The Etsy Edit

How to start an Etsy shop that actually sells — edited down to what works.

Etsy hands you the one thing every new shop lacks: shoppers already searching. This Edit is the honest playbook for winning there — from a founder who did it with real money, not theory.

Inside (9 designed pages)

The strategy: rent Etsy's audience smartly, then graduate to owning your own — including the LTK perk almost nobody mentions.

Setup done right: shop naming, the real fee math (~10–12% all-in), the About section that converts, Star Seller from day one.

Listings that get found: the title formula (and why you should never use Etsy's AI title feature — lesson learned the expensive way), all 13 tags, and research with the Etsy search bar, eRank, and Marmalead.

Pricing to start: the humble-then-climb method — launch 10–20% under the competition, raise at 10 reviews, parity at 25. With zero reviews you're competing on risk, not quality; this is how you fix that fast.

The review engine, the shipping discipline, and service-as-algorithm — plus the printable Etsy Launch Checklist.

Pairs with: The COGS Edit ($9.99), the calculator that runs the humble-then-climb pricing math for you. Know your floor before you set your launch price.

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