I just had a look at my actual storefront today and I've had 75 sales!!! Everyday feels like a battle with the Etsy gods, and every day I go to bed praying I at least break even on my ad spend, but there definitely is progress (or at least not regress) even if small every day. My ad spend now is $20 a day (on weekends $40). I turn my ads on and off throughout the day trying to catch when I think more people will be online scrolling. This helps to not use up my ad money too early in the day and leave none for late at night. I currently have 150 prints and each week I am adding a few more. Wishing all other newcomers luck this festive period, we got this!

Customer has got mad at me when their print arrived unframed (says so in description) because the mockups made it look like it would arrive in a frame. She bought an A5 for £10.99 and she doesn't think she's got her money's worth.😅

If etsy tells you your titles are decreasing your search ability, do you trust it? They tell me my titles are too repetitive (aka having wall art/poster/print etc in there too many times) and that they should only be around 8-9 words long. What I'm doing is taking keywords that have really good rankings on Everbee (200+ monthly searches and under 15,000 competitors where possible) and using all the characters I can have in the title. Each keyword is separated by a | . An example title: Donkey Brushing Teeth | Bathroom Prints | Animal Bathroom Posters | Animal Posters | Donkey Prints | Funny Animal Bathroom Prints

Has anyone done this before on Mac's Preview app and had issues with it? I assign the colour profile, save it (and it uploads some change to the cloud) then go back on it and it's defaulted back to ACES CG Linear default colour profile.

In the early stages, how much did everyone pay for ad spending? What was/is the highest amount you're willing to go for?