[Music] [Music] we're live we're live I I counted down do you guys do that when it's when it's counting down what are you doing wa there's noise suppression they can't hear that did you guys hear that it's like the most satisfying sound in the world it's a clothing tag he's just ripping up a clothing tag nice you're like a child you you were one of those kids that sat in the back of the room and used your pencils as drumsticks homie I sit and I do that now with my little I hated that kid didn't you guys hate that kid in school like and most of you were that kid you're creatives that's true happy Friday guys welcome to the bean where all your wildest beans come true um we're doing shop critiques today so if this is your first one you hold on just a minute there but Brown we'll tell you exactly what you need to do oh they they definitely heard it and Heather said that was awful sounding ripping you're welcome um we will tell you exactly what we need from you in just a minute but I have a couple quick announcements first um first announcement is that next week's Friday Bean we will be covering holiday Trends because Etsy released their holiday Trend report but I'd already had this Friday being scheduled so we will do that next week I know that there's a lot of people who have been asking me like what trends trends for the holidays so we're going to do that after you know once I have them and then I think that my Tuesday episode the following week I'm going to do a more refined version with some additional Trends and yeah um so that's coming uh make sure that you expand the description or go to pri.com amfi sign up for Amplified even if you don't sell pod there's going to be prizes uh there's going to be I'm I'm going to be giving away three e- rank expert plans there uh Adobe giving away stuff I I don't know what the other giveaways are but they're giving away there's there's a bunch of giveaways sign up for that uh there is a thing where you like enter in your credit card you can bypass that if you use the code Starla you can completely bypass the checkout system and get in for free normally it's only $5 but why would you why would you pay when you don't have to so so um we're doing like a friendly competition among the speakers or the headliners and I'm at the well right now there's a different person at the top and I'm right under that person but we keep just like doing this and I I I really I really want I I want I want I want I want so help me help me in my goal to be the greatest YouTuber in the entire history of the world you just call me cheeky Pam I have two cheeky you have four I do have four well no barely let's call it three cuz those are like half yeah you one of your cheekies is like I used the bodybuild so I don't have a butt I have zero fat in my butt yeah you're just you're a little why how do we get on this topic go sign up for amplify do it do it for me um okay so uh Mr Moore I think that that's all the announcements that I have do you want to show them what we need NOP no okay don't type your shop in yet we will post go in the and when you see Star lore say go that's when we will start counting shops for the random generator that Mark forgot to all right brace I did forget to pull that up we'll pull it up do not post them yet do not post until you see the word go in chat from me or you will be skipped I might just ban you no you will not just this right here copy this no links if this is different than your actual link up here I need the part after shop before the question mark but this for 99.9% of you all right I'm pull up the random generator yeah let him get the random generator up um these these will be completely random from the chat we use a random generator every time we do these Q&A somebody complains that we did shops that were too successful or that that were in all they were all pod or they were all digital and you didn't do any shops like mine hey yo that's why it's random we got to do it random 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a different one oh why did you demo this one because it looks identical to the one that I use I think it's that one I do not believe it is this one it is not this one well while he's trying to figure that out um okay did you you got it fart randomly picked name fart oh what a day it's been how have you guys been everybody been good there we go Maria give us just a minute the winner is but the winner is but but Starla I'm the main character you have to pick me why you thank you okay oh thank you for donating to water.org we appreciate you for those of you actually paying attention let's do it it is a butt cheeky stream called it butt stream butt stream there it goes we can't do that on YouTube what a butt stream check out the Discord if you want those no we we're not even active in the Discord anymore the Discord is died no I check it every once in a while people still do chat in there I check it every once in a while just to make sure everybody's playing nice oh and that uh they haven't used it as like a gathering spot for a terrorist cell you know yeah that's probably for the best I really don't want the alphas like affiliated with something awful you know or or like a weird like internet scaming there's yeah we'll just we'll just leave it at that we have a Discord I just don't have I I don't have the time I do everything I was in a meeting with a big YouTuber yesterday and um he was like I just recorded for 5 hours I said oh do you you batch your content out he said yeah do you I went nope I said I record on Friday I edit out all day on Monday and then I post them on Tuesday he's like you edit your own videos I'm like yeah yes we do because most editors are trash yes I'm I'm sure that there's a good editor out there that I'll find someday but for now I like to edit my own stuff cuz I I have what you know what I want on the screen in mind already while I'm scripting and recording the video so if I'm like you know click this then I already know what that picture is going to be how am I going to explain that to somebody like it's one of those oh I'll just do it myself moments all right I think we got I think we got enough and we will do a Refresh on the chat after two or three yeah so we'll select two to three shops then we will have you guys resubmit your shops after we've kind of you know gone through the list a couple times we appreciate you guys though all right how's the weather where you guys are it's getting better here we've had a couple really cool nights it's been nice I I was getting really sick of the 90° Freedom Units 90° Freedom Units uh days it was it was pretty crappy all right let's see do not read the name obviously if I cannot find your shop and Google won't provide me the shop then I will usually just skip it and I'll do that off screen so you can't see me doing that there it is okay okay let me refresh it appear here that oh and just a quick reminder I I guess I should have said this earlier in the Stream we do not critique uh shops where we've noticed blatant copyright infringement yep um so just be aware that if you got Disney stuff or something in your shop um we will not pick you not not because we don't love you but because you're technically breaking the law and US showing you to a Channel of almost 90 thou or over 990,000 subscribers I mean that's probably not going to be good for you because what if everybody goes and reports you okay are we good let's do it Brian Brian are you here Brian Brian where are you Brian um you have uh no Banner that was the first thing that I noticed um keep in mind that your banner is the biggest piece of real estate that you have within your shop it is the one thing that you have that can you can utilize to your advantage to build a positive brand impression by being consistent with your branding you have a great logo there so how can you incorporate that logo and the feelings that you've created within it into a strong Banner um I I I thought you were going to be a seed shop I'll be honest um because you can sell seeds on Etsy I was very convinced that you were a seed shop it makes sense now that I've had it opportunity to scroll down um but you might want to utilize your tagline to uh keyword optimize with what you actually sell give a brief description utilizing some good strong keywords of what it is that you sell I I feel free to let me know in the chat guys but did you guys think it was a seed shop especially with like the tree and it looks like little seeds in the logo I thought it was going to be a seed shop so definitely get that Banner filled out get some keywords down here and then let's take a scroll um Cedar plate for Passover Walnut okay um your photos are very amateur um I would definitely suggest heading over over to Christina Nicole's Channel could somebody type in her channel name only somebody who knows how to spell it please it's by Christina Nicole because she's going to teach you how to take awesome product photos uh utilizing the camera that you already have some of the very basic mistakes that I'm seeing for one these photos are so zoomed in that I can't even tell what these are um you're not really giving me a good angle on these this one it looks like there is a flash on your camera that is just right dead center of your product um not seeing a lot of natural light everything looks very um like the lights within your home very uneven lighting overexposure um especially when you have high-end products like $48 photos are your best friend and as I said in my video that I posted on Tuesday definitely check that out if you haven't watched it because it talks about all the things that I wish I had known when I first started my Etsy Shop um one of the things that I say in that video is that a crappy photo of a great product equals a crappy product in the