How I've Made Over $100,000 Selling Custom Mugs on Etsy (Full Tutorial)
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- In this video, I go over everything you need to know to start selling custom mugs on Etsy.
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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!
How is it going? Im interested in this
This makes me have much more respect for people who have like 50 variations on etsy
Wow where have you been all my life. I spent so much money buying courses on his that are so hard to follow. Like trying to get in Harvard.
You make it seem so easy.
And you are so believable. You face spells genuine and sincere to the T.
Thanks let me start from 1 and open up an account
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! ❤🙏
Hey! Just wanna let you know I appreciate you a lot for creating the best easy to understand, professional video all over UA-cam.
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!
So rather than creating lines for centering, just increase transparency of the mug template and lock it as your back layer. Once you're done designing the mug, unlock and either delete or add a new page below your design and pull the template down for another mug design. I keep all my mug designs in one Canva project with the same template being repeated over and over. It also lets you see when your design is in the "danger zone" of not getting printed. ;)
I just subscribed. How kind of you to share your knowledge with others. There is a saying that you become successful, then help others succeed.
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!
I am BLOWN away! This is GENIUS!!!!!!!!
did you make a sale yet mate?
About 7 months ago, someone asked the very question that I have, however you have not relied to it to answer the question. That question was, “Why did you create 12 distinct Etsy listings when you already had the 12 variations in the first listing, with each variation mapped to the appropriate Printify SKU?” A supplemental question to this would be does Etsy allow that many mockups to show 12 Images, in addition to any other images for business info, like shop return policy, etc?
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?
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.
Hey guys I saw he did this in another video and explain why. He creates 12 listings and puts all the variants in all 12 listing to create multiple listings with the same items for more chances to get seen by customers. For example if someone typed in January mug, you maybe potentially be seen but if you had 12 listings your odds to be seen are greater. Does that make sense? Hope it helps, I want to see all of us succeed!
❤ 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
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?
sooooo awesome! I was about to quit on printify because of issues, but now maybe not. TY!
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!
Hello, Thank you for your tutorial. It looks more simple how to do it. Can I ask please if this method of design suitable for 15oz as well or do I need to adjust the design a bit for 15oz? Thank you.
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!
Such a great video, thanks much. I have a question, I see that now in printify there is an option to enable personalization. Is that step mandatory for a personalized mug if we are using hello custom. I saw this option in accent colored mugs.
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 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 for your clip it advance for me. but I cannot load front stoic Appreciate for your help.
Hi Stephen, do you have or can you do a tutorial on how to do 15oz mugs?
@ 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
Hi! I've followed this step by step for my wrap around mug template design, and HC is putting my template just on the front of the mug way smaller rather than 'wrapping it around'... I've contacted support but no help. How can this be fixed?
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
Thank you for your knowledge & help getting custom made products made
Thank you for this informative video. I see you stated that you need to have the same design on both sides. What if you only have one side you need personalized but the other does not and it has a design. Would it work?
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.
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. 👍
If I approve an order on HC does it automatically go into production in printify? I have my printify set to manual order approval.
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?
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.
If I can get you to help me with one more question 🙋♂️
When I do my market research and I find three top selling items that are selling a product that I cannot produce on printify. Let’s say a Tumblr with a metal straw with laser engraving. I can’t produce this from Printify however they sell these in abundance and it’s one of the hottest items selling from my current research. Now I know it’s not the only market however, it’s one of the hottest markets. This vacation travel mug. What do you do in that situation? Do you just move onto another market and just accept it? Or would you try to find that product to sell it? Thanks again in advance for all of your hard work and for responding to my questions you guys are awesome and I cannot wait to find success through your methods.
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
So helpful! Does anyone know if we leave the Printify listings as unpublished? OR do we publish them after posting on Etsy and Hello Custom? A little confused on that part. Thanks in advance!!
Great explanations love all of your videos
I would've loved to see the listing photos
Hi, I am new to this, so I find your videos very interesting and super enlightening! I'm following step by step what you explain in this video but when I get to the part where I'm supposed to download the mug template to upload it to Canva, there is no such option. I guess I can take a screenshot and adjust to the suggested size in Canva, right?
Am sorry, I found it.
Great video just one question...do you need to save changes to CMYK colour or do you just leave as RGB?
I just ran mine thru printify do you have to use Hello Cusom?
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?
Awesome tutorial. Question so does this make 12 seperate Etsy listings, but customer can select their birth month on each, or is it just one listing with the variants? I'm familiar with variants from doing EBAY listings. Appreciate the help. Keep Crushing It!! Stay HUMBLE, Stay HUNGRY, Stay FOCUSED...~The Jarhead Entrepreneur
Which mug heat press do you use?
Fabulous thank u so very much...love every video
Thank you so much for such an informative clip. You are so kind. ^_^
How do you add new fonts to Hello Custom?
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
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!!
At about 17 mins in you say hello custom can only map one graphic? Does that mean you can only use one clip art in your design to use with Hello Custom?
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
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
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
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!
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.
Did you leave the listings Unpublished in Printify?
My question as well.
District Photo is no longer offering template, do you have template?
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.
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.
I just may have to try Hello Custom
Thank you!
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
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.
Do you post the image on both sides of the mug or just one?
He said HelloCustom can only do one image. That is why you set it up as ONE wraparound image and it will show on both sides.
Thank you!
Once you create the design and people start to buy, where do we find the mugs?
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.
Very helpful video, easy to follow. Thanks
@HelloCustom, in this video you never published the mugs on Printify. Do you have to Publish them on Printiify?
I have never used Hello Custom is this something I should be using?- btw thank you for the tutorial, it was great🥰April
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
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...?
@ 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.
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.
how do you download images from canva as 300 dpi? or do you just convert them to 300 dpi before fulfilling the order?
please tell me! how do you add fonts to hello custom?
Do you have any plans to integrate with other pod providers such as printful ?
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?
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???
With Hello Custom, can we offer multiple fonts for people to choose from as well? Thanks
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
My template does not have lines on it. Just a rectangle. I cant figure out what I am doing wrong.
So you have to list 12 different products on Etsy to cover all the months?
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.
Thank you so much ‼️💯❤️❤️
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?
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
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!
Will Printify charge you twice, for an image in the front and the back?
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.
Dang, fantastic video!!!!!! Thank you!
Awesome Job..Thankyou
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.
Do you have any another suppliers in Asia?
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?
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 paid using the link and still have not receieved the confirmation email to be able to login (no, its not in the spam folder) and not getting very far with support. its been about 24hr and still nothing. Very disapointed
So whats stopping me from copying my january birth mug in etsy and changing the thumbnail to february? Vs publishing from printify and recreating the entire listing twelve times? Thanks in advance!!
In this case, SEO. One listing should have all January search terms in the title and tags, the other should only have February search terms, etc.
If you keep all the search terms broad or use all months throughout the listing, it will hurt the SEO.
Imagine getting rank for January birthflower mug but still having your December thumbnail image when people are searching. It would hurt your clickthrough and then you would lose rank over time.
@@HelloCustom thanks for the reply!. Although when copying my January birth mug and replacing it with the February image, I’m also replacing the description title and tags. It was just saving me from going into print and publishing a whole new product and then having to create 12 variations by hand, copying and pasting all 12 SKUs again and again and again. When I copy the listing directly from Etsy all the SKUs come right with it.
@@HelloCustom thanks 🙏 noted 📝