igible cases one more resource that can help you out here is the AutoDS eBay customer support management system of course I've got a link to it but let me actually show you what it looks like so here on AutoDS I'm gonna click on customer support here on the left side and it's going to collect all of the customer messages that I'm receiving and sending so here I can see all of the messages from my customers that I'm receiving messages that I'm sending messages that I'm getting from eBay cases and so forth I can see all of that here and I can also respond to them so for example I clicked on this message here and you can kind of see a chat between us kind of like a chat screen and I can continue replying from here instead of doing it through eBay and I can also create chat snippets to make it even easier especially unrepetitive messages that I send my buyers okay so you can take care of all of your customer support management all within AutoDS now next I wanna talk a little bit about dealing with flagged accounts we're nearing the end but this is really important I did mention flagged accounts what it means and if that happens to you you're gonna get a message that looks like this as I got it in my eBay account there is evidence that you're purchasing from our retailers and other marketplace websites because they want you to work with wholesale suppliers they want you to work with private suppliers like we have inside the AutoDS system but if you're gonna work with the retailers make sure that before you do that you guide your limits up as high as possible so that when they do flag your accounts you won't be able to raise your limits anymore but it won't really matter because you have thousands of limits and that's more than enough to make substantial amounts of profits as long as your product research is on point so take the tips that I talked about in this video and also use this resource right here how to work with eBay flagged accounts besides that make sure to maintain a high eBay seller level I talked about that I showed you my seller level on my eBay account make sure that you're either top rated or above standard below standard is not good your account is in risk of suspension and that will happen if you have transaction defect rates keep that around zero to 1% late shipment rates keep that below 5% cases close without seller resolution keep it below 2% tracking uploaded on time and validated keep it above 70% and your return rate keep it below 8% 2 to 4% is the optimal range that you wanna have there and the last thing that you're gonna do is automate and enjoy scaling your dropshipping business there's many things inside AutoDS that I did not talk about like the option to add virtual assistants to help you with your account and I can see that right here on their settings slash users here I can add virtual assistants by adding their names and their email addresses giving them access to one or several stores and what we wanna give them privilege to for example to view our dashboard to view and edit our products delete them to edit our settings and so forth and this way you can hire a virtual assistant to automate your business even more but even without that with AutoDS you're gonna get price and stock monitoring so if the price changes on your suppliers websites or if the stock status changes the same changes will be applied to your store so that you will not lose profit and you will not sell products that are out of stock you've also got quick product importing as I've showed you automatic orders and tracking, product sourcing, marketplace, private suppliers, winning products hub all of the things we already talked about AI title description generator, free eBay templates plus there's also the AutoDS Academy which I did not show you so here it is and here you're gonna get tons of free, free information free courses, free video tutorials as you can see right here I'm scrolling through it and there's only so much that we can learn here right now I'm under eBay you've got all of these eBay videos and of course this video is also gonna be added to our Academy and again this simply has tons and tons of videos and also courses so for example I can click on learn more here and I'm gonna be taking to AutoDS's website to take a full eBay drop-shipping course from A to Z as you can see right here split down into lessons so you can just choose whatever lesson you wanna learn click on it and strengthen your knowledge there all of this information is absolutely free as long as you start your business right after watching this video take action register your eBay store start your product research connect automation import your products and start making sales why should we sell on Etsy in the first place? first of all it's an untapped marketplace for dropshippers we are now in the golden age of dropshipping on Etsy now Granite Shopify has been around for years but only in the past few years Etsy had a huge surge in online shoppers and the revenue simply started going crazy because more and more online shoppers are looking for the unique items that can be found on Etsy the second reason is that we can all start with literally zero dollars it doesn't cost any money to register for an Etsy account and we don't need any subscriptions to start making sales but soon I will cover what expenses we do have on Etsy as well as the rest of the steps including product research how to find winning products what are some of the best products that are selling on Etsy right now how we can actually create our stores start making sales and everything that comes along with it the third reason to sell on Etsy is that it provides free organic traffic and if we are selling something that people are looking to buy then we are going to make that sale and rake in that profit the fourth reason is that there are no selling limits this means that we can list as many products as we want from day one and nobody will tell us how many products we can actually sell on our stores and the last reason is that it's simply easy to start and automate our business all of which I will dive into in this video and before we jump into product research let's first understand what are we actually allowed to sell on Etsy since it's a unique marketplace with unique handmade products what can we actually sell on Etsy and what product should we avoid selling so Etsy is a marketplace focused primarily on handmade items vintage and retro goods and craft and party supplies which doesn't have to be handmade and the best categories to find and sell these products are jewelry, clothing, home decor and arts and crafts as well as party supplies now I'm going to dive into all of this much more soon but just keep this in mind before we start now later down in the product research phase I'm also going to talk about the products that we should not be selling on Etsy so that we can enjoy selling and profiting on Etsy in the long term okay so now that we got that out of the way let's learn how we can actually start Dropshipping on Etsy in 2024 for those of you who are completely new to the dropshipping business model dropshipping simply means that we can have an online store and sell products without actually holding them in stock once we make a sale we forward the order details to our supplier who then ships it to the end customer meaning we have no physical contact with the product and we as dropshippers simply keep the profit between the source price and the selling price so step number one is to actually create our Etsy seller account so we have a link here inside the cheat sheet to etsy.com slash sell just click on that and then go ahead and click on get started then we're going to enter our email address provide your name and your designated password once done click on register now you'll have to go through a quick verification process if you want to start selling on Etsy and this is pretty simple you're just going to have to provide basic information like your name, your address, payment and bank information so that Etsy can send you your payouts when customers buy from you and a government issued ID so that they can see that you are who you say you are I've added a full link to the verification process as well as Etsy seller policy so that you can get more acquainted with it before you get started but this information should be enough and we'll get your account verified so that you can start selling on Etsy so do that first and while your account is getting verified move on to product research so that you can find some winning products to sell and list them as soon as your account is verified it only takes a few hours to one or two days so it's really not that much and once your account gets verified you'll be greeted with the Etsy dashboard that looks like this now you can see on this store that I just got started I only have 18 active listings and I've already raked in 55 orders not only that but I'm also a star seller I'm going to go through all of this soon and what that means so we can see that I've got over 4000 store views 55 orders and almost $2000 in revenue with less than 20 products in my store so imagine once you'll have 1000 or 5000 items in your store so this is the regular dashboard and what we're seeing you can also see some recent activities like who's been favoriting your items so here I can see that Eric favorited one of my items about four hours ago and this voodoo guy favorited another item about four hours ago and the list goes on and on so there we can see some of the recent activities and that is the dashboard then we've got the listings so this is all of the products that you have on your store then we've got the messages so this is where you're going to get in touch with your customers or they get in touch with you then we've got the orders and shipping so all of the incoming orders so we can see some new orders over here that I still need to ship out and the completed orders all of the orders that I already shipped out so all of our orders are under orders and shipping although it's much easier to see it through the Autodesk screen which I will show you soon but let's continue with the Etsy menus for now we've also got growth tips which is something relatively new that Etsy started adding in giving you more ideas on how you can make more sales and set your store up for growth for example how to build trust with your buyers how to stand out an Etsy search engine and how to market and promote your shop even though I'm going to go over these subjects in this video then we've got the star seller so this is similar to eBay's top rated seller badge and this is simply a badge that shows online shoppers that you're a trusted seller you ship your products out on time you answer your customers quickly and you have a high customer rating so as you can see right here I have this message congrats you earned the star seller badge my message response rate is 100% my average rating is 4.9 and I shipped out 98% of my orders on time with tracking information all of this will make you eligible for being a star seller meaning you'll stand out even more on Etsy's search engine and customers will see that badge before they even enter your product listing so again they will know that you are a trusted seller and it will give them more confidence to purchase from your store and of course that drives up more traffic and sales then we've got the stats so we can see that I've got about a thousand visits to my store I've got a 3% conversion rate which is higher than the industry average and that's why I love free organic traffic and doing the right product research and the overall store revenue so we can see this graph