Please Help me to understand what is wrong?

I have wery poor success with my print shop...... A month ago I open my etsy print shop. I have some views and 1 sale from my wife to check if everything worked. Worked but...... I want to understand what is wrong? Most sellers have hundreds of views and tens of sales at first months..... or I'm wrong?
[1] Please tell your experience on this issue!!!!! As you did at the beginning and in the first month?
[2] Please wisit my print shop and critique what is wrong???
Mabe the reason is location? I already dont know anymore what to think.....
Thanks in advance and Im waiting your reply in this topic!!!!!
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It's not entirely you. I have yet to make a sale myself so I am not the best person to give advice. However I do have some incite that may be helpful. I opened my shop at the end of April selling digital prints and have since added actual prints as well. When I first opened I got lots of views and favorites. My products were being seen. However since Etsy updated the seller tools and changed the website my views went to zero overnight and I am not joking, it happened overnight. Sometime in mid-May.
There is a whole thread of comments on it, link here https://www.etsy.com/teams/7722/discussions/discuss/18282817/page/39 Sellers who regularly got 10 sells a day are only getting 1 a week if they are lucky. There is even a petition going around that will be sent to the new owner of etsy. That being said even established Esty shop owners are suffering.
As far as your shop goes the listings, seo, photo's, and titles all look great. The only thing I recommend changing is your prices. Ironically people don't buy things that are priced too cheap. Also at $1.70 you wont really make any money. Etsy fees add up. Here is a link that explains the different fees which I still find confusing myself,
( http://esalesolutions.com/learning-center/reducing-etsy-fees.html?src=learningcenter ) Once you subtract $0.20 listing fee, 3% transaction fee, (other potential fees depending on the transaction 3.5% and $0.25) you don't have much left. Due to all of the fees I don't recommend going below $2.95 for any item in your shop. Once again I am no expert and have no sales to prove it but I hope my unprofessional opinions are helpful.
Personally I have bought a very expensive professional printer to make and sell prints of my artwork (thanks to Etsy messing around with the site I have yet to earn a cent with it :( However if by August Etsy hasn't gotten things straightened out I am going to build my own website since I have to do all of the promoting myself anyway. Also just so you know I have tried Etsy Promoted Listings at $5.00 a day and since the changes etsy has not been promoting my listing near as much as they were before the changes so it's basically useless.
I suggest to stick around until the fall, sells are supposedly slower in the summer anyway. See if things pick up and try to market through the dreaded social media (don't forget to add links to your Etsy Shop and Products that you are promoting.
PS your Instagram has way more followers than mine so your already doing better than me. Good luck and I hope you start getting sells soon. :) P.P.S If none of this is helpful simply ignore and have a great day, signed your broke overly-caffeinated Etsy friend.
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Woow what a post!!! Thank You!!! Good Luck You Too!!!
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Your welcome. Your shop banner looks great.
Just a update.... The new owner of Etsy released a statement saying that they are still running experiments on the shops in Etsy and to just stick with them. So it might take another month or so to get everything worked out. I wish they would have left it alone in the first place. I could have made a sale by now. I wish you lots of Success with your shop.
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I'm having the same problem... any advice would be hugely welcomed!
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I think one factor that many people underestimate is inventory. Both of you have fewer than 40 items in your shops when I looked. My experience is that you need significantly more than that to be found unless you are very lucky. "Wall art" for want of a better term is a big market. It is sold in man many places and unless you have very unusual images you simply get lost.

My shop has around 400 items in it. I have about 400 again which have expired and which I am slowly reactivating. With that sort of inventory, once someone finds my shop, I have a much better chance that there will be something to appeal when compared to a shop with only 40. items. I don't rely generally on best sellers, although I do have them, Just as Amazon makes most of its money from the items that individually are low sellers, so I make much of mine from items that may only sell once.

I didn't do this deliberately, I have to admit. I just wanted to have more choices available. A warning though. I see some shops with the same item listed multiple times with varying descriptions and tags. I think if this is found it is penalised by Etsy and Google. Etsy I think simply ignmores the repeats, and Google may actually penalise your standing in searches. Buyers will soon see through it too.
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I'm having the same problem... any advice would be hugely welcomed!
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