Hello, everybody, welcome back to my channel,
Jennifer Marie VO, where I teach you different ways that you can make money online working
from home. If you are one of my subscribers, you know that I like to talk about all sorts of
different ways that you can make money online. And the difference between my channel and other
channels is that I have actually tried all of these methods. And with many of these methods, I
have made 1000s of dollars. And in today's video, I'm going to tell you about my experience
selling on Etsy. Now when I first heard of Etsy, I thought you could only sell physical products
that you made yourself and that you had to go to the post office and ship out these products all
around the world to your different customers. However, that is not true. There are 1000s and
1000s of different people selling printables or PDF files that you design online and your
customers pay just for the PDF digital download. So I decided to try this out a few years ago and
opened up my own Etsy shop selling printables I have 19 different printables in my shop and I
have made over 11,000 almost $12,000 selling these printables on my shop since I started it a
few years ago, it probably took me a couple days to design my printables and upload them to the
shop. And since then all of this income has been passive. Once you create your listing on Etsy and
upload your files that you're going to sell Etsy does all the work for you. etsy will automatically
send the printables to the customer. And the only time you have to interact with the customer is
if they have a question about the printable, or if for some reason they haven't received it
from Etsy and then you can manually email it to them yourself. So this has become a passive income
stream for me. Sometimes I'll make 100 200 $300 in a month just from selling these printables. And
I don't have to do anything. Since I created my shop years ago, I haven't done anything new to the
printables I've just kept them on the shop. And every day I make $4 sometimes $10 sometimes $12
it just depends on the day. So in today's video, I'm going to talk to you about how exactly you
can get paid through Etsy. Then I'm going to show you several different examples of different shops
that are selling digital downloads or PDF files. And some of these are super simple and super
easy that you can make on Canva or Illustrator or Photoshop or any sort of graphic design software.
And then I'm going to show you my dashboard within Etsy so you can get an idea of how much money I
am making selling printables and before we get started, if you haven't already subscribed to my
channel, make sure to subscribe by clicking on the button below. I will be releasing more different
tutorials on how to set up your own shop on Etsy and even other tutorials on how to design your own
printables for free so you can get started opening up your own shop and get started selling online
and creating your own passive income stream. So let's get started. Okay, before I get started
and show you my stats on how much money I have made on Etsy, and before I start discussing
different types of digital products that you can sell on Etsy, I want to explain the payment
process. Because of course you don't want to start opening up a shop if you're not going to be able
to make money because you're in a country where Etsy payments is not supported. Or if you don't
have a PayPal account. The first question I am sure you'll want to know is Is it free to set up
a shop on Etsy and to create listings. It is not 100% free but it will only cost you 20 cents to
list your first item. So let's say you create 10 different printables and you put all 10 printables
in your Etsy shop you'll only be paying $2 total to list all of these items. And then you can see
that the listings are active for four months or until they sell so you're only risking losing
20 cents. And you'll have four months to sell your item it'll be another 20 cents to renew your
listing to have an active for another four months. So once an item sells there is a 5% transaction
fee on the sale price including the shipping price you set. Of course for us we're focused on digital
products so there will be no shipping price. And if you accept payments through Etsy payments,
we will also collect a 4% plus 30 cent well this is in euro payment processing fee when an item is
sold. So how exactly do you get paid on Etsy now I have this setup through Etsy payments so I get
a direct deposit into my Canadian bank account. So as you can see here, Etsy payments with
Etsy payments, buyers can use most payment methods to purchase from your shop, you get direct
deposits to your bank account, this is what I use. Or if you're based in a country where Etsy
payments isn't available yet. You can have buyers pay you directly through PayPal. Okay, so if you
are living in a country where PayPal is supported, you can do it this way. Alternatively, you can
do it through Etsy payments to get a direct deposit to your bank account. And these are the
countries that are eligible for Etsy payments. So again, if your country is not listed on this
list, then You can accept payments through PayPal. Okay, so now let's get into different Etsy ideas
of different digital products that you can sell on Etsy. Honestly, there are so many 1000s and 1000s
of different ideas, I cannot share with you the product that I am selling because of course, I
don't want to give away my niche and then have a lot of people try to recreate the product that I'm
having success with. But I will give you different ideas to show you what other people are selling
on Etsy. So you can see here, you can type in calendar printable, and you can see all of these
different calendar bundles. Look at this woman, for example, we click on this ad here, she's
selling a 2021 2022 principle calendar. This is very simple to make. I mean, how simple is
this, you just chosen a nice font 2022. And then just filled out the calendar. It's so simple.
