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1. Intro: Hither. In this course, I will teach you how to sell
a generated artwork with M journey on C. This is a beginner friendly
business model, and everyone can
start selling on C. All you need is an
Internet connection, a M journey subscription
and you can create your Ei sore and start
selling a generated artwork. Now, this course
will be presented in a very practical manner and I will go straight to the point. I will cover pretty much everything that you
need to know and this includes how to set
up and use M journey, how to create your store, how to find winning designs, how to use photoshop or photopa, which is a free version of photoshop that works pretty much the same marketing
strategies and so much more. I recommend this
business model to E Commerce enthusiasts
as well as beginners. This will be very easy
to start and learn and Es offers a great
opportunity to everyone. This is a great marketplace that is pretty much similar to Amazon and it is very
easy to set up and start. If you're ready to start selling agener.org on s with M ourney, be sure to check out the course.
2. Etsy Store Setup: Either, and welcome
to the course. Now, before diving
into anything, be sure to check
all the resources that are attached
to this course. You'll have description
examples for your products, as well as an invitation
link for C and you'll receive 40 free listings. This means that you can add 40 products on es
without paying the fee. The fee is like 0.2
dollar plus VAT. So it's not much, you'll pretty much save
like $8, I guess, but it's better than nothing, so you have that for free if
you use the invitation link. Right. So now let's
dive into it. First off, we will
talk about Etsy. We will create our Etsy store, and then we will talk
about M journey, and then we'll go
back to Etsy and explain the entire
platform and so on. So first, head on to aty.com, and in here, you'll have
to create an account. So go at.com. And in here on the
top right corner, you have the sign in button. You'll click on it.
And in my case, I already have a
Google account set up, and I will use this
Google account to create this new store. So I will continue with Google. You can also use other
alternatives if you want to, or just use an email
address as well. So, yeah, I will just
click on Register in here. I'll click on
Continue with Google, and I will select this e mail
that I have here. Continue. All right. Now that
I'm locked in on ts, as you can see in
here, I can just click on my account and in here, I will select sell on es. Get started. Here we'll
have some simple steps. I'll click on Let's do this. You can just skip through this if you want to. It
doesn't matter. This is strictly for
statistics for Es, so it matters more
or less for you. We'll just click on Skip. Skip in here as well, and start your shop. All right. Now, shop
language live it to English. In my case, I'm from Romania, so I'm living the shop
country to Romania, and your shop currency, I have mine set to Euro. As you can see here,
as it says in here, the currency you'll use to
price the items you sell on. Buyers will automatically see the prices in their
local currency. Basically, it's best to set this to US dollar, and
I'll tell you why. Because it will be easier
for you to adjust prices. For example, if you're
going to set the price to $2.99 for a specific
design, for example, that will be converted to Euros, and you'll have to make the conversion on your
own in order to have that 299 price in dollars
for your customers. So it's just easier to use
it in use dollars instead. Lose a bit because
as you can see here, they will have to convert from USD to Euros, and
there are some fees. But the fees aren't
that high anyway. It's like 2% or
something like that. So it matters more or less. I'll just leave it
like this, US dollars. Also, you can always
change this, by the way. So I can just set it to USD right now and change it afterwards. It
doesn't matter. All right, I'll click
on safe and continue. Here, I will enter my shop name, and I have artastic prints. And it is already taken. So I'll just select
a variant from here. Let's see what I like. Print crafts, print
shop, it doesn't matter. I'll just select this
one, for example, or L et's say designs, maybe. Taken. We'll do it like this. Or maybe I can just stick
it to tastic prints, taken. We'll go with designs then. CO. I will just
leave it like this. Also, you can also change
the name for Etsy store. If you choose name right now and you want to change
it afterwards, you can do that, so
don't worry about it. Save and continue. And now we will have to add our first
listing in our store. Basically, you can just add
whatever you want right now, so you can just go through this step and
continue afterwards. So I'll just select a
picture from my computer. It doesn't matter. I'll just
select my logo, for example. And I will explain
this to you later on, but now I'll go through
it quick so you can have an idea of
what's going on here. So, the title of your product. For example, let's
say that I'm selling a vintage winter painting. Here you will set the title. But the titles
have to be written in a certain way in order to get as much traffic as possible. So you'll have to add
as many words in here as possible to get as
much traffic as possible. So I will explain
this to you later on, but this is how it works. In here, who made it? I did? What is it a supplier tool
to make things because we will sell designs, not
physical products. And when did you make it, we will select the year. Now, four category,
we will write digital prints, and we
have the first one. In here, you don't have
to select anything. When it comes to
occasion and holiday. These two are important because when people
go on these websites, they have some filters,
and they can select the filters that they want in order to show these products. So if they are searching for
Christmas filmed products, for example, they will select
the specific holidays. In here, you'll have
to select Christmas. And that way, they will
find your product easier. So you should always
do this if you're selling a product for a
specific holiday or an event. You have plenty of
options in here, so just be sure to
check them out, and if you see that something
fits, just select it. Right, I'll just
leave it like this. Subject, you don't have
to select anything. Rom you don't have to select
anything in here as well. Here we have the important
part, renewal options. By default, it is
set to automatic, and you should leave it like
this. What does this mean? So as you can see in here, every time you are going
to sell a product, you'll have to re list
that product or renew it. So basically, will charge
you 0.2 dollar plus VAT, if you are from Europe or just $0.2 if you are from the US. And they will just release your product on the platform
every time you make a sale. So keep that in
mind. You'll have to pay this fee
every single time. That's how it works, but it is not that
much to be honest. Here we have your product
type, physical or digital. In our case, we will
sell digital products, but on it, you can sell
physical products as well, just so you know. We will select digital. In here, we will enter our description. I'll give you a description
example for digital prints. But you can also get
more descriptions or more description
examples from other stores. That's how I got mine, and
I just changed it a bit, or you can use J GPT as well. That's a good option. So
I will just copy mine. Also, I will just add this
as a resource in the course, so it can be easy for you. This is my description in here, and I will go back and paste it. Basically, I have
a bunch of info in here where they can
print these designs, as well as the resolution,
the formats, and so on. So basically, I
will go for this, and I will explain
it to you later on. We won't go through
this right now. We will just continue
with the steps. Production partner, you
don't have to add anything. Section. What does it mean? Basically, let's say that you have a physical store and
you're selling t shirts, hoodies, jackets and so on. In this case, you have
a section for hoodies, a section for t
shirts and so on. So these are your sections, pretty simple to understand. Or you can make
sections for holidays, as you can see
here, Father's Da, Mother's Day,
Christmas, and so on. Here we have the tags.
This is important. Basically, tags are keywords. If you use Instagram and so on, I'm sure that you used
hashtags very often. So I here, you'll just enter
the tags without the hashtag itself in order for your
product to get found on Etsy. So you'll have to
enter the proper tag, and there is a tool for this, and I will show it to you, it's called Eng. I have it in here. And we will find the tax pretty easy from
our competition. But we'll go through
this later on. Materials, you don't
have to select anything, and for price. Usually, designs
sell for under $3. So just so you know, if we are going to
sell, for example, digital prints, like I'm going to show you
in this course, you'll have to price
them around $3. So 299, to 49, 349. It all depends on how
good the design is. You can start with
a lower price, and if you see that
you're making sales, you can just gradually increase that price to a point where
it no longer sells well. So that's how you should do it. Start from a lower price
like two fort nine, for example, or 299, but don't go any
lower than this. Don't make them basically free. Because it's not
worth it, you'll have to run ads and
you'll lose money. So that's not a good strategy. And in here for the quantity, we'll set this to 999, because every time
we'll make a sale, the quantity will decrease. SQ don't have to enter
anything in here, personalization, you don't have to turn this on. You'll
leave it like this. And digital files in here, we will attach the
design itself. But in our case, these files are quite
large and ESI has a limit, 20 megabytes upload
limit, I think. So we will do this differently. We will upload these
files to a Google Drive. We will create a PDF, and we will enter
the link in there, and the customer will
download that PDF and click the link inside and go to our Google
Drive and download it. It's basically more
steps for the customer, but there's no work around. We will have to do this.
Everyone does this, but it works pretty good. So, that's pretty
much it when it comes to adding a product.
These are the settings. It's not complicated, but
we'll go for it later on, and I'll go more in depth
about the titles and the text, which are the most
important things. And in here for the photos,
we'll make some previews, some mops, and I'll
show you exactly how you have to add these
as well. All right. So now I'll click on. Save and Continue. I'll have
to add a file. Let me just upload, let's say the logo again.
Save and continue. And I will click
on D this later. I don't want to add
anything else right now. Now, you'll have to enter
our bank information. So select the country where
your bank is located, right? In my case, it's Germany. Here, you'll have to
select if you have a registered business
or individual. Most of the sellers
use this option, even if you have a business, you can run with the
individual setting. So we will just
leave it like this. And in here, you'll have to
enter all your information. So basically, address and so on. Pretty easy to
understand. In here, you can skip this one, you
don't have to select it. And here you'll have to
enter your bank name, your Ban, and your Swift. So basically, your
bank details in order for ti to send
the money to you. So I'll just go for this. I'll complete all this
information and get back to you. All right. So after you enter all
that bank information, you'll have to upload your ID. Make sure that the
picture is clear. You can use more options. So in my case, I'll just let my country, for
example right now. So we have driver's license, ID, passport, residence
permit, and voter ID. It is best to use
your identity card. That's usually the
best way to do it. So in my case, I'll
just upload mine. I have it in here. And
that's pretty much it. Save and continue.
I'll just wait a bit. Also, keep in mind that they will go through a
verification process. You account will get most likely disabled after you upload a few products or you
make your first sale. They have a procedure
where they check every single account
because they have a lot of copyright issues
on this website. People tend to upload a lot of copyrighted
material, so therefore, they are taking the
specific measures in order to stop this. So if your shop will get
disabled in the process, you'll have a notification
in your store, and you'll have a button
where it says, Contact Etsy, you'll just write to them that your store get disabled
and you don't know why. And they will just make
a verification again, and your store will be up
and running in a few days. So do not get scared if that's going to happen
because it will happen, and it can happen
up to two times. So you can have your store disabled after you
make a sale first, and they will most
likely disable it again after a few days if
you make an another sale. And again, you'll have to
send an e mail to them. And that will be pretty
much it. All right. So I'll click on saving here. Identity document
has been saved. That's good. And we'll
click on Save and continue. And now we will have
to add a credit or a debit card in order to
make the payment to Etsy. When we pay for ad, for example, or we want to add a product,
you'll pay the fees. You must add a credit
card or a debit card. So I'll just go through
this information again. And once this is done, I'll click on Save and continue, and we will proceed with
other step. All right. So now that I enter
all that information, we will have to set up the
two step authentification. I recommend using the
authentificator app. You'll just have to go on the App store or
on the Playstore, if you have Android, just
download the authenticator app, and you'll have to
scan a QR code, so I'll click on continue. I'll click and continue again. And you'll have to enter
this key in the app. This is the key in my case, you'll also have to
or you will have to scan the QR code if you want. You have two
ways of doing this. So I'll just open
the app right now, and I will scan this,
give me a second. And it is done. And now I have a code for my E store that I will
have to input in here. So I will enter the code. I'll just have to wait a bit for it to refresh, all right. So I entered my code in here. I have some backup codes. Make sure that you save
those. I won't show this, so you won't have
access to my account. But just make sure that you save this somewhere in your computer. You can just take a screenshot
or whatever you want. So you have a way to recover your account if you
lose everything. And afterwards, you'll click on. Open your shop in here on
the bottom right corner. I won't select this option. I don't want e mails
from them and so on, so I'll just click on continue. And your shop will be created in a few seconds.
