- In this video, we're going to talk
about how to make money selling your
woodworking projects on Etsy.
I'll talk about my experience on Etsy.
How I was able to have consistent sales using these tactics.
Be sure to stick around at the end of video,
and we'll give you a power tip on how to make sales on Etsy.
How you doing, I'm Matt with 731woodworks.com.
On this channel, we build awesome projects
using basic tools.
Also give out advice on how to make money woodworking,
how to make sales woodworking, and in this video,
how to make sales on Etsy.
So I want to go through with you how to put good titles
on your products,
how to write a good description of your products.
We'll go through the metadata where you have to put tags
and certain things on the Etsy listing
to help you rank in search.
Did none of that record?
Dang it, I don't even know what I said.
I hate it when it don't record.
Etsy is an excellent way to add an income stream
to your woodworking business.
I started on Etsy about two and a half years ago.
It took me a little bit of time to figure out how
to set up my listing so that they get found in search,
which is a big deal because Etsy is a search engine
and you need to set up your product properly.
And we're going to go over that in this video.
So in the last year I was able to generate about $20,000
in sales or in revenue, of course,
you got to take out taxes and fees, things like that,
ad money that I paid to Etsy, once all that's figured in is
about $13,000 in profit, which isn't bad for 12 months
considering I only do this part time.
In 2019, Etsy generated according to their stats,
almost $5 billion with a big old B.
Billion dollars in sales. That's big time.
Etsy has about 2.5 million sellers on there
that sell everything from digital products to stickers.
It has to be unique and it doesn't have to be handmade,
but there it started out as a handmade marketplace.
So most of the things there are handmade.
There's almost 40 million people shopping
on Etsy every year, 40% of those buyers are return shoppers.
So I think it's proven that they,
that people want handmade products, now,
what you've got to figure out is what you're going
to sell on there, so find the focus of your shop.
What you're actually going to be making and selling is very
important, if you go to Etsy and just search cutting board,
you're going to find over at this at the time of this video,
over 89,000 results.
So the challenge is getting on that first page or two of
those cutting boards, that's going to be very difficult.
That market's pretty much cornered,
unless you can make something that's unique,
nobody else has, and that's what's key.
So because my wife designed our stove covers, she come up
with a handle design, I had never heard of them,
but I put those on Etsy, it started with just one.
And once I was able to start making sales,
people would request different colors.
I would put that up as another listing.
We'll talk about that in a minute.
You can see that if you can rank in that top area,
you'll start making sales.
So ours are have a unique design with the handles
on the sides.
Most people's are flat or have the flat pieces on top with a
handle or some type of drawer handle or something on them.
We made ours with integrated handles with the wood handle.
So they are unique, they stand out.
That's why they're selling.
So it's very important that you research your product
and find something that's unique to you and your design.
And that's where you're going to start making sales.
So there's actually quite a few videos out there that show
you how to set up your shop, how to set up your items.
I'm not going to go into a great detail on how to do that.
I'm going to talk to you about
how to sell your woodworking products.
I'll drop some links in the description below
to some of those videos that I like
on how to set up your shop and your listing.
I will show you how I've set up some of my listings.
So you'll get a general idea of what you need to do.
So when you do set up your shop,
you're going to need to pick a shop name.
So whatever it's going to be,
it needs to be representative of what you're making.
So if you just put up John's shop or Joe shop,
that's not going to draw any interests.
People are just going to see the shop name
and have no clue what you're making.
So if you are into woodworking and you're going to make
woodworking items, you can do John's cutting boards,
Joe's cutting boards, Joe's woodworks, John's woodworks,
something like that, when they see the name,
they understand what you're selling,
or they have a general idea of what's there in that shop.
If you watch my last video,
we talked about our power tip in that video pictures,
you got to have good pictures, if you have crappy pictures,
you're not gonna sell anything, take excellent pictures.
You can do that with your smartphone, if you have a camera,
you can do it with the camera,
stage the item that you're making, if you're making a,
I use cutting board because they're so common.
If you're using a cutting board,
chop up something and put on it, put a knife there with it.
You know, stage that item, make it look enticing.
Good lighting, good pictures.
When you put those on your listing, Etsy allows you
to put 10 pictures per listing, use all of them.
Don't do four pictures, don't do six pictures.
Don't do nine pictures, do all 10 pictures.
Etsy's also rolled out a video feature
that you can put a short 15, second video
of your product on your products listing
with no sound, so it's just featuring that product.
