea of how big it is maybe you set it next to an item that i have you know available to me um maybe like a tea light candle since you've kind of got that victorian branding like most people know how big a tealight candle is um or even your arm you know if you want to put one of you wearing it just trying to fill out all i mean this is the kind of thing where you could go you've got this whole like victorian vibe thing going like i know it's like hecka expensive but you could like straight up do like victorian style pictures with these where you get like an outfit and then pose and put the bracelet at some people yeah like fortunately like victorian era stuff is really easy because you can kind of just pose in front of a wood wall in a dress but like and like it's so easy to pull off that kind of stuff it'd be really nice to be able to see it kind of in use even if even if it's just an over to the over the top like picture of the arm which is fine or just where i mean most of your photos you're wearing like very like um earth tone clothing just throw on a earthy colored shirt that kind of fits your your branding colors which i mean you've already got one on here and you know toss the bracelet on and take a quick picture with it um overall really nice um your seo seems to be it's let's see gray black i'm trying to find one i think it's because i'm clicking all the ones that have the masquerade mask and i'm trying to find one that isn't halloween there you go there we go our orange ivory and turquoise polymer clay beaded memory wire really pretty too bracelet and i assume that the things that you're trying to really rank for are polymer clay memory wire bracelet or beaded memory wire bracelet or clay memory wire bracelet you're getting a lot of broad matches too oh i love that that's perfect that shows me how big it is and how to use it i would i would love to see you do this with everything that you sell maybe it was just the halloween ones since they're you know kind of seasonal that's perfect do you get a lot of questions about how to put them on properly because looking at that i would this is perfect would never know what to do with it i would put these photos in all your listings even the halloween ones like people are still gonna buy your products for for christmas i would christmas up your halloween products because they're not exclusively halloween overall really nice though i like it all right before we do our last shop while we've got everybody here i'm gonna quickly go over our announcements one more time while he picks oh so first so dates that you guys need to remember next friday we are doing our black friday lifeline where we're going to be doing a coaching call to help you prepare for black friday keep in mind that this year there are 50 something percent more shoppers i don't know it's 50 it's over 50 over 50 more shoppers on etsy this year than there were last year so this is the year you really want to optimize for not to mention um black friday is the day when we see the most shoppers on the platform at the time at the same time so if it's very likely that we'll see a lot of buys which is what we all want right so black friday lifeline will be next friday same time same place same time that we do the friday bean it'll be uh noon easter and 11 a.m central 9 a.m pacific time the link for that is already on my channel so if you go to my channel home page you should see the little preview event for it and you can go there and click to get a reminder if you're on my email list i'll also send you a reminder on monday thursday and then the link to join us on friday other things that you want to mark on your calendar handmade alpha academy is opening on december 1st i can't believe it's been six months already um this year has just flown by i know we have over 600 successful students many of which have been able to quit their jobs make six figures and are just really rocking it um though obviously it all depends on how much work you put into your shop so that's going to be opening on december 1st that is my private coaching course where i teach you a to c how to build how to maintain how to brand how to price how to photograph edit your photos market build an email list uh build a fan base how to seo optimize how to funnel traffic directly to your business without having to rely on seo it's good to have two traffic flows um that will be coming on december 1st the cool thing about handmade alpha academy is that it is a self-paced program which means that there are no class hours you can log in whenever you want to just like youtube yep enrollment only is from december 1st to december 10th however if you want to wait until january 1st after the halloween or holidays to start you're welcome to do that if you've got to take you know six months off because i don't know you have a baby or something you can do that that's all you yep it is always available and there is a 30 day no questions ask money back guarantee plus you get access to mine and mark's emails so you can message us if you ever need help along the way i'll come and beat you up yeah that's december that's december 1st through december 10th and then on december 4th that'll be a saturday saturday after haa opens we'll be hosting our brand planet webinar which is probably my most valuable free workshop that i do um and that's not just a big sales pitch for haa i don't think we have a sales pitch in it uh yeah pretty sure we removed the sales pitch it started off as being similar things to like how sale not like most course creators will have some big webinar and then do us we don't do the sales pitch anymore we just do a webinar so you can see how our teaching style is and see if you like it yep but it's a very valuable webinar it is it's actually a legitimately valuable thing that a lot of people ask about for for months yep so you want to make sure that you get signed up for that when i announce it uh i should be announcing it around thanksgiving i think is when i'll have the sign up for that but if you're here on youtube if you're in the handmade alpha facebook community which is all linked down below if you're on any of my email lists those are down below and then the last thing guys there's a huge freebie down there in the video description right now that everybody can have i work on it every year i release it only for november that is my black friday toolbox there are cheat sheets there is a checklist of everything that you need to do to prepare for black friday there is a graphics pack with 74 free graphics that you can use for your holiday marketing they are