 Now, as I promised, product research. This is one of the most important parts because you need to sell the right items. After you registered your account, after you passed all the verification, this is the next step, knowing what products you wanna sell on your Etsy store. And since you know that each listing is gonna cost you 20 cents to list, you're not gonna go random and start adding so many products to your store. Etsy does not have any selling limits. You can list as much as you want from day one, which is great. But if your product research is not top-notch, you're gonna end up spending a lot more money before you start seeing those sales and profits. So here is where we're gonna narrow down our product research and really pin it down to the items that have the highest probability of selling on our Etsy store and, of course, items that go under the items that we are allowed to sell on Etsy. So let's go over product research. Now, remember, when researching for products, make sure that they are either handmade, vintage, retro, craft supplies like DIY projects and party favors. Now, remember those as you go through your product research phase. The first method that I wanna show you is the AutoDS winning products hub. We have the winning products hub right here on the left side and this shows you proven winning products. Now, let's see what we can find that fits Etsy's policies on items that we can sell. Like this one right here, this wooden couple figurine craft, it's a handmade item. This one is very fitting to sell on Etsy. And once I clicked on it, you can see that we have more product information inside. We got all the images right here. We've got the product information right here. We've got the potential profit. How much profit we can make selling this item when we compare it to this seller right here with the Facebook ads that we are showing on each of these products. So this is an ad that a seller is running on this product. And as you can see, they've got over 72,000 engagements, over 4,000 comments, over 6,000 shares. So you know that this product right here is popular. And right here on the AutoDS Insights, you have a brief explanation on the Facebook ad, the seller's website, what he's doing well, what you can do better. And you can also click on the link to go to the seller's website and see how he's selling the product, what he's doing on his product page, how he's trying to make it look good for the customer to buy. And this will give you a good indication of what you can do better so that you'll have a higher chance of making more sales than this seller. And if you would sell it at the same price that he is selling right here at 23.99, you can make almost $20 in profit because this is a really cheap one to two to $3 item, maybe. All you have to do is click on the import draft right here and it will import to your Etsy store. But first you have to add the Etsy store which we're gonna get to soon, but this is product research method number one. This is where you can find proven winning products with audience targeting tips, with the seller's Facebook ads, with the seller's websites, and all that information that you need in order to do a much better job than these sellers. Here's another example. We've got this 208 piece kids drawing set. So this goes under arts and crafts which of course is very suitable for selling on Etsy. We can drop ship this item for around $28. And as we can see right here, we've got a seller who's got about 5,000 engagements on his Facebook ad on this very same product. And here is his website where we can see him selling it for 24.99 before the shipping price. And again, another example of how to target audiences if we want to market this product. But at the end of the day, it's as easy as clicking import draft then this product will import to your Etsy store where you can optimize it before having it go live and selling another proven winner. So once again, this is the number one product research tool for finding trending products to sell right now and importing them to your store in just a click. Now, if that's not enough or if you don't have an Autodesk subscription but you still want winning products, proven winning products, the second and third product research methods is the Autodesk blog under the product finding category which is what we're seeing right here as well as the sell these now YouTube playlist. So if you're the type that likes to watch go to the YouTube playlist. We've got all the links in the Etsy dropshipping cheat sheet. This is a sell these now playlist where you have tons and tons and tons of winning products that's updating constantly all the time with our huge database of winning and trending products. And back to the blog page under the product finding category. Here you have the best items to sell with full product analytics and everything that you need and fresh new articles coming out all the time. We've got between two to five new articles and new videos coming out every week. So go to our blog page, subscribe to our YouTube channel and grab hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of winning products that are trending right now. All of this information is absolutely free. We just want you to succeed in your dropshipping journey. Product research method number four is the AliExpress dropshipping center. Another great place to find winning product ideas to sell in your stores. So we have a link to the AliExpress dropshipping center article, you also have the video embedded inside. And of course you also have a link to the AliExpress dropshipping center. And here in the dropshipping center we can see a whole bunch of products that are trending right now on AliExpress and we can get these product ideas to further enhance our product research strategy to get more product ideas of products that we wanna sell. And then of course we don't have to buy them through AliExpress. We can use other dropshipping suppliers and import their winning products that we got their ideas from the AliExpress dropshipping center. So as you see right here, I'm just browsing through the dropshipping center and as I hover over every product you can see that we have a sales history chart showing us how well the product is selling and trending right now as well as the product ratings. So as soon as I hover over a product I can see all this information including the product rating, how much it