Use that, that'll sell your product.
When you title your listing,
make sure you give it a good descriptive title.
So on this listing here I have, it's a stove cover.
It's black and it's small.
So it's slim, has slim handles on it,
so I titled it black stove top cover
slash slim black stove cover, short stove top cover,
short stove top cover black noodle board.
In one of my stained ones, like this dark Walnut one here,
you see that I have named it wood stove top cover,
noodle board, stained dark Walnut.
Be very descriptive, you can put several types
of titles or slashes between the titles.
When people are searching for that item that you've
listed, if it's a, if it's a Walnut cutting board,
it needs to say Walnut cutting board,
not just cutting board.
You need to be very specific with your titles because
ultimately Etsy is a search engine and you have
to rank up into the search engine.
So people need to be able to find what they're looking for.
And we'll do one more with the, with my stove cover.
I've got this distressed.
This is one of the most popular listings,
we'll actually dive into this listing.
I'll show you the behind the scenes on this listing
in just a minute, so on this one,
a noodle board was the first thing.
This was my first listing.
This was actually our stove cover that we were using.
And so I took pictures of that, put it up as a custom order.
And then that's how we started making sales on those.
So you can see the various types of,
of names that I've given this in the title,
noodle board stove cover, I'm reading on my iPad.
Noodle board stove cover, noodle board for gas stove,
electric stove cover, gas stove top cover,
wooden stove cover, and then personalized.
If you've got a personalized item,
make sure you list that personalized cutting board,
personalized key chain, whatever you're making,
make sure if it's personalized,
go ahead and drop that in there.
So in your description, when you describe your item,
you're going to need to make sure,
or you need to make sure that you describe it properly
and put some keywords in there that you used in your title.
So if you use distressed stove cover,
or if you used Walnut cutting board in the title,
make sure that's in that description too,
because all this is going to tie together
when people are searching for your item.
If it's a specific color item,
put that in there, put that in the title,
but that in the description and you also going to put that
in the tags, all three title tags, descriptions.
Those are the three most important things on Etsy.
Because again, it's a search engine.
You need to rank in the search engine.
People are looking for specific handmade things on Etsy.
So what you're going to do is you're going to make sure
that you're going to really drill down and focus
on what you're selling, tag, title and description
is what you're gonna be looking for.
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Remember in the last video,
when we talk about how to sell your woodworking items,
when I told you people will do business
with people they know,
this is a good tip in your description.
Describe the process that you use to make that item,
what goes into it, what tools you're using,
how long it takes you to make it.
People will identify with that and be able to say, Hey, I,
I appreciate the hard work and the effort
that goes into making this personal item for me, again,
this is a lot like when you build a commission sale,
you're making this for the person, it's a personal item.
It's handmade, people appreciate that.
Put that into the description, a little note.
When you're setting up your shop, there's an about page.
It tells all about you and your business.
Don't neglect that, tell people who you are,
tell them what makes your products unique.
When you're adding listings to your shop,
if you don't have a current inventory,
it asks you how many you haven't stocked.
At the top of the listing, it asks if this
is a made-to-order item, all of my items
on my shop are made-to-order,
but in the inventory always list three.
I try to keep it at least three in stock,
that does a couple of things, for one, if your item,
if you only put one on there and your item is constantly
selling out, that hurts your ranking with Etsy.
So you want to make sure to keep an inventory there, I keep,
I keep a watch on mine almost daily,
especially when I'm making sales and make sure that those
never go into the sold out, it happens from time to time,
but I try not to let it.
Another thing that does is when someone puts an item
in their cart, say,
if they pick one of your handmade products
and they put it in the cart,
it's going to tell how many other people have
that in their cart, yeah.
And they also know how many you had in stock.
So it actually drives a little bit of urgency
to the customer saying, Hey, there's 10 people
with this in their cart.
There's only three in stock, I better order it now.
So no thing you can do, just a quick tip.
You can like into an incognito browser or use someone else's
Etsy, like if your spouse has one friend or whatever,
let them search your item on there and find it,
put it in their cart.
So if that item is consistently at zero,
people have it in their cart and nobody's actually watching
this thing or not actually engaged in wanting to buy it.
Probably need to revise that item
or just take it off your shop.
Add inventory to your shop regularly,
or update your items that aren't selling.
Give those items at least 30 days before you start messing
with any of the metadata,
because it takes a little bit for that algorithm
to crawl your site or crawl your listing,
and then start pushing those out to customers.
