What's up guys? Welcome back to another episode of the Rock Your Brand podcast. Today we are going to be talking about the new

Etsy and how we can stay ahead of it and how we can take advantage of it.

And there has been a lot of doom and gloom out there where,

and we've even talked about some of the cons and some of the things that have been

happening that we should all be aware of concerned about but today what I wanted to do is I wanted to shed a little bit of light and really allow you to see that there still is a huge amount of opportunity we just need to know how to use it okay and how to use the

ETSI platform the last time that we did something like this, we had a lot of OGs in the house.

And what I mean by that is people that had been starting way back in the day and they have been doing handmademaid and now all of a sudden these you know

print on demand sellers you know we we come on the platform and we kind of ruin it for everyone. I don't like to look at it that way. I like to look at it

as like ETSE has evolved. There's a reason why it's evolved. And now it gives us more

opportunities that we can leverage the platform.

Now, with that being said, is everything perfect?

Would that see absolutely not?

I'll be the first one to sit here and say,

they've got a lot of cleanup to do and I think it's happening so fast.

But today what we want to do is talk about what it looks like, the new ETSI and from

there we can also look at okay what does it really look like for us that want to stay on the platform because here's the deal there's people running right now they're running from the platform they're like I'm out of here I am not going to be putting you know anything on Etsy I'm so upset with them

They're they're charging me now to open up a shop. They're charging me more on my fees. They're letting in, you know, print-on-demand sellers. You know, they're letting people sell digital stuff, which they've done that for a while but remember when they didn't let people sell digital stuff on Etsy and then when they started to oh my gosh like the world was coming to an end because Etsy now allowed digital product.

What's handmade about digital?

Oh, I guess you can say, well, you're using, you know, maybe a tool

to create a template that you can use on your iPad.

I don't know, I guess you hand made it by clicking or

dragging but the you know the O.G. Handmade people will argue with you on that.

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