I made $11K Selling BASIC Digital Products on Etsy

In the last few months, one of my Etsy shops generated over eleven thousand dollars in sales

selling

super

basic

digital

downloads and in this video I'll show you exactly how I did it so you can get these or even better results. You need to combine all the steps I go over in this video, otherwise you'll be stuck with Etsy listings that never sell. Etsy is one of the best marketplaces to sell

digital

downloads because they make it super easy to upload digital files to your store. It is simply automatically sent to customers when they purchase them, so when done correctly, these digital files can generate passive income over time because all you have to do is upload them once and they will continue to sell over and over again without further ado. preambles.

I took and what you will have to take is decide what you want to sell. Do you want to sell digital worksheets? Editable templates. Printable planners. Printable wall art. For this example, let's say you want to sell printable planners. You're going to go ahead and write. in the keyword you describe boost your product on Etsy this is where most people make a big mistake: they jump into a super saturated market and then wonder why they aren't making any printable sales planner that generates over 527,000 results, that is the number of ads you would have. Competing against if you just created any type of printable planner competing in an oversaturated market is like trying to get Taylor Swift's attention in a 100,000-capacity stadium.

It's really hard to stand out now, how I was able to generate a lot more sales much faster. by targeting a very specific type of product and target audience, so as you browse some of the listings currently

selling

on Etsy, try to be more specific about what you want to sell, for example, the editable cleaning planner called me the attention. The store has a lot of sales and reviews and is a very specific printable ADHD planner. Through my research here, I noticed that some pregnancy planners and pregnancy journals are getting a lot of sales and reviews, so what I would do next is write a correct printable pregnancy planner. there you reduce the competition to just over 2500 results, which already seems very promising, so in this case, instead of selling only the typical daily and weekly planners that are very competitive, try to target something much more specific, such as a pregnancy planner, I took this one step further. and used Etsy keyword research tools, like Jam and Samurai Sales, to find

products

that have higher search volume and lower competition.

I have free trial links for both tools which you can get in the description box below if you want to do your own research through my research. For this example, I noticed that pregnancy diary and cleanse program have very high search volume and low competition, so these are great keywords to pursue. Later in this video, I'll reveal the digital downloads I was selling in one of my Etsy shops. We followed the steps I took to discover what I wanted to sell. Once you've narrowed it down to the type of

products

you want to create, you'll want to get design inspiration from Etsy and Pinterest.

I went ahead and wrote a printable pregnancy journal on Pinterest just to get ideas of what pages to include in the journal, what styles I like. You can do the exact same thing on Etsy to get an idea of ​​which products are getting the most sales. reviews and to get ideas from sources you like. Chart colors so you can gather ideas and inspiration for when you go to create your unique designs. Next, you'll need to download fonts and graphics for which you have a commercial license if you don't already have one. creating your own from scratch I personally use Creative Fabrica, that's what I used for my digital downloads for graphics and fonts.

They have many beautiful packages that you can use in your digital products for this example. I have written Cute Woodland Animals clipart just for you. Include some of these cliparts in a pregnancy journal and there are many options that I can download to use. I also noticed through my research that some pregnancy journals compare the size of the baby to a piece of fruit each week, so I simply wrote a fruit clip art image to get some ideas on what packages I could buy and use for my journal. You can use the link below to sign up for free and get your first 10 downloads absolutely free and cancel at any time.

They have an amazing Annual All Access Offer that you can sign up for after their free trial which states here that gives you access to all of their classes, graphics, and fonts with a commercial license. Well, so far, so good, but all the work we just did would be a complete waste of time without the rest of the steps we're going to follow next, you'll want to create the product based on all the research you've done on the low product competition and design inspiration you've collected. from Etsy and Pinterest For this example, if you're creating a planner or a journal or something, you can get more ideas on what to include using the GPT chat.

I'm just using the free version and I wrote what should I include in a Printable Pregnancy Journal that I want to sell and it gave me a lot of great ideas that I can include on the pages to make this product amazing for my target audience, so for PDFs of several pages I like to use Canva, but I always bring my own graphics and fonts that I downloaded from Creative Fabrica canva is just the software I use to put everything together, so here I have brought my graphics and fonts to canva to help me put together this pregnancy journal really nice based on all the research I already did where I can now save it as a PDF file that I will upload to my store.