And that's pretty much it. Now, this is the e
store that you have, and this is the dashboard where you'll be able to
control everything. So we have dashboard listings, here you'll find
all your products, messages from your customers, orders, here you'll
see all the orders. Star seller, you don't
have to bother with this. Stats, you'll see
all the traffic and all the visits that you get for every single product
that you have. Finances, here, you'll be able to change your credit card, your bank information,
if you want, and so on. Marketing, here we will
use the EAD, Integrations. You won't have to
use this at all. Help. You won't use
this at all either. And here we have the settings, you'll be able to edit
your store and so on. But I won't go
through this right now because it will
take plenty of time. I will talk about this
later on in the course. But I just said a few
words about them, so you have an idea
what to expect. So four listings,
I will go in here, and this is my listing that I just added in the beginning. And I will delete it. So here
we have the delete button. And on editing options, here we have some more settings. You can change the title, tag, description, or the price, or you can just click on this wheel and select
edit, for example. And you will go on
the same exact page that we visited before. But this is the new version. It looks a bit different. But I prefer to work
with the old one. So I will just click on here, switch switch to old version. And now we have the same layout that we had in the beginning. So you can always
make modifications to your product. All right. So now I will just go
back to the listings, and I will delete this one
because I don't need it. And now this product is removed. Something important right
now that you have to do is you'll have to
click on your store, and our store is
pretty much blank. So you have to add a logo
in here and a shop cover. You can create
those on your own. If you are a graphic designer and you can make
this on your own, or you can use a tool like mva, if you don't know about it,
but it's pretty popular. You can create an account
in here and in here, you can make logos, etsy shop covers, and so on, so you can pretty much
do everything in here. So for example, I can type
ts logo, for example. Just show cover. And here we have plenty of
templates that we can use. Be aware that some of them
are paid, as you can see. The pro icon in here shows that you need the
membership for this, but you also have free variants. So you can just select a
free variant, for example. This one doesn't fit our theme because we will sell designs, but Just as an example. You can click on
customized template, and you can edit every
single element in here. Just double click
it, change the text. You can also change the
pictures, delete them. You have in here
all these buttons. You can upload another picture, and then add it in here. So it is pretty easy to use. And then you have a
button in here on the top right where
it says Share, and you can just download the cover or the
logo that you created. So KMVA is a great tool
to use if you don't know any graphic design
at all. All right. I already have a shop
cover and a logo, so I'll just upload
these to my store. So I'll click on edit Shop. And in here, I'll just
click on this small button. Choose File, and I
will select my logo. I made this quick, so it's
not professional or anything, but just so I can show
you how this works. So you can make this quick. So here I will select the big banner option
because it looks better. I'll click on Done, add image, and select the cover. And now we have
the cover as well. Save, and that's pretty much it. Here you can set a
shop announcement. For example, we will create coupon codes for
discounts, for example, if they buy free products, they will have a 50% discount or a 60% discount and so on. But we will talk
about this later on. In here, you can just write
your shop description. We will go through
this later on as well. But basically type something, let's say, high quality
digital prints. For your craft, for example,
something like that. Even though it doesn't
make much sense, we will think about
something later on. But this is where you type it, and it should be something straight to the
point and simple. I'll just click on
cancel right now. And what else here, you can just add
the shop members, so you'll add yourself in here, or let's say maybe you have someone else that
you're working with, and you want to add
that person in here. You can do so as well.
Just enter the name. So for example, I
can enter mine. Select the role. You can select multiple roles for
a specific person. In my case, I'm the
owner, designer, And let's say customer
service. That's it. So you can do it like
this. Good. Then we have an FAQ in here. We will add this later on. And something that is important. I think we have to add, let me see if they
change something. Private individual, that's
good. Shop policies. Yeah, we have a template in here and this is pretty
simple to use right now. So we will select
the simple policy, and this will be updated in our store. That's
pretty much it. We can also add a
shop about section. Let me click on dit. And this should be in here. You have add a story
and a description. You also have social media links in here if you
want to add those, but you don't have to bother
with those to be honest. I never use them. But if you want to create a huge
brand in the future, you should create those, but in the beginning, it
doesn't make any sense. All right. I'll just Go for
this. That's pretty much it. If you want to add a story, a title, and a description,
you can do so. I have two story
examples in here. So these two, I will also add them in the
course as a resource. You have a great
example in here. This is what you
will do as well. Maybe you want to sell designs
and sell design bundles. You can do that as well, but I say that these products are probably
the easiest to do. So if you are going to create designs with
M journey, with AI, keep in mind that
you'll have to do a lot of photo editing in order to
have these designs finished, because you'll have to remove all the background
around the design, and that takes quite some time. But in this situation, you'll just create a design
and just save it right away. You'll have to make
some adjustments, but that is way quicker compared to creating
a design bundle. Let's say that you
want to create a bundle of designs for
Valentines Day, for example. That will take plenty
of time to make all that background
removal and so on. So it is best to sell digital prints because
there are ways here to do. The competition is high, but there are ways around it. You have to spend some
money to run some ads, and then you will
rank your products higher in the search results. So that's how you have to
do it. So these two stores that we have in here are
some great examples. Here you have the Shop
announcement section with all the information
that they added in here. So they use Dropbox, instead of Google Drive, you can use whatever you want. But I just use Google Drive, and it works great. I's
pretty easy to use. But Dropbox is a
popular choice as well. So you can choose
whatever you want. This is basically where you
will upload your designs, and you'll give this
link to your customer, and we will use a PDF for that. I will show you how
this works later on. If I go all the
way to the bottom, here you have their story,
title and description. You have an idea in here. You can also use Chat
GPT if you want. If you don't know about it,
it's pretty easy to use. We will go through
this later on as well, and the designer itself owner
designer customer service. As I said in the beginning,
and that's much it. They also have an FIQ section. Again, you have examples, and you can add those
as well. All right. That's pretty much it when it comes to editing your store. Make sure that you add title description location
in here as well. I will just write mine. You can also add a
picture for yourself. You can change the
name if you want. But in order to change
the name in here, you'll have to change the
name in your et account, so you'll go on
et.com and in here, you have your viewer profile, and you'll have to change
your public profile. In here, you have the
name, click on change, and maybe you want to set
it to something else. You can do it in here
and add a picture. That's pretty much
how you do it, but this is not that important. So yeah, that was it
for the first video. So that's how you
create the store. Now we have the
store, let's say, almost ready, we have to
make some modifications. You have to add, as I said,
title description, FAQ. But I will attach these
two stores for you, so you have some examples, and you can simply write
what they wrote in here. Maybe don't make it
exactly the same, but you can have
some inspiration and you'll see exactly
what they wrote. I usually don't write that much because it's quite boring, even though there's a lot of useful information in here,
you don't need all of this. So, I will maybe give you a
description for this as well, something simple, and we will talk about it in the
next video. All right. So for the next video, we
will talk about M journey and how to create prompts
and designs using AI. And then we'll go back
to Etsy and I will explain the entire platform to you and how this
works more in depth. So see in the next video.
3. Discord, How to Add & Use Midjourney: Now we will talk about
M journey and discord. So in order to create
designs with AI, and we will use M
journey for that, you'll need discord as well. So head over to Discord dot GG and make sure that you download
the software from here. So basically, this cord is a social software where you can just chat with
your friends and such, but it also has a lot
of features built in, a lot of bots that can be
used for useful things, and one of them is M journey. So just download the
software in here for Windows or IOS or
MAC, whatever you have. And once you install it, make sure that you
create an account. You'll have a login button in here on the top right
corner, create an account. Then you can just open
this cord on your PC. Log into it, and you'll
open the M journey server. And the way you do that is
by going to mi journey.com. You'll click on signing in here on the bottom right corner. It will ask for your
discord credentials. You'll enter the e
mail and the password, you'll log in, and then
you'll click on Authorize. Once you do that, you will open the interface,
which is this one. This is your M Journey
accounting interface, and you will have to buy a subscription. So
how do you do that? You click in here on your profile on your
name on the bottom left. Click on these three dots, and click on Managed
subscription. I have the P plan,
which is this one. And I will tell you the
difference between each of those. Basically, the basic and the standard plan doesn't give you the Stealth
image generation. And what is the Steelf
image generation? Basically, if you don't
pay for the pro plan, you will create prompts or designs together with
other people on this cot. And there is a risk to this because everyone can
steal what you're doing. So that's not optimal. But if you pay for
this pro plan, you can invite mi journey
to your own server, and only you will be able to see these designs and no one
will be able to steal it. So that's why the
prop plan is good. But if you don't have a
lot of money and you just want to test it out and
start and see how it goes, go with the basic or
the standard plan. But I recommend going with the prop plan if
you have the money. Also, there is a difference
in fast generation hours, and what this is is, basically, when you create prompts, it takes some time to
create this prompts. But if you have fast hours, it will make these prompts
even faster than usual because once you waste all
this fast generation time, you will go into relaxed mode, and relaxed mode is like
five to ten times slower. So it will take longer
to create this prompt. It is not like super long, but you'll have to wait probably around a minute to
create a prompt. So this option gives you like probably 15
seconds, so it's way faster. All right, so then you'll
click on community in here. And this way, you will join
the M jur Discord server, and in here, you'll be able
to see others working. This is the server in
here, this cycle in here. And you'll be able to see
others working in here. So for example, As you
can see on the left side, you have different chat rooms, and in every single
chatroom in here, you are able to create
prompts basically. So in these new bite channels, you can create prompts,
see what others are doing. You can see exactly
what they are typing in here in order
to get this result. So this is basically
how you will learn my journey
and how it works. But it is quite
simple, trust me. So Now, let's say that
you're using the basic plan. You will type in
here. So the way my journey works is as follows. You have, so let me go all
the way to the bottom, so I'll click on this button. Jump to present, to go
to the latest messages. And if I type settings,
slash settings. I have some settings in
here for me journey. So how does M journey
work, basically? We have some models. Right now, I selected
the Alpha model. So every few months, M
journey will release a new model that is
capable of new things. So as you can see here, my options are already gone to the top because someone
is generating something. So that's why you should
create your own server and go in there and just work with M journey, but it
is more expensive. So you so stack with the
base model that is stable. In my case would be M
Journey model V 5.2. Because this one is Alpha, and it doesn't have
all the options. You can't upscale
images that much, and you'll see later
on how this works. And you also have the NG model. NEG model is for creating
cartoon based designs or anime, and it works very well. So it creates stunning designs basically and stunning drawings. And the mid journey one is for pretty
much everything else. So let's stick with 5.2. We have some other settings. You don't have to change
anything in here. Don't bother. You should enable remix mode because this will
give us the option to change the design when we want to make some
variations to it, so just stick this one
and select fast mode. Fast mode is selected
by default to have this option to create
the designs faster. But once the fast
generation time is gone, which is this one, you will stick with the
relaxed mode automatically, and it will take
longer to create them. So let's assume that You are
creating a discord server, so we will click on this
button in here, add a server. Create my own, for me and
my friends and set a name. I will say test M
Journey server. You can add a photo if you want. I'll just click on
Create. And now it is only me and this server. I will want to add
M Journey as well. How do I do that? I
go back to M Journey. Here we have M Journey butt. I will click on it.
