Why 99% of Etsy Shops FAIL | Tips & Strategies for $1,000/Day

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The creator, who claims over $1.5 million in Etsy revenue and over $1 million in profit over seven years and says she has helped more than 1,500 sellers, separates dead shops that never took off from dying shops that once did well, and treats them differently. For a dead shop: if it is over two months old with under five sales, or under 20 sales mostly from people the seller knows, she advises closing it and relaunching fully optimized to get the new-shop boost — citing a student she says reached 100 sales in the first 34 days in a new shop with largely the same products. Sellers should also delete weak listings, since quality beats quantity, compare their thumbnail and price side-by-side with competitors in search, and seek blunt feedback in seller forums rather than from family; overhaul SEO beyond titles, which she says are only about 10% of SEO; and drive their own traffic instead of relying on Etsy Ads, splitting effort between new listings and traffic, using Facebook for faster results and Pinterest for long-term compounding. For a dying shop that has fallen sharply, she says not to fear changing once-successful listings, to add many new trend-leading and evergreen products rather than copying current Etsy bestsellers, and to discount old bestsellers heavily while running ads to win back bestseller badges and search position, which she frames as needing roughly 200 orders at the reduced price.

Key takeaways

• If a shop has almost no real sales after two months, relaunching fully optimized can beat trying to fix an unoptimized shop, because new shops get an algorithmic boost.
• Do not compensate for weak design with listing volume — a shop full of losing thumbnails is dead weight however many listings it has.
• Fix the full SEO structure, not just titles, and test designs against competitor thumbnails in actual search results.
• Drive external traffic yourself with a short-term and long-term pairing — Facebook for speed and Pinterest for compounding — instead of using Etsy Ads as a band-aid.
• A declining former bestseller shop needs new products, not just revival: combine heavy discounts and ads on old winners with a fresh, trend-leading product mix.

Episode details: published November 6, 2023 · 11:37 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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