Etsy product research with ChatGPT: make up session

This make up session in the Etsy module was taught by Shanawar Aslam. It is filed in Sir Zafar Ali's Etsy section at the owner's request; the teacher of this session is Shanawar Aslam.¹

Find newer shops with digital sales

Connect Etsy to ChatGPT through a plugin. Ask ChatGPT to find shops that are no older than 6 months and have made 100 digital sales. Visit those shops, inspect their products, and use them to find ideas for products you could make.¹

The supplied infographic phrases the criteria as under 6 months old and 100+ reported digital sales. It also says to check shop age, listings and sales signals, because exact digital sales may not be public.²

Use competitors as a research guide

Follow competitors' footprints: your competitor is your best friend. Study what they do, follow their approach, and aim to do better. When you like a product, give its link to ChatGPT and ask for ideas and help making a product.¹

The notes explicitly say "wahi product, wahi title": have AI make the same product and title to use. The infographic gives different guidance: use competitor insights as inspiration, create an original product, and write fresh titles and unique content rather than copying the same design and identical wording.¹²

Open question: the notes and infographic disagree about reusing the same product and title. The intended instruction needs clarification; both source statements are preserved here.

Niches highlighted in class

The two niches recommended in the notes are planners and trackers.¹

The infographic expands these into daily, weekly, monthly, goal and productivity planners, and habit, budget, fitness and progress trackers.²

Let AI help with the work and the prompts

Have AI do as much of the work as possible, including writing the prompt needed to create the product. The class workflow starts with a product link and uses ChatGPT to help turn the idea into a product.¹

Research ideas through Motion Invest

The notes recommend working with Motion Invest, compare it to Flippa, and describe it as a market for digital products. Look at listings with good monthly income to get ideas.¹

The infographic describes Motion Invest as a marketplace for online businesses rather than an Etsy-only marketplace, and suggests studying niches, traffic, earnings and how those businesses make money.²

Open question: the notes' description of a digital-product market and the infographic's online-business description differ. The precise scope intended in class remains to be clarified.

Class infographic

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Footnotes

1. Owner-supplied notes for the Etsy module, Make up session, Product Research, taught by Shanawar Aslam. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷

2. Owner-supplied Etsy Product Research Cheat Sheet infographic for the same make up session. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