here and we can also see where the shoppers found us so most of my online shoppers are finding me through the Etsy app and other Etsy pages as well as Etsy search then we've got Etsy marketing and SEO so some marketing efforts that don't cost me any money I'm gonna go over all of that soon and further below we can see what listings are being viewed what listings are being favorited and what listings are making the most orders from our online shoppers we can also see the average listings per view meaning is the shopper only seeing one product in my store or are they going to my store front and browsing through different types of products then we've got the finances section everything that has to do with money so here we can see on my payment account that I owe nothing to Etsy because all of my sales are covering my fees and here you can see that I have a nice sum available for deposit now I know that it's not the currency that you're used to seeing so let me just divide it by 3.8 which would be about the USD conversion rate so we're looking at $200 right here so this amount is available for deposit right now let me go ahead and click on request it now and now it says we've scheduled a deposit for you in the next available date because right now I've got my deposit schedule on a monthly basis you can change it to daily, weekly or any other configuration I'm gonna jump to all of this stuff soon but I just wanna give you a quick overview and further down I can see the current net profit for this month so I've got about a thousand dollars in sales right here and we've got the marketing costs as well as transaction fees and up here we can see this nice message good news we've lifted your payment account reserve so new seller accounts might get payment reserves not right from the start but at some point you might get it because Etsy wants to get to know you better they wanna make sure that you're shipping out your products on time and that your customers are getting the products and that they're satisfied with them so until then they could hold some of your funds but all of this is temporary and they will uplift it once you have some more orders ship and deliver everything on time and then you'll get this nice little message so now 100% of your sales funds minus fees will be available for deposit which is nice so as soon as the sale comes in I can withdraw that to my bank account so that's the important stuff that we have going on in finances you can also get your monthly statements payment settings, legal and tax information and stuff like that then we've got marketing so here we can get some nice analytics like where the traffic is coming from and as you can see right here my store is slowly growing I'm getting more visits to my shop more of my visits are resulting in a sale so customers are not just visiting they're actually buying something my average order value is going up a little bit and all of my total earnings through Etsy Search meaning my product research is on point people are searching for something and they're seeing my product on their first page of Etsy Search page and as you can see right here that has also been increased by 104% and here I can see that my listings were found through about 7,400 queries meaning on the left column I have all of the keywords that people are searching for and how many times my listing is being shown on their page when they're searching what the position is so for example if it's 14 then my listing is the 14th one that they're seeing after they're searching for something how many visits I got from that search and the total conversion rate which is great so how many people actually bought from my store by searching for those keywords what is my total revenue and how many listings do I have that are ranking on these keywords so we're gonna get all of that through Search Analytics we've also got Etsy ads, sales and discounts, social media and more things that I will go over in this video then we've got integrations so some nice Etsy apps that we can integrate into our stores more of which I will get to soon and settings like store settings, inform appearance about your shop, subscriptions which we don't really need shipping and policy settings which I'll get to soon and all of that so that is the Etsy menu and the important things that we have to know about so now that we have a basic overview of the Etsy seller account and all of the menus that we have let's get down to the practical explanation and learn how we can do it ourselves and this all starts with product research this is going to be the most important part when running a dropshipping business on Etsy or in any other selling channel for that matter but product research is what it all comes down to if we're not selling the right products nobody's gonna buy from our stores and we don't want that and because Etsy is a unique marketplace where we can only sell specific things it's really important to understand what we can sell and what products under those that we can sell are actually winning products that are gonna make sales and profit for our stores so this means that we're gonna have to learn how to narrow down our product research and really cherry pick the winners so that we can get to a point where you saw my store with only 18 listings which is nothing that's making a nice amount of sales way higher than the industry average and I'm gonna show you how to do all of that now remember there are millions of products that you can resell so it's important to have a good strategy for your product research and I'm gonna reveal everything that I know when it comes to that here are my top product research methods revealed my first go-to for finding a winning product to sell on Etsy is utilizing the AutoDS marketplace and the winning products hub so if you have access to AutoDS you'll be able to access these places and all of the winning products that we have inside with years and years of data that we have collected and now we're giving this information to you so that you can start selling quickly right from the start and if you don't have access to AutoDS I'm gonna talk about other product research methods soon but since starting an AutoDS account costs only $1 that's gonna be one of the best investments that you can make because you're gonna get so much from that including this and much more but let me just walk you through it really quick and show you what I mean so the AutoDS marketplace is filled with private suppliers that you can get access to with unique products that you can sell that other dropshippers simply do not have you can also get access to customized branding meaning you can send out the products with your brand logo on it even if you're shipping just one product at a time you can also take advantage of the AutoDS warehouse where we have tons of winning products stored inside and so much more and here's exactly what it looks like so here inside AutoDS I've got the marketplace here on the left side and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna click on this category clothing, shoes and jewelry because I want something that actually fits something that I can sell on Etsy and I can't really sell toys and hobbies sports and fitness unless they're handmade products it's much easier to find them through clothing, shoes and jewelry so I'm gonna start from here and as I scroll through I can see a whole bunch of jewelry products like this one right here princess stud earrings with Austrian crystals so these are not just your average Joe earrings these have Austrian crystals and what I wanna do here is see if this product is something that's interesting for Etsy shoppers so if I enter this product listing we can also see that it has customizable branding meaning I can sell this product it ships from the US so I can reach Etsy US sellers really quickly and it'll reach them in about a week's time so this supplier has fast shipping to the United States and I can also send out this product with my store logo on it so this means that the customer will know my brand and they'll remember it and hopefully they'll come to purchase more in the future or at least recommend their friends and their family to purchase from us because we already did the brand recognition here which is really tough when it comes to drop shipping because usually manufacturers or wholesalers will want us to purchase a minimum order requirement of 50 to 100 units if we want them to brand our products but now with auto DSS private suppliers that simply does not exist anymore we can brand products with even one order so how do we actually know if this is something that's worthwhile to sell on Etsy? So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go to Etsy and I'm gonna search for this product so I'm looking for princess stud earrings with Austrian crystals okay we gotta try to narrow down on the product and understand exactly what type of product this is and now I'm seeing the regular crystals let's check out how the purple ones are selling I'm just trying to narrow down as much as possible okay so here we go we've got these custom earrings that look almost the same except they don't have the golden frame around it but these sell for $400 and I can see that this seller is making some sales but let's continue so we've got these purple ones too however I do not see the word Austrian here but this is a whole bunch of purple jewelry that's actually selling pretty well and some of them have a similar look to the one that we can sell only ours is a little bit more unique cause it's got these four holders here on the corners which makes it a little bit more unique than what we're seeing here but this is just one example and here we can see that purple jewelry is actually pretty popular like let's click on this one right here okay so this one right here it doesn't look as good as the one that we can sell but these sell for $13 and 18 people have this one in their carts now if I scroll down I can see how many people reviewed this shop so I can see that this shop has 190,000 reviews and here we can see the reviews just for this specific item so we can see that a lot of people have purchased these purple ones 33 pages of customers who left positive reviews for these purple earrings and what's so special about them not that much it's an amethyst stud earring and it's in the color of purple so we're pretty much getting the same attributes here only here it's with Austrian crystals and it's 18 carat white gold plated and it only costs us $5 with $0 shipping to the United States so this is a product that I would try to test out on my store and I found it through the Autodesk marketplace that's just one example let's continue two more so here back in the marketplace I'm gonna continue scrolling down the jewelry niche and here I've got another nice piece of jewelry item so this is a stud earring with Austrian crystals another one that's 18 carat rose gold okay so I'm gonna go back to Etsy and here I'm just gonna search for Austrian crystals okay I wanna see if this is a niche that actually exists and that and if people actually like it so here I can see a whole bunch of Austrian crystals that are selling quite well for other sellers so it does look like a nice niche to sell so let's click on one of them to get some more information so this is a corner cup tube stud earrings genuine Austrian crystals and again we can see that this one sold a lot because we've got a lot of reviews for just this item from other customers who bought it and enjoyed these Austrian crystals so that is just a quick overview of the Autodesk marketplace so again what's all special about it one that we can get customizable