And you can see here, it's a digital download to PDF files. She's selling this for two euro
and she's made 139 sales. This is so simple, you know, you could make this in 10 minutes using
Canva. This woman has a bit more of a beautiful calendar, she's got, you know, nice font, a
nice little design, she has over 81,000 sales. I mean, come on this one, she's selling an entire
2021 calendar for the whole 12 months. And it's very beautiful. But again, very simple. If you
can use some beautiful artwork from different royalty free websites, and you add that to the
top, you can make a beautiful calendar and she's selling this for five euro. Again, it's a digital
download. And Etsy will automatically take care of that. So when I'm selling my digital downloads,
when someone purchases one of my printables, Etsy automatically emails them the download every
so often I get people who messaged me saying they have troubles with the download or they didn't
receive it. Usually, they just have to wait another 10 minutes and it will come through and if
not, I will just email them the file directly. But it's super easy. And the majority of the time, you
know, they don't even contact me because they get the download directly. Let's click on this woman's
shop, when you can just see she has so many different types of you know, finance planners,
productivity planners, budget plans, all of these are so simple to create, you can create
these in Microsoft Excel or in Microsoft Word. But some people rather than create their own
planner, they prefer just to buy someone else's planner for $2. And this woman is making a
fortune. I mean, she has over 81,000 sales, you can imagine how much money she has made. It's
brilliant. Here's another example of someone who's created very simple, different plans. And she's
selling this whole package for almost 30 euro. Of course, this is a very, you know, complex package.
But you don't even have to do something like this, when I if I recommend you get started, just you
know sell things for a euro two euro just to start getting reviews, because once you start getting
reviews is when you'll be able to sell more and more and more, because people will you know, know
that you're a good legitimate shop. So we've got ideas for calendars, creating, you know, calendars
for 2021 2022. We've got agendas, planners, all sorts of things like that, that you can
consider selling. But say you're an artsy person. And let's say you're really good at graphic design
and you know, creating art, you can sell your art that people can print out themselves and frame
and put on their walls. So type in printable wall art or printable art. And you can see all
sorts of different ideas. I mean, this one here, for example, personalize add your child's name, so
they have different artworks, and then you know, they'll add the name to customize it. And if you
add customization options, especially when it's Mother's Day or Valentine's Day, or child's
birthday, or a wedding, the wedding industry is huge. Women are willing to spend a lot of
money on their weddings. Look at this, these are printable table numbers. And really, it's just
table one, table two, How simple is this, and she's selling this pack for, you know, over seven
euro have a digital download of four PDFs. And you can so easily create this using Canva using any
popular graphic design program, like Photoshop or Illustrator. And this person, again has over
6000 sales really, the options are endless. If you know how to use a computer, a
lot of people don't know how to design, they don't want to do it themselves. They'd rather
spend five euro $5 to have someone else do it for them. And they just print it and they're on with
their day. But if you know how to do this sort of thing, you can make so much money on websites like
this. It is unbelievable. This person for example, custom name print, they're literally going to put
your name and then maybe the definition of your name. Maybe this is Let's say someone has a baby.
And they've named their baby Charles. And they're going to put, you know, Charles means and they'll
put whatever it is that it means they know how to customize it, they could they have a template
on their computer, just fill in the information, send you the printable, and then you can print it
off as you as the customer. If you know how to do this sort of thing, you can sell the services on
Etsy and make a lot of money, something like this, you wouldn't have it be automatic, you would
talk with the customer, they would tell you what they wanted, and then you would, you know,
manually send them their file. So it wouldn't be as passive, this would be a bit more of an active
income stream. But again, it wouldn't take you very long, especially if you have a template
already lined up for this particular product. Now let's look at this. This is my favorite. This
is something that I could create in 10 minutes on illustrator, it is scribble love heart. It's
so simple, it's minimalistic, it's beautiful. And she's selling this for five euro. I mean,
and then here you've got these pictures of a, you know, item arrived very quickly, it looks
lovely in a frame in my living room. Again, she just paid for the printable, she printed this
off. And this customer is super happy with this. You can make this yourself you can make artwork.
