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Set Goals for Your Etsy Business

January 12, 2012

Create goals for your Etsy business and kick off 2012 with a clear plan for success! Everyone’s idea of a successful handmade business isn’t the same. Some people have Etsy shops as a hobby or to fund their ever- growing craft habit {ha!}, while others are striving to grow their handmade business into a future [...]

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Improving Your Product Offering by Dropping the Stragglers {Selling on Etsy}

January 3, 2012

Whew! What a holiday season! My first year selling on Etsy I was thrilled and surprised to have some extra money to put toward my Christmas shopping list. When the second year came along, I had a lofty goal that I would sell enough on Etsy to completely cover my list, and I did! [...]

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Successful Prospecting on Etsy

December 16, 2011

The Internet has been likened to a gold rush and it’s really not a bad analogy. The truth is, there are thousands of ways to make money online. Some are better than others and there are lots of people trying to hit the mother lode. The truth is that the majority of successful Gold Rush [...]

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Bundle Up For More Sales {Etsy Tips}

December 7, 2011

Bundle up! No, I don’t mean put on a sweater. I mean bundle up your items to sell! You see it all the time in the stores and fast food restaurants. Everyone loves a great deal, so offer your customers a great deal by bundles! It may help increase your sales at the same time…that’s [...]

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How I Use Twitter {Etsy Business}

September 12, 2011

Twitter is a valuable marketing tool that’s FREE! Over the last couple of years I’ve become quite comfortable with using Twitter to promote my Etsy shops and blogs, but it wasn’t an easy thing for me in the beginning. It was a bit out of my comfort zone and I felt out of place during [...]

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3 Common Sense Rules for Selling on Etsy

August 19, 2011

Every once in awhile a wave of change rolls through the community of Etsy Sellers. Here’s what happens: Etsy decides to change the way they do something, like they did last week by switching to a relevancy based search results, or like they’ll be doing soon with a new option to purchase a promotional space [...]

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New Etsy Relevancy Search Tips

August 15, 2011

Some of you are already aware of Etsy’s new Relevancy Search and how it might change the way you need to list your items. I will honestly tell you that I’m not always that keen on changes, but I usually adapt. Here’s a bit of information to help bring you up to speed and help [...]

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Keep Learning, Stay Young!

July 22, 2011

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. – Henry Ford When I look at some of the things I’ve had to learn in order to sell online I’m often a bit surprised by it [...]

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Make Your Own Business Cards {Creative Marketing}

March 25, 2011

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

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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Customizable Etsy Widget for WordPress {Tutorial}

February 22, 2011

This post is a little on the techy side – if it helps you, great! If it bores you to tears, blame Tim (he wrote it)! ~ Kim If you’re an Etsy Seller with a self-hosted WordPress blog, then you might be interested in a neat new plugin for displaying your Etsy shop items in [...]

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Sell on Etsy {and nowhere else?}

February 18, 2011

Selling on Etsy and only on Etsy? I think it’s entirely “smart thinking” for a new company to form with the idea that they will only sell on Etsy. Forever. The first and most important reason I think that is because of the Etsy brand. If you make a great product and take great pictures [...]

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Etsy Photo Tips & More – Weekend Project

February 11, 2011

There’s spray paint involved? Count me in! Learn how to make beautiful photo backgrounds at A Lemon Squeezy Home. You’ll find some great ideas in this post and discover a few new ways to take your products and make them shine! Christie also has a cute Etsy shop you should check out! Visit I Heart [...]

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Etsy Shop SEO {Video Tutorial}

February 9, 2011

Well my goodness! It’s a week of new things here at Everything Etsy! First the Everything Etsy Directory which has had close to 400 Etsy Shops submitted in four days! Now our first in-depth video tutorial. I have to admit, it was fun to make! It was kind of like Tim and I playing “radio [...]

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More Free Banners For Your Etsy Shop!

January 31, 2011

We’ve just added another dozen banners to our selection of free Etsy banners! This brings the total number of banners available to 83! We started playing around with mushrooms and then just couldn’t quit! We were seeing all sorts of bright colors, but we also included a few black and whites which you can add [...]

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