I Made HOW MUCH as a 17 y/o Etsy Sticker Shop Owner?! 😱 | How Much Money I Made Selling Stickers

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This is how much I made in my first year as a sticker shop owner selling on Etsy. I started Sticker Guru as a side hustle to make some extra money back in 2016. Now my sister and I have a 7-figure sticker business, and we're teaching you how to launch YOUR sticker shop. ⬇️
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[@AliBrownie]

I started my sticker shop back in 2015 and then quit because I was homeschooling my boys and pastoring a church and the business was growing and I couldn’t keep up with the growth. My boys are graduated now and I started back up. I really wish I would have kept it up because I could have made so much in that time. I guess I am thankful that I had that time with my boys though. That’s something I would have never gotten back. Hoping I can get that momentum again. Thanks for sharing your success! Gives me some hope. 💛

[@DiamondSplendid-yy7dg]

Thats the thing I want to make lots of money, to live by specially in my country its over the top in expenses

[@MichShopRat]

Thank you for helping this 65-yrar-old sticker novice. My plan is to have a sticker and magnet shop.

[@StickerGuru]

Good luck!

[@beadergrl]

Me too!!! 68 years old here😊

[@ritawilson267]

Very inspiring. I will definitely check out your webinar😊

[@StickerGuru]

Thank you for watching Rita!! 💖

[@Amy-vg6qr]

Thank you for another great video! Appreciate the transparency on financials. Hoping to focus on mental health awareness and travel.

[@malical90]

This is very inspiring. I was in the same boat as you when I was in high school and unfortunately, online sales were not common in my time. But I am very big into graphic design and create some of my own designs as well. I don't have a specific niche but would like to gain more customers and build a well-developed business with my own sticker shop. If you are doing any new webinars on enhancing business sales, please let me know.

[@AH-cw1pr]

Wow you're so inspiring! I only hope prosperity and success for you !!

[@StickerGuru]

Thank you!

[@debbiemize1229]

Very impressive. I had no idea that it would be that much. I love another video for other years. I bet your numbers are out of this world in this current year.

[@StickerGuru]

Thank you!! We've worked super hard to scale to where we're at now 😊🫶

[@almadigregorio9746]

Congratulations! That is amazing. I'm encouraging my 13 and 17 year old to start a sticker business. They have great artistic talent. This video is sure to help guide them on the possibilities. I would love to see how you're doing now. What did you graduate from?

[@adelaidepotma]

Hi I am 10 years old and starting my sticker shop this was very helpful thank you

[@StickerGuru]

Aww yay!! Good luck :)

[@nexlevelsounds]

Such a useful video! Thanks for making this. I Am pretty tech savvy I'd say I can do all of the technical stuff and I know you can make ample money if you make it appealing and go for it so it's affirmative to me at this point when I see people like you who are making the 💰 🤑 🙏🙏🙏👍🎈🎈🎈🎉🎉🎉 I'm opening my store soon!

[@sakshamchugh11]

what should i keep in mind while buying a printer for printing vinyl matte and gloss stickers

[@ashelymcw5194]

Thank you for sharing. This is very inspiring.

[@StickerGuru]

I appreciate you for watching! :) I feel like this is a topic no one really talks about within the sticker/planner community, so I wanted to just share some insight!

[@blossominvests]

Amazing indeed!!!🎉🎉🎉

[@StickerGuru]

Thank you so much!!

[@rhondarhodes1586]

How do you run the sales? They seemed to be when you had your highest sales. Did you know about the sale details so you could calculate

[@LIQUIDCIRCUIT7788]

Thank you for your transparency yes full-time Revenue plz thx...ditto on starting my own shop

[@StickerGuru]

Yay! Best of luck :)

[@antoinetteandrews7571]

Wow! Thought it would be less. Very impressive.

[@StickerGuru]

Thank you!! I appreciate your comment 🩷

[@carbonfibercreationswashin7213]

Number is better than I would have thought for 1st year on one platform

[@lifewithnia6982]

Thanks for sharing. Were you doing foiled stickers your first year?

[@StickerGuru]

Thanks for watching! We’ve been around for so long that foiled stickers didn’t even exist when I started. 😭 I think we introduced those to our shop in 2018

[@lifewithnia6982]

@@StickerGuru that’s amazing!!!

