How I've Made Over $500,000 Selling Custom Ornaments on Etsy (Full Tutorial) 

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Love what you guys are building over there and thank you for sharing your knowledge to help others who are willing to put in the work to succeed 🙏 God bless you and your family!

This was great! I followed step by step and now I understand the order of what needs to be done. excellent tutorial! Thanks Stephen

🙌 Great video Stephen!!

Excellent video. Your instructions are clear and easy to follow as you show step-by-step what you do. I’ve subscribed for more tutorials. ❤ SayessDesign

Another expense with hello custom? So thats Canva CF printify Etsy and now Hello Custom? How much gets left over for me 😢

Very clear and easy to follow instructions. Thanks

Hey Stephen. Congratulations on your impressive journey. I'm brand new and about to follow your lead and focus on ornaments. What advice do you have regarding the mock-up situation considering this can be done with shopify or etsy?

Excellent and easy to follow tutorial, thanks so much!

This information is gold omg so excited

Another great video! A question about order re-routing: is it possible to proceed with the normal steps in Printify to re-route an order that was from a US seller to a Canadian seller and then have Hello Custom customize the order?

Very interesting and informative! Thanks for sharing! 💯

Just what i waiting for add more variations of design, Thank you.

this was really helpful!! thank you for everything🙏

Excellent tutorial , If I do this I think I will just start with a basic ornament have to rewatch this a few time great class!

Hi, I am a new shop and I already published 4 variants in etsy and want to have them in one listing. What do you recommend? Should I hide each one in printify and then create the listing with variants in etsy like you did or just leave the single listings up? Thank you for your helpful content!

This is great! Question... you made 4 listings with 4 options. Would you need to make 4 variations in hello custom to link for each listing or would the 4 variations you linked for the 1 listing work for the other 3 listings since there titled the same? Hopes that makes sense.

That was great info! Well presented.

Thanks so much for an amazing tutorial!!!

Cute idea. I was looking at ornaments on my prinitfy store. I was stumped for ideas.

Hi Stephen, I wanted to request a video on pricing for POD selling. I'm relatively new to this and find it challenging to navigate free shipping, shipping guarantees, and the optimal pricing strategy. I did watch your t-shirt video and the $17.49 magic price recommendation, but I believe there's much more to learn about shipping pricing. Your insights would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks Stephen for your guidance

Awesome video! Thanks for sharing.

Hi Stephen. I’m trying to learn the process of listing personalized ornaments and ornaments with variations. My questions from this video are: you saved all four variations as drafts in Printify. Then in Etsy you published the first variation, then duplicated it three more times, did you publish all three of the duplicated variations? But never publish them in Printify? Is it the same process with one personalized ornament, that you don’t publish it in Printify just in Etsy?

Hey quick question. Does the buyer do the approval of the cusomization or would I have to approve it?

Fantastic tutorial! What Video/Screen capture software are you using?

If you are going to make an etsy shop mainly focusing on evergreen events to get started and make sales. BUT your long-term goal is to make a more specialty shop with a specific niche, would you use the storefront name that you want to use for the niche on your evergreen products? (Do you have one store front with both focuses, or two separate store fronts with company names to resemble what is sold in each store front)

15:42, Keep color profile as RGB? Why, if you don't mind me asking? RGB is for digital images to show in the browser, while CMYK is strictly for printing purposes.

Hey Stephen, loving your videos. Question. I have generated some nice images through midjourney to put on some printify ornaments. I generated them with white backgrounds. Will these white backgrounds be printed onto the ornament? And if so what would be the simplest way of removing said white background. I’m assuming the one files you used of the penguins etc, all have transparent backgrounds. Thanks for any help.

I love ornaments, I sold them last year and they were a bop! I sold the heart-shaped ones awkward styles have.

Hi Stephen, thanks for this video, a great help. One question - who is the APPRPOVAL request sent to, the Esty shop owner or the Customer placing the order? It looks like you're sending it to the Shop Owner, but I might be wrong. Another question - what is the cost of using your HelloCustom service? Many thanks

Thanks for your videos

Good stuff, thanks!

If you run a discount on Etsy, do you have to change the prices on Printify too, or will they automatically sync?

I would love to see an update on the million dollar challenge ❤

Hi Stephen. How do you write First Christmas as Family of 3 in Printify? In the product title section or another section?

Do you HAVE to create the different variations and list them? Or can you just have one listing with all the variations?

Is there a way to customize photo in hello custom? For example if the customer sends a photo in Etsy that needs to be included in the design. Thank you I love all your videos.

Interestingly enough, one of the niches I was focusing on was on your list of top 10 niches: 1st Christmas as a wedded couple. And of course, Baby's 1st Christmas.

How many shops do you have, how long have you been doing this and do you have paid adds?

Hey Stephen, as always, rich content-much appreciated. On your 'Listing Images' video you demonstrate showing the variation images on the thumbnail image for best conversion rate, however you aren't recommending that in this process. Can you clarify the optimal approach on this because two pieces of advice are mildly contradictive. Thank you!

