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hey guys so today i want to tell you how
i made over 70k passive income selling
on etsy and i want to share with you
this story because i think it's super
cool and i think you can find some areas
where you can relate to and besides the
story i'm going to share with you which
niche i went into how i approached it as
a brand new shop also my top essential
skills that i think is one of the most
important things that you can do you
know
prepping yourself before you starting a
shop to make it truly successful so the
story i'm about to share with you
correlates to how i was able to make my
shop successful and become a full-time
etsy seller so make sure to stay to the
end of the video so before we get
started please subscribe i make videos
once a week and it covers everything
from etsy selling to print on demand but
overall it's about e-commerce and mainly
selling on etsy all right so everything
started five years ago at that time i
was already a certified electrician
working a nine-to-five job i was making
pretty good money and i was slowly
moving up but like to be honest i wasn't
fully into it and the reason why i got
into that is because my mom she was a
single parent and it was a way for me to
help support her i wasn't fully sure
exactly what i wanted to do after high
school even though i was doing really
well but my passion wasn't for it and i
found myself doing painting and doing
graphic design throughout my
apprenticeship and it was just a side
thing that i always did that was it was
a hobby for me but for me at that time i
didn't feel like art or just anything
else was possible other than just a
normal nine-to-five job and at that
point i was already doing really well in
my electoral career as i was mid-20s i
had my own place you know i had bills to
pay the thought of going back and doing
art or graphic design was just really
hard to do because the ways i would be
paid as a graphic designer pretty much
be like minimum wage starting and it's
really hard to start from paying super
high and to just go all the way down and
start from the bottom again and i'm sure
a lot of you guys kind of understand how
that feels and when you're trapped in a
career path right but at some point you
know i finally had enough and i took the
leap of faith and i quit my nine to five
and applied for a graphic design school
and like i was super appreciated on my
mom for supporting me through this like
it's okay son i got this you know you go
pursue what you need to do so to this
day i'm still very grateful for for
everything she's done for me so fast
forward during my schooling one of the
other students was telling me about
people selling on etsy selling printable
wall art and at that point i would
generally understand what it meant i was
like wait someone would just go on etsy
and then just buy a
file and then they would print it
themselves
and at that time i didn't really fully
understand it but the idea of it really
intrigued me so later that night i went
back home did all this research like
whoa this is you know it's crazy i can
actually see the numbers of all the
different shops really see all the sales
they're making you can track them you
can just refresh your page and every
time you get a sale you can you can see
them right when i saw that it really
clicked like whoa like kind of gain that
financial freedom create that passive
income as well so the next day went back
to my other classmates i was like yo
this is crazy
you know we gotta we gotta pursue this
right and a lot of them thought it was
cool but their their mindset was like oh
it's you know it's been done people
doing already it's not a new idea so
they're already too late to try so by
that time
i was so intrigued by like i couldn't
even focus on schooling anymore right my
mind was just off to this new idea and
but everyone else was still focused on
school and obviously my grades started
to drop a little bit even though i was
one of the top
students in class and my teachers were
like hey brandon like why is your work
slipping right
what are you doing you know we can tell
you're not really paying attention in
class anymore because during class i was
just researching everything about sc you
know i would still do my work but at
night i would i started creating some
prints i started creating my etsy shop
and my goal was to because i had like
one month left before my program ended
and i was like okay my goal is to get
one cell one legit sale from etsy
and that would just give me like
confidence but hey you know what i can
do this and by the end in the last two
days before i graduate i swear to you
like i got my my first sale
and like i couldn't explain how how
happy i felt
um the joy that was just like in me like
i was like this can't be real you know
this has to be someone i knew like i
told him i told people about it you know
but i realized you know he was home from
like somewhere somewhere city in the
states and i was like this is a real
sale though i couldn't describe how
great it felt and i was okay cool like
now i can really see the potential even
though you know i told some people that
hey i want sale i don't know how much
did you make and i was like oh you know
seven dollars 7.99 you know minus some
of the etsy fees
oh that's not that much right oh you
can't make a living out of that you know
you may want to sell in like a month you
know so there's going to be people like
that that will tell you you can't do it
and how you know you're making so little
per se or or so inconsistent you know
how can you actually make a living out
of it but for me i just always thought
back to the other people that are doing
it and i can see that they are making
this full-time job so that was always in
my head and
it motivated me that i can do it as well
as long as i put in the work so after
graduation i had to
actually find a job because i only had
that one sale i can't really make a
living out of it right so i did end up
working at a print shop they created
custom shop signs for like commercial
buildings and stuff with neon lights or
leds i would supposed to create these
these signs for them but eventually they
had me
installing the science because they
found that i was electrician
right so then i was like hey like i'm
getting paid like minimum wage to
actually do electrical work when in my
old previous electrical work i was
paying at least four times as much for
this so
you know that was that's a whole lot of
story and it was really terrible because
it just wasn't fair to me for what i was
actually doing for them and that
motivated me to keep doing this etsy
thing so a day i was helping them out
but at night i was working every night
trying to keep creating new listings
keep making more designs and eventually
hoping that it can create more of an
income than my actual day job so i
continue to work there for next couple
months each day each week you know i