all royalty free because i personally photographed them and cut them out for you there is a tutorial on how to use them and my double dip strategy video is also in there which teaches you the same strategy that i use to make six thousand to ten thousand dollars on black friday weekend so that is a huge thing um my ssar swipe files and my marketing calendars are also in there though the october one you can obviously you don't need to print that one but my sexy mark calendar will be ready just in time for the holidays do you think just me said my naked posting with cute animals i would print that calendar she probably would it's not real no don't get excited don't get excited or get excited that's fine it makes me feel good about myself all right [Laughter] back to screen share before things get weird all right this is perfect branding this is perfect branding for everybody who's like what does perfect braiding look like this is perfect branding this is crisp your banner is crisp you exist it is consistent i know what your branding colors are i see uh the same fonts being utilized this is perfect branding i know how to feel i have a feeling now i'm excited to see exactly what you sell but i already know because it's right here you sell um different home decor and you have your tagline already thrown in so let's go ahead and pop this take a little quick shut up tina look at that oh no oh no i don't like those words i'll let you have your deadlines in here with emojis because i know to look for them that's perfect shop owner uh photo is actually a photo of yours and i assume hubby's face so that's perfect um oh these listing photos are so cute very well organized yeah and you know i'm always big on like the white backgrounds but these are done well this is an example of somebody who has not done white backgrounds who's done a really really great job there's a really nice variety here it all does have the same feel though so it's not like you've like strayed from your brand because they're all wood everything feels very consistent very very cute these are beautiful photos get your sections out or not sections but your categories all organized on the left hand side at the top yeah you need to find through let's take a scroll down great use of your shop updates oh these are so cute these are perfect perfect shop updates no critiques oh and i love that you did these all black and white these are nice um get a photo of you in here that would that would be my only critique and only because i have to be nitpicky because your shop is so nice um try to get and you can totally grayscale it since you've got this grayscale theme for your products but there's your your workspace and your computer and your tablet you've got your info you've got your shop members and you've got some faqs all right i don't have anything bad to say it's a good this shop didn't need a critique it's perfect you need it fine do you want to pick you want to pick what week yeah just slide one dude just pick one you don't care i don't care they're all great it's fine personalized reindeer monogram and name initial wooden christmas tree ornament gift bag tag handmade winter decor holiday gift i don't know if the terms are great but it's they look like they are they look like they are yeah these look these look like something that you researched and the only word that was repeated was gift but if you're trying to exact match for i mean it looks like holiday gift was just the last one that you you know put in there because you had enough keyword space to fit it these are great this is fantastic this is i i have no critiques you have lots of great photos my only uh my last bit of you know feedback is that i would throw in one final photo maybe even if you have to get rid of one of these i would throw in one final photo with your shipping deadlines in your listing photos because like i said people don't think to read descriptions but they'll always look at your listing photos you've got all your info here that's perfect i love it i absolutely love it yep um i don't have anything negative to say yeah holiday shipping deadlines as your final photo just so people know but um they look great and i mean you could even you could even um you could even put in like last day to order blah blah up in the corner for like a couple days for over the holidays but really really nice keep it up you want to get 380 sales so i'm assuming you probably haven't been around a long time but i think we can see that i think i think your shop's fine we can see when she started her profile yeah 2018 yeah no you stuff looks great just keep it consistent stick with the wood stuff that's really popular right now lots and lots of wood i mean hell we just bought i've got them back here what what things i just bought oh yeah those are just the these are just the patterns but hexagonal wall patterns these are the cutouts so you can actually stick this up on your wall and stick the hexagons where you want them to go so you can patternize your wall with all the different stuff wood is big right now yeah natural wood stuff is huge we're going to do the walnut hexagons behind my desk yeah i've got multi-color walnut and a couple different things yeah they're cool um if you have any questions feel free to get those in the chat if you have questions about handmade alpha academy you're free to also ask those i know that it's a big commitment and it's a big scary thing that's looming you know in in just a few weeks but we want to make sure that you guys have all the opportunities to ask us questions so every friday when we do the friday being we'll always make sure that you also have the uh opportunity to ask us questions about that as well so i'll leave it let's switch this to like a screen that's not bright white yeah it's very bright we're just closes closed there you go much better el perfecto somebody said that they had left the group because they were being bullied always contact us yeah report it because if you were actually being bullied somebody eventually would have reported the post and then somebody would have said something or done something about it we always talk about the dirty delete that's when like a bunch of people have replied to a thread and then you run and delete it before the admins can do that because we perma ban people for bullying there's a difference between like like an honest of like a brutally honest critique and being mean and we won't delete people for being honest because there are a few people that can be well not anymore but that people do have a tendency to get really defensive