sold and how much it grew in the last seven days. Now remember when you're doing this product research when you're getting these product ideas make sure that it falls under the products that we can sell on Etsy which I went through a few times in this video. To make it even easier you can choose a specific category to help you narrow down to those types of products. For example, let's type in jewelry and we've got jewelry and accessories. Search for that and here are the results and these are great items that I can start selling on Etsy right now. Here is even a really good example where it has a vintage look on a bracelet and that's just another great example that we can get from the AliExpress drop shipping center. Now the next product research method I wanna show you is simply using Etsy's top sellers. So here on Etsy's website I'm simply gonna click on these categories and see what some of the best selling items are inside just to kind of get an idea of what Etsy's customers like to buy. So here for example, I'm gonna click on DIY do it yourself and crafts and here Etsy is first showing me this seller right here so it's probably a sponsored ad right? So an ad that Etsy's running even though I don't see sponsored anywhere here but they're really showcasing this product before everyone else under DIY and crafts but as I scroll down I can get much more product ideas and as you see as I hover over them sellers who add a video to their listing will have it automatically seen as soon as I hover over the product as you can see right here. Okay, but here we can get some examples of DIY crafts that people like to buy. In this case, I'm seeing a lot of fabrics but not only that we can see some woodworking over here but in this case we have a nice range of different types of DIY products that are selling a lot from these Etsy sellers like this really easy to find do it yourself bracelet kits and it's really easy to find these listings. So what I'm gonna do right here is I'm gonna get the idea from Etsy I'm gonna copy the product's name so in this case it's jewelry making kit beads. I know that it's selling really well because this seller right here sold this item 998 times and he's got a five star rating then I'm gonna head over to autods.com autods is the number one drop shipping automation tool which I will talk about soon but for now you're gonna go to autods.com and you're gonna click on the suppliers button right up here and here you can see over 25 drop shipping suppliers that you can use to go and find products on their websites and import them to your Etsy stores. So this gives you access to tens of millions of products that you can resell. So once again, it's as easy as going to their website finding the product that you wanna buy. For example, let's go to CJ drop shipping which is a great whole seller and here I'm going to search for jewelry making kit beads and here as you can see, I've got a lot of listings that are jewelry kit making beads and I can easily, easily add them to my Etsy store and start selling and as you can see they're really, really cheap. I can get them from $2.18, $3.37 and so forth. So it's really cheap and we can easily compete with these types of sellers that are making lots of sales. Sorry for the wrong currency. Etsy's showing the localized currency but this one is selling for around $9 to $10 and you can see we can buy it for around two to three. Another product research method that I didn't talk about and I didn't even add it to the cheat sheet is the AutoDS private suppliers. So if I click here on marketplace and not on the winning products, you'll have more products that you can sell as you can see right here. So you can continue searching for trending products to sell using the marketplace. Now the marketplace doesn't have all of the Facebook ads and the analytics and everything that I showed you inside the winning product section but this one has lots and lots of trending products and as you can see you also have private warehouses meaning we teamed up with private wholesale suppliers that are adding their products to the AutoDS marketplace where only you, the AutoDS member will have access to import them to your store and sell them and as soon as an order comes in the order will be processed automatically for you. So all that you have to do is sit back, relax, watch your orders get processed and watch the profit start to roll in. On top of that you also have the branding option. So if you see right here it says branding logo coming from the AutoDS warehouse because we also have our own private warehouse with thousands of trending products. When you make a sale on one of these products you can easily add your logo so we'll ship out these products with your logo and you don't have to have any minimum order quantity. So here for example if I'm gonna sell these pants right here with the pockets for your mobile phones you can see that it says branding logo and this is an AutoDS supplier with discounted prices. Here on the right side I can click on add now to add my store logo. Then I'm gonna click right here to upload or drag and drop that logo right here under my store settings and that's it. When an order comes in and I've got branding logo it's gonna come out with my brand. So the customer will remember my store, remember my name and refer their friends and their family to purchase from my professional drop shipping store. So now that you have a great idea on where to find your trending products to sell on Etsy let's talk about the products that we cannot sell. We talked about what we can sell. What we can't sell is every other product in every other category that I didn't mention that you can sell but on top of that on the products that you can sell make sure that none of them have hazardous materials, have liquids, have anything to do with medicines, vitamins, supplements, items that have a choking hazard, items that are related to tobacco, to firearms, weapons, ammunition, things like that. Stay completely away from those products even if they go under arts and crafts or do it yourself, jewelry and things like that. Now that we understand the ins and outs we understand how to start or sell our accounts on Etsy. We understand Etsy's selling fees, we know how to conduct product research and we've got wonderful, wonderful methods to finding, sourcing and selling the best products that we'll sell on our Etsy accounts.