January 2011: "Hey, Becca! Let's work together and make some things to sell on Etsy!" -Heather "Okay, Heather! Let's do it!" -Becca
February 4th: My Etsy shop called Things to Make you Squeal with Delight was created, but I had no products to list yet.
March 10th: The first products (Knit Earring Displays) were put up for sale!
As of today:
- Number of Knit Earring Displays listed for sale: 6.
- Number of sales: 0.
- Shop Hearts: 5 (most of them friends tho).
- Highest amount of views on an item: 87.
- Lowest amount of views on an item: 23.
- Level of ambivalence: 100%.
I just so happened to be exploring Etsy and I stumbled into an online information chat session for beginners. Score! Here is the list of things I need to do to help my store which I gleaned from that session:
Read:
- The Etsy Seller Handbook: All Our How-To's About Selling
- Etsy Success for Beginner Sellers
- Etsy's Guide to Custom Work
Learn About Shipping:
Get Involved in the Etsy Community:
- Read SEO for Dummies
- Learn what is being searched for using Google Adwords Keywords Tool.
- Learn about Google Alerts.
- Try out Craftopolis.
- See if people are talking about me at Social Mention.
And last but not least: LEARN ABOUT BLOGGING!
- Read: Etsy's Guide to Blogging.
- Join: Etsy's Blog Team.
- Get the Pocket Shop for my blog.
- Maybe read this book: 52 Weeks of Blogging.
- An example of an Etsy blog.
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