We have Add App. Select the server, and I'll select the test server
that I just created. Continue authorize. I am a human, and me journey should be on
our server anytime now. So go to me journey Test server, which is this one in here. And now me Journey
is in this server. So as you can see, we
have tried commands, slash imagines, lives describe
info blend and settings. These are the main
commands for me journey. Basically, how do you create a prompt with me journey? So this is pretty simple. You type slash imagine. You can press tab
on your keyboard not, select the first option. You can click on it, and it will open this prompt
section in here. So in here, you will type
whatever you want to create. For example, let's
assume that we are creating digital print that
is Christmas filmed, right? So let's say vintage,
Christmas painting. You should add coma after every piece of information
that you're writing. So if I want to add
something else in here, let's say a beautiful
house in the distance, extremely detailed, 32 K UHD, which means all THD
for more details, and I can just type
or just press enter, and it will create my prompt. We will have to wait a
bit. And as you can see, now it will take some time. And once this starts, you'll see that the percentage will start to load as well. So we'll give it some
time. At the end in here, as you can see, we
have minus minus V, which means version 5.2. If I want to create this prompt, we have another version,
I can just type this at the end and write
minus V from version. Six, for example, which
is the Alpha version, or I can type minus
minus G like this, which is the model for
the anime designs. You can do that from
the prompt directly, or you can just go
in the settings, and open the settings again. And selected from here. So you have these options. I'll click on this miss message to hide it, and I will wait. Apparently, sometimes
M jenny takes longer, for some reason, maybe it
is overloaded at this time. I can just copy
this, slash imagine, press tab on my keyboard, and I can just
paste this in here, and maybe this one
will start faster. This happens quite often, actually. I will wait a bit. If it doesn't want to
start in the meantime, I will explain
something else to you. So in order to
have digital print in the proper format or
the proper aspect ratio. If you don't know what
an aspect ratio is, this means how long is your design compared
to how tall it is. The difference between width and height is called aspect ratio, and a good aspect ratio for your print is five by
seven or seven by five. Now it depends if you want
to create a digital print for a vertical painting
or a horizontal painting, because you have two types
of canvases, as you know. So let's say that you
want a horizontal one, you will need to set the
asper ratio to seven by five. So the width is longer, then it is taller, right? So how do you do this? So
I will type slash imagine. I will type the same prompt. Now it's starting,
as you can see, and here you have
the percentage, 41%, and you'll see this
loads up quite fast. So we have a vintage,
Christmas, painting, a beautiful house
in the distance. Extremely detailed 42 k UHD, and in here, I can set the aspect resolution
or the aspect ratio. So I will type minus minus
A r from aspect ratio, space, and then I will set this to seven double dots five. So seven by five. And then if I want to set the
model on my own manually, I can type minus minus
V and use 5.2 or V six, which is the Alpha
version or N G, if I want to create
an anime design. But you can just set it
from slash settings, select the version from there, and just change
the aspect ratio. The aspect ratio is the
most important thing, so always do this. Also something important, you will have to
upscale the image, but I will talk about
this right now. So I will create another prompt with the
proper aspect ratio. So these are the
designs that were created by M Journey,
as you can see here. They are all great
looking, actually. So if I want to
select any of those, I have the option in here. So we have 12 and so on and
V one, V two and so on. U comes from upscale. So if you want to make any of these specific images bigger, you will click on upscale. So the way these
are numbered is you have one on the bottom
on the top left, two on the top right,
three on the bottom left, and four on the bottom right. So if I want to
upscale the first one, I will select one. And now we have this
in a high resolution. The resolution
that this Court is giving us for this
design is 1,000 pixels. In order to have a a
pretty good resolution, you need to have at
least 4,000 pixels. And the way you do that, you have plenty of options
to upscale the image. You can basically upscale
it directly from here. So we have upscale two
x and upscale four x. Now, ideally, you should
upscale it to two x, and use photoshop or photo PA or any other upscaling software to make this to
four K resolution. Because if you're going to use upscale four X from
mid journey directly, this will consume a lot
of fast generation time. So ideally, if you
want to be efficient, you should just
upscale this to two X, and then use photoshop
to make it to four X or photo P or
any other software. I will show you these
options as well. So let's see if my other
prompt is generating. Now, I'll still have to wait
apparently, and I will. It seems like my journey is
overloaded, so I will wait. Now, I will make this
in upscale two x. Once this happens, I will just upscale it to
an even higher resolution. This will take a bit,
and now we also have this design that's being generated in a
proper aspect ratio. So we'll have an aspect
ratio of seven by five, which is proper for a
canvas that is horizontal. Nice. All right. So let's say that I'm
selecting the first one again. And also the V button
is four variations. If you want to have different variations for the first design, you can just select V one, and it will give you four
different variations. Also, we have some more options
in here, as you can see. We have very subtle, Vi strong, and Vari region. If I click on Varisto, it will give me four
different variations to this, but these have only
some subtle changes. So you won't see that
much of a difference, Maybe some decorations, a tree will be in a different place. House will be maybe
I don't know, in a different position, but you will have the same concept. If you click on Vera strong, it will change the
design way more. So that's what these
two buttons will do. And then we have Vari region. If I click on Very
region, for example, I can select a specific
area from a design. Let's say I'm selecting this lamp in here
and this other lamp. And once I click on Submit Job, these two lamps will most likely disappear and they will be
replaced with something else. So if you have some errors in your design and you want to change them, that's
how you do it. You use Vary region, and you change that
specific area. All right. So this one was upscaled, this one is in two
resolution right now. I can just click on it, save and I can save
it to desktop. Now, if I want to scale list design so
we have a resolution of 2048 by 2048, as
you can see in there. If I want to scale list, I can just use photoshop. If if you have photoshop, you most likely know
how to do this. If you don't know how to
do this and you never use photoshop and you
don't have access to photoshop, you can use PhotopA. So I will open photo, which is basically a free
variant of photoshop, and you can pretty much
do almost the same thing. Will select open
from my computer, desktop, and I will select
that image, which is this one. In here, I can just click
on image image size. Make sure that you
change the DPI to 300, and this will also
change your resolution, but just lower it because
this is way too high. We need 40 96 by 40 96, like 4,000 pixels basically is just enough to have a good
print. And you click an. Now we have our image upscaled, as you can see, it is quite
detailed and looks well. If you hold ult on your keyboard and use
your scroll wheel, you'll be able to zoom in
and zoom out on the picture, and this will make it just
easier to navigate all around. Also, if you hold control on your keyboard and just
use the scroll wheel, it will scroll from
the left to the right. So control and t
are two options to navigate quicker with
your image basically. Right. And now that
I have this upscale, I can just go I can
just go to file, export a JPEG, and I will save this image
now in high resolution. So that's pretty much
it and how you do it. I have this image
saved and I can just keep it for later on.
That's pretty much it. All right. That's how
you upscale photo PM. If you have photoshop,
it's pretty much the same steps
because this software is pretty much a copy of it. There is also another
software that you can use for upscaling if you
want. I paid for it. This is TPA gigapixel, AI is pretty much the best AI
upscale that you will find. And the cost of
this is like $100, but you have a lifetime access, and you can upscale with
it, whatever you want, and it uses AI in order
to upscale images. So it does generally speaking a better job than
photoshop and photopM. But the differences
are not that big, so you can use
whatever you want. The results will be good anyway. All right. So I will go back
to this court right now. So we have these images, and I made the variations, and as you can see, now we have different lamps in here.
That's how you do it. Let's select, let's
say this one. I will keep this picture for the next video,
and in the next video, I will show you how to
crop these images to the specific formats that are proper for Canvas printing.
See in the next video.
4. Using the Describe Function in Midjourney: In this video, I will
show you how to use a describe function in
order to create prompts. So let's say, for example, that you found a design
that you like in a store, and you want to make
something similar to that, and you have no
idea what to type. So this is one of the best features of M
journey to be honest, and the function is describe, so slash describe, click
on it, select image. You can also add a
link to an image, and it will give you
the prompt as well. But in our case, I
will select image, and then you click on this and you select that specific design, and it will give you
the prompts for it. But let's make this
an actual example. Let's open the browser, and I will go into this store, Lexington Prints, which is
one of the most popular ones, and there is also another one, which is North Prints. I will add both of these
as examples for you, so you'll have them
in the description, then forget about it. And let's say that I'm
selecting this bony here. And what I will do is
click on the image, open the cropping
tool in Windows, or I know you have
something similar in Mac, but I don't know
how it's called. So in windows, I will just
click on the Star button, search for crop, and we
have the snipping tool. Click on you and just select this area that
covers the entire design. Now I will open the
snipping tool in here. Click on Save, save
the desktop, save. Go to this Cord again. We type slash describe. Click on describe image, and we will select the image. Enter two times. We
will wait a bit. And now Me Journey will give us the
prompt for this image, and you will see that
we will be able to create something very
similar to this. So these are the prompts
that Me Journey gave us. And we also have the
aspect ratio set because we just
scrub this exactly how it was in that store. And as you can see it has an
aspect ratio five to seven. This is the most
popular aspect ratio, and this should be
the base aspect ratio that you will use in order
to get other aspect ratios. But I will show this to
you in the next video. So, now, I can just
select the first prompt or whatever prompt I want in
order to see the results, but I can just click imagine
all and create all of them. And now I will wait a bit. And you will see the
results that we will get. I think that this is
pretty easy to understand. MJ is relatively simple. So you don't have
to know any code or anything in
order to use this. It's pretty straightforward. The only commands
that you'll have to know is the aspect ratio. So minus minus A R, space, and you set the
aspect ratio that you want. In this case, the aspect ratio is five by seven,
and the version, if you want to enter it
manually or you can just use the settings cytology and set it from there.
So quite simple. So as you can see, we are
already getting the prompts. And we have some cute problems. So let's say that I'm using
they are all cute actually. So I'll say that
I'm sticking with number four, which is this one. So I can just upscale
upscale this 22x, then upscale it with
photo P photoshop or upscale directly to
four X to 4,000 pixels. It is strictly your
choice in here. But if you want to be
efficient, again, I repeat, if you don't want to
waste your resources, use Photop photoshop to scale to four k resolution
or 4,000 pixels. All right. This is how you
use the describe function. Pretty easy to use, and I always recommend using this because
if you don't have any ideas, just do this, find a
good selling product in a store and create something similar to it using describe. It doesn't always give one to one idea or copy of
that specific design, but it goes there. It is relatively similar. So it's pretty good, I guess. That was it. That's how describe works, and I'll see in the next one and we will talk about
cropping and setting that specific aspect ratio
for the digital prints.
5. How to Crop the Designs with Photopea or Adobe Photoshop: In this video, I
will show you how to crop a specific digital print in all the necessary formats
in order to have them ready for printing for canvases. So if you want to sell these
digital prints on canvasses, you have to make this design in different formats
or aspect ratios in order for them
to fit properly. So First off, I saved this
design as I told you, and I need to skate it first. So in order to skate it, we will go again on PotoPA, file open, and I will
open this design. We go to image image size
always set of DPI to 300. And one of either the width or the height has to be
4,000 pixels at least. In this case, it is 5,400.
That's pretty good as well. We can just keep it like
that and click Okay. And the image is
upscaled right now. I will use this
image as an example, and now we will crop this
image in different formats. By default, this
is five by seven, I will just save the
first one. Rename it. Let's say vintage five by seven or seven
by five actually. And click on save. One is done. Now I'll click on the Crop tool, which is this one, and here I
will need the other format. I need four by three,
which is good, click on this confirm
mark, file, export, JPEG. And we will do this for
every single format. I'll say vintage,
four by three, save. Now I need five by four. But first, I have to go back. I will click, I will just
press Control and Z to undo. And now I have the entire format like I did from the beginning. So this is five by seven. Now this is five by seven,
right? Yeah, it is. And I will zoom out a bit, so I will hold old on my keyboard and just
use my scroll wheel, and we will go to Crop and
now we have five by four. So this is five by four. I'll click on Confirm,
and I will save this. So vintage, five by four, save. Control Z again. We have this in full size again. Crop. You can press C as well on the keyboard
to go in there faster, and now I need three by two. Confirm file, export, JPEG. As you can see, it
is pretty simple, but it is something that you
have to do with all of them. It takes a bit of time, but
it is a quite simple task. Save again. We go
in here, Control Z. Like this. Now we have
five by seven again, and we go to cropt, press C, and we need 14 by 11. And press enter, confirm
file, export JPEG. Vintage 14 by 11. Control Z, and we will
save the last one, which is five by seven. I'm not sure if I saved it. So Vintage seven
by five, actually. Yeah, I already saved it. I will open the
downloads folder, and I will just
select all of them. I will cut them from here, and I will place
them to my desktop. I'll just move
them here. And you can simply create a folder now for this design,
for example, let's say vintage, Christmas, painting, move all
of them inside, create another
folder, for example. Let's say art prints
like I have in here, and I have a lot
of them in here. That's how you do it, and that's how you pretty
much corrupt them. So you need three by
two, four by three, five by four, seven by five, and 14 by 11. You need all these formats, because for example, if
I open Etsy right now, and I go into the store, let's say I'm
selecting this design, You will see that they
have a picture in here, a preview picture that shows the aspect ratios and all the sizes that these
aspect ratios cover. So these are the
most popular ones. So it is recommended
that you do all of. So generally, customers will want to print on these sizes. So if you are
missing one of them, you are potentially
losing a sale. So it is best to to cpt the
image in all these ratios. Also, you'll have to create
an image like this one with some simple text and give them all the details like
this shop did in here. I created one for my store, and I pretty much wrote pretty
much the exact same thing. I maybe change the
wording a bit, so it's not an identical copy, but it is pretty
much the same thing. So make sure that you
make one like this and give your customers all the
information that they need. So that's how we cropt image. So for example, if we had, let's say, a vertical image, instead of three by two, you have two by three and so on for every single
example in here. So that's how you do it, and that's how you
cropt images using photo PM or photoshop because
it is pretty much the same. If you have a different
software that you're using and you're
familiar with it, you can use whatever you want. The result is pretty
much the same. But don't forget it is important in here to set the
DPI to 300 and the resolution to be at least 4,000 pixels either for
the height or the width. All right. So that was it for this part, see
in the next video.
