Learning how to make money with printables is an alternative to affiliate marketing. It’s sort of a reverse engineering of affiliate marketing because instead of driving traffic to your affiliate links, the traffic you need is already there. You just have to supply the product. I will explain another way on how you can make money with printables in addition to what is available in this course.
Most people make money with printables by selling them on Amazon or Etsy. Etsy is an online buyer and seller community similar to eBay, except it focuses on hand-crafted or vintage goods. Most products sold fall into the category of arts, crafts, jewelry, paper goods, housewares, and artisan candies or baked goods.
Vintage items must be at least 20-years old to qualify and can range from costumes, clothing, jewelry, photos, and housewares. The best part about eBay and Etsy is that they are buyer search engines.
People go there to buy things. So, if you have your irresistible printable on Etsy as described in the video, you can make money!
How To Make Money With Printables – Starting Out On Etsy
If you want to sell handmade goods, Etsy is a great place to start out. First, there is a low overhead cost for selling printables. The listing price is only 20 cents, and if you’re starting out you can get 40 free listings.
Second, the traffic is already there so you don’t have to worry about building traffic while starting out. Finally, if you work full-time you can list new products on the weekends.
A lot of people are working full-time when they first start out. On weekends you can create printables and list new items on Etsy. For example, your first listing can be a wedding planner in your Etsy store.
It may take you some time to create your first printable but once it is done, it’s done. You can get already high in demand done-for-you printables by clicking on the link below. Two weeks from now, you could be making your first sale! The wedding and baby shower niches are one of the best selling printables on Etsy.
When you start out on Etsy, it may take 2 weeks or even 2 months to get that first sale. If you’re in doubt, stick with it! To increase the likelihood of a sale look at the analytics and share your listing on social media.
When you have the chance alter your titles and tags to increase views. Learn how to price printables so that you are making a profit but you are still competitive. Finally, the biggest thing for growth and sales is to list new products whenever you can!
Setting Up For Etsy Success
First, decide to treat Etsy like a 9 – 5 job. But you may end up working way more in the beginning. Next, you should create a professional logo and banner. You can also brainstorm new products, based on what is trending on Etsy and Pinterest.
Finally, read up on color design and launch your social media capital if you have any and network like crazy (this is what many Etsy stores don’t do and it’s important for success).
If you truly want success on Etsy, you must establish hours. Even if you are working full time and maintaining your Etsy shop on the weekends, keep set hours and a task list ready to go.
For further success on Etsy, you must create a plan! I’ve talked with a lot of Etsy shop owners and the biggest reason shops fail is they fail to make a plan! The plan doesn’t have to be huge, but you should make weekly, monthly and yearly goals. More importantly, write your goals down!
For example, your plan can include making one new listing per day, one Instagram post and 30 scheduled Pinterest posts everyday.
I would also update the title and tag of one low performing listing each day. Be sure you are offering amazing customer service! If you take pride in responding to customers within the hour, you can create a good following.
Finally, accept all custom orders! In the beginning when you accept all custom orders that you have received, through custom work and awesome customer service, you can grow a following of customers that will love your work!
The Key Categories That Will Lead to Etsy Success:
- Establish set hours.
- Create a plan and write it down.
- Create one new listing per day.
- Offer amazing customer service.
- Accept any custom order that comes your way.
- Create printables that follow trends (Pinterest is a great place to start).
- Post on Instagram every day.
- Schedule at least 30 Pinterest pins everyday (and post to pin groups).
- Establish your Etsy shop with an About section, cover photo, logo, profile picture and bio.
- Use EtsyRank to fix low performing listings. Fix one listing per day.        Â
How To Thrive On Etsy With Printables
If you implement the key categories above, and practice consistently for at least a year, you will reap the rewards. Guaranteed!
Within a year all the hard work you began will pay off. Wedding planners that I mentioned earlier started trending on Pinterest and Google Images. This is one of the best selling digital items on Etsy. Your Fans and Followers will begin to feature it on their blogs and Youtube channels!
You can get great clients like people from direct sales companies. You can design a custom business planner or logo for them. If they love your work, you can get recommended and your printable can go viral! You can gain many new clients through one good listing.
If you continue to do a daily routine of listing new products every day, do some social media marketing and custom work, by the end of the year, you can make some really decent money and a name for yourself!
Etsy And Beyond – Build a Website and Conquer The Passive Income Game!
Building a website that monetizes itself is naturally the next step! Web-hosting is affordable once you make consistent sales on Etsy.
There are a variety of ways to make money online:
- selling products (make money with printables in this case)
- affiliate income
- advertisement revenue from blogging
The easiest way to make money is through advertising revenue. This is a great way to start out making money right off the bat while you’re building traffic. Affiliate income requires consistent traffic which is better for established websites.
Selling printables is also great way to expand your customer reach. If you don’t have an established website with traffic already coming to it, you can still make money selling printables because Etsy will be your sales platform.
To start making income with advertising, write blog posts. It can be about anything! Share with readers something unique and establish trust.
How do you generate traffic to your website? Easy! Share your website with your Etsy customers – post in the header, on your cover image, in the purchase message and anywhere else you can think of!
The second strategy on how to make money with printables is to share images leading to your posts on Pinterest. Create a couple freebie printables that lead to your website.
Share printables in exchange for the readers email (this is a great way to grow your newsletter). People love freebies! The more freebies you offer and advertise, the more traffic you can generate.
The Takeaway Message
Wherever you are in the game of building your brand, know that it will take time to build your empire. It’s hard work up front but it is SO rewarding to be your own boss! Once you’re established you will know what money-making strategies work best for you. Best of luck!
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