eyes of your customers because all they have to go off of are these photos and these photos are not high-end um these are simple things to fix though thankfully it's not anything that you need to invest a lot of time or money into because you can likely use the camera that you already have on your cell phone assuming that you've bought a phone in the last like I dare say 10 years um but you have a defined Niche your products are absolutely awesome um I just think that you really need to work on how you're displaying and showcasing them um that way you can really justify these highend prices because I I'll admit I see like $125 most people are not going to read your T your title um and all I see is wood so let me take a little scroll looks like you've got some great reviews though so that is awesome and you're responding to them that's great looks like most of your sales are for your shirts so that's interesting to note but it also tells me that these mockups that you're utilizing for your shirt are kind of overshadowing what is probably the better products in your shop which are the wood products um so you definitely need to spend some more time really pushing the value of those wooden products that have a higher price point because obviously like I always say it's easier to make one $100 sale than it is $101 sales if you could get just one customer buying the $48 item you're that's more valuable to you than getting 10 customers who buy T-shirts these are great photos though I love the work in progress photos these tell me that your products are handmade you've got your about section filter out you you've got your photo up at the top make sure you put that photo down here as well um you want to make sure that you're filling out everything um and you don't have any FAQs those are very useful for kind of extending your policies out I like to kind of think of what all the worst case scenarios are like you know what happens if like a product breaks um that way you can kind of outline things like care instructions uh shipping policies um if a product is you know arrives damaged in the mail how you plan to help your customers who might be dealing with problems like that so I'm going to go back up and I'm actually you've got a lot you've got these kind of pod looking products but I think I'm going to focus on the wood products um simply because I'm assuming that these are what you're mostly hoping to sell let's see unique Tree of Life large Cedar plate for Passover mahogany fast shipping okay you don't need that in there you can get rid of that Jewish Home Passover gift idea okay so the keywords here um aren't bad you could probably do a little bit of cleaning up you don't need to have mahogany kind of standing all by itself you could say large mahogany Cedar Passover plate yeah or a unique unique too that's not really a term that you really need in there there's nobody's specifying that they're looking for something youi and a lot of people a lot of people use that term so you're getting stuck in with every single product on Etsy that uses that term right I dare say that handmade would be a stronger term than unique hand like handmade tree handmade mahogany tree of life handmade large mahogany tree of life Cedar plate for Passover um Jewish Home gift idea Jewish home or Passover gift idea yeah obviously do your do your research use e rank figure out what actually is going to work we're just kind of playing here exactly exactly but you could definitely trim this down and and get it a little cleaner just based on this but the keyword optimization here is not bad I think that the main thing that's holding you back is the photos because they're not lining up with the price and positioning that you currently have um awesome settings though um the I have severe OCD and I tell you what Mr Moore what's wrong with this photo I don't know what they're selling specifically no what what's bothering you what nothing what oh I figured Dan candle I figured that that that that would stand out to you immediately but you know that's just me yeah and you know some of these like take a step back where's and it's seder seder oh I'm then I'm just dumb yeah it's the I believe the first meal of Passover don't mind my ignorance um St take a step back you know you're you're zoomed in very far your camera quality is fine you don't need to stand this close to a product to get those details in your photos um I do like this one because you can see all the wood grain and stuff overall you know very nice like I said it's just the the photos themselves could use a bit of work and I hate to I hate to like push you to re-shoot all of your photos cuz it clearly looks like you've staged you know an entire photo shoot for these um I dare say that before you know if if you want to work on some shop improvements try to re-shoot your thumbnails start there you don't need to redo all of your listing photos right away start with your thumbnails um and and work from there yeah and you know if there's anything in this description that they really need to know like if there's any AB absolutely essential information in your descriptions um just make sure that you utilize one of those 10 listing photos for those details because most people are not going to scroll down and you know extend out the description in order to um sit there and read it they'll but they will look at all of your photos um overall great products you're just not branding at high you're not branding and you're not positioning your photos at the high-end prices that you're asking these are little aesthetic changes that can completely change the way that people perceive your brand and this is how big Brands like when we look at places like Pottery Barn and Tiffany and Co and uh Coach purses when we think about the most expensive high-end products in the world we don't just look at the product itself that item we look at how it's photographed we look at how it's marketed we look at the brand itself as a whole and how how we feel about that brand before we form an opinion about it so we've done this shot before have we yeah it looks uh it actually looks a little different this time okay I go get his chair you go ahead and uh do you think well you can screen share now Shotsy creates um I when did we critique you I feel like we did not that long ago and I kind of feel like uh I still have some of the same suggestions here what is your name now that's your business name what's your name who are you how do I address you if I click contact I don't want to say hey Shotsy creates I want to say hey whatever your name is your name Shotsy Shotsy that sounds that's the name of the Foreman's dog in that 70 show that's all I think about is their little weenie dog he's uh he's only in a couple episodes um handdrawn animal stickers hand painted or okay um I feel like there's a very specific style to your products I dare say that handdrawn animal stickers you could even try to get a little bit more end up there um I it's almost you've got a very like Woodland Vibe I know that not all the animals are Woodland like the chicken isn't Woodland and the Puffin isn't Woodland but I dare say that you could probably get some type of possibly Woodland type uh keyword in there just because you know you're painting on the wood it's got a woodland feel um you're representing yourself as an artist here so me move my oh sorry um photos are good they definitely have a handmade shop feel as opposed to a um as opposed to like a pod brand I love this photo but why didn't you put the chicken sticker on the chicken why'd you put the I hate mornings cat I feel like I feel like you missed a major opportunity here I don't think that the cat ties to the chicky are these your chickies I'm assuming so since I see all the feed and stuff laying around um tie chickens to chicken products GE yeah it looks like I mean it kind of looks much the same as the last time I visited your shop um I'm wondering what improvements you've made since then um again you've still got the chickens listed it seems like your shop is very heavily chicken focused um aside from the nail art set which doesn't really fit anything else this is kind of an in congruent product included in here um but I mean for the most part it's cute I just I would love to see more products especially since you've only got 15 in here I would definitely work towards some expansion there's just not a lot to choose from you know cute and I believe that we did we did we talk about your about section last time I feel like we did um because I love that you're representing yourself as the artist of your products super cute and again just those FAQ sections they're always useful um okay I will click on one of these cuz I think that we did the cap capy bar cppy Bara last time wood painting wood slice ornament hand painted white and silver um there's some other terms you could probably get in here you could if you wanted to expand out those keywords you could specify arctic wolf um since it's white um arctic wolf painting uh is painting the best keyword or would painted again I I don't have e- rank up in front of me so um you have ornament um but I dare say that you could probably get Christmas in there for the holidays that might help a little bit what type of home would this fit I dare say that this would be nice for a cabin um uh forest animals Woodland you don't have any keywords related to animals in here white and silver these aren't really keywords that are that are serving you very much um I I dare say that hand painted wolf would slice Christmas ornament for you know cabin for Christmas cabin or for Holiday cabin or holiday tree or because then you'll broad match for things like Christmas tree ornament just you know just some ideas there so that you can expand this out a bit um let's