6. How to Create Designs with Midjourney & Remove the Background: Now I will talk about creating different designs
with M journey, and maybe you want to sell
let's say a bundle of designs, and you want to use M
Journey to create them. So how do we do this?
Again, we go to this Cord, we open our server in case you invited M
journey to your server. And in here, I can
just type slash. Imagine, and let's
say that I want some Christmas themed
gingerbread houses. And important in here
is to write this, isolated on a white background. Because if you are
a graphic designer, you know this that it
is way easier to remove the background from a design
if the background is white. So that's why we
will write this. So all our designs that we are creating with M Journey
are on a white background. It is way easier to remove. And you don't have
to select or type an aspect ratio in
this case because you will remove the background
and just save the design. So I can just enter directly. And we will just let M
journey create a design. Then we will go into
photoshop or photopA, to remove that background, and I will show you
how to do that. I am not a graphic
designer myself, but I know some things in
order to do all of this. So I pretty much know the basics that are
necessary in order to create or to add
designs in MIT store. So this is quite simple, and you'll see how this
works in a few minutes. So let's wait a bit. I don't like the style, so I will type something else, just so you can see
how this works. I need watercolor designs which are extremely popular on Etsy. If you want to sell designs, watercolor designs
usually sell very well. So I will type watercolor
in the beginning, and that's all I need, and
I will wait a bit now. I also wrote houses
instead of house, so I need one, not many. House. And I will
wait a bit again. As you can see, I wrote houses, now I have six examples on a single image, so
that's not what I want. I want a single one, so I can just remove the
background easily, and this will be the
one that I need. I'll just wait a bit. The
results are beautiful anyway, so all of them look
great in general. And this is the one I want. I will stick with, let's say
this one, the fourth one. We click on scale four,
Upscale to two x. We'll wait a bit. Also, just so you know, let me open Etsy again. And let's say that
I'm searching for Christmas, watercolor
gingerbread house. As you can see, these
are the results, and here we have design bundles. This is exactly what
I'm talking about. If you want to make
something like this, that's how you do it. This store did it
pretty much the same. They use mid journey. They just added the
background and added all these houses in here with some texts in the
middle, and that was it. And some preview pictures to make it look professional,
some mock ups. All of this is pretty simple
to do. So you can do this. Also, you can take this
story as an example. They used AI pretty much for everything
that they have in here. So they have only design
bundles, as you can see. So if you want to do
something like this, use mi journey, make bundles, but this takes a lot of work. And as you can see the
prices are not high, but they rely on a volume
in order to make money, and they also have a
lifetime access bundle. And these ones are
pretty pricey, actually. So 60 euros. This is with VAT, probably $49 in the US. So the price is
pretty high and this covers a lot of profit
for everything else that you're missing in here
by selling these designs or these bundles for less than $2. So yeah. It's an example again. You can use it. If you want to sell design bundles,
that's how you do it. Now, I'll go back to this cord, and I will save this one. And how do we remove
the background? Just so you can see
how simple this is. In some scenarios, the background
removal is complicated. For example, if you want to make a design with leaves
with branches, with a lot of hair, That's the most
complicated thing to remove usually because you have to work quite a lot
on it to make it perfect. But yeah, that's why you shouldn't focus on
these type of designs. Make designs that are easy to crop and easy to remove
the background and so on. So I just open this with
photoshop and I will work with photoshop in this
example because photoshop is pretty much
the same as PhotoPA. So what I'm doing here can be
done with PhotopA as well. Now, I will select
the magic eraser. This is the tool eraser tool. I will right click on it, and we have the magic eraser tool. In here, we have tolerance. Set this 242. And now if I click
on the white space, boom, my background is
gone. Just that simple. What this tolerance does, just so you know, if
I set this higher, it will go from white to maybe
gray or yellowish white. So it will have a
higher tolerance to remove more than just white. This is what this
tolerance does. The lower it is, the more
it will try to remove only the color that you're
specifically selecting. So if I'm selecting only white and that design is
black, for example, I can do it even with a tolerance
of ten or even lower or five because there's nothing else that is close to
white that can be removed. So this is what tolerance does. In this case, I'll
stick with 42, and 42 is a good default
just so you know. Click on this and I have all the white
pretty much removed. If you see some tears of white that you want
to remove perfectly, What you can do is click on this plus here
to add a new layer. You can select the
gradient tool, which is this one,
paint bucket tool, I can select the background,
so I can select, let's say, a purple background because this makes
everything more visible. Click. Click in here, Mve this house layer above the
background just like that. And now I can see
everything perfectly. So if I want to erase manually, I can do so by clicking on the eraser or right
clicking on it, and selecting eraser tool. And this is my eraser right
now, which is pretty big. If I want to make it
smaller, I can go in here. And make the size smaller. Another option to
change the size is by holding on your keyboard, and then hold, right click and move from right to
left with your mouse, and you can make it
smaller or bigger. This is a shortcut that you can use to make everything
faster if you want. So now if I want, for example, to remove this,
I can do so like this. So this is more
of a manual work, but This is how you do it. If you want to make
everything perfectly. If I want to save my design, how do I do this? Well, simple. I will just hide that
background layer. Let the design be transparent. I can just go to image, size, make sure that the DPI is 300, and the resolution is
at least 4,000 pixels. Okay, wait a bit. Now everything is bigger. Again, remember, hold old
and scroll with your wheel, if you want to zoom in
or out quicker and hold control and move with
your wheel again, if you want to make this go from the left to the
right and so on. And now I will save the design, click on file, save a copy. PNG. Make sure that
the format is PN, if you want to have
it transparent, save it to your desktop. I will rename this
Gingerbread one, for example. Save. And this is
now on my desktop. I'll have to wait a bit
done. And I have it in here. As you can see, the
design is transparent. It has no background
attached to it, and this can be sold
as well right now. If you want to make
a bundle of this, just make as many as you want, like 30 pieces, 20
pieces or more. But try to be efficient. I don't recommend
making a bundle with more than 40 designs. It takes a lot of time,
and that's not efficient. So you should stick with 20 to 40 designs in a bundle and sell
that specific bundle. So that's how you create
a design like this. That's how you make
it transparent. That's how you upscale
it in Photoshop. You can use Foto PA as well. That's how you remove
the background. It's a quite simple process. So that was it for this
part. See the next video.
7. How to Create a Mockup with Adobe Photoshop or Photopea & Placeit: This video, we will
talk about mockups. So what are mockups? Mockups are basically
the preview picture of your product or a preview picture of
your digital print inside a wooden
frame in our case. So this will look like
something like this, right? So the way you can do
something like this is either by using mid journey
and photoshop or popa, or you can use a platform
like place it like this one. Place it is quite
well known actually, and you can find mockups for
T shirts, mugs, and so on. So it has pretty
much everything, also, social media templates. It's quite useful. This is not free, you'll
have to pay for it. It's like $15 per month. It's not expensive at all, and you can create
mockups easily with this. So you can just select
a mopup that you like, for example, this one, right? And once you go in here, you can just upload your design. And once you upload your design, you'll be able to download
this your computer and then just upload it on
t as a preview picture. So quite simple to use. In this video, I will show you how to make this with
photoshop and photopa, because this is quite
simple to understand, and I don't have to explain
the way you can use place it. You can just click
on Design in here, approach from your device, and it will just show in here. So very easy to understand. Let's go to mid journey and
create a mockup from here. The way I can do this is by typing imagine,
press tab again. And in here, we will mention
a mockup of an empty, an empty wooden frame. And we can just leave it
like this or just mention horizontal frame because we can have horizontal and
vertical frames. So I will enter this one and we will wait
for the results. We will also need around
free mockups, basically. So the customer can
see your digital print inside different types of mockups and maybe
different frames. So as you can see here, in this example, here
we have a wooden frame. We have a different
color and so on. And in this one,
this is on a Canvas, and we had some
different mockups like on a shelf and so on. So you can create
multiple mockups if you want to show different
perspectives for your design. Let's get back to M journey, and this is almost done. As you can see here, we have
a few mock ups on a wall. This one is on a
shelf, so you can just use different variations. You cannot mention the aspect
ratio for these frames. So we will just
place a design the way we can in order to
have it shown in here. But we will give the customer the design in different
aspect ratios anyway. So that won't be an issue. So let's select the first
frame, for example. And the second one
is way too wide. We don't have a design
with this aspect ratio. This is 16 by nine, I think, so we won't create something
like this like ever. And let's just refresh and
get some different results. And what you want to do once
you get something like this. A mockup like this
one. Make sure you upscale it because this one
has 1,000 pixels resolution. So when a customer wants to zoom in on your actual design, they can see the details. But if you have a
1,000 pixels mockup, this is way too small
to see the details. So just upscale it. And then you can
just edit it with photoshop and I will
show you how to do this exactly in a few minutes once we get two more
examples from here. So let's just let this load. And we will proceed
with photoshop. It will take a while, 17 62. All right. Also, do not forget to create
something like this. So mention all these details
for the customer and give them the exact aspect ratios
that you're mentioning. Also, you can type this
in the description. I think they have this
in the description. So we have in here,
item details. Learn more, and as you can see, we have all the details in here. I added this description as
an attachment to this course, you can download
it if you want to. So this will save
some time for you. Let's just go back in here
and we have the already done. I will select the third one. And one more from here. This one has a flower over the wall art,
and that's not good. This one is perfect, I
think, the third one. So I think I will use these two. Let's see how this looks. The plant is not
covering the print. It's nearly covering the print, like very close to it, but it's pretty good actually. So I will upscale this Will upscale this as well, and we will use these
three as examples. In a different video, I will show you my
workflow and how I go about creating a design, like upscaling it,
changing the crop, the aspect ratio for it, uploading it to s, the
titles, tags, everything. So you can see the
entire workflow and how you can do this step by step if you want
to watch that. So you can have an
example as well. But for now, we'll just focus
on creating the mock up. So, this one is already up scaled and we will use
this as an example. I will just click on it, save and save this to my desktop, and we'll delete this old
one that I have in here, and let's just open
this with photoshop. You can use for APA if you want to if you don't
have photoshop, but I will use phosho
in this video. So now, what you have to do is, you must create a rectangle
in this wide space. So you'll click on this
rectangle in here. If you right click it, you have different shapes
just so you know, but we need the
rectangle to right now, and I will just zoom in a bit and create a rectangle
in this wide space. Make sure that you
cover it entirely or almost entirely just
as precise as you can, and make sure that you
add a color to it. So don't make it white
because you want to see exactly how
much you covered. If you make it white, it will
be hard to tell actually. So just make it a different color and
you'll be good to go. You can change the
fill in here if you want to. All right. So I zoomed in a bit, and as we can see, it is pretty well
placed actually, not perfect, but pretty well. Now, what I want to do is, we have the layer in here, as you can see, I
will click on file. We have placed embedded, and I will select the
design that I made. So I have it in here in
different aspect ratios, the one that we created before. I will select, let's
say three by two, I think will fit
something like this. And I will drag it in
here and make it bigger. Even though it doesn't fit
perfectly, it doesn't matter. Just place it
something like this. Click. And now, what you have to do is hold
control on your keyboard, make sure that your design
is at the top in here, like the first layer,
drag it at the top, if it's not already in there. Hold old on your keyboard, and take this cursor
exactly near the edge. So once you see this down arrow, You'll have to left click, and now your actual design
is inside this rectangle. So this is how you use a mask, and that's
how it's called. It's called a mask,
because you can use this mask to place
everything that you want inside without going outside of that specific
area that you created. So now we have the
design inside, and I can always select the design and just drag
it around if I want to. Or we can press control T, which means transform, and I can just make it
bigger if I want to, and so on, and it won't
go outside the area. Right? So quite
simple to understand. So this is how you
create a mockup with Photoshop or Photo PA,
it's pretty much the same. And I will just go on file, save a copy, select JPEG, and save it on my desktop. I can just call this
Mk one, for example, and save it, and make sure that you save
this as a template, so you can use it later on. So you can just go
to save Save As, and save it as PSD Photoshop, and name it, let's
say Mk one template. Click Okay, and now I have this saved on
my desktop as well. So it is here, and I
can always use it if I want to without having to create the rec
angle again and so on. So I can just modify the design, I can just right click on
this layer, and in here, we have replace contents, and I can select another design, and it will fit right in. So you can do that as well, or you can just
place it manually, file, place embedded, and do
the exact procedure again. Hold t on your keyboard, make sure the layer is on top. And once you see
that down arrow, left click on your mouse and
it will go directly inside. Now, that was it when
it comes to creating a mockup with photoshop.
