3 Pricing Strategies For Your Etsy + Print On Demand Business in 2023 (Etsy POD For Beginners) 

6 Mo later... How is your shop doing? Just curious. Want also to start POD shop.

Hey! Another Christian here. We could be a resource for each other! Maybe we could swap emails and start helping each other. We could give each other feedback on our shops and items. What do you think?

@comehobbywithus sounds a good routine. How is ur shop doing now

Thanks Wendy, really appreciate your support and sweet comment!!

Thanks Gia, really appreciate you

Glad you enjoyed this video, you have to do what works best for you!

So glad I could make a video you needed to hear Dawn! Thanks for the comment

Awww that’s so sweet!! Thanks for watching!! ❤️

Thanks for your sweet comment, really appreciate the support!

So glad this video came at a perfect time for you!!

You’re so welcome! Thanks so much for watching ❤️

Thank you so much!! I hope my content is valuable to you as you begin this journey!!

@@CassiyJohnson I just looked at the bella and canva 3001 shirts and they come in all different prices especially for XL which is 16 dollars , and shipping to rest of the world is 10 dollar making cost of it 26 dollars so i wont be able to offer it at 24 dollars with free posting like you suggested ? how do you combat this ?

So so glad this will help you!!

Thanks for watching Jorge, appreciate your support and so glad you got some value!

So glad I could show you how people are offering the low prices! Thanks for watching!

Wow thanks so much for that comment Dana, so glad you are loving it!! I spent a long time without and now would never go back lol

Thanks so much for watching, I am glad you got some value from my videos!!

So glad I could help, thanks for watching and commenting! Really appreciate your support ❤️

Appreciate the nice comment Karla, so glad you enjoyed it!!

Glad I could make this video just in time for you!!

Can you tell me when changing the tshirt prices to $24.99 do you change it on Printify first? THat's what I've been doing. Changing the prices to $24.99 and then go over to my Etsy shop and click on the box on that liisting and then go to editing options and then to edit prices and that's where I put the $1 incremethat's supposed to raise next size up to a dollar but all of my sizes are showing $24.99. I don't know what I am doing wrong. Also there is nothing that says "bulk." Please any help would be so much appreciated. My shop is a mess right now.

I’ve just been editing them in Etsy since that’s the transaction platform. Maybe that’s wrong? Also, any idea what a Gildan 18000 should be priced at with free shipping?

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Appreciate that Dana, thanks for watching!!

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So glad it was helpful for you Dana!

So glad this video was helpful!

So glad you enjoyed it!!

I am so glad my videos have been helpful to you Ashley!! Happy to help whenever you are ready

That’s great! I’m still waiting on my FIRST SALE! Ugh!

Also, I purchased your Income & Expense Report and would greatly benefit from a video explaining how to use it to its full extent. Thx

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-M_0xRgnhYro.html Here is the video where I go more in-depth on how to use it!

I'll consider making one about sales in the future!

So glad you like it! Thanks for watching!! ❤️

Thanks, I appreciate that!

Congrats on your first 3 sales!! So excited for your journey

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Thank you, Rana! Thanks for watching!

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Thanks Linda, appreciate you watching!!

Start wherever you’d like! I hope these tips were helpful! Thanks so much for watching!

You’re welcome!

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@montanakey9978 did you find an answer to this question? 0:48

HI Jennifer! So glad this video was good timing for you

@@CassiyJohnson I appreciate your response! Have a beautiful day! 💕💕💕

@@CassiyJohnson Do you sell G18000 in the color sand? Only SwiftPod offers it and it costs a lot and it goes out of stock often but it's so popular right now. What's your experience dealing with offering that color? Thanks

@@cand1ss I have decided it's not worth my time worrying about the stock issues to offer the sand colored sweatshirt. To get in on the trend but with less headache, try offering the Sand Colored Gildan 5000 t-shirt or the Bella 3001 shirt in color Natural or Soft Cream!

@@CassiyJohnson Ooh, that's great advice! Thank you for always being so approachable and helpful :)

Here is a video where I went over that! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0svQyUl7dQc.html

Hello! Yes you can, just go to your Marketing tab and click "Sales and discounts"

It's less about how many you have for sale and more about how much research you did on being prepared. Did you make sure you are selling in a niche that is in high demand and people are currently searching for and buying? Did you make a design that not only looks good but is also a trending design style for this year like checkerboard or retro fonts and colors? These two things can be hard to master but once you do, you should start to see sales!

I don't really track stuff like that, I typically just spend my time making new things until something starts selling, then I notice it's selling and add that designs to more items if that makes sense! Try not to analyze this business to death.

I think this video I made on how to price your POD products would be perfect for you!! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0svQyUl7dQc.html

No you do not! You just have to select in the listing that you are using a production partner.

So glad you’re enjoying my videos!! I would start pricing sweatshirts at $39.99 :)

@@CassiyJohnson thank you so much!!

Hey we can all improve somewhere ❤️ better to know!

