Dec 27 2008
Etsy is awesome
I’ve made five sales *and counting? knock wood* in under a week from posting my first item on Etsy, and I’m just giddy about it. My first customers haven’t gotten their items to leave feedback and people are buying more- it’s so very exciting that I’ve been just annoying the pants off my hubby with announcing every sale- there was one while I slept last night to a girl all the way in Australia! There’s a good number of people on Etsy having trouble getting their first sale, and to these folks I’d like to say one word- PROMOTE! Whether it’s message boards, a blog, or just shouting to passers by, promotion is a big thing in selling, and it’s not nearly as hard as one would think. Start with one thing and get that thing to be part of your daily routine, like posting to a message board, either on etsy or elsewhere if there’s a message board pertaining to your products. Make use of the ‘etsy mini’ feature, it shows off things in your shop and the code is dead-easy to cut and paste where you’d like to put it. Don’t be shy- it’s not hard to let people know you’ve got a shop with great things inside, just link to it anywhere and everywhere you think it might get clicked, keeping in mind that some places are more appropriate than others. Linking to handmade soaps from a page about your dog might be weird, but if you think the folks who look at your dog might like to see your soaps, do it.
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