branding meaning we can send it out with our customized logo and two we can easily import it to our store by simply clicking on import draft right here but we haven't gotten to the import section yet or how to even connect our stores to Autodesk the third thing is once this product sells the order will get automated and sent out to our customers right away even while we're away from the computer I'm gonna get to all this stuff soon but that's another thing that I love about the Autodesk marketplace another thing is that we can message these private suppliers and get access to a whole bunch of other products that we can resell and even get some discounts along the way so I'm just gonna click on this button right here message the supplier and say hey I would like to drop ship your products do you have a product catalog and what are the best discounts I can get then we can send this message to the supplier and once we do that it'll open up a chat between us and the supplier and we will be able to have one-on-one conversations with all of these private suppliers so that is why the Autodesk marketplace is my number one go-to when it comes to finding products to sell connecting with private suppliers talking with them, negotiating with them getting better products, better prices and establishing long-term relationships with private suppliers that can go with us a really long way with unique products that 99.5% of other drop shippers are simply not selling and do not have access to now the winning products hub is similar to the marketplace only here we cannot filter by category so we're just gonna have to scroll until we find products that are relevant to the ones that we wanna sell on our stores for example, here's a jewelry product that we can sell so I'm gonna click on that and here we can get more information on how well these products are selling for other sellers so here for example as I scroll down we can see the ad copy that a seller is running for this product right here now even though we might not be running ad copies we can see that this one got 23,000 likes 14 million views almost 4,000 comments so someone who's running an ad for this necklace got really viral meaning there's a lot of demand for this product and we can also see a snapshot of their website so I can see that the seller is selling this product for $50 and this is a spinning sunflower necklace we also have a link to the seller's website so we can get access to it and see exactly how he's marketing this product how he's selling it and get more insights on his marketing strategies and of course we can import these products by simply clicking on import draft and it'll move to our store so that we can sell the same product and this is gonna give you another idea of what products can sell well so we know that there is a rotating or a spinning sunflower necklace let's search for that on Etsy and see if this is something that people are actually interested to buy so I can call it rotating sunflower necklace in the search field and here as I scroll down there we go I found it right here so this one is being sold for $18 and this one is being sourced for about $15 and they call it a spinning sunflower necklace so let's click on the seller that's making the most sales this one right here selling it for $18.5 and here we can see that spinning sunflower necklace that we can source easily for just $1.09 we've got two different variations here so the gold and the silver and if we're buying it and shipping it for a cost of just $1.09 and we can see that this seller is selling it for $18.5 he's making a lot of sales with that price with 118 reviews just for this item right here I love this necklace it looks so beautiful spins beautifully very sparkly one person here waited two weeks to get it because this seller is obviously dropping it from China and that is also what you'll be getting here and if you import this product from the winning products hub it's also gonna ship out and deliver within a couple of weeks as we can see in the shipping and processing time here however we can overcome this because through Autodesk we can also source our products so even if you imported this product from the winning products hub or from Aliexpress or from all of those Chinese sellers that take a really long time to deliver their products we have an option inside Autodesk to source all of the products that you are selling on your stores meaning the system will find faster suppliers with cheaper prices for the same products that you are selling so this way your customers will not have to get mad about getting their products after two weeks since we have the sourcing option in Autodesk so more on that later but that is how we can get insights on what's happening with other sellers and how we can actually do a better job and be able to tackle these issues that other customers had with other sellers like slow shipping times so that is how we can get a product from the Autodesk marketplace or from the winning products hub validate that it is a winning product that it is something that people are searching and buying on Etsy and listing it for a cheaper price so that we can make more sales the next product research method is using Amazon's handmade or eBay's handmade categories and the reason that we're going to the handmade categories which should be pretty obvious by now is because we can pretty much only sell handmade items not only sell handmade items but that is the majority so quick reminder on the things that we can sell on Etsy so jewelry should be handmade or at least look handmade clothing, same thing should be handmade and same goes for home decor but when it comes to arts and crafts and party supplies or craft supplies and those types of products which of course you can resell on Etsy these do not have to be handmade so for now I'm gonna stick to the handmade categories but when you are doing your product research keep these categories in mind what does and what doesn't have to be handmade and we can use eBay's handmade categories as well as Amazon's handmade to get insights on what's selling well there then search for it on Etsy and see if we should sell it there too so for example in Amazon's handmade category I'm gonna go ahead and click on home decor and now let's narrow down even further by going inside throw pillows and here I can see all of these handmade throw pillows which really do look handmade so let's continue scrolling down the handmade category and kind of get an idea or a certain pattern of something that we can actually search for on Etsy and see if we should sell those too so I'm gonna stay away from the seasonal products like Christmas and so forth because right now I wanna look for evergreen products that are gonna sell all year long and later down the road we can also search for seasonal products which will have a higher peak but it'll also have a drop after that season is over so let's scroll and find a nice unique looking product like this one right here, 3D grilled steak pillow so sorry for all you vegetarians but this is just for selling purposes so let's see if this is a product that's actually selling if people are actually searching for such a product on Etsy so again I'm just gonna take the product's name we don't need the whole name just the main keywords and I'm gonna search for that on Etsy while I'm not seeing specifically 3D grilled steak pillows except for this one right here this is a meat steak rib eye pillow which is pretty close and as I scroll we can see that this type of product is pretty scarce which is a really really good thing for us sellers okay so I'm gonna scroll back up to that rib eye pillow okay let's click on that and see if this product is selling well for this seller okay so we can choose a variation here like let's just go for a one piece roasted okay so it's gonna cost $15 we've got this product in 13 cards and he's only got two left so you can definitely see that he's making some sales and he's got some reviews for this item so he is selling it it is a product that he's actually making some sales on and we found it in just about a minute from doing product research on Amazon but not only that this one looks a lot better than what this seller is selling I mean this doesn't even look like a real steak we can see all the stitches and it just doesn't look all that good this really looks like a piece of steak sitting on your sofa and it is handmade which makes it even more unique so as I scroll down here under additional details we can see that it is a handmade item which makes it perfect for reselling on Etsy and this again is a great idea and no other seller is selling this on Etsy right now and I found this from just doing one minute of product research on Amazon so you get the point do your due diligence on Amazon's handmade and eBay's handmade categories see what's selling there get inside, search for it on Etsy and once you see that it's a good product add it to your store all right next and I'm not gonna dive into these too deep because you've got the main points and you have all of the links inside the cheat sheet which soon in this video I'm gonna tell you what you need to do to get access to it we've also got more places to find winning products to sell on Etsy including the sell these now blog articles and sell these now YouTube playlists which have tons and tons of content that's being updated every week with new winning products to sell and we're updating these products from our years and years of experience and data into what products are selling well and how to start successful drop shipping businesses so you can get access to all of this including the top 23 home decor product which is really good for Etsy the best drop shipping niches and more and more best products to sell so that's just a small example from the blog articles we have the same thing going on in our YouTube videos if you are not aware of our YouTube channel go to it right now subscribe because this is the type of video content that we create along with so much more and in these two places you're gonna find tons of winning product ideas that you can use for your Etsy store next we've also got the AliExpress drop shipping center as well as Timu's best sellers if you haven't heard of Timu there are what many people call the AliExpress killer so AliExpress has been around for years and Timu's here to make waves so not only do they offer free returns within 90 days which is absolutely spectacular they also offer price adjustment within 30 days so if the price changes after you purchase something from them they're going to refund you back the difference and they're now offering free shipping on all orders so these conditions are much better than what we're getting from AliExpress but if you're used to working with AliExpress if you've heard about them more you can definitely start by using their drop shipping center for getting some nice ideas on what products are trending right now as you can see in my screen right here but of course you will have to dive deeper into the categories that you actually wanna sell on like for example here I'm gonna go for jewelry and accessories and here I've got great ideas, great insights into products that I can resell on Etsy like for example these vintage skeleton keys because we know that we can sell vintage items on Etsy and this one here has over 700 units sold 4.9 average user rating and a 15 day delivery which means that we're going to deliver within the first couple of weeks which is great for products coming from China so we can still source it through AutoDS and find faster delivery times and that's just one idea of something that we can