I'm going to show you how to start dropshipping on Etsy and untap marketplace with millions of daily shoppers. I'll also show you my Etsy store and what's been working for me so that you can replicate the same strategies into your dropshipping business. By the end of this video, you'll have all of the resources, tools, and step-by-step knowledge to start your own dropshipping business on Etsy, even if you have no prior knowledge or any money to start. And why am I doing this? Because I'm from AutoDS, an automation company that helps automate dropshipping stores. And if I help you succeed in dropshipping, I'm hoping that you'll find the benefits of AutoDS to automate your business so that you can scale and reach higher profits. So whether you're a beginner or a seasoned dropshipper looking for a new selling channel in its golden age, this is the video that you need for 2024 and beyond. And be sure to watch until the end of this video because I've prepared an Etsy dropshipping 2024 cheat sheet for you. And I'm also going to share it with you more details further down this video. So let's go ahead and begin and learn how to start dropshipping on Etsy in 2024. So here's one of my Etsy dashboards and I'm going to show you how to do all of this in this video. But before we jump into that, 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 granted, 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 products 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 sale. 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.   So as you can see right here, I have this message congrats, you earn 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.  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 1000 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 going to 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 storefront 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 should 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 going to jump to all of this stuff soon, but I just want to give you a quick overview. And further down, I can see the current net profit for this month. So I've got about $1000 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 want to 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 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 7400 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 going to 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, informed 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 going to 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 going to make sales and profit for our stores. So this means that we're going to 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 going to 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 going to 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 auto DS marketplace and the winning products hub. So if you have access to auto DS, 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 auto DS, I'm going to talk about other product research methods soon. But since starting an auto DS account costs only one dollar, that's going to be one of the best investments that you can make because you're going to 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 auto DS 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 auto DS 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 auto DS, I've got the marketplace here on the left side.  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 going to 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 want to 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 Autodesk's 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 I'm looking for princess stud earrings with Austrian crystals. Okay, we got to 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 on the Ours is a little bit more unique because 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 cards. 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 karat 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.  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 karat rose gold. Okay, so I'm going to go back to Etsy. And here I'm just going to search for Austrian crystals. Okay, I want to 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 so 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 going to 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 going to click on this button right here, message the supplier and say, Hey, I would like to dropship 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 dropshippers 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 going to have to scroll until we find products that are relevant to the ones that we want to sell on our stores. For example, here's a jewelry product that we can sell. So I'm going to 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 going to 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 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's obviously dropped being 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 going to 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 AutoDS, 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 AutoDS 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 AutoDS. 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 AutoDS 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 are 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 going to 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 going to 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 going to stay away from the seasonal products like Christmas and so forth because right now I want to look for evergreen products that are going to 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 going to take the product's name. We don't need the whole name, just the main keywords. And I'm going to 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 going to 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 going to 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.  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 selling there, get inside, search for it on Etsy. And once you see that, it's a good product added to your store. All right, next, and I'm not going to 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 going to 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 dropshipping 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 dropshipping 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 going to find tons of winning product ideas that you can use for your Etsy store. Next, we've also got the AliExpress dropshipping 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 dropshipping 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 want to sell on. Like for example here, I'm going to 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, but 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 going to go back to Etsy.com. And here we're going to search for vintage skeleton keys. And here I've got vintage skeleton key decor. So I'm going to 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 drop shipping center. You can get more info and the link to that inside the Etsy 2024 cheat sheet. And here again is Tmoo. 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 going to stick with the jewelry and accessories. And I'm going to click on jewelry boxes and organizers, which is another great product that we can drop ship. 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.  And I'm going to 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 much profit. But again, this only took a second to find, we're going to have to dig deeper inside, we're going to 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 going to 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 and 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 going to 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 going to 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 going to 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 drop shipping. 