I Made HOW MUCH as a 17 y/o Etsy Sticker Shop Owner?! 😱 | How Much Money I Made Selling Stickers 

Good luck!

Me too!!! 68 years old here😊

Thats the thing I want to make lots of money, to live by specially in my country its over the top in expenses

Thank you for watching Rita!! 💖

Thank you!

Aww yay!! Good luck :)

Thank you!! We've worked super hard to scale to where we're at now 😊🫶

Thank you so much!!

I appreciate you for watching! :) I feel like this is a topic no one really talks about within the sticker/planner community, so I wanted to just share some insight!

Yay! Best of luck :)

Thank you!! I appreciate your comment 🩷

Thank you 🩷

Thanks for watching!! :)

it's saturated, but we don't think it's too saturated to start a sticker shop. Sticker shop sales are only projected to increase in 2024! There are ways to stand out.

@@StickerGuru 😊 thank you

We have definitely continued to grow! We'll be posting a new video soon on my 2nd year in business! For the designs, we commission art from Etsy and Creative Market. Here are some freebies we have to get you started! www.bigplansacademy.com/freebies

@@StickerGuru I would love to take your course but I just cannot afford it. I already aince watching all this have the fear and the doubt creeping in and of course people around me shooting my ideas / dream down. I dont have the resources to fund getting started....so....

No worries! We will be here when you are ready! :)

@@StickerGuruI can also not afford it. I think it’s a little pricey for what you are providing. I would love to learn from you but not at steep price. Hope you reconsider,❤

Thanks for watching! We’ve been around for so long that foiled stickers didn’t even exist when I started. 😭 I think we introduced those to our shop in 2018

@@StickerGuru that’s amazing!!!

Appreciate you for watching! I studied computer science in college - so completely unrelated to running a business. I also didn’t really have any experience prior since I’ve never had an type of retail or customer service job. I think what helped give me an edge was being knowledgeable about social media (youtube & ig, and content creation in general) and using that to my advantage.

@@StickerGuru That makes total sense! I know I've got to up my social media game big time!!

Thanks so much for watching!

Just instagram! We had a facebook group for a while too, but ig is definitely the way to go (for our demographic).

@@StickerGuru amazing! I don’t have an insta for stickers but do you recommend growing following first or just get started with ads on Etsy?

We teach everything you need to know about how we create stickers here! www.bigplansacademy.com/creating-stickers-made-easy

Thank you! To be honest, I don't really remember. Maybe 3 sticker kits? I don't think that number is too important, as long as you are continuously releasing new stuff!

We've always been a ready to ship shop, so we have inventory ready to ship at all times. I think I started with like 3 listings in my shop. As long as you are consistently releasing new design, it shouldn't matter how many items you start selling with!

Sales :)

Yes! I was purchasing art and using it to design my own stickers. I was making them at home myself using a Silhouette.

@@StickerGuruThank you for the info! I have a cricut but it’s so finicky and gives me a lot of trouble so I’m thinking of switching to a silhouette.

@@rhklm the silhouette is just as finicky. I purchased a cameo 4 and it's like 20% of the time it cuts wrong for literally no apparent reason.

@@rhklm Hi! I just wanted to reach out and give you a few tips which made my Cricut have a success rate of 99,99%. First priority: make sure the light situation is exact the same as when you calibrated your Cricut. And try to keep it always like that. So if your room is with open curtains, you will never have the same light situation as you're dependent of how much light the weather gives. Sometimes it also seems to get an handicap when calibrating, if you see after 3 calibrations that it keeps cutting too much to whatever side, try to set it to a number or letter a bit too much to the opposite side, for like 1 point, try to see what the distance is and based on that try to pick a number/letter in the calibration menu. this helped me so much.. If you move the table your Cricut is standing on, you already might need to calibrate again. If you accidentally walk against your desk or table pretty hard, you might already need to recalibrate! Also when your mat is used a lot, it changes, the side gets bend which makes the position of your mat be inconsistent. This makes it harder for the Cricut to work as it's supposed to. Also, when you buy a new mat, check out the result, you might need to recalibrate! When you bought a new cutting knife, check the result as well, you might need to recalibrate! Also, when you;re using print and cut, try to stay as still as possible when the Cricut is scanning, even a heavy truck passing through the street could interfer with the scanning process. As the vibrations could be pretty strong. Hope this will help! Basically, if everything is the same as the day you had that great calibration result, you will keep getting that result over and over again. It took me almost a year to understand this machine but I think I do now, if you have any questions feel free to ask!

check out our “5 items you need to start a sticker shop” video! :)

Just revenue! I think my expenses & fees came out to be around 10%

You're still correct! Our first year has been our lowest year.

Appreciate the love!! 🥰

Yup!

We actually talk alllll about this on our podcast episode. They were hesitant at first 🙈 But once they saw how well it could do they came around! open.spotify.com/episode/1a9wj9CCcVWDipK4IypnCO?si=lWpIbXOHQ5aVUROEiA0U3A

@@StickerGuru awesome I will go listen to this episode!!

This was back in 2016!

yes it was obviously her GROSS.....so he prob. got half of that

My expenses were around 10% of my gross. But this was 7 years ago, pre-inflation & when etsy fees were much lower. Your expenses also heavily depend on how much you price your products. Not to mention, I bootstrapped the heck out of my sticker business in the beginning, I kept my expenses as cheap as possible - even if that meant sacrificing quality.

@@StickerGuru I was curious about this.. thanks for sharing. Those are really good numbers. I sell digital media on Envato.. although there is no material costs the greedy owners take close to 50% of my sales. No wonder they are almost billionaires. The saturation has killed market so am looking at this. Your videos are very helpful.

We don't. She's happy to help and often encourages me to ask for help when I need it. :)