Etsy selling

[JMugs]

I did very well out of Etsy, but 50% went to the US, this has now all but stopped.
So verdict.... was good, now not good.

Janners

[webtrekker]

I thought I'd check out Redbubble and, in the 16 months since I began, I have made an average of £35.23 a month for a SINGLE mug design.

So, that one-off design has gone a long way towards paying for a box of mugs every month and I have had no work to do.

I'm considering expanding on my designs now but don't know if they'll be as popular as the first one.

Another way of looking at it is that Redbubble has more than paid for all my scrapped mugs over the last 16 months.

[Customprintwales]

I might give Redbubble a try to see how it goes.

I like zazzle because it has a lot of organic traffic already. It hold the license for print on demand for a lot of well known companies such as Disney, Marvel and sporting teams. That helps bring traffic in to the site.

But if it doesn't cost anything to list on redbubble it's worth a go.

£35 a month does not sound a lot but if you have 5 or 6 good selling design that can also be carried over to other products such as t-shirts and phone cases then it soon starts to bring in a useful amount.

Excluding the big names on zazzle I know a couple of people in the US who are making $5000 a month on their designs and they don't do a lot or spend much to promote. They have about 150 designs in different dimensions that they make available across the entire range of products that zazzle offer.

[webtrekker]

I might give Redbubble a try to see how it goes.

I like zazzle because it has a lot of organic traffic already. It hold the license for print on demand for a lot of well known companies such as Disney, Marvel and sporting teams. That helps bring traffic in to the site.

But if it doesn't cost anything to list on redbubble it's worth a go.

£35 a month does not sound a lot but if you have 5 or 6 good selling design that can also be carried over to other products such as t-shirts and phone cases then it soon starts to bring in a useful amount.

Excluding the big names on zazzle I know a couple of people in the US who are making $5000 a month on their designs and they don't do a lot or spend much to promote. They have about 150 designs in different dimensions that they make available across the entire range of products that zazzle offer.

Yep, costs nothing to list on Redbubble and you just sit and wait for the monthly payment into PayPal. Regular as clockwork!

Here's my payment history for the full 16 months ...

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[GoonerGary]

I did very well out of Etsy, but 50% went to the US, this has now all but stopped.
So verdict.... was good, now not good.

Janners

Same here. Two thirds to the USA a couple of years ago, but all those sales have more or less dried up.

[Drew]

We're on Etsy.

Last year we were getting about £200 a month from it. Not massive, but enough to cover a few bills. Our orders were split between UK and USA with the odd Australia one.

Christmas came, and it was as if we'd removed the buy now buttons from our listings. January we had 1 order (about the 4th). Then nothing..... nada.... not a sausage until 2 weeks ago when 3 orders came in, in about 2 hours! We were still the same amount of view, and 'favourites', but no orders at all. We've had a couple of orders since, but nothing like we had before.

February bill was the first I had to use my own money to pay, rather than the money in my etsy account.

We tried running a 20% sale in this drought time, and nothing happened.

They do change things, and don't tell you. Now they are a listed company, its the shareholders who matter, and according to their last report, sales are up (apparently), but many, many sellers on Etsy own forum are reporting the same issues of low sales.

[paul 44]

I've never been one to go for the promoted ads on ETSY, i wouldn't do it as I think that's part of the their cunning plan if you like (haha)
It may be a ploy on ETSY's part to get shops that have hit a low to go on promoting their items which costs money....I wont be doing that anytime soon as it's a primarily US based site.

I am rebuilding my website and it is the way to go if it's done properly, I'm on my own so doing it all myself as most have probably done, trial and error but got to keep on plugging away at it.