Selling Christmas Ornaments on Etsy: A Comprehensive Guide

Etsy sellers can earn significant profits by effectively marketing Christmas ornaments during the lucrative Q4 season.

### Selling Christmas Ornaments on Etsy: A Comprehensive Guide for Q4 Success
* 🎄 Q4 is the prime selling season for Etsy, with sellers often making the most revenue in October, November, and December, with some making **over $50,000 a month** from single ornament listings.
* 📦 Concerns about ornament quality are addressed; personal experiences show that **well-packaged items can arrive undamaged**, and Printify offers solutions for **any defective products**.
* 📈 Sales analytics indicate that even before September, ornaments are generating significant revenue, with top listings bringing in **nearly $60,000 in a single month**.
* 🛍 It’s essential to **research current trends and aesthetics** in the ornament market, focusing on niches like **personalized ornaments**, while also being cautious of **trademark issues**.
* 🎨 The tutorial emphasizes the **importance of creativity in design**, suggesting that sellers **customize pre-made graphics** to ensure their products **stand out**.
* 🖥 Using platforms like Canva and Printify, sellers can easily create and list unique ornaments, with guidance on **optimizing product descriptions and images for Etsy visibility**.
* 🔍 Keyword research is crucial for success; sellers should use **relevant keywords in titles and tags** to attract buyers **actively searching for Christmas ornaments**.
* 🎉 Adding customization options can significantly enhance product appeal, making it **easier to capture sales during the bustling holiday season**.

Here is a no-fluff full tutorial on how you can sell Christmas ornaments in your Etsy shops this Q4 season. Q4 is the best time of year to be an Etsy seller because it's the last quarter of the year, and it's when most Etsy sellers make the most money all year round in the month of October, November, and December. And these right here are huge sellers. There are sellers that are making over $50,000 a month on just one Christmas ornament listing in their shops. This product can be low competition but highly searched, so you have a good chance at getting some sales with selling these products in your shop, especially if you take the tips that I show you in today's tutorial and apply them to your own Etsy listings. And before we jump into the full tutorial, I wanted to clear the air on a question that I've seen pop up a few times in the comments on previous videos about the quality of this ornament. So, some people are saying that it's ceramic, and they've heard stories where it has arrived

broken or defected in some way, and I just want to show you I have the package right here that it came in. It's actually bubble wrap. To me, it seems good enough for this thin little ornament, and also this traveled from the United States to Greece, where I live, and there are no damages. So, for my personal experience, it's okay. If a customer gets a broken or defected product and you're using Printify, you can go into Printify, find the order, and then you scroll down to the bottom of the order and you click Submit Issue. You'll fill out that form, and most of the time, if there really is an issue with the item, Printify will either reprint and resend it for you, or they will refund you, whichever one you choose. So, just keep that in mind this holiday season if you do end up with any broken ornaments. But like I said, my sample came out beautifully. Okay, now let's jump into the tutorial. Okay, so first, I wanted to show you with an Etsy.

so it's the last week of August right now, and I wanted to show you that these ornaments are already bringing in a significant amount of money for sellers on Etsy, and it's not even September yet. So, these sales are just going to skyrocket as we get closer to the holiday season. So, I'm going to use my Everbee product analytics to show you this now. I just have the shop names blurred out just for the respect of these shops, but if you want to give Everbee a try yourself so that you can dig deeper into the research, I have a link for you to try it out for free in the description below. But my favorite thing to do is, um, just what I did just now. I went over to product analytics right here, and then I always come over to either the monthly sales or the monthly revenue. I want to see which one is bringing in the most money. So, I'm going to click this down arrow, and now the top one is bringing in close to $60,000 this month, and that's just one

listing, so these listings are very powerful. Yes, they are seasonal listings, so you know you're not going to be making $60,000 a month every month out of the year because most people aren't buying Christmas ornaments in like March, you know, maybe a few sales, but probably not many at all. So keep that in mind. But how nice would it be to make, you know, $60,000? And remember, this is revenue, so profits going to be much less, probably like 30 to 40% of this, but still a nice chunk of change for one listing. And I bet you these top ones by November, they're going to be like making six figures a month on these ornaments. So super excited. I mean, even the ones that are bringing in $2,000 a month, like that's amazing. We're in August right now, guys. And so I just wanted to show you, you know, the power of one good listing on Etsy. Now that we have that covered, as always, what I like to do before I make my own designs for my own products is

