So, my two Etsy shops are in place, photos taken (always room for improvement there), tags fine-tuned, descriptions optimal, banners, avatars (I feel so futuristic), facebook photo postings daily, and of course, my blog. (Learned today that two people in Latvia read my blog. Who knew?)
I have added several e-books to my textbook "library" in the past few days:
-The Ultimate Etsy Success Kit, (a 3-book series), www.monsterguides.etsy.com
-Etsy Success Stories
-Search Engine Optimization ( free from the Etsy site), which presumably puts me at the top of
people's searching food chain
And I will be studying these diligently over the next few weeks. And from what I can already discern, it's less about my products and more about building traffic.
I also discovered a neat toy, news to me and probably not news to many of you:
Craft Cult, a great time diversion for measuring "hearts" and "views", a wonderful time suck I keep checking to see who loves me but which may or may not really lead to any sales.
I don't want to get diverted from my singular goal here which is less about people loving me and more about people loving me enough to want to take me home with them by way of my products.
I would have to say I've had virtually thousands of sales in my time. Buyers at a zillion fairs and over 400 store buyers have made many a day for me. But this, this online selling, this takes the cake in the perplexing department, it vexes me and addles my feeble brain. I feel like I have a rubberband around my head.
Getting a degree in Etsy success is my singular goal...
I'll keep you posted on my home schooling.
Love,
Nanette
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Aw best of luck to you sweetie. It boggles my mind more than anything too. That is why I always try new things. It is hard to predict how selling online will go for you. You could have no sales and hardly any views for months, and then out of the blue 15 sales! It's crazy! But I do believe one of the most important things to have is good communication. Make friends help people out and you might get some help in return. It's a lot of work for one person to do, but with thousands upon thousands of people trying to get exposure on the inter-webs, it almost becomes a necessity. Best of luck to you again!
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