[@smokeyvisionscraftsllc]

That is wonderful.

[@StickerGuru]

Thank you 🩷

[@MmKay01]

thanks for sharing❤

[@StickerGuru]

Thanks for watching!! :)

[@jaimieevette3962]

I’m so impressed with your success!!! Congratulations 🎉 Do you think the sticker business is saturated now?

[@StickerGuru]

it's saturated, but we don't think it's too saturated to start a sticker shop. Sticker shop sales are only projected to increase in 2024! There are ways to stand out.

[@jaimieevette3962]

@@StickerGuru 😊 thank you

[@lisamitchell2088]

Inspiring affirmations, animals and old cartoons

[@tabithashipley]

Definitely amazing! I would love to know how you have continued to grow numbers wise, I am really thinking about doing this. How do you do your designs? Do you make them yourself or do you use AI or something?!

[@StickerGuru]

We have definitely continued to grow! We'll be posting a new video soon on my 2nd year in business! For the designs, we commission art from Etsy and Creative Market. Here are some freebies we have to get you started! www.bigplansacademy.com/freebies

[@tabithashipley]

@@StickerGuru I would love to take your course but I just cannot afford it. I already aince watching all this have the fear and the doubt creeping in and of course people around me shooting my ideas / dream down. I dont have the resources to fund getting started....so....

[@StickerGuru]

No worries! We will be here when you are ready! :)

[@cinarynroll]

@@StickerGuruI can also not afford it. I think it’s a little pricey for what you are providing. I would love to learn from you but not at steep price. Hope you reconsider,❤

[@BellaBeeBaby]

Do you have any videos on how you actually create your stickers? Or draw them

[@StickerGuru]

We teach everything you need to know about how we create stickers here! www.bigplansacademy.com/creating-stickers-made-easy

[@pn183]

Wow I am so inspired!! Did you have an insta or other platform to promote your shop or did you pay for ads to gain customers?

[@StickerGuru]

Just instagram! We had a facebook group for a while too, but ig is definitely the way to go (for our demographic).

[@pn183]

@@StickerGuru amazing! I don’t have an insta for stickers but do you recommend growing following first or just get started with ads on Etsy?

[@user-lu4yz3fy5r]

Thanks for sharing, I’m curious to ask if this is sales or profit after costs?

[@StickerGuru]

Sales :)

[@alenaadler8242]

Way to go! This gives me hope it could work for me. May I ask what you studied in college, out of curiosity, and whether any of it specifically helped your business in the long run, or was more a life experience that helped you generally? Or none of the above?

[@StickerGuru]

Appreciate you for watching! I studied computer science in college - so completely unrelated to running a business. I also didn’t really have any experience prior since I’ve never had an type of retail or customer service job. I think what helped give me an edge was being knowledgeable about social media (youtube & ig, and content creation in general) and using that to my advantage.

[@alenaadler8242]

@@StickerGuru That makes total sense! I know I've got to up my social media game big time!!

[@terryreynolds13]

I wouldn't mind knowing how many stickers you had on etsy during your first months or did you just have samples there. If so, how many samples? Were these all ordered and then printed? Thanks and will be looking to your webinar. Good on you at 17!

[@StickerGuru]

We've always been a ready to ship shop, so we have inventory ready to ship at all times. I think I started with like 3 listings in my shop. As long as you are consistently releasing new design, it shouldn't matter how many items you start selling with!

[@beadergrl]

What is your etsy shop name?

[@johnchan9392]

Very impressive numbers! 👍

[@StickerGuru]

Thanks so much for watching!

[@rhklm]

That’s really good for your first year! Did you design your own stickers? Also, did you make them at home yourself or get them professionally made?

[@StickerGuru]

Yes! I was purchasing art and using it to design my own stickers. I was making them at home myself using a Silhouette.

[@rhklm]

@@StickerGuruThank you for the info! I have a cricut but it’s so finicky and gives me a lot of trouble so I’m thinking of switching to a silhouette.

[@stickysteph]

@@rhklm the silhouette is just as finicky. I purchased a cameo 4 and it's like 20% of the time it cuts wrong for literally no apparent reason.

