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10 Social Media Tips to Make You a Rock Star

February 10, 2013

One of the neat things about building a blog with hundreds of posts is that comments keep coming in even months or years after posts are first published. As a result, I hear from lots of people every single week about the challenges they face in social media. I’ll let you in on a secret: [...]

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Social Media Page with Rebel Mouse {Blogging}

December 2, 2012

Get All Your Social Media on One Pinterest-Like Page {Fun!} I’m so excited about the newest page on Everything Etsy! Tim just threw it together for me a few minutes ago and I just had to share. The page, found here, can always be reached using the new “social” tab in the main menu above. [...]

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Study Says Customers Prefer Facebook Pages — Do You Agree?

October 2, 2012
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Visit Everything Etsy on Facebook A really interesting infographic found its way to me recently.  I’ll attach it below to share with you. According to the study by Chicago based market research firm Lab42, at least half of us prefer to interact with brands on their Facebook page over their actual website!   I know [...]

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What’s Your Favorite Social Media Site??

August 26, 2012

Social Media is a valuable tool for your Etsy shop or blog!  Growing your friends through social media sites helps you reach out, meet new people, and promote your wonderful work!  And it’s FREE…ya gotta love that! I didn’t start off loving social media {at all}, but over the years I’ve really learned to love [...]

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Instagram Weekend Fun

May 19, 2012

Do you use Instagram?  I’m pretty new to it, but I already know I love it!  You can share your life, work, whatever through photos with great little filters that make everything look better…like my Mother’s Day cup of coffee. Here’s a bit of my life in photos… The harbor…view from lunch at The Crab [...]

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Twitter Tips for Etsy Sellers

April 9, 2012
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I’m amazed sometimes at the number of people who are now part of the Everything Etsy Community. We’ve got over 60,000 wonderful people involved in the various social media outlets. The first place I really started to enjoy social media was on Twitter. I now have over 17,000 Twitter followers and Twitter is still one [...]

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Using Social Media to Support Your Blog {B.L.O.G. – Video}

October 10, 2011
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This is the fifth post in our ten week post series on blogging. See the first post here. In this video, Tim and I go over some of the key things I’ve learned about using social media to support a blog, to support an Etsy shop, to support a family! I hope it helps! I [...]

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Pinterest Love

July 24, 2011
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By now you all know I’m seriously in love with Pinterest!!! I really enjoy scrolling through the latest and greatest pins…like every day of the week.  There’s always some creative idea or inspiring photo I need to pin!  The boards make it so easy for me to find everything when I want to go back [...]

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How To Put a Pinterest Pin Button on Your Blog

July 18, 2011

Pin It You may have noticed a couple of times recently that we’ve added a Pinterest “Pin-It” button to posts that have key images that we’ve created. Images are a great way for people to visually keep track of posts they want to remember, or to share things they enjoyed with others. Pinterest is an [...]

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How Fewer Blog Comments Equals Opportunity

May 18, 2011
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Did you know that blog commenting overall has reduced over the last couple of years? It’s not that people aren’t talking anymore, it’s just that they have more places to talk, and they don’t have more time, so something has to give. More activity on Facebook, or Twitter = Fewer comments on blogs. Generally speaking. [...]

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5 Reasons to use Pinterest

March 8, 2011
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If you haven’t had a chance to try out Pinterest yet, you should! What is Pinterest? A virtual corkboard that you pin your favorite photos to creating  beautiful collections of things you love. 5 Reasons to Try Pinterest 1.  Helllloooo…It’s fun! It’s kind of a stress reliever {like flipping through your favorite magazine} and who [...]

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20 Tips for Selling on Etsy

March 5, 2011

I know how it is because I’ve been there!  You want to increase your sales or start selling on Etsy and you could use a little help.  When I started selling on Etsy in 2008 I had no idea what I was getting into…ha!  I read everything I could find and stumbled through opening my [...]

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