if you're looking for places to sell
your handmade crafts and products online
you need to watch this video because
it's gonna save you so much time from
making the wrong choice and get you
selling on the best platform right now
so that you're set up for long term
success and lots of sales may here I
help makers artists and designers we
could consistent income selling their
handmade products online we're just
gonna jump right into it okay so I'm
going to order these from worst to last
or worst to best so we're going to start
with the worst number five eBay now I
have heard of a few people who used to
sell or are currently selling their
handmade products or artwork on eBay
the thing is eva is not going to be the
place for you to build a shop that's
memorable and that has a brand a brand
is the experience you give your
customers like with your website layout
your color your logo product images a
large part of it is the website itself
eBay is sterile it's a cold platform
your customers are going to feel
anything when they go shop for your pots
on ebay they're not gonna even remember
what your brand theme was they're gonna
just say I bought this thing on eBay
they're not gonna remember they bought
it from tiny ends jewelry on eBay and a
good website that you can fully
customize with your brand will make your
customers feel something it's just like
they're walking into a brick-and-mortar
store
imagine one that's taken the time to
decorate fine furniture and display
pieces that are interesting and unique
and colorful and maybe they've even put
on some soft music in the background and
some incense the person working in the
store says hi to you really nicely you
know that whole entire thing is the
experience
compare that with walking into Walmart
you're not exactly going to feel warm
and fuzzy inside the same goes for eBay
I
eBay is great for selling on there if
you make a commodity product and what
that means is a product that is you're
not very unique and no one really cares
if you made it or if someone else made
it so for example if you're selling
Apple iPhones Nike sneakers books
vintage fabric or knitting supplies eBay
is powered by a search engine it's a
marketplace which means it comes with
its own built-in audience of customers
and I know that sounds nice but keep in
mind that eBay takes quite a big cut of
your sales it's around ten percent not
counting credit card processing fees or
listing fees or any special add-ons
you've bought to make your listing stand
out more I sell on eBay but the stuff I
sell on there are all of my use
electronics anytime I buy a new gadget
like a camera or a laptop or phone I
always sell my old one on eBay I'm not
selling my brand of jewelry tiny
hands-on there I know people shopping on
eBay are not going to value my jewelry
if you're going to sell your handmade
products on there just be prepared for
some really crazy extreme pricing
competition overall not a great place to
sell your products but it has its own
place and purpose depending on what
you're selling
number four is Facebook now with
Facebook there are several ways to sell
on Facebook there's Facebook marketplace
which is kind of like eBay or Craigslist
a lot of people are selling you stuff on
there and it's just not a great place to
set up a brandon experienced shop that's
going to be a long-term thing for you
there's Facebook groups I've heard some
very creative shop owners who start
their own Facebook groups but how it
works is they have a very unique
business model where they sell
one-of-a-kind products so they have
limited quantities and they launched
their product collections in batches and
they release their product collection
like once every few weeks so their
products aren't available for sale all
the time
I think this works especially well if
you sell something that people like to
buy multiple of or in other words they
like to collect jewelry is a good
example I don't think this would work as
well for you if you sold something that
the customer only needed one of like
engagement rings so they built Facebook
groups and the way it works is if you
want to see what's for sale when new
stuff comes out you have to join the
group it's a great way to reach a small
group of people who are already really
ready to buy from you I know of maybe
two or three businesses who rely solely
on doing just this and are making close
to six-figure sales and not more which
is great but again it's not a common
thing to do for various reasons for one
again
you can't brand the Facebook we've
talked a lot about branding today and
why that's important right - you have
the added responsibility of keeping your
group engaged even when you're not
selling anything so that when you do
have something for sale your members
will see your sale posts because of your
group isn't engaged when you have
something for sale no one's going to see
your post 3 I don't think a facebook
group is the best way to make sales it's
a pretty close ecosystem I mean like not
everyone has a Facebook account right
you're requiring that people have not
only a Facebook account but also join
your group in order to buy from you
that's a lot of steps you can't take
advantage of those impulse purchases
where a total stranger finds your
products and buys right off your website
Facebook groups just aren't set up for
that or like what if someone's looking
for a specific gift for a family or
friend they're not going to join a
Facebook group and be a part of
something like that just to buy a
one-time gift
I think the Facebook group is more
conducive for people who are buying
stuff for themselves or if they're
buying them as gifts but they're
thinking about people who share their
same tastes
and finally with Facebook there are
Facebook pages there are a couple ways
you can do this you can sell on your
page just like you would on a group and
that's probably going to be with
comments selling you can post a picture
of the product you have for sale write a
description for it and say that for
anyone who wants to buy it ask them to
comment sold on the post you'll then
have to send them a private message with
a PayPal invoice link so it's a pretty
manual process but there are apps you
can use to make that automatic with a
Facebook page if you have a Shopify
store you can also sync your products to
your Facebook page so you have a section
on your page that shows your Shopify
products for sale people can buy her
stuff directly on facebook without ever
leaving the platform I make a small
percentage of sales from that but I
wouldn't rely on that completely to make
me a full-time income number three we've
got Etsy Etsy it is a marketplace site
like eBay it has millions of customers
already shopping on there and tons of
people looking for products like yours
I think Etsy is a pretty great site to
sell on because it's a lot more targeted
at handmade products and I know recently
that isn't completely true anymore since
Etsy allowed mass manufacture products
to be sold on there but the types of
products for sale on Etsy are definitely
a lot higher quality and more unique
than what you'll find on eBay Etsy
already comes with some great selling
tools and if you know how to do search
engine optimization on your product
listings well then you are in a great
position to have an Etsy shop that
brings you passive sales and income like
me I make several sales on Etsy every
