Very helpful video. I would be curious about the other side of this: your experience actually selling through etsy and everything that happens and your process when someone places an order. Thanks for sharing!
@EmbIazon10 ай бұрын
First, great video. One thing I’d recommend, though, is on quantity. You say you put yours at 99. And you don’t have any actual stock because it’s all made to order. What I try to do is list the quantity at a number I’m confident printing and shipping in the allocated shipping time frame I set if the full quantity happened to be purchased at once. While it’s highly unlikely, if 99 people would purchase your listing all on the same day, you’d essentially be screwed because you’d have no way of fulfilling all the orders within your allocated time frame. The renewal fee is .20 cents. And if you want to avoid that, if you see your quantity getting low, you can always manually update it before the stock drops to zero, which avoids the renewal fee.
@theglowcloud221510 ай бұрын
Same here. I set my stock of a particular item at 12, for instance, so even if all 12 sell in a day I can still ship them all within 3 days.
@macymakes3d10 ай бұрын
Thank you for this! I hadn't even thought of that
@3D-Print-Timelapse-video2 ай бұрын
Very helpful with sitting up my own business in Australia 🇦🇺... Thankyou
@ewasteredux10 ай бұрын
You are amazingly enterprising, and you are a great teacher as well. Thank you so much!
@macymakes3d10 ай бұрын
Thank you so much :) and thanks for watching!
@3Dwesley10 ай бұрын
Newly discovered channel, added to favorites!
@pooppyybuhhole8 ай бұрын
Just found your channel earlier this week and have already binged all your videos! Excellent content and it’s cool to see how you run your business.
@johnbuck518110 ай бұрын
Just found this channel. Like the thorough descriptions. Thanks!
@PixelForgeLab21 күн бұрын
Thank you !
@vinaymieux10 ай бұрын
Love your content. I am starting a new 3D printing business in Toronto, Canada. I am tempted to copy your idea for the nameplates for teachers but wouldn't want to sell in the same geographic region that you ship to out of respect for your content.
@goatelope75395 ай бұрын
Thank you
@sergeipro364210 ай бұрын
The best video! Thank you
@Muski-Tech10 ай бұрын
Great video, thanks for the content!
@PaulLucas768 ай бұрын
Well done on the channel growth and etsy store growth. I like the font on the name plate in your video what's the name of that font please if you don't mind me asking.
@Dave_D.10 ай бұрын
I've got ideas for things that I can print that ppl might buy, but since I only have 1 printer (and a slower one at that), I don't feel like trying to make an Etsy store would work - in the rare case I got 10 orders, I can't make them fast enough (and I'm not sure it's worth pre-printing and getting stuck w/ inventory)....do you have any other ideas where one could start on a small scale? If I could sell $xxxx amount, I would then add a faster Bambu type w/ the multi color capabilities like you are using. Exploring local possibilities, but I'm in a pretty rural area where ppl aren't into buying such things regularly. LOL Thanks!
@beardeddude916810 ай бұрын
So do you have a rate for print by amount of fil, weight, or print time? If a longer name is thinner that is why I'm asking. How are you liking your bambus? I'm running ender style printers and looking at that option.
@macymakes3d10 ай бұрын
No I keep the same price for every nameplate regardless of the number of letters. Most of my customers know nothing about 3d printing and that would be too confusing to them. I LOVE the bambus. They’re total game changers. Faster and better quality. I ran 2 anycubic vypers before and these are 3 times faster than those with perfect prints every time.
@markmahowald786610 ай бұрын
what are your thoughts on etsy as a platform? ive heard some people say their fees and costs are going nuts.
@macymakes3d10 ай бұрын
The fees are high, but it's also a marketplace, and without that, I'd have zero sales, so I can't really complain. If you can figure out the right keywords and actually get your products seen by the right people then I think there's definitely some good money to be made there. I also think it's a good starting place, learning how to create products, make sales, use their marketing and shipping, and then eventually work towards moving your customers off Etsy to your own website.
@jacobcreid9 ай бұрын
Hey just curious, are you using ironing on the top layer of these?
@macymakes3d9 ай бұрын
Nope just normal printing
@car_tar38828 ай бұрын
Have you considered selling just the design? Many young people have printers nowadays and some school districts have a gift limit of 25 dollars
@macymakes3d8 ай бұрын
I haven't, but that's a really good idea!
@Jesse_QualityFamilyDesignsEtsy9 ай бұрын
Hey Macy!! Big fan of your setup with the Bambu Labs 3d printers, and Etsy! Looks like your are doing great! Soooooo, I am in the process of setting up my Etsy shop today. My shop will be product from both my cnc machine and my Creality CR-10S Pro 3d printer. Don't worry, I don't plan to target teachers. Rumor has it that there is a referral link from an Etsy seller that both the seller and the new shop get 40 free listings. Can you confirm that? If so, I'd like you help support you in that way and also I wouldn't mind the 40 free listings either. Would you be willing to share your referral link if that is a thing? Thank you, Jesse PS Thank you for your informative videos!
@macymakes3d9 ай бұрын
Hi! Here is my referral link. I'll also post in in my channel description. Thank you so much for thinking of this and supporting me. etsy.me/47XzLk1
@Jesse_QualityFamilyDesignsEtsy9 ай бұрын
@@macymakes3dyou’re very welcome! I posted shortly after my comment, but I’ll have to see tomorrow if I can still use it. That would be awesome if somehow it still worked for both of us! Either way, by showing your link and talking about it a tiny bit, I’m sure that’ll help you too!! Or if all fails, I just become a teacher and get a nameplate from you! 🤪
@indianaholmes796010 ай бұрын
You have a beautiful smile. Contents a1. Keep killing it.
@7dedlysins19310 ай бұрын
Where do you order you cardboard boxes(BULK)?
@macymakes3d10 ай бұрын
I buy them on Amazon. I can get packs of 50 for around $40.
@7dedlysins19310 ай бұрын
@@macymakes3d Thanks
@guythejedi10 ай бұрын
can you share your Etsy page please? Thanks.
@macymakes3d10 ай бұрын
Just search MacyMakes3d on etsy, it's the same as my youtube.