I started at the end of August and things have built gradually. Nothing earth shattering just yet. I panicked as I suddenly had no sales for 10 days when they’d been steadily trickling in. Yesterday I had 3 sales…phew! But the best bit was that I sorted them out while sitting here. That’s my kind of business, next year I’m hoping POD will pay for me to be here too!! 👍

Almost a year to the day since my first sale, and 475 sales later, POD has more than covered the cost of my two-week, all-inclusive golf trip to Thailand! To top it off, I just hit my first $1k day whilst on the course! Massive thanks to Tom and the team for all the support. For anyone who’s only just started, I can’t recommend sticking with it enough.

Just got this email from Etsy and thought I’d share a wee win 🙌 My shop has only been open for 8/9 months, so to have achieved Star Seller for 6 consecutive months feels like something to be proud of! Etsy says that puts me among the top 6% of sellers who’ve consecutively achieved Star Seller, which is pretty mad to think about. There’s a lot of work behind the scenes, so it’s nice to see the effort paying off. Still learning as I go, but excited to see where I can take this! Thanks to everyone in here for the advice and support along the way 💪

Brand new to this, I love the idea but ChatGPT seems to making it very over complicated. Is there an easier way to get started

Hey everyone, Quick recap on where I'm at: I work across a few visual "territories" (travel, pop culture, abstract stuff), design everything with AI, Pinterest's basically my only real traffic source, and I try to stay priced in line with whatever's already selling well in my niche. Anyway, I'd love to go a bit deeper than that and actually compare how we work day to day rather than just the general approach. Few things I'm curious about: what does your actual day or work session look like, do you block out separate time for design vs listing vs marketing or does it all just blend together depending on what's on fire that day? When you're starting a new listing, are you going off an idea you like first and checking it after, or looking at what's trending before you even start creating? And if you're using eRank, is that every single time or more when you remember to? Also where exactly does AI come into your process, is it just the image, or also titles/tags/description, and is there anything you specifically keep doing by hand on purpose? And roughly how many steps/checks happen between "I have an idea" and "ok this is live," for you? No pressure to answer everything, just curious how different (or similar) everyone's setup actually is, feels like most advice here is pretty general and I'd love to see a few real workflows laid out start to finish. Thanks to anyone who takes the time to share!