1. Be Patient
Hands-down, the most popular piece of advice for new Etsy sellers is realizing that success doesn’t happen overnight.
Jodi Lynn Burton of Jodi Lynn's Emporium of Doodles didn’t get her first order until four months after she started her shop in 2011. “I listed a couple of original drawings, and a couple people favorited them, but I wasn't getting much traffic,” she says. “After reading advice in the Seller Handbook, I added a couple new items and tags, and then I got my first sale.”
Moral of the story: Keep making improvements to your shop and view your Shop Stats to study what works for attracting traffic. “Iterate and improve. Practice and repeat,” says Etsy Admin Cheyne Little
For more tips, read Five Shop Stats Your Should Be Tracking