sell on Etsy but again we do need to validate it on Etsy and make sure that it is actually selling well there so again I'm gonna go back to Etsy.com and here we're gonna search for vintage skeleton keys and here I've got vintage skeleton key decor so I'm gonna click on that and narrow down on it even more and here we can see a bunch of sellers who are selling similar items only they're not all exactly the same as what we're seeing here it's better organized and we've also got these nice dragonfly wings to go along with it so anyways that's the AliExpress dropshipping center you can get more info and the link to that inside the Etsy 2024 cheat sheet and here again is T-Move so we can just click on their best sellers and also filter down the right categories so again here just to stay consistent I'm gonna stick with the jewelry and accessories and I'm gonna click on jewelry boxes and organizers which is another great product that we can dropship and here we can see the best ones that are selling so we've got some nice reviews here and the best products are usually sorted at the top so here again what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go to Etsy and I'm gonna search for jewelry, storage, box and see exactly what types of these boxes buyers are resonating with so this green one right here as we can see the seller that has about 4,000 positive reviews is selling this product and it looks pretty much the same as you can see this is the seller on Etsy and as you can see right here in demand three people bought this in the last 24 hours so this one is selling right now and as I scroll down we can see that people are actually reviewing this specific item even though we can tell that they're buying it from this message up here although on Etsy this one costs about $29 and he's selling it for $38 not leaving us with much profit but again this only took a second to find we're gonna have to dig deeper inside we're gonna have to find the more profitable ones like for example we see that people like green storage boxes right so we can see that this one right here is pretty similar and costs only $23 so that's about $5, $6 cheaper than the original and we can also search for green jewelry storage box okay so we can search for that on Timu and find even cheaper ones that actually look better like this one right here goes for $24 this one goes for 21 this one goes for 20 and a half and of course we can also sort it by price but these are the main prices that we're gonna see here so we can sell the same product as this seller for a cheaper price and also rake in our profits as well so that is Timu in the AliExpress dropshipping center and lastly we've got Etsy's top sellers and this one is pretty obvious just go to Etsy and see what their top sellers are or you can search for something that you found from insights doing research on other places like I showed you up until now so you don't need a demo for this just go to Etsy's categories these are all of the categories that we can sell so for example again craft supplies and tools we can jump inside that see what some of the best sellers are even though these are not narrowed down we're doing a very broad search right now so we're gonna have to narrow it down and find the winners from here and the way to do that is to go inside one of these products and search for that on Etsy for example this book binding kit right here okay so we see that a lot of people are buying it let's search for book binding kits on Etsy and see if this is something that people are buying in a broad way or if it's just being sold under that specific seller and here we can see a whole bunch of sellers who are also having success with this product however I will leave this as the last method because again it's very broad and it's more difficult to narrow down on this one it's better to use Etsy as a platform to search for something that we found insights from other places to see if we should also sell it on this platform so those are my favorite product research methods and I already found a couple winners by just doing a couple of minutes of research and when it comes down to your research don't only do it in under five minutes like what I'm doing in this video put more time into it put a few hours every day into product research and this is the only way to be able to find winning products test them, find your winners from there remove the slow movers and replace them by testing more products and adding more variations similar to the ones that are already selling for you this is the way that you're gonna be able to put in the work, find success and be able to scale that success so that every month, every quarter and every year your revenues are gonna go higher and higher as well as your profits that's exactly what I'm doing on my Etsy store and that is what brought me to where I am now let's talk a little bit about products to avoid dropshipping we talked about all the things that we can sell let's talk a little bit about what we cannot sell because again we're not looking for any store suspensions we're here for the long term we wanna make profits for years and years on end and continue growing along the way so the products that we want to avoid dropshipping are anything that has to do with alcohol, tobacco, drugs drug paraphernalia, medical devices and medical claims like hey, if you use this product this is how fat you were before this is how skinny you're gonna be after you use it so stay away from those types of products animal products, human remains I mean these should go without saying but I'm gonna say them anyway hate and violence items items that promote or glorify hatred, violence illegal and highly regulated items nudity and mature content and of course dangerous items hazardous materials, recalled items weapons, choking hazards, flammable liquids and you get the point lastly, stay away from copyrighted or trademarked items if it's being sold from a company that you've heard of before cause it's a big company don't resell their items because you're not allowed to that being said, there are more than enough suppliers that are waiting to work with dropshippers like you and I and especially if we're sourcing through private suppliers so that covers more than enough that you need for product research just remember to put in the time, put in the practice and test out these products by adding them to your store and seeing what sells now moving on, I'm gonna talk about some of the best Etsy dropshipping suppliers that you can work with even though I already hinted to some of them in this video I'm pretty sure that I'm gonna surprise you with the amount of suppliers that you can actually work with once you're done doing your product research cause now it's time to find someone that can actually get these products for us and send them to our buyers once they purchase from us and with so many suppliers that we can work with it's important to understand how to narrow it down and work with the best ones for our business so what are some of the things that we wanna look out for before selecting a supplier so first of all we wanna make sure that our Etsy supplier sells in relevant product categories that we can actually sell on Etsy for example we wanna look for suppliers that sell in the handmade vintage craft supplies and those types of categories next we wanna look for suppliers that have fast shipping because we wanna be able to deliver quickly to our customers and that have high quality products we don't wanna be selling trash we don't wanna be dealing with returns and that's gonna happen if we don't filter out these suppliers then we wanna look for suppliers that have positive customer reviews and this usually comes together with high quality products and fast shipping because if they have these then they also have positive customer reviews because people are buying from them they're leaving their reviews and this way we can see that people are actually happy to work with these types of suppliers and also very important make sure that your suppliers have good and fast communication that's why one of the things that I showed you through the AutoDS systems private suppliers is that we can actually message these suppliers and see how long it takes them to reply back see if there's any language barrier and make sure that they provide us with viable solutions if there are any problems along the way so we saw that under AutoDS's private suppliers we can contact and message all of the private suppliers and start to build relationships with them but when browsing through other retail suppliers like AliExpress and Timu and other ones that I mentioned and that I will mention in this video we have the option to review these suppliers and also send the messages so here for example, this seller selling this jewelry box on AliExpress I can simply hover over his store and get the average seller ratings to see how well the seller is doing in front of his customers as well as the product reviews that he's getting for his product so I can see that the products are in high quality I can see images of customers who bought this product but when we're using retail suppliers like AliExpress and Timu and Amazon and others that I talked about in this video and more that I will show you soon we can message these suppliers directly through their platforms like this seller right here on AliExpress selling this jewelry product I can hover over the seller's store here and see what are the detailed seller ratings and make sure that he's got a good score here as well as the total positive feedback so above 95% is good as well as having at least 1,000 followers this one has almost 54,000 followers so this is obviously an established seller on AliExpress which we can message by clicking on this message right here and starting of course the conversation like I showed you through AutoDS's private supplier so we're just gonna send a message Hi, I would like to dropship from you and ask them if they can offer better prices ask them if they can send you a list of their winning products and start to work your way up from there so there we will be able to test good and fast communication which is really important when establishing our relationships with our suppliers as well as competitive pricing so we wanna make sure that our suppliers have really good prices so that we can compete with other sellers and of course be able to sell at a better price or make a better offering to our buyers so that we'll be raking in those sales and profits and here's the list of some of these best Etsy dropshipping suppliers that you can work with today starting with the first one AutoDS's private suppliers with customized branding like I already talked about so I'm not gonna jump into it again but once again, this should be your first go-to for finding unique suppliers that you can build relationships with get good pricing and sell products that most of the dropshippers simply do not have access to and start sourcing your winning products through these private suppliers next is using retailers like Amazon and Shane, Macy's, Coles, Timu, AliExpress and more and if I click on one of these suppliers we'll be taken to AutoDS's suppliers page with over 30 dropshipping suppliers that you can work with and we can see some of these examples here like Walmart, Home Depot, Etsy we can even use Shopify stores as suppliers Light in the Box, Macy's, Coles, DHgate, AutoDS's private suppliers like I mentioned Timu that I already talked about Pure Formulas, Vida XL and so much more so these 30 plus suppliers give you access to tens of millions of products that you can resell not only resell but you can