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Seller Secret Society

New report every Monday

Know what sellsbefore you make it

A weekly research report on what Etsy buyers actually pay for, and the tools to check, write and price your listings.

Every list-by deadline, next 120 days

7 DEADLINES

Black Friday · 13 Nov
DECJANFEB

Black Friday and Cyber Monday · buyers need it by 27 Nov

Set up your shop saleBundle your best sellersEmail past buyers

9days left

29sellers in the Society

Founding price, $9 a month47 spots left
Report W44now

6 products worth making this week

Top pick: wedding budget spreadsheet, 3,800 Etsy searches in 30 days. 9 ideas struck off.

Shop Guardnow

New trademark filing: Waitlist

Checking your titles and tags against it and 959 other marks.

Deadlinesnow

9 days to list for Black Friday and Cyber Monday

List by 13 Nov so the listing is live before buyers start searching.

Free shop check

Is your shopone report away?

One brand name in a title or tag is enough for a takedown, and every strike counts against the whole shop. Type your shop name and see what a rights owner would find.

  • Titles, all 13 tags and the full description
  • 959 brands and protected phrases, judged in context
  • The riskiest listing shown in full, with a safe word to use instead
How the trademark checker worksNew: check a listing against Etsy's AI photo rules

Free, no sign-up. Reads your newest 100 active listings from Etsy's public data. 3 shop checks a day.

Free field guide · 2026 edition

Open. List.Sell.

Everything a first-year Etsy seller asks, answered with 2026 numbers and real Shop Manager screens. Where to start, what every fee costs, how to build a listing search can find, and what to do in the first 30 days so the shop is not invisible.

pages
70
pages
chapters, plus 4 appendices
18
chapters, plus 4 appendices
real Etsy screens
33
real Etsy screens
checklists to work through
19
checklists to work through
  1. IBefore you openIs Etsy worth it, what you can sell, picking a product people search for
  2. IIOpening the shopSetup step by step, every fee on one sale, Shop Manager, branding and policies
  3. IIIListings that get foundAnatomy of a listing, SEO that matches search now, photos, pricing
  4. IVThe first 30 daysThe launch calendar, reading Stats, orders and reviews, staying out of trouble
  5. VGrowth beyond searchAds for beginners, free external traffic, the 90-day review
Download the PDF No email, no sign-up. 5 MB.
Cover of Open. List. Sell., the new Etsy seller field guide, 2026 edition

Keyword toolsand what they miss

The popular Etsy SEO tools are good at search volume. None of them watch your shop for trademarks. Here is the honest side by side, from their own pricing pages.

Etsy seller tools compared, checked on 21 September 2026
Checked 21 September 2026Seller Secret SocietyeRankMarmaleadEverBeeAluraSale SamuraiListadum
Price to start$9/mo, first 7 days freeFree plan, paid from $5.99/mo$19/mo, $16/mo yearlyFree plan, paid from $24.99/moFree plan, paid from $7.99/moFree plan, paid $19.99/mo, 3-day trialFree plan, paid from $10/mo per shop
Keyword search volumePartlyWeekly, from Etsy's own 30-day countsYes5 to 500 lookups a day by planYesYes10 on free, unlimited paidYesYesUnlimited on paidYesKeyword Explorer
Whole-shop trademark screenEvery title, tag and description against known brands and protected phrasesYes959 marks, judged in contextNot listedNot listedNot listedNot listedNot listedNot listed
Alert when a new US or UK trademark filing matches your listingsYesUS daily, UK weekly, emailedNot listedNot listedNot listedNot listedNot listedNot listed
A weekly list of what to make and what to skipYesTargets plus a blacklist, every MondayPartlyTrend data, you decidePartlyTrend data, you decidePartlyProduct data, you decidePartlyProduct data, you decidePartlyTrend charts, you decidePartlyTrend reports, you decide
Competitor shop trackingYes10 shops, sales per dayYes5 to 200 shops by planNot listedYesSaved shopsYesYesCompetition trackerYesShop Tracker
AI listing writerYesScreened for trademarks firstYesPartlyAI description critiqueYesYesNot listedYesAI credits by plan
Lessons and a seller communityYesFree Skool group, weekly lessonsPartlyCoursesNot listedNot listedNot listedNot listedPartly1:1 call on the $100/mo plan

Where they are better

If you look up hundreds of keywords a day, the dedicated keyword tools do that at a bigger scale, and some of them work right inside Etsy through a browser extension. Nothing stops you keeping one of them next to us.

What none of them do

Watch your shop for trademarks. A keyword tool tells you what buyers search for. It does not tell you that the phrase in your best title is a registered brand, or that someone filed for it last week.

