How I've Made Over $100,000 Selling Custom Mugs on Etsy (Full Tutorial)
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- Опубліковано 9 лис 2023
- In this video, I go over everything you need to know to start selling custom mugs on Etsy.
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I have learned soooo much. thank you kindly for the precious time it takes to do these types of tutorials.
I've always wondered how to do this for pod, now I know and will apply what I learned from you! This has been super helpful! Thank you sooooooo much! I appreciate you breaking it down step by step! ❤🙏
This makes me have much more respect for people who have like 50 variations on etsy
Great explanations love all of your videos
Thank you for your knowledge & help getting custom made products made
Very helpful video, easy to follow. Thanks
Love your videos! Quick suggestion use rulers in Canva to identify template center and other points.
Damn, thanks for this tip! This just helped me out tremendously. Rulers in the elements. That works!
yes I found that out the hard way - I added the vertical ruler lines but not horizontal and when I uploaded my design to the Etsy template, the design was too high! Easy enough to move the design if for a one-off but for bulk designs, it'll be cumbersome so I added the horizontal lines to the Canva template now all my designs are perfectly centered!
It is so nice to have someone do this side-by-side with you instead of making you pay for a tutorial where you do all the learning on your own. I've started with Episode 1 of the challenge and am taking this all the way through with you until I have a SUCCESSFUL Etsy shop! THANK YOU!
Fabulous thank u so very much...love every video
LOVE your videos, Steven! I have learned more from you than any other Etsy UA-camr so thank you! Question...in your shop, do you have categories on the left margin for product type or niche type? So if someone has 50 mugs for sale but there are 10 birthday, 10 promoted To, etc, would they all be listed under mugs or would you have 5 niche categories?
Such great info! I can not wait to get started! Thank you so much for laying the ground work for all of us. One question (I looked through previous questions first), when you are creating the etsy listing you mention production partner, but didn't really give info on what goes there. Hi, I'm new.. Would printify go here or the actual company we select for our product within printify?
Dang, fantastic video!!!!!! Thank you!
You are super helpful! Can you please tell us how to download the template from Printify? Thanks! Another quick question, do you use Printify for your ornaments? I know you say they ship same day, but I don't know how that works with Printify. Again, thanks!
Awesome Job..Thankyou
This is brilliant! I have been avoiding starting a custom products shop because of the customization work it would require. I'm going to start it now that I know this exists!
Hi! I was curious about your thoughts with the district photo quality and the DHL shipping. Have you or your customers have any issues? Thanks so much for this video!
Great video just one question...do you need to save changes to CMYK colour or do you just leave as RGB?
I noticed that with hello custom when making the variations the printify skus could only be used once, so you have to make a copy of the product in printify to have a new sku and make a new variation. Is that right or I missed a step?
Thank you so much ‼️💯❤️❤️
If I approve an order on HC does it automatically go into production in printify? I have my printify set to manual order approval.
Thank you for posting this. It was my painpoint. I was uploading a single pdf like you show in the video, but Hello Custom broke the image up into two different images. Does this mean it no longer does that?
❤ This is a great deal for business's for a starter. You have shook out the getting it started problems... ❤ thank you for this information. I recently was accused of being an octopus! And found a mug with an octopus on it. My point being, create a mug with , I AM AN OCTOPUS. THANK YOU
I would've loved to see the listing photos
Do you have any plans to integrate with other pod providers such as printful ?
I just may have to try Hello Custom
Can you let me know if I can create colored fonts so instead of all fonts being black, they have a choice of the name being a different color?
I just need a yes or no. Thank you. I will go through your videos but I want to get a quick jump into this.
Thank you.
With Hello Custom, can we offer multiple fonts for people to choose from as well? Thanks
Wonderful tutorial, thank you! Would you mind sharing where I can find that Stoic Font to Download? I can use it in Canva, but when trying to find it outside of Canva to Download to Hello Custom, I cannot find it anywhere!? Please help! Loving my monthly subscription to HC so far!!
@ 3:43 the flower to be download, does it have a white background or the background is transparent. If it has a white background printed on a black mug it will print unnecessary white background besides the flower. Please specify are the center pieces like flower in this case do or do not have background of any color. Thanks
Thanks so much , 🎉
Good evening, When I'm designing in Canva, how do I know what fonts are available in Hello Custom? If I do different variations and use the same font, I don't want to have to search fonts online and do the changes when my design if uploaded to Hello Custom. I rather know what my options are before doing all of the variations.
