I Made $3,995/Week With Basic Canva Clip Art - here’s how…

Summary

Sarah sets a challenge to create passive income in six months by starting a new Etsy store selling print-on-demand products using basic clip art from Canva. She proves skeptics wrong, growing her store to earn $3,000 to $4,000 a week. Sarah details her process: selecting popular products on Printify, using Canva for design, and employing Etsy for sales. She emphasizes the importance of unique designs over copying others and provides tips on optimizing listings and using Etsy ads effectively. Sarah offers additional resources, including a free ebook and tutorials for those interested in replicating her success.

Takeaways

• 📈 Sarah challenged herself to create a new source of passive income through a new Etsy store in six months.
• 🖼️ She used basic clip art from Canva and sold it on print-on-demand products via Printify.
• 💰 Initially, her store made about $200 a week, but sales grew to $3,000 to $4,000 a week passively.
• 🔍 She used the cross idea formula to choose easy-to-sell clip art and uploaded it to Printify products.
• 🛒 Sarah emphasized the importance of choosing popular products that customers want to buy.
• 👕 T-shirts are the top-selling print-on-demand product, used as an example in the video.
• 🤔 Instead of copying popular designs, she used the cross idea formula to create unique products.
• 🦜 By combining niches, like funny parrot T-shirts and deadpan humor, she found untapped markets.
• 📚 Sarah offers a free ebook with tips for creating successful products on her channel.
• 📸 She recommends using high-quality photos for product listings to attract customers and using Etsy ads to boost sales.

Q & A

What challenge did Sarah set for herself?

Sarah challenged herself to create a new source of passive income within six months by starting a new store on Etsy, selling print-on-demand products with basic clip art from Canva.

How much was Sarah's store earning after four months?

After four months, Sarah's store was earning between $3,000 and $4,000 a week passively.

What is the 'cross idea formula' that Sarah mentions?

The 'cross idea formula' involves choosing a clever idea that works with basic clip art and then combining it with another popular niche to create a new, unsaturated product idea.

Why does Sarah advise against copying popular products on Etsy?

Sarah advises against copying popular products because new stores with no reviews will have a hard time competing with established stores that have thousands of positive reviews. Instead, she suggests creating unique products using the cross idea formula.

What tool does Sarah use to create her designs?

Sarah uses Canva, a drag-and-drop graphic design app that provides millions of clip art, photos, shapes, and backgrounds. She uses Canva's pro account for creating designs.

What are the steps to create a product design using Canva?

The steps include creating a canvas the size of the printing area, searching for relevant clip art, adding text with a trendy font, combining visual elements to create a new design, and saving the design as a high-quality PNG file with a transparent background.

How does Sarah add a distressed texture to her T-shirt designs?

Sarah uses Photopea, a free Photoshop clone, to add a distressed texture. She places the texture image on top of the design, rasterizes it, selects the color range, clears the selected area, and then combines it with the T-shirt design.

How does Sarah price her products to ensure profitability?

Sarah uses a profit calculator, like the one from Printful, to set her product prices. She inputs the selling price, shipping cost, Printify's item and shipping costs, and ensures her profit margin is between 30% to 40% after Etsy's transaction fees.

What are the two main sources of sales for Sarah's Etsy store?

The two main sources of sales are organic traffic from Etsy's search and recommendations, and paid traffic from Etsy ads.

How does Sarah optimize her Etsy listings for better visibility?

Sarah optimizes her listings by using great keywords in the title, having amazing product photos, and providing detailed product descriptions. She also uses Placeit to create high-quality mockups for her products.

How does Sarah manage her Etsy ads to ensure a good return on investment?

Sarah sets a daily ad budget and monitors the return on investment (ROI) for each product. She keeps ads running for products with an ROI of three times or more and turns off ads for products that don't meet this threshold.

What additional resources does Sarah provide for people interested in starting their own Etsy store?

Sarah provides links to her free print-on-demand ebook, a free tutorial video on opening an Etsy and Printify account, and a free trial for Canva Pro. She also offers additional videos on optimizing Etsy listings and designing T-shirts quickly with Canva.