Lizzie Smiley (17:03)
I'm going to do that, I'm going to do that the entire episode with these numbers because of my first one. So the next one is, is start with research. Too many sellers don't do their research first. They're just like, I'm just gonna come sell this thing. Well, you need to find out what is selling. A very easy way to find out what is selling is to look and see if there are already multiple best selling listings. For that I have all kinds of YouTube videos where you can see how to find the best seller, how to filter by bestseller, because the Etsy platform doesn't have that filter directly. But there's a little workaround. You can see where the best sellers are if you're in my, if you join my trendspotting membership, there's a coupon for $20 off the first month in the show notes. I show you literally every single video how to, how to do these little hacks. Let me make sure, I make sure I link that for you guys. So people don't start with, with research and they make emotional decisions rather than data led decisions. So make sure, establish that something is in demand, that it's selling, establish that there are best sellers, establish that you have a way of making it your own without directly copying what's already best selling and or incorporating trends. So something that can really help. I always gave the example, if you've been here for a while, I'd always talk about trying to come onto Etsy as a new seller and sell a mama shirt and how hard that would be because there are already millions of mama shirts on Etsy. So how do you, how do you compete in that very, very busy niche? Because there's also a lot of demand, right? It's a great niche to be in. And so I would always joke, well you would go down the micro niche rabbit hole, which just means don't do a mama. Like how about a dachshund? Mama was an example I'd always use. Or like how could you get really, really narrow? Could you do like triplet boy mama? How could you get really narrow? Still hit the mama niche but, but niche down a little bit. Another way that you can do this and this has recently worked for me, I have tested it now in my, in my PNG shop. I have like a, I sell a bunch of digital products that I make with AI that I turn into PNGs that I can then sell for people to put on their T shirts or their sublimation or whatever. So you can trend combine to make this work as well. So rather than going down the really tiny micro niche hole, you could incorporate for example like the coquette trend which is if you've probably seen it, if you've seen a bows all over the place that is like the essence of the coquette trend. It started very girly pink bows, very like soft girl era and now we're just seeing it like anything in a bow. You'll see black bows, green bows, pattern bows. You'll see, you know, like a, a bow that looks like a, has a basketball pattern in the background. Just everything bows. So now if you find a clever way to bring in like a mama shirt, but you bring in a really unique coquette angle to it, um, that can help you break into the niche which is otherwise super saturated. It's called trend combining. You're trend combining the mama niche with the coquette niche. And that is where the magic happens is trend combining. It's so much fun. I'm not going to go down the rabbit hole because we have more of these to go over. But so number three, just being too many sellers. Don't start with research making data led decisions. Let the platform and the audience and the shoppers tell you by what's already selling very well, what will perform well. Etsy is not the place to be really, really creative because if no one is searching for it, you could have literally the best product on the entire platform and it will not sell because people are not searching for it in the search bar. And that's how to use Etsy. So data led decisions. Are you a print on demand or digital product product Etsy seller who's tight on time or still learning all of the Etsy secrets? I totally remember the days of having no idea what product to create next before I learned how to make those informed decisions. So I can really identify with where you're at. I know how stressful and frustrating it can be to just create listing after listing and see little to no results. You wonder what you're doing wrong and just you just want someone to tell you what to create that's actually going to sell. Where are those opportunities? So let me give you a leg up with my weekly trends and opportunities report. You just join my membership and every Monday I'm going to send you an email with a list of exactly what is trending right now with a video tutorial showing you how I found those trends. And how to apply them in your shop. We're taking guesswork and time, extensive time off of your table. I'm also going to send you five print on demand and digital product opportunities that are growing in demand right now, helping new shops make sales and still have very low saturation in the marketplace. So your tight schedule, your newbie status doesn't have to hold you back anymore. I'm going to help you earn while you learn. You can grab my free demo to start and see an example of what the weekly trends and opportunities email looks like right from the show notes. See what you're going to get and I will see you on the inside soon. Number four, this is really, really common and it's a little hard of a pill to swallow, but more often than not, when people are just getting started and let me just say this is happening to me right now. I have a new physical product shop that I launched actually a couple months ago now six weeks, I can't tell something like that and I still don't have a sale because I'm not good enough yet. So number four is the designs just aren't good enough yet. There's, there's tweaks that need to be made, they need to be sharpened that the seller needs to practice.