You need to define "Revenue". Is that the actual sale minus the drop shipping costs? Or is it the sale before the drop shipping charges are figured in? So many are glossing over this.
How do you add new fonts to Hello Custom?
I just ran mine thru printify do you have to use Hello Cusom?
how do you download images from canva as 300 dpi? or do you just convert them to 300 dpi before fulfilling the order?
I notice from your picture of a 15 oz mug you're holding, the left-hand side of the mug is further away from the handle than on the right side of the mug. I have this same problem in Printify and I am wondering if your customers complain about this. I seldom have this problem with the 11 oz mugs.
I tried doing what you suggested. But the picture is on the handle of the glass instead. I'm sure it's positioned correctly as you suggest. How can I fix it?
U got me lost after downloading the file from printify, how u paste it on canva? U did it very quick , students can’t copy
Big Thanks...QUESTION...when I take the finished design 4950x2310 px into photoshop it says it's 96 dpi...don't I want 300 dpi???? I don't want to mess this up...Thanks
Great Video!!!
I use Shopify. I don't use Etsy. I design my mugs via Printify. Does your platform do customization for sellers that utilize Shopify as a sales resource?
Please respond asap.
Thanks
Terrific tutorial. Can you clarify, right near the end, the customer's request / note to seller: Can I get this by the 13th? How do we - the shop - respond, how do we know if this is possible - what steps do we take on the timing requests that will definitely affect customer satisfaction? Many thanks! (I hope I didn't just miss you're addressing this earlier in the video!
please tell me! how do you add fonts to hello custom?
@ what point the flower was sized to a specific width, Height and pixel? or all these clip art pieces are pre sized ready to use. Custom size template 4950 w x 2310 h this size is for the template only? or solely for the flower. The little devil is in the details.
Once you create the design and people start to buy, where do we find the mugs?
The flower photo is that a raster or vector image. It is going to be printed on ceramic surface. I bought a mug as a tourist at a Juction site, the mug is my fav color and the size and it is microwaveable, but the name printed on the mug is coming off.
Are you showing all 12 months flowers in one listing under other images since a costumer can choose any month? Maybe I missed that thanks
This sounds great but aren’t there way too many people doing this already? How could I make money doing this? What are your thoughts? Also, what is the cost of such a program? Plus additional costs?
I have never used Hello Custom is this something I should be using?- btw thank you for the tutorial, it was great🥰April
Hi I am trying to follow your steps but whem I download the mug template in to canva I cant seem to make it bigger It wont move???
Print area size 2475 x 1155 px (300 DPI) does this mean the template area? or the actual image (flower) area? Thnks.
정말 초보질문인데요 한가지 물어볼게 있어요. Customer size에서 어떤사람은 5000x5000 사용하고 어떤사람은 2475x1155 사용하는데 어떤차이가 있는건가요 고맙습니다
Just curious--you are using Hello Custom so you don't have to deal with placing the name, date on the mug? If you do it yourself, does Printify send it out for you? Also, $11.99 for the mug--does that cover the product and shipping? Or are you charging for shipping?
This is truly fantastic! Thank you for all this great info! I was just wondering about customer service, though. How does that work? When a customer asks whether the name can be Kendra, is it necessary to answer the customer, or do you just proceed with the order without answering? And what about other questions, like will I receive my order for sure before Christmas, or anything else? Who has to answer these questions? Do sellers get them often? Because I would imagine it's extremely time consuming if a seller has to keep answering customer questions.
Unless you have employees helping you, you are the customer service! I've noticed only about 10% of customers write in with questions about delivery times and whatnot. I don't think it's necessary to respond to each customer when they've written the name/date unless you think it's spelled incorrectly or they have a question that doesn't fall under what the product looks like.
Not sure what I am doing wrong. The Printify download only opens in Adobe, how do I get it to Canva? Sorry, I am new at this.
ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!
Stupid question, but curious…
Why do you create the Canva template 2X bigger than the file size specification from Printify?
Is it because the print file has a better resolution when you scale it down?
Yes, exactly that.
Will Printify charge you twice, for an image in the front and the back?
Such great info! Do you know any supplier offer branding on the tag or box of mug?
I know Merchize has the custom tag and package. You can contact them to ask about the box of mug
Would you please create a document or a list of fonts copying feature where all the fonts of hello custom can be referred to when designing.
If you click on ‘Font’ in the bottom left navigation, this will take you to your font library. You will see all your available fonts here.