So I don't change them too quickly,
but you need to add inventory regularly.
So if a customer orders an item from you and they request a
different color than what you've got on there.
So you've got one standard dark Walnut.
So if they asked for a piece of stained English Chestnut,
when you build that item, take 10, 12 pictures of it.
You're going to post at least 10.
Remember take 10 pictures of that item,
set up a brand new listing and post that
as another option on your page or on your shop.
Because when you add a new listing to your shop,
Etsy in their sellers manual
tells you that they give that we'll give your shop a
little bit of a boost in search
every time you add a new product.
It keeps your shot relevant,
it shows them that you're actually working
and engaged that shop, and so that's,
you want to update inventory regularly as much as possible.
Another good tip is to make sure that your shop
is not all over the place,
so you're not selling a tee shirt.
And then you're also selling a thermometer,
and you're also selling a cutting board
and you're also selling paint, brushes,
nobody has a direction.
What does this mean, are you Walmart?
I mean, what's going on there?
Make sure that you're focused on what you're selling.
If it's a woodworking shop and you're selling woodworking
items and you have different items, that's perfectly okay,
but don't just go outside your niche and try
to just pick and choose things
to try to get sales on there, it doesn't work.
Remember in the last video we talked about content
marketing, where you're marketing your own products,
using your social media.
There's no difference in the Etsy page,
take that page on the Etsy page itself,
you can share your shop to your social media,
share it pretty regular, share those new listings.
Let them know that you have an Etsy shop
and Hey for business, you never know.
Maybe they shared it to someone else or share it to their
feed, if someone sees that and be like, I need that.
And then they go in order,
I get quite a few messages on Etsy.
You have to keep up with that.
Make sure that you're responding in a timely manner.
It's a decent thing to do.
Don't let someone message you
and then two days later you answer them back.
That's not good customer service, go ahead and answer them.
If they have a question about a product,
a lot of times they'll want a custom order,
try to work with that customer and see what you can do.
But above all,
just be responsive to your customers.
In the metadata there's, you can add 13 tags
or search terms to your item or to your product,
use all 13, try to come up with everything
you think somebody is going to be searching for.
Again, we're moving back to the cutting board
because there's 90,000 of those on there.
So if you'd go to cutting board and you've got a Walnut
and cherry cutting board,
make sure you'd put on it and cheery cutting board,
Walnut cutting board, cherry cutting board.
So you're using separate terms.
Try to mix those up as best you can.
If it's a special item
or something unique about that product,
make sure that's in that listing.
Make sure you're putting specific terms in your tags
that relate to your product.
That'll help people find it.
So let's talk about shipping.
Etsy shipping, when you go to create a shipping label,
if you do it through them,
I use USPS because that's the only game in town,
FedEx and UPS have a little drop boxes around here.
I've heard from enough fellow Etsy seller
that he uses FedEx.
They actually come to his house
and pick up those items once a week,
that's an option for you.
They give him a discount
because he's shipping a pretty good amount,
but he tells me that you don't really need a large amount
of sales to work with FedEx.
I've just never tried it because USPS has working for me.
So I create, the label i request a pickup
and the USPS actually picks it up
for me the next day, so that works perfect.
I don't have to go to the post office.
I don't like going in there.
I offer free shipping on my shop because about six months
ago, Etsy come out with a new policy that says,
if you offer free shipping,
they will favor your products in their search.
I didn't care for that because I had to go
and add free shipping, well,
when I added free shipping some shipping I'm in Arkansas.
If I ship to California, that's $50
for a 13 pound stove cover 10 to 13 pounds
are what they usually range.
Other about 30, 32 inches wide, usually 21, 22 inches deep,
by three or four inches thick depending on the new
board, so if I'm shipping to California or
if I'm shipping to New York, it's 40 to $50 per item.
If I'm shipping from Arkansas to Mississippi,
the next state over is like 15 bucks.
So I have no way of regulating, who's buying that and how,
how far it's going to go.
So what I had to do is raise my prices to meet the furthest
distance, so I had to raise it $50.
I hated that because it's not fair on the customer,
this next, the state over or in my own state,
but that's the price of doing business on Etsy.
You gotta follow the rules, if I didn't offer free shipping,
then it hurts me, I've actually seen more sales,
even closer sales, since I started offering free shipping.
It's something about the mentality of a customer
when they go and add that to the cart and they see that,
or if they go and look at that item
and it's showing us getting free shipping,
they feel like they're getting a deal,
even if you've had to raise your rates for it.