Here's another mistake many people make: imagine walking into an ice cream shop and they only offer you vanilla, you'd probably walk out. the door unless they were advertising the best vanilla ice cream in the world. I hope that

made

sense, but my point is that you need to give the customers who visit your store many different options to choose from and potentially complementary products that they can also add to the Product they initially came with and which we will talk about later. Etsy is a numbers game, it's competitive, so the more products you can offer in your store, the better.

To save yourself time, you can literally create a really good product and then make some adjustments. to it, like the fonts and graphics, save another PDF file and then make another list, like in this example, you could just change the rainbow and maybe the text colors and then some of the graphics within the pages save a PDF file and then there is another list. created in just a few minutes. I can't tell you how important this next step is. How you upload your digital product will be the deciding factor in whether or not your customer will purchase from your store or skip your competitors when you upload it.

For your listing, the first thing you're going to do is put a very descriptive title that includes relevant keywords to help you rank in Etsy search. This is where Etsy's keyword research tools, like Jam and Samurai Sales, will be really valuable for this example. I've already done some research to find these descriptive keywords that I've now included in my title. If you want a full tutorial on Etsy keyword research, I'll leave the link to the video below in the description box which customers rely heavily on. the images they see to make their purchasing decisions, if the main image of your ad, which is

basic

ally the thumbnail of your ad, does not stand out, customers will simply walk past and skip to your competitors, so get them right on the that can be inspired. other Etsy sellers just to see what types of images they include in their listings and go ahead and create images that help showcase your product in a way that stands out, so I've created a couple of images here on Canva just to show you a couple . of examples, I would create a few more to show what pages the customer will get and how to download your digital product, so this is where you would add the photos and then this is where you will drag and drop your file, so I'm going to download the pregnancy journal right here .

I get a lot of questions: how is this file sent to the client once you've uploaded it here and published your ad? When someone purchases it, Etsy will send them an email with the link. To download this file so that you don't have to worry about anything, your description must be detailed and include relevant keywords within the description. You can take inspiration from the descriptions other Etsy sellers have included just to figure out what you should include. in your description and you can also chat with GPT to get some ideas, so for this example I wrote an Etsy product description for a printable pregnancy journal, this way you can create the perfect description for your product and then the last piece that What I really want to highlight here are your tags.

Make sure you fill out all 13 tags and once again convert them into relevant keywords. That's exactly what I did for all the listings in my shop and that's what helped me rank on Etsy and make those sales faster, okay? Imagine you're throwing a massive party that you've done a lot of prep work for, and then you forget to send out the invitations. That's exactly what you're doing if you're not promoting your products. So many people make the mistake of including them on the list. all these Etsy products online and then just wait for Etsy to do all the work for them, now it's your job to promote your products and generate traffic, something that many people don't realize is that the more you promote and attract customers , plus Etsy will notice that your listings are getting traffic and will help you rank even higher on their platform, so in the store I've been running about 50 percent of the traffic came from Etsy and the other 50 came from outside sources, which which in my case was just Pinterest, believe it or not, you will notice that through your design inspiration and research on Pinterest, many of the pins make their way to Etsy.

This is because Pinterest is one of the best tools to market your products every day. I was creating pins for my products that lead to my Etsy listings, so for this example, I created this pin for my weekly pregnancy journal. Pinterest likes vertical pins more, so you're more likely to get clicks. I have a whole video on How to Use Pinterest for Your Etsy Store. I'll also link it below, so be sure to create several pins for each of your products every day that will direct people from your Pinterest account to your Etsy store. All you have to do is rinse and repeat, follow the exact same strategy we've gone over in this video to create more products for the same target customer.

For example, if I offer pregnancy journals, I can now offer some self-care. printable baby shower games baby food trackers that kind of thing if you're wondering what digital files I sold in one of my stores. I focused on primarily mood and habit trackers using the exact same process I shared here. It took me a while to get the hang of it all because there was a lot to learn, like any other business you have to be patient with the results as you put in the hard work and time to build this store that will earn you passive income when set up correctly.

Don't forget to sign up for Creative Fabrica to get your first 10 downloads absolutely free and using the link below, like this video if it was helpful and head over to this video below to learn how to promote your digital downloads on Etsy. and I will see you there