Hi. I didi all that you said, bu I am stuck on December and it is saying it does not have the same fons, I saved for Jan - Nov, which were Great Vibes and Lobster Two/ What do I do now. It's driving me insane. Again all saved from Jan - Nov, but blooming stuck for nowe the 7th time on December. Now I have to unpublish this now, and have a 14 day trial of which I already lost a day into this. What can I do and is anyone else having this blooming issue. I also removed and tried again and still the same thing is stuck on only December.
Can you do a tutorial for Printful?
can you sure your pricing on a mug? I followed your steps in the 1M challenge but i am somehow always in the negative. I know mugs sell great just trying to figure out the best to price thanks
Can’t I just do one Etsy listing and offer any of the mugs even though I have the 12 products listed separately on Printify?
Hey, thanks for the detailed explanation.
But why did you duplicate the listing 11 times in Etsy? I thought the point of adding all the birth month SKUs as Etsy variations was so you'd only have 1 Etsy listing for all 12 mugs??
Same question
same thoughts here too. duplicating listing on Printify make sense but inside Etsy? and other thing is ETSy will charge you 0.20 cents per listing. by duplicating 12 listing you will be charged $2.40. Cant we just add 11 SKUs inside that 1 primary listing to avoid additional charges?
I'm with you on this. I don't understand why, other than each listing showing the accurate birth flower mug, but even still, not sure this is good @@Listifyofficial
Yup ... I don't get that either, sounds to me you end up with 144 variations
Im stuck with this question, too. Im trying to add 1 listing with 12 design variations.
Dear friend, Please tell step by step , where you click again what you do, no understand
Nice explanation. I do not know POD can do personalization. Does it also has giftability feature...I mean, when someone buy a POD as a gift, how can it delivered to the personalised address..
The customer puts the delivery address when they order.
How do I tag two different names in Hello Custom if I have a mug for a couple who just got married. For example, Congratulations Tom & Sally - Do I give each name the Name tag? Or will Hello Custom enter the same name for both fields tagged as Name?
I think mugs would be added separately in the same listing for Hello Custom to work.
Just make it clear to your customer to add both mugs to the cart.
Mix match mugs are a good idea for same sex couples!
this looks pretty super. if customer only enters the name and date without phrasing into a question as in your example, will HelloCustom still recognize the name and date and print correctly? so for example they just enter the personalization as below and nothing else. thanks!
Kendra
2022
Yes, they user can enter the personalization on any format and HelloCustom will be able to detect the name and date. 👍
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Hey Steven. I am confused. If you add every month from Printify onto ONE Etsy listing, surely the SEO will be negatively impacted as the title, description, and tags will be exactly the same? How do you solve this problem?
I'm with you here, I'm confused why you'd add all variations to one listing, then create duplicates for that listing. The only thought i have is that each listing can show accurate mug examples, as there are limited images you can upload. But still... this seems like extra work?
This is so that you can choose from the January listing all other months designs too. From the Feburary listing you can choose all the other months designs too. From the March listing you can choose all the other months designs too. And so on.
Means that each month has its own listing, which means more representation on Etsy's pages. 12 to be exact. But if you just click on ONE listing, you can choose all the other months as well.
The SKU input just tells the website that there arent 12 x 12 (144) listings, just 12.
That in and of itself is brilliant. A lot of work. But brilliant.
@@skarqen Hey there, thanks for your input. How exactly would one get that done the easiest and step-by-step method?
So in essence you just created 12 listings with each 12 options, thus 144 listings?
@@skarqen
Did you know that Canva has margin lines that you can activate while designing? You don't have to put guide lines on your actual design which you would then have to remember to delete.
Thank you so much for this! Question; if your Etsy listing has all the graphic variants, why did you make another 11 listings for essentially the same thing? (11:50) If all your variants and SKUs are inside the one Etsy listing, it doesn't need to be duplicated 11 more times.
I am also wondering about this. it was not very clear in the video.
I have the same question. Why do we need to create the one listing on Etsy and put 12 variant on it? Why dont we just create 12 individual listings?
Also, at the end, when the customer places the order, he clicks on the Jan listing. Then, again, on the option, he selects the Jan option again?
@theanysim Probably so that if someone orders any of the variants the reviews show up on that listing. If they're split then all of the built up trust and power of one listing is split by 12. If one variant takes off, then the rest can benefit and contribute to a snowball effect.
Did anyone got an answer to this, I am just wondering about this as well lol.
Great video, I didn't realize that you have to select "another company or a person" made it in Etsy, I normally pick "I made it" option.
It's because you didn't make the product.
Because other youtubers I've watched always said to choose You made it because you actually designed it, so that's what I always did. Until I watched this video.. @@SpeedbirdHeavy
@AniMoted that's only true if it's a digital product.