See in the next video.
8. How to Write the Title and the Tags - Etsy Practical SEO Guide: In this video, I will
show you how to write titles tags and a description properly in order
to have good SEO. In case you don't
know what SEO means, SEO comes from search
engine optimization. So you basically have to do
the right steps in order for your product to rank higher in the results in the
search results. So what you can do for this,
there are more factors. The most important factor is basically the traffic
that you're getting for your specific listing
or product that you just added in your store. And the only way to do that in the beginning is either
organically or by running ads. So you'll have to run ads basically. That's how
you'll have to do it. But we will talk about marketing
and strategy later on. For now, let's just focus
on making the right SEO. So how do we do this?
Let's say, for example, that I'm browsing
this store again, and I want horizontal print
like this one, maybe. So I want to make a
design like this. Which is a spring
tree blossom tree. The way I go about it is, I can just copy his title because I know that this shop
is already making sales. I can just copy this
go on ear rank.com. So just make sure that
you create an account on this website because
this is quite useful. You'll go to tools
select Key tool, and in here, you will
paste the title. I just copy the title
previously from here, Copy it, go in here and
paste it. Click on search. And you'll have to wait a bit
and click on top listings. And now we are able to see the stats for this
specific product. So in here, we have the title, and here we can see the tags
for this specific product. So in order to have good
results when it comes to SEO, the idea is to
mention as many RDs as possible that are
related to that product, and as many tags as possible, the tags should be close to
what you wrote in the title. They don't have to
be identical really, but just make sure
that you write tags that are useful for
that specific listing. So, in here, we have some stats. So this product was
listed 52 days ago. Total views, daily views. Estimated sales, we have to purchase the
membership for this, but it doesn't matter
that much to be honest, and the price, right? And the hearts, which
are the favorites. How many favorites
this product has. So now, what we can do is, we will go into our etti store, so I'll just open mine. I have it in here.
We go to listings. We will add the listing. I will select the old layout because I
don't like this one. You can use the new
one if you want to. I will go to the old one,
switch to old version. All right, I will select a random picture for
now. It doesn't matter. And in here, I will just
paste the title from him, but I will make some
changes because I don't want this to be identical. So for example, I want
to write a da in here. And we have spring
decor vintage, sprint. We have a spring we have a lot of words that are
repeated a lot of times. So I don't want to
make it like that. There is a thing for SCO, which is called keyword density. This means, the more time you
repeat a specific keyword, the better it will be
for your actual SCO. And this is true, but you don't have to repeat it
like 1,000 times. So if we have the word repeated like two times,
it's pretty much enough. So let's go like
Spring Decor vintage, maybe add a coma in here. Spring vintage print. I
want something like this. Farmhouse print, Easter
Decor Forest wall art, and Easter print. I already have Easter mentioned, maybe a
live it like this. And at the end, he added the number
of the print. So if you have, for example, 1,000 prints in your store, you should just add a
number to them so you can tell easily when you're going
into your orders in here, and you can find them
faster if you are going to go into orders
and shipping, for example. And right now we
can see anything. So in here, in your
search orders, you can just type the
number, for example, 470, let's say, and you'll find
all the orders that have that 470 print on them. So that's why you
should do this. It's more easier to manage
your orders basically. So let's go back
right now in here. And let's say that you're
adding a number, let's say 23. Again, here we will
make the changes, who made it? I did, what is it? A supply or tool to make things. And the year, digital print. In here, you don't have to
select anything, occasion. No, we have holiday and
we will select Easter. Automatic renewal
type, digital product. In here, we will enter
the description. So make sure to download the attachment from the course because I already
have a description in here, so I'll just copy it. And I will paste it in here. And now when it
comes to the tax, we will enter the tax from rank. So I will just take the tab from here and make this
a split screen, and in here, and I will just take this side
by side and write the tax. So we have printable Ward, press enter, downloadable
prints, Let me see. So we have download a prints. Digital prints, Spring
Decor, vintage, spring, print, Easter
Decor, Farmhouse decor, Cartage Core decor,
Spring Wall Art, Cherry Blossom tree,
Cherry Blossom Print, Forrest Waart, and Easter Waart. Now, you don't have to write them exactly the way
they are in here, but if you want to
make things quicker, you can do so, at some point,
you'll get used to those, and you will just
write them from your head if you already
know what the product is. So you'll eventually
get used to it. You don't have to type the exact same words that are
written in here. The idea itself is as follows. If a specific store has a product ranked very high
in the search results. So, for example,
if you go on Etsy, and you're going to search for, let's say spring, spring
cherry blossom tree print. And once you see
the first result, like this store has
the first result, basically, you know that this
product already ranks well. So your approach should
be the following. You should use pretty much the exact same thing
that they are using. So the same titles and tags because they are already ranking these words for you because they already have their
product ranked high. So that's why you should go with the same principle
like they did it so. Pretty much the exact same
title and the same text. Now, something else
that you should do, that is not mentioned in here, that they are not doing this. I'm pretty sure about it. Let me see. Yeah, they're not. It's not mandatory, but this helps with the
keyword density. So, as I said, if you are repeating the same
key word multiple times, it will help you
with the ranking, and something that you
can do is to copy, for example, the
keywords that you have in the title and add
them in the description. So in our case in here, I can just copy the
title from here. And add it at the
end of the listing. And now I know that I have these words mentioned
in here as well, and this will help with
the Q word density. So you can do that
if you want to, maybe remove the 23. And another way to do this is to include these words
somehow in the text, but that will take
way more time. So you can do something like
this and add it at the end of your product in the description
and you're good to go. Then we have the price, let's
say I'm selling this with 299 quantity, and
uploaded design. I will do this when I
will show you my workflow and how you can upload it
with a PDF to Google Drive, and in here, you'll have the option to
advertise the product, but we will talk
about this later on. So this is how you write
the title and the tag. Pretty simple, basically just find a product that
ranks very well in the search results and create a design that
is similar to it. Use M journey, describe the describe function and
create something similar. And that's pretty
much how you do it. Then grab the title,
grab the tags, and go to the next product and
so on, release and repeat. So that was pretty
much it when it comes to writing the
title and the text. I'm pretty sure that this was
quite easy to understand, and I'll see you
in the next one.
9. How to add the files to Google Drive and Create the Download PDF: In this video, I will
show you how to create the download link
for your customers. So your customers will
have to download a PDF, and inside the PDF, we will have to add the
Google Drive link or the Dropbox link in order for them to
download their files. So in this case, I will just use Microsoft
Word to create a PDF. You can use whatever
you want, if you want, you can use Google Doc or
whatever you're used to. So I'll just open
Microsoft Word. A blank document, and we will
make something like this. So I have an apple print, and I will just bold this
and make this bigger, center it, maybe change
the color to red, and underneath, I will
just write download link. Change the color of this
download link to maybe white, make it a bit smaller. And in here, I will
tell them the reason why they will have to download
from my Google Drive. So the files are too big for s, and you will have to
download your files directly from from
my Google Drive. Google Drive Link. And in here we will just add
a link to our Google Drive. If you want to make this
more fancy and design it, you can do so. I'm just showing you what
you basically have to do. So in here, I will
just add a link. So I will open a Google Drive. So we go Google, and let me close
this. All right. And I will write Google Drive. Open it sign in, and I already uploaded this one, but I will add it again, just so you can see
how you can do this. So right click folder upload and just upload your folder with the design that you have. So in my case, in here, I had the Apple prints. So they were in here. I had a folder name for
it, but I deleted it. So upload your folder directly. And once you have the with the designs inside,
right with the prints, you can just right
click the folder and click on Share Share again. You'll have to select
here from restricted to anyone with the link, copy link, and then you go back into
your Microsoft Word or Google sheets or
whatever you want to use and base the link in here. Very simple. Bam. And make sure that you make
this hyperlink, so you right click it,
then you select Link, and make sure the link is
in the address section. And when they click on this now, they will just go directly to
that specific Google Drive. So simple to understand, save this as a PDF afterwards. So save this on my desktop, for example,
download. Save again. And now I have the
PDF, very simple. And they can just click on this, and now the link is opened, and they can just re click
on every single design with their specific size and
download it directly. So simple to understand. This is how you do it, and
then you just go back to Etsy and you have to add the file
to your specific listing. So dd it and in here all
the way to the bottom, but this is the new interface, so it should be somewhere
around here. Looks different. Let me just switch to the old
one because I'm used to it. A way in here, digital files, you upload that specific PDF, and you'll be good to go. So, that's pretty much it and how you do it.
See the next one.
10. Understanding the Etsy Dashboard: This video, we will talk
about the Es dashboard. So I'll just show the dashboard so you can know exactly
what you can find in here. Basically, in the dashboard tab, you'll find the usual stats, total views, visits,
orders, and the revenue. And in here under
recent activity, you'll be able to see the
products that got the favorite, recent orders, and so on. So that's basically
it for this one, and also you can see
your active listings, the ones that expired
and sold out. The listing stab, you can easily find your listings
that you just created. And in here, you have
some options, again, to filter your products by
the products that expired, sold out, inactive, and so on. In here, you can create
sections for your store. So let me go back for a second. And we have it in here. Organize your listings. And you can create a
section for, let's say, Valentine's Day, Christmas, fourth of July, Father's
Day, and so on. So you can categorize each specific design to a
specific section, for example. All right. Anything else in here, you won't
change at all. In here we have
the messages tab. This is quite simple
to understand. So it's basically
like an e mail and you'll receive messages
from your customers. And you can also set this auto reply feature if you're going away for a
few days, for example. So this is quite in handy, but I pretty much never used it. Then we have the orders
and shipping tab. In here, you'll be able
to see the orders. All orders will be
automatically set to the completed tab because you are not selling
physical products, you're selling
digital downloads. And every time the
purchase is made, it is already considered as
being a completed order. Then we have the
star seller section. Basically, this
doesn't matter much, but just so you'll get a badge on your store
or different badges on your store based on how
quickly you reply to messages, your average rating, and how
fast you ship the products. This shipping label doesn't matter for us because we're
selling digital files. But just so you know, if you meet all these
requirements in here, you'll get a star seller badge, which maybe, let's say, this will increase the
possibility of getting a sale, but it doesn't matter much. I haven't seen any difference when I had it and when
I didn't have it. So yeah, just so you know. Then we have the stat tab.
