Marmalead
You designed beautiful templates. You listed them on Etsy. You’re getting single-digit views. The promise of editable digital products (design once, sell forever) is real. But somewhere between uploading to Corjl and waiting for sales, something broke. For most template sellers, that something is SEO.
If your Etsy pricing strategy starts and ends with “materials cost + a little extra,” you’re almost certainly losing money on every sale. Here’s why.
If you’re serious about running a profitable Etsy shop, you already know that fees eat into every sale. The question isn’t whether you’ll pay them, it’s whether you’ve actually done the math on what you keep after Etsy takes its cut.
How much you can make on Etsy still depends on one thing more than anything else: whether you treat it like a business.