kind of get a feel for what's already selling, maybe some trends that are selling, some different aesthetics. You know, I take about 15-20 minutes to browse at Etsy. I also like to look on Instagram. I also like to look on Pinterest to get a feel for what's selling. I see a lot of customization ornaments. I'm seeing ones for babies' first Christmas. Also, just be sure, be careful with trademarks, so make sure that you're always going to uspto.gov to make sure that things aren't trademarked before you sit down to design. Because I'm almost positive that baby's first Christmas is trademarked. Not 100% positive, but I'm like 90% positive. So, these people are getting away with it by putting like Kayle's first Christmas, which is very clever. So, just do your due diligence to make sure that things aren't trademarked so that you don't get an infringement on any of your Etsy listings and possibly your shop getting shut down. So, just be careful.

with that um but I'm seeing, you know, ornaments for babies, for new houses, for weddings. There are many different um niches that you can sell Christmas ornaments in, and then on top of the different niches, there are different aesthetics that you can apply to it. Now, one niche that I know will do very well this holiday season is the coat niche, which I feel like a broken record by now because I mentioned this in like a lot of my oh my gosh, that's so fresh um. I mentioned that in a lot of my like newest videos is the coat niche because this trend um is new this year. I mean, like coat's been around for a long time, but it's just became very popular this past spring, so it can be applied to like any holiday and do really well this year. Now, will it do well next year? I'm not really sure. This might be a trend, it might be a phase, so um just keep that in mind if you have a coat product that does really well this

year chances are it's not going to be an evergreen one, but it could make you a lot of money this year. Let me show you what I mean by the coet. Let's see if there's any coet Christmas products out already. So there already is, obviously. So if you want to know more about the coet niche, I will link my coet video in the description below that talks all about this niche. But it can be applied to any holiday and any niche, and you can do really well right now, like this, for example. Bows are really big in this niche, so they just added some Christmas lights to it. Here is an ornament right here, and it's a personalized ornament with the person's name. So my tutorial today is going to be making a coet Christmas ornament. I'm going to combine a product that is in demand and a niche that is in demand and also personalization so that I can try to really stand out among other Etsy sellers that are trying to sell

Christmas ornaments in their shops as well now in order to dominate with this product even more. I highly suggest to add a customized piece to it, whether you're adding the year to it or maybe you're adding the option for them to put their family name. Okay, so I came right over to Crea a fabria. They offer hundreds of thousands of pre-made graphics that can be used for your print-on-demand products. The only thing is for Etsy's rules, you have to have a part of the creative process if you are an Etsy seller. So, if you are doing print-on-demand, your piece of the creative process should be in your design because the print-on-demand company is going to be making your products for you, you know, so you're not having that creative touch. So, it has to be within your designs. So, if you are downloading pre-made designs from like Crea a fabria or anywhere else, you have to make sure that you add your own creativity to it one way or another. So, that's by downloading a design and

then maybe adding some more elements to it, taking out elements, changing the colors, maybe adding text. You need to make these designs your own, and this will also help you stand out among other Etsy sellers that might have downloaded the same design from Creative Fabrica. So, it's good to do this regardless. But I came to Creative Fabrica. Let me see if I can find my bow that I used. Okay, and here is my retro Christmas coat bow. And as you can see, commercial and full print-on-demand usage allowed. So, I'm going to go ahead and download this. Okay, so now I am in Canva. I have pulled my coat bow onto my canvas within Canva. I'm going to make this smaller. And I have decided to add a text that says Merry Christmas. And I'm going to change the font. Okay, so I changed my font, and now I'm going to curve it. I want it to, you know, kind of match the curve of the ornament. So, I'm going to go to effects here, and then down at the bottom

you click curve, and it does it for you, but that's a little bit too much, so I'm going to bring this back a little bit, and then I'm going to make sure that it's centered, okay? And then that is way too plain, so I'm going to, um, like I said, I want to add a piece of personalization or something to it that's more meaningful. So, I'm going to add the year to this. So, I'm going to add a text box, 2024, and we're going to bring this down, make that a little bit smaller. And then I want to add some more elements to this, so I'm going to go up to elements right here, and I'm going to type [Music] in holly berries. And I feel like this one matches really well. You can come here to graphics, and if you don't have the pro version, then you won't be able to use any of these that have the crown on them, but there are plenty that you can use that don't have the crown on them, um.

