Cassie you actually don't need to use the "splice" effect anymore - Canva has added one called "Outline" that does exactly what you need it to! So much easier than using splice or hollow! :)
Cassiy, I started watching your video several months ago. I had an Etsy store selling items laying around the house and then I started painting items to sell I did not make any money but I did like the way Etsy paid so quickly. My wife and I are 73 years old and we live on SS. We both had part-time jobs at our local church until covid came and we both lost our extra income. I love designing. I love your story of how you struggled in life and have now done so well. I just opened my new store and am struggling with getting my tags to show up. I am watching this video hoping to learn more. My wife has Lupus and several auto-immune diseases costing us a lot of money each month. She has afib plus diabetes also. I just today put up my fourth POD item. I know I am in the minority on Etsy but I really need to learn from you and your success. This is my wife and my only way to find a new way of making money. Thanks and keep up the great work.
Cassiy you are truly amazing. Every video is professional and I've learned so much. I've found other creators also that you've had as guests. I really like how you reply and encourage viewers. You are so gracious and I'm very grateful to have found you.
Hi Cassiy. Always great information. One suggestion to help new viewers. Remind us when you’re back in a certain program as you go along. Many times you switch from canva to Creative Fabrica to Etsy, etc. As I am learning, I have to go back and listen again to make sure I was following you. Thanks again!
You have been a blessing to this platform. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and offering heartfelt encouragement to those of us who are just getting started or don’t know how to start.
Cassiy, you are truly amazing. I've thought of creating designs but had no idea where to start. I'm watching your videos back to back and implementing the steps. Thank You so much for all the tips and tricks and ofcourse spending your valuable time to make these videos.
You are extremely good at teaching and explaining things! I am 64 and need extra income, so I am thinking about selling Tshirts of my local high schools teams (which are about 8 or 10 schools) just for a start. Never sold anything online before, so I need a lot of help!!! I'm going to watch ALL of your videos and hope that I learn enough to get started... Thank You so much!!
Such a great tutorial! I love the best-seller hack. I always love watching you design a shirt. You take such a practical approach and make it look sooooo easy. Whenever I'm stuck on a design, I always come back to your videos for a little inspiration!
Cassie...you will always remain my nr 1 teacher!!! Thank you so much!!! Heard this many times, but need the refresh every now and again. Thank u thank u, you are a star!!! Love, Christa. ❤
So glad you liked it! The newest Canva hack I've heard of is the new Typecraft app, go to your apps on Canva and type in Typecraft. It'll bring up a new app that you can type in a word and then stretch it and distort it however you want!
These are great tips! Thank you sooooo much! I'm especially excited to try out the wavy text option. And I had no idea you could change the colors of the graphics that are "fixed" colors (I don't remember what you called them in the video). I'm hopping over to Canva now to play!
Cassiy, I think you do an amazing job with these tutorials. I have always avoided Canva, and thanks to your step by step directions, I just love playing around with all the options. I am totally new to this business and everything is a learning experience. I am having problems with my designs that include different elements, showing a big white block when I try to pasting it to a colored shirt on Printify. My white shirts look great, but I want to diversify my collection. I would greatly appreciate any hints I can get from you or if you could create a video detailing the process. (Nancy)
Thank you so much Cassiy for your videos! You’ve been such an inspiration for me to start my own POD shop as a side hustle while taking care of my little one at home this year☺️ I know the holidays are coming up… the one area that I’m still a bit uneasy on is coupons and holiday sales/ daily sales in your Esty shop :) It would be awesome to see a video on your take and advice on that area☺️
I think I covered sales and coupons in this video right here, hopefully it's helpful for you! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gYvYSvPec4g.html
Canva added an eraser tool now so we don’t have to remove bg, I am so excited to see all the improvements Canva and Etsy are adding, some real value for us all 🎉this is really inspiring me to get excited for the research 🧐 part haha
Cassiy, thank you so much for your videos! I got both of your Halloween mockups off Creative Fabrica. I can't wait to use them! I did your teacher image and I'm hoping this has better results than the last one I put in my store :) It's so cute! I'm going to swap out the colors for Teachers, I'm going to have blue and probably gold. I love learning how to do these things :)
Big fan of your channel, helped me start a store on Etsy. Wondering though, should i have multiple stores for different products, or can a "general store" include multiple product types. Tshirts, mugs etc.
I recommend a general store! But I’d focus on just building one or two product types first until you start gaining momentum, then you can add in the other items you want.
THANK YOU so much for this particular video! It's the best I've seen on this topic! You are amazing, Cassiy! I have a question...in doing some niche research, I see that there are some other niches with larger Revenue and Sales. Would you consider those over saturated or still great ones to get in to because more people are buying in them?
