Emer­gency Cash Tip #4: Sell Crafts on Etsy

If you’re an artis­tic per­son, sell­ing your wares on www.etsy.com/ might be a good op­tion if you’re look­ing to raise cash quickly.

If you’re un­fa­mil­iar with the site, it’s a place where ar­ti­sans can sell var­i­ous home­made goods in a thick, on­line marketplace.

Some im­por­tant things to note about Etsy are the following:

  1. every­thing you sell must be some­thing you made yourself;
  2. it costs 20 cents to list an item for 4 months; and
  3. each sale will in­cur a 3.5% trans­ac­tion fee.

As far as what you can sell on Etsy goes, hot sell­ers in­clude pieces of art, bags and purses, can­dles, toys for chil­dren, cro­cheted items, hol­i­day dec­o­ra­tions, quilts, vin­tage pieces, and wed­ding decorations.

For a ba­sic overview of the “dos and don’ts” of sell­ing on Etsy, you should view the guide they’ve placed on­line here: https://www.etsy.com/dosdonts.php.

While there are many ways to make emer­gency cash with Etsy, the ex­perts sug­gest that build­ing items around a sin­gle theme and spe­cial­iz­ing is one of the best ways to get no­ticed and to sell items. This is usu­ally a bet­ter op­tion that cre­at­ing a lot of dis­parate items in dif­fer­ent categories.

Over­all, Etsy pro­vides a good op­por­tu­nity to make emer­gency cash on­line fast; and while do­ing some­thing you en­joy already.

How­ever, if you’re not par­tic­u­larly artis­tic or don’t have an in­ter­est in crafts, then Etsy may not be a good op­tion for you.