10 BIG Mistakes Etsy Sellers Make EVERY DAY | Tips for $1,000/Day in 2025

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Dylan Jahraus says small Etsy shops are usually held back not by one missing secret but by about 100 smaller gaps and about 20 things done out of order or misprioritized, based on her claim of working with over 1,500 Etsy sellers in the past year. She also claims over $1.5 million in revenue and over $1 million in profit over about 7 years as a seller. Her 10 fixes are: design graphics with the background/garment color in mind so lettering does not blend in, illustrated with a sand-colored sweatshirt where a letter disappears; stop using Placeit mockups and use Midjourney for more modern, eye-catching mockups; do not price at 30% gross margin and higher like bestsellers with thousands of reviews when you have no social proof yet; do not find bestsellers on EverBee, copy them and tweak them slightly; for digital shops, do not have 3 to 10 people making products for one shop because varied fonts, layouts and quality look mish-mashed; do not mix sprinklings from 4 to 5 YouTube Etsy gurus because prioritization and order matter, for example SEO and mobile/desktop-optimized photos before Pinterest traffic, and 5 good listings beat 100 bad ones; stop being patient and waiting 6 to 9 months, instead take fast, relentless action; do not fill a print-on-demand shop with t-shirts, which she calls one of the lowest-margin options; stop designing only what you like and decide to sell what people want; and stop making excuses such as family in town, waiting on LLC paperwork, missing a holiday, or fearing too many orders, which she frames as a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Key takeaways

• Design graphics with the final background color in mind so text and details do not blend into garments like a sand-colored sweatshirt
• Do not price like established bestsellers at 30%+ gross margin before you have social proof; pricing strategy should match your business stage
• Follow one person’s system in the right order — SEO and high-converting photos/descriptions before driving Pinterest traffic — instead of mixing 4-5 gurus
• Quality beats quantity: 100 bad listings are worse than 5 good listings, and t-shirts are a low-margin trap for print-on-demand shops
• Stop waiting 6-9 months for a shop to take off; Jahraus argues progress loves speed and sellers should act ferociously when sales stall

Episode details: published November 10, 2023 · 9:21 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Dylan Jahraus’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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