and we can tell the difference between bullying and just somebody being sensitive yeah so we've had cases where someone's like yeah you know i really like your your products but your photos just aren't the best and someone will be like oh my god i took these photos with my grandma's camera that i got when i was five years old and don't don't be like we're not saying that you were like that but if somebody was legit bullying you and you just left then you didn't give us the opportunity to do anything about it yeah and then now the person who bullied you is still in the group and they're still in the group and they might be doing it to other people so if you're being bullied in the group don't delete things don't block things report it or send us a screenshot before you delete it take a screenshot of it so they can't get rid of their comment because even if they delete their comment the damage is done yeah like well we're not we don't tolerate that kind of crap we pride ourselves on running a group where people aren't mean to each other we've been in other groups we've worked with other coaches in other coaches groups where people are just absolutely crappy to each other and we don't put up with it we don't want it yeah the only people that see your reports if you report it the person that you reported will not see it no it'll be me it'll be mark it'll be amber who's in the chat right now and a couple of other friends that we've got yeah that kind of moderate from time to time yeah or lissa or dolly those are the those are the ones that will see it if you report it and there are nobody's gonna like call you out or mention you by name or put you in an uncomfortable position so let us know i'll go back up to the questions but do you look at alpha shops i feel like i've had a stall with my shop updates what like student shops are you talking about like student shops and handmade alpha or right now because that's like what this whole episode was yeah we're done doing shop critiques for the day are you already an intern we're answering questions so if you have a question go ahead and unless you are in h.a.a and then at that point you don't need a shop critique unless you've gone through the whole thing and are still having problems yeah and i was gonna say we talk about we talked about yes guess what yes what wait are you that you're in a cha be specific in your comments girl guy i don't know i can't see i can't see put profile pictures there's dude i'm an alpha student oh okay um posted the handmade alpha community at what or in the uh student campus what specifically you said shop update updates do you mean literally like the shop update updates if so those aren't that important those are like if you were to take a quick instagram photo that's just those are for customer connection they really don't yeah they really don't build much now if you mean something specific like actually updating your shop um feel free to let us know sorry i'm just scrolling up through there we had so many comments there's so many people here welcome to anybody that's new by the way thanks for coming and joining thanks for hanging out don't forget to get the freebies down below me a year ago no one will buy a 10 bath bomb me now hold my beer citric acid has tripled in cost over the last three months raise prices and don't ever question it yeah exactly sometimes you have to do stuff thing is if there's a there if there's an industry cost especially with something like this if there's an industry cost that's raising everyone's going to raise their prices other than people like walmart and target people that can afford not to yeah everyone's going to raise their prices and walmart isn't your competitors and if they don't they're dumb always check your industry prices if people if prices for what your materials are using are skyrocketing you're gonna have like with wood this last year everybody skyrocketed their prices on wood because nobody could get it for a reasonable cost my views are low i'm not killing it on seo rank says not even in the first 500 for most of my keywords i would rather than changing your seo because you might just have lower listing quality scores i would look at your marketing and see if you can drive some traffic by yourself i would focus on trying to work on some external marketing because regardless of if those sales are coming direct from etsy seo or from external marketing on social media you're still building listing quality scores and those are what are going to help you get seen and help you to increase that ranking um i would try to nail down a good social marketing strategy my recommendation right now is to use instagram reels um i've got two videos on youtube right now about instagram reels they're from like just a couple weeks ago one was build you guys get to watch me make an instagram reel and i teach you how to do it i would go watch that one do you guys have a video talking about mandatory off-site ads after making 10k in 365 days etsy doesn't explain it well in my opinion and it is concerning it to me i mean that's it that's literally it if you make ten thousand dollars in one year's time then you have ads yeah then you have you're opted into their ads program and if you drop below that maybe the next year you only make eight thousand unfortunately it doesn't get retracted yes you are still stuck paying for their ads it's unfortunate one of the few things that we don't really like that etsy does there's not a whole lot that etsy does that we don't care for but i i personally by her opinion aside i don't like it i don't like it either i don't think you should ever be opted in to do something other than that it doesn't like taxes and stuff obviously everybody's got to pay taxes but yeah i'm not a big fan of it i'm not i have a question is mock-up for t-shirts allowed on etsy i hear people saying that it's not allowed yes it is allowed that's allowed what you're not allowed what you're not allowed to do because i mean even etsy integrations and things like um printful and printify you have to use mock-ups um what isn't allowed is if you took like a clip art picture of a t-shirt and then threw a a design on it and that represented a hypothetical shirt that they could be receiving then that wouldn't be allowed um mock-ups for things like art prints and t-shirts we don't have a choice you have to use a mock-up for those because what they're they're not receiving the exact item in the photo ever um sizing is going to differ and and things like that but yeah especially if you're using services like printful and printify what's that