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 want to make profits for years and years on end and continue growing along the way. So the products that we want to avoid drop shipping 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 going to be after you use it. So stay away from those types of products. Animal products, human remains. I mean, these should go without saying what I'm going to 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 because 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 drop shippers 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 going to talk about some of the best Etsy drop shipping 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 going to surprise you with the amount of suppliers that you can actually work with once you're done doing your product research. Because 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 want to look out for before selecting a supplier? So first of all, we want to make sure that our Etsy supplier sells in relevant product categories that we can actually sell on Etsy. For example, we want to look for suppliers that sell in the handmade vintage craft supplies and those types of categories. Next, we want to look for suppliers that have fast shipping because we want to be able to deliver quickly to our customers and that have high quality products. We don't want to be selling trash. We don't want to be dealing with returns. And that's going to happen if we don't filter out these suppliers. Then we want to 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 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 products 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 more than 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 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 1000 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 going to 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 want to 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 is private suppliers with customized branding like I already talked about. So I'm not going to 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, Vita 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 these 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 going to 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 going to cost me 20 cents. This means that we don't want to 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 want to do our product research and we do want to 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 going to 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 going to 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 3 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 going to pay 6.5%, Austria is going to 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 going to 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 offsite ad fees. So offsite 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.  You're going to click on offsite ads and here is where you can opt out of offsite 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 going to shave off another 15% from the selling price as an offsite 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 going to 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 going to sell it for anywhere less than $20 on Etsy and that will cover my transaction fees as well as the offsite 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 going to make another 70-80-100% profit. So I'm going to 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 want to 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 going to get when automating our Etsy business. One is the product research system which I already talked about. We're going to 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 going to click on it on the menu here and we're going to 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 want to get our policies straight so here is how to set up our shipping and return policies on Etsy we're going to 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 in 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 going to be through USPS or FedEx or UPS or DHL so I'm just going to 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 going to take a fixed price I want to 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 want to have worldwide shipping sure why not let's get those profits too so here I'm going to 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 going to 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 want to ship products from multiple locations some coming from the country of origin United States but some for example we might want to ship them from China so in this case we're going to create another shipping policy where here the country of origin is going to 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 going to 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 Timu for example who's 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 cannot 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 time frame 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 Timu 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 want to buy from anyone who's not offering free returns now returns will make up between 1 to 2 percent 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 want to 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 want to add this product to my Etsy store right now this rotating sunflower necklace where we got the idea from the Autodesk marketplace so I want to find the best supplier for this product I'm going to keep it simple from now and simply search for it on Amazon because I want to find quick shipping to the United States even though if I import it through Autodesk I will get it for just one dollar and I can source a better shipping time through the supplier sourcing method but I want to 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 want to 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 dollars and 55 cents and we can see that he's got over a hundred reviews just for this product this is a seller with over 5000 reviews on their store so they know what they're selling they know how to do the product research and now it's our turn so in this example I'm just going to go to Amazon one of the many many suppliers that we can work with and I'm going to 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 want to make as much profit as possible so what I will do here on the left side is I will filter any price up to ten dollars and here is one for seven dollars and 99 cents but he's charging another four dollars for shipping let's see what else we can find so there's this one right here that looks pretty nice it's for ten dollars I wanted to find a cheaper one so let's continue a little bit more and here we go sunflower rotatable necklace for six dollars and 99 cents and we can also take advantage of the prime shipping meaning this product is going to reach our buyers within one to two days so it's going to cost us seven dollars and we can see this seller who's selling it for 19 dollars we can easily sell this for two times the price so seven times two is 14 let's even crank it up to 1499 and sell at a cheaper price than this seller who's doing an excellent job selling this product so what I'm going to do here is I'm going to just copy the products url and I'm going to head to auto ds and I'm going to click on add products and single product then I'm going to choose the etsy store and I'm going to paste the url now I'm going to click on edit now quick or I could just publish it to my store right away but I want to do some optimization first so let's click on edit now quick and while it takes a second to load I just want to show you the long way of doing it so if you don't want to use animation you want to do everything manually just go to etsy go to your shop manager by clicking up here on the top right then we're going to click on listings then we're going to 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 going to 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 going to 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 want to add lots of products to your store because that's what you want to 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 going to 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 going to also use the women tag you can of course add more tags you can use the existing ones and here is where you're going to choose your policies so you saw on 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 drop down menu same for the return policy and we're going to 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 going to find you on etsy they're going to 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 want to work on the product's 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 want to know how to choose the best keywords to use for our titles and etsy limits us to 140 characters so what I'm going to do here is I'm going to 