How to Make $8,678/Mo Selling on Etsy (While Working LESS)

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The creator claims she works less than 4 hours a week on her Etsy shop while making over $20,000 a month in profit, stressing Etsy is not get-rich-quick or initially passive. She says it took 5 years to reach $1 million in sales, her margins operate between 60-70% in handmade and supply categories, and her background is corporate e-commerce at Zappos and Zulily scaling portfolios. She also claims a separate seven-figure coaching business helping over 2,000 Etsy sellers with about 25 employees. She outlines five steps to buy back time: 1) Build a scalable product mix not dependent on you — her custom floral arrangements were hard to train on, so she added supplies, which are simple pick-and-pack to outsource. 2) List the lowest dollar-per-hour tasks and outsource those first, such as packaging, order prep, building boxes, graphics/mockups, or listing updates; she first hired help 2-3 hours a day for packaging when order volume outpaced her hours. 3) Outsource tasks you dislike or that take the most time, training one at a time to mastery — her full-time assistant mastered apparel, packaging and prep, then a new product type each week across about 20 categories. 4) Hand off the most challenging orders last, teaching a decision-tree framework, staying accessible, and letting the employee make mistakes, including on $600 items. 5) Give up customer service last to keep a pulse on quality, building SOPs from responses. She says one full-time employee now runs the shop 5 days a week, and her own remaining tasks are printing shipping labels and packaging one breakable product.

Key takeaways

• Build for scalability from the start: choose a product mix that is easy to train someone else on, e.g. supplies/pick-and-pack over complex custom work
• Outsource lowest dollar-per-hour tasks first — packaging, order prep, box building, inventory processing, graphics/mockups and listing updates
• Then outsource time-consuming or disliked tasks one at a time, requiring full mastery of each product type/task before adding the next
• Hand off the hardest orders last using a decision-tree framework, stay accessible for questions, and accept mistakes as the cost of removing yourself as the constraint
• Retain customer service longest to monitor quality, then convert your response patterns into SOPs before delegating it

Episode details: published February 1, 2024 · 10:24 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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