automate your business with all of these suppliers I haven't spoken much about automation until now but some of the things that you can get from automation is quick product importing meaning I can take products from any one of these suppliers whether single products or multiple products and add them all to my Etsy store in just a matter of seconds this will save us a whole bunch of time and that goes along with price and stock monitoring automatic order fulfillment and so much more so that is the best suppliers list and if you want a full breakdown into these suppliers and more I've linked the top 20 best Etsy dropshipping suppliers to the cheat sheet which soon I will let you know what you need to do in order to get access to it and here you have an embedded video as well as the list of the best dropshipping suppliers that you can work with for Etsy I already broke it down for you and gave you guys a shortcut into the best suppliers that you can work with but you'll learn more about them here as well as others and again, this blog article is fully detailed about the suppliers and what to look for so that is more than enough when it comes to suppliers that you can work with and winning products to find through a strategized and broken down product research strategy that's been working for me for years and now that we actually have all that down we can actually start adding these products to our Etsy stores but one second before that let's get to know a little bit about Etsy selling fees so we'll know exactly what our expenses are what our break even is so that we'll know exactly how to price our products so here are Etsy selling fees starting from the top the first fee that we need to be aware of is the listing fee so as soon as we list a product for sale on Etsy we're gonna pay a 20% listing fee now this renews every four months if we've got the automatic renewal on or every time we make a sale so if I list a product that's gonna cost me 20 cents this means that we don't wanna list 1000 products on day one and just throw it all out there in a bulk manner and wait for the sales to start coming in we do wanna do our product research and we do wanna make sure that each product has a high chance of selling following the product research methods that I already talked about this way we can validate the products and make sure that they have a really high chance to sell before we even list it so those 20 cents will be well spent now if we raise the quantity of the product or add more variations inside the product that's still gonna be covered under the 20 cents listing fee so we can list a product have 10 different variations and bring up the quantity to 30 or 50 and that's all going to be under those same 20 cents that we already spent for that product page listing so that's the first expense to know of the second is the transaction fee now Etsy takes a fixed 6.5% transaction fee so as soon as you make a sale you're gonna pay Etsy 6.5% as a fee from that transaction the next is the payment processing fee so this is another fee that Etsy will take because they're also processing the payments from the customers instead of you having to work with some payment processing company so this is an additional three to 4.5% from the selling price as well as another 30 cents fixed price fee so this again is estimated it really depends on the seller location so it depends on where you reside I also have a link here that will help you understand exactly what your fee is depending on your location so for example Argentina is gonna pay 6.5% Austria is gonna pay 4% and so forth so the average here is anywhere between 3 to 4.5% plus another 30 cents and that only happens after you make a sale so again the only expense that we have before making a sale is the 20 cents listing fee that we paid to list that product but of course that's money was spent once we actually make those sales and besides that the rest of the expenses occurs only after we make a sale so we can use our profits to pay for those expenses and as you saw on my Etsy dashboard if I go to the finances section you can see that I don't know Etsy anything for this month even though I did list products because after I sold products Etsy used the revenue from that sale to pay for my expenses so this way I can withdraw my profits and Etsy will not charge my credit card my bank account or anything like that the next fees that we may have are Etsy ad fees if we are running ads now I'm gonna talk about the marketing section soon after we list our first product but this is optional it depends on your budget and this can be either before or after you make a sale depending on what marketing method you chose then we've got the off-site ad fees so off-site ads is when Etsy advertises our listings automatically on websites out of Etsy like Google for example so as soon as you list a product for sale Etsy automatically enrolls you in the Etsy ad fees and this can be toggled off inside your Etsy settings you're gonna click on off-site ads and here is where you can opt out of off-site ads as you see right now I'm opted in because it is making me some extra sales but the downside here is Etsy is gonna shave off another 15% from the selling price as an off-site fee so that is relatively high especially because they're already taking about 10, 11, 12% transaction fee on top of the 20 cent listing fee so you have to work with high profits here I'm gonna talk about profitability soon but I always mark up my product prices at least two times the source price so if the product cost me $10 I'm not gonna sell it for anywhere less than $20 on Etsy and that will cover my transaction fees as well as the off-site fees and still be able to make a profit and besides that there are additional optional fees which I will not dive into because I personally do not use them like the Etsy Plus program that costs $10 a month gives you 15 listing credits that's actually worth only $3 and plus it'll give you $5 off in Etsy ad credits but I don't run pay-per-click ads I tried it in the beginning and I noticed that I'm just spending way too much without actually making sales then I learned the best way to do it is through the organic method and you saw the results on my dashboard so those are the fees that we have to know about we're talking again about a 12% break-even fee just to stay on the safe side and on top of that we're gonna make another 70, 80, 100% profit so I'm gonna show you how to configure all of that soon through AutoDS so that all of the pricing will be automated for us and that brings us to our next step which is actually connecting Etsy to AutoDS Now if you don't want to connect your stores to AutoDS you don't wanna enjoy automation you can still do everything manually but at some point you will notice that you're limiting yourself and there's only so much sales and profit that you can make without automation I've been automating my businesses for over seven years now and it turned out to be a huge success once I learned about the benefits of automation and here's what we're gonna get when automating our Etsy business one is the product research system which I already talked about we're gonna be able to create drafts from product listings from multiple suppliers meaning all of the 30 plus suppliers that I showed you we can work with them we can create product pages using their products and we can add more products for more suppliers and even add more variations inside our product page from multiple suppliers giving us the ability to create product pages that no other dropshipper has we've also got the quick product importing system which I will show you now the prices, the stocks are all being tracked and changed on your store when changes are being made on your supplier's website so you will never have to lose profit on an order and you will not be selling products that suddenly go out of stock on your supplier's websites and will also be benefiting from order automation so as soon as an order comes in it can be processed automatically by the system and more things like analyzing our full dashboard all from one page a product sourcing system which I already mentioned the AutoDS Academy with tons of tutorial videos on how to create successful profitable dropshipping business what products to sell what are the best suppliers, best product research methods and so much more all that's included inside the AutoDS system so let's go ahead and do that now if you haven't done so it's just a one dollar trial investment which again is totally worth the money find out for yourself by heading over to autoDS.com and start your 14 day trial for just one dollar through the onboarding process you'll be able to easily connect your Etsy store to AutoDS or in any case just click on add store on the top left we're gonna click on it on the menu here and we're gonna go ahead and click on Etsy store the connection process is simple and straightforward and once our store is connected we can now easily start importing products from our suppliers to our Etsy store but one second before that we do wanna get our policy straight so here is how to set up our shipping and return policies on Etsy we're gonna click on settings and here we've got shipping settings as well as policy settings so let's go ahead and start with the shipping settings so here we can see that I've got a free US shipping policy created the processing time is one to three days which is how long it takes me to provide tracking information and I've got the total number of active listings that I've got under that shipping policy so I can create a new shipping policy by clicking on create profile and have as many shipping policies as I want for example I can have free US shipping I can have paid US shipping I can have worldwide shipping or products coming out of China for example to the US let's go ahead and edit this one so that we can see everything that I did here so I call this one free US shipping the country of origin or in other words where the products are being sourced from or shipped from is the United States then I just chose a random zip code in the United States the processing time again is how long it takes us to provide tracking information once an order comes in under shipping service I'm not going to select a specific supplier that's because I can't be sure if it's gonna be through USPS or FedEx or UPS or DHL so I'm just gonna go with other then I've got the delivering time so this is how many business days it takes for the product to get delivered after the processing time is up so once I provide tracking information how long from this point until it actually reaches my buyer so here I've got the delivery time between one to four business days and I'm charging free shipping I'm not gonna take a fixed price I wanna offer free shipping to my buyers to make the listing more attractive then I've got everywhere else so this is only shipping to the United States but what about if I'm shipping anywhere outside the United States do I wanna have worldwide shipping? Sure, why not? Let's get those profits too so here I'm gonna choose again other for shipping service the delivery time for here is anywhere between eight to 35 business days because again, if I have to ship it out anywhere around the world I know that it will take a little bit more time and here I cannot offer free shipping because I'm also gonna pay for international shipping in this case and sometimes it's not very cheap so here I'm going with a fixed price of $25 and I already did get a couple of international orders and I did end up making some profit on this because I paid around $16 or $18 for my last international shipping price