Thank you for the in-depth description!!

Love that you answered this question thoroughly, honestly and only in about 2 minutes. Subscribed! :)

Thank you!

That was excellent, thank you for taking us through your process. My takeaway: Analyze, Adjust, Storm, Analyze, Search.

It definitely is a big deal to many people. Once China has access to a platform/market, that platform will be flooded with chinese shops. In China, so many people will do the same to make money. I've seen this happen with tiktok shop too. It's hurting small American businesses. In China, these companies can mass produce custom tumblers and sell for way less than an American small business can. For instance, chinese shops on tiktok that sell custom designed tumblers will charge $10 while an American small business will sell for over $20. Tiktok shop was exclusive to the US only at one point. Chinese businesses paid American business owner to use their shop. Even if they couldn't take payments through the platform from customers, they were getting the traffic they wanted, so it was worth it. Once China was able to get TikTok shop, everything changed...most of the shops and goods are now from China. Therefore, this will definitely impact and hurt the sales of American small businesses on Etsy. I have seen them also copy sales ideas from Western shops and do the same. Copy designs and reproduce. We (very small businesses in America) cannot compete with the prices from China, unfortunately, so once they are in the market, the market will change, many Chinese shops will lead, and negatively impact US small businesses. Think about how much it costs them for materials and labor compared to our costs. We just can't compete with them. Even though it's international shipping, they are still able to provide free shipping. The only competitive advantage we have is that our shipping speed will be faster than theirs. Etsy is a platform where small businesses can share and advertise their goods and services, and people are able to support these local small businesses with this platform. Once China sellers have access to it, there will be less support for the small local businesses because the Chinese shop's products will take up the marketplace. I don't see why it's necessary to include China when they already have access to tons of other e-commerce platforms, and they also have many of their own marketplaces. They are trying to make money from a Americans and are always trying to figure out ways how to do this. I personally know people such ad suppliers and have friends in China that are always trying to figure out how to sell to Americans lol. Our currency is higher than theirs. Our dollar goes longer there as well.

So much BS! 80/20 rule! Most items are not desired. Focus on those that sell and improve upon them! Only 20% will pay the bills, The rest is background noise or Wallpaper for your shop.

help! I set up variations. Same item same price, just 5 different colors. I linked pics to ea variation. all looked fine. But today a customer bought variation #4 and #5. Then an hour later a customer purchased #2 and #4. Somehow I sold two of item 4. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I just discovered, by accident, suggestions for improving product’s description! This makes SO much sense!!

I just started using this a few days ago and was curious about misspellings then I realized that I’ve added links in my descriptions… to see other small bags use this link, which is then includes a jumble of letters among words. There’s more to learn but this has helped so much already…hoping it leads to more sales ( and I know I need to work on photos too).

Hi Kara, Thank you for your videos. I am a seller. And I offer wrapping paper and greeting cards that are the same or similar match. How would I be able to bundle items to customers can see that they can buy for example a lemon greeting card and lemon wrapping paper. Thank you for your help and guidance. VBR, Inge

Why does Etsy bury the vacation mode setting so deeply? eBay, for all It's fauits, has a one-click "Time Away". Done.

Thank you for the video 😀 I have a KZbin channel with crochet tutorials (to help drive traffic to my Etsy shop) and I've been showing people a particular technique using one of my items as an example and at the beginning of the video I say "If you would like to have a go at making this item, you'll find the link to the pattern in the description below", but I always feel it's a bit spammy and I might be losing viewers as they are there to see the teqnique not my ads. Do you think I would be better off doing some shorts (showing my makes with the links) along side my existing videos ? Or is this type of blatant advertising a bad idea ?

Great data, thank you!

just signed up for goimagine using your code. I am excited to get started

Finally… I’ve given up opening my shop so many times in the past year because my variations are nearly endless! I’m getting this done today!

The "Olden Days", before skin flint Silverman showed up to rob us.

Hi Kara! I design luxury wreaths. I do a lot of custom designs. Some designs are totally based on what a customer’s request and may not be anything like something I have designed before. How can I comply to these guidelines as a result? I don’t start custom wreaths without payment first. Using a photo of another wreath would actually be a misrepresentation of what they are going to get. The “stock photo” that I have is one that I generated on my own just to note that it is a Custom Order with my logo. What are your thoughts? TIA.

lol @ send me 1600, that was savage.

I get about 5 to 8 of these messages PER DAY it's insane and really annoying

The problem (as I've discovered) with setting your shop currency to say GBP if you're in the UK but selling in the US is that the USD price the US shopper sees will fluctuate according to the FX rate. In other words, it seems to be difficult to control how your prices appear to a US customer if your shop currency is not USD. The price of fixing that seems to be 2.5% unfortunately, or a possibly setting up a foreign currency bank account. Unless anyone knows different?

