Just wanted to share a little milestone and hopefully encourage anyone who’s just getting started. My Etsy shop has now reached: ✅ 220 sales ⭐ 4.9★ from 38 reviews 🛍️ 1,476 listings 📅 5 months old The first couple of months were definitely a learning curve while I found my feet and figured out what worked. It hasn’t all been plain sailing either. I’ve had refunds, difficult customers, and one review that took my shop from a perfect 5★ to 4.9★ because the buyer hadn’t realised the artwork was AI-generated. It was disappointing at the time, but it’s all part of running a business and you learn from every experience. A massive shout-out has to go to Tom at Print Shrimp as well. He’s been a huge help throughout this journey and has always given honest advice. When I was looking at subscriptions, he could quite easily have encouraged me to move onto the 1,000 listings per month plan, but instead he told me the 500 listings per month option would be more than enough for where my shop was at. That kind of honesty is rare these days. His advice on the bulk listing method has also saved me loads of time and made managing a large number of listings so much easier. It’s genuinely made a big difference to growing my shop. Overall though, staying consistent, improving my products, listening to feedback, and consistently adding new listings has really started to pay off. There’s still a long way to go, but I’m really happy with the progress so far. I’d love to hear how everyone else is getting on! - How old is your shop? - How many sales are you on? - What’s been your biggest win or lesson so far? Thanks again to Tom and everyone in this community. I’ve learned so much from reading everyone’s posts and advice, and it’s been a massive help on my journey. Looking forward to hearing how everyone else is getting on! 🙌

Does anyone here actually use ChatGPT to create their images? I’ve tried loads of different AI image generators over the last while, but I keep finding myself coming back to ChatGPT. I mainly use it to help write prompts, but every now and then I accidentally word my request wrong and it generates an image instead of a prompt… and sometimes the image ends up being better than what I was aiming for! 😂 Just curious if anyone is using ChatGPT as their main image generator for there posters, or if you’re using something else. I’d love to hear what’s working best for everyone.

Hi everyone, Just looking for a bit of advice from anyone who’s experienced something similar. June was my best month so far. It was my 4th month on Etsy, and I made just over £1,000 profit for the month. I’ve now started my 5th month (July), and my sales have dropped to zero. One thing I should mention is that at the start of July I used the bulk listing method and uploaded roughly 120 new listings before I heard Tom mention that listing too many at once could potentially make Etsy think you’re a bot and reduce your visibility. Could that have caused such a significant drop in sales, or is this just a normal fluctuation that happens on Etsy? If it is because of the bulk listing, does the shop usually recover on its own after a while? I’d really appreciate hearing from anyone who’s been through something similar. Thanks!

Hey guys, After a long time in development, we've launched a tool that fully automates the listing process on Etsy & Shopify :D This is a huge step towards making an Etsy store both easier and more accessible to start. Over the past 2 years we've printed over 150,000 posters, and every single one of them was listed to Etsy manually. So while this tool isn't required to build a successful Etsy shop, it really will help. This is because a successful Etsy store comes down to two things: 1. Creating high quality posters that deserve to be framed in someone's home 2. Listing high quality products at scale This software takes the listing off your plate, so you can focus on what matters - creating high quality products :) If you have any product feedback, or bugs please email us on hey@printshrimp.com Max & Tom

Hi, while waiting on the print shrimp bulk upload tool to come out are they any other ways of doing this? Thanks