Question about Creative Fabrica. As long as it is a POD design, can we edit it like you did in the video to make our own? I didn’t know that was a possibility. Also, designing in Canva can you use the free fonts and use for POD? How do you make sure the quality of the image is good to send to POD? I have never designed there (I use Photoshop) but I want to try using Canva to design t-shirts. Thank you!
Hi Cassiy! I love your video series! I watched the video on how to create a t shirt from canva using the bella 3001 t shirt. You had mentioned that the px was switching from 4500x5400. Do you know the correct px for the t shirt and sweatshirt?
Can you do a video or tell us what dimensions you use for etsy listings to where its not so blurry or pixelated when adding it to etsy. Mine is always blurry
:"( I love making art and print 100% myself so its more slow but.. I wanted to have business where I can be creative and make clothes what I love and also share those for others too who enjoy them!
Yes of course! 8-12 weeks in advance is what I tell you to start listing for them. There are already bestsellers on Halloween stuff today so get out there and make some too!
You need to add value! Try to find ways to cross niche, turn things into matching shirts etc. If you just copy everyone else exactly you won't have the best time. But don't overthink it, no matter what you do, 80% of your designs will likely never sell. So just keep trying new things until you find something that works, then duplicate that and keep going!
Hi Cassiy, can you please share strategy on shipping cost? Shipping cost most of the times is higher than production cost for POD items through Printify or similar platforms. There are sellers on Etsy that are selling for 50% less price. In such cases who would buy from our store? Is there something that I’m missing?
Hi Cassie- I am curious about mock ups, theres so much information out here that I dont really know what etsy wants and what people like. Should it be original with my own models or is buying the most popular used ones still working? Some folks say they are “tired” of seeing the same ones. No face vs Full body, flat fold or hanger with props. I have bough a few of each but unsure. Oh and currently I am a super beginner with less than 20 sales since October ‘23. Im ready to get serious!
Hi Cassiy! You mentioned in one of your videos that you got a copyright strike beacuse one of these ready to use POD graphics you used was a stolen one. I was wondering if there is any way to make sure a graphic is really safe to use or is it if you add some texts to it? Thank you very much for helping us!
There is no great way to make sure but if you look at the seller on CF store, something you can get a feel for if it really seems like they created everything or if they are just stealing things. This is why I just use elements in my designs, to try to at least stay away from it somewhat!
hey, I'm no photographer, but as a consumer of mockups, I'm seeing pictures in your mockup shop that seem a little off, like your head in the picture is too big for your body in some of them, just my attempt as some constructive criticism, thank you so much for this video and all the videos you do, I love them!
Thank you so much for your video. I try to watch one every day so I can gather as much information as I can. I do have a couple of questions, though. Will my image print clean and clear as long as I follow the dimensions suggested in Printify for the specific item I am choosing to design? My second question. Can these design be uploaded to make gang sheets vs using Printify if I chose that route vs a printing a service.? The reason for my first question is because I came across a video before yours that talked about designing in Canva and then uploading that image to another program to get it at the resolution needed for Printify. I really wish I could remember the person who created the video and the site he mentioned. I’ve never heard you mention a third program for designing so that’s why I ask. Thank you again for your videos. I look forward to hearing from you.
I am curious as an upcoming new seller, I'm torn between digital download and shirts. Which do you think is the better of the two when you first get started?
Both are super good options! I don't think you can go wrong with either one but digital downloads is a large spectrum of things you can sell. I would figure out what your income goals are per month, then go find 10 recently opened Etsy shirt stores that are killing it and 10 recently opened Etsy digital download stores that are doing really well and see how many of them are are meeting your income goals if you were them! I try to make all of the decisions for my business based off of the research and really recommend doing that for yourself as well
@@CassiyJohnson thank you so much! My wife and I are big fans and decided to start a new business this summer. Your videos have been incredibly informative!
Thank you for this video! How does this compare to your Canva video.. where you explain how to organize files on Cava.. do you save the same things (mockups, graphics etc) in both places?
hi, i love your videos , should i order a few test products before i go live with my shop? im excited to get started but also nervous about product quality. Thank you
Hi there! I’m so glad you’re enjoying my videos! I actually have multiple videos reviewing the quality of Printify’s products, so you don’t have to! Wishing you all the best :) ru-vid.com/group/PLjRbAoj89G64kGaAlb2tjN84wibwaeCbb
What if you have images or designs that when shared (as concepts not sales products) in the targeted hobby groups get positive responses/like/love comments but there doesn’t seem to be anything very closely similar for sale for you to research. Do you drop it completely and only attempt the type of styles that are repeated everywhere or see if there is possibly a market for new ideas in addition to the current trends?