Yes, that's what I thought too, my logic told me to pick Other company made it for POD products but since other utubers said to pick "I made it" that's what I did, it's good to learn it now before I'm in too deep :).@@SpeedbirdHeavy
It's weird... I don't see the Print file requirements on my Printify
There is one thing from the video that I am confused about. Why create 12 listings in Etsy for all the different months if you have all the sku's in the one listing? Can't we just upload images of all the variances in the one listing? Thank you for your time. Your videos are great and I am glad I found your channel.
For the other 11 months of the year and the correlating flower.
@@MJ-yt4nr but they are already listed in the first listing. 🤷♀️ Is it because of hellocustom?
I can't download the Printify template to Canva also. What are you using to do this?
Don't understand @@T.elegram_HelloCustom1
@@elizcody9144 I'm with you on this one....I downloaded the template I wanted to use...and it was an AI or PSD file....so I did my template with the correct size....then uploaded it to Canva and it just like shoved it into a projects folder (correct size) but none of the margins are there to use =/
If I remember correctly, those Printify templates are pdfs, which won't upload into Canva -- you have to convert them to another format first, then they'll upload. I use CloudConvert to change them to PDFs. You can also take a screenshot of the template and paste it into your Canva image (I label it "Mug Template") - just be sure to crop it it properly
Do you leave the listings "unpublished" in printify?
I was confused about this part as well. Last he mentioned or showed the Printify side of things, the listings were all saved as drafts...?
I have my etsy store open for a while now ( custom mugs) and I still cant seem to make one sale ugh
Hi, I was a good video, but you left us hanging with the "skew the link everything into one" I Have no idea how to do that.
That clip art is nowhere to be found on CF, I have looked for several months for good birth flower clipart like that, so it was either pulled from another vendor/site or the offer was pulled from CF.
You've probably answered this, but why use a PDF in HelloCustom vs the PNG that you already have?
A PNG is graphic only and will not have the fonts as editible items. The pdf contains both graphics and editible fonts.
Ceramic Mug (11oz) from $4.4? I found a POD supplier that has ceramic mugs with a cheaper base cost. Anyways, thanks for great video.
Can You ad 2 names like "Joan and Kay"?
Did you leave the listings Unpublished in Printify?
My question as well.
So upload the file from printify and then go to canva and it says the file is not compatible with canva. Is there a trick or a step I am not doing.
see above
i see that you have two type of subscriptions the first one is for monthly payment for 24.99( which is good for long time seller) and the second one which is 0.30 per sale(which is good for first time sellers) but you don't talk about the second option too much in the videos, so how does it work, do you charge 0.30 cents every time you get sale (only) or there is a extra fee you have to pay every month with that option? i want to try the trial but i want to be sure.
I only see a monthly ($29.99) and annual ($299) subscription. Given I’m just starting out I do not see how I can afford to keep this with no sales yet for these specific products.
And each of those options also have 0.30 per sale on top.
@patriciabecker8105 i guess, ill wait to get consistent sales to be able to use this program, i only got 2 sales, and i was planning to to use this program to boost my sales bc personalization is something that customers love, plus this program could save me alot of time but i guess ill stick with not custom untill it boost in sales in the future.
Very pricey monthly subscription
@@hungkiet7535 yeah thats true , if he wants more customers he could price it at 15$ just like netflix, amazon, disney plus, he could dominate this market by having more competitive prices.
Why would someone give out a formula to breed direct competitors? I’m skeptical.🤨
When I download the template from Printify, it downloads as a zip file. How do i get that to upload into Canva?
I open the zip file on my computer, then I move the individul elements inside the zip file into a new temporary folder. I can bulk upload them to Canva from there.
Hello Custom, First, thank you for your great videos. Extremely helpful. Print on demand is definitely something I've thought about. But, my question is, are we the seller responsible for paying the print company up front for the purchases or are their fees deducted from the buyers payment? Thank you.
You pay your fulfilment provider up front. They don't receive the buyer's money. Etsy does.
Yes. I understand that Etsy receives the money. So, if the seller is responsible for providing payment upfront, then this isn't a business that you can start with no money as stated. Sure, you can set up a store, etc. But in reality, you would need your own funds to pay the upfront cost. Which, I now find the explained videos to be misleading. And if I'm wrong, please correct me.