It all depends on how much you are paying for the hoodie, I'd recommend trying to get close to a $15 profit per hoodie. They can go for anywhere between $37 - $49 usually.

@@CassiyJohnson thanks so much!!!

Hey Jessica great question! I just leave the prices that same because this doesn’t happen super often. I get even on my busiest months maybe 10-20 offsite ad sales. My biggest month ever I think I had 50 out of 2000 items sold were from this. Ideally you aren’t losing money on it when you get these sales and they will help boost your listings to get more organic sales!

So excited for you, Ronny! Wishing you all the best!

Maybe have it qualified for free shipping over a certain amount? $50 in shipping feels wrong!

I opened up a little over a month ago myself and what helps me with views is setting a percentage off on selected listings maybe that will help you get at least some views. As far as sales no I have not been that fortunate yet. I feel your frustration you're not alone

@@sandragonzales9898 Hi I would look at your designs. I have not seen your shop but if you are having trouble getting sales maybe look at that. Some of my best sellers are simply text based words. I spent $100 on one design and got no sales! Oh well. I just move on and create more designs. Hope this helps.

You have 50-100 listings per niche?

@@sandragonzales9898 run ad, before that, have friend or family to buy ur item and give review?

I think that my best advice to this would be to really try to work on your mindset that you know this is a learning experience and no one is good at things right when they first try them. There is likely lots of little places you can slowly improve on. I tried to have a mindset in the beginning that if I got no sales for a year but learned a lot, then it would be worth it! Obviously we want you making sales before that though so here are a few tips just in case you are missing anything. 1. Spend 50% of your time working on designs for what will be selling 8-12 weeks from now. Spend the other 50% designing for what is selling NOW. Make sure you are working on things that are currently selling. 2. Make sure you aren't just making up a design that "looks good" each time you go to design. It's not enough for it to just look nice on your computer or phone, it needs to fit within the trends that are currently selling this year. Are you doing retro fonts and retro colors? that is a huge trend this year. 3. Do you have absolutely GREAT mockups? I'd recommend Moonlit Mockups if you don't have literally the cutest mock ups yet. Are you including the ugly printify or printful mocks in your listings? don't do that if you are. 4. SEO, are you spending time taking seo from other best sellers? Are you using the full Title space and tags space? Are you putting the most important keyword you want to rank for first? 5. Do you have cute photo cards in your listing and a cute size chart? 6. Do you have a nice looking description that answers all of your customers potential questions? 7. Do you have a nice logo and banner? If you are doing all of those things right, then you might just need a little more time. But if you really are doing all those things, then the sales should start coming! Feel free to purchase my shop review if you want more specific advice on your store! www.cassiyjohnson.com/offers/vZ69PybL

I do just free shipping for any item, just one or multiples!

@@CassiyJohnson I need help, what happens, if the shirt I have on my website keep going free? Does that mean I have to pay the shipping for printfy?

Hi Agnes! I would recommend using a lot of the same titles and tags as the best sellers because you know they are working but then throw in a few more lower competition keywords as well if there are some that make sense for that niche!

@@CassiyJohnson Fantastic! So I can copy bestseller tags but at the end using sales samurai I add some lower competition keyword from the same niche, correct?

@@26agica Yes that is a good strategy!

I thought the same & given customers want their items in a timely manner that wouldn’t work for my location. It takes Amazon three weeks to get to me!

Hi Barb, so glad you enjoyed my video! Yes a lot of times I run a 20% off sale but price my items at $30.99 so then after the sale it's $24.79. But I have recently found out that in states like California, you need to sell something at the non sale price at least 1x per month. So I am going to re do my strategy probably!

@@CassiyJohnson please share how you decide to change it, it would be useful to all of us

@@CassiyJohnson could you not just choose one or two items to sell at regular price the entire month and discount all others at 20% and be okay for states like california. OR perhaps once per month put everything in the store at the regular price for instance on the 1st of the month for a couple of days and then change it all back on sale for the entire rest of the month?

How to set up a free shipping guarantee On Etsy.com, select the Shop Manager icon. Choose Settings. Choose Shipping settings. Choose Get started in the Free shipping guarantee tab. Choose Next. Choose Set free shipping.

@@CassiyJohnson do you do free shipping in your sweatshirts as well ? I think your price on sweatshirt is $32 for S M L sizes and you increase them on 2XL and 3 XL?

I looked through he price increase and not everyone and every item is going up. So make sure to look through the document and understand which of your items is affected. If you want to raise your prices to keep your profit margin, then just bulk edit all of your listing up $1 or $2 depending on what the price increase was.

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I actually just showed exactly how I do this in this video! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0svQyUl7dQc.html It will answer all of your questions

I usually just sell all of the sizes, if something goes out of stock, you can just offer them another color that’s in stock. People can either switch or you cancel their order, no big deal!

@@CassiyJohnson There are no penalties from Etsy if I list an item which is not on stock? It is that easy? Oh I did not know, really great news! :)