see super cute though I love that you've got listing videos your photos are very creative again uh I dare say that anything that you have in your description that you feel is important for people to know you could even do things like your sizes shipping times things like that um might be important to get into one of those 10 listing photos since you're not utilizing all of your listing photo slots um but overall really cute my main complaint is still I think it was the same as last time you get some more products in there the more products that you have the more time that someone is going to spend in your shop and the more variety that they're going to have to shop from um I absolutely love your branding though and I especially love your banner I would love to see a product with that Banner photo on it because it is so pretty I I would see I can see that as like a big print um or you know if you wanted to expand out into pod you could potentially have things like that done on canvases that you could send out um especially if you know if you're worried about shipping things like that yourself a pod company would ship them on you know on your behalf all right that might be a little copyright don't submit your shop if you have copyright [Music] stuff you think I'm going to show it on stream to get you views that's not going to happen I'm just going to not show it we don't want to like I said with so many subscribers like what if everybody goes to the IP owner and says hey you know person is listing stuff that's your intellectual property this is one of our students they're fine okay I always double check of course being a student doesn't make them valid automatically but in this case it does I don't think so let's do it Sam samtha samtha out of curiosity um do you use well I guess I'll find out do you use uh resin or do you use actually um actual skulls uh clever crypted dark cute chaotic feminine accessories and Decor um is this keyword optimized I feel like you could get like more into The Oddities and goth and um I don't know I feel like I feel like you're missing like the dark is good I definitely would not consider your shop cute like cute isn't the word that I would describe and this is speaking of somebody who like restores vintage Taxidermy and collects skulls while hiking I have an entire office of skulls um you I am absolutely like well I wouldn't say now but I I say 10 years ago I would have been your ideal Target customer um overall I immediately Feel The Vibes I feel the aesthetic it completely makes sense I love this clever use of the moons on the Seas um I love that you've kind of blurred your products in the background your logo is very cool it's 3D printed resin they sculpt them digitally and then print and paint them all awesome lady vand black that's amazing I love that you know what eth uh maybe get something in here about ethical um that way people know that they're not real so if they are someone who's looking for you know products that aren't actual skulls I mean that's going to be a huge benefit to them there are there's a huge demographic of people who are who want this aesthetic but they want to ensure that it's cruelty free so I would recommend touting that from from the heavens yeah cuz looking at this I would I I wouldn't know these are so cool not right off the bat I love these obviously they're not supposed to be real animals so well yeah some of them these are cats I can I can always identify um cat deer wolf cat deer wolf yeah kind saying they're they're modified to be kind of feel kind of feels like you're well let me let me click maybe there's options it feels like there might be options I would lean in The Oddities um yes the ethical thing is the way to go but I mean like Dragon bro yeah um so here's a fun fact um I'm actually close and personal friends with fla cows um and he has an intellectual property team so I would get this down ASAP unless you're officially licensed um we didn't notice that but he's actually a close friend of mine that we we were stationed at the same military base um so just be careful um we actually just went and saw him at Ohio con let's see and it doesn't fit it doesn't fit your aesthetic it's it's kind of like a it's kind of an obscure thing to have in your shop it it completely like cuts into this the aesthetic you've built so I would try to move away from even the Pod items they don't seem to really fit I do like these backgrounds though she said she didn't know it was an IP thing oh yeah yeah that's it's because most people because people see the memes and everybody has copied his format now you don't see that well if you're going to do meme content this applies for everybody if you're going to do meme content always Google the origin of that Meme and make sure that it's actually something that's like a public thing and not an original creation because there's a difference between like a meme that nobody can find the origin of you don't really have to worry too much about IP with that um but if it's something that's very popular there's a chance that it's someone who is going to try to make money off of that immediately he does have licensing deal oh yeah um just if you decide to email him and ask about a licensing deal just tell him that Starla sent you um and maybe he'll you know consider licensing with you but he does offer it he just he's he's actually got sponsorships with um gamer Subs his gamer Subs is amazing it's called anime girl thighs it's so good and he also licenses with Hines in Malaysia so they've got an entire line of Hines in Malaysia that's flork of cowsy so would actually be pretty cool to pin to pin on my uh on your viiking get up on my mantle these are amazing Samantha that here's the thing the shirts I I dare say that anything not related to like the skull aesthetic is kind of just not fitting like these items are not they're just not fitting the vibe you've got such a unique thing here these are cool um but I hate these mockups I would get these you know make sure that you're customizing these backgrounds and doing something similar to what you have here because these fit the aesthetic that you're already building on the ones with the white backgrounds kind of stick out like a sore thumb like this is your this is your strength really really lean into your strength let's see uh this isy a bit of keyword spaghetti here um crystal dragons Mystic creature skull F fascinators custom art personalized accessory hair pin Gothic aesthetic hand painted 3D print there's so many keyword opportunities that you're missing here um Renaissance Festival uh Oddities Festival um hair accessories um this is I mean this one specifically is a dragon really lean into that right Viking hair accessories um Nordic um FY um there there's just so many amazing keyword opportunities here that I feel like you're you're missing those are super dope though I love these they are so cool oh and that is such a great infograph showing how to use them I hope you've like used this for social media this is amazing I love this I left the title alone because the listing did well last year and I was terrified to change it again that's always our rule if something is selling don't mess with it absolutely absolutely um let me click on one that looks like you're kind of giving them their own names I used to do that but it kind of I don't know you're like missing the keyword opportunities and you really here's the thing when I glance at these I don't know what they are um and I didn't know what they were when you first joined haa this I can tell what it is but I see nothing about it going in your hair and when it's just sitting like this I don't know what it is you've taken up most of your keyword space with the Pharaoh Mystic creature skull um I would ensure that you are leading with the fact that this is a hair pin or this is a hair pin accessory you talked about using renfair make sure you use a non-copyright term I'm 99% sure that renfair is copyright Renaissance Festival probably isn't but renfair is the actual name of of the renfair so gotcha yeah think just double check but like I said get lead with lead with the strong things because this is confusing to the average person I had no idea what I was seeing like I said if you were utilizing the photos of them in the hair that's a little different but this photo I have no idea um so leading with that will ensure that if somebody is in your storefront they're going to see right away or if they find you in search they're going to see right away what your product is um and that will eliminate that confusion prices I honestly I would check and see what other similar items are selling for because 30 feels a little low yeah if you're if you're printing these hand painting these they look I mean this cat one I mean obviously other than like the actual physiology of the bone like if I didn't know better I would think that's a cat skull like you did a pretty good job making these look real at least from the the the pictures man like just yeah and add I would also add in a photo about you know maybe even utilize one of these listing photo slots to talk about how they are crueltyfree you know not not real bone because that's going to be very important to a lot of people especially when you have listings that say bone at first and foremost I I would I would ensure that you are because you're going to turn a lot of people away I a lot of people don't like it especially when you're looking at like cat stuff people are like oh my God is she really killing cats yeah you know what I mean yeah I did say bone and then it was a cat skull in the th in the thumbnail so I thought that they were real so um first right and then I saw the dragons um um let's see get some photos in here that's you know it it it all contributes I would