Has Etsy suspended your Shop with No Reason? Anyone want to join a Class Action Lawsuit against Etsy? They have now suspended the final two of our Etsy shops. No explanation. No way to reach them. My shops are selling the same items by other sellers. I changed nothing over the last two years.

I’m a buyer and got permanently suspended for “for violating Etsy’s Terms of Use, specifically due to account practices, behavior, or activity that does not follow our policies”. I just bought stuff and have no idea what I did wrong

i really hate those scammers, Thank you so much for the informations

I am glad you are having success on Goimagine. I have had a difficult time with them. I have went 19 days now and getting nothing as far as the analytics go. All it says is no results which is hard for me to believe since I have always gotten steady traffic. Traffic may be low but has been steady. I have contacted them several times with no solutions, mostly all I get is sorry. This has happened on numerous times too and seems to only be getting worse. Might just be my opinion but it seems like they are more interested in getting sellers than they are getting buyers for the sellers they already have.

Hi Karla, I have one abandoned cart but I can't see the future buyer and the items , how can I see which I items are in the cart?

I just sent the application! We shall see. Used your referral code. Hope they accept it You said that We can connect let’s say Square and Shopify?

Love your videos, Updating my "Tags"

Do you respond publicly or is a private message?

Thanks, Kara. xo

Wonderful video, thanks! So I already started on my own lil' KZbin channel to promote my own Etsy shop, and am simply showing off my items via videos- but I probably need to fix the quality of some of the videos.

Brand Creators addressed this with a response directly from the Etsy legal team. You CAN use mockups when selling POD as long as it ACCURATELY REPRESENTS the product you are selling. So you cannot use a mockup photo of a Comfort Colors brand sweater when you are actually selling a generic brand sweater. It's misleading. People misrepresent like this all the time which ends with the customer filing item not as described cases. Make sure the photo you are using is of the product you sell, people! If you are selling a Bella + Canvas T-Shirt, use a photo of a Bella + Canvas T-Shirt!! A photographer took the pictures for you to use, it is up to you to ensure they accurately represent your product. So it is kind of a risk to use Ai generated mockups as these often look nothing like the actual product e.g. different collars, seams, sleeve lengths, inaccurate portayal of fit etc

Great changes! I’m going to resubscribe to MML and see if it can help me get more sales.

I have upgrade options on a few of my shipping profiles. But, customers can not see them and I can't get Etsy to understand and I can't see to fix it either. My listings are set for fixed prices with upgrade option. Can you help?

Amazing video :) Thank you:)

My account was not suspended but i have a huge drop of impressions, my impressions went from 3k a day to 90 overnight, whar should i do in this situation my account is 8 months old and i only pin 2 pins a day and i don't pin the same url often

I agree, total garbage. I am a victim of the creativity standards on a single item of mine that is handcrafted with raw materials by me. They deactivated my listing 17 minutes after i sold one but the sale remained valid. I would think that if my item violated policy, which it doesn’t, then the almost $200 sale would be invalid and should have been canceled. I make kinetic mobile sculptures and they take time and skill to make. I’ve put in a couple of requests for info without any response. I have my own website as well as Amazon Handmade. We need support! I’m a star seller and still can’t get support. AI Bots suck!

Just a guess ...that behavior might be the same as someone stealing your stuff. It could be for the safety if your board. I opted for other platforms to share rather than having more than one board. I have actually closed a board and the results are still on Google. Glad to hear you got it back.

So if i am selling wood products that i bought from Ali Baba and i do the personalizations myself, should i be in the “sourced by a seller” category?

I don't get how this happens while a lot of AI "art" is being posted there... I guess the bot is coded in a very particular way.

I cancelled Marmalead about a month ago because my Etsy store hasn't been selling anything for months. Now I will probably try it again.

It should be if you send an offer you immediately give payment info and have to pay if they accept just my two cents

Wow! I didn't know Pinterest suspended accounts like that!

And here I was, planning to start working on my Pinterest account next week! I guess it's better to wait until September? Or perhaps I'll focus on creating pins and I'll do the actual account setup and pinning when Pinterest calms down.

Thank you for the heads up, Kara. It's good to know that Pinterest has responsive customer service. BTW, I really like the blouse you're wearing & you look good in that color.

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Hi Kara! Ive been on etsy for a few months now. I'm wondering if sellers are able to post a link to their business facebook page within their listing descriptions or use their facebook handle in a photo(not a link) but sellers could search for it over on the other platform. Ive done research on this but it's still not clear to me. Thank you advance and thank you for your content!

I notice that you use periods in your title to separate each part. I currently do not use them, just kind of let them run together. Is using periods preferable? Thanks for this breakdown, it's so helpful!

Thank you forcthis info. The # signs in an excel column means the column is not wide enough.

Bring it on. Love learning about this. It improved some of my difficult listings already!

The “about” came from your title where you had: about 1.75” long