blue thing on your wrist starla what that's a tattoo did you guys not know that i have an entire tattooed arm which is funny because last week we had someone who got mad at us because we made a comment because we made a comment about face tattoos and they got like butt hurt they were oh man they sent me the meanest message but oh we've both got tattoos right like everybody in our family's got tattoos if you can't take a joke this is not the channel for you like no offense to anybody who has tattoos i have a lot yeah for real i just wear sleeves because i get cold people just walk around with their nose up their butt all day they've never seen yours she want to pull yours my arm tattoo and then i've got a i've got plenty that i'm going to be getting soon i've got the back of my leg yeah he's only got two because he's a he's he's too scared what we got i don't know i lost it so you're gonna have to give me a minute i'm not too far behind here i have a q oh you are we cute are we really stupid because we're like 30 and we act like this are we cringy are we cringy yet i keep wondering when i'll hit that age just hope that i haven't missed any here i always thought that i would be like i don't know i always thought that i'd be a cool mom but he compared me to linda on bob's burgers so and now every time we watch bob he looks at me like every time linda does she does stuff like linda all the time so he's a huge dork apparently i'm linda from bob's burgers uh oh tina said that package could be from her don't show it to amber gotcha i've got it it's here it's been here i should have told you yeah yeah it was legit a package i don't know i don't remember what the name was yours is already here it came like three days ago [Music] if it's ready to ship then why does it also say three to five days to process it's a bit confusing oh it must have been during a shot maybe they have a influx of orders and they don't send them all out on the same day some people get so many orders that they literally couldn't shop all of their orders on a daily basis it's a real thing no well maybe that person can answer on behalf of their shop has anyone been trying sale samurai uh with their shop i know uh starland mark or e-rank folks but seeing options from other companies don't hate on me we're hating on you i've never heard of that one here's the thing we we do our little disclaimer we both work for e-rank but we're not paid to recommend it if there was a better tool out there at something specific that e-rank did i'm the kind of person that would recommend a different tool over what e-rank is currently doing but as of right now from personal experience e-rank is one of the best tools yeah so here's the thing about other competitors that are popping up to e-rank data is expensive everything yes it is it is a brand new car every single month expensive and when a new company pops up what i know for a fact is that they are new therefore they do not have the kind of money to invest in brand new car every month expensive for their data so when a new company they have then they've taken out a huge loan for it so i'm always really nervous because e-rank has built up over time and they already are able to support you know buying those big lumps of data at a time and it's the best data that you can buy and we know where erank gets the data from too because there are so many different places you can get cheaper data doesn't necessarily mean it's bad data but you can get data from things that are completely irrelevant like yeah you could buy i don't know like ebay data and present that as if it's something that people on etsy are searching for and that's not believe it or not not how that works people don't search the same thing on amazon as etsy as ebay it's all different stuff and it's wildly different so it always makes me nervous when a new company pops up because i want to know like how accurate is their data where are they getting it from and how frequently is it updated are they are they supporting really sketchy companies i don't like it when my data gets sold i do everything i can to prevent it there's a lot of sketchy crappy companies out there that sell data and anthony specifically tries not to work with those people yeah he makes it a point not to he turned down several people who were yeah there's some people that do stuff that's like that rides the the gray line of legality too it's i i stick to the companies that are ethical that align with my belief systems but also provide me with the service that i that i need and i mean yeah you just got to take our word for it but anthony's a cool dude he's a legit cool dude who's just he doesn't have to do this i'm pretty sure he's in a spot that he could retire at this point but he does it because he likes to do it but he said he's a he's a nerd he's a total dad a nerd if ever a big contender comes up we will definitely look at them um i just have no experience with that one because i've never heard of it somebody said so uh it integrates directly with your etsy shop oh it's an extension gotcha uh that was the person that said they were bullied mariella oh slick oh slack uh you have nice fluffy facial hair many men do not big turn off for prickly bristly facial you know how easy it is to like have clean facial you just wash it with beard wash uh my beard wash is literally just a like cold pressed soap cold pressed soap with uh charcoal he also oils it like twice a day i oil it or i uh i put a beeswax solution in it in the morning and then i oil it at night got it yeah super easy sorry it's getting quiet we're trying to find the questions in here searching for questions in the chat we should have you guys put like a wolf emoji next to your questions or something that way we can just scroll through super fast and find them yeah somebody priscilla had said the background on the reindeer tag on that one shop was a little bit busy yeah but it fit the aesthetic it wasn't like it wasn't abrasive to look at like when i think of christmas stuff like especially if you're around here you go to any of the christmas stores and it is just jam-packed with crap in every corner that you can get it into christmas is a hustle bustle kind of holiday so that's okay i have a digital shop that's been keeping me busy appreciate your help thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you holy crap let's get to the questions where are they at uh should my title be short and sweet or use as many characters as possible eranks says my title is truncated too long or truncated too long and sounds written by a computer and it highlights