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Running Your Etsy Business

Just Daydreaming Etsy Ideas
{Location Based Selling}

August 22, 2010
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I’m sure I’m not the only one who watches the web blur by in a wave of never-ending progress. Progress to where? Not sure.
But one thing is clear… the “where” is part of the progress. Got that?

I’m talking about location. Facebook just launched Facebook Places, Google has a strong location-based search engine with Google [...]

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Taking Photos For Your Etsy Shop??

August 8, 2010
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One of the challenges of selling online is showing your product in the best possible light! Bad photos can keep you from getting sales, so it’s worth your time and effort to get it right.
We asked out Facebook Friends to share some tips with us on how they take their product photos. These aren’t [...]

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Best Times To List on Etsy

July 23, 2010
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Tim here with an (un)scientific analysis of when to list or renew listings on Etsy.com

When is the best time to list on Etsy?
It’s a question every Etsy seller has asked themselves. It’s a subject we’ve talked about before. It’s not an easy question to answer, but the ramifications of getting it right could [...]

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Common Sense Service

July 17, 2010
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We’ve all had those moments when we wonder… what were they thinking?
Around here, I’m usually wondering that about one of my three boys/men (they all alternate between these two randomly).
Recently though, I had an experience which caused me to wonder the same about a company I had ordered from online.
I won’t bore you with the [...]

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Twenty Ways To Get More Traffic To Your Etsy Shop

June 11, 2010

One of the cool things about Etsy is that you can sell as much as you can make! There are no limits, other than the fact that you have to sleep! And you may have kids to feed, and a house to clean, but hey, you gotta pay the bills, right? (or get money to [...]

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Low Start-Up Cost Business — Etsy Looks Good

June 1, 2010
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So, this blog is called Everything Etsy. I guess that means nobody will be surprised when I say, yet again, that I’m a serious, die-hard, tried-and-true, Etsy fan. I luuurvve Etsy.
As such a fan, I’m continually wanting to promote the virtues of Etsy for sellers and for buyers. And thus begins this post [...]

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Focus On Your Fans {Etsy Business}

May 17, 2010
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Is your existing contact list an untapped goldmine? Is your product something that you truly believe is helpful, inspiring, entertaining, or otherwise useful?
If your answers are “probably” and “yes” respectively then I’ve got something for you to think about. My thoughts were inspired by a post I read this morning at the blog [...]

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Guest Post on Everything Etsy

May 12, 2010

Guest posting is one of the flat-out best ways of getting your name and your stuff “out there”. We listed it last year in a post 20 Ways To Get More Traffic To Your Etsy Shop and it’s still one of the best ideas we know of.
We want to give our readers a chance to [...]

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Etsy Wants You To Succeed — Don’t Believe Otherwise!

May 5, 2010
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“Your success is our success and growing your sales is what we are focused on. Period. Only by placing ourselves in your shoes can Etsy be successful.”
The above is the closing of a post by Etsy itself on the Etsy forums recently. Makes sense, doesn’t it?
We hear so many reports of people in various [...]

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Etsy – The Greatest Dream-Come-True Machine Ever Invented!

April 29, 2010
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I don’t mean to be too dramatic, but I really believe it when I say that, when we talk about Etsy, we’re talking about one of the greatest dream-come-true machines ever invented.
Just think of the opportunity for anyone at all to create, market, and sell a product to millions of people who are actively looking [...]

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