How much Sales did You have in your first 2 months?

[AmazingDay]

Hello I wanted to ask you- How much Sales did You have in your first 2 months?

I have had 6 sales. Is it good? is it optimal?
I know that jewlery is very competitive here, and in the beginning I must have patience :)
Thank you all! :)

[LettersAndPine]

I'd say that's great. I've been open for a little less than three months and I'm currently at 20. The majority of those came right around Thanksgiving, when a lot of people began their Christmas shopping.

Sounds like you're on the right track so far (especially for selling jewelry, which, as you said, is a very competitive market)! Good luck!

[Former_Member]

I sold 11 items in my first 2 months. I also sell jewelry but I'm in more of a niche market. For what it's worth, I'll tell you what everybody told me then: having *any* sales in your first 2 months is awesome, especially for jewelry. :)

[Former_Member]

i was new last xmas season and had around 70 in two months.
no one is in my category
and my last 3 shows before i reopened were rainouts, so i had a lot of stuff.
and i have been making stuff for 15 years, so I already knew what sells.

it is tougher figuring what will sell, than how to sell it.

doing both at the same time is a very tall order.

[Former_Member]

I'd say it's pretty great :)

I had my first sale about 1 month after I actually invested lots of time in researching how Etsy works and improving my shop (but it happened several months after opening the shop).

Btw, you should join the Latvia team ;)

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it is tougher figuring what will sell, than how to sell it.
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oh how true that is!! Once you figure it out, it becomes easy to sell it ...

[EZCraftingStore]

Jewelry is competitive but doable. I didn't sell anything until I was here 4 months. Almost the entire first year here I had 4 sales. Yep 4. This past August it started picking up then with some help from team mates on another team with keywords, seo, listings my sales have picked up and now I have 47 sales, yay! It's different for everybody.

[Former_Member]

One.

I think that is pretty successful. some shops may not see a sale in the first six months! Congrats!

[vw53]

Congrats! I had one sale in my first two months.

[Former_Member]

I think I had 1 or 2....6 items in 2 months is a GREAT start!

[Former_Member]

I had 55 sales at the two-month mark. About 1/3 were personal friends and family, and many of the others were simply because I opened a baking shop 3 weeks before Valentine's Day selling brownies and chocolate truffles!

[ChrisOsCreations]

0 sales here:)

[ELElegancedesigns]

Wow look at how far you have come from your 0 sales. Inspirational 🤩

[Former_Member]

I made 6 orders in my first two months on Etsy :)

[TrueKnitsDesigns]

I've had 10 sales since I began listing items on Nov 3, my first sale on Nov 17th :)

[MonstersLairBoutique]

3 sales in this order. In my main shop, it took almost a year.

[Former_Member]

Open for about two months, no sales. I think six is pretty good...

[Former_Member]

Id say that's really a great start :) I did not have that many and I've picked up speed so quickly I can hardly keep up! I would definitely pay attention to SEO and work your tail off to be at the top of common searches for your items. I have worked really hard to have bibs on the front page when you search for "baby bib" or "toddler bib" . This has been the factor that has changed my sales and WHITE BACKGROUNDS! :)

[BeColorfulFeltArt]

I think 6 is very nice. I'm in a different category but my first 3 sales were from friends. After two months the first stranger came to my shop for a purchase.

[silentmagician]

I think 6 is good :-) I reopened my shop a couple months ago and have yet to sell anything. I like the point about the hard part being figuring out what will sell (and matching that to my skill set!)

[Former_Member]

6 sales in two month is awesome! i made the same in 5! my sales to friends and craft show were outside Etsy

[UrbanJule]

I'm in the jewelry category also and it's tough competition, especially with all the resellers out there. When I started in July of 2011, I had 5 sales in the first month and I had no idea what I was doing. It was painfully slow for a long time and from Thanksgiving to December 16 of last year, I had only 2 sales. This year for the same time period, I've had 37 sales but that is nothing compared to some jewelers and I still have more work to do on SEO, promoting outside of Etsy, and marketing, marketing, marketing. Even though I'm grateful for the sales I made, I'm already starting to panic because it's slowed down to nothing again and I have this sick feeling in the pit of my stomach that I'll go without sales again for the next few months.

IMO it's a fine line between creating what you love to make and have the skills for and compromising your art by making what people will buy. If you have to pay bills, as I do, you end up doing the latter.

[AmazingDay]

Well I see there are very different experiences! But most of you think that my 6 sales is good number so far. Thank you for advices! And have a good luck with Your nice shops! :)
And feel free to share Your experience! :)

[Former_Member]

I had none. Lol.

It took a few months to get my first sale, then a few months longer to get regular sales when they switched to relevancy. I'd say 6 in your first month is very good. Congrats!

Eta: I had horrible photos, looks like you are already off to a good start :-)

[WilliamsGiftshop]

I sold 64 items in my first 2 months on Etsy.
But that was way back in 2006, when there were 'only' 10,000 shops on Etsy.

[TerraRhapsody]

I'm not sure I had any sales in my first 2 months, so 6 looks pretty good to me