[@ThamArtist]

@@rhklm Hi! I just wanted to reach out and give you a few tips which made my Cricut have a success rate of 99,99%. First priority: make sure the light situation is exact the same as when you calibrated your Cricut. And try to keep it always like that. So if your room is with open curtains, you will never have the same light situation as you're dependent of how much light the weather gives. Sometimes it also seems to get an handicap when calibrating, if you see after 3 calibrations that it keeps cutting too much to whatever side, try to set it to a number or letter a bit too much to the opposite side, for like 1 point, try to see what the distance is and based on that try to pick a number/letter in the calibration menu. this helped me so much.. If you move the table your Cricut is standing on, you already might need to calibrate again. If you accidentally walk against your desk or table pretty hard, you might already need to recalibrate! Also when your mat is used a lot, it changes, the side gets bend which makes the position of your mat be inconsistent. This makes it harder for the Cricut to work as it's supposed to. Also, when you buy a new mat, check out the result, you might need to recalibrate! When you bought a new cutting knife, check the result as well, you might need to recalibrate! Also, when you;re using print and cut, try to stay as still as possible when the Cricut is scanning, even a heavy truck passing through the street could interfer with the scanning process. As the vibrations could be pretty strong. Hope this will help! Basically, if everything is the same as the day you had that great calibration result, you will keep getting that result over and over again. It took me almost a year to understand this machine but I think I do now, if you have any questions feel free to ask!

[@char4brownie]

can you give a rough estimate of what you bought for this in your first year? I'm concerned that if i start a sticker business at my age, i won't pay off the supplies i would need to buy.

[@StickerGuru]

check out our “5 items you need to start a sticker shop” video! :)

[@letscappuccino9001]

You did great, never expected such a high number! Can you remember with how many different sticker sheet you opened the shop?

[@StickerGuru]

Thank you! To be honest, I don't really remember. Maybe 3 sticker kits? I don't think that number is too important, as long as you are continuously releasing new stuff!

[@niebiesky]

congratulations is it revenue or income? Is it pure profit? 30 thousand dollars?

[@StickerGuru]

Just revenue! I think my expenses & fees came out to be around 10%

[@elcee8]

Nice. I thought it would be less especially the first year.

[@StickerGuru]

You're still correct! Our first year has been our lowest year.

[@kingsagenda]

Do you charge for shipping?

[@StickerGuru]

Yup!

[@nikkibutler6187]

❤❤❤

[@StickerGuru]

Appreciate the love!! 🥰

[@charmsbyhern]

If you wouldn't mind me asking, are your parents supportive of you and your sister running the sticker shop full time as career choice? You girls are so successful now but I get the feeling that they must have high expectation of you getting a job at some corporate therefore they had wanted to you to have good grades.

[@StickerGuru]

We actually talk alllll about this on our podcast episode. They were hesitant at first 🙈 But once they saw how well it could do they came around! open.spotify.com/episode/1a9wj9CCcVWDipK4IypnCO?si=lWpIbXOHQ5aVUROEiA0U3A

[@charmsbyhern]

@@StickerGuru awesome I will go listen to this episode!!

[@jennykay780]

That can’t be your net. I grossed around $45k last year and after all fees, postage, and supplies I walked away with $23k.

[@StickerGuru]

This was back in 2016!

[@artsylady3187]

yes it was obviously her GROSS.....so he prob. got half of that

[@StickerGuru]

My expenses were around 10% of my gross. But this was 7 years ago, pre-inflation & when etsy fees were much lower. Your expenses also heavily depend on how much you price your products. Not to mention, I bootstrapped the heck out of my sticker business in the beginning, I kept my expenses as cheap as possible - even if that meant sacrificing quality.

[@gaston.]

@@StickerGuru I was curious about this.. thanks for sharing. Those are really good numbers. I sell digital media on Envato.. although there is no material costs the greedy owners take close to 50% of my sales. No wonder they are almost billionaires. The saturation has killed market so am looking at this. Your videos are very helpful.

[@Kyleology]

I hope you paid your mother for the work she did.

[@StickerGuru]

We don't. She's happy to help and often encourages me to ask for help when I need it. :)

[@dumbellcrunches9049]

🤍🤍🤍

[@user-MeeshAbdullah]

You’re an awesome and wonderful person thank you very much 🤍🤍🤍🤍