the first 18 characters okay so the reason the e-rank recommends that is because it's what etsy recommends however etsy recommends that we make our title short and sweet for the shoppers because they say that shoppers might be confused if they see a big long title i've never actually experienced a by being confused by a big long title because we already know what to expect when we see those big long titles like we know we know why the titles are long um so etsy is trying to have the shoppers best interest in mind as to not to confuse them i think that buyers are pretty used to seeing those big long titles because it's like that no matter where you shop if you shop on amazon or amazon it's the same way no matter what if you keyword stuff your titles etsy's reading those keywords what e-rank is highlighting for you is the part that is the most strong in your title that highlight is showing you where you should put your most important keywords um i'm big for long keywords i will get as many keywords into my title as i can but i always make sure that it sounds clean i don't stuff my titles for the sake of stuffing them i try to write them into kind of like little phrases and maybe i'll do um you know two or three long phrases that describe what my product does daisy chain said unless you live in the uk eu then you can opt out of the ads by 10k program i mean leave it to leave it to the uk to tell etsy yeah you can't do that that's great though yeah i'm all about that i like it when countries take control and say no your company can't do this stupid thing yeah uh what's things for pod sellers is that we don't actually make that amount that's being made on etsy so people who aren't actually making that much are paying for the ads that's yeah that's true i mean if you made 10 000 and you had a 30 commission on that you should bring that up yeah you should message etsy about that because that's legit or if you already have let us know what they've said because i'm curious because like i said if you're only making like a thirty percent on everything that you sell and you have a ten thousand dollar a year that's only three thousand dollars that means like you could end up potentially spending like a third to half of your money on freaking ads that's so i hadn't even considered that we have a pod shop we do have a pod shop do you recommend having a name for your fans and a similar but separate name for the email list or like the group they're in or should they be the same keep it the same yeah keep it the same yeah you guys are the alphas you guys are the alphas if you're in haa you're an alpha if you're just a youtube subscriber you're an alpha if you're on the email list you're an alpha i would keep it the same because they'll feel proud about having that name i'm 70 and have a tattoo dope which is the most painful place you've had a tattoo well i have two tattoos i have one here and i have one on my calf they both sucked but the worst part was the teeth in the pit in the pit right here on the front of my delt that was awful because he also went back in with white ink and filled the whole thing in and it felt like somebody's stabbing me in the chest these didn't hurt what hurt was here right in the crook of my elbow on my little mermaid which is supposed to be for my daughter and right here this little wisp on this wolf's tail and right here just anything on this this is a tender spot this was fine everything here anything that's like ticklish when you run your finger over it that's a spot that's gonna hurt or that's thin with bone get yourself a good twig go out in the yard find yourself a good little twig and jab it give no give yourself a whap and then give yourself a whap wherever it hurts the most that's probably where it's gonna hurt yeah you'll you'll know which side hurts more and it'll always be the more tender side that's what's gonna hurt when you get your somebody said they've been apprehensive about getting tattoos 32 and no ink at all that's totally fine just find an artist that isn't going to disappoint you don't be afraid to spend money the dude that i'm looking at getting my next tattoo from it's going to cost me like close to four grand to do my whole arm like don't be afraid to spend money taxes are expensive it's on you forever permanent spend the money and don't just spend money on somebody who thinks they're good look through their portfolio maybe see a few in person if you can try to skip the tattoo comments let's see that was expensive [Music] yeah she is i got my boyfriend a beard straightener for christmas last year and he never used it came with a christmas tree beard ornaments i do need some ornaments i'll do maybe i'll do that for the christmas friday bean beard beard bubbles yeah you don't need a straightener i use it i use a hair pick and a round brush and that's literally all i use i mean i guess it would depend on the type of hair if they had like really curly beard hair beard hair is it burns easy you got to be careful with that stuff uh i like to think the reindeer picture grabbed attention you guys saw it and it picked out all my listings so it worked yeah no i that's exactly how i don't mind christmas being like really busy as long as it fits your brand yeah as long as it fits the brand and it fits the product someone mentioned ready to ship versus processing time of three to five days wouldn't ready to ship mean the item is the finished item versus made to order that's what it says in my shop too yeah ready to ship means it's a finished product ready to ship but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to ship the same day that it's ordered yeah because if you get 100 orders in a day and it takes you 10 minutes to process each order you're not going to be able to get all 100 orders out of the day right so sometimes it takes three to five days for people to get all their orders out some people also take off religious holidays some people take off saturdays and sundays for mental health there's all different kinds of reasons people take days off so processing time needs to be extended out plus it's a kind of like save your butt because like if you go to ship something and then say you run out of the packaging material and you can't get it immediately like it's a safety net that's happened yeah they might ship their product same day but sometimes stuff happens save save a little bit of room for human error uh thank you that makes a lot of sense yes beard tinsel would be so happy if friday being turned on and he was decked out with beard tinsel maybe i will make sure you get your questions