Hello, everybody and 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're one of my subscribers, you'll know
that in the past few tutorials I released, I've been talking about my experience selling
digital downloads or printables. on Etsy. I have tutorials on how to create printables
using Canva and Microsoft Word. And I have made over $11,000, selling printables
on Etsy since 2016. And I haven't made any changes to these printables
since I released them back in 2016. So this is just a stream of recurring passive
income, where I don't have to do anything and I still make money almost every day from
these printables. If you go to the links in the description
below, you'll be able to see my other tutorials on Etsy. So this tutorial is one that a lot of you
have been waiting for. I'm going to teach you how to set up and start
your own Etsy shop step by step. If you go to the link in the description below,
you'll be able to open up an Etsy shop and get your first 40 listings for free. Normally, it costs 20 cents to list an item
on Etsy and that listing stays up for four months. But if you start your own shop using the link
provided, you'll be able to get your first 40 listings free. Now if you have already signed up with Etsy,
it's okay you can use a different email and create another shop because you are allowed
to have more than one shop on Etsy. But you have to create a new account with
Etsy and have a new shop under a different email. So in this tutorial, I'm going to teach you
how to sign up to Etsy how to open up a shop name your shop, set your shop preferences,
your shop location, and how to add your first listing. So that includes listing photos, the price,
the categories, tags, the description, and all of that stuff. I'll also teach you how to set up billing,
you will need to have a credit card in order to start your own Etsy shop. But you won't get billed for anything because
you're going to have your first 40 listings for free. If you haven't already, make sure to subscribe
to my channel for more videos just like this one. In the next few weeks, I'll be releasing even
more tutorials on Etsy how to create your own listing photos that look beautiful, so
you don't have to manually take professional pictures of each item that you're selling. And to also create another tutorial showing
you how to make your shop look more professional by adding a description a banner image and
organizing your shop so it looks really professional. So let's get started. The first thing we're going to do is go to
the link in the description below. And here you can open up your first Etsy shop
and list your first 40 items for free. Now if you have already gone through the setup
process, you can do this again with another email because on Etsy you are allowed to have
multiple accounts and to have multiple shops. So once you click on the link, click open
a shop today. And now you're going to sign in to continue. So sign in or register with your email address. Or you can continue with Google, Facebook
or Apple. So again, it has to be a new email address. If you want to get the 40 listings for free. And you're going to put in your name. And then you're going to make a password. Click Register. Okay, so step one, we're going to set our
shop preferences. So it says let's get started. Tell us about you and your shop. So you're going to put in your shop language,
the default language you'll use to describe your items. choose carefully. You cannot change this once you save it. But you may add other languages later. So I recommend just keeping it as English,
then you can put in your shop country, where is your shop based? I'm going to put Canada it says are you sure
using the shop currency that's different from your bank's currency may result in currency
conversion fees, I'm just going to keep it as Canada because I do have a Canadian bank,
I'm just going to put in my country, Canada and the Canadian dollar. And that way I don't have to pay any currency
conversion fees when I get paid. Which of these best describes you? Selling is my full time job I sell part time
but hope to sell full time I sell part time and that's how I like it. I'm going to put that you can choose you know
whatever you want, it won't affect the opening of your shop. Then click Save and Continue. Now you get to name your shop. Choose a memorable name that reflects your
style. So you can go ahead and put any shop name
you want. So I'm just going to put Jennifer Marie vo
click Check available. I'm going to just keep it like this because
I'm doing this for the video. If you're trying to sell designs you might
want you know Mary designs for example, check availability. Now, this would be not available, but then
you can click here and they have some ideas for you as well. I'm just going to put Jennifer Marie vo for
this one for this tutorial and then click Click Save
and Continue. Now it's time to stock your shop. Add as many listings as you can 10 or more
would be a great start more listings means more chances to be discovered. So we're going to click on Add a listing,
we first have photos, add as many as you can. So buyers can see every detail, use up to
10 photos to show your items most important qualities. So if you are selling a physical item, for
example, a pair of earrings or something that you've made yourself a handmade item, then
you would take pictures of this item and upload these photos. But it's a little bit different when you're
selling a digital download. You don't want to add the PNG file of the
digital printable exactly as it is. Because first of all, you don't want someone
to be able to just save the image and not purchase your printable, you want to upload
an image that's sort of like a mock up of what it would look like. For example, if I'm selling a wall art, I
