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Doors locked. stellaloella left the room sarawearsskirts joined the room stellaloella joined the room stellaloella: Hello! sarawearsskirts: hi! sarawearsskirts: i need to spend a day working on the event calendar i think sarawearsskirts: it's awful, i absolutely can't stand the way it is right now stellaloella: then redesign it sarawearsskirts: i got the IRC transcript, thank you so much. stellaloella: would it be easier as a dreamweaver page then in WordPress? sarawearsskirts: i have been trying to think of a better way to overhaul it sarawearsskirts: i think dreamweaver would be better. set up as a table instead of just in WP sarawearsskirts: that might be my big project this afternoon stellaloella: it's 11:00, we should inlock the room sarawearsskirts: yep Doors unlocked. stellaloella: *unlock stellaloella: heh chickadeebeads joined the room GlassCat joined the room DBrownDesigns joined the room GlassCat: Hello! sarawearsskirts: my neighbor just knocked on my door and tried to make me take in this sweetie pie kitten artsyphartsy joined the room DBrownDesigns: Hello! sarawearsskirts: it was so hard saying no! vickileigh joined the room vickileigh: Hello! stellaloella: hello everyone! GlassCat: Hi Vicki sarawearsskirts: hello! virtuallori joined the room SweetyPrize joined the room willowglass joined the room artsyphartsy: Hello! GlassCat: Hi Dee Alteredevents joined the room Hoolyghans joined the room willowglass: Hi Carol, Hi Vicki, hi everyone! liskidder joined the room SweetyPrize: Hello! chickadeebeads: Hi! Hoolyghans: Mornin! GlassCat: HI Lis, sit with us. SweetyPrize: hi hoolyghans willowglass: Hi Lis, no sleep for me with Natasha here, so just give me a nudge if I start snoring :) virtuallori: Hi, everyone! GeminiMoonMosaics joined the room willowglass: Hi Lauren, Hi Sara sarawearsskirts: hello! stellaloella: hi! Hoolyghans: I'm supposed to be cleaning my desk while I listen in here GeminiMoonMosaics: Hello! artsyphartsy: Hi Jeanine GeminiMoonMosaics: Hi kathleen sarawearsskirts: i was hoping some of the Uk folks would be able to join us at this earlier time. artsyphartsy: Thanks for letting me know about the workshop sarawearsskirts: since usually it's quite late there when we meet. GeminiMoonMosaics: yw smashing joined the room catrocks joined the room virtuallori: yeah, smashing! catrocks: Hello! Shutterkate joined the room smashing: hey alll!! SweetyPrize: nj members whoot Shutterkate: heyoooo sarawearsskirts: :P Hoolyghans: Joisey in 'da howse smashing: shutterkate loves bob loblaw! :) GlassCat left the room beadartandbubbles joined the room Shutterkate: ;) sarawearsskirts: hello, everyone! we'll get started in just a moment. GlassCat joined the room DBrownDesigns: While we are waiting, how many teams are you all on? smashing: just one for me virtuallori: 2 willowglass: just one - EGA SweetyPrize: bajillion Hoolyghans: 2 NJ and FAST Please vote: are you on multiple teams? GeminiMoonMosaics: one, EMA Shutterkate: 2 GlassCat: One is all I can handle, we are pretty active. catrocks: one for me nj - i had to quit the others - the email was overwhelming! ZestyB joined the room DBrownDesigns: just joined #5, EJA, JET, EtsyBead,Indiana, Filigree Vote results: 9 yay, 7 nay, 2 abstain sarawearsskirts: so about half and half, very good. Please vote: had you ever heard of the concept of a street team before etsy? beadartandbubbles: Poo I can't stay - it's 4pm here, the kids are running wild...wish I could stick around! sarawearsskirts: okay, again very half and half. Vote results: 9 yay, 8 nay, 2 abstain PaperScissorsArt joined the room beadartandbubbles left the room Please vote: have you ever participated in a street team other than etsy's? PaperScissorsArt: Hello! SweetyPrize: i find i have to educate a lot of members on what a street team is sarawearsskirts: okay, so about half of the people who were familiar with street teams prior to etsy had participated in one. great! Vote results: 4 yay, sarawearsskirts: okay, well, today i guess i'd like to discuss how a street team in the traditional sense is similiar and dissimiliar to what Etsy teams are. sarawearsskirts: here's the wikipedia entry on street teams, for those who only know the term from etsy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_team sarawearsskirts: basically, it's a grass-roots, word of mouth form of promotion sarawearsskirts: mainly for cultural things - bands, motion pictures, festivals, etc. Shutterkate: yea i'd only ever heard it used with band promotion before etsy PaperScissorsArt: it seems to be growing on the political front tho sarawearsskirts: right, that's a typical use for a street team catrocks: Yea, we used street teams to promo upcoming events on broadway sarawearsskirts: candidates do rely on volunteers to spread their campaign and things. sarawearsskirts: and it's growing as an online thing, as well as an in-person thing, obviously sarawearsskirts: myspace and things make it easy to disperse information cheaply and easily about people and events. PaperScissorsArt: do you think the idea of it has been lost in a way? sarawearsskirts: do i think this idea has been lost here on etsy? PaperScissorsArt: in general sarawearsskirts: i think we've formed a sort of hybrid of street teams here on Etsy, PaperScissorsArt: from what I remember growing up, a street team did A LOT of the promoting sarawearsskirts: which is why i typically refer to them as Etsy teams, not street teams. sarawearsskirts: i think many street teams still do a lot of promoting. sarawearsskirts: flyering, pamphleting, tabling. sarawearsskirts: chalking, word of