Your videos are definitely helpful. I have a question about copyright. Is it legal to use any of the images on Creative Fabrica as part of the entire design for business purpose?

In my listing on Printify, I reduced the size of my design a little since the text was so a little past the bleed area. My worry is that when someone orders my Etsy listing and customizes on Hello Custom, will that resizing and positioning that I set in the Printify draft still be present like I set it? I'm worried that if Hello Custom cancels the original order and sends the new order to Printify with the personalization, will the design still be in the same position and size if I had to make it a bit smaller on Printify to start? I have a few designs that I'm hoping I don't have to go back and redesign the text on to reduce its size. I was hoping the Printify size down is the quick fix, but I can't check that since I can only order a sample through Printify without the Hello Custom customization - and I don't want my customer to receive an ornament where the text and image are slightly too long and run off the edge. Can you help answer this question? Have you tested it? Is there a way we can order a sample through Hello Custom to check things like this?

Hi Stephen, from your at the time 21:23. When you selected item on Etsy then changed it to a different variation, the image on the left did not change to the variation you selected. Is there step to make that happen but did not show in your video? Please let me know, thanks and thank you for the video

banging tutorial!!!! TY

You Rock! Thanks man!

Thanks for all this information, you've encouraged me to give it a try and launch my first product using my own designs. The only part I don't understand is the prices. It costs me 11.65 to purchase this type of ornament on Printify, so how is it that you are selling less price than that and still making a profit? do you pass the cost of shipping to the customer? please explain to me, it's the only thing I'm missing to be able to publish my first list!

@HelloCustom What is the cut-off time for ornaments? Would it be ok to set production time to 2-5 business days and shipping to 2-5 days?

where to edit the ornament images and make it professional plz advise

This tutorial is incredibly helpful! I'm considering opening an Etsy shop focused on personalized ornaments. I'm curious, does anyone have recommendations for reliable sources where I can find high-quality wood suitable for creating multilayer ornaments?

how do you compete with shops that ship within 2 to 3 business days? I see with POD it can take like 2 weeks just for the product to be made. Just wondering if this discourages the buyer? Also, are ornaments over saturated?

2 Newbie questions...if you have a background color such as a solid, pattern or a gradient, do you just make your circle to the edges of the template on printify or do you have to have a bleed and make your circle larger? Also...does Hello Custom work with curved text and text with effects? Thank you in advance!

I listed an ornament that I thought looked really good. Got a sample from printify and I hate it. So blurry. Not just the art design but also the text which was super simple. I also did 5000x5000 but it didn't help. It's enough to make me stop making ornaments. I would have like to see a sample of the ornament you created.

Hey, when I try to set the max allowances it just pulls my letters bigger. Is there some secret to grabbing it just right? In your video the text box gets longer but the letter stay same size. I'm stoked to use!

Hi Stephen! Thank you so much for this video. Super helpful and so much value. I wanted to ask regarding apparel. I see a lot of best selling shops putting several variations on 1 listing, ie: tshirts, sweatshirts and hoodies all on the same listing instead of separately. Would you recommend doing that instead of doing them all separately? Your input would be SO appreciated! Thank you!

Thanks for the tips

Hello, I created a design for a sweater with design on back and front pocket. Then uploaded to Printify and Hello Custom for personalization of names on the front pocket. When the order came from Etsy, they way Hello Custom sent the design to Printify, it only showed the front pocket names design, but not the back. Can Hello Custom work on printings on front and back? or front or sleeve? or only works on one sided prints?

I think my account is missing some features. Stephen, how do I contact support? There is no support or help option in my account. 🤨

How do you get the SEO to start ranking your product that high with a new account?

Hi, Who can I contact if I need to ask a question? I'm currently using Hello custom and I need an important question answered.

Hi, thank you for all of this. Can you tell us what your pricing strategy looks like for the ornaments you sell?

Thanks so much for this helpful video. But I have a question. Do you try the ornament from other suppliers such as Merchize or Printway yet?

The video's I have seen about doing these ornaments always has text/graphic on a transparent background. Can we have a background graphic or color that takes up the whole space with text/graphics on top of that? I am not seeing any rules against it but this is new to me.

Hi Stephen. I want to advertise a white sweatshirt, with 4 different design font colors. There are 8 sizes. This meant 32 SKU's. I had a variation for size and design, must i link each SKU to each design and variation? What is the best way to do this? (it seems to hard because a sweatshirt has sooo many different sizes)

Are you all experiencing problems with your system? I haven’t been able to publish/save drafts since yesterday afternoon.

Does anyone know if you have to publish the listings on printify or can you just leave them saved as a draft and the orders still work?

At any point do we publish the ornaments that are sitting in Printify or do they stay unpublished?

How do you download the images from printify for your etsy listing?

Who much do you list your ornaments for from Printify?

Do you personally purchase an ornament to see how it looks before publishing the product on Etsy?

if I change the size of the PNG/PDF from my prinify to my hello customs accounts will it mess up the print? the PNG's I made need to be shrunk down a little to fit the ornament size, so do they need to be shrunk down to the exact same size when I made my hello custom template?

