Every article I read said the same thing. When you're banned on Amazon and Etsy, at that point, you don't get the account back. I got both back. If your Amazon appeal has been rejected more than once with the same reply, this is what the
After scaling the three side bets back, all of my energy went into Amazon FBM. The workflow was running, and now it was the only thing running. That's when it started to improve properly. I kept testing new things and upgrading the pieces one by one, and nothing
4 months into Amazon FBM, my workflow was running. Not perfect, but running. So I tried to expand, three ways at once: an Etsy shop, personalized products on Amazon, and a plan to move my products into FBA. Should you sell print on demand on more than one platform? I
Once the workflow was working and I had products posted, the next thing I added was ads. Amazon ads aren't required for any of this. But the way I run them, lottery ads, is a bet I think is more likely than not to bring in sales, and
After impressions, the next two jobs were getting people to click and getting them to buy, so that's the part I upgraded next. The design, the keywords and the price all mattered. If your products are getting seen but not clicked, or clicked but not bought, this is
Do more listings mean more sales? In my case, more listings meant more impressions first, and without impressions nothing else in the business can happen. My first 50 products got nearly none. That batch took an unscalable amount of time, and the result wasn't just no sales. Nearly
My first print on demand listings went live on Amazon in June 2024, and they were nowhere near perfect. Every title typed by hand, the same bullet points on every listing, one plain product image each. Slow and not very effective, but it got the batch to the end point,
If you're reading this, you're probably starting print on demand, or thinking about it. So here's why I started it myself: it was the first business I found that let me fail 99% of the time and still win. What I tried before print
If you've opened your Etsy finances and found a charge for ads you never set up, that's Offsite Ads. You didn't miss a setting and you didn't get billed by mistake. Etsy runs it for every shop, and the money only leaves
Yes. Etsy is still worth it in 2026. That isn't the answer you keep running into. Most of what you'll read says one of two things: Etsy is oversaturated, or Etsy quietly stopped sending traffic to small shops. If your views dropped this year, both of
Validating your niche matters. It is worth doing, and skipping it is how you end up designing for a group that was never going to buy from you. It is also not the whole story, and that is the part that catches you out. You can run every check, land
Most of the work that keeps my print on demand store running, I don't do anymore. The research runs on its own. The mockups get built by a tool. The listing copy and the keywords come out of a prompt. Almost all of it sits on systems I