so I know that I'm in the safe zone here and that's pretty much it go ahead and click on save profile and you've got your shipping policy now again, if you wanna ship products from multiple locations some coming from the country of origin United States but some for example we might wanna ship them from China so in this case we're gonna create another shipping policy where here the country of origin is gonna be China and again you can have as many shipping policies as you want and when you're importing a product through AutoDS you will be able to see the shipping policies that you saved inside your Etsy store so you can choose it from there from the drop down menu so that's about the shipping policy remember that your shipping policy needs to reflect what your suppliers can actually offer you so if your supplier can ship within a week that should also be reflected on your handling time so now under settings I'm gonna click on policy settings and here we've got returns and exchanges and again this should reflect what your supplier can do for you so if you're using Teamwoo for example do shipping from China create a shipping origin from China for your shipping policy and for the returns you know that they're gonna offer you 90 days free returns so if you offer 90 day returns on Etsy that's gonna give you a huge advantage over other sellers that can not compete with the same policy so here we're going to create a return policy let's review the one that I already have so here I'm accepting returns and I'm accepting exchanges because my supplier does too then we've got the timeframe how long are we offering these returns for once someone purchases from our store so we can get from 30 days of delivery 45 days, 60 days 90 days if you're using Teamwoo or less of course if you cannot offer better ones so I'm going with 30 days free returns and this is a good starting point to also not lose sales from customers who do not wanna buy from anyone who's not offering free returns now returns will make up between one to 2% of your business so it's not that much especially if we're selling the right products and high quality products like the ones I mentioned and showed during the product research phase but that's the main pointers to take from your return policies now of course you can create multiple return policies and add them here and when you're importing a product you can choose whatever shipping and return policy you wanna connect to that product and that is pretty much it now the fun part let's add products to our Etsy store see how it looks and start making sales so let's say I wanna add this product to my Etsy store right now this rotating sunflower necklace where we got the idea from the Anodias marketplace so I wanna find the best supplier for this product I'm gonna keep it simple from now and simply search for it on Amazon because I wanna find quick shipping to the United States even though if I import it through Anodias I will get it for just $1 and I can source a better shipping time through the supplier sourcing method but I wanna show you other methods rather than just easily clicking on the import to draft button right here which will also do the job but I wanna see what other spinning sun necklaces I can also sell so as we saw right here on Etsy this is a pretty popular product with this seller right here selling this fidget sun spinner necklace for $18.55 and we can see that he's got over a hundred reviews just for this product this is a seller with over 5,000 reviews on their store so they know what they're selling they know how to do their product research and now it's our turn so in this example I'm just gonna go to Amazon one of the many, many suppliers that we can work with and I'm gonna search for spinning sun necklace okay so here we can see a whole bunch of results but I want the cheaper ones from the bunch because I wanna make as much profit as possible so what I will do here on the left side is I will filter any price up to $10 and here is one for $7.99 but he's charging another $4 for shipping let's see what else we can find so there's this one right here that looks pretty nice it's for $10 I wanted to find a cheaper one so let's continue a little bit more and here we go sunflower rotatable necklace for $6.99 and we can also take advantage of the prime shipping meaning this product is gonna reach our buyers within one to two days so it's gonna cost us $7 and we can see this seller who's selling it for $19 we can easily sell this for two times the price so seven times two is 14 let's even crank it up to $14.99 and sell at a cheaper price than this seller who's doing an excellent job selling this product so what I'm gonna do here is I'm gonna just copy the products URL and I'm gonna head to AutoDS and I'm gonna click on add products and single product then I'm gonna choose the Etsy store and I'm going to paste the URL now I'm gonna click on edit now quick or I could just publish it to my store right away but I wanna do some optimization first so let's click on edit now quick and while it takes a second to load I just wanna show you the long way of doing it so if you don't wanna use animation you wanna do everything manually just go to Etsy go to your shop manager by clicking up here on the top right then we're gonna click on listings then we're gonna click on add a listing up here on the top right now we need to fill in a whole bunch of questions like is it a physical item who made it what type of product is it when was it made and we're gonna continue to the next step then we have to add the title we have to download and upload all the images from your supplier to Etsy we're gonna have to write the product description price it and add all of the item specifications all of the details your policies and everything else so this is very time consuming especially when you wanna add lots of products to your store because that's what you wanna do in order to test the market and start making sales and in the long run there is no way to do this without limiting yourself that is why we're gonna do it through automation so as we can see right here the rotating sun necklace is now in my drafts page and the first things that we can optimize here are the products title the category where it belongs in the product tags so that we can easily keep tabs on our products so that later on we can go to the products page and check specifically how the jewelry tag went for us or maybe we have a whole bunch of niches that are for women so we're gonna also use the women tag you can of course add more tags you can use the existing ones and here is where you're gonna choose your policies so you saw in my Etsy store that I have a free US shipping policy so we can see it here and the more you add the more you'll be able to select it down here from the dropdown menu same for the return policy and we're gonna keep all of the monitoring on so we want price monitoring, stock monitoring and automatic orders now the thing here is the products title this is one of the most important parts after you did your product research because this is how the buyers are gonna find you on Etsy they're gonna search for something and if your title has the keywords that they are searching for they're more likely to see your product on the first page of their search results meaning they have a higher chance to enter our stores and purchase the product so we really wanna work on the products titles and make it really good and relevant for our buyers and one perfect way to do that is of course not to copy and paste what we have on our suppliers websites so we wanna know how to choose the best keywords to use for our titles and Etsy limits us to 140 characters so what I'm gonna do here is I'm gonna use the optimized title with AI this is going to generate a much better title for the product as well as the product description so I can go for a title, description or title and description I wanna make it for example sound more sellable I can choose a different tone so I wanna make it maybe let's add some humor to it so make it sound more funny and choose a temperature like balance more creative or more precise so I'm gonna go with the balanced one and then we're gonna go ahead and click on AI rewrite and as you can see it generated a much better title and description even though there's a lot of HTML codes which we don't really need to pay attention to right now cause it's not gonna show up on our product page but it already did all the work for us so now we have a much better title than what we're seeing here on the suppliers websites and our description will definitely look better than what we're seeing here which is just brackets and just text explaining about the specifications of the product but not much benefits not much things that will really make you wanna actually purchase the product and I can tell that the English just isn't that good here it's probably a Chinese seller so now it's already gonna look better on my store I'm gonna go ahead and click on save and as we can see right here the title has already been optimized so radiant sunflower necklace sparkling crystal rhinestone pendant for women perfect for prom, cocktail parties and birthdays so no duplicate words, no irrelevant words and if anyone's gonna search for anything similar to this they're gonna see our product first and of course we can add more keywords like for example I can add the word spinning or rotating because that's another feature that this product has so for example I can add that right here and I'm still within my character range so within less than a minute I have a much better title for my product all with the help of artificial intelligence as well as the product's description so you saw a whole bunch of HTML codes but at the end you're seeing the final draft of that text which is what we're seeing right here so instead of this really boring text not really really new into the product or trying to sell it to you this actually sounds much better looking for a necklace that will make you the center of attention look no further than this sunflower rotatable necklace for women with its exquisite and unique design this necklace is sure to turn heads wherever you go not only is it a fashion accessory for elegant women and yada yada yada you get the point but it's much much better than starting off with a whole bunch of sizes and words that simply are not able to sell the product really well to you so this was done for me using artificial intelligence using the AI rewrite tool inside the Autodesk system so for now I'm just gonna go ahead and click on save and continue to the rest of the columns next we have variants so variations and this includes all of the variations that we have in this case we only have one variation on the suppliers website so no additional variations were added however I can go to other sellers on Amazon I can go to other sellers in different regions I can go to other sellers using other suppliers I can even mix in different regions and add them all to this product page so I can look for other rotating necklaces that might not specifically be a sunflower or maybe a different color for the sunflower necklace and simply add more variations to this page now I'm gonna go ahead and click on edit variation because I wanna be able to price this the right way now on the one hand you can do your pricing on the settings page in Autodesk just click on the supplier and the selling channel that you're using click on pricing and add in your break even fees so in this example about 13.5% and how much profit you wanna make on top of that so you can do it from there so that every time when you import a product from