Life has been so hard lately, I’m going to school which means I’m working less hours and barely scraping by. I have all these art skills and backgrounds in animation and design, a plethora of computer knowledge and I’m pretty crafty. But I cant for the life of me seem to figure out what I should sell. I’ve tried Etsy, with a few paintings, some 3d prints I’ve designed, even a coloring book I made, but alas, I’ve got a total of 2 views and no sales.
Maybe I just don’t know what people want, what would you guys buy online?
Unfortunately I think to be successful on Etsy you really need to market yourself. You need to make videos on Instagram, tiktok, youtube about your products. I know it sucks.
This is true for literally everything on the internet as well. There is just so much out there already, plus the incoming waves of AI slop, that getting noticed takes a whole lot of self promotion until you reach a large enough audience that can spread via word of mouth. Then you still need to promote to maintain an audience/customer base, but not quite as much as at first.