This is pretty simple. Here you will see
the total visits, orders, conversion
rate, and revenue. Do not overthink
stats that much. The only thing that
matters is to find winning designs and to
make sure that they sell. If they don't sell, move
on and add something else. That's pretty much
the principle. In here, you have the traffic, so the traffic that
is brought by ts, and the traffic that
was brought by you. So direct traffic, social
media traffic, and Etsy ads. Once you start running ads, you will see the traffic that
came from your ads in here. Something else that Es is offering is offsite
ads, which are these. And you'll basically pay 50% fee once you make a
sale through offsite ads. Are off site ads. Well, they
are basically advertising products for you and you only
pay when you make a sale, which is pretty
good to be honest. And they basically
advertise your products on Google on Facebook and other
social media platforms. And if I click on this, I think there is an explanation
in here somewhere. So yeah, you only
pay when you make a sale and some
description in here. So adds on Google Instagram,
Facebook, Pinterest being and so on, and the 50% fee. This 50% fee, by the way, is reduced to 12% once you pass a threshold of $10,000
or zeros per year. So keep that in mind, as well, even though it's not a huge
difference, it helps a bit. Let's say that you make
a little bit more. Then we have the finances stab. In here, we have the
payment account. So you'll basically see your revenue and when you
are going to get paid. So basically when you pass a threshold in here of 20 euros, you will get paid by
AC or for example, if you don't have 20 euros in
here available for deposit, This deposit will be made every single week at
the end of the week. So that's something that
you should know as well. Then we have the spendings
separated in here, so we have the sales,
which is the revenue. These are the spendings on marketing and the
spendings on fees. So you have listing fees, VAT, if you are in Europe, and marketing fees. So
that's pretty much it. Here, you will also be able
to find the statements. Etsy does not offer
invoices, by the way. They only offer one
monthly invoice for the spendings that you're
making on their platform. So this includes the
listings, the VAT, and the cost for marketing. So you get only one
statement for that every single month. So
that's all you get. If you need invoices for your orders and you
want to run a business, you'll have to create the
invoices on your own. So keep that in mind. Then we have let's
see, payment settings. In here, you can select
the deposit schedule, so you can make you can have the deposit more
frequently if you want to. I have mine set to every day on my store every single time, because I am able to make more than 20 euros per day in order to have the deposit
made every single day. So, just stick to every day. It is the best choice, actually. In here, you have
the bank details, and you can always change
your bank account, so you have the
edit button here. In here, you can change your shop's currency if you want to, but you shouldn't
change your currency. USD should be your
default currency. So you can change the
prices accordingly. As I said, there is a 2.5% fee for conversion
from USD to euros, but that's not a big deal, actually, so you
shouldn't bother with it. Then we have the billing
information in here. I won't open this and
the address tab as well. I won't open this because
it's my information. But you can always
change those as well. Then we have the marketing tab, we have search analytics. You won't use this at all, but you'll basically
find the keywords that the customer typed in the search bar in order
to find your product, for example, and you
will see this in the search query here and
some other stats as well. But again, as I said,
don't focus on this, focus on adding as
many products as possible and start running ads. That's pretty much it. Here we have the AT ad stab. This is something that
ET changed recently. I think they don't want new
stores to rush right away. But this is actually
good because you'll have to wait like two weeks before
you can start running ads. And in these two
weeks, actually, you can just focus on adding
as many designs as possible. And once you added a lot of designs and these
two weeks will pass, you can just start
running ads afterwards. So it's pretty good, actually. This can motivate you to work more before you
can start running ads. And in here you will see
stats related to your ads, conversion rates, and so on. It is pretty simple
to understand. Integration tab, you
won't use this at all. In here, you can see some tools that they have,
if you want to use them. And we have E Rnk as well
for SEO, as you can see. There is also one
more tool for SCO, which is called marmalade. It is pretty much the same, but I prefer E rank. I just got used to
it, so that's it. Help tab. You don't need this. You'll basically go
to their forums, if you want to to
see some topics that other users talk about. But don't bother with it
just focus on working. Then we have the settings tab. And in here, we
have some options. Basically, AT offers a
subscription as well. I use this like only one month, but I don't see the
point of using it. Basically, it will open some
shop customization options. You'll be able to set some
big banners in your store. And so on and some categories that are highlighted even more. But beside that, you
get some free listings, so you have 15 free listings
and some advertising credit. So this is kind of worth it. You pay a bit more than
what you get, actually. But it's strictly your choice if you want to pay
for it or not. It's not expensive anyway. So make your call for it. Then we have info
and appearance. Is your shop title, Shop name. You can always change
those logo as well. Or the receipt banner, if you want to add
the banner for the receipts that the
customers are getting, once they make a purchase
from your store. I never use this. But
if you want to make some nice branding for
yourself, just just do it. It is quite simple anyway. So in here we have the
shop announcement, I wrote a short text, so it should be
something like this. Take advantage of our flash
sale, buy three items, get 50% off, buy five
items get 70% off. Coupons applied
automatically at checkout. I will show you how to do this. It is very simple as well. Massage to buyers. This
section doesn't matter because it is strictly for users that buy
physical products. You need to complete
this one though, message to buyers
for digital items. And in here, I wrote
a short message and the answer to a common question
that is usually asked, pretty much, let's say
every week, not every day. So make sure that
you add this as well or add it in your FAQ
section in your store. But it is better to write it in here in the post
purchase message because usually customers don't go in your store to
check the FAQ section. But post purchase message,
is quite obvious. So make sure that
you type it in here. So I said, thank you
for your purchase. Do not hesitate to contact me if you have any issues
with your order. Don't know how to
download your order. This is the question. Go on at.com, click on your profile picture
in the top right corner, select purchases, and you'll be able to download your
files from there. So they will always
or pretty much, very commonly ask this question. How do I download my files? So they don't know how to
do it because there are a lot of people that
are over the age of, let's say, 50, and they are not used
technology and everything. So make sure that
you write this so you can answer their
question right away. Then we have about your shop. Again, we have the same
customizations basically that we can do by clicking on
this edit pen in here. So if I click on this edit pen, I am able to edit
my store directly. And I have pretty much the
same settings from here. So they're pretty much the
same just in different tabs. So I won't go for every single one of them because
it's not needed. Maybe go in the options and show you the vocation
tab, this one. So basically, if
you're going away for a specific period and you
want to pause your store, you have the option to do
so by clicking on this. So vocation mode on, and you can write
an announcement and an auto reply message. So you can let your customers or followers that your store is
in vocation mode for now. That was pretty much it when it comes to the At dashboard, but let me show you one more
thing because I skipped this one about the sales
and discount stab. So in here, you are able to
run a sale for your store. We will talk about this in the marketing video and
the strategy and so on. But basically, in short, always run a sale in your store. So I always run a sale for
50% off for my entire store. But I am adjusting my prices accordingly in order to get
the same profit that I want. Example, if I want
to sell, let's say, a digital print for $3, I will set my price to
$6 and apply this sale, so I can sell it for $3. So that's how marketing works, and everyone does this. So that's how you should
do it every single time. And you can only set up
a sale for one month. So you can even set new sales
in advance if you want to. You don't have to remember it. So we can do so by selecting
the period from here. Terms, you don't have to write
anything because it's not the case we are selling digital items and the
sale name as well. So you have some coupon
examples in here. And just write it, continue. And this will apply to
what items you want. So let's just do it quickly. Let's say 18-17 of March, and we have flash sale 50, continue and apply to all your listings or
specific listings. So that's pretty much it. Review and confirm,
and it's applied. Something else that
you can do in here. So let's say percentage of I just added that
announcement where I said, buy three items, get 50% off. I should change it to 60 actually. I can do
something like this. Percentage of custom 60, number of items free. Only when they buy at
least three items, they get this coupon. And you can do
this for let's say 70% of if they buy
five items, right? So you can play with this and
create different coupons, but do this as well
because this is necessary, and it will help you out, and you'll get some more
sales over time. It is not that
frequent that users buy multiple items
at once in a month, but once in a while, it happens, so why not do it. Yeah, that's pretty
much it in here. Add those as well, even though they won't drive
that many sales. So you have bring customer back, let's say, coupon or offer. So Once, let's say they
abandon a product from your card or they
keep a product in their card for too long
and they don't check out. They will get these coupons, or when they favorite the product, they
will get one as well. So you can do this as well. Of them. Just 10% is enough. Don't go over 10%. You'll lose a lot of
profit over time. So just stick with 10%
coupon name as well, and set these ones as well. Set all of them. So
you have free offers. Again, 10% for each. A coupon code and create offers, and that's pretty much it
and leave them like that. So yes, that was it
for the dashboard. I think this is quite
simple to understand. It is very user friendly. Just stick to the basics. Don't complicate it. You have the messages where you will go pretty much
every single time, orders to check
them out, listings, and the marketing tab. That's it. You don't have
to check the others. So see in the next video.
11. How to Find Winning Products: In this video, we will talk about how to find
winning designs. This is a pretty simple and
straightforward process. And the way you go about it
is you just go on etsy.com. And in the search bar, you will search for wall art print, for example, and you can apply the strategy to
pretty much everything. If you want to sell T shirts, or if you want to sell let's say a graphic bundle for Christmas
or a specific holiday, you can always search, let's say Valentine's Day design or Valentine's Day shirt. You'll find plenty of results, and you'll go about it the same way that I'm going
to show you right now. So You must search for the best seller
badge, which is this one. So you know these designs
are selling well. You need to dive into the
stores with best sellers. So, for example, if I found a design that has the best seller
badge like this one, I can just open
this in a new tab. I will open the store, I
will click on the store. And I can just dive
into the store and find more best sellers.
Now, how we can do this. There are multiple
ways. You should sort the products in a
store by most recent. This way, you'll find products
that are selling recently. Because, as I told you, every time you're making a sale, there is a renewal fee, so that product has to
be renewed in order to be added again on Es
or listed again on Es. So these products
just sold recently. So you can just open
these products. Right? I opened these two.
And as you can see, we have in here
in 20 plus cards. 20 plus is the maximum. So it cannot go
higher than this. So this means that this design is selling very well right now. What you can do, you
can use a crop tool, crop this design, go
into mid journey, use a described function, create a similar
design to this one, and just sell it. That's pretty much it, check. You'll have to run ads for it, obviously in order to rank
it in the search results. But this is how you proceed,
and this is how you do it. So it has the best
sear badge as well. So this one is
selling very well. Here you have reviews
for this item, so it has plenty of reviews. This means that it
is selling well. Also, you can sort the
reviews by most recent, and you'll see how often
this one is selling, right? So, that's pretty much it. But the best indicator
is this one in 20 plus cards because this one
updates quite frequently, and you'll know exactly that this product keeps
selling even right now. Another thing that you can do is you can dive into the store, so we can go back to
the store right now, and you can go in
the reviews in here, sort them by most recent, and you'll find reviews that
have been recently posted. So again, you'll
find products that users recently bought and
they left a review for it. And if you see the same product over and over again
in the reviews. This means that that product
is selling frequently. Or you can just
open that product, click on the link and check if it has the 20
plus cards or best seller. If it doesn't, then it means that it doesn't sell that much. And you'll have to
search for another one. Only try to aim for the best sellers or the products
that are selling a lot. Do not try to sell
products that have low traffic no point to it. Now, something else
that you can do in order to find winning designs. You can copy this
title, for example, you can open erank.com, and you can find
the daily visits for that specific design. So I can go to tools, Keyer tool, past the entire
title of the product. I'll wait a second. We
go to top listings, and we have 17 daily views. This is a very good
number. Usually, if it has around 20 daily
views or higher, this means that that product
is selling decently. Even if it doesn't have the
20 plus cards or whatever, maybe it's a new product
that was recently added. But if it has 20 visits or
around 20 visits or higher, the potential is there, so you should aim for these designs. So we have best seller badge. Plus users added that product to their card, that
specific text. If you see it, that's
another indicator. You can dive into the store and look for the
most recent reviews. You see the same product
over and over again. That means that that
product is selling. Then you can just
keep doing this. So this is how you
make research. It's quite simple. Just type that specific
product or niche or what you want. Dive
into the store. So we have a specific store,
we have North prints. This one is pretty much the biggest store for
digital prints on Etsy. So this store made around, I don't know, a few
millions a year. So it's quite huge, actually. So you can just
search for others. You'll maybe find another store, but this one is pretty much
dominating the entire page, so we can see only designs
from this store mostly. And once you do this, you're pretty much good to go. Head to me journey, create
designs, and your set. So this is how you
find winning products.