that supplier the settings will update automatically but in this case let's do it from the variants so we can see right here that the buying price is $6.99 which is what we can see right here using the supplier my added fees are around 13.5% so I showed you how we got to the pricing we've got the processing fees we've got the selling fees and everything else that I went over so that rounds up to around 13.5% maybe a little bit less but I always like to be on the safe side on top of that I also like to make another 50% in profit because I wanna make up for the 20 cents that I paid for re-listing the item since Etsy's doing that automatically for us so after my break even after the product cost me $7 I wanna make 90% in profit so if I'm buying it for $7 it's gonna sell for $15.99 this was done for me automatically because I already have it set in my settings but I can also change it from here but this is a great price for the product and I'm still able to compete with this seller who's selling the rotating sun necklace really well for $18.55 now I'm going to sell it for $15.99 and here include shipping price I'm gonna add that in so if my supplier charges me for shipping it's gonna be included inside my source price so that I'll be able to offer free shipping to my buyers I'm gonna round my cents to $99 or .97 whatever looks good to you then you've got the general column like what is the default quantity that you want I have it at 10, you can have it at five but make sure that your default quantity is not just one because some customers will wanna purchase more than the quantity of one and I also have an example from that on my store on my orders page we can see first of all this customer right here bought two products from my store so he went to one product he saw it, he liked it he searched for a similar product in my store found it and purchased them both and here we can see this buyer right here Emma so she purchased four units of the same product with a total purchase price of $142 in just one order so that is why I highly recommend having more than the quantity of one for your products so again I've got it on the quantity of 10 and you can see that everything else was pretty much automated for us like the color of the variation and so forth and here we can also see that we're gonna make $6 total profit if and when we make a sale now of course this will change according to how many fees I really paid so if it came out to be 11% that's a little bit more profit for me or if I had to pay tax when I purchased the product which is another 10% so instead of costing $7 it's gonna cost like $7 and maybe 70 cents okay so our variants are done then we've got the products images so again we didn't have to download and upload everything right from the start we've got all the images right here and we can also use AutoDS's advanced image editor to make edits to this product for example we can add a watermark I can remove this arrow right here which doesn't really look that good I can add text to the product shapes images and so forth and that is pretty much it so that is how easy it is to add a product with the help of automation and artificial intelligence now I'm just gonna go ahead and click on import and it will import to the product section of AutoDS as well as my Etsy store and now we can see product has been imported to your stores and I can see it right here on top of my products page so here we can see that it was uploaded I've got one variation in stock this is the pricing that we saw this is the profit this is where I'm getting it from and this is where I'm selling it at so let's click on the Etsy link so that I can actually see the product in my store and here is the product page so we can see the price the original price was $15.99 but I'm currently running a promotion a 5% promotion on my store so we've got the nice little price slasher here and the price here is a discounted $15.19 we've got the products title right here which was generated by artificial intelligence and check it out Etsy says arrive soon and returns and exchanges accepted because my shipping policies and return policies are good and here the customer can add the quantity up to 10 because that was my limit and here we can see the perfect product description that was written with the help of artificial intelligence so I don't need to touch anything over here everything was done for us automatically and the only thing that's left is to make ourselves and profit but I do wanna go over marketing methods I wanna show you how you can make more sales and bring even more traffic to your store with the help of marketing methods that will not require any budget before you make a sale but before that just take a little look at the reviews that I'm getting all positive and I'm always responding to the customers who are leaving reviews on my shop just to show them that I'm here I'm glad I appreciate the fact that they left me a positive review and of course when other customers see this they know that they're dealing with a really good seller so that's just one way of how you can add products to your store with the help of automation and all of the benefits that come along with that now there are of course more methods of doing it for example I can go to AutoDS I can add multiple products then I can just add all of the products URLs that I wanna add right here and it'll add all of them to the product section or to the draft section of my store and another way to do it if I really wanna go crazy if I found a niche that's selling really well like let's say the spinning sun necklaces going crazy on my store so I can just download and install the AutoDS Chrome extension I'm gonna leave the link inside the cheat sheet so you all will have it and then you'll see this little circle icon that's gonna show up on your supplier's website so here I can just click on it click on extract and now all of these sunflower necklaces the spinning sunflower necklaces their product IDs were added to this little extension I'm gonna export it as a CSV file then a CSV file will be downloaded onto my computer with all of those spinning sunflower necklaces inside I'm gonna add multiple products click on upload CSV drag and drop that CSV file here and that is all there is to it you can add hundreds of products all at once to the draft section, optimize it make them look good and publish them to your stores now at this point I would like to share this cheat sheet with you by making it this far don't show that you're serious about this business but do not skip out to the next part of this video because I wanna talk about marketing you might already be making some sales by this point by following everything that I explained up until this point of this video however, if you wanna make more sales this is exactly where marketing is going to come in but if you want access to this cheat sheet all you have to do is comment Etsy 2024 let me know what is your top takeaway what did you learn from this video what did you like about it especially and I will share a link to this cheat sheet with everything that I'm going over with all of the tools and resources and more bonus value I will simply reply back with a link in the comments below so again, hashtag Etsy 2024 let me know what you loved about this video what you learned about it and this cheat sheet is yours to have all right, so marketing to make even more sales with our products this is everything you need to know about how to market your products well on Etsy in 2024 so if you remember in the beginning of this video I walked you through Etsy's menus and one of the bottom ones is marketing and I showed you the search analytics so in my case, you can see in my store that my store traffic in Etsy has increased 70% more visits to my shop 17.5% of more visits that actually resulted in a sale 2% increase in the average order value and a 104% increase in total earnings through Etsy's search which is of course the product title so if you did a good job on your title you're also gonna notice an increase there too and again, I remind you this is only a beginner store with 18 products inside I've got more stores on Etsy but this is the one that I wanted to show in this video because it just got started and it should reflect around the same level that you are on right now so as we go down into the keywords that are giving us impressions, better positions visits, conversion rates, revenue and how many listings we have that are connected to those keywords this is how we can learn exactly what keywords are trending and what people are searching for on Etsy so that is step number one and we'll only have access to that after we actually add products and get results from other customer searches that lead to our product pages so we're not gonna see results there right away the first things that we can do right from the start is either run Etsy ads or sales and discounts so I'm not gonna talk too much about Etsy ads as I said, I did run it a little bit in the beginning and this will require a starting budget so the minimum to start is $1 a day and here what you're doing is you're telling Etsy hey, promote my products in my store this is how much of a budget I'm gonna give you every day the higher the budget of course the more people they'll be able to promote your products to however, this does not guarantee sales it will get you some more extra sales but if your product research is not on point yet you're gonna be spending a lot of money on ads without seeing that much of a return that is why I don't recommend starting with Etsy ads and actually you don't really need it to start making sales and to continue making profit on this platform when you do have enough experience when your product research is good and you're selling a whole bunch of winning products that you already tried and tested then you can consider using the profits that you're making from your sales and investing that into Etsy ads where you're paying Etsy in advance before you start making sales but what I do want you to start with is sales and discounts here you can do a bunch of things like run a sale for some or all products on your store or create a special promo code you can make it public you can make it private so that you can send it to some specific buyers or you can let all your buyers know in a public way on your product pages that you have a promo code for this product and Etsy is gonna help you make even more sales when you don't even notice it for example, the system can send automatic emails to people who purchase from your store in the last 30 days and here you can say hey thanks for purchasing from my shop here is another discount if you wanna come back and purchase again anytime in the next one, two, three days or whatever another marketing method that Etsy can do for you automatically is sending abandoned card emails so this is for people who added your product to their cards but they never continued to check out so in this case, Etsy can send the messages and say hey, here's a special promo come back and purchase from my store of course, all these messages are customizable just click on each one and edit whatever you want add the promotion or remove it and another one for favorited items so anyone who's adding your products to their favorites list Etsy can also send them a message giving them a special promo code that you configured in advance and those are some of Etsy's ways to bring more traffic and sales to your store whether it's from people who purchased people who wanted to purchase and people who simply favorited your items so besides that, I do recommend also running a sale for your shop I always do that