month without ever having to do any
active promotion on there in terms of
cons I have so many actually I can't
even fit them all
into this one video so I have made for
you a totally separate video talking
about how NC is bad for you but in the
sense that it's bad for you only if it's
all you focus your time and energy on NC
shouldn't be your main focus it should
be a side dish no not the main course
and if you're curious to know more about
why I say that check out that video
number two Amazon okay so Amazon like
eBay and Etsy is a marketplace site it's
got that built an audience of customers
and it's powered by a search engine
there are a few ways to sell on Amazon
there's Amazon handmade there's regular
Amazon for the lack of a better way to
call it and then there's Amazon FBA
which stands for fulfillment by Amazon
Amazon handmade was the most recent
initiative personally I prefer to sell
in just regular Amazon I've heard that
you do get better reach and results with
just regular Amazon than with Amazon
handmade more which means more
visibility which means more customers
which means more sales
now with fulfillment by Amazon FBA what
this is is you're shipping your products
to Amazon's warehouse where they store
your products for you when your product
sells Amazon takes care of packing and
shipping that order for you so you're
just shipping one box with a batch of
multiple quantities of that same product
to them and they're doing the individual
shipping for you so you ship to Amazon
and Amazon ships directly to your
customer that's the definition of a
fulfillment company
now of course there are added fees for
that but in exchange for the extra cost
you get the really cool prime label on
your product with steam this is yet
another way to categorize your products
people can filter products based on what
is a prime product listing which means
it's got much faster shipping and it's
free shipping to your products on FBA
will appear in that list I don't know
about you but I never buy anything that
doesn't have a prime label on it it is a
huge conversion booster people are also
more likely to buy products with a prime
label on it I have personally seen my
FBA products sell much more and I make a
lot more sales through FBA then on
regular Amazon having said that just
keep in mind that Amazon isn't cheap if
you compare it to Etsy for example but
also consider that you're reaching a
much larger audience than on Etsy of
course there are other marketplace
disadvantages just like Etsy and eBay
where you can't control your branding
you have a lot of competition you don't
really own the contact details of your
customer so you can't send them like
emails so I really don't believe you
should make any of these marketplace
lights your focus instead just sell on
there for the side income and for the
sales that you otherwise wouldn't get if
you weren't on there because one thing
you have to understand is the customers
on these marketplace lights are going to
be totally different customers from the
people who shop from you from your own
platform so you don't have to worry
about like it being the same people and
think of these marketplace sites as like
your sales reps who are doing the work
to make you sales you pay them a higher
Commission but the work to get that sale
is pretty hands-off it's all a part of
diversifying your income so that your
sales aren't coming from just one place
don't put all your eggs in one desk
because that's really scary and
dangerous so finally with number one we
have Shopify and if you know me you know
I always recommend Shopify and if you
don't know me hello
Shopify I believe Shopify to be the best
place to sell your handmade products
online because you can control and
customize the entire shopping experience
you give to your customers that means
your shop is more memorable people will
remember your shop tell their friends
about you and they're much more likely
to stay loyal to you as a customer it's
a better recipe for long-term success
Shopify also comes with a ton of really
cool apps you can add on to your store
to help you do marketing free so for
example I have an app called quickly
quickly with a cape where it promotes my
products for me on my behalf and when a
sale is made I just pay them a
commission but I've set so the higher
you set the commission the more they
promote your products for you I don't
pay them anything else besides the
Commission and you know the way I look
at it I'm making sales through their app
that I otherwise wouldn't have made
without them that's just one example
there are dozens of apps you can install
to make your job of marketing your
shopping easier which is the hardest
part and possibly the biggest
disadvantage to a Shopify store because
it's not a marketplace platform like
Amazon eBay or Etsy you don't have the
benefit of customers searching for your
product you have to bring your own
traffic to your Shopify store which for
a lot of people is very hard to do but I
don't think it's that hard if you know
what you need to do and I have a ton of
videos on my channel that show you how
another disadvantage with a Shopify
store that puts people off is the price
it's not the cheapest but honestly you
get what you pay for that cannot be more
true in this case and that's a reason I
haven't talked about other similar
website builders like Wix or Squarespace
or GoDaddy or Square up or did I say
Squarespace sorry or WordPress because
none of these sites were designed to be
a physical product shop the way Shopify
was built and designed comparing Shopify
to all these alternatives Shopify has
the best speed the best security the
best user experience which in turn
results in higher conversion rates
compared to all of those other sites
Shopify is also the biggest website
builder site for selling the physical
products that means it's got the largest
community for support if you ever need
help it's got the best technology and
always the first to access cool tech and
new apps like when Instagram came out
with the ability to tag your products in
your photos so all people needed to do
was tap on your photo and they can go
directly to your site to the exact
product listing without going to your
link in bio landing on your homepage and
then figuring out where to find that
product that they saw on your feet a
month ago that feature is only available
to Shopify users people on Wix or
Squarespace or all those other sites as
of this recording don't have access to
that yet and seriously if you're going
to choose any of those other sites
instead of Shopify because you want to
save like ten dollars really think about
it here you only need to make one extra
sale to make it worthwhile and it's
definitely worth it to use the best site
out there from the get-go
Shopify is great for beginners but it's
also great for stores who are doing like
millions of dollars a year I recommend
you start with Shopify from the very
beginning rather than starting with a
different site and then moving onto
Shopify years later just because you're
trying to save money because we're gonna
spend all of that money try just trying
to move over to Shopify trust me because
I've done
a lot of my own moves from one platform
to another and it is painful
time-consuming and expensive alright so
there you have it my breakdown of the
top five best websites to sell your
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