12. Marketing Strategy and How to Grow Your Store: Now let's talk about T ads and how you should proceed
with growing your store. So the whole idea of running ET ads is to rank your products
in the search results. So this means that when you go on ET and you search
for something, right? I search for War
prints again, ideally, you want to run ads to the
point where your product is ranked either in the first row or in the first
three rows at least. Competition on digital prints or for digital prints is
pretty high, actually. That this applies
to a lot of niches, not only to digital prints, but for digital prints,
the competition is high. So everyone wants to create
graphics with AI and set it. Now the thing is, those that will win or those
that will succeed in this are those that
are willing to invest a specific amount
of money into ads. Run those ads for
like a few months, and then you have your
products ranked high, and you can make
sales organically. So this is how you should
proceed with this. You start adding
products to your store, let's say you added your
first 100 products, and then you start running ads
and advertise all of them. The budget for this, ideally, would be to have at least
$30 per day for adds. So $40 per day is, I would say, enough,
actually, and run those for, like, two months or so, and then you can stop them and see how many sales you're
getting organically. Last time when I created my last T store with
digital downloads, but this was before
the AI craze. I didn't add any ID
products in that store. I have basically designs. I managed to get that
store running and generate around 600 to 700
euros per month with somewhere around 900 or $1,100 spent into adds in
like two months or so. So this is how much
you need to spend. So once you start spending
like over $100 into adds, your store should be capable of generating
revenue on its own. Now, if you want
to grow even more, you will have to keep adding products, advertise them again. So there will be a period where you won't be
making that much profit. So be aware of it. You have to spend some money. If you don't have this
much money available, you can reduce the budget. You can maybe advertise
with $10 per day. But be aware that this will take longer
because you have to test all these products and
find the successful ones. Basically, so let me show you the screenshot that I
made from my store. So this is how the STS dashboard
looks when it unlocks. I just hit my designs in here, so I don't want
to show my store. And as you can see, I advertise 180 f listings with a
budget of $100 per day. Now, I set the
budget $100 per day, but I'm not spending
$100 per day, actually, because there is not
that much traffic, but I wanted to set the
limit as high as possible, so this won't be a barrier. So right now, what
I'm making in here, because I just started
adding AI designs like 1.5 month ago or
something like that. And I just started
running ads like, I think, five days ago or so. So basically, what I'm
doing right now is, as you can see we have
different rows in here, my goal is to achieve
40 clicks for each listing and see how many
orders that listing got. If I have like 40 clicks
and three orders, that's a good indicator
that that product can sell. I will actually let that ad
run up until 50 to 60 clicks, and then I will turn it
off and it should be able to generate revenue
on its own over time. That's how I proceed with
pretty much all of them. So that's what I'm going to do. And that you can see here,
we have some different rows. We have spent, how much you spent for that specific product, the revenue and the ROS. ROAS means return on ad spent. So how much you spent compared
to how much you made. And when this ratio is at one, that means that
you're breaking even, basically, and if
it is above one, that means that
you're making profit. But in order to have
a precise result, you need a lot of
traffic and orders. So I can't take this into
account, for example. I have four clicks
and one order. I need way more traffic and way more orders in order to
draw the conclusion and say, Hey, this one is
setting very well, because this is like maybe
this was a lucky shot, right? Like this one as well. So I need more traffic in order
to draw a conclusion. So ideally, 20 to 40
clicks, ideally 40, that will cost you
more probably or take more time based on how much you're willing to spend on ads. And see how many
orders you have. So if you have t clicks, and two orders, stop
that ad, right? And just let it go over time. If it's going to make
sales, you'll see it. If it doesn't, it is what
it is. Leave it there. And if you have irtlick and
three orders or higher, let that add run up
to 50 to 60 clicks, and it will get even more sales, and it will get traction faster. And then you can
stop the ad, right? And keep it going. Add more
products, advertise them. Add more products,
advertise them. Do the same thing
over and over again, and your store will grow. Just give it time, be patient, and keep in mind that it is necessary to spend some money
in the beginning to grow. That's why a lot of
the stores a start. They do not have the patients. They lose their motivation because they don't
make any sales, and they don't spend
any money into ads, or if they spend some money, they probably spent
like $50, $100. They made maybe a few sales. They get discouraged
and leave the platform. It doesn't work like that.
You need to be patient. So patients, spend
some cash on it, just invest something on it, and keep adding products, test them out, and so on. You do this strategy, you will pretty much
grow your store. This is how I did with my
previous store when I added digital downloads and I grew
it in like two months or so. So be aware of it, be patient and
consistency is the key.
13. Using and Assigning Shortcuts for Tools in Photoshop: In this video, I will show you how to work faster
in photo shap. And the best way to do
so is to use shortcuts. So, for example, instead of pressing on any
single button in here, you can just use every
single shortcut available. So if you hover your mouse over every single tool in here, you will see that you
have a specific shortcut for every single button in here. So we have for Move
tool, we have V, we have for the crop tool,
we have C and so on. The most used tools for you
will be V for the move tool, you'll have C for the cpt tool. Then you will have
the eraser tool and the magic eraser tool. I change the k bines for those, so I have different ones. You can change them
as well, and I will show you how to
do this in a second. You have the paint
bucket tool with G, you have the text tool with T, and the rectangle tool with U. So, these are the
most common ones. Even if you are going to sell designs and you want to
remove the background. You'll mostly use the
eraser tool for that. So you'll use the magic erasor tool to remove the background, and then the eraser
tool itself to remove any
imperfections manually. So just go to edit
keyboard shortcuts, and in here, you have all the keyboard shortcuts for
every single tool. So make sure that you change
them the way you want, and you will be able to use only shortcuts and make
this way easier for you. So keep in mind that you
can also hold ult on your keyboard and zoom in and
zoom out with your scroll. Also hold control
on your keyboard, and you can move
from the left to the right using your
scroll as well. And you can also
press control old and S to open this save
a copy window. Then you can save
directly once you're done working to a on
a specific project. So instead of going in here
and press save a copy, you can just press old
and S. Quite simple. So make sure that you're getting used to
this along the way, as you'll remember
them pretty quick, and always use shortcuts. They will save you a lot of time in the long run. See
you the next one.
14. Workflow Demonstration: In this video, I will show
you my actual workflow. So you will see step by step, how I find winning designs, how I create one with M Journey, how I set up the mockups, titles, tags, and everything. So let's get into it. First, I search for WR prints. I will open North prints, and in here, we will be able to find plenty of
winning designs. So I will set this
two most recent, and I will just
select one design, and I will select maybe this. And this one is
selling pretty well. So we have 20 plus cards. This is a great indicator
that this design is selling very well right now,
so I'll just pick this. I'll click on the picture. I will press on the
windows button, search for crop, open
a snipping tool, click on you, and I
will crop this design. So like this, and now I
will save it to my desktop, and we will head
into M journey now. So open M Journey, go in here, and I will create
maybe another channel. Let's say prints. And
I will work in here. Something that you can do is to categorize different channels. So you can create
a category for, let's say, I don't know, es, and you want another category
for something else or maybe just make categories
based on holidays. You can just adjust
them however you want, so you are more organized. So right now, I will
just describe image, and I will select the
image that I saved, this scrub and press
enter two times. And now we will let
me journey to fang. Also, I will use
the version six, so I will type slash settings. And I will go with Version
six Alpha because I like the results that Alpha
is getting for the prints. Vsion 5.2 is good as well, but I will use the
Alpha right now. I will click on Image A and
we will get like 16 versions. So we will have plenty of
options to choose from. And I will stick
only to one design. You can also, if you find the winning design like
this one, for example, you can create four
to five variations or even more and upload
all of them to your store. Because if something
like this cells, you can create multiple
similar variations and have success
with all of them. So you can do that as well.
Let's see what we can get. All right. Not bad at all. I want to pick
something that is as similar as possible to this one. Nothing is identical, but
something similar can work. Maybe the first one can work, but I don't like how
this apple looks. I'll maybe pick the second one, so we will go with
the second one. Let's see what else I can pick that is maybe a bit different. I think this one,
this one looks good. I'll go with fe. What else? Maybe some different style. I like the fourth one. So I will pick this one as well. And maybe I will choose one from all these three options
that I just generated. Let's see which one is the best. Mm. This one has nice colors, so it is quite vibrant, but it looks less
like a painting, and the design that we have here looks more
like a painting. So let's try to pick something
that is similar to that. And I think this one would fit, but we have a line in
here that I don't like. So in this case, I
can maybe click y subtle and have a different
variation for this one, and maybe that line disappears. Else. I can just this
one is not good either. So because the apple is
not attached to the tree, so it looks kind kind
of bad, actually. And as you can see here, we have the signature, and this can be removed
with photoshop, or you can use Vari region
and select that region, and it will be removed. Let's see what we got in here. So I think I can choose
either the first one. Or the second one or
actually the third one. Let's pick, let's see,
I think the third one. Let's see how it looks first. Yeah, I think it looks well. Let's pick this one. I will save or maybe let's
just upscale it first. And this will take a bit. And something else
that you can do. You can also change the version. Maybe go with settings again
and select Version 5.2, and we can click
imagine all again. And maybe we get
something better and we can pick that option. There are ways you
can do things. You can go with both
versions and test both out because the results
are not always similar. There are some
differences between them. Like usually version six
tends to be more realistic. But let's see what
version 5.2 can get. The upscale is like at 15%,
we'll have to wait a bit. And we will upscale it to four K resolution
once this is ready. And then we will proceed to cropping the design
in different sizes. Let's see what we
can get in here. Yeah, these are
totally different, as you can see, way
more different. So Version six is better for paintings and to use a
described function with. Also, I like this one as well, but the apples are not
attached to the tree, some of them, and they
don't look that great. But it works for a painting, I think I'm probably
overthinking too much, usually. So, Let's see what
we can get in here. I don't like any of them. I don't like those either. I don't like those either. And yeah, I don't
like any of them. So Version 5.2 is not that
great for three for this one. But yeah, as I said, Version six tends
to be the best. So let's see, the
scale is at 78. We'll wait a bit. This one
was more vibrant though. So maybe we could have
used y subtle on this one, and maybe the result was better than what
I picked in here. But we'll just go with this one. So I'll just pick this one. I'll save it. And
now, This is it. It has 2,500 pixels. I will open it with photoshop. Keep in mind that you can
open it with PhotoPI, if you want to and upscale it. So it doesn't have to be
photoshop if you don't have it. So I'll go to image image size. Make sure that you set
the DPI first at 300. So this is good for printing. And in here, I will
type let's say 4,000 pixels or maybe even
5,000. It doesn't matter. The idea is to have
it at least 4,000, but don't go way too high like 10,000 because the size of the file will be
way too big, then. So let's say 5,000, Okay. And now we have this
in high resolution, and I want to crop this. So I will press either C on the keyboard or just press this button in here on the left, and I will select five by
seven first and switch this, and now a, and I will
save this one first. So desktop, JPEG, and we
have print five by seven, actually seven by five. All right. So I have it here. You should add this in a folder, not like me actually
because this is not organized as well. So let's say prints, and I will just move it here, and let's go where was
it here? All right. Crop. Now we have two by
three, Swap again, file, save a copy, JPEG in the folder, print, and this is three by two. Press Control Z to undo it to have the five by seven
size or seven by five, which is bigger. Again, crop. Now we need four by three, 43. Okay, file, save a copy. JPEG prints. I will select one of the prints
to have the name in here. And now we have this
was four by three, and now I need 14 by 11. Save this one as
well. Prints, JPEG 14 by 11 control Z to undo it. And I think I need five by
74 by 54 by five, right? I don't have this one.
