How to Start a Blog for Your Etsy Business Since I started blogging in 2008 I can’t even count the number of questions I’ve gotten about starting a blog. Whether you have an Etsy business or want to grow a DIY blog…this is for you. EverythingEtsy.com has an average of a million pageviews a month… [read more]
Everything Etsy Recommended Reading: Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
What I’m Reading Today Don’t you love those days when you just feel great? I sure do and I’ll take them any way I can get them too! This week I’ve got (at least) two new additions to my life helping me feel great. One is going to be off-topic for most people…but if you… [read more]
Small Steps Everyday {Free Printable}
Mondays are always busy days for me. No matter how much I plan ahead I just increase my list of things-to-do when the beginning of the week rolls around. I created this printable to put right in front of me on my desk…lol! Whether you are building a business, building a blog or raising children… [read more]
Got Inspiration? Ideas to Help Spark Your Creativity!
Looking for a little creative inspiration? Need a little jolt of creativity? It can happen to the most creative people on the planet! I’ve found that creativity feeds on creativity. Here are a few quick ideas to jump start your creative side in minutes… Get outside! Cold, hot, rainy…whatever. Get outside and enjoy a little… [read more]
Time to Be It! {Etsy Business}
Do you have an Etsy shop? Are you working on growing your shop? There’s no time like right now to start turning your dreams into reality. I know many of Everything Etsy’s readers are major DIY craft lovin’ girls that dream about selling on Etsy but haven’t taken that final step. What are you waiting… [read more]
Avoiding the Deadliest Trap in Online Business
The best idea in the whole world can’t help you without action. You can have opportunity, creativity, and friends in high-places to help you out… but it won’t matter if you can’t stay consistent in your action. I don’t have to look far to see an example of this. I can look at my own… [read more]
Too Good to Be True? {Quit Your Day Job}
{Don’t Stop Believing by JoyfulSongGraphics on Etsy} If you, in a daring and wishful moment, share your dream of making your living online with another person, you’re likely to get some less-than-helpful negativity. Dream on, they say. Not gonna happen. Too good to be true. Even you supportive BFF might come back with a “helpful… [read more]
Opportunity Is an Open Door
When you work full-time online, you start to see “connections” that lead back to your own stuff. You’ll see tweets, pins, and shares from people you don’t directly know talking about something you created. That might be a blog post, an item on your Etsy shop, or a review you wrote somewhere. Whatever it is,… [read more]
Life is a Great Big Canvas {Free Printables}
I love this quote! Life really is a great big canvas and I’m excited to be living it in a creative environment and throwing on all the paint I can! Well, to be totally accurate, I usually spray my paint on! That still counts right? Here are a couple of free printables you can download… [read more]
The Secret to Success Without Genius or Money
{Image via typeeverything.com} I’ve been writing this blog for about three years. Want to know something awesome? A surprisingly large percentage of the people I first “met” in blogging about Etsy are still creating and selling online. They still have Etsy shops. They still have blogs. They’re still going strong. Some of them have had… [read more]
5 Things Shrimping Taught Me About Selling Online
Pin It I really love travel and I’m pretty sure travel loves me back. I can tell because things always seem to work out great for us when we decide to just “take off” with no plan and no advance notice. My Valentine’s Day started off pretty normal, but by midnight I was 200 miles… [read more]
Get Excited About Handmade in 2012!
Happy New Year! I’m really excited about the year to come. And I don’t just mean in an optimistic “it’s all good, happy, happy, joy, joy, rah, rah!” sort of way. I confess that I try to get that sort of feeling revved up inside me every January 1st. I mean, why start the year… [read more]