So when I ship my items through Etsy,
what I do is I box them up myself.
I take these boxes is that I get from Walmart,
the large size.
I cut those down to fit the size of my stove cover.
I wrapped my stove cover in.
I wrap my stove cover in tissue paper
that also buy at Walmart, 50 sheets of it,
a one sheet thick all the way around.
And then I take this bubble wrap that I get from Amazon.
And they wrap the stove,
cover in the bubble wrap to protect it from damages.
When it's during shipping,
then I go ahead and box that up and type everything down
with this packing tape.
So it's a pretty simple process,
but it takes a little bit of time.
And it took me a little time to figure out this is the
correct way to ship this stuff.
Because if you don't put the tissue paper on there,
your paint and your stain get scuffed,
or if you don't put the bubble wrap on there,
then you get damaged items when they arrive your customer.
Let's talk about the elephant in the room. Ads.
Done the last video, if you haven't seen that,
I'll put it in the description below, it's a good one.
You should probably watch it.
It's going to help you make some money woodworking.
When I first started on Etsy,
there was no way I was buying an ad, I was like,
I don't want got no money.
I surely can't afford to put what little bit I am making
from local sales onto an ad platform, well, I was wrong.
Let me preface by saying you don't have to spend ad money
to have sales on Etsy, but when you buy ads from Etsy,
you get surfaced on the front page.
You're basically buying a spot on the front page so that
your item gets seen by more customers
and thereby hopefully getting you more sales.
It has absolutely worked for me,
in the last 12 months, I spent about $1,500 on ads.
If you're thinking what, it's not like that, I spend
between a dollar and $5 a day,
depending on how many sales I want.
So you can set your budget.
You have to start out at a minimum of $1,
I think is I think it's 99 cents.
I think it's a dollar is the minimum ad budget you can do.
And you can go all the way up to a hundred dollars a day.
I've never done that.
The max I've ever spent on ads on Etsy is $5 a day.
And it takes about two weeks before the everything
starts rolling after you start your ads up.
So if you're only doing a dollar a day,
give it a couple of weeks, you're going to spend 14 bucks.
It's just how it is, so I want to do,
see if I can increase my sales, I was at $3 a day.
I was getting regular sales, so I bumped it to $5 a day.
And Oh my gosh,
I was already getting more sales than I could that I wanted
to keep up with because I have a full time job.
And I was having to like work a whole lot of extra time
in the shop, trying to keep up with those orders.
It got really stressful, I was going out of my mind.
So I dropped it back to $3,
which slowed the sales down to a manageable amount.
So I guess it just depends on what you're making.
If you can crank those items out faster, if you,
if you're having success with ads,
it does cost money on the front end, but honestly,
if I'd never bought those ads,
I wouldn't never have gotten the revenue generated
that I did, so to me, it was worth it.
Especially since it's generating a dollar a day, $3 a day,
five hours a day, whatever amount you select.
It's not actually like a huge chunk coming out.
And the way the Etsy payments work, I have it set to where,
when my account hits $100, they send it to my bank account.
And so what happens is I'll make a sale of a stove cover.
It's $130, and then if there's ad money, Oh,
they go ahead and take that off, the top.
A shipping label comes off of that, et cetera.
So it actually,
it actually never comes out of my pocket per se.
Now one thing Etsy did very recently
was called offsite ads.
You have no control over offsite ads.
You don't pay for those, Etsy pays for them upfront,
but you pay for them on the backend.
You can check the Etsy handbook
to make sure this is correct.
But from what I remember is if your shop makes over $10,000
in revenue in any 12 month, previous period, up to this day.
So a rolling 12 month period,
then if someone, they're already buying ads
on your they're putting ads on your stuff, you don't want,
you're not paying for it, so in other words,
when somebody Googles your product,
it may show up as an ad at the top.
If they click on that and bought that item,
they're going to take,
if you make more than 10,000 on your shop,
they're going to take 12% off the top of that sale.
You have no control over that, no,
if you make less than
$10,000 in a 12 rolling 12 month period,
they're going to take 15% off the top.
So automatically you're losing,
if you're item's a hundred bucks,
you're losing $15, if it's an ad buy,
you have no control over what gets advertised.
You have no control over who buys that,
where it's being shown at, any of that stuff.
I'm not, I'm not a fan of that at all.
And I really haven't seen an increase
in sales since they'd done that
because I was buying my own ads.