love to see some of your like process you know how your supplies and things how you make the skulls I'm sure that there's probably some cool shots of you you know making them overall these photos are some of the best that I have ever seen the mockups are like poo pooing on that you know what I mean like you have these amazing photos and then I scroll down and I'm just like ugly mockups really Ren is copyright I have a bunch of listings to correct I go check the copyright database yeah double check just check double check I'm talking out of my butt but if something is usually named like an actual because renfair is what they call it here it's what they call it in like most States so if that's the case and it's not a different name for every place or like different variants but it's the exact same name under that organization there's a very good chance that it's copyright so just Google t s trademark database yeah check the trademark database well copyright is what we're looking for Te s trademark database will tell you if there is a yeah look renissance Festival Ren Fair Ren Festival Renaissance Fair check those things see if they're copyright if they're copyright don't touch them no touch okay I think I'm going to go ahead and do a go for those of you paying attention do a quick refresh do a quick refresh your shop is so cool yeah it's dope if I would have seen this as a matter of fact I'm might still I could replace the thing that I got with one of these that would be cool to put in my hair as opposed to the the leather and tooth that I use he got he got a kilt and like a like a faux fur mantle and he's going to go like shirtless cuz he's got like the you know he's got the Viking yeah I look like a viking in the outfit is he's very hairy I've got the The Kilt the mantle the gauntlets I've got my pouch my horn and then I've got boot boots with uh what are they called that go over the front of the boots Big like leather armor plates that go over the front of the boots yeah it's all it's all done up that's hot we can thirst trap the Alphas with it that's hot that's hot I like that I like that a lot he's have wolves in the chat if you want to see that oh yeah yeah put wolves in the chat if you want to see Mark and his Viking his Viking uh costume costume costume his very expensive Viking costume here's the thing we've all ever we have always talked about dressing up for renfair and we never have it just by the time renfair comes around it's like eh I don't want to dress but this year he's decided to go all out which means I have to as well I've got that kind of chunky X bodybuilder look I just look appropriate for the modernday perception of what a viking was I like it there's a gat down here if you guys see us like driving me nuts it it it is just buzzing I don't know what's up with the gats this year but they have been so we had like a potato sitting in the bottom of a bowl that we didn't know was there and it went rotten and now it's like the whole house is full of gats and they won't go away okay and I will include those last couple of shops that were there and of course I clicked so now I got to go back all the wolves look at them look at them all here in a minute I have to be very careful not the middle click and I've had this mouse for a while Al it's very uh clicky clicky Oh I thought you closed out the random generator I did not okay there's no way it picked Shotsy creates as the first thing again let's let's hit a Refresh on that that one's yeah I know what that one is too funny yeah it's not what you think it is the name sounds inappropriate but it's not not this one not by the way not a single one of these shops has pulled up by me doing etsy.com shop which if I take it out of here and paste it it'll probably work so I don't know what specifically etsy's doing but double check copyri always always double check your links oh do I need to double check for copyright always you always I thought you said you knew this one no the one the one afterwards okay well I don't know any of this stuff so unfortunately if you see any copyright here guys uh be nice but looks fine to me feel free to let me [Music] know Nots are fruit flies they're fruit flies yeah I've got some sticky papers and stuff I can put up around the house it's not not a problem okay Crystal crystals in Ohio hey Crystal um we are also in Ohio so first thing that I notice is you're kind of using your like Banner like a billboard um I'm about to see all your products this here just kind of clutters it up get rid of this um I dare say that you could if you want to keep the personalized item for gifting and keepsakes put that on one side and then put the ornaments tumblers glasses Memorial and more on the right side to kind of frame your logo otherwise you really don't need all this this stuff on here what we're trying to do is create a feeling and a brand impression and this is such a clean and pretty logo and it's very crisp and you have great branding colors um you don't need to have products up here I'm about to see those so personalize gifts and keepsakes for all okay um could you be a little bit more specific it feels like you might be doing more of like a general store um which those are kind of hard to they're longevity is not there yeah but you know what I notice is that it feels like most of your items are related to like family like you know Mom Dad and the kids I think that you could probably um lean into that strength mom dad and the kids you know what I mean like for for the family I really hate the whole you know for all gifts for the whole family gifts for everybody because the the age-old quote of if you try to appeal to everyone you'll appeal to no one it's very true um this is why niches are so important this is why PR prly printify is flying me to lva to talk about niches because niches are what are going to really help you to stand out to a specific group of people in this case you could Orient yourself around the family unit mom dad and kids um let's see looks like got some Memorial [Music] pieces glasses um oh it's raining straw lid included straw style may vary do you need to have the these little things on the thumbnails your shop feels very there's so many like personalized names seven color options three color options personalized it's it feels feels very Facebook ad yeah it feels very like Discount Store um I know that you can customize these but is there a better way like even if you put like a little clean banner down at the bottom um I just when I go into your shop I feel like I'm being attacked by like discount stickers you know what I mean it's just it's a lot I feel like you might be able to clean that up a little bit or you could even just say multiple variations multiple options multiple colors customize it you could even just put customize me down at the bottom okay cute love that you've got an area like your workspace I thought that these were pod um I would really really try to to um lean more into the fact that you hand make all of your products if possible mhm cuz I feel like you're getting probably a little lost in the in the Pod stuff let's see I guess I'll click on I'll click on one of your Halloween items because I'm assuming that these are newer um why is this so cheap why are you offering these for so so cheap frosted no design frosted with design lost leader oh I hate lost leaders if I see something in the picture I want what I saw in the picture what what you see in the thumbnail should match unless it's a group item should match the price that's upfront because now I'm in here thinking I'm paying $10 for this and now I'm paying 15 for this yeah like okay let's look at it this way um I know that a lot of the make money quick gurus are like always have a loss leader like if you're listing shirts like it's deceptive list a baby shirt first and then have the adult shirts after in the chat let me know in the comments does it bother you when you click a listing and you realize it's a loss leader I click off it doesn't matter what it is I always click off immediately let me know just in the in the chat you know candidly if you clicked on a listing and you thought you were getting what was in the picture but then you realize that the thing that was in the picture is significantly you know more expensive would you buy that item um oh so that's normally 12 yeah okay it's it's discounted um yes and you might not know that it's deceptive exactly but it's but it's it is it is deceptive and I know that a lot of people push it but look at everybody in the chat like anything that is intentionally there for the sake of taking advantage of easily taking advantage of customers is deceptive o I don't like that I don't like that I don't like how you've mocked the up with it cuz the way that what was when it was moving that I don't like that yeah get rid of the zooms and stuff at least make it like this one this one wasn't too bad but the other one I did not like that yeah the zoom boom you got to include that like the whole design yeah cuz I I don't like that um they say yet it works of course it does but it doesn't make you a better person it doesn't make you a better seller and it does turn people off there are a lot of people who will see that and just immediately leave right we're not telling you to uh you know that you have to not do it but we want to show you you know what the what the general public thinks about it and I know that when I click on a listing if I notice that it's a lost leader listing I usually click off um it's a bait like like that person said it is a bait and switch it is that's that's what it is yeah see all these Graphics where you've just kind of slapped this on here it's I I'm not print one use it for yourself give it to a family member yeah yeah it's a write off it's an advertising thing