2023 Guide for Selling on Etsy, Ideas for Every Quarter: Part 4
If you’ve been thinking about starting an Etsy shop to build a passive income stream, but you're not 100% sure exactly what you should offer in your Etsy shop…
This is the perfect guide for planning
your quarter-by-quarter selling on Etsy.
Welcome to the 4th and final part of our series to discuss exactly what you should be offering quarter-by-quarter on your Etsy store throughout the entire 2023 season.
If you did not read/watch Parts 1, 2, and 3 of this series, you should definitely check them out.
I give you 3 minutes of in-depth info on what you should be selling in your Etsy shop each individual quarter.
Quarter 4 is my absolute favorite!
During Q4 there are so many peak opportunities for you to make hella money on Etsy, as it’s been proven time and time again to be the most lucrative quarter of the whole year.
Make sure you read this whole post to know exactly what you should be offering to stay ahead of the curve instead of waiting until October to start thinking about these things.
For Q4 we’ll look at these great times of the season and how you can earn passive income on customizable products during each:
Start of Fall
Halloween (aka Spooky Season!)
Thanksgiving
Christmas
Can’t you just feel the warm fire and smell the marshmallows burning? Eh, I mean roasting!
Etsy fall customizable items
The start of fall brings out all the muted colors, sweaters from the back of the closet, and cozy fires in the fireplace. So, during this part of Q4, I want you to focus on
home decor
crewneck season
pumpkin spice
fall wedding info
Here’s a quick example of a home decor piece that sold really, really well in 2022–
that you can make easily and quickly on Printify. You know what to do! Go to Printify’s catalog, choose “home and living” and select canvas.
Next is an item that actually does two things at once – pumpkin spice and crew neck.
And here’s another fun way to put pumpkin spice in the universe–
This exact mug is available for $5 on Printify, so you can completely emulate this design and create a perfect fall mug to sell in your Etsy shop.
Moving on to the fall wedding season, if you're looking for more digital download type of options, you can do a template or a bundle template for fall wedding needs–
This kind of option lets you create so many different wedding items, like–
Save the date cards
Invitations
Seating charts
Thank you cards
And more!
Now for my favorite of the Q4 season!!
Etsy Halloween items
I cannot get enough of Halloween. If you don’t know me, I am that scary movies, flannel, and murder podcasts girl.
We gonna talk about
sweatshirts
cozy candles
spooky SVGs
and home decor
For Halloween sweatshirts, there are dozens of opportunities here, and if you type in “Halloween crewneck” on Etsy you’ll find plenty of inspo to create your own customized shirts using Printify–
It can be Halloween movie-centric or just something cute like this–
Cozy candles are going to be super easy to make, and you can find a fall-scented soy candle on Printify for just $8.
All you have to do is edit the area where the words appear, and you’ve got a creative and fun item to share with all those ghosts and goblins like me!
Let’s take a look at the Spooky Season SVGs next.
So these are digital downloads that you can either do individually or bundle as this seller did. Then these are purchased from you, and the buyer places them on their physical items for sale.
Say it with me – Passive spooky income
Finally, here are some examples of really fun home decor that people can use.
You can make something like this, and it would be just like an item someone would buy at Joann’s to spruce up their home and get in tune with the holiday season.
Thanksgiving items for Etsy
For Thanksgiving ideas, we’re going to get into
Cooking utensils
Funny t-shirts
Customizable cutting boards
Here’s a great example of cooking utensils towels–
Hop on over to the Printify catalog, “kitchen accessories,” and you'll find tons of options like oven mitts, placemats, table runners, and more that you can customize for sale in your Etsy shop.
Next up is funny T-shirts, and this one is really great because you can actually guarantee 2 orders instead of 1, one for the sweet potato and one for the yam!
Last on our Thanksgiving list is customized cutting boards–
which, again, you can easily make on Printify–
Etsy Christmas time is here…
It’s the most wonderful time of the year!
For Christmas, you need to get moving and get creating some great items in these categories:
gifts for him and her
custom ornaments
custom stockings
and custom wrapping paper
Get creative with the stuff you want to offer by looking up gifts for him and her on Etsy.
Here’s a really unique idea–that you can make as a digital download.
And you can easily make custom ornaments like this one through Printify by going to their catalog, under “home and living” and “ornaments”—
Look on Etsy for those customizations that are showing up as POPULAR NOW or BESTSELLER items, and put your own unique twist on them to add to your own Etsy shop.
You can do the same thing with custom stockings, like this seller did–
But, in my opinion, if you want to make it even easier, you can just have individual letters instead of customized names, which, you guessed it, is also easily made on Printify–
You can also make some really cute and unique custom wrapping paper–
which can easily be made on Printify, too–
So, that’s a wrap (pun intended) on Quarter 4!
And that’s also a wrap on this Quarter-by-Quarter Guide for what you should sell in your Etsy shop for the whole season of 2023.
I hope you have learned from this guide how a high-quality Etsy shop can help you start now to pay you dividends in the future!
I’d love to hear from you and appreciate any feedback you have about what else you need to know.
Drop me an email at evolushencreatives@gmail.com.
Put all this information to use and start earning
A TON of passive income with your new knowledge.