want to upload an image that will show what the art will look like on the wall. Now in a tutorial that I will release later
this week, I'm going to show you how to create photos for your listings by using free mock
ups that you can find online without having to print off your images and frame them and
take beautiful pictures. So what you're going to do is click add a
photo. And I'm going to choose this photo here this
mock up that I've made. So in this example, I'm going to be selling
a poster that I designed. So you can see here at the top, it says primary
this will be the primary photo, you can click crop here, if you want to control how the
full size photo appears on the public listing page. I'm just going to keep it as it is. And then down here, you can adjust the thumbnail. So this is fine tune the thumbnail for your
listing. It's what shoppers will see first in the search. So let's say someone is looking for wall art
printable wall art, this is exactly what they would see as the primary image. Now I might want to zoom this up a little
bit so they can see exactly what is going to be on the poster. So maybe something like that, for example,
because you want them to be able to read the entire poster, and then press save. Okay, and then you can add a secondary photo,
you can add up to 10 photos. So let's add another photo. Now you can see here it says listings look
best with photos at least 2000 pixels wide. And this one wasn't at least 2000 pixels wide. But I'm still going to leave it as it is and
include this photo as well. I'm going to link you in the description below
to the requirements and best practices for images in your Etsy shops. And if you scroll down here under listing
images, they say the recommended size for listing images is 2000 pixels for the shortest
side of the image. So you're going to try to want to make it
you know, at least 2000 pixels. So once you've added your photos and you've
selected your primary photo, you can go ahead and add a video If you want, I haven't actually
made use of this feature. This is a new feature, you can bring your
product to life with a five to 10 second video, it could help you drive more sales, the video
won't feature sound. So let your product do the talking. Now I haven't made use of this in the future,
I will make a tutorial on how to use this as well because I'm interested to see if this
could help me make more sales. But now I'm going to get on to the listing
details here. So first of all, we're going to put in a title
that says include keywords that buyers would use to search for your item. So for example, plenty of fish in the sea
wall art poster. So what I recommend you do is go to Etsy and
search for the different keywords. So if you're selling wall art type in wall
art, for example, you know, wall art poster printable, for example, and get an idea of
the kinds of keywords that you'd want to include here. For example, this person here, Safari nursery
print set of six prints, nursery decor, nursery, wall art, baby animal prints for nursery,
they put all these different keywords that they're hoping people will type in to be able
to find, you know, this item here. And you have to enter a title between one
and 140 characters long. So I'll just make it like that. About this listing who made it, you're going
to say I did if you made the item, what is it? It is a finished product? Or is it a supply or tool to make things? In this case? It's a finished product. When did you make it so if you are doing a
custom item, you could say made to order if it's a vintage item, or recently so recently,
this is just been made now so we'll put 2020 2021 category, type a two or Three word description
of your item to get category suggestions that will help more shoppers find it, digital prints,
put that. So you can type whatever category you want. For example, if it was going to be nursery,
you know nursery and digital prints nursery and wall decor, you could choose whichever
description you want, I'm going to put digital prints, then you can choose the primary color,
choose a secondary color. And this is optional as well, you don't have
to choose a color the subject select up to three. So I'm going to say abstract and geometric,
I have one too many selected, so just choose three different subjects. All of these are optional, but I recommend
filling these out because the more tags you have, and the more information you know it
will be easier for customers to find your item. Room, adding accurate rooms will be helpful
for buyers to find your items. So this one, let's say you can select up to
five, let's say a dorm, bedroom homestyle. And then you select the orientation, this
is vertical, framed or unframed height. So for this one, I did five by seven. And then you could say that you offer more
than one variations. If it's a holiday, you can go ahead and put
the holiday, there's a special occasion, let's say divorce and breakup, and then you have
your renewal options. So to list an item cost 20 cents unless you're
using the 40 free listings that you can have if you sign up under the link I provided,
and you can set an automatic renewal option. So after four months, or until the list listing
sells out, the listing will renew as it expires for 20 cents each time. Or you can set it as manual which means you
will renew the expired listings yourself I'm going to choose automatic and then under the
item type, you can choose either physical which is a tangible item that you will ship
to buyers or in this case digital a digital file that buyers will download. Okay, now here we're going to set a description
or write a description. Start with a brief overview that describes
your items finest features, shoppers will only see the first few lines of your description
at first. So make it count. Not sure what else to say shoppers also like