I would love to see you print just print one um if possible I know I know that it's not always possible but and another another thing I it all sales are final like I no that's an absolute no right off the G don't highlight the most negative like thing that you know what I mean you can always have this in your policies but if I'm shopping and I see this like what if what if it what if it breaks in transit um made to order returns or exchanges are not accepted like it just you could include even if you want to do an all sales or final like if you're strict with this kind of thing I know a lot of people are make it friendlier well include the like the you have to include exceptions if that thing just explodes Transit you can't be like nope not my problem because it arrived to them broken which means you didn't adequately package it unless the box was destroyed like that's a whole different thing that can take a case up and you need to ensure your packages and stuff like that that way they get their money back and you don't lose anything but if it wasn't packaged well and it explosed in transit and they're just so like I why wouldn't I why would I buy from you I'll just pick somebody else yeah I would um it just it just this SC this is scary you know you don't want to highlight mm you you you want to highlight every everything as a benefit you can say because of the unique handmade nature of my products um all all sales are final and you know stick a smiley face on there this is this is terrifying to me the thing is this is completely backwards of what Etsy is supposed to be you're supposed to give the personal one-on-one Human Experience that is what Etsy is for that's why their whole slogan was you know know human right it's all about being it was it's about being human and this is and this is Corporate this is what corporations do not you what you do when a glass explodes in transit is you eat that cost and you either refund the customer or you ship another one out because it doesn't cost you $16 to make one of these it costs you like what seven bucks or whatever which also prices on on these cups like you could sell these for way more than 16 yeah if even if you weren't using the Lost leader it's like 25 30 40 50 if the designs are crazy I mean you're making these yourself obviously do your research but 16 is still Mega lowball which makes me feel like you're probably listening to the people that say to list at a at a loss for a while to get build sales to build you know that shop quality score but it's not it's still it's still just wrong and uh a little note I this is you know just something for everybody to be aware of um if you ship to the is it it's EU right yeah if you ship No is it UK or EU I can't remember you have to provide 14-day return Windows you don't have a choice um 14 days for them to submit it to you another 14 for them to get it to you yeah returns and exchanges are are necessary somebody somebody remind me I I don't know why I'm why I'm forgetting this I made a whole video about it but is it EU or UK that doesn't or is it both um basically you have to either provide them with a product a refund or the option to replace um it's it's the law so I think it's EU it's EU yeah it's EU got it got it perfect um I mean overall your shop is really cute I think that you could really Define your target audience a little more um your products are cute I I definitely think that the mockups on some of them it's it's just a little it's a little I don't know I it's not helping me Envision like what the finished product is going to look like it's very pod e if that makes sense um looks identical to like 99% of the Pod shops most other YouTubers I mean really it does I'd love to see you um really show like that these are handmade and give you know a little glimpse into even in one of the listing photos that you know expressing that they're handmade um and yeah again just the these big sticker type things on all your thumbnails it's just it's it's not necessary it's it's a lot to read you know what I mean right and I mean you are making them by hand I I don't think you're making the designs yourself because there's a few in here that I've that I've seen elsewhere well let us know are you are you making Des my mom literally has a clock with this design on it yeah that I bought her a few years ago from not Etsy um so the fact that you're making them by hand is what separates you from like yeah like this Falls within etsy's policies even if you're not making the designs I don't care you're you're making them by hand show the benefits here the handmade is the big benefit so I ship to the EU and offer no returns to them still had no complaints because you it's not it's the law yeah it's their it's their law and unfortunately just like with gdpr if you're selling something to them you have no choice but to comply yeah and Etsy will side with the EU before they side with you just remember that I don't want to make it feel like we're crapping all over your stuff how you do stuff is fine it's just you clean it up I saw your doppelganger at Starbucks no you didn't I don't believe you did if you ever see any of our doppelgangers be sure to send us a photo I have a bunch of people man everybody everybody for a while said I look like Winona ryer and I I don't think she does at all what because we both have big brown eyes we I don't look like Winona Rider but then the other one that I hear all the time is um Cameron Diaz like I don't look like Cameron Diaz I look nothing like Cameron Diaz I figured out why they're not working why if you etsy.com shop SL and then paste it watch I'll put right here before the G and I'll hit delete not working there's a space in there see this okay it's for I don't know what that is but you can delete it okay gotcha okay I believe I feel like we've reviewed this shot before too I could be no we haven't okay I don't recognize this one a new one is Al Ali Al let's see goofy crochet crochet handmade plushies okay um not awful keyword optimization uh I feel like you could get your banner a little bigger and what's your your branding isn't very goofy I want to see I want to see it get get silly get silly Aly I think that you could get a little more silly you could up the silly Factor um overall really cute that's just me being nitpicky um let's see I mean they're silly little guys cell little fellas um I love the blueberry snails those are so cute did you guys know that I have snails um more more you don't have a whole lot listed how long have you been around let me see 2023 okay 2023 yeah still new get some get some more little fellas in here or Hey but you know what if they're not listed they're not selling so it might be just now listing items and getting them up there yeah um you know get some get get some more stuff listed if you can your photos are super cute um I almost feel like your branding is in congruent with the green backgrounds that you're using like the grass backgrounds I feel like you know this is very like warm and subtle and then down here it's very bold I feel like you could get some consistency between the two if you wanted to because um I really don't have a lot of critiques they're they're adorable I like your photos they're a little bright uh there's a lot of O overexposure looks like you're taking them in direct sunlight I would try to take them in the shade because believe it or not taking photos in direct sunlight actually washes those products out a lot whereas if you do it kind of in the shade um you get more of a natural soft lighting but they're so cute I heard so many YouTubers that sell on Etsy that you should add lost leaders to your shop as it'll be improving your shop doesn't mean they're right here's the thing it's all about ethics do you want to follow do you want to follow the thing that most people say they hate um or do you want to be the business owner that actually respects your customers and doesn't try to deceive them being told something on the Internet doesn't make it true people used to use pinea as a feminine product doesn't mean it was the right thing to do right you know like deceptive practices are not going to build Longevity if you want to do it for your business that's fine but I'm always going to recommend against it because I'm going to tell you what's the most ethical I'm going to push what is going to not make people get ticked off when they click on your list exctly um there are tons of YouTubers who also tell you to saturate the marketplace with a thousand listings per day and I'm never going to tell you to do that because just like there are a million in one course creators that do this that and the other to take advantage of people who are desperate and taking advantage of desperate people looking for a product on Etsy is no different you just don't do that right uh if it if it breaches my morality and my ethics then I'm going to advise against it and I think that the majority of people agree and that's why they watch me so if you want to do it in your shop that's fine but we want to offer those perspectives on that you know the grounds that it is a deceptive practice there's no argument there that you're literally deceiving someone building a business from the ground up based on quick sales tactics is not a strategy to build long-term sales tactics you cannot build longevity based on things that get rich quick exactly um okay back to apologies Ally we we love you yes we love you I love your shot um we love you so much um can you get some photos in here uh whether it be like your supplies you be I want to see some goofy you got goofy in your shop name and I'm not seeing enough goofy oh I need more give me your bio tell me about you tell me a little bit about yourself who are you get some FAQs in there some policies FAQs policies