Lex's Digital/Physical Product Group Accountability Thread

[kr8nt]

I just got my first ever sale online this morning. I can't believe it.

It took me about a month to develop my product until I was able to publish it on Etsy. Nothing was happening for a week or so and then today I checked my email and found out that someone purchased it. The best part is that I spent less on Etsy Ads, than the product is selling for, which means that it's profitable. This feels unbelievable.

Thank you a lot for your posts, Lex! Without your posts I don't think I could've done it.

What could I do now, to speed up the process of getting sales?

 

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[StrikingViper69]

I just got my first ever sale online this morning. I can't believe it.

It took me about a month to develop my product until I was able to publish it on Etsy. Nothing was happening for a week or so and then today I checked my email and found out that someone purchased it. The best part is that I spent less on Etsy Ads, than the product is selling for, which means that it's profitable. This feels unbelievable.

Thank you a lot for your posts, Lex! Without your posts I don't think I could've done it.

What could I do now, to speed up the process of getting sales?

Give it a day or two to see how it goes, then start increasing your ad budget.

If you keep getting sales, keep increasing the budget, keeping an eye on your “cost per sale”.

Start engaging with customers and try to find their likes/dislikes so you can improve the product and find out what additional things you can do to help them

 

[kr8nt]

Give it a day or two to see how it goes, then start increasing your ad budget.

If you keep getting sales, keep increasing the budget, keeping an eye on your “cost per sale”.

Start engaging with customers and try to find their likes/dislikes so you can improve the product and find out what additional things you can do to help them

Thank you a lot for the tips!

Should I better contact customers by manually writing them an email asking about what do they like/dislike, or will it be enough to create some form and send them asking to fill it out?

Also, at what point should I consider getting a website for the store?

 

[Lex DeVille]

I just got my first ever sale online this morning. I can't believe it.

It took me about a month to develop my product until I was able to publish it on Etsy. Nothing was happening for a week or so and then today I checked my email and found out that someone purchased it. The best part is that I spent less on Etsy Ads, than the product is selling for, which means that it's profitable. This feels unbelievable.

Thank you a lot for your posts, Lex! Without your posts I don't think I could've done it.

What could I do now, to speed up the process of getting sales?

To speed up sales on Etsy, you need more traffic to your store. Increasing your ad spend will bring more people to your store. Likewise, adding more products that target different keywords will also bring more traffic. Those are the two main ways outside of investing time in SEO and social media to increase sales on Etsy.

 

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[StrikingViper69]

Thank you a lot for the tips!

Should I better contact customers by manually writing them an email asking about what do they like/dislike, or will it be enough to create some form and send them asking to fill it out?

Also, at what point should I consider getting a website for the store?

Email manually to get started.

If you’re getting a few sales every day, consider a website. Then you have to think about cost, different ad platforms etc. see if current sales are steady before putting time and money into that

 

[kr8nt]

To speed up sales on Etsy, you need more traffic to your store. Increasing your ad spend will bring more people to your store. Likewise, adding more products that target different keywords will also bring more traffic. Those are the two main ways outside of investing time in SEO and social media to increase sales on Etsy.

Thank you for the tips, Lex!

If I create a lot of different products that are not related at all, this should potentially increase the sales for other products as well, because more people will be finding the store and by checking it out they could potentially decide to buy other products that are not even what they were searching for?

 

[kr8nt]

Email manually to get started.

If you’re getting a few sales every day, consider a website. Then you have to think about cost, different ad platforms etc. see if current sales are steady before putting time and money into that

Thank you, StrikingViper69!

Is it allowed to just take the customer emails directly from Etsy and start sending them emails, or do I have to ask the customers for their email first?

 

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[StrikingViper69]

Thank you, StrikingViper69!

Is it allowed to just take the customer emails directly from Etsy and start sending them emails, or do I have to ask the customers for their email first?

I don't know, I've never used Etsy

 

[Andy Black]

Just a tip @kr8nt...

These are good questions, and should be easy enough for you to figure out:

Thank you for the tips, Lex!

If I create a lot of different products that are not related at all, this should potentially increase the sales for other products as well, because more people will be finding the store and by checking it out they could potentially decide to buy other products that are not even what they were searching for?

Thank you, StrikingViper69!

Is it allowed to just take the customer emails directly from Etsy and start sending them emails, or do I have to ask the customers for their email first?

 

[kr8nt]

Just a tip @kr8nt...

These are good questions, and should be easy enough for you to figure out:

Oh, you are right, Andy, thanks for pointing this out! I was a bit tired and sleepy after the gym and didn't notice that the answers to these questions are quite easy to figure out.

 

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