New Profile - I just deleted my treasuries
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I was quite sad to delete my treasury lists, but my shop is part of my business, & my business here is promoting Magic Jelly, not other people's shops.
Those thumbnail links don't even open in a new tab, so visitors are whisked off to other sellers' shops.
At the very least, please make the modules of the profile customisable, so if I don't want to display other people's products on my profile, I don't have to.
I'm a sociable person & like to help out my fellow artists when I can, but there's a time & a place, & my shop is the place where I focus on running a sustainable business, not a place to make friends.
Posted at 9:04pm Oct 27, 2010 EDT
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Yeah, I looked at my profile page and was just kind of like "WTF?" it's supposed to be about me, not about stuff that other people sell.
Posted at 5:24am Oct 28, 2010 EDT
oh dear.
I just made my favourites private for the first time ever.
this is sad.
Posted at 5:33am Oct 28, 2010 EDT
I like the new profiles page and am happy that my treasuries are being seen. I am OK if someone clicks on a treasury and goes elsewhere. They will come back if they are serious about buying from me. Also, new buyers may come to my shop from clicking on someone else's treasury list. I love the mini gallery of my jewelry to the right of my bio.
Posted at 5:45am Oct 28, 2010 EDT
i agree with lizhutnick...
it's giving and taking. sometimes you'll "lose" a visitor but other times you're getting new ones just because one of your items is viewed on someone elses profile. i think it's good to improve the network.
Posted at 6:15am Oct 28, 2010 EDT
i forgot to say that profile pages, at least to me, weren't anything i would click on or look at very often... this might change now :)
Posted at 6:16am Oct 28, 2010 EDT
The focus of the profile page should be about the shop owner.
Where's the blog integration?
Where are the fields for links to my twitter & facebook?
Where is the photo gallery where I can show off my workspace, process & projects?
Where is the section for a CV, artist's statement or press appearances?
Instead, a visitor unfamiliar with Etsy, who doesn't know what a Treasury is, will wonder what's going on & will be unclear about what products are from my shop.
And because the avatar now links to the profile, a lot more traffic will be directed there.
Posted at 6:33am Oct 28, 2010 EDT
Have to say that I like the new profile page and have left my treasuries, I hear though what you are saying magicjelly and well it might happen one of these days
Posted at 6:41am Oct 28, 2010 EDT
I'm getting baffled by what kinds of use cases Etsy's running for their new rollouts.
The goal of a profile page is to find out more about the artist? - I find the favorites on this page baffling. (Yup, using baffling a lot :)
Magic I think you basically summarised my thoughts on the new profile page. Those are the logical items I expect on a profile page.
So what was Etsy's secondary goal for the profile page? Following Sean11's comments I interpreted it to be about cross-linking which makes me think about the social platform trend. But I still fail to see a strong correlation between things I like and social. So still baffled.
Posted at 6:44am Oct 28, 2010 EDT
I just made my feedback private becasue I want to be one step ahead of the next crazy change.
I'm very upset that shop's profiles are getting chopped. One shop that I need to get info from each time I purchase has been blown to bits.
Posted at 6:47am Oct 28, 2010 EDT