these things all contribute to your search ranking by the way they affect your uh customer and Marketplace experience score which helps your products to rank better in search so those are all things that you're going to want to make sure that you're doing which little which little fella do you want to look at which little guy which little which little which little you want to look you want to look at a little I want I was reading comments sorry sorry what do you do when you actually have sizes for something like that then how do you make it ethical sizes should relatively be around the same price if you're listing a child's shirt versus an adult shirt though a child shirt could be its own listing yeah a child shirt could definitely be its own listing yeah uh sizes varying by a couple dollars because you have to charge a little more for a bigger size plus don't you also have the option to do like this here 15 plus it's not they they all show that they all show that if you have multiple variants it'll always say plus the last one did too plush blueberry snail Decor stuffed animal crochet wait plush blueberry snail Decor stuffed animal custom crochet fruit strawberry orange eggplant gift this is a little bit of keyword spaghetti what's the word what what's the word am I looking for M M M M what's the what's the word what's the word for the crocheted cute little animals somebody type it in the chat I can never pronounce it and I always rely on you guys to tell me what it is that word the word for plushies amigurumi igur you guys know what I'm talking about that word amigurumi sure that one um that needs to be in here yes amigi [Music] saying it wrong I've never said it out loud before I always Dodge it in chat so that I don't have to say it because I know I'm going to say it wrong um plush blueberry snail Decor they have all the different fruits I saw that plushy you know what for your thumbnail you might want to show all the different options in there or list them separately those could be their own listings you could do every type of snail as its own listing and then you'll have more listings um plush blueberry snail Decor stuffed animal custom fruit strawberry orange eggplant gift I feel like you could get some more keywords and if you were to get rid of strawberry orange and eggplant and put them in their own listings then you could really like buckle down on the cute Kawaii um IG igari thank you to Gaby and um really narrowed down on those cute keywords even the word cute did you guys know that the word cute was trending like last month they are very cute though I do love them I think that you should list these little critters all separately though because they could be their own listings and then you could optimize for those individual keywords these are ridiculous yeah these are amazing I love them I like little strawberry I think the best he is so cute um not awful like I said I think that the the keywords here it is a lot of keyword spaghetti you could probably do a little bit of refinement here um by the way guys down below this video or in in the description um my free Etsy SEO toolboxes down there I recommend that everybody grab that I I constantly have people ask me very basic questions about SEO and it's all covered in that toolbox and I don't know if like everybody thinks there's like a catch or something like oh but it's not a loss leader no it's it's actually a free thing that I built that teaches you how to optim your listings it's got a course that talks about how etsy's algorithm works the factors that contribute to ranking on Etsy definitely sign up for that because it's going to have all of my best SEO related material um overall you know you just kind of look like a new shop you look like you've got a couple little things that you can improve upon your SEO you could improve upon you definitely need some more products listed um but overall I mean really cute in 20 sales you know for as few products as you have that's not bad you allowed to use copy right words and keywords no like Qui no you can't use copyright Words Anywhere you description title whatever and just to clarify there were people that were talking about like you know what about candles I sell like three different sizes of candles just try to be as honest as you can with the images that you're showing if you have different size candles show the candle that the base price is and say you know like the little stickers that she was talking about you can put in the bottom corners like four o 8 O 16 o like it it's it's easy to to there's a difference between doing because you have to and doing it intentionally to deceptively get someone onto a listing to buy the thing they thought they were going to get for that price exact big difference if you have three different size candles you could lay them out like you're going to do them like have them tiered you know rule of threes and take a picture with all of them if you wanted to there's a bunch of different ways Furniture if you have a listing for furniture and it says $5 it doesn't really matter what you do that's deceptive but if you're selling multiple different pieces of furniture that go together it doesn't really people are going to understand if you have like a table that comes in five different sizes nobody's going to see a picture of a 40ft long table and go like wow $400 that's a crazy deal on that table that they if and if they are that dumb then do you really want them as a customer anyway let me give you guys let me give you guys like a real world example um our daughter was saving up her money for months to buy what what she thought was going to be a 3D printed mask um she saved up money it was like $36 or something and it was like this cool 3D printed mask and when we finally sat down to buy it after she saved up that money it turns out that what you were getting was the print file whereas the mask itself was like $200 so like as the mom I should have known that that cool mask was not that cheap but you know it was it was one of those situations where my kid was crying and I really realized like how this could impact somebody um and you know when it comes to things like a t-shirt if you're listing a b if your image is a bunch of adult shirts and you've got like a teeny tiny little baby shirt within that listing I mean those are different products a little a little baby onesie is a completely different product than a t-shirt so grouping those together it's probably not a good a good strategy to begin with if you sell candles and wax melts those are very different products you know you don't need to use the wax melts as a variant within the candles you could always put in one of the 10 listing photos and say we also have wax melts visit because I tell you what there's nothing more of a pain in the butt than going into a listing and have to figure out which of the 50 variants you've put in there is the thing that I want separate them out if you need to what was it I could print it for you she ended up finding one it was I mean it was a big thing she she likes the um the it it it exists within the furry universe but she likes the protegens which are the ones that kind of have like robot faces that's like her whole thing is she likes the protegens and it was like a protogen face but she ended up finding one um but she had to spend way more than what she thought but I taught her I was like sweetie this is like one of those Lessons Learned on ET unfortunately you got to you got to click into things and double check but she was heartbroken I felt so bad all right cool pull up because I deleted the thing and put it back in by the way using political figures names likenesses Andor Flags or anything that represents them is copyright you can't do that so we're going to go ahead and skip that one yeah they here's the thing a lot of them won't come after you because it helps them but they technically have the right to publicity so they can um not to mention we try to not feature shops that have political stuff just because it causes arguments so you know we've we've had multiple people um in our community with you know shops that have Political Items so we're just trying to steer clear that topic Al together you know what I mean okay your shop doesn't exist okay that would be a bad way for someone to find out that their shop was uh shut down or something whil looking for it there's not even a link to it on Google which means it has never existed oh might be their username on YouTube oh maybe maybe okay just got to do a quick this freaking that it's just one one little guy one little fella flew into my eyeball these are a little you got to be careful with that it's should be fine they're a prop let's do it Misha Misha Misha Misha Misha I hope it's I hope it's Misha not like Misha I I Willa Misha every once in a while like I called one of my students Annie and I called her Annie for years and then I found out years that her name was Anie and I felt and same with Hannah I kept saying Hannah Hannah Hannah and her name was Hana so I never assume anymore because I usually have't wrong it's only offensive if you're doing it intentionally that's true that's true qmunity cotour that's actually a really cute logo I I like that um lgbtq owned woman own distinctly queer apparel okay um could you could probably I mean there is some keyword optimization in here I hate the word apparel I I don't only because it's so IND descript then again you do have a lot of products so um I'm I'm not going to be nitpicky for now um your branding looks great it's nice and crisp I love that you have cohesiveness with your background for your little Avatar and again if you guys aren't comfortable having a photo of yourself you can always do this and utilize an avatar or some type of little character um as opposed