How I Scaled a New Etsy Shop to $91,894.12 in 3 Months

[@danaetalerico1194]

So inspiring! Me over here being excited that I have 32 orders this month so far in my new shop, 2.5 months old 😬

[@TaylorPOD]

32 orders in a brand-new shop in just 2.5 months is an incredible achievement-seriously, that’s something to be proud of. Everyone’s journey looks different, and those early wins are such a huge part of building something amazing. You’re clearly on the right track, and the progress you’re making now is laying the foundation for even bigger things ahead. Keep going-you’re doing great!

[@danaetalerico1194]

@ thank you! This is my second shop and I got sales way faster than my 1st shop. My 1st shop has 161 sales and is more niche specific, while my new shop is more general! Took about 6 months to get things going in my first shop and my second shop saw sales the first month! 73 total in my new one in 2.5 months!

[@ChrisLKF]

Wow nice job! If you don't mind how many listings you've got? I've had my shop for 2 months and i have got 5 orders to this day

[@danaetalerico1194]

@ I have 200 listings in both of my shops.

[@samanthawilson2091]

I am OBSESSED with this video, Taylor!! I've been following your journey since the very beginning and find your super inspirational and motivates me in my own POD journey, as I started my shop in 2024. Congratulations on the success on this new shop and can't wait to see how it grows!

[@madilynlerow4989]

We’re your products personalized? and if so how did you keep up with the order volume. Also in my own personal experience once my shop scales quickly I don’t have the means to upfront the money to printify for the first week or so. How did you front the $40,000? Loved this content please do more like this !

[@Dr_GraysGhost_420]

What sucks is like how I had ads that amounted to around 100 orders so I made 100 orders for Etsy.. so Etsy can make all my money. Etsy shouldn’t charge us so much for advertising on THEIR website when they’re already making enough off every other charge.

[@KayDejaVu]

Ues. Afs will cost money. How much were ads? How many days did you run ads for? You don’t need ads for every item either. I’ve used ads and think it takes time due to all the other ads running.

[@Dr_GraysGhost_420]

@ It was pretty much for one item that was selling really good. I kept increasing the ad budget and it was selling a lot more than I was spending on the ad but then sells stopped but it kept pegging out that $50 😂 I sold $2000 worth of items and spent $1000 on ads so that’s where I was like “we’re getting screwed here”. $1000 worth of time and effort all went to Etsy so that’s where I could make $1000. There’s 2 ways of looking at it tho. I could have not sold anything 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@helengren9349]

We'll, greed 🤑 has NO limits! 🤢🤷

[@Dr_GraysGhost_420]

@ Right! What Etsy should do is say “Hey, we will just take 60% of your money and advertise for ya”

[@agl5132]

I was with Etsy when they began. What I've noticed is the the fees go up everytime they add more celebrities to their site. These celebrities aren't "curating collections" for free. The sellers are paying for them.

[@fsk760]

Wow I needed this type of breakdown so bad! So many questions answered through this well thought out and explained video!

[@mihamatavz5566]

Tnx for the transparency of all the costs. Not many PoD youtubers do so and they like to hide the numbers... earned new sub from me!

[@mayrag6019]

🤣 you are hilarious, you made me laugh so hard when you said the higher shipping price didn't affect Visibility. Thanks for the video, learned a lot, great info.

[@LMCEK]

Congratulations Taylor! 🎉🎉🎉 Such an amazing story! Thanks for sharing!

[@TaylorPOD]

Thank you so much! 🥰🎉

[@LS-ph5qt]

That's absolutely AMAZING Taylor! Job well done, you ROCK girl!!!

[@TaylorPOD]

Ahh thank you!! 🥹✨ You're the best-your support means everything! 💕

[@CallumMasseyPOD]

impressive - well done, looking forward to future updates on this store!

[@TaylorPOD]

Thank you so much!

[@teddoro]

Finally really interesting video about Etsy shop in my feed. Thank you so much for sharing and inspiration ❤

[@Elena100490]

You rock girl 🎉 one of my favourite POD KZbinrs. Congratulations on your success ❤

[@TheCreamBox]

so informative video specially when you provide screenshots along with. Thank you Taylor :)

[@CindySimpson-h8o]

Congratulations Taylor! So happy for you! And yes, this was quite inspiring and I have several notes to follow up on. I hope you have a blessed week!