Prices and features as listed on each tool's own pricing or feature page on 21 September 2026; a dash means the feature was not listed there. Sources: eRank, Marmalead, EverBee, Alura, Sale Samurai, Listadum. eRank, Marmalead, EverBee, Alura, Sale Samurai, Listadum are trademarks of their owners. Seller Secret Society is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them.

Why not just ask a chatbot?

Intelligence is free now.Memory isn't.

Any chatbot can write a listing. None of them has been reading the trademark registers and Etsy every day and keeping what it read. That record is what you get here, and it grows every day since 19 Sepember 2026.

Running now · read from the database, not typed by hand

US register
today at 02:15 UTC
Last read of new trademark applications
Last 7 days
7,006
US and UK applications in seller classes read
UK journal
2026-044
Newest weekly issue read, cover to cover
Today
6
Etsy shops read for the day's sales
Shop Guard
1,150
Listings screened in the last 7 days
Brands
959
Names and phrases every listing is checked against

Don't take our word for it. Test it.

Type your shop. Copy the question into any chatbot you use, then run the same check here and compare.

Ask your chatbot

Look at my Etsy shop etsy.com/shop/YOURSHOP. Which of my listings use a trademarked word in the title or tags, and was any trademark application filed in the last 30 days that matches words in my listings? Give the serial number and a link to the official record for each one.

Ask this site

  • Your newest 100 listings, read from Etsy right now
  • Every title and all 13 tags against 959 brand names
  • New trademark applications from the last five weeks that match your words

Free shows the riskiest listing and the newest match. Members see every one, the whole shop, and get an email when a new match turns up.

Then put the two answers side by side. No sign-up for either.

To do this yourself, every week

  1. 1Read every new US trademark application. In the last 7 days we read 5,341 in the classes Etsy sellers list in.
  2. 2Download Friday's UK trademark journal (issue 2026-044), a file of about 170 MB, and search it.
  3. 3Check every title and all 13 tags against 959 brand names and protected phrases.
  4. 4Paste your listings into a chat, 100 at a time, and ask again.
  5. 5Tomorrow, start over.

Or let it run while you sleep.

Every finding links to where it came from: the official trademark record, the Etsy listing, the math behind an estimate. When something is wrong, there is a person to tell.

The slop filter

Chatbots writelike chatbots

Buyers skim past copy that sounds machine made. Every listing the Writer makes goes through the slop filter before you see it, then the trademark screen checks every word.

Caught in this draft

13

  • Filler words and phrases7
  • Hype and vague claims3
  • Pushy lines and shouting2
  • Dashes1

62 words in, 43 out. The same rules run on every draft.

Draft · written by a chatbot

Elevate your space with this stunning boho wall art — a must-have for any plant lover! Whether you're refreshing your living room or hunting for the perfect gift, this curated set of 3 prints is a testament to minimalist design. Meticulously made and ready to download, it's not just decor, it's a lifestyle. Don't miss out!!! Unlock your home's full potential today.

After the filter

Three botanical prints in soft sage green, for a calm living room or a plant lover's shelf. You get 3 high resolution files sized for 5x7, 8x10 and 11x14 frames. Print at home or at any print shop. Digital download, nothing is shipped.

Made with the help of AI tools, then edited and checked by the seller.

  • 0 filler words
  • 0 dashes
  • Trademark screen: clear of 959 marks
  • Your AI line, word for word

Six targetsand a blacklist

Research that says no to most ideas, tools that stay on our server, and the lessons behind both. Every figure comes from a page opened that week.

Latest report · 2026-W44

Members only

Six Ways In, Nine Ways Out

  • wedding budget spreadsheet

    High conversion

    3,80030 days

  • wedding shower games printable

    Very high conversion

    2,00030 days

  • 9 terms struck off. The data ruled them out.

Read the full dossier

Why the yearly average lies · Report 2026-W39

<20

eRank yearly average for "santa sack personalized"

816

Etsy searches for the same term in the last 30 days

Seasonal demand hides inside a yearly number. The report reads the last 30 days, so you see the wave while there is still time to list.

Filed this week,in your tags next week

Everyday phrases get claimed as trademarks all the time. Shop Guard reads every new US application daily and the UK Trade Marks Journal every week, and emails members the day one matches their listings.

New US and UK applications · last month

Pending applications are not registered yet. Once registered, the owner can report every listing that uses the phrase. UK data: Open Government Licence v3.0.