Hi Cassiy thanks for the video how would l design the above on a black shirt or sweatshirt on canva because l am struggling on this l had to delete all my designs because l couldnt see them on a black T-shirt or Black sweatshirt thank you once again.
Hi Cassiy.. some Etsy sellers also sell SVGs with commercial license. Do you suggest using those or are those only for limited commercial use license and not the full commercial license like how creative fabrica offers? I have seen some artwork on creating fabrica that is clearly stolen so bit wary of using CF elements in my designs.
There is always a risk that pngs and svgs sold on CF or Etsy have been stolen, so I just try to look at the whole shop to see if it really seems like the same people are making all of them. Also if they have lots of sales and have been open for longer than a year, then that is a good sign as well. Each seller makes up their own rules for licensing, so if you are ever in doubt, then just message the seller for clarification! These are totally fine to buy but I wouldn't make it your whole strategy since other people buy them as well.
Cassiy! I have Canva Pro...can I use Canva Pro designs on t-shirts? Someone said it would leave watermarks and I can't do it if I'm going to sell the product with their Pro designs. Is that correct?
I have a question about keywords. I saw some advice saying that you shouldn't repeat words in your keywords as it is wasting the potential amount of different words that you can use. Does this have any value or is it better to try and match possible searches even if it means repeating words several times. For example in you video you were suggesting First Grade Teacher, Teacher shirt etc so you are repeating teacher many times.
I have found my personal success in just studying what the bestsellers in my niche are doing and then following suit, I don't know if there is a 100% right or wrong way to do it! Most of my sales seem to end up coming from just one or two exact keyword matches on my listings most of the times. My best advice, is to just not overthink it. Try to be efficient with your titles to fit more in if there really are more keywords that would be beneficial. But with a niche like First Grade Teacher, it's so specific that there really are only so many things that someone would type in and see my listing, and it would be exactly what they are looking for. If you are designing in more general or generic niches like "funny shirts" for example, then I think the strategy you are talking about makes perfect sense to really maximize the audience that sees it. But with lets take first grade teacher for example again, if you start using tons of other keywords that aren't 100% relevant, then lots of people will see it and not click it in those searches because it's not as relevant. Then Etsy stops showing your listing as much because people don't seem to like it. At least that's always been my thoughts on it!
Hello, I ultimately want to sell, tees on Etsy. However first I need to know, the correct Canva design size;to be compatible for Printify. Can you please help?
Hi Cassiy, I'm in the UK and want to start my 1st POD business in Etsy. Would I use Printify with worldwide shipping options? Would I need 2 stores for both UK and US? If just one store would I price in dollars or pounds?
Pricing wise, Etsy automatically translates the currency for you depending on where you live, so no need to worry about that. It would be complicated to do two stores so honestly I'd recommend starting with selling only in the US at first. This is where the largest amount of Etsy shoppers are. It will make it a lot less overwhelming, you won't have to offer returns if you don't want to and then you only have one place to check trademarks instead of for both countries.
Hi. I have been wondering the exact same. Considering opening an etsy Pod store and would like to ship to the UK, as that's where I am based but then all the reccomended print providers are US based... What did you decide to do? Many thanks!
When I tried uploading a design from Canva, I got a warning that it may not print correctly. I think the message said not enough pixels? Even though I used the recommended size template. There was no help on Canva! Any idea what that could mean or where to get help?
Curious why you do the hollow effect to create an outline on the letters instead of the effect called “outline”? Asking because I have created designs the other way (just getting started) and I want to make sure there’s not a reason I shouldn’t! Thank you so much for all your videos!
The outline effect is newer and I honestly didn’t even notice it there lol someone pointed that out to me after I posted this and I will be using that from now on instead!
Hi Cassiy! I am new to Etsy and I made a mistake on one of the shirts in my shop. Do I need to delete it and redesign another one like it and put that one in my shop. Or what should I do? Thank you!😊😊😊😊
I have a tshirt store selling all types of shirts plus i added leather handbags, beach bags and totes. Do you think it's okay to sell handbags with shirts? I'm still having problems getting traffic to my store.
I think it's ok to have them all in one store but it's going to be hard for you to focus on all of these product types and really get good at selling them all at once. Most of the game on Etsy is finding the search traffic on Etsy FIRST and then creating designs and products that will serve the people that are already buying those types of things on Etsy. I recommend really taking the time to research what is already selling really well on Etsy and why. Then implement those changes in your own store! Once you really master one product type, then I think it makes sense to move on to adding additional ones.