hearing about your process and the story behind the item. So here you have a chance to write all the
the whole description of what exactly the item is that you're selling. Okay, so here I have already prepared a description
that I'm going to use for this item. So I'm going to go ahead and paste that here. Okay, so you can see I wrote there are plenty
of fish in the sea keep swimming, get this high quality instant download printable wall
art that makes a great gift for your recently single friend, family member or yourself. This digital art print will look great in
your locker office, dorm room, bedroom, bathroom or wherever you want to reminder that there
are plenty of fish in the sea. This is a high resolution digital file for
instant download in the color shown. You will not receive a printed poster. You can print this file from your home computer
or email the file slash bring the file to a local printing shop. The prints will be available to download automatically
after your payment is processed. You will receive the following high quality
digital printable files one five by seven print in PNG format five by seven print in
PDF print. Important this purchase is for personal use
only. You cannot alter or create new works of art
from the artwork. This artwork cannot be redistributed or resold
in any format. You cannot use the artwork for commercial
use. We don't accept cancellations, or refunds due to the nature of the product
being a digital download. However, if you have any questions or concerns,
please send us a message. Okay, so that is my listing. At the beginning I'm saying what the listing
is, you know giving some ideas of where the person can put the item when they print it
off. And then I'm making sure they realize what
they're going to be receiving which is a printable file. And also this is really important here to
make a note that this is for personal use only. You don't want someone downloading your file
and then you know re uploading it to sell on Etsy just make it very clear that this
is only for personal use. I also like to put in that you know there's
no cancellations or refunds because when someone purchases a digital download, you know if
they are asking for a refund, they already have the item so you know I've had people
ask for refunds before on my digital downloads and you know you don't have to give them a
refund back if they've purchased it because they already have the item but perhaps they
want a different size or they ordered the wrong one and It's up to you if you want to,
you know, give them a refund or not. Okay, production partners. A production partner is anyone who's not a
part of your Etsy shop who helps you physically produce your items, I'm not going to add a
production partner because I've created this myself. Here section optional group related listings
into sections to help shoppers browse example bracelets, Father's Day gifts yarn. So we can click Add your first section. Now, this would be if you're creating a large
shop with lots of listings and you want there to be little categories. Let's put wall art as one of my categories. Tags optional. What words might someone use to search for
your listings use all 13 tags to get found. So this is optional, but 100% recommended
put all 13 tags, you can click get ideas for tags, you know, who's it for what's the main
color, what size is it. So I'm going to put a while art and then just
put Press Enter once you type it in printable art, you can go ahead and research an item
that's similar to your item and try to use similar tags that that person is using. We can also put in materials, and now we have
price. Okay, the price must be between 26 cents and
$65,000. Remember to factor in the cost of materials,
labor and other business expenses. You want it to be over 20 cents for sure,
because it costs you 20 cents to list the item on the list this at 150. For example, you know this couldn't depend
if you're a popular shop, you can increase your prices because you have all those reviews. But when you're starting out, you don't want
your price to be too much. quantity for quantities greater than one this
listing will renew automatically until it sells out. You'll be charged 20 cents USD listing fee
each time. So you can go ahead and put how many there
are it's a digital items, you could put 100. Here they have personalization, it says collect
personalized information for this listing. So if you are creating a personalized listing,
you would want to turn this on. It says enter the personalization instructions
you want buyers to see, for example, enter the name you want on the necklace. So let's say for example, you're creating
a wall art with a letter, what letter be included on the wall art, and then the person can go
ahead and fill that in. And you can make this optional for them as
well. I'm just going to turn this off because this
isn't a personalization option. Okay, and now we have digital files, buyers
can download these files. As soon as they complete their purchase, you
can send a customized note to buyers of digital items after the item is downloaded. So we're going to go ahead click Upload file. Okay, so I've just uploaded both of these
files. So here you can see the different files have
been included, you can order them if you wanted to have you know the PDF on top or the whichever
file you want first. And these are the two files that the customer
will receive when they buy your download. So before we press Save and Continue, we can
press preview, okay, and now it's saying inventory. Okay, this is a strange little error that's
popping up saying fill out all the required fields correctly in order to preview and they're
saying the problems with inventory, but it shouldn't be because you can see here, you
know, I fill this out correctly. So it's not letting me preview the listing. This is a bug that apparently occurs often