[@TaylorPOD]

Thank you so much! 🥰 I’m so glad you found it inspiring-and I love that you’re taking notes! Wishing you an amazing and productive week too! 💕✨

[@mr.chompers3026]

Hi Taylor, I'm a new Etsy seller and started in July. After trial and error, my revenue shot up to $13k in November, and I've been consistently making $1k daily for the past two weeks. I've raised prices by 40% to slow orders, but I’m struggling to cover upfront costs since Etsy payouts are delayed. Any advice on this? Could raising prices this much hurt my shop?

[@ss9436]

You can change your Etsy payouts to daily instead of weekly, if you haven't done so already. Raise your prices slightly and you will likely still get sales, maybe not quite as many but you'll at least be making a bit more. (I've been an Etsy seller for 10yrs) Best of luck!

[@TaylorPOD]

Hi there! First off, congrats on your amazing growth-$13k in November and $1k daily is incredible! 🎉👏 The advice from the other comment is spot-on-switching your Etsy payouts to daily (if you haven’t already) can definitely help with cash flow. On top of that, using a business credit card is often a great solution for busy shops like yours. The credit limit gives you a bit more flexibility to cover upfront costs. If you’re already using a business credit card and are hitting your limit, I’d recommend reaching out to your card provider. Explain your situation and ask for a limit increase-it’s pretty common for businesses experiencing rapid growth to need more room. You’re doing amazing-keep it up!

[@jkgayarox]

This is SO inspiring, wow!

[@JayBombayOfficial]

Hi! I'm Jeff, I have the exact same problem. I've started my Etsy shop the last week of September 2024 and made my first sale within a week. Sales were going great, but since December it has skyrocketed to now having 50-60 orders daily, meaning I'm paying a lot of costs upfront and my 'available for deposit' stays on 0$. I was paid for november sales the 2nd of December ($700 of the 3k net profit I made that month), but there is $11k+ in current balance and somehow it is not getting ready for deposit. I have my pay out set up weekly, but I did not receive a pay out this week since there is $0 to deposit as of now. I called with Etsy support but that didn't help. When I check my CSV from mid November sales, it said "funds will be available 9th of December', but they are not available. Now when I check again it says they will be avaialble on 10th of December, and like this it keeps going on... Do you have any idea what to do? Is this normal? I'm making a lot of profit but somehow it is not getting to my bank account which I need to keep selling to more customers. I'm already raising my prices slightly because I'll be having a huge cash flow problem in 1-2 weeks, especially during the holiday season and this was perfect to get loads of orders and reviews to continue to build my store. Also it is just very scary to me that I'm dumping all my money into products to sell to customers and that it just keeps sitting there without me getting a hold of it.

[@madilynlerow4989]

I am having this SAME problem. Contacted etsy and they have a 90 day reserve period for new sellers that make it so you have to wait almost 45 days to get money from a previous purchase. I’ve just had to invest in new credit cards but unfortunately my Etsy shop growth is very limited to my credit limits. I’m hopeful once the reserve period gets lifted after 90 days payouts will be much much quicker.

[@brittanyvarengo9671]

Awesome!!! I may have to watch this a second time. So many good nuggets of information.

[@TaylorPOD]

Thank you!! 🙌 So glad you found it helpful!

[@staciphelps4034]

Go you! Very inspiring!! I’ve had my shop a bit over a year and have somewhat backed myself into a corner with soooo much personalization! Are your signs non-personalized? In 2025 I need to pivot a bit and resonate with my customers without so much customization! Thanks for this video…clearly there’s hope for us all for Etsy success!🎉

[@alyssamoulayianis-rq1xl]

I have a hard time with creating a workflow for creating the title, descriptions, and tags. Can you do a video going through your process of how you do that efficiently? Do you have templates that you copy and paste? Do you use some of the same tags?

[@RebeccaLeBlanc-x9f]

Very inspiring to hear! Since you’re selling signs for events, are they personalized? I think I remember you saying that you stay away from that in your other store?

[@spiritworldu]

yes, i’d love to hear about this as well, @taylorpod

[@TracyEliasonTracyLane]

I’m curious, how did you get your customers to buy multiple items? Did you have a whole collection in one listing? Great video, thanks for sharing!!

[@TaylorPOD]

Great question, thank you! 😊 For this shop, I’ve been organizing sections by specific events so when customers visit the storefront, everything they need is right there in front of them. I also like to include a listing image that highlights other related products-they’re more likely to grab a few things when they see how it all ties together!

[@mizuki0599]

​@@TaylorPOD How do you get listing images with different products? I have been struggling with the thumbnails and mock ups. Where do you find professional looking ones from?