Thanks for the video 👍 I've seen other RU-vidrs saying you shouldn't have very long titles as the Etsy search algo "chops up" a shorter title and matches on that - what's your opinion? (I might actually duplicate a short title listing tonight and give it a longer title for comparison)
I'm definitely not here to tell you what's right or wrong, everyone has their own opinions but I base all of my decisions off of what the top sellers on Etsy are having success with. Go look at 100 best selling items on Etsy and you be the judge of what Etsy actually likes and promotes on their platform!
Salve, la stessa cosa vale per i prodotti digitali ? Pensavo di creare un doppio store di cui uno di solo file digitale e un altro in POD che ne pensa ?
Great vid Cassie! I've recently opened my Etsy shop and am only selling to the US but I live in the UK do I need to pay tax you mentioned that you want pay sales tax and you only sell to the US.
With Canva you need to add things to any of the pro graphics to be able to use them. So other graphics and fonts is perfect. For the ones on CF, it just depends on the license that they have. Full POD license, you can use as is but the commercial graphics you need to add other stuff too just like Canva. A lways keep in mind on CF that sometimes people steal designs and sell them there. So I try to look at their store to make sure it looks like everything is made by the same person first.
Hey Cassiy! Id love to know how you handle out of stock issues through printify. Seems that they do not sync their stock to your store so it looks like we have to go in and manually resync our listings. That poses a problem seeing we are running A/B testing listings, and the only one that will update is the main listing. Any ideas on how to handle easily? Seems that we have to go in and resync on printify for listing A and then for listing B manually enter it. Seems like a lot of work if you have over 300 listings or for big businesses over 1000 listings how do they handle that? Thoughts?
I typically only sell items that multiple print providers make, like shirts. So as items are out of stock, Printify will notify you and allow you to replace the item with another provider right inside of the order on Printify. I just do this manually for each order out of stock as usually there aren’t long delays in getting stock back
@@CassiyJohnson Thanks Cassiy! Im slowly learning about items that are stocked in reroute easily and ones that arent. I noticed with very specific colors there is no back up for it, so what ive been doing it just going in every day and checking on stocks with specific coloring. Colors like black, white, ivory, etc are pretty easy to have rerouted, but the bright colors, def have to double check. TYSM for your quick answer!
Hi Cassiy. I have been selling on my shop for about 2 months now and I have almost 90 listings. I have only had 2 sales. One for a friend and one for myself. lol. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong. I’ve also tried lowering the price of my shirts. HELP!!!
Sorry to hear things have been slow! Sometimes you just need to give it time because you are a new shop with little sales or reviews. Other times, your designs you made just aren't super good! This is the case for a lot of people because you are starting something new and aren't super good at it. So my best advice is to keep studying, designing and trying new trending niches that are in demand right now! You'll get that first sale
You can use pro elements in your designs, but you can't just use them as the whole design. So you need to use the pro elements as pieces within a larger design. The graphic I used was from Creative Fabrica and had Print On Demand commercial rights to use.
Hard to say exactly what it is, when you're new you don't have any sales or reviews, so your conversion rate will be lower anyways. But even after your store is more established, a great conversion rate to expect is still like 4% or 5%. I also think that only 42 designs is a really small sample size. I know my first 42 designs weren't anywhere close to my best stuff I've made. It's likely you are doing lots of super small stuff not as good that you don't even realize. I'd try to just keep doing research on what's currently working for other sellers and really try to implement some of those same strategies in your listings as you go. So just keep researching and listing until you do start getting those sales, then you will have a better idea of the kinds of things that sell.
Hi, does anyone know how to add multiple colors for different sizes if I am using a combination listing? For example, I am selling adult and youth sweatshirt. Now, all the colors which are available for the adult sweatshirt are not available for the youth sweatshirt. So if I am creating variations on ETSY the colors which are not available for the youth sweatshirt also is showing from the dropdown. Can anyone help?
Totally agree with the other comment, if you are looking at just "shirt" on Etsy, sure there are tons available, but most shoppers come to Etsy for something super specific like a shirt for the first day of school. There is tons of room in lots of different niches if this is something you are wanting to get into. But no one ever said you have to see shirts either, there are tons of cool products that have even less competition!
I was shocked to find out that you don’t design your items from scratch. Why don’t you take the time to design your own designs? Seems like 100s of others would also just take that same design to use for theirs… Wouldn’t that be more fitting (no pun intended) for a handmade experience for Etsy buyers? Seems more original, genuine,more rewarding, and less of a shortcut to me.
No I don't make my own graphics, that is a whole different skill set to build up for sure! This is the way that I like to run my business but you are welcome to do whatever feels genuine and rewarding for you.