So that's totally separate from Etsy ads, which may,
which shows only on Etsy,
these offsite ads show on Google and other search engines.
I've made more sales on Etsy than I ever would locally
because it expands my customer base.
There's no other place like Etsy,
on the internet that I know of
that has this large of a customer base
that are actively searching for handmade products.
It's a very good idea to research the products
that you're going to sell, look at other shops,
shops that are selling those items.
Don't copy from that shop.
Take note of how they have their sales set up.
If they have a bunch of reviews on their shop,
they're making sales, pay attention to that.
They know what they're doing, look at their items,
look how they're taking their pictures.
Look how they've described them, look how they titled them.
Don't just jump on there and try to start listing items
and not know what you're doing, do your research.
Don't my generic products to sale, make something unique.
It's your design, it's your color scheme.
Whatever makes it unique to you.
You need to figure that out before you start posting things
on Etsy, because like I said, on the, on the cutting boards,
there's like 90,000 results for cutting boards.
You got to stand out from the crowd, somehow,
if you're just making a cut out of Walnut
and cherry cutting board, and that's all you title it.
And in the description Walnut and cherry,
you're not going to make any sales because you're not going
to be serviced in the search.
Write good descriptions,
make good products, make unique products.
Don't leave a product on your store that's not selling,
if it's been on there for two, three months,
and you've not got any sales and you haven't seen any
traffic to that because you can look at your stats
and see where your traffic's coming from,
if you're not making sales,
go ahead and remove that or revise it somehow.
You don't want to leave that up there.
Now, those a couple of apps that I've used
that will help you understand the ranking system
and how to better title and tag
and make descriptions of your items.
So you can just search for those, one's called Erank.
And one is called Marmalead.
Those are, both of them have a free aspect of that.
I've never paid for the paid version of either one of those,
but you can use those free versions that will help you
optimize your listings, get you going on the right track.
You want to make sure you check out
the Etsy seller handbook and their policies
before you start listing items for sale on their platform.
Power tip time.
Let's talk about the power tip.
You're not going to believe this when I tell this to you.
So some of you most likely have heard of Pinterest.
You probably are not using Pinterest, start using it.
So Pinterest has driven more traffic to my website,
to my YouTube Etsy store
than any other social media platform bar none.
I had to learn how to use Pinterest
because I didn't have a clue what it was.
I started reading on how to drive traffic to your website,
to your product, and Pinterest kept showing up every time.
And so I just downloaded the app,
made myself an account and I started using it.
I started putting pins of my products on there
that I've taken pictures of.
And you can do that straight from your Etsy store.
You can share it to Pinterest,
share it to your Pinterest page.
Pinterest will then start showing that
when people are looking for certain things,
that'll drive traffic to your shop, the more traffic,
the more odds are you making a sale.
I personally highly recommend getting a Pinterest account
and put it in your business name and start driving traffic.
If all you have is an Etsy store,
start sharing those from Etsy, go to Etsy,
click on that product and share it to your Pinterest page
and pin it to your page
or share it to your page is the same thing, pin, share.
That'll start driving some traffic, go do it.
So I'm gonna share the stats behind my shop
and then we'll get into the listing.
So my shop's been open since
about March or April of 2018 if I remember correctly.
And it's been about two and a half years,
I've been able to generate 254 orders to date.
That has brought in $26,700.
As you can see in that timeframe.
And then it's brought in 48,700 visitors to the shop.
If we scroll down a little bit,
you'll see where it says Etsy app,
and Etsy app and Etsy pages, is 12,300 of those visitors.
And then Etsy search, people are actually searching
and finding my items and then marketing and SEO is
where I've bought ads, and then social media,
Etsy ads on the very bottom.
So as you can see, Etsy ads is beneficial,
if you want to jump into that.
Then you can actually scroll on down,
this is just in the Etsy app, Etsy Shop Manager app.
You can download that.
You can manage your entire store through the app,
or you can do it on a laptop through a web browser.
So you can see which items are selling the best.
The stove cover, the distressed Oak cover is my,
by far my most popular item.
Let's dive into this listing and let me show you how I want
to set up, this is my most popular selling item.
It's the distressed biscuit white
or an off white color with a brown undertone
with a wax finish on top, so I have all 10 pictures.
There are some other color pictures other
than distressed white later on in the listing
so that people could see I make those
in different colors, so as you scroll down,
there's a video section that's in beta.