to having a photo of yourself but we do want to try to give someone you know those those Shoppers a face to look at when they click that contact tab they're more likely to click it if they know who they're speaking to if you've just got like one of your products or a logo there or your brand name I don't know it just it feels like trying to message an Amazon Seller it's you don't feel like they're approachable when I see Misha here I'm like oh okay you know this is a person I I feel comfortable messaging and asking my questions so let's take a scroll um let's see just I mean I like that you've swapped out your backgrounds you've added a bit of uniqueness here um to what I assume are mockups everything looks super duper cute um my only major critique is what this is just me but I can't figure out like what the scheme was for the backgrounds it because some of them is it like based on the color of the hats cuz I see like gray backgrounds then green then purple but I'm not like getting a Rhyme or Reason it just kind of feels a little I don't know it's like cohesive but at the same time I I it's not I don't know I feel like you could work on just a just a teeny tiny bit of brand refinement but overall you know it's not bad um you know what I would love honestly is depending on where you're getting your mockups or if you're making them yourselves I would love to see models in these and not just models but different body sizes different skin colors I know that um I'm pretty sure that we're good to use place it now from you know just based on I obviously double check this but I it looks like etsy's finally tried to kind of figure out like their issues with the mockup situation and we're not seeing as many shops saying that they're getting shut down for mockups I know that playet has some very diverse um models for their t-shirt mockups in particular but especially for an industry that is about you know pride in yourself and you know positivity I feel like just seeing that human element Incorporated in might be a better way to position your brand in particular because I can't really critique mockups you know what I mean obviously mockups look fantastic um I will say that one thing I'm not a fan of is mockups that are exactly the same when it comes to things like this I really love to see like things moved around within mockups I actually did a live stream what how many weeks has it been guys two weeks ago where I show how to customize your own mockups and add your own props and things which could allow you to get a little bit unique with you know some of the props that are being utilized um and you can kind of customize them a little bit more um our Shop Story is coming soon I hope so because that that helps your search ranking so I'm just curious as the who who specifically are you trying because lgbtq that's such a broad like thing it feels very much like you're trying to do like you have the the Q immunity thing it very it very much feels like you're trying to do like an influencer thing like you're trying to build Community specifically based around like what your ideals are and your representation of the community that kind of thing like yeah because it's branded with your with your logos like who specifically are you shooting for cuz pride in general is not like that is so ridiculously broad yeah um I it does feel very broad I I do really like the hats because they're kind of minimalist um I think that that is kind of unique it's it's almost like it's almost like a little subtle I follow oh God what's the name of the brand somebody in the chat will probably know there's a pride brand that I follow and their whole thing is like subtle Pride where it's like little tiny like cues and little ODS um to Pride but you know just it's it's like teeny tiny little logos and things and I I always thought that it was really cute the way that they they did it um you know because it's kind of like relatively subtle stuff that you could like wear to wear to work um and I do really like the and how they're off to the side rather than the center I don't know I feel like I feel like Mark is right though um you have such a huge target audience here yeah and they said I'm qmunity equals queer Community I'm catering to gay lesbian by seexual so is every single commercial brand and eBay seller and person who sells Pride stuff at a mall kiosk at the mall what specifically are you cuz that's again just the entirety of the the non straight Community right you know what I mean yeah I mean just so nobody gives hate one out of Mark and I one of us isn't straight and I'll let you guys think about you know that on your own time um but you know but my point is is it's it doesn't matter if you're representing the pride Community I'm all here for that yall need all the all the help you can get right but like what specifically are you trying to sell for cuz like obviously we have the pride stuff my point being is that you're in right now one of the most saturated markets in the United States I mean you look anywhere and the pride pride stuff is everywhere so like what are you doing specifically off platform because this in and of itself is going to get lost in a sea of stuff on Etsy right what are you doing to distance yourself from just the Bas I'm not straight crowd right you know what I mean there there are Brands so for example um I have seen brands that are specifically um like queer cat daddies you know what I mean where it is you know daddies of cats dads you know couples who have cat babies and that is their Niche what you're in is an industry right lgbtq plus is an industry that means that it is like giant it's Mega it's hard to compete because there's so much of it you can find it at Target you can find it at Walmart you can find it everywhere it is beyond oversaturated it's very oversaturated but there are also micro niches within the niche so like I talked about like the queer Cat Daddy Community um the the plant mom Community there are so many micro niches within the lgbtq plus community that are going to serve as easier targets for you know ensuring that you're hitting your Niche but but saying you know hitting more of a very specific type of person within the community and if you want it to be more General you could even Branch out to those who specifically are looking for things to wear to Pride festivals that could be a niche on its own you know you could look for people who are looking for like that minimalist brand that I talked about God I wish I could remember the name of it um but they wanted to create products that were a little less loud um a little less corporate but that were subtle that you could wear to work that you you know that way you had that that visible indicator but it wasn't you know so in your face um there are so many different ways to do it and if you do want to appeal to the broader audience the the whole lgbtq plus Community then you need to do something unique not something that everybody else is doing because you're just going to like I said you're going to get lost in the sea of everything that looks virtually identical other than your very specifically branded stuff that as of right now is just your brand name and you're trying to sell it like it's a it's a community thing which is a great thought but that Community has to exist first for it to become the thing you know what I mean I love how they said like the sporty quer with the hats and the tank tops yeah like Runners you know people who are going to the gym um beachgoers like these are all niches within the niche that you or the the industry that you're targeting so like I said you know this it it's not it's us trying to challenge you so that you don't end up being stuck within a oversaturated market where it's going to be very hard to compete if you're selling $63 slides I mean we really need to think who's going to pay $63 for slides with a logo of a brand that they've never heard of instead if you were to refine your target audience a little bit and build that overall brand message your go then becomes an authority piece it becomes something that people brag about Supreme didn't start out as a you know Mega brand with their stupid red logo you know what I mean they slowly became the cotour product like the whole meaning of c is is made to size for me that is the meaning of cure and nothing about this other than your specific names is actually unique to you as a seller or you as a person who is part of this community where are you in this community I think my Niche is queer D and D players Cubs Bears leather Community gay camping is huge look at all these Niche ideas what how is gay camping any different than normal camping We're Not Gonna don't don't answer that don't answer that please don't answer that question we we know how it I love it though I could I could see it I could I could see it did you want to do their SEO I don't think you've done that yet oh yeah I guess we could um I'll grab one of the hats right I'll because I like I really do like the hats yeah make just make yourself unique that the there's not enough uniqueness in the lgbtq plus Community rainbow is so overdone and it just pick something that you like about the community and make that you right exactly what what something I mean there somebody had commented about the shirt I I'd seen this design before but like does this hat make me look gay and just have it be a big flat like there's there's so much you can it doesn't have to be comedy it can be serious I know a lot of people don't want comedy associated with their their movements and whatever but like there's a bunch of different ways you can incorporate your own flare like why are you selling or like if you're not selling to make money specifically on Etsy obviously you're selling to make money but if that's not