in we're almost to the end here and we've got about 15 minutes left that we can continue answering questions they don't have to be about the topic at hand they can be about h.a they can be business they can be about life in general comments it's the last 15 minutes we can we can we can regain this we should do the last 15-minute free-for-all yeah whatever you want can be personal questions as long as they're not too personal they can get business questions that not personal about her i'll answer just about anything about me i don't really care my life's not a secret i'm on the internet amber had to delete a comment last week of someone wanting to know where to buy a beautiful woman like me i was like where to who where did where did you buy me myspace russia is the only place you can still do that right oh you're gross um yeah don't we're not condoning any of that no joke awful uh-oh terrible oh what uh-oh camera froze oh no oh camera froze what do we do can you all still hear us let's no face oh yeah look at my look at my my desktop there you go can you hear us because you'll still hear us it shows that we're still streaming we'll still uh answer cool okay we'll keep answering questions then you guys can just look at do you guys want to look at this or do you want to look at a picture of me that says oops let us know oops oops all right let's do gryffindor if you can tell me what planet that is gryffindor is the listing adversely affected by off-point keywords and titles such as winter decor for christmas tree decorations for example no not at all you're just you're casting a bigger net and then you can also broad match because maybe somebody typed in christmas tree winter christmas tree for i don't know who would search that but you could broad match for terms as well so now as long as they're accurate i would say that christmas or the decor winter decor and christmas tree christmas ornaments would all be the same thing have you [Music] yeah yeah have you noticed a big decline in traffic beginning mid-october my shop tanked i didn't change anything added a few new products but crickets give it some time october is halloween time people are thinking halloween halloween halloween and then november hits and the radios start post playing christmas music and all the stores start playing christmas music and all the grocery stores have christmas cookies and people start stressing out and thinking christmas christmas christmas black friday is the day when there are more shoppers on the platform than any other day of the year i know that we heard crickets in in october but we're about to hit the flood so yeah i just give it a little bit of time i stamp her like hell on my lower back though she said that her tattoo on her upper thigh actually tickled i've actually heard several people say that they've got tattoos on their thighs and they tickled the whole time they had to be like strapped down uh what what to look for in a tattoo artist uh well queen is is one um don't be immediately off put by a kind of sketchy location necessarily because tattoos are kind of looked down upon and a lot of businesses won't rent space to them so don't be immediately scared by a location however it should still be clean and sanitary reviews yeah reviews for sure i don't always trust those either though it depends on the kind of area that you're in if you're in kind of a low income trashy area reviews from people come pretty easy when you pay a hundred dollars for a big crappy tattoo so i'd honestly the portfolio speaks miles and for portfolio don't just look on the website go to the artist individual instagram most people even if they work for our company uh they will have their own artist profile on instagram so find an artist that you want to work with and then when you find the tattoo studio that you want to go to request that specific artist and don't settle for another one don't say if they say oh he's not off he's off this week uh but we can book you in you know next week or we can book you now for some other guys say okay i'll wait you know so you're fine are you going i'm reverse image searching this because i actually can see what it is oh they can see it yo what's up dog yeah go away you don't get to see what i'm doing you don't remember what planet it is no i don't actually i'm pretty sure i'm pretty sure it's neptune though i'm pretty sure you get it's an actual nasa photo it's on nasa's website okay any leftover swarovskis from our experience yeah but they're all the gluon kind we're not we're not doing that no glue planning to travel abroad for a month to visit my family and wonder if i log into my store to reply to messages will bring problems with etsy i should be connected to the same device different ip no you'll be fine it should be okay if you're really paranoid about it you can always contact them in advance yeah shouldn't be a problem um i would say that you know contact them ahead of time just to make sure if you're really really worried but it should be fine um i've i've never traveled abroad but i have traveled i mean we've got amber the elf adapt shop is run through amber and um we log into that from the us yeah so it should be totally fine myspace personals yeah i hear you right i'm thinking about joining etsy but i heard they take up to 25 is that true etsy takes out things based in different areas as of right now etsy is the most affordable platform that you can sell on that's going to bring you traffic if you're selling handmade or pod or supplies or vintage um yada yada it's all about looking at what you're getting you it's 20 cents per listing that you list which isn't very expensive and how much per sale what percent per sale is it you got one of you guys type it in the chat i can't remember offhand um but it's not that much i mean then you have to pay to ship your items but it's really just listing fees and then that small percentage per sale now once you start actually making sales there is that automatic ads platform which someone said that you can opt out of if you're in the uk um anybody anybody remember the exact percent that etsy takes out for sale i don't remember off the top of my head dude also jillian sorry to kill your your buzz that it was not neptune 18 according to someone in the e-rank group's accountant now is that collectively or is that including with listing uh fees so 25 i wouldn't say is accurate it's less than that i think so but that's business because i mean you could do it on your own website but you're going to also have to pay for hosting you're going to have to pay for your domain you'll have to