What a fix looks like

Example listing

Building Block Birthday Party Invitation | Lego Theme Printable Invite for Boys

birthday invitelego partyblock partykids party printable

Critical: a registered toy brand in the title and a tag. The owner files takedowns on Etsy, and a strike counts against the whole shop.

Todor Todorov, founder of Seller Secret Society

Who runs this

TodorTodorov

Founder

Seller Secret Society is run by one person who sells on Etsy and designs for Amazon sellers every day. The research method and the trademark checker were used on his own shop before they came here.

  • 16 years in design

    F5 Design Studio, listing images for Amazon sellers since 2010.

  • Sells on Etsy himself

    Runs his own digital product shop, with the same fees, deadlines and trademark risks as yours.

  • Trademark screening

    The same 959-mark database he uses on his own listings.

  • Runs the research himself

    Every weekly report is his own sweep, with every figure read that week.

Traffic · Pin Creator

Free Pinterest traffic,on autopilot.

Official Pinterest API

A listing goes in, a stack of on-brand pins comes out, and they publish straight to your Pinterest board.

01

Pick a listing

Start from any Etsy listing. Pull in its photos and its style.

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Printable

10 Fall Coloring Pages

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Printable

Halloween Bingo, 30 Cards

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Printable

Thanksgiving Games Pack

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AI builds the pins

Five to ten on-brand pins, each with a title, description and alt text written for you.

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Your Pinterest board
Printable

10 Fall Coloring Pages

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Printable

Halloween Bingo, 30 Cards

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Printable

Thanksgiving Games Pack

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Digital

Cozy Gratitude Journal

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Printable

Christmas Trivia Game

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Printable

Kids Word Search Bundle

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One click to Pinterest

Publish straight to your board. No export, no copy and paste.

Create my pinsIncluded with your membership. Publishes through the official Pinterest API.
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The member dashboard: this week's report with 6 keywords to test and 12 struck off, the seasonal deadline timeline and the profit on a digital sale.
The member dashboard: this week's report with 6 keywords to test and 12 struck off, the seasonal deadline timeline and the profit on a digital sale.

Hosted toolbox

Tools that runon our server

Real screens from the members' area. Nothing to install. Log in with your email and every tool is there, in light or dark.

  • My ShopShop GuardShop Health Report
  • ResearchProduct RadarProduct ValidatorDossier VaultTag RadarShop TrackerSeasonal Calendar
  • WorkshopVector ForgeSticker Sheets (coming soon)Coloring Pages
  • StudioListing DesignerMockup Studio (coming soon)LightboxVideo Maker
  • ListingsListing WriterBulk UploaderListing CheckerDelivery Sheet
  • TrafficPin CreatorSocial Post WriterTraffic Report
  • MoneyProfit CalculatorDiscount LabStatement Decoder (coming soon)Sales Report (coming soon)
  • LibraryTemplatesPrompt Library (coming soon)Workflows (coming soon)Skills

Profit Calculator

$4.07

What you keep on a $5.00 digital sale in the US, after the transaction, processing and listing fees.

Seasonal Calendar

9days

Until you should list for Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Buyers need it by 27 Nov.

Dashed tools are coming soon. Members get each one the day it goes live.

40 lessons

From research to KDP, one lesson a week.

  • Trademark safety
  • SVG factory
  • Coloring automation
  • Listing images
  • Pricing and bundles
  • Pinterest traffic

Each topic has a free lesson that shows the result and a members lesson with the prompts and templates.

Member prices

The services stay services. Members pay less.

Trademark Scan

Every listing checked against 959 marks, with a fix sheet.

Shop Audit

Tags, titles, pricing and timing, rewritten for you.

One scan at member price can cover a month of membership.

Free tool

Your bestseller is already on Temu. Under someone else's name.

When a copy shows up on SHEIN, Temu, Amazon, AliExpress, Etsy or eBay, speed matters. Build a ready-to-send copyright takedown notice in two minutes, get the exact place to file it, and a clean evidence pack. Free, and your images never leave your browser.

Pricing

Early memberspay less

The price goes up in public steps as the community grows. Your price is locked the day you join, for as long as you stay.

  1. YOU ARE HERE

    Founding

    0 to 50 members

    $9/mo

  2. Early

    50 to 150

    $19/mo

  3. Growth

    150 to 300

    $29/mo

  4. Full

    300+

    $39/mo

What the membership includes

Every tool, every report. No add-ons.

One membership opens everything below. The first 7 days are free: you add a card on Stripe's page and nothing is charged until the trial ends. Cancel from your account in two clicks.