that are free, but I have the pro version. I really enjoy the pro version. I use it very often, so it makes sense in my business. But you don't absolutely need it. So I have this one. I'm going to bring that smaller. You know what? I'm going to maybe bring this down a little bit more. And then I'm going to copy this or duplicate. And then I'm going to turn it. Now you could personalize this even more. You could have the option to put like a family name or like best friends and their names or something of that sort. But for time purposes, I'm just keeping it simple like this. And so now we would go to share and then download PNG file, transparent background, so that it doesn't have that white box behind it. Download. Quick little intermission. If you're enjoying this video, please give me a like. It helps my small channel immensely. Also, if you're new to print on demand and you haven't even started yet, go ahead and download that free course in my description below. It's called

print on demand to freedom, and it's going to hold your hand through the entire process of signing up on Etsy, signing up on Printify, syncing the two, and getting your first listings up. Now is the best time to be starting your Etsy shops or be active in your Etsy shops because we are almost at the start of Q4, where you can make the most sales all year in your Etsy shop. So, this is your sign to get started now. All right, so here I am within Printify. Printify is the printing company that prints, packages, and ships all of my print-on-demand orders for me. So, I typed in ornaments here because they have hundreds of other products, if you didn't already know. But here we are with ornaments. The ornament that I chose to make this sample was actually this first one here. So, it's $6.30. You might see different pricing on your screen if you're not using Printify Premium. The pricing might be higher, but I choose to use Printify Premium. It's like $24.99 a month, and so worth it.

brings the prices of the products down drastically. Um, so if you want to try that out, you can click the link in my description below. Um, but anyways, so I used this one right here. There are more shapes that you can choose from as well. So there's a um, a star and a heart. Okay, so there's different shapes. You can also use different brands as well. There's one that's a little more expensive, one that's a little less expensive. There are glass ornaments. This one here, you can actually do it. You can print on both sides if you'd like. They also have some really cute new ones like this sled ornament right here that could be really sweet to do like a custom family name or again like a baby's first Christmas. But again, don't use baby's first Christmas like Kayle's first Christmas, you know. So there's many, many different options to choose from, but I've found the most success with just the basic ceramic ornament. So we're going to click in here and we're going to go to start designing.

and if you wanted to, you could download the design template and bring it into Canva to make sure that this is going to fit nicely on the ornament. So, I did not do that; I just kind of like have an eye for it at this point, but this will definitely help you because you have to remember that this part is going to be cut out of the ornament. So, your design is going to be, you know, a little bit lower on the ornament because of the hole for the string. If you wanted to choose a different shape, you would come right over here to select variants, and that's where you're able to choose the heart, star, or snowflake. And it's one size for all of these, but for this tutorial, we're doing just the regular circle one. All right, so I would come over here to upload and my device. All right, so if it is past the dotted line, that means that it will not get printed. The design will get cut off, so you have to scale your item, your design, to fit properly. The red line is

showing me that it is centered, but make sure if it's not centered on your canvas, then um it won't be centered on here. The red line goes by this box that's basically what my canvas was within Canva. So always make sure that it's actually centered. And then we can go up here to preview and prfi offers really great ornament mockups. So I don't really see a need to try to purchase an ornament mockup um I think that these are just fine, especially this one right here showcases it really nicely right there. And if I were to use this mockup within my Etsy listing, I would zoom in the thumbnail. So like watch my cursor here like probably where her um thumbnail is and then down and then where her other thumbnail is and up. So that the product and the design are up close and personal to the Shopper's face. This would be too far away for somebody who's browsing on Etsy. You can put this whole picture within your product images but again definitely zoom in closer for