pay for any plugins that you need in order to into in order to sell and in most places those are all tax write-offs yeah you'll get it yeah so um or you won't have to pay it i should say so i would just price your product if you plan to sell an etsy price your products to factor in that percentage that etsy is going to take out that way you're not losing any money do you have a video on how to make an email list i do not nope i exclusively teach how to make email lists within handmade alpha academy because there are a lot of legalities and things that can go wrong while creating an email list or mistakes that could be made i'm not confident about teaching that material with no way for people to contact me for help there are too many of you which is why we keep that content in handmade alpha academy so that people can actually message me personally to ask for help however if you don't want to join in made alpha academy i recommend using mailchimp and they personally have a youtube channel that has quite a bit of valuable uh information mailchimp is free up to 2 000 email list subscribers um which is which is fantastic and it's very easy it's a drag and drop platform it's very easy to use and it is very user friendly and they've already got some pretty good tutorials on their own youtube channel so i would start there if i were you charlie said only tax deductible if you make enough money to earn or earn enough money to pay tax in the first place well i think in the united states it's 500 so for most people that's gonna that's gonna fall in see do you feel a shop can have too many items everything cohesive just lots of it depends on what they sell uh yeah it's entirely dependent on what they sell can they absolutely i've seen shops with thousands of items so if a shop here are my two examples that i always give if you sell stickers right little stickers they cost i don't know two dollars and 25 cents per sticker in your shop you sell stickers and you have tons and tons and tons of stickers that is totally fine i am not gonna bat an eye if i see there is a thousand listings of your stickers in your shop however if i am shopping for a gold and diamond handmade engagement ring and i want something that was smithed by hand with raw cut diamonds and i go to a shop that has a thousand listings for handmade engagement rings i'm gonna be very i'm gonna be very skeptical as to whether or not those were actually handmade now if i go to that same shop and they have i don't know 15 engagement rings listed all made by hand i'm gonna know that whoever made them actually sat and made each of them by hand i'm going to be more confident in shopping from that store so i think it's all about what you sell and how you want to position your brand um i think that that's really what's going to matter i think the camera died i think the charger is not working oh okay let's see listing wouldn't get lots of visits then no views it's not what the buyer searched for okay she was talking about that holiday listing i that's why you have to keep it close don't use keywords that that aren't so you said like something about christmas ornaments and tree decor to me christmas ornaments are tree decor tree decor is christmas ornaments those things are closely related the issue would be if you listed one as christmas ornaments and then you also added the keyword baby shower gifts that might cause a problem but if they're closely related then you're going to be able to get some broad matching in there you just want to make sure that they fit into that category yeah it was just dead well we've only got like two minutes i've heard a couple of new etsy seo tools i checked them out sometimes just for keyword ideas but i always take the keywords back to e-rank to research yeah either i'm still kind of new what would you recommend for just general etsy and black friday tips and tricks other than just the basic stuff what's the basic stuff yeah um if you want some more advanced tips yeah there we go my black friday toolbox down below has everything that no other person teaches because i'm the one who figured these things out and i'm the one who teaches them um the double dip strategy you're not going to find that anywhere else um the um what's the other one that's down there the ssh our swipe files i invented those you're not going to find those anywhere else you might now matter around a while i'm sure someone's copy cats i'm sure someone's copied my idea for sure but down below check out the uh black friday toolbox there's some video tutorials in there um there are some cheat sheets checklists and things like that we have tons of alphas who use that every year i only release it in november but i do it every year and tons of alphas come back and say that they have made astronomical sales based on the things that i've taught within that and i offer it for free every year because i know that for a lot of people they make their the most sales that they ever make on etsy in november so i want to make sure that i'm helping more people to be able to see those results uh how to line up items when they are set to renew automatically and many different items so not similar i'm not quite sure what you're asking you mean like line them up in your shop like how to rearrange them oh so like when they renew they're in the i don't you you have to do it manually you have to go into your actual storefront and rearrange them unfortunately if that's what you meant well when's it called mu's got it it's jupiter it was jupiter let's say i'm out of water if i got it right points go to hufflepuff no they go to slytherin because those dudes just get picked on yeah they just get picked on for no good reason they're children come on uh i only had one sale in october after a really good september it was weird it's stuff it's like that sometimes happens to all of us uh questions where are they 20 points to gryffindor from the uk and as far as i know we can't uh out of off-site ads after we make 10k u.s in sales well somebody said they did so make up y'all's mine can you do it or not we don't know i don't know we'll make amber look into it i don't know we'll maybe we'll try to figure it out for you guys charlie said oh for taxes it's in excess of 12k that's cool we it's not like that here it's not like that here though most people i know you still don't file their taxes under that amount that's fine we like to advertise christmas ornaments but also stocking tags a lot of people like to use ornaments for fireplace mantels or gift accents or presents especially wooden name tags yes they do uh can i just