Etsy fees for a higher volume and lower item price $871 saved with Shopify’s Unlimited plan! As your business grows, and you begin making more sales, it can be more cost effective to run your own ecommerce site, rather than paying Etsy’s monthly fees.
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I moved from Etsy to Shopify about 4 months ago. At first, I thought that it would be a hard and risky change but it definitely wasn't. My sales increased dramatically as well as brand awareness. Here are few points why you should do the same.
A lot of your traffic goes to waste. This is a quite big problem I encountered when I used Etsy. I was gaining traffic from social media and any other sources, but it just went away. Why? It's because when you visit a website you stay only on that website. When you visit an Etsy store you can easily go to another Etsy store which sells related products to yours.
Your page can't be personalized. On Etsy you are stuck only in one template where you only can change few things. This doesn't work if you are trying to stand out as a business. When you have your own shop you really can raise your brand awareness to top notch. You can start a blog, make e-mail lists and do so many new things with Shopify apps, you'll just blow your mind.
You're dependent on one huge marketplace. One day Etsy can change their search algorithms and you may lose most of your traffic and sales. Etsy sale fees are quite low at the moment, but no one knows when they could change them and charge 10% of the sales as Ebay does that. This is a really tricky game because one day your Etsy shop can start to die out for unknown algorithm changes.
There's also one minus for Shopify
It could be hard to gain traffic when you launch your shop. When you have your own shop you won't gain traffic from a Etsy search engine. You'll have to work with google search engine as well as social media. I can say it won't be easy, but it will pay back big time! :)
If you have any questions about this, be sure to ask in comments or pm me.
You can also check out my Shopify shop here if you are interested. Wish you luck fellow Etsians!
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