your thumbnail picture. That's very important, so we're going to save the product. So, once you save the product, then you need to go through and fill out the product description, and then you would click publish to your Etsy shop. And if you have your Etsy Shop synced up properly to Printify, then this will go within your Etsy Shop. My free print-on-demand Freedom course will show you how to do this all step by step. Make sure that you're using appropriate keywords in your titles and tags, ones that Etsy sellers are actively searching for. So, quick little example, if we go into Etsy again, so coet Christmas ornaments. If I want to find a quick little way to help you with your titles and tags, we're going to come over here to all filters once you type in the search, what you're looking for. So, all filters, and then I'm going to come, let's see, down here to Star seller, and then show results. But then up at the top where it says in this URL L right here, see where

it says star. We're going to click on that, and I'm going to replace it with the word best. So now it's going to populate some of the best sellers for me. Um, in this niche, there are no um bestseller coet ornaments at this time, but that's okay. We can take a look at some of the other coet products that are doing really well. Let's click into a lot of these are PNG files, so if you are into selling PNGs, definitely consider selling um coet ones. Let's see which ones are selling the most. All right, so this is a top one right now. Okay, so you would come in and see what types of keywords did they use in their title, and you're going to put some of the keywords that they used in their title, the ones that make sense. You're going to put them in your title. You're also going to come down here, and these are all of the tags that they have used within their listing. So you're going to choose the ones that make sense for buyers to search um your

item as well. You're going to definitely, you know, you're going to change it to CET bow ornament. You're going to have the word ornament in your listing because that's what it is, right? You need to put keywords that people are actually searching to find your product. It wouldn't make sense for you to put in like Christmas coet bow PNG because we're not selling a PNG, we're selling an ornament. So use keywords like Christmas coet bow ornament or coet Christmas ornament. So switching the titles and tags to align it more with the product that you are selling, that's a way to, you know, do some titles and tags research with or without Everbee. I use Everbee to help me find keywords much faster, and also it helps me find keywords that have, you know, a higher search volume and a lower demand. Not completely necessary, but it's definitely helpful. Um, so again, you can try that out for free in my description below. Um, but yeah, so basically that is it in a nutshell. Consider adding customization to scale.

these products even further. Best wishes to you in this holiday season.

50K/Month Christmas Ornaments on Etsy (FULL Tutorial)

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Selling Christmas Ornaments on Etsy: A Q4 Guide

The Q4 season is the most lucrative time for Etsy sellers, with some making over $50,000 a month from a single Christmas ornament listing.

The product has low competition but high search volume, increasing the chances of sales.

If issues arise with orders, Printify offers solutions for reprints or refunds.

Browsing Etsy, Instagram, and Pinterest for 15-20 minutes can help identify selling trends and popular aesthetics for Christmas ornaments.

Customization is a key trend, with ornaments for babies' first Christmas and other life events, but it's important to check for trademark issues.

The coat niche is gaining popularity this holiday season and could be a lucrative trend, while personalization is a great way to stand out among Etsy sellers.

Etsy sellers are encouraged to add a personalized touch to their print-on-demand products, such as customizing with a family name or year.

Creative Fabrica offers pre-made graphics, but sellers must incorporate their own creativity in the design to comply with Etsy's rules.

Using tools like Canva, sellers can modify designs, add text, and incorporate elements like holly berries to create unique and meaningful Christmas ornaments.

Designing and Selling Ornaments for Print on Demand

The pro version of the design tool is enjoyable and beneficial for the business, but it's not necessary.

The speaker is creating a simple ornament design and offers personalization options.

Printify is used for printing and shipping orders, with the speaker recommending their premium plan for lower product prices.

You can download the design template and use Canva to ensure it fits the ornament.

The design should be lower on the ornament to accommodate the string hole, and you can choose different shapes like heart, star, or snowflake.

It's important to scale the design properly and center it on the canvas, and using Printify's mockups can help showcase the ornament for your Etsy listing.

Replacing the star with "best" helps identify top-selling coet products, mainly PNG files.

Analyzing successful listings for keywords and tags is crucial for optimizing your own title and tags.

Using tools like Everbee can streamline keyword research, and adding customization can further scale your products.