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 want to make it for example sound more sellable I can choose a different tone so I want to 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 going to go with the balanced one and then we're going to go ahead and click on AI rewrite and as you can see it generated a much better title in description even though there's a lot of html codes which we don't really need to pay attention to right now because it's not going to show up on our product page but it already did all the work for 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 want to 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 going to look better on my store I'm going to 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 going to search for anything similar to this they're going to 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 autods system so for now I'm just going to 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 going to go ahead and click on edit variation because i want to be able to price this the right way now on the one hand you can do your pricing on the settings page in autods 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 percent and how much profit you want to 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 six dollars and 99 cents which is what we can see right here using the supplier my added fees are around 13 and a half percent 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 and a half 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 percent in profit because i want to make up for the 20 cents that i paid for relisting the items since etsy's doing that automatically for us so after my break even after the product cost me seven dollars i want to make 90 percent in profit so if i'm buying it for seven dollars it's going to sell for 1599 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 1855 now i'm going to sell it for 1599 and here include shipping price i'm going to add that in so if my supplier charges me for shipping it's going to be included inside my source price so that i'll be able to offer free shipping to my buyers i'm going to round my sense to 99 or 0.97 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 want to 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 six dollars 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 percent 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 percent so instead of costing seven dollars it's going to cost like seven dollars 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 auto ds'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 auto ds 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 these are 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 five percent promotion on my store so we've got the nice little price slasher here and the price here is a discounted 15 and 19 cents 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 want to go over marketing methods i want to 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 auto ds i can add multiple products then i can just add all of the products url that i want to 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 want to go crazy if i found a niche that's selling really well like let's say the spinning sun necklaces are going crazy on my store so i can just download and install the autodesk chrome extension i'm going to leave the link inside the cheat sheet so you all will have it and then you'll see this little circle icon that's going to 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 going to 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 going to 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 it does show that you're serious about this business but do not skip out through the next parts of this video because i want to 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 want to 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 love 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 percent more visits to my shop 17 and a half percent of more visits that actually resulted in a sale 2 percent increase in the average order value and a 104 percent 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 going to 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 going to 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 going to 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 one dollar 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 going to 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 going to 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 going to 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 want to 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 sell 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 five percent and i put it everywhere for anyone who purchases from my shop without an order minimum and i choose a sell 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 because okay he's gonna sell he's gonna run this sell 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 sell one day left to the sell a few hours left for the sell and it will put some pressure on them to purchase the product after the sell is finished i usually wait around one or two days then i simply run the sell 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 sell name like mid week sell or weekend sell or whatever you want to 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 sell 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 sell so that is sells 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 pinch rest 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 want to 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 sells 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 is going to give you a little thank you by removing four percent of that transaction fee so for example if you're paying 12 transaction fee then you're going to pay an eight percent 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 want to 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 want to learn more about them of course inside the etsy drive shipping 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 going to 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 going to start in the pending status and if you've got automatic order set up it's going to 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'm gonna 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 going to make up about one to two percent 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 want to 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 e-rank it's gonna help us rank higher with our product pages on etsy search engine another one called photo fuse which is good for photo editing pin trust which is of course the social media channel we can have it integrated inside etsy and tax cloud 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 autodesk chrome extension of course if you're using autodesk 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 ring tool that will help you again with your etsy so this is kind of similar to what e-rank etsy can do for you it's going to help you find insights on how to make your products rank even higher an etsy search engine then we've got toolsy which is another sco tool that you can use and market seed that can help you collect your customers email addresses from etsy because etsy will simply not give you their email addresses they want to 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 drop shipping jewelry on etsy in 2024 which will help you especially if you want to 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 beginners 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 and don't forget to like share and subscribe of course if you appreciated the value in this video do not forget to take advantage of automation and as soon as orders come in make a sourcing request for them which is right here under orders so here for example i can just click on sourcing request and it'll make a sourcing request for that product that sold at my store so before i fulfill it using my supplier i'm going to let the system find a faster supplier with better shipping times and better pricing so start building your relationships with your customers build your dropshipping businesses from the ground the right way do the right product research add automation enjoy the journey enjoy the results good luck dropshipping on etsy in 2024 the best year for dropshipping and i cannot wait to hear about your success story