and also won't let me save it. So I'm going to go ahead to the top, go over
to shop manager and right click open in New Tab. And that will get you back to the stock your
shop section. So you're going to have to click again, add
a listing and fill this information out. Again, you don't have to fill it out completely
just in case you know you get the glitch again. But I'm going to quickly fill this out like
I did before. Okay, now we're going to press preview. I've redone this again. Great this time it worked okay, so it's a
little frustrating but you can just try it again and make sure to save your original
listing if you want don't fill out the original listing completely because we can make edits
later. So here we have a preview of my listing plenty
of fish in the sea while our poster you can see and then if someone clicks next, they
can see more examples and you can do up to 10 different photos. Here you can see the user will see this at
the beginning and then they can click learn more about the item to see more information. And now well you can choose continue editing
if you want to make any more edits or save Continue. Okay, and now you can add more listings in
your shop as well. So to add a second listing, just click Add
a listing. I just want to keep one listing for now. So I'm going to press Save and Continue. And now it says hi your account is unconfirmed. So confirm your email for access to all things
Etsy. So go ahead to your email and confirm your
Etsy account. Okay, and now they say how you'll get paid. etsy payments gives buyers the most payment
options and gives you sellers protection. So it says for tax purposes, what type of
seller are you, I'm going to click the first one individual. Now tell us a bit about yourself. So you're going to put in your country of
residence, then you can put in your first and last name, your date of birth, and then
your home address. And then where your bank is located. Put in your phone number as well says Where
is your bank located great your deposit will be in Canadian dollars. Once saved your bank account country can't
be changed. Okay. Then it says you will need to provide a valid
credit card to complete Etsy payments, signup. And once you filled out all that information,
press Save and Continue. And then here they say set up billing let
us know how you'd like to pay your MC bill. So you're going to add in a credit card. And you have to add your credit card in order
to open your shop even though you have the 40 free listings. So we're going to go ahead fill out all this
information here. And then press open your shop at the end. Okay, and once all that information went through,
you can see here that I have my Etsy shop opened. And you can see here that this is my Etsy
shop right here. So now what I would like to do is fill in
a put a photo here and a banner image. And then little by little I can start filling
my shop with more listings. So if you clicked on this listing here, you'll
see this is the listing that we just created. And then from here, what I would do to start
promoting my items is to pin something like this, you know this image right here on Pinterest
and share it on social media and try to drive drive more traffic to my listings by sharing
it on social media and on different platforms like Pinterest and Facebook. So when you go to your shop, you can click
here on Edit shop and make any sort of edits, you can edit your location, add a shop title,
add a banner and featured area. I'm going to show you how to do all of this
in my next one of my next tutorials because this is becoming a very long video, but I
want to go back to shop manager. And here you can see your stats so you can
see how many views you've had or visits you've had since you've started your shop. And then at the side, click listings. And this will show you all of the active listings
that you have. At the top here you can see you have 39 free
listings. If you've clicked on the link in the description
below to open up your Etsy shop, you will have all of these different listings free
so this is great to make use of them to really start creating lots of listings for your shop. Because the more items you have in the shop,
the more chances are that people will find your shop. If you want to make any edits to your listings
just click on the listing here. Again, we are under the listings category. And then you can go editing options, edit
titles, edit tags at descriptions, edit prices. And you can make you know any of these edits
you want here. You can also click on the gear icon here and
go to view on Etsy view stats, you know edit and do any of these as well share. I'm gonna click view on Etsy. And then this right here is showing you your
listing on Etsy and you can go ahead and click on stats and see the stats for this listing. How many visits how many orders again, you
can click Edit, make any edits you want adding more photos or whatever it is that you would
like. Okay, so everyone I hope you enjoyed this
tutorial on how to set up your own Etsy shop. In my next few tutorials, I will be showing
you how to create photos like this that are really visually appealing so that you can
create really nice image listings and I'll show you where you can find beautiful photos
like this. So you don't have to go ahead and print off
your own. You know, printable and take a picture of
it you can just use mock up photos that are royalty free found on the internet. And I'll also show you how we're going to
edit the banner of our shop and make it look more professional for people who find our
shop. If you liked this video, please click like
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Etsy or selling on Etsy. Make sure to leave a comment in the description
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