Sell Handmade Things Online: a Shop Starter
Cost per item, photos, listing pages, shipping and policies, and a launch-week plan for a marketplace or your own shop.
By Whole Life HQ4 parts · about 6,000 words · printable · read online
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OpenWho it's for
Makers and digital-product creators opening a first online shop who want a clear checklist for photos, listings, shipping and a launch week.
What you receive
- 4 written parts, with a cost-per-item worksheet
- Photo plan and a fill-in listing page with three worked listings
- Shipping, packing, digital delivery, policies and customer messages
- A launch-week plan and a first-month routine, with no sales promises
4 printable pages, in reading order
- Part 1: Before you open the shop
- Part 2: Photos, titles and descriptions that answer the questions
- Part 3: Shipping, packing, delivery and policies
- Part 4: Your launch week and first month
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The first 4 pages, as they print.
Look inside
The first page, word for word. 4 printable pages in total.
Part 1: Before you open the shop
You make something: candles, cards, knitted hats, stickers, printable planners, prints, wooden spoons, a digital template. You would like to list it online and let people find it. This guide takes you from "I have a few things" to "I have a shop that is ready and a plan for the first week," one practical step at a time.
It covers a marketplace shop (for example, Etsy or a similar site) and a shop on your own site, since the early work is the same. It describes a process and a checklist. It does not predict sales, views or income, and nothing here promises that anyone will buy. Marketplace rules, fees and search behavior change often, so check each site's current seller pages before you rely on a detail.
What this guide gives you
- Part 1: choose what to sell, work out what it costs you, and check the rules for your kind of product.
- Part 2: photos and listings, with a checklist and fill-in listing page.
- Part 3: shipping or delivery, packaging, policies and customer messages.
- Part 4: a launch week plan, a first-month routine and an honest review.
What is in each part
- Before you open the shop
- Photos, titles and descriptions that answer the questions
- Shipping, packing, delivery and policies
- Your launch week and first month
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Downloads included
4 printable pages: see the list
- Part 1: Before you open the shop
- Part 2: Photos, titles and descriptions that answer the questions
- Part 3: Shipping, packing, delivery and policies
- Part 4: Your launch week and first month
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Who wrote it
Written by the Whole Life HQ team.
Not yet reviewed by an outside expert. It is general information, not professional advice.
General information, not professional advice.
How you get it
- In your libraryAfter you pay, it is in your library straight away.
- Any devicePhone, tablet or computer. Print it if you like paper.
- Yours to keepIt stays in your account, and you can come back any time.