  • The weekly dossier: products to test and products to skip
  • 100 AI credits every month for writing, pins and images
  • Your price locked for as long as you stay
  • The free Skool group for lessons and questions

My Shop

  • Shop Guard. Every listing in your shop screened for trademark risks, every week, with an email when something new turns up.
  • Shop Health Report. Every listing in your shop scored for missing tags, weak titles, thin descriptions, photos and dead listings, with the fix for each.

Research

  • Product Radar. What digital product to make next: searches ranked by recent sales, new shops getting in and big-shop pressure, then the gaps buyers complain about turned into a product brief.
  • Product Validator. Is it selling? Estimated sales and money for any listing or keyword, what buyers say in the reviews, and a daily watch.
  • Dossier Vault. Every keyword from every weekly dossier, searchable.
  • Tag Radar. The tags active listings use for any keyword, any listing's 13 tags, and the strong tags your listing is missing.
  • Shop Tracker. Follow up to 10 competitor shops: sales per day, new listings and reviews.
  • Seasonal Calendar. When to list for every Etsy season, with the deadline counted down.

Workshop

  • Vector Forge. Drop a ZIP of PNG or SVG designs and get a finished bundle: checked and cleaned files renamed to your collection, SVG, DXF, EPS and print-ready PNG, packed into Etsy or Google Drive ready ZIPs.
  • Coloring Pages. Turn finished pages into the whole product: print PDFs in every paper size, a low-opacity version, a free sample, listing preview images and Pinterest pins.

Studio

  • Listing Designer. Paste your title and SEO and get 5, 10 or 15 listing images in one matching style, with the text already on them.
  • Lightbox. Upload a product photo from your phone and get it back as a clean studio shot: even light, a clean background, true colors, your product unchanged.
  • Video Maker. Turn your listing images into a 15 second MP4 for Etsy, Reels or Pinterest: pick an animation style, no AI, no credits.

Listings

  • Listing Writer. A title, 13 tags and a description with the AI disclosure line, checked for trademarks.
  • Listing Checker. Trademark screen and SEO read for a title, tags and description.
  • Delivery Sheet. The PDF your buyers download: your file links as real buttons, how-to steps, print guide, license and FAQ, in your shop's brand, with every link checked.

Traffic

  • Pin Creator. Pick a listing and get 5 to 10 Pinterest pins in its own style, or switch on Autopilot and every new listing gets its own pins, posted over the next days.
  • Social Post Writer. One listing, ready posts for Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Threads and X: images in every size and captions from your own words, checked for trademarks.
  • Traffic Report. How many visits your pins sent to Etsy, which listings they went to, and the sales that followed.

Money

  • Profit Calculator. What Etsy takes and what you keep, for your shop country.
  • Discount Lab. See which sales and coupons still make money after Etsy's fees, from your own Etsy exports.

Library

  • Templates. Canva templates, PSD files and other design files for listing images and shops.
  • Skills. Claude skills that run a full workflow, starting with the Etsy Scout.

During the free week

Every scan and report is open. AI tools run on 10 credits, and template and skill downloads open when the first paid month starts.

Need more AI credits?

Optional top-ups that never expire: 50 for $5, 150 for $12, 400 for $29.

Coming to members, at no extra cost

Sticker Sheets, Mockup Studio, Bulk Uploader, Statement Decoder, Sales Report, Prompt Library, Workflows.

Free every Monday

Not ready to join?Take one pick a week

One product idea from that week's report, with its Etsy searches and conversion. One email, Monday morning, unsubscribe in one click.

Questionsbefore you join

What does it cost?

$9 a month for founding members, with the first 7 days free. You add a card on Stripe's page to start the trial and nothing is charged until it ends. Your price stays locked for as long as you stay a member.

What do I get in the free week?

Everything except two things: you get 10 AI credits instead of 100, and template and skill downloads open on day 8. Shop Guard scans, the Shop Health Report, the weekly research reports and every lesson are open from day one.

Can I cancel?

Yes, any time, from Membership and billing in your account. It takes two clicks. Cancel inside the first 7 days and you pay nothing; after that you keep access until the end of the month you paid for.

What is the Skool group for?

It is our free community: lessons, the weekly dossier posts and questions between sellers. Anyone can join it. The tools, the full reports and the AI credits are part of the membership on this site.

I am just starting. Is this for me?

Yes. The weekly report tells you what to make before you spend a week on it, and the Listing Checker catches brand words before your first listing goes live.

Does it work for Amazon?

The tools are built for Etsy. The lessons cover KDP too, and members pay less for Amazon listing images from F5 Design Studio.

Do you change anything in my shop?

No. Shop Guard reads your public listings and shows you what to fix. Nothing changes on Etsy unless you change it yourself. We never ask for your Etsy password.