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Free Holiday Etsy Banners

November 16, 2011
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Decorate your Etsy shop for the holidays!  Help your shoppers get into the holiday spirit and change things up a bit with a free holiday banner for your Etsy shop.   Don’t forget Thanksgiving! We have tons of free Etsy banners for you to choose from, so hop on over to our Etsy Banners Page [...]

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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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Your New Etsy Ads Questions Answered {Podcast: Interview with Etsy}

September 24, 2011

You’ve probably heard by now that starting next Tuesday, September 27th, there will be paid ads showing up in the Etsy search results. These ads are open to all Etsy sellers to promote their items at a relatively good price. Considering that buyers are already looking for what you’re selling, the “conversion rate” from clicks [...]

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Etsy Shop SEO Mastery – 6 Ways to Be a People Pleaser

August 23, 2011
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Have you ever tried to make everyone happy at the same time? The kids and the husband; the boss and the customer; the shoe collection and the bank balance! Etsy Shop SEO is just like that, except that it’s actually possible and not all that hard to do. Please the Robot and the Human SEO [...]

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5 Tips for Etsy Product Photography

August 14, 2011
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{August Blossoms camera straps} Hello friends! My name is Kristen Duke, and I am a portrait photographer in Austin, Texas.  I am also a big fan of all things crafty, some of which you will find featured on my site. I am often asked to photograph items for those with Etsy stores because everyone knows [...]

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13 Creative Business Cards

August 2, 2011

Make a great first impression with creative business cards! There are lots of new ideas out there so you might want to take your time and research a bit before you order your next batch of cards.  I’m sure you can find a style that stands out and represents you just right! The cards above [...]

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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 To Build An Online Empire Starting With Etsy {infographic}

July 12, 2011

Woot, our first infographic! Pin It Click for larger image Dream Bigger Than Etsy! One thing I love about writing on this blog every day is that I know that some of the people who read Everything Etsy are going to hit home runs.  Some of you reading these words right now, right this very [...]

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Learn Basic HTML and Awesome Directory Feature {Video}

May 27, 2011

We added a cool new feature to the Everything Etsy Directory yesterday. Enhanced listings can now use HTML to create great looking listing profiles that used to be very plain. But lots of us don’t know much HTML, so Tim and I made this five minute video and created a PDF download cheat sheet that [...]

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Make Your Own Business Cards {Creative Marketing}

March 25, 2011
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While looking for a picture to use in a recent post about how to share your etsy shop address, I came across this picture: At first (and second, and third) glance I thought: nice card. But just another nice card. No big deal really. Until I clicked through to the source website for the picture, [...]

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How to Share Your Etsy Shop Address

March 24, 2011
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A recent question popped-up in one of the Etsy Team forums that was essentially “What is my shop address?” It reminded me that things that seem second-nature to me now, aren’t quite as obvious to those just getting going on Etsy. I remember what it was like, and I still call “uploading” photographs “downloading”, to [...]

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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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