What am I Doing on Etsy?!: seller

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

New Logo - Phase 1

My cousin Erich can create anything from scratch on the computer. He is normally always drawing guitars and the coolest thing is that you cannot tell if it's a photograph or not. Well, I asked him if he could make a logo for Things to Make you Squeal with Delight and this is what he came up with! This is just the first phase of it since he told me he didn't like the font he used. So he'll be sending me the Photoshop file and I will tinker with that. This is very exciting for me!

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

To Bring You Up to Speed...

December 2010: "Here's a thought: I have no job so can finally dedicate time to sell my crafts on Etsy!"

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:

Learn About Shipping:

Get Involved in the Etsy Community:

Learn about Search Engine Optimization:

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.