That's right now everyone's into minimalistic art, which is great, because that's the easiest kind of
art to make. You start making little things like this. Think about these big money industries,
nurseries, baby showers, wedding gifts, these are huge million billion dollar industries.
capitalize on that make products that people want that people are willing to pay money
for birthday cards, birthday invitations, all sorts of different things. If you start doing
the research, and you can come up with some really easy, great popular products, you can make a
fortune on Etsy, it is amazing how much money you can make. Honestly, even looking at all of these
myself, I want to start adding more items to my shop because I created my shop years ago. And I've
just left it and not added any more items. And I'm sure I could make more money if I even put out
more items just like this one on my shop. Okay, so now it's time for me to show you my stats of
my shop. Now as I said before, I cannot share with you my exact shop name and the types of printables
that I am selling this is because of course, I've worked really hard to create this shop
and set up my printables. And I'm not looking to try to get 1000s of competitors. This has
been working for me for quite a few years. So you know, you're going to have to go and
find your own digital printable to sell. But I just want to show you that it is possible to
make a lot of money or to make pretty good money on Etsy by selling your printables. So you can see
here Today is March 7. And so far today I have had 67 visits to my shop and two orders. So a total
of $8. Yesterday, I don't believe I made anything. But in the last seven days, I've made $54.50 14
orders 724 visits. So the conversion rate is not great, I could probably make some changes to my
listings I maybe I should add more listings to my shop because I am getting quite a bit of traffic.
And if we scroll down here, people are finding my shop through the Etsy app and other Etsy
pages and through Etsy search. So this is great. Also social media. I'm getting a lot of people
from Pinterest. And that's because I made sure to pin my listings as well to Pinterest. So you know
people are finding it through Pinterest as well. Let's look in the last 30 days. I've made $216
and you can see, you know how many visits I've been getting to my shop. So that's 60
orders and over 3000 visits to the shop. And then let's check this year since the beginning
of January. I've made $534 and I've had so many different visits and only 152 orders. So I really
should be trying to make more shop listings maybe even changing the price to see if I get you know
if I made it a little bit cheaper. My product maybe I would even get more sales. And then let's
look at all time and you can see here I started my shop in 2016 and you can see that I have had
almost 3000 orders and I've made a total of $11,415 since I started so you can see that
you know, this shop has been going strong since I started back in 2016. So last year I made
$2,586 with my Etsy shop and really I just put 19 different listings in my shop. So 19 different
printables, left it there and I haven't really done anything since and I've made almost 12,000
US dollars and that just continues. So this is just passive money I'm getting every month
this just helping me pay a few different bills. And it's great. And I really I could be working
even harder to make this shop even more successful and just make even more money. And that's
something I plan on working on this year as well. So I just wanted to show you that it is possible
to start your own Etsy shop to make this money and this money gets directly deposited into my
Canadian bank account. So you can set it up with whatever you want, or with PayPal as well, if you
you know, can't do it with Etsy payments directly into your bank. So if you're an artist and you
want to sell prints of your work, you can do it on Etsy, you know, maybe you can't sell it for
$100 per print, but maybe you can for $5 per print. And then people can print it off themselves
and put it on their wall. Or if you want to create planners or calendars. There are so many different
options and people are on Etsy. They're searching on Etsy for these sorts of things. They're
browsing, and for some people who have money spending a couple dollars so they don't have
to design something themselves is worth it. So I really encourage you to go on Etsy, start doing
some research, look up different digital printable ideas and think about what you could start to
create to sell in your own little shop on Etsy. So stay tuned to this channel. Make sure to subscribe
because I will be creating more videos teaching you how to make your own printables and teaching
you how to start your own Etsy shop Step by Step. Make sure to drop in the comments below if there's
any other questions you have for me regarding Etsy and once again if you like this video,
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