The Etsy Business Tips Blog

The Etsy Business Tips Blog is one of my blogs, but I thought I'd mention it here because I'm hoping it might be useful to some readers. The blog focuses on providing tips on how to make more etsy sales, and how to promote your shop effectively. I also write shop critique posts on occasion to help readers directly, and also to give others some ideas about improvements they could potentially make as well.

If you'd like to visit the blog, these are some of the most popular posts:

How to Get More Twitter Followers and Reaching the Right Crowd
A detailed guide to how to easily build up a large twitter following (in the thousands) and how to reach your target market- including buyers who are not etsy sellers.

Promote While You're Asleep!
A post about scheduling your promotion to reach buyers while you're asleep- particularly good for international sellers or those wishing to expand their international customer base.

Where to Find all Those Free Blog Buttons
Links to twitter buttons, RSS feed icons and counters, where to find the 'suggested posts' widget, how to create a badge for your blog that others can share, how to allow suggestions from your readers...and more!

Self-Service Shop Critique- How to Improve Your Shop and get More Sales!
This is a detailed post that takes sellers through different areas of their shops that might benefit from some changes. This is based on the many critiques I've done for individual sellers and through running group critiques as a member of the Sellers Assisting Sellers Team.


I also run regular features of favourite items from blog followers, Q&A posts answering readers' questions, and individual shop critiques, so there's a chance to ask questions and get some extra traffic for your shop too :)


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The Etsy Mentors Blog: Sellers Assisting Sellers

Cody the Computer Geek Mouse by TheHouseofMouse

etsymentors.blogspot.com is a blog run by the Sellers Assisting Sellers Etsy Team (which I am a member of). It is an incredibly useful resource for both new and experienced sellers, with expert advice on all aspects of selling on etsy, including how to handle custom orders, how to take amazing photographs, and what to do after your first sale!

The purpose of Team SASsy is to provide advice and mentoring for other Etsy Sellers. In addition to running the Etsy Mentor blog, the team also conducts live critique sessions in the Etsy labs to help new sellers with individual feedback- check the Virtual Labs schedule for the next critique. You can also find a list of mentors categorised by areas of expertise on the blog if you need further help.

Essential Etsy Links Update

Sectioned- Laser-Engraved Brain Necklace by Morphologica

There have some interesting developments in terms of etsy tools recently, so I have put together an 'Essential Etsy Links Update' for easy reference. Some are new resources, some I've recently discovered!

• Craftopolis - find out which treasuries you're in
• CraftCult - see whether you've been featured on the front page or in the gift guides
• Handmadeology- Timothy Adam's site with tutorials and tips for sellers
• Found-Handmade- Also from Tim, showcasing items from Artfire and Etsy, with a link for sellers to submit their own items
• TweetMeMe- a button so that people can easily retweet your blog to share with others (try it out at the bottom of this post!)
• EtsyMarketing.org - a new site with marketing tips and info for sellers
• TwitterFeed- most of you probably know about this one. It allows you to automatically list your etsy items on twitter as they are added to your store
• Google Analytics for searches within etsy- this Storque update tells you how to change the settings within Google Analytics so that you can see the search terms used by people in the etsy search bar
• Easy free newsletter service Bravenet- I thought this might be of interest too.
  

Chris Parry's Blog Competition and Pricing Spreadsheet

Chris from http://chris-parry.blogspot.com/ is running a fantastic giveaway competition (and I should know because I won a gorgeous ring from him on the Etsy forum!!). He is offering a chance to win one of three rings, worth $105 in total DETAILS HERE. In addition to competitions, Chris reviews gorgeous finds on etsy, as well as his stunning jewellery designs.
Chris also offers a free spreadsheet for Etsy sellers to work out how to price their work HERE, which has now received over 30,000 downloads!

ChrisParry.Etsy.Com

PinkPolish Design

http://pblog.pinkpolishdesign.com/ is another fantastic blog that provides top tips for etsy sellers. Here you can find 5 tips for starting 2009, info on how to use twitter effectively, improving photos and shop visibility, and how to make the etsy front page!
Blog Author: PinkPolishDesign.etsy.com

Life craftiness and everything else

http://lifecraftinessandeverythingelse.blogspot.com/ is a cute blog authored by Anna from the House of Mouse on etsy. As well as allowing you to vote on which mouse should be created next, Anna provides some great tips for etsy sellers, including advice on photos, making a front-page-worthy treasury, and how to get the etsy sales you want.

Loose Wire Studio

http://loosewirestudio.blogspot.com is a great blog with some useful links not found on etsy. Here you can find an 'Etsy FAQ cheat sheet' with links to info about treasuries (incl. treasury west), etsy stats, the meaning of etsy, paypal info, google info and more! There's also an 'Etsy Helpful Links- Not Found Via Etsy' page

Author: loosewirestudio.etsy.com

TimothyAdamDesigns

http://timothyadamdesigns.blogspot.com is one of the BEST blog resources for etsy sellers. This blog regularly publishes heaps of fantastic advice on how to promote your shop, increase traffic to your blog, and offers opportunities to be a featured shop.

Author: TimothyAdamDesigns.etsy.com

Etsy Bitch

http://etsybitch.blogspot.com/ is a thought-provoking blog addressing some of the issues people have with etsy, in the hope that this might improve the operation of the site. It also provides info on alternative selling venues. An interesting one to visit!