the end goal then what specifically are you doing do you are you part of a larger community that gives money do you provide support like what lean into yourself what is you about this cuz I see this is lgbtq plus I I see that but I see absolutely nothing that distinguishes it from that right and you know queer commenters have already chimed in and you know they've kind of said feels a little corporate like listen listen to the fellow gays in the community and you know we can get so close to our products that we tend to not lean in to um you know those those little pieces where we think that okay this this might be cool but really it's kind of the the not obvious things that are going to create a successful Brands like I said like the queer cat dads you know it's it's those weird little micro niches that are going to go viral and if you do want to stick with this if you like your designs and you want to keep them how they are that's fine too but you need to build a reason for why these are unique something like a Tik Tok thing make yourself an influencer on Instagram like do something that makes this with your specific brand name the thing like she was talking about Supreme earlier Supreme is nothing without the weird F boys that promote it that's true that's a fact and the weird like 16-year-olds with Mommy's credit card that that is what made Supreme what it is and if you like it that's fine but we can't deny that that's what made Supreme what it is so what is going to make you the lgbtq plus Supreme exactly unless you change and you do specifically that sounds like the best like rainbow nachos ever can I order an lgbtq plus Supreme mhm all right G and lesbian Pride flag embroidered hat um rainbow Pride dist okay so there's a couple things here um you don't need to repeat these words because etsy's going to Broad match these um what makes this a dad hat it's a dad hat but there's a picture of a woman I guess it's lgbtq plus it's this is printful I can tell by the mockups printful printful calls it a dad hat but you don't need to repeat the word hat you don't need to repeat the word pride um you don't need to repeat any of these terms you don't need to repeat the word rainbow gay and lesbian pride flag embroidered hat you could say rainbow distressed dad baseball cap lgbtq coming out gift and then we've already covered rainbow flag hat with these up above so you don't need to repeat those terms um I actually have a video that I uploaded just a couple I think it was two weeks ago and it talks about my tag strategy my tag strategy is the same for my title strategy so go check that out because I talk about you know not repeating keywords it I talk about how you can kind of um stack things how the algorithm sees those terms um but I feel like that should help I hope that this that you know that this was taken with like open arms and that you know that you know everything that we've suggested is out of love um again one of us is not straight so right so just know that we anytime we give suggestions for a brand it's always because we see potential in you and we want to push you towards the thing that's going to work I work with over we have 2,000 people in in the ha are is it 2,000 students now we have 2,000 no it's not 2 it's close to no it's not it's like 1300 1400 maybe 15 I was going to say we're approaching 2,000 students in haa with you know including betas and stuff but this is through seven years of being a coach and working with students this is after this will be my 12th year selling on Etsy this is after building one sixf figureure brand and now I'm working on another brand when we make these suggestions we always do so in order to push you towards what is different what is unique and what we know to work versus what does work bro cuz I tell you I get so sick of seeing the same thing over and over and over these same like top 50 creative Fabrica designs on t-shirts mama bear it's so old Mama Bear shirts live life love and and these are the same people that go over on forums and complain like oh etsy's dead etsy's dead because you're killing it Mama Bear I get so sick of Mama Bear shirts how many Mama Bear shirts do we need we don't need any more Mama Bear we don't there are so many Mama bears and if you're going to make a mama bear it better look different guys head over to pri.com Amplified or expand out the description uh use code am Starla Starla amp Starla and that will bypass the credit card checkout system you don't even have to enter a credit card that will get you free virtual tickets to amplifi because I am being flown to lva I didn't even know lvia existed until like three years ago but I'm 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warmest the most inviting we have a zero hate tolerance in our community oh 100% zero zero tolerance our our Facebook Community is amazing you guys are the ones who make it amusing BEC amusing amazing it's amusing too it is amusing I'm always amused when I'm in there but you guys make it amazing because you're in there helping each other we have raised so much money for charity over the last seven years that we have been running the alphas someday I'm going to have to sit and just like calculate out how much money we've raised for charity that's a lot don't for especially if you include what we donate that they don't see that's true that's true because when we do a lot of the donations we also when we make ours we will match whatever you guys have collectively donated um and speaking of which be sure to donate to our charity ofthe monw water.org they not only provide clean drinking water to areas that don't have it but they also install permanent Solutions so that these areas that 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you and that there's an idea right there of the rainbow you can have that it's free Michael and Lorenzo of theek of the rainbow part of the rainbow of the geek Authority are probably my favorite couple they go on the best Adventures to like they do all the Disney stuff all the Star Wars stuff your guys's uh social media accounts like I I've been following how long is it been I've been following you guys for like four or five years now and they I'm I'm envious of the adventures that they go on some of Betsy is like walking down the home decor aisle at a Beal's Outlet yeah it's and you know I just saw one of those ads I really hope etsy's listening but you know those new ads that etsy's been talking about the you know Handmade by Craig Handmade by Michael were they're really going to be showcasing the sellers and we were so excited about that reception is not great I saw saw one it was Handmade by Chad and I opened up the comments um and this was an Etsy ad for buyers you know when that they're putting money behind to get more buyers and all the comments were from buyers complaining about how Etsy they can never find anything handmade it all is like Teemu it's just a bunch of drop ship stuff so I mean the buyers even are starting to get that negative perception this is why for those of you who are doing handmade or you have that creative like hand in your process make sure that you're really really showing that in your product photos it's very important I'm just checking something you're fine oh okay I'm sorry I'm just seeing if you have your regular email list down here any of the free resources they can join they can sign up for okay cool well I'm just saying you need to get the regular one down here too just for people who don't want to subscribe to those but want to subscribe to emails to get notified when we go live for when YouTube is stinky and doesn't tell them but if you join any of our email lists down there eventually you will end up on the main list so 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then on the eighth we bump tickets up to $120 and all those $20 like overages those all go to St judee's for the holidays so um and we're going to be doing guest speakers this time who I'm also paying because they're inviting their audiences but the $20 will I'm paying them out of you know we're we're they're getting some of the money but we're taking the $20 out of mine and Mark's money for that because I want to make sure that they get all the money for their time um we're going to have Hannah G we're going to have passive income Angel we're going to have um Mandy from Simply pod with Mandy we are going to have Dave from ad toart we're going to have Christina Nicole and obviously I'm going to be talking um this year I'll be speaking about Advanced marketing psychology and neurom marketing which is probably the most in-depth like neuro marketing lesson that I've ever recorded so it's going to be a lot of fun it's going to be more advanced than last year um and it's going to just for Etsy sellers this year uh and I highly recommend that not signing up if you if you like don't if you're not like techsavvy at all like last year we had people who joined and they didn't know how to like make an Instagram post like they didn't have social media it's probably not going to be for you this year um because we really want to help those who are already kind of um you know established and they know how social media works and and things like that but not too ADV Advanced but just not for if you've never used social media and your brand spank and new might not be the best but that's all we have time for Science and snark I saw your email it was not you so don't worry about that oh okay uh I guess we're good we'll see you on Tuesday for a new video see you next Friday oh this Tuesday's video it's uh I'm covering all uh a bunch of things that are in the public domain that you can merchandise now tons of public domain stuff and if you Hypocrites don't get in the comments and get 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