Is Shopify better than Etsy? | Can you have multiple Etsy shops? | Answering YOUR Questions

About this video

In this Instagram Q&A, Jahraus — an Etsy seller of about seven years who says she has sold $1.5 million in revenue and over a million dollars in profit, with a background at Zappos and Zulily — answers questions. Reviews: do not blatantly ask; make the experience so good customers ask how to review, or add a thank-you note softly saying a review would be helpful. SEO tools: no paid tools are needed, just Etsy plus the free version of eRank. Burnout: get an extra hour to hour and a half of sleep, use Jesus Calling devotionals, sermons from Central Christian Church in Las Vegas (Jud Wilhite), and mentors like Alex Hormozi, focus on needle-moving tasks, and say no more. A shop opened months ago with no listings, sales, or reviews should be replaced with a new shop for Etsy’s new-shop boost. For crochet, items taking more than about two and a half to three hours are hard to sell profitably; she suggests altering bought items, e.g. crochet applique on a denim jacket. Her program covers Shopify; coaching can help with Amazon, which needs capital. A strategy call involves her team pre-reviewing your shop/goals, her internal analysis video, then a discussion of her Multi Six Figure Etsy Blueprint program. Other answers: niches have saturated areas but also underserved customers; yes, you can have more than one Etsy shop; premium print-on-demand should build evergreen listings before chasing holidays, and t-shirts/stickers can be premium depending on customer/aesthetic; if planning/forecasting fails, examine pricing, margin, product mix, and traffic; a daily 24-hour sale can train customers not to buy at full price; she uses a 1 to 10 business day window and USPS, FedEx, and UPS; build Etsy to at least $70,000-$80,000 before focusing on Shopify, since she says about 90% of her website sales come from Etsy customers; a renewed listing sorts to the top by most recent; wait at least 3 to 4 weeks, preferably 30 to 45 days, before judging SEO changes; her Facebook groups strategy (module four) gives some students, she says, 65% of their traffic; you cannot resell an Etsy shop; she uses AI as a framework for copy/descriptions but adds a human touch.

Key takeaways

• Earn reviews by exceeding expectations rather than asking blatantly; a thank-you note can softly say a rating or review would be helpful if the customer was happy
• She says no paid SEO tools are needed — Etsy itself plus the free version of eRank is enough
• Build Etsy first to at least $70,000-$80,000 in revenue before focusing on Shopify; she says about 90% of her website sales come from people who came over from Etsy
• Do not change SEO on impulse: look at listing data first and wait at least 3 to 4 weeks, preferably 30 to 45 days, before judging new terms
• Focus premium print-on-demand on evergreen, year-round listings before chasing holidays, and judge t-shirts/stickers by the customer and aesthetic, not the product type

Episode details: published May 28, 2023 · 15:49 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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