[@TracyEliasonTracyLane]

@@TaylorPOD Thank you!

[@MelePikula]

Could you recommend what are some complimentary printify products to signs?

[@AMacDonald-x4i]

So grid abd motivating, thank you Taylor.

[@valeriezabala3102]

How do you handle Customer is at order and the products come from different print providers. Do you have some sort of explanation in your messages or how is that handled?

[@barbra429]

Good question.

[@TaylorPOD]

Yes, if an order includes products from different print providers, I just let the customer know that their items will arrive separately. I’ve done this in both of my shops and haven’t had any issues-customers are usually totally fine with it as long as you communicate clearly.

[@flygirl2447]

Happy for your success. What worries me about Etsy is that I have seen too many heartbreaking stories lately of shops being suspended or closed for no reason. Etsy makes the rules, which dictates how much I need to charge so I can pay all the fees, whether I need to offer free shipping, where in the sea of thousands my shop will show up, etc. I wouldn’t own it. Whereas I would own my shop if it was my website. I understand people start there because of traffic. But how scary! I don’t need to put in a ton of effort and time for the risk of running into such headaches. As an experienced seller there, I’d love to know your thoughts. Is this fear legit?

[@stacyosborn4537]

I’m not fully through the video, but I am wondering….So have Signs been the best selling product?? Or did you find another product??

[@TaylorPOD]

I started with signs, and they’ve definitely been one of my top sellers. Once those started doing well, I added additional products to complement them. 😊

[@lisadonelan5654]

Congratulations! That's awesome Taylor. Question. Do you tie just one bank account to both your Etsy stores? Or keep them separate?

[@Sophies_Voice]

What was the event that you designed for that really took off?

[@TaylorPOD]

Thanks for asking! 😊 To keep this shop’s identity private for now, I’m not sharing the exact event, but the events I started designing for are all mentioned in the video-hope that helps!

[@redridgegardening]

Really nice transparency. Great video 👌

[@TaylorPOD]

Thank you! 😊 I’m glad you enjoyed it-I always try to keep it real!

[@stacyosborn4537]

Yay! Been waiting! I know you’re a busy woman!

[@TaylorPOD]

Ahh thank you for your patience! 🥹💕 I’m so glad you’re here-busy, yes, but always excited to share with you all!

[@baref0ot455]

Were your products personalized at all, i would be afraid I couldn’t keep up with the demand to get that much volume in a month! How did you manage to keep up?

[@mxraven]

Super inspirational! I would love to hear how your shipping is set up when selling so many different products and getting many orders for multiple different items. Are your profit margins just large enough that you don't need to worry about losing money to shipping on those kinds of orders? Or do you set up your shipping profiles to charge high shipping on all items, even in a combination order when Etsy uses the 'additional item' shipping cost? Hopefully that makes sense.

[@saratheedingnerd]

Love your videos, Taylor! I am thinking about starting a second POD shop, what would be the best time of year to start a new one? Thanks!

[@Healthylife782]

That’s amazing! Do you sell custom products? And where do you get your mock ups?

[@valeriezabala3102]

That was an incredible video. Thank you!

[@TaylorPOD]

Thank you so much! 🥰

[@Camil0TheDragon]

Heyllo! How were you able to cover the costs of purchases? Were you using a credit card?

[@caroltz8220]

Thank you so much for sharing such good information. I have a question for you (or any other Etsy seller who might know)... if you sell different items with the same design, can those be bundled in one listing (to save listing fees)? In other words, if I sell a mug, notebook, wall art, etc with the same design, can those be put together in a listing? (With a drop-down of course to choose what they want to purchase, not saying I'm selling them as a group). I'm doing POD through Printify. I think I know logically how I would do it, but it only seems to allow me to put variations (size, color, etc) instead of different products. Does someone with experience know, is this not feasible? Do I just need to do separate listings? I would be so grateful to anybody who could guide me. Thank you so much.

[@TaylorPOD]

Unfortunately, Etsy’s variation options are limited to things like size, color, or other attributes of a single product type. So, you wouldn’t be able to bundle completely different product types (like mugs, notebooks, wall art, etc.) under one listing using a dropdown for selection. For POD with Printify, you’d need to create separate listings for each product type with the same design. While it does mean more listing fees, it allows you to fully optimize each product’s title, tags, and description for search visibility, which can help drive more sales. I’ve also found it’s actually better to have fewer options in a listing anyway. Too many choices can lead to ‘analysis paralysis,’ where customers feel overwhelmed and don’t make a decision, and I’ve noticed it tends to lower conversion rates. Separate listings can help keep things simple and focused, which usually works out better in the long run!