Is there anyway you guys could do a tutorial for blankets, I have tried to do them several times but once my PDF is uploaded it will not edit. The pixels are very large for the blankets so I am curious if there is a Pixel limit and that is why it will not work.

also how do you delete a draft? I fixed the 1 image to grab just the name but can't link the listing, still can't save or publish other one

So do you never click publish on Printify for the products you created?

Would you make a new store just to sell ornaments or add it to current store ?

If I make 4 niches, use one account or 4 accounts, will there be any disadvantages if they are all placed in one account?

Hello Stephen, would be nice if you can explain how to compete in price, just opened my first shop three months ago and still running with price problems. For me to sell a sweatshirt and get $4 net not gross I need to sell it at $32 and charge $6.5 for shipping but there are some of best sellers in Etsy selling sweatshirts at $20 and offering free shipping.

Yeaa, keep selling dreams

Hi Stephen, I tried to upload my pdf to Hello Custom and it's not loading. I tried the PNG as well and it's just not uploading. I know it's random, but any insight you can give? I am so eager to get started and this is the thing that is holding me up. Obviously, it's on my end, but I am at a loss. Thank you!

Hi, I am trying to solve a problem. I uploaded a PDF and I am unable to tag the layer/element that needs to be personalized. I have received no response from customer support, and I need some help, especially since I am trying to launch a holiday promo and time is of the essence. If I can't get a response then I will need to find another option besides Hello Custom.

Hello Stephen, I was following along on one of your other videos on how to personalize for Etsy and Printify and setting up mine at same time. A few things didn't happen. 1) I got error message when I tried to upload the PDF, it said my monitor wasn't wide enough to create template so I had to do the PNG. 2) the video said to remove background but my ornament has a red background as the lettering and the paw print are white so they didn't show up on Hello Custom screen so I had to guess as to where to put the text. 3) I used the Engagement font that was in the video but it wasn't showing anymore on hello custom and I didn't get the search slider font thing your showing here so I had to kinda guess as to a different font and then change it in printify. 4) when I get an order, if everything is correct, it goes to hello custom, you put in the name and date, then send it to printify so printify will ship it to customer and the background will be red ageain, is that correct?

I'm trying for the first time I'm in Hello Custom, I only want to change name and I did it separately in canva but HC combined and when I go to publish it says only text can be tagged which I thought was what I did, any ideas where I'm messing up?

Is there a customer service contact for Hello Custom? I’m having a hard time trying to get me hello custom account fixed.

This is phenomenal. For Hello Custom, does the software keep all added fonts from all users as new ones are added or does expansion happen behind the scenes only? Meaning, do users help to expand the font database? I've uploaded a ton over the years to Canva but I know that doesn't actually help anyone else.

How do you manage returns?

ok but how do we get the correct image for product to show when someone selects a different optiion???

You don't have to publish the listings in Printify?

How do you add names if they are longer then what you added on the ornament. Most names are longer then Theo?

what is your store's name ?

Is it tomorrow yet?

Questionnnnnn, when ur duplicating the listing on etsy, lets say we have more than 1 image on our preview. Would we have to save all the images from printify and add it one by one to our duplicated listings? and questions dont we have to publish the listings from printity or we could just leave as draft and that wont affect it? am a little confused 😥 please help

Question: I sold a handful of ornaments, with watercolor artwork and all my customers sent photos of it being fuzzy. Using the same provider you suggested, I talked with printify support who told me not to use any gradients or watercolor art on the ornaments … I’m doing 5,000 x 5,000 shrinking the png down etc… what am I missing? Thank you for all you do! 🙌🏻

How did you delete the background color

Wondering why you don't just publish one design and handle the variations and personalization within that listing instead of going the Esty listing route. It seems faster.?

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I have a question about adding the SKUs to HelloCustom. I noticed that when you added the SKU for Variation A, you only added the SKU from the first Etsy listing. My question is: would you need to also add the “Variation A” information from the other three listings that also include that graphic?

Would be helpful to have a "help" or contact us option. How do you label if name and date on the same line? it doesn't seem to differentiate the two.

Seen your video I noticed that you start adding your product manually, why you are not publishing from Printify directly if it will be added all the pictures, product details and also the shipping profile and we want we can modify, is any reason? or is because the variants? I think we can still add the variants by sku number... I will appreciated the answer...

Hi Stephen, I too am a newbie. In your video you skipped over several parts in the Etsy store set up for the item 11:30 onwards. Can you please explain how what you skipped over? Can you please guide to a video that explains this in detail? Echoing others, can you help navigate by explaining pricing, shipping, shipping guarantees and any ad spend we have to do? I'm re-watching all your videos from start. Thank you. My goal is simply to make enough revenue each month to pay for my mortgage and maybe have a little extra to live life. So I would be happy with $6 profit in my pocket every month and I hope your expertise can get me there.

Anyone have a pdf not be editable in the application? I've loaded same design 3x pdf and still can't edit it. Just curious