would slowly see one or two more sales
each week in my etsy shop you know i
would see more traffic i would i would
see more growth in general
until one day on my phone i was like
whoa like today i'm actually making more
money than
i did during my day job but that was
when it really clicked i was like whoa
this is all remote work that i'm doing
on my etsy shop right i can be anywhere
because i was doing a lot of it even at
my normal day job i got to stop working
this job i quit so i ended up quitting i
realized that yeah this is remote work i
can actually travel if i wanted to i
mean this was you know back in 2017
2018
so i was able to
to travel and then i ended up traveling
for a year and a half i was traveling
and i was working on my etsy shop you
know i was in bali thailand
vietnam other places in southeast asia
and then went to south america
uh you know went to colombia and bolivia
and and just yet full year and a half
i'll try to share some pictures
somewhere here
but it was
it was truly
amazing and i was very grateful for the
whole experience
and the reason why i'm telling you all
this right now is because i want to
share with you that this is very
possible for for you to do
someone from me that was a normal kind
of five worker that just had like sort
of a dream and seeing the possibilities
of what it can be
i think it's truly possible for you as
well
and i hope it kind of help inspires you
to try to just take that first step and
to create your own shop and to just
don't quit now i can tell you some of my
core fundamental tips that kind of jump
started this whole process for me and
i've created multiple etsy shops now i
kind of have this similar strategy as i
go through them and hopefully i can
share them with you right now so tip
number one is be self aware of your
skill set and what your strengths are as
i mentioned previously i was always into
art you know i was always into design so
for me to jump into that niche where i
created printable water just made sense
for me you should pick the niche that
you most enjoy and most passionate about
and just apply the same strategies
number two is pick a niche that is
proven to sell the last thing you want
to do is putting all this effort into
starting a shop and realize that the
product itself is just no it just
doesn't work the audience is telling you
no this is not a product that we were
looking for and i'm not saying for
anyone to start a business you have to
do something that's been done you know
there are a lot of great ideas you can
do but in terms of you're starting out
as a beginner that's someone the last
thing that you want to bank on right
unless you're hella confident about this
this new idea you got but generally you
there's so much other things you need to
learn when you first start a shop that
you want to have a niche that's been
proven and then all you got to do is
just learn everything else to kind of
make that happen so number three is pick
a few shops that you admire and that you
want to model and this kind of plays off
of the rule number two that you can find
these shops and you know they're
successful so all you gotta do is kind
of look through everything okay cool
they're doing photos like this they're
doing their descriptions they're doing
their titles similar to these formats
and if i create my store similar to how
they're doing it you know the chances
are you know mine will succeed okay so
number four i think this one's just
really important that no one really
talks about is to learn basic photoshop
and photography skills more importantly
for photoshop and i was fortunate enough
that in my niche photoshop was just
something i used to create my actual
products and it wasn't something just
for the photography part for anyone
that's doing a niche that's not using
graphic design or anything it's very
vital to use it because when you display
your shop everyone looks at how good
your photography is everyone looks at
how good your branding is and if you
just know a little bit about color
correction and just how to crop things
properly
and certain manipulation skills that you
can really create good visual for your
branding it just elevates your your shop
just tenfold you know i've i mentor
other sellers the number one thing i
always tell them is you know you can
focus all you want on their products and
i'm sure it's great but the one that
will actually sell is not how great your
actual product is but how good your
branding is and how much people would
trust you because if they can see that
your branding is on point they can see
that everything is just nicely cropped
everything's nicely color corrected
they they know that you know you put so
much time in the branding your product
is guaranteed to be good for the most
part it's going to be really good as if
you really put in the little details in
your whole shop so that's my
recommendation is just to you know spend
an hour a day or or less if you want but
just watch a photoshop video you know
just look at beginner photoshop videos
and
and this is something that regardless if
it's for this one shop it just will help
you out
for your rest of your life if you want
to do anything and and photoshop was
just one of the best tools to learn and
if you already have questions about
photoshop or anything you want to do
just put it down in comments below and i
will try to create videos for you so for
my last essential tip i want to share
with you is don't quit so like i
mentioned before you know
you find the competitors you know that
they're doing it well you can see when
it started you can see how many sales
are making a day
and that itself can if you just keep
thinking about that you know that'll
keep you focused so keep you motivated
and i know sometimes when you first
start it can be really slow like
like i said you know when i first
started it took me a couple months to
really start getting momentum and
getting enough sales
and you just need to be patient because
it takes a long time and most people
right before they're about to like break
open
to that growth they quit right before
that point it's just it's weird but
that's just how it goes like you know
you'll be stagnant for a long time and
that's just how it is and they'll just
but you know what i had enough but if
they just pushed it a little bit longer
they would have started seeing that that
growth and and it would have been
totally different for them so you know
that's something i'm gonna tell you you
know it's just don't quit just believe
in yourself
you know keep improving keeping better
you know your photoshop skills and all
these different things like just start
just start doing it and then eventually
you can improve them and get better and
better at it so there are my five
essential tips hopefully you enjoyed my
my stories and hopefully these tips will
help you in this journey if you're new
or just starting so
let me know if you have any questions
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