You may or may not be able to see that depending
on if you're have access to that beta,
several of my listings have videos on them.
You can check those out if you want,
but how you get there is Etsy.com/shop/731woodwork.
So in the title, I've got this thing titled
every which way but loose,
everything I could think of that someone might
search for on a stove cover noodle board,
whether it be like for a gas stove, electric stove,
I try to put it in that title so that if they're searching
for that specific color or specific item,
they'll be able to find it by searching
and not just rely on ads to show my products.
So you're just going to ask about this listing, who made it,
what is it, and then was it made to order?
You can put, it was made to order or what you're made in,
who made it, if you're in a partnership or something,
and then what are the,
as a finished product or a supplier tool.
So if you go to kitchen storage or the category,
when you start typing this in,
it's gonna suggest a bunch of things to it.
You pick the best category that fits your item.
What's the primary color.
This one's white has some brown undertones.
So secondary color's brown.
Occasions, you can pick any of these that you want.
And so I tried to pick something on all of them,
no matter what it is,
to see if it'll help the sale.
Holidays, a lot of times before Christmas
or before Mother's Day, I'll go in and drop this down
and add that holiday in there.
And that'll actually help.
If somebody's searching for mother's day gifts,
sometimes it'll generate your listing to show up.
I have a set for automatic renewal,
and this is a physical product is not a digital product.
So it's something they're going to buy.
My description, extremely long has a whole lot
of detail in it, a whole lot of information in there.
So they know exactly what they're buying.
And then as there's a disclaimer on the bottom
about not putting it on a hot stove
and not recommended for food, et cetera,
you can actually check that for customized orders.
And then the tags, what we talked about, the tags,
they need to be a bunch of them, they all need,
there need to be, you need to use all 13.
They needed to describe your item,
or they need to be something
someone might be searching for in relation to your product.
The materials, what I've used to build this with.
I put those in there
because sometimes people are looking for a wood stove cover
or a plastic stove cover or whatever it is.
I want to make sure they know when they're searching
that this is a wood
and what all materials went into making it.
I can set a price, I can tell how many quantities.
If I'll have SKU numbers on them, we can do that.
And then down in the bottom,
I have a personalization thing where they have to tell me
how wide and deep that item is
because it's a specific size I have to make for their stove.
And I don't want them to just order a generic 20 by 20
and then they get it, and this little tiny thing don't fit.
I offer free domestic shipping to the United States.
And then this is the finished thing.
You can hit the publish in the bottom, right?
It'll publish that to your Etsy page
and then you are live and ready to go.
So when you set your shop up, you see,
this is my shop, you can see my shop,
my reviews across the top,
shop, reviews, about, policies more.
In the policies, I have a processing time.
I have my estimated shipping time, et cetera,
payment options it's Etsy payments I've signed up for.
When you set up your Etsy store,
they'll walk you step-by-step on how to set it up.
It's not difficult.
And then your return and exchange is very important.
You set this up, I've already had a couple of customers.
Not everybody's honest people.
I've had a couple try to swindle me out of my product.
They'll get it, and they'll say, well,
I didn't like the color and they'll send me pictures.
And it's identical to the color, that's on the listing.
And they want me to send them another one.
That's the same color, not going to do that.
I do offer exchanges if they weren't happy,
I offer to exchange it,
the customer did not want to exchange that.
So the customer left me a negative review and I could reply
on it saying, Hey, I offered you an exchange.
You didn't want to do that.
I think they were just fishing for a free product.
Getting people to review your items is a big deal on Etsy
because the more good reviews you got, I mean,
if you go to a store that has zero sales and zero reviews,
you pick up momentum slowly, you start getting sales,
you start asking your customers to review your product.
You know, when I first started,
I would send them a message about two weeks after the sale
saying, Hey, I hope you're happy with your product.
Would you please consider leaving a review
and let us know what you think.
Let them post that review of your product.
And it helps your shop
because you're getting positive reviews.
Now you see where the shop is set up.
I've got a banner across the top.
I pretty much only make stove covers.
I had some flags on here for one at one time,
they didn't sell.
I didn't really push those a lot because I was so busy with
the stove cover, so you can see the stove cover listings,
the banner across the top, I just throw that into a photo
editing program, put a couple of colors on there,
put my logo in the middle, rock right on.
That way was so I lands on this shop,
they know this guy makes stove covers.
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I appreciate those comments.
I take the best ideas, I make videos out of those.
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How I price my woodwork.
I don't do my pricing like any other video
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