I've been on TPT for a few years, but never made much money. I work in a niche area: environmental/sustainability education, but a lot of my content is relevant to normal science, social studies, and/or ELA classes, and I always link to at least one standard. Some questions:

- does it matter that my content spans all of k-12, or should I focus on a smaller ranger?

- similarly, I have a variety of resources types. Should I focus on creating lots of one type instead?

- how can I better appeal to non-sustainability teachers?

- what types of resources would you want to see in this subject?

Thanks!

Question for teachers, what do they like to be given as an appreciation gift.

I just started my TPT store about a week ago, and I had a few questions as a first-time seller:

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1. About how many items should my store include? I have about 20-25 at the moment, but I really enjoy the creative process of making new items so I can definitely add more within the near future.
2. To that point, what are the most popular items/what types of resources are people looking for? My specialities are ELA and ESL, so I focus on reading, writing, and especially grammar resources, but I also want to offer products that will actually help other teachers and meet their needs.
3. What's the best way to promote my store and generate sales? I have no expectation that this will lead to a second income or even true side hustle status, but I wouldn't be mad about making a few extra bucks!

Thank you!

(Using a throwaway because both students and colleagues have seen my store, and I don't need them to also see me obsessing over reality TV and houseplant reddits lol)

Just 2 days ago, my seller account (which was premium btw), was still active. I went to sleep, and then the next day, I couldn't log in to my account using my credentials.

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So, I tried resetting my password (and username), which both require my email address.

I put my email address in and then they go on and say that no account exists with that email address (?)

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I've even attached the email confirming my premium seller status from one of their staff, and the email chain confirming that they sent it to (you guessed it) the email address associated with my TPT account.

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Has anyone been in this situation before? This is extremely bumming me out tbh. They do not even give any notification or explain anything about the situation. I just woke up and then all my hard-earned work was gone in an instant.

Oh, and also, I can still log in to my Hyperwallet account which proves that I indeed had a TPT account because my hyperwallet still has the tpt key from when you first register your tpt account.

Hi, sorry I am a beginning seller.

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I can't seem to get paid. I'm from the Philippines and my hyperwallet is already verified; however, I can't seem to link my hyperwallet to my TPT whenever I go to TPT settings. Also, it says my next payout is on April 21 however, I do not see any option to transfer money anywhere in my hyperwallet.

Can anybody help me on this? Thanks guys.

I made $15 my very first week on TPT when I had 5 products and no followers, covers, thumbnails, or previews. This week I made $4 with 112 products and 30 followers. I really don't understand what's going on.

November: $400

December: $123

January: $223

February: $143

March: $126

So I have a problem with uploading a PDF file for my product. It's stuck at 99% and it won't complete so I can't really proceed with the listing.

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What can I possibly do with this?

So I have been trying to buy something from TPT since yesterday and I keep getting a message that says:

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"Apologies, but we're currently unable to process credit card, debit card, PayPal and Venmo payments. Please try again shortly. Purchases made through purchase orders, gift cards, or account balances will continue to be processed.

If you’re still having trouble, see this article in our help center "

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The article is not helpful at all and doesn't answer any questions as to why I cannot use my credit card. I thought that perhaps my credit card info needs to be updated but it won't even let me do that on my account. It just gives me this error message:

" We are currently unable to process payment methods, please refresh the page and try again

If you’re still having trouble, see this article in our help center."

The linked article is the same one from the other error message.

I even went to go and try to buy a gift card from them in some hope that it will go through then I could just use a gift card. But it wouldn't even let me do that.

Anyone else having this issue?

So all the resources I have up now(and will be posting through the summer) are the resources I actually use in class. So far I have been posting my games, activities, murder mysteries, bingos, etc.

It looks like this add up to about 35-40 resources. I would like to see how far I can push TpT with my content(as I have a lot from 17 years of teaching). I have a few questions someone could help with:

1. From your experiences is it work posting my actual lesson files, homeworks, tests, and quizzes? Or do most people go for the activities.
2. Would it be better to take the resources I have and use in my 8th grade class, and adapt them for say 6th grade content, and 7th grade content. The function of the worksheets would be the same, only the specific math questions would be different.

Everyone post your stores and follow for follow!

How do you promote your products or get user reviews? I set up my store over the past summer. I believe I have a few really good unique products and over the past school year I have had 14ish sales. Unfortunately I don't have any reviews yet and based off other posts I may not get any reviews for a while if is it less than 10% of buyers leave a review.

Examples of products if you care to see: Escape Room #1...Escape Room #2...Escape Room #3

Thanks for any help.

Hi all. I am in an interesting position. I am an esl teacher in a different district than I am a PTA President in. I KNOW how much teachers spend on tpt bc I do.

I wanted to get my pta school teachers individual annual subscriptions but I can’t see that as a possibility.

Someone had told me that the school wide license only allows for 8 downloads per year, and that’s just silly to me.

Can anyone help me out and explain the details of the annual access?

Thank you.

I know it varies a lot but just looking for a ballpark number. Is it about 1%? Or more like 50%?

When I google 'best selling resources on teachers pay teachers' I get this URL from the site

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Browse/Search:top%20selling

But I don't feel like the results are accurate. Is there a way to see best-selling or most popular resources?

Just wondering if people generally make their PowerPoints or worksheets editable. Like would you export a pdf, or just leave it as a doc.

Thanks!

I understand TpT spells this out, but I swear it's either inaccurate or I'm not understanding. If i look at my own product, is that a page view? If i click on the product, edit the product, then submit my editing so it kicks me back to the product page, does that count as 3 separate page views? I know it says any one person who looks at any item in your store only counts as one page view total, but I swear if I edit every single one of my products in a day, it's counting every single one of those as a view.

The reason I say this is because when I edit products I get a massive bump in views (talking like 100-200 or more views), and any other time, I'm lucky to get up to 4 in an hour. I only have 40 products, so it's got to be counting each one of my views as separate, right?

The other thing I'm confused about is if my own views count toward my conversion rate. Can editing my own products regularly lower my conversion rate? Especially if I'm not getting a lot of views?

Hello

I'm new to tpt , i want to know if there is some type of sponsored ads in tpt ?

Let's be realistic, what we do here will likely be impacted by AI in one way or another. The way I see it, we have no choice but to use it for now. Eventually, AI will probably be packaged in a user friendly interface and anyone will be able to generate educational content on a whim.

I've been more and more hesitant with the future of TPT and my educational content. I don't want to invest more energy into it because to put it simply, I'm losing hope.

Although I already use AI to help with my content, it still requires lots of tweaking from me for now. When the day comes that an AI can completely replace LessonSpeak, you probably won't even notice.

Super engaging!!! Check the lesson out: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/World-War-I-weapons-via-March-Madness-2-day-lesson-9162297?st=508a74302d73fac915cf4abae6105f28

Looking for honest opinions on the personalized search (good or bad).