I think. Let me check. So it was in here. Yeah, four by five.
F saves prints JPEG And I have five by
four. All right. Now, I need to open the mockups. So I have the mockups
in here created. I will open all of them. So one, two, and three. And I will add this design
on each of these mockups. So file place embedded, let's see, I will select
one that is a bit taller. I think this one. I need something that is
wider actually. So maybe another size seven
by five, let's try this one. You need to pick one that
fits like not perfectly, but just good enough, you know, right now I will hold
ult on the keyboard, have my cursor placed in between the edge of
the first layer, which is this one, print seven by five, and the second one. Old. Once you see
this down arrow, press your left
click while holding lt. And now the print is
inside, as you can see. Pretty simple. And
I will save this. And we will do this with
the others as well. So we have mockup free. And let's do this with
these two as well. So file, place, print, I need something that is wider. So please, let's see if I have one that
is wider actually. Free by two, I think
this one is better. Yeah, and we will go like this. Again, hold out, drag your cursor in here when you see the down
arrow left click. Now, the print is inside,
and we will save this. So file, save a copy, desktop, M two, and JPEG. And the last one, this one, I already have the
picture placed in here. So I can just right click, replace contents and
select the design. Let me pick it from the folder. So how wide is this? I think I need something
like maybe four by three. Yeah. Drag this a bit. In order to make it the design itself the image
bigger or smaller, I'm pressing control T,
which means transform. The other way around this is to select this by going
with the selection tool, this one, I think, and
I have free transform, but I can't with
this one, I think. I need to select. Let me see. I'm used to the hot
keys, so this happens. Let's see free transform. I can't maybe with this one. No, maybe this one. Maybe now we have free
transform, let's see. Yeah. So you'll have to
select this one, this two, rectangular marquee tool, and you go with F
transform then. And now I can adjust it. But these ways to
press control and T, and that's the same thing,
which comes from transform. And you will actually
work faster this way by using short
keys or shortcuts. But you'll get used
to it over time. And I'll click on, maybe make
it a bit bigger like this. And I have the design inside. Now, again, I will save this. D stop mockup on. I already have this. Yeah,
I have to replace it. And now we have the
mockups ready and refresh. My destop is a
mess, so don't ask. I'm used to it. Let's see, I have the print here together
with the mokop in here. We will also have to upload
these to Google Drive, and I will show that
to you as well. And I have one size missing. Let me see. Now, I have
all of them. All right. Good. Now I will
go in the browser. We will open Google Drive. So go on Google and search for. Let me close this. Google Drive. Open it. Sign in. And now I have my
Google Drive opened. In here, you'll just make folders and upload
each specific design. So you'll click on My Drive. In here, I will
create a new folder. So let's say that I
have Apple print. And in here, I will
just drag the design, so I can do this and
drag all these in here. Or you can just right click and upload files if
you want file upload. These will upload quite quick. Perfect. And now I can go back to the drive,
so click on my Drive. And in here, I can just click on the folder, Share Share again. In here, select
anyone with the link. And now I'll click on Copy link. And with this link
that I have right now, everyone can download
or access this folder. So I will create a PDF
and inside the PDF. I will just write this link
so the users can download it. And I will show this
zero in a few minutes. So first, I'll just put this
link aside, say this link. So I'm not going to
lose it or anything. And let's go to Etsy, and we have our store here. So we go to Listings. Also open this one because we need the
title and the tags. So I will copy the title, go to E rank, tools, Q or tool. In here, I will enter
the title search, top listings, and we
can see the tags. Now, I will drag this window
side by side with this one. Add the listing. I don't
like this new interface, so I'll close it,
switched wold. All right. Perfect. I will
upload the mock ups. And we have all of them. It is also important to add the image that shows
the available sizes. I haven't created it because
that will take time, but make sure that
you create one. So let me see if
this one has it. I think they don't have it. Yeah, the other store does. So Lexington prints, this one. So if I click on print in here, they have a preview picture
with all the sizes. So make sure that
you create something like this. So just
go to the store. I will post the links in the course and just make
something similar to this. We mentioned this we mentioned
this in the description, but it is also better to have it as an image. So
make sure that you do this. I will go back in here, and I will select maybe
or just leave this one. I think this one is
fine. Yeah, I'll just leave this one
as a t umenail. So this is a preview
picture that will show in the search results, which is pretty good actually. So we will leave this like this, and I will go back to n. And this one side by side. And let's set the title. So we have vintage
Apple Tree print, and Rustic Farmhouse
Kitchen D Cre. Let's say printable
design, digital download. And maybe type a number
just so you know about it. Let's say I don't know
one because we're just starting out,
who made it I it? What is it a supplier
tool and the year. In here, digital prints. Then this is not for any
holiday or occasion, so we will leave these
blank set digital in here, and we will add the description. So I have the
description in here. I will copy this, go
back in here, paste it. I use Control C and Control V in order to copy
and paste quicker. Here we have the tags, and I
will enter them from here. So we have printable,
vintage, print, north prints, vintage, painting, rustic art print, cor kitchen. Rt, farmhouse Kitchen,
Apple Tree print, Apple Tree Sketch Country Home, the core antique art print. Farmhouse the core,
Earth Done D core. All right. Hopefully, I
wrote this correctly. And now I will set the price. So I want the price to be 599 because I'm going to set
a discount for the shop, so I will have fit 50% off. So in order to set it with 299, I need to set the
price double to that, because I will
have the discount. And in here quantity 999. And now I have to upload
the design, right? So we will create a PDF. You can either use Google Docs, if you want to work with that, but I will use Microsoft
Word because I have that, and it's pretty much
the same thing. So you want to I will open
Word, blank document. And in here, I will type Apple Apple Tree
Print, download link. I will make these bold, so I'll just press on this. Make this bigger, center it. Maybe this one even
bigger and download link with red, add some space. And I will type
some text in here. The file size is too big for s, so you will have to download the files from
my Google Drive link. And I will just type Google Drive Link.
And paste it in here. I'll open this one, copy this and paste it and maybe change
the color for the text, like maybe this text, back to white, and make sure
that this is a hyper link. I'll have to right click
it link and press k, and now this is a hyperlink. So if they click on
it, they will be automatically redirected
to this link. A p simple. If you want to
make this look more fancy, you can add the logo and so on. But I just made this quick, so this is how you do it. Then I'll just save as ad PDF. Yes, I'll save it to my desktop. Call this download link. Save as PDF. Save. And for some
reason, I got an error. So let's try again. Maybe I, I'll have to save
it as a word first, I think. And now it will work. Yeah. So we'll go again with download
link, save and replace. All right. This is how it looks. When they click on this,
allow and we are in here, and they can just
right and download every single resolution
or aspect ratio. All right, so that's
pretty simple. Let me close this now. And we will go back
to Etsy and we will upload this PDF,
which is this one. So this was pretty much it. That's how you do it. I think this was quite simple
to understand. These are basically the steps. The only thing that I
haven't done is to add that image that explains
all the available ratios. So make sure that
you create that one. But that's pretty much it. So this is quite simple to do. Also, I moved a
little bit slower, so you can see how this works. And yeah, something else
that I haven't done is to copy the title and add it at
the end of the description. So do this as well.
This is for QR density, so it will help with ACO
bit. And that was it. So in the next one.
15. Conclusion: In this last video, I
will give you some tips, as well as a short conclusion
about this business. So thank you for making it
all the way to the end, first of all, and this business can easily be successful for
a lot of people. The ones that will succeed are the ones that
will keep working, and you also need to
invest into your store. If you want to make sales organically and you don't
have the money to run ad, for example, make sure that
you add a lot of products. And buy a lot, I mean, adding at least I don't know, 502,000 products or more. And that will take you
like a few months. You can easily add like 200
products every single month. It doesn't take a lot of time. So this business is quite fast. You can easily create
designs with M journey. I like four to 5 hours a day, you can easily create
at least 20 designs or at least 20 listings
in your store. So keep doing that, and you'll be good to go. And if you have the
money to run add, then that's even better. There is a lot of competition in this business because
everyone can do it, and the way to stand
out is by running ad and going ahead
of the others. So that's the only way you
need traffic in order to rank your product in the
search results faster. So make sure that you run
add if you have the budget. You don't have $40 per day, you can even start with less, you can maybe start
with $10 per day, $5 per day, but that will
take longer, be aware of it. That's why it is
recommended to have a considerable amount of money. So invest into this if you
want to grow the store fast. If you want to take it slow, just add designs in your
store every single day, and once you reach like
a few hundred designs, you'll make stores
organically as well, but it will be quite
slow, be aware of it. Now, what you can sell? You can sell digital prints,
like I showed you, like North prints, and
besides digital prints, they are also selling
Samsung TV frame mark. These are basically wallpapers, but created with AI in different forms on
different topics, and so on, as you
can see in here, and they sell quite well. So for example, if
I open this one, see that this one
is a best seller. So this is basically
a wallpaper for RTV, and it has over 265 reviews. You can create bundles with multiple wallpapers like this
and set them for a price. So the price for this is like $149. They are pretty cheap. So something else that you
can do, if, for example, you are willing to sell
on anti digital prints, and you don't have the money,
you can set the price low. If you want to rank
your products faster, you have to set the bar low and set the price like 090 $9. So make it very, very cheap
in order to get sales faster, and your product will rank
over time quicker this way. If you have the money,
you can just set the price to 249, 199, or even $3 or more, but ideally, you
should stay below $3. That's the sweet spot. So make sure that you do this,
and you'll be good to go. You can also sell designs. So I have a store in here. Let me see if I can find it. It was the clip
crafter, I think. I showed the store previously, and it has assign bundles,
as you can see in here. So on different topics, you can open the
store, and in here, you have examples, of
what you can possibly do. Everything in here
is created with AI, so it has over 600 products. They are also selling a
whole sore ultimate bundle. So for 60 euros, you get access to everything
and also future designs. So they basically uploaded everything into a Google Drive, and they are selling that specific
Google Drive folder that has everything in it. So you can also do this,
as you can see here. And this thing
takes way more time because you have to remove the background from
every single design. And add a lot of designs
into a single bundle. But the chances of making
sales with something like this is higher because you
are selling in quantity, and by selling more
designs in a bundle, you have higher chances
of making sales. That's obvious.
And the same thing you can do with digital prints because North prints in
here also has galleries. Let me see, gallery sets, and these ones sell pretty good. The price is also higher because there are multiple
designs inside, and the average order increases
with something like this. So you can make
mockups like these. You can go and place
it.net and find them or you can just create
them in photoshop, and you can do that as
well. Use M journey for it. Like you can write
like multiple canvases on a wall or multiple
frame prints on a wall, or just say four framed wal
arts on a wall, and so on. So you can even use the described function and just replace the background
with again, a rectangle and apply
your design over it. So there are ways to create these mokps with mi journey.
You can easily do it. But keep in mind that gallery set is something
that you can do, and these ones sell pretty good. So besides from this,
there's not much to it. Add as many products as
possible. Advertise them. Use a strategy that I
told you for marketing, and it will work it
will work for sure. So 40 clicks on a product. If it has more than three orders as a result of
getting 40 clicks, let that ad run till it gets like 60 clicks,
then stop the ad. It should make sales
on its own overtime. Rinse and repeat and
keep doing this. I will also write the
strategy in this course. Make sure that you check
all the attachments in the course because everything
is valuable information. In case I forgot to mention
something in this course, I will also write it. So make sure to do that. Besides this, that's
pretty much it. I wish you the best of luck. And if you have any questions, you can always ask me. So
Mihai C., Plan before acting.