@@jeaniek8372 okay so you know that Etsy receives the money, did you think that Etsy then paid the fulfilment provider? Alas, no. But the good thing about that is that Etsy handling the customer's payment means that they also handle all the sales tax side of the transaction - which, believe me, is a HUGE benefit. Now back to how to pay the fulfilment provider, since you likely won't get the Etsy payout before you have to pay Printify or whoever. What most of us do is have a credit card with benefits, such as cashback or air miles. You then use that card as your payment method with Printify and make sure you pay your credit card bill in full every month. That way you'll not pay interest and you'll accumulate air miles. Once you achieve success and get tons of orders you might have to adjust your credit limit or add more cards, but you'll be flying business class for free 😀
@jeaniek8372 You would pay up front if you have it set to automatically place the orders. You can actually start with no money upfront. What you would have to do is wait for the buyers payment to hit your account, then manually go place the order. This is how aloy of people start out until you get alittle bit of profit in your account, then change it over to place orders automatically.
@mikedeering929 Thank you for sharing the information. I'll definitely re consider the possibilities.
I did the same following all your steps and put it at a competitive price and none were sold in two months
What do you suspect? Is it possibly you forgot to publish it? Maybe the customer is not seeing you mug or printify not connected to you Etsy account.
How do you add fonts to hello custom?
did you figure this out? i am so confused on how to add them
hello custom doesn't work.... what going on?
So the client to HelloCustom have to add fonts etc ? I'm trying to understand, because if we have to do all the work, why can't we just do it ourselves?
I do not think that customers go go HC...they personalize it on Etsy...Many sellers had trouble to customaize stuff, & they have to send it to customer for approval, wait for customer tom get back to them with approval, & then You have to do the order & provide the adress of the customer...the way it is shown in this vid is much easier...hopefully I didn't missunderstand it all...🤔
I meant the sellers. I'm new and just trying to understand it. @@helengren9349
@@julia4life940 basically the customer is adding personalized in Etsy. You get the order and it pops up in HC. You double check the names/dates are right as it changes the names for you and then you click approve and then it gets sent to printify to be printed/sent to customer. So you are doing a lot of the legwork "up" front so to speak...but if you didn't use HC you'd have to go back to Printify, find and copy a new template from whatever the customer ordered, you'd create a copy of that...go back to your "design" software...let's say Canva, you'd change the name yourself, redownloaded that, reupload that to printify to fill that order. Basically HC makes it so you don't have to go back to Canva or other software because HC already has your design/font because you already did the work upfront and requires you to just click approve if it looks right so its saving you the time of NOT having to go back/edit details for the info, redownload/upload again to send to customer. So yeah you can totally do all that work yourself or you can input the initial time up front to NOT have to do anything but check orders to make sure they are accurate and click approve. Make sense? :)
hi can i use this method for making png mug?
Sure you can in fact Etsy loves .png format because resizing to smaller or larger image, png format does not lose quality.
I’m having an issue with printify where the design on one side is blurry but the other side is fine. It’s so annoying. Anyone else?
I sell on Etsy. The seven figures is extremely rare and will not last. There are thousand of people selling mugs. The hardest thing on Etsy is to get noticed. It took me months.
I created these mugs 2 months ago and have not gotten any sales yet
@@T.elegram_HelloCustom1 y0
Niche down!
Instead of birth month flowers why not birth month dinosaurs?
Birth month insects?
Cat/dog breeds?
Ocean life forms?
If you want to stick with flowers find ones distinctively different from what is offered.
Unless you’ve already done that then thanks for your input!
@@ImogenShade I create a new product / design almost daily and am testing different niches and different products. Birth month flowers is just one of the items I'm selling.
@@aamirbadershah887most people have their own mugs. People buy mugs to give away as presents, anniversaries, etc. I suspect he is actually promoting hellocustom app. And his listings are being prioritized ahead of others because this video is like a bait to sign up subscribers.
There’s no margins on printify. The only ones killing it on etsy have their own machines
I sell with printify and I make a profit. You need to just figure out your prices strategy such as not doing free shipping and charging for it.
What machine would your buy?
Clearly untrue given the title of this video!
What machines? Heat press machines?
Creative fabrica? How does this site give away their products and not make money? Who would design flowers for you for free? To design flowers it takes time, watercolour paste, brushes, palettes, paper, etc. Am I missing something?
Why would you find a formula to make money then put it on UA-cam for everyone else to copy, surely it ruins said formula??
I'd love to do custom mugs but to ship from Canada to within Canada is about 13!!!!! bucks!!!
Who's going to pay that unless you charge 3 bucks per mug. Disgusting. What a way to shut down ones ability to sell anything deeper than an inch thick. I'll have to try stickers. It's outrageous!