[@crazygorgeous365]

Bravo!!! Very inspiring!!!!Do you or anyone have any tips on best hex code colors to use that print vibrant or print as close to the hex shade as possible? ----Printify does have the option where you can view in CMYK mode, however, I have found, on some, the color to even be way off in the CMYK preview than what is actually printed. It concerns me, that I might sell a product that doesn’t come close to the colors in the mock.

[@iyin2122]

new mic 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@christinasmith6721]

You go girl! 🎉

[@jkgayarox]

Woohoo! Congratulations! Were these customised / personalised products?

[@healthyformypurpose]

Thank you. This is helpful. Question(s): I thought you said you weren't paying shipping fees 4:20? Did you reconsider and start paying? If so, what made you change your strategy.

[@TaylorPOD]

Great question, and I’m glad you found the video helpful! 😊 Just to clarify-free shipping has never been part of my strategy in this shop. At the 4:20 mark, I was explaining how Etsy mentioned that shops charging over $6 for shipping could face limited visibility. Since the product I’m selling is more expensive to ship, my shipping cost is higher than that. I decided to stick with my current pricing structure, and I haven’t seen any negative impact on visibility despite the higher shipping price. Hope that clears it up!

[@NancySmith-cv9no]

Hello Taylor thank you for sharing and encouraging us. I have a question about having the funds to cover the printify costs when sales grow this fast. Did you have to have at least $20000 available funds to make sure you could pay printify so that the product would be shipped? Thanks

[@IMAGEVAIN]

Amazing! Super inspiring 🙌

[@lulual2047]

Can you explain more how to use Etsy adds to our advantage and how to double down on something that is working!

[@stacyosborn4537]

I think she has an Ad’s video and if memory serves …I think she was on Hannah Gardener’s podcast about Ad’s. I hope that helps 😊

[@lulual2047]

@ thanks I saw that interview but I don’t remember if they talked about how to actually use the adds to our advantage! Like how to see the graph and go from there I run add on my shop but I do have on all my listing! Not just few. And don’t really understand how to use them to my advantage! Just need a bit help with them.

[@stacyosborn4537]

@ me too lol…im scared to waste $$$ I know Hannah talks ads a lot and I think she had an interview with Simply Shawna on Ads and she may even have a video on her own as well. They all say new stores or beginners shouldn’t use ads u til they have organic sales. Search Etsy ads may be helpful. There’s another podcaster Lizzy sell stuff (it’s for Etsy-I can’t remember the real name), but she talks everything for all sellers and I think she has some info for ad strategies for Etsy. However, they say you shouldn’t use ads to get fast cash bc that won’t always work-but use more for testing…and once established sales but more for data and analytics so it’s really hands on the information is why they use it to see what designs, views, keywords to use or not, ect. Maybe look at their Ad videos since they are Etsy sellers-I’m sure Cassiy, Heather studio, Hannah E. simply mandy POD has 2-3 free whole courses for Etsy and Shopify (FREE) better FREE and very through courses than anything I’ve paid for!!! These are all POD I’m sure there’s a lot for digital sellers too! I’m excited for you! Good luck

[@TaylorPOD]

I actually touch on this in a lot of my ad videos on my channel, so definitely check those out for more details. It’s also something I dive deep into in my Plan, Scale, Profit program, where I break down how to use Etsy ads effectively and double down on what’s working.

[@shonahall1689]

Wow congratulations! Some time would you be able to do.a video on how to understand data to be avle to act on it?

[@aed0nis]

I learned something. Good video.

[@Jojorocks23]

Did you say up to $500 a day for advertising? So for how many days did you do that? Thank you, very interesting.

[@TaylorPOD]

Yes, I do have my max budget set to $500 per day, but I’ve only been spending around $200-$300 per day on average. I’ve been running ads consistently since October 1st, and that’s been working well for me so far!

[@rakheeharidas7720]

What do u consider a good CTR on a listing in your ads?

[@DanonHill]

Great video!! But one question: Does that mean you had to pay 75.000 $ in advance? Since Etsy pays only about 3 weeks after the money was received from the buyer. Would really appreciate an answer, or maybe a video how to manage the upfront costs with the 3 week time delay of Etsy. My shop is starting to take off a little and I have to pay so much upfront… that’s something nobody tells you about :/

[@BoxerlovinMama]

Most sellers use a cash back credit card. You have approximately 30 days to pay the balance and by then Etsy has paid you.

