Shopify Tutorial for Beginners (How to start selling on Shopify step by step) 💸

About this video

Hayes gives a step-by-step Shopify tutorial for beginners who want their own customizable store for physical, digital or service products, rather than only selling on marketplaces like Etsy or Amazon. She starts via her link for what she describes as a free three-day trial followed by a first month for $1, enters an email, answers setup questions, selects a plan (Basic in the demo) and adds payment information to lock in the offer. She then names the store in Settings and notes settings for payments (Shopify Payments, PayPal), domains, and other options. In Products she creates a listing with title, description, photos, category, price, inventory tracking and shipping, unchecking ‘physical product’ for digital items. She shows adding apps: Printful to sync and design print-on-demand products, set prices and push them to Shopify, and Shopify’s free Digital Downloads app to attach deliverable files and customize the delivery email. Finally she customizes the storefront in Online Store > Themes (default Dawn, other free/paid themes, or AI-generated themes), edits pages and mobile view, and stresses driving traffic through content marketing, collaborations and optionally paid ads.

Key takeaways

• Start Shopify via the trial flow, select a plan early to secure the introductory pricing she describes, then name the store and configure payments and domain in Settings.
• Create products in the Products tab with title, description, images, price and inventory/shipping settings; uncheck ‘physical product’ for digital products.
• Use apps to extend Shopify: Printful for print-on-demand design, pricing and syncing to the store, and Digital Downloads to attach digital files to listings.
• Customize the storefront under Online Store > Themes — keep Dawn or try another/AI-generated theme — editing text, images, product/collection pages and checking the mobile layout.
• Shopify has no built-in marketplace audience in her framing, so drive traffic proactively with free content marketing on one platform, collaborations/giveaways, and paid ads if budget allows.

Episode details: published November 19, 2024 · 13:39 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Kate Hayes’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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