say that i think the new items in a shop are quite important especially if you rely on driving your own traffic it's really not good to have the same old same old looking in your shop all the time people will stop looking it depends on what you sell yeah i i like seeing new products it's good to change the switch them out too that way you know if you just had halloween and you know maybe maybe leave your holo halloween items up through christmas if because people buy weird things i sold all of my halloween products around christmas time and i didn't sell any of them around halloween so uh leave them up through christmas and then after christmas take them down and then save them and then re-list them for halloween like you can just do a repeated cycle even if you don't constantly want to create new items you can just keep re-releasing the same items and then pulling them back and re-releasing them thanks for the swipe file they're so helpful we use them we use them in our shop they're perfect uh do shoppers get a notification that i'm having a sale when i use etsy on sale they don't no because it's not an official etsy tool no they don't um that's the only unfortunate thing which is why doing a double dip i highly recommend making sure that you have an audience on either social media or an email list because otherwise they're not gonna you'll have nobody to send your double dip coupon to so it kind of defeats the purpose if you don't have a big audience this year just run one of etsy sales yeah just pick one of their sales you know they've got a they've got the big black friday thing that they host every year but you can also just run your own percent sale if you want to do that if you have a big audience where you can send a double dip coupon to then you can do the double dip that's what i would recommend and for everybody who's like what the hell is the double dip the black friday tool box has the double dip now yeah it's down there so you can get access to that um we'll stop at abina's last question here on the page uh do you know of any alternatives to the vela bulk editing tool there isn't one yeah as far as we know there isn't one we uh just had an alpha who was trying to find something and ended up having to pay for vella because they took away their free membership vela is now only paid but i think it's the only thing that there is in the eu you can opt out of ads by 10k but you have to contact etsy directly they give you the option to opt out under some eu law thingies but they make it hard to do i'm really not surprised all right well thank you for that information so now anybody who lives in the uk if you don't want to do the ads contact etsy and let them know i absolutely do not want to be opted into this ads program do you think adding tags summer winter autumn spring will help items like jewelry to rank better through the year um there's no real way to say you would just have to try it and then look on etsy to see what keywords you're being found for etsy will tell you within your stats what keywords you are actually being discovered for and if they're not doing anything for you i mean if you if you honestly just can't think of any more tags like you've got all but your 13th tag figured out and you've just got that one tag left you cannot think of anything else throw winter in there and see how it does my my last christmas yeah my last tags are always throwaway tags i'll i'll usually stick my name in one just in case somebody's searching starla more i'll use my name as a tag um yeah okay i think we are good we're at the two hour mark thanks for watching if you haven't liked the video this is two hour mark this is i am the two hour mark guys we're gonna go uh we're gonna go get some lunch make sure to like the video subscribe if you haven't already click the bell icon if you got the youtube app and you want to get notified anytime we go live where we post a video leave a comment say what your favorite moment was i don't know it's probably not having to see us anymore and we will see you guys next week which will not be a friday bean not a friday bean if you weren't here for that intro that looks weird when i do that on there it's like nunchucks it'll be quit you might get epilepsy you might get epilepsy you might give someone splashing you're making flashing don't make flashing um you guys you guys know what i meant you give you epilepsy quit you might get epilepsy no that's not how that works um anyway no flashing on camera um no it's not an 18 plus stream next ew not that kind of flashing ew ew gross icky anyway guys next week we're doing the black friday lifeline on friday so you guys will be able to hang out with us we're going to do coaching um if you have a specific question maybe we'll pull your shop up and and we're not using it as a critique thing but if you're like hey you know how can i put how can i do this you know we'll do some demos and things like that you can ask us any black friday questions you have it's gonna be a lot of fun so that's on friday and then as always guys black friday toolbox down in the description below make sure that you get that it is free there's not any weird thing it's just free you just get it and um don't do that they won't hear it anyway i've got the they'll have something two hour flash mark i can once we get the discord going i guess the handmaid alpha academy opens on december 1st if i mean who really wants us to coach this guy i know right can you guys handle us like everybody should just go get one of those coaches that wears like a business suit and he's all like yeah motivation you are a tiger you i don't want to see any paper tigers in my audience i only want the best it's a very dated way of being a coach and if you can't afford my six thousand dollar course then you are destined to fail buy my book and learn how i made a million dollars selling a book [Laughter] but i love it but if you're okay with this you're okay with this it's a very 90s thing if you're okay with that no people still do that if you guys still do that yeah if you're okay with this this get up and you like us as coaches mostly just her i don't if you hate me i know there's a few of you out there that are like will you just shut up mark um i don't do any of the talking in the course material i'm just the guy that runs the website it's her just her for now unless you want me to change it and then i'll read what she wrote see you next week

Channel: Starla Moore

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Length: 127min 15sec (7635 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 05 2021