Great tips Melanie!

This is so pretty! I want to spend more time in Procreate Dreams now 🌟

Cool! Thank you for sharing! Very helpful :3

Same , i didnt want people going in there that werent organically searching for my type of product. I need more listing i think thats what im lacking .. thank you .. loves watching your vid and transparency

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This is one of the most helpful Etsy tip videos I've seen so far! I'm trying to do as much research as I can before I start a store... It sounds like market and niche research are the most powerful kind you can do. It's hard to not get overwhelmed haha

Any other tips you'd like to share?

Pretty helpful, I just started a store this week and its really anxiety inducing "will this even work" 😂😭

Great tips!!

Your conversion rate is waaay above the Etsy average (2-3%). Great job! One piece of advice (you may have already noticed) is to NOT look at your shop in terms of daily or even weekly stats but rather monitor your stats on a monthly/ yearly basis. Trends and traffic will fluctuate a lot and after 1 full year you can then start to see real patterns from your own shop data. Keep it up! Your growth is fast growth even if it doesn't feel like it!❤

Amazing vid!

Shoutout to Shrek! 😂 First off, your conversion rates are really good. Most people would kill to do half as well, so be proud of that. Second, the fact you’ve been able to pull off the sales you have without social media is impressive as well. Don’t give up, keep plugging away at it and you’ll turn it into a booming business in time.

I think that’s so good. What are your products like? I’d love to know! ❤

i just 4 months in etsy and not really doing good as i pick saturated niche😭but will keep doing

Great persistence and consistency. I see every reason for hope, a sunny bright income stream.

Hello Melanie, I had a question about SEO, or how to get more views without advertisement. Did you plan out on titles, descriptions, or something else such as SEO or tags? I wonder if you can make a video about this.🙂I started my etsy store years ago, but it got nearly less than 2 views, mainly family members visiting my store-- I had to shut it down, but would want to make a new etsy shop some day.

I love how it turned out! Your style is so beautiful ❤️

Loved the video Melanie! Would you be interested in a partnership with our Etsy tool called Sale Samurai?

Some Nice Works!

It looks so good!!

Etsy best place to start but not running your business, as soon you get good amount of sales and reviews china will steal your designs and images to make cheap knockoff of your product and then it spreads like virus. Already happened to me while I have just 750 sales for 1.5 year which is very small. Be prepared that everything will be stolen and used. Etsy do not protect sellers and have open statistics of every shop to everyone.

I have to say that conversation rate is astronomical. Etsy sellers salivate to get that turnaround.

time lapse art is so satisfying

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Wow i think you should be very proud of yourself. Your etsy store is considered successful for sure! Not everyone could have that many sales in 6 months. May I ask how many listings you had that first 1-2 months?

I started my shop in November of last year and it’s doing pretty well 🤞 I sell physical products and February is where things increased and I’ve been averaging about 50-60 orders a month? I don’t actively promote on social media but I have accounts on TT/instagram and tumblr I hope I can develop products that bring in a lil more money tho ❤

I really liked your video. Thanks for your honesty and for explaining your evolution in etsy. I'm a bit tired of those videos that promises a lot of sales, but actually don't talk how those sales come. I have an Etsy shop too from 6 years ago and my presence in social media it's pretty low, so Etsy get most of my sells and I think that's pretty good. Usually I have 100 sales per month, but I also saw my sales decreasing in May and June. I hope after summer it gets better. Usually the start of schoolar year, Halloween and Christmas are great seasons for sales. I can't say that's completely how it works, but sales themselves and new listings attrack new sales. The star seller program and bad reviews can affect too.

Do you think it is still worth to start on etsy?or shopify?

That's pretty good progress for your first 5-6 months. Relying on Etsy to bring traffic to your store does work. It takes time, but it does work. Without ads, too. I sell physical products (bird and squirrel feeders) and it took about 3 months for things to finally take off (pardon the pun). Since then, I average between 25-30 orders a month and it keeps me just busy enough (I also have a day job). I had 60 orders this past November and that was crazy. I also sell wooden jack o' lanterns for Halloween so September was a really good month as well. I have a FB and IG page but I don't really use them to drive traffic to my Etsy shop. I also have a Pinterest page but I haven't done anything with that since last summer. Between those three sources, I get 10-15 visits a month. I average over 800 visits a month, total. My conversion rate is always around 3%, which is very good, by Etsy standards. It's all Etsy. It does work.

I opened my Etsy shop in January also without social media or marketing but I’ve only gotten 4-5 views. I had only one listing for a while which is why I think it’s been so low. So I’ve slowly been growing the amount of listings. I make original art and sell art prints of that art but if anyone has any recommendations for someone not doing print on demand/digital downloads, that’d be very much appreciated 🥲 I’ve sold in person easier than online so I’m also learning SEO

Don't be disheartened by the slow sales. It's very common for online sales to die down during late spring and all through summer. That's why a lot of small businesses go to vendor markets during this time. Keep it up and you'll see that money increases once fall rolls around.

Great video and really helpful! I am actively working on opening my etsy store, so this video was really helpful to prepare myself for the reality of selling digital products. I have one question. How many products did you have listed when you first opened your store? I am unsure how many I should have in stock when opening, and it's so confusing to figure out. :')

What's your experience with selling digital products on Etsy? I would love to know! It's so hard to sift through the ton of videos that only talks about how much you can *potentially* make, but I want to know real experiences from artists!

Beautiful <3

Great video Melanie! Keep it up, slow and steady growth will pay off in the long run :)

Thank you, this was very informative.

very informative. Thanks!

I think you should definitely continue exploring Krita, the more tool and features I found about it the more I realized it's the only program I would ever need. It has a lot of customization (top-right you can change workspaces), complex brushes, also good for photo manipulation and animation.

*Correction Corner* It looks like heavypaint is not created by warriorpainter. From the website it looks like it's created by the artist Vaughan King (heavypoly).

Solid info! Thanks for going through all these programs :D

Apologize for the audio quality! I just noticed how bad it is wearing my headset :c. I'll be using a better quality mic in the next video. It's kind of a long video, so grab some coffee and snack or just keep it on for your company while you study/work/draw! Feel free to skip through my rambling c: 0:06 All my old sketchbooks 1:25 Sketchbook tour starts - really old sketches 3:42 Sketchbook tour - recent sketches 20:57 What's next

This was so fun to watch, Melanie!! I can't wait for more! 🌟🌠

Cute sketches! I love your style 😊

Solid work

Reminds me of JoJo from Axolodyssey :D

It looks really good and cute. :D

this is so beautiful 😻

So magical ✨