on my shops and what I usually give is a set percentage off usually I go with around 5% and I put it everywhere for anyone who purchases from my shop without an order minimum and I choose a sale duration usually I do it for a few days and the reason for that is because the buyers will see a countdown so if I make it like four weeks long nobody's gonna be pressured to buy right now cause okay, he's gonna sell or he's gonna run this sale next week also but if you put it for just a few days then the buyer will see a countdown two days left to the sale one day left to the sale a few hours left for the sale and it will put some pressure on them to purchase the product after the sale is finished I usually wait around one to two days then I simply run the sale again so this is something that's been working out for me here you can write some terms and conditions which I usually leave blank then just give it a sale name like mid week sale or weekend sale or whatever you wanna call it so I always do that on my products and as you saw my products page I have that price slasher because I'm always running a sale on my products and as I scroll down I can see what campaigns I ran and how much revenue each campaign brought in so as we can see right here on the right side marketing is working pretty well on my store and I'm not spending any money before I actually make a sale so that is sales and discounts then we've also got social media so you can connect your social media account to Etsy so for example you can connect or create a new social media account all you have to do is click right up here on social accounts and connect a Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter or Instagram account then all you have to do is click on create post and it'll create a post on all of those social media channels on whatever product you wanna showcase and give them a special promotion so for example I can make a post on my latest listing which is that radiant sunflower spinning necklace or I can simply create a post from scratch and again this is a nice way to not only make a following on my social media accounts but to also drive in traffic and sales to my store next we've got share and save so this is where Etsy can give you a unique link to purchase from your store and when you share this link outside of Etsy's platform and you bring traffic inside of Etsy's platform Etsy's gonna give you a little thank you by removing 4% of that transaction fee so for example if you're paying 12% transaction fee then you're gonna pay an 8% total transaction fee when you put all the fees together because Etsy's happy that you did the marketing for them and you brought external traffic from outside the platform into the Etsy platform and you've also got custom web address so if you don't want your store URL to be under Etsy's URL you wanna have your own custom www.mystorename.com then you can create a custom web address however you do need a plus subscription for that and quite frankly I'm not doing that because it's not really needed to drive traffic and sales and we definitely do not need this right from the start now you have links to all of these marketing methods if you wanna learn more about them of course inside the Etsy dropshipping cheat sheet and now it's inevitable after putting in all of this work the sales will start coming in and now what's left to do is to process our orders and send the products to our buyers as fast as we can so that they'll leave positive reviews on our store and this way we can continue slowly growing our stores into huge dropshipping empires and when it comes to processing orders we've got two main methods the manual method and the automatic method of course you know my recommendation the manual means that we're gonna have to go to our suppliers websites, purchase the product and ship it directly to our buyers meaning the address that we're adding on our suppliers websites will be our customers addresses now of course we do need to keep our eye on tracking information when it's available from our suppliers and update it manually on Etsy when that comes in and the more orders we have the more this is going to be a time consuming process instead of putting that time into product research adding more winning products, opening more stores hiring virtual assistants through AutoDS to help you automate even more tasks all of this will take up all of your time and you will simply not be able to scale your business that is why we're moving over to automatic orders or fulfilled by AutoDS these are two order processing methods that are gonna help shave off all of the time when it comes to order processing the difference between automatic orders and fulfilled by AutoDS is that automatic orders will use your buyer accounts to automate your orders and process them out as soon as they come in again using your buyer accounts on your suppliers websites or fulfilled by AutoDS which will fulfill your orders automatically using AutoDS's buyer accounts so if you're adding products from private suppliers or other retail suppliers you can have fulfilled by AutoDS use their buyer accounts to process your orders this way you don't have to worry about your accounts getting locked on your suppliers websites or shipping to the wrong addresses or forgetting to update tracking information since tracking will be updated automatically for your buyers as soon as it's available from your suppliers so the orders get sent out automatically the tracking gets updated automatically and all you have to do is sit back relax and enjoy the profits and here's what the order screen looks like on AutoDS so you'll see all of your Etsy incoming orders on the order screen and when an order comes in it's gonna start in the pending status and if you've got automatic order set up it's gonna be sent to auto order and as soon as the order has been fulfilled by the system it'll move over to ordered with the order ID from your supplier as soon as it was shipped it'll automatically move to the shipped status with the tracking information provided from your supplier and delivered once it's delivered to your buyers besides that you have the rest of the information including the order ID, the pricing how much profit you made on each order and so forth and using fulfilled by AutoDS will have even more information including when the product is actually going to arrive to our customers and if you're using Amazon as one of your suppliers you'll also get an Amazon screenshot so you can see the current status of the order and you'll also know exactly when it's going to arrive to your customer if I hover over this icon you can see that it says completed by the fulfilled by AutoDS service and that of course is so that you can know how this order was sent out all that's left from here to do is to continue doing your product research adding more products to your store testing more products and categories and continue scaling your success remove the slow movers by going to the product section on AutoDS and here you can filter out all of the products that are not selling well for you so here for example you can see that I've got over 2,500 products in my combined stores on AutoDS and I can add a smart filter system to be able to filter out exactly what products I want to move out of my store and what I would like to keep inside so for example I could filter by a specific tag like I want to see how the necklaces niche went for me or I can filter by a specific region by a certain selling price by inventory status so for example show me all of the products that are out of stock I want to remove them because there is no stock anyway and more and more filters like the sold date or when it was uploaded or how many sales it has or doesn't have and this is how you can easily analyze the best sellers on your store especially once you have thousands of products and you're already making crazy sales and profit now the next section is about returns and refunds but I already went over it in this video if you need more information about your shipping policies, return policies you can find it also inside the Etsy drop shipping cheat sheet and if you need to send a refund to your buyer you can do it through the orders page on Etsy just open up that order click on the three dots click on more options and you'll have the option to send a refund but again that's gonna make up about 1-2% of your business and it's not really that important just make sure to be responsive to your buyers when someone reaches out to you on Etsy's messages respond to them as fast as possible so that you'll also be eligible to be a star seller like I am like I showed you on Etsy and of course take care of your buyers if someone wants to open up a return and they're within their 30, 60 or 90 day return policy let them have that return bring out the best when it comes to customer service just like you would want to be treated as a customer now there are a few more bonuses that I wanna add before I summarize this video including Etsy apps which is integrated inside Etsy so if I go back to my Etsy account and I click here on integrations I can see a whole bunch of apps that I can add to my Etsy store but which ones do I actually need are the ones that I recommended right here so one is called eRank it's gonna help us rank higher with our product pages on Etsy's search engine another one called PhotoFuse which is good for photo editing Pinterest which is of course the social media channel we can have it integrated inside Etsy and TaxCloud if you need help with your taxes with filing taxes when dropped being on Etsy then I've got some recommended Etsy Chrome extensions which can help propel your business even further for example the AutoDS Chrome extension of course if you're using AutoDS then use the free extension that we have that will help you add multiple products to your stores search for multiple suppliers and do so much more all through the extension then we've got Etsy Hunt an Etsy rank tool that will help you again with your Etsy so this is kinda similar to what eRank SEO can do for you it's gonna help you find insights on how to make your products rank even higher on Etsy search engine then we've got Toolsy which is another SEO tool that you can use and MarketSea that can help you collect your customers email addresses from Etsy because Etsy will simply not give you their email addresses they wanna keep the customers for themselves so that they can send them their own email marketing campaigns and as an additional resources I added a basic guide to dropshipping jewelry on Etsy in 2024 which will help you especially if you wanna sell in the jewelry niche which is very much fitting for Etsy sellers so the full article is linked inside the Etsy dropshipping cheat sheet and if you click on the main title in the cheat sheet you'll get to the full how to start beginner's tutorial article and video on how to start selling on Etsy the right way which pretty much covers everything that I went over in this video but if you need it in the written form it's all there broken down into detail last but not least enjoy the profits you now have the knowledge to start your own successful dropshipping business on Etsy I left it all out on the table all of the strategies that I picked up along the years were included inside this video and of course in this cheat sheet which I will share with you so again in the comments below hashtag Etsy 2024 let me know what you learned in this video what is your top takeaway and I will send you the link to this cheat sheet good luck dropshipping on Etsy in 2024 the best year for dropshipping and I cannot wait to hear about your success story