[@DanonHill]

​@@BoxerlovinMama Ah I see. Thanks for the info!

[@lesliet.4157]

Im so frustrated i don't know what to do if i should give up 😢 no sales i don't have the budget to spend a lot of money on ads i have more than 120 listing

[@angelover1]

Hi Taylor, do you have any assistants? Even with hello custom you still need to manually submit each order, I was just curious if you do that yourself manually or have someone help you with that piece of it. We are trying to figure out things with our shop as we grow 😅

[@PowerofPODwRileigh]

Woah! Congrats. Were your events holiday specific or more general? Were your listings personalized? If so, how did you keep up with all the personalization?

[@ishasharma8809]

Hey Taylor, with profit tree will it still calculate the exact profit even if I do manual order processing because I start my listings in Etsy and not printify. So I won’t have any SKU’s etc.

[@SiryujinGoml]

Was that ad budget mainly going to your winning listing or to getting sales quicker on your new listings?

[@TaylorPOD]

I actually spread my ad budget across all of my listings. I don’t use ads to push sales but instead as a tool to gather data.

[@mymixedmediaart3797]

I have a question: can you tweak the design on your item and uploaded again? I have high views and clicks but no sales on one of my items and I think is for a small thing I should fix in my design and this would improve my chances of getting a sale but I don't know if I can do this. I haven't have any sales for this design. What are your thoughts? Thank you for the great information.

[@BoxerlovinMama]

You can certainly tweak your design and or change your mockups. Do not change any part of your SEO.

[@davidspyres]

Good for you!

[@TaylorPOD]

Thank you!!

[@rashelginzburg]

Very impressive! Good job! Question - how do you open another store? Do you need to register with a different email?

[@TaylorPOD]

Thank you so much! 😊 Yes, if you want to open another store on Etsy, you’ll need to register it with a different email address.

[@ishasharma8809]

Hey Taylor, awesome video! Do you participate in the free shipping over $35. I have and whenever I do multiple orders I end up loosing profits.

[@denisemurphy3831]

What is the price of your course?

[@TaylorPOD]

The Plan, Scale, Profit program is actually part of my community, The POD Connection. When the community reopens on January 1st, it’ll be $67/month to join and includes access to the program along with a bunch of other great resources.

[@badabingit8629]

yeah I gonna need to subscribe.. 🙂

[@ScarlettO323]

Sheeeooooot thats impressive and inspirational XO

[@TaylorPOD]

Thank you so much!! 🥰 That means a lot-so glad you found it inspiring!

[@LennyYT]

Doesn't just copying titles and tags makes it a duplicate? Can you share your naming structure example?

[@T-or4vb]

What is your shop name?

[@BlondieLou85]

Where can the plan scale profit price be found please? All i can see is that irs free with a membership

[@TaylorPOD]

The Plan, Scale, Profit program is included with membership to The POD Connection, which will be $67/month when doors reopen on January 1st. If you’re on the waitlist, don’t worry-I’ll be sending out all the details to everyone on the waitlist as we get closer to the launch.

[@BlondieLou85]

@@TaylorPOD THANK YOU

[@LennyYT]

How many products you added weekly?

[@TaylorPOD]

I actually share this in the video! In October, I was listing about 5-10 new products a week, but in November, I increased that quite a bit to really build momentum. The shop currently has around 230 listings, so it’s been a steady process of adding more over time!

[@tomsetberg4746]

As soon as you see that 6700$ ad cost O_O

[@southernbellcooks5175]

That's a massive amount of sales in three months. Congratulations! You say your revenue is $91000+, but what is YOUR profit? Would you please reveal this to us?

[@TaylorPOD]

Thank you so much! 😊 I actually share the profit in the video-it was about $29K.

[@yangchen7982]

Hey buddy!!

[@femtheogens]

omg girl $93 in 3 months

[@makaila1177]

Do you post the name of your etsy shop anywhere? It'd be interesting to see your products and not just hear about them.

[@Life_of_John]

I got lost!

[@kris4897]

Nice.

[@beverlytheartist425]

I spend a couple hundred a month on Ads with zero sales.

[@handszuzei]

YOU DID THIS DURING THE ELECTION. I ALSO MADE A SHOP FOR USA ELECTION AND MADE IT.

[@TaylorPOD]

That’s awesome-congrats on your shop! 🎉 My shop wasn’t focused on the election, but it’s amazing to hear about your success during that time!