mouth. PaperScissorsArt: maybe in more urban settings catrocks: I wonder if you have a better way for teams to communicate than Yahoo Groups - I cannot manage getting emails that say GREAT every 2 seconds. Any suggestions? SweetyPrize: my team uses a combo of in person and online, with bulk online sparetimecrafts joined the room PaperScissorsArt: and I am only speakinf from experience of my team sarawearsskirts: things that require man power, but aren't necessarily high-budget by any means. yes, probably more successful or popular in cities. sarawearsskirts: yahoo groups has a notification setting -you can switch it to get one lump email each week. Shutterkate: cat you can chagne your yahoo settings so you don't receive messages individually in emails sarawearsskirts: anyway, back to teams. liskidder: Yes (change it to daily digest) andymathis joined the room Shutterkate: and just receive a daily summary. or only receive messages flagged as important catrocks: ahhhh duh! sarawearsskirts: i've been doing a lot of thinking about how Etsy teams are different than trad. street teams. PaperScissorsArt: oooh share :) sarawearsskirts: a big difference, in my opinion, is that Etsy teams market and promote not only Etsy.com, but their own team DBrownDesigns: It is different being an internet team versus a local team sarawearsskirts: which is very unique from other street team situations. sparetimecrafts left the room virtuallori: and ourselves, along with our team sarawearsskirts: yes, location vs. global teams are different experiences sparetimecrafts joined the room DBrownDesigns: and yes to promoting the team and promoting etsy at the same time sparetimecrafts left the room sarawearsskirts: so i guess i'd love it if we could all just think about this and discuss it for this session, and see what we get from it virtuallori: we have a stake in the promotion virtuallori: it's not just love of a third party SweetyPrize: i think this stems from the fact that we are not the 'fans' part of the original street team SweetyPrize: we are the 'band' too sarawearsskirts: i feel like being on an Etsy team is like being on the front lines, in a sense, because you are promoting Etsy, but probably mentioning your shop in doing so stellaloella: very true sarawearsskirts: right smashing: yeah we are band plus roadie lus groupie :) sarawearsskirts: you're actively engaged and invested in what you're promoting. Hoolyghans: promoting our own shops also promotes etsy liskidder: Can we move people to the bottom of the round table because when they talk their popups get cut off sarawearsskirts: exactly. it works both ways. DBrownDesigns: it does get confusing, do I talk about the team or talk about etsy liskidder: And I can't read what they're saying :( sarawearsskirts: lis, try switching it to have a column of text on the left? sarawearsskirts: it's easier to read? liskidder: Ooooo I'm dumb. Thank you! sarawearsskirts: it's okay! stellaloella: lis, you can switch to text view SweetyPrize: column on left is easier stellaloella: :) PaperScissorsArt: so what do we do that is different from a traditional team, marketing wise? sarawearsskirts: here's the workshop cheat sheet, for those who aren't totally familiar: http://team.etsy.com/workshop-cheat-sheet.html sarawearsskirts: well, many etsy street teams have blogs, their own websites, etc. AshleyJacobsen joined the room GlassCat: bounce PaperScissorsArt: yes PaperScissorsArt: and that is part of marketing sarawearsskirts: this is different than a traditional street team set up, where everything would just link back to the band, not one facet of the band DBrownDesigns: EJA and Indiana does SweetyPrize: i think we do things that can be a little more complex than the traditional 'flyer like crazy' history of street teams sarawearsskirts: but i think this is great - how teams are promoting one tiny bit of etsy sarawearsskirts: it makes you all very important appendages to the bigger Etsy willowglass: EGA has their own website and blog too sarawearsskirts: because you can all be doing things that we can't sarawearsskirts: locally and within little niches online andymathis left the room stellaloella: definitely. sarawearsskirts: right - most active teams have at least one off-etsy presence right now sarawearsskirts: be it a blog, a google or yahoo or flickr group, a photo pool, a website. PaperScissorsArt: does everyone understand what street-teams did vs. what we are doing? sarawearsskirts: it's fantastic, because it's all that many more ways for people to stumble across etsy DBrownDesigns: It seems as some members are into the offsite places, and I think others would prefer it within etsy. Really looking forward to that! sarawearsskirts: good question, paperscissorsart. PaperScissorsArt: not that I am disagreeing with the idea of online street-teams PaperScissorsArt: I just think that we aren't "teams" in the traditional sense, and maybe we need to take a look at that sarawearsskirts: we're working on incorporating it into etsy, but for the time being, i'm looking at the bright side of having it off-site. :) sarawearsskirts: paperscissorsart, precisely. PaperScissorsArt: how do we incorporate it into our goals? sarawearsskirts: we need to look at how we can step back and learn from traditional street teams. sarawearsskirts: and how we can improve upon them sarawearsskirts: as Etsy teams PaperScissorsArt: street teams were all about plastering the area the band was going to play in PaperScissorsArt: making hand made flyers and passing them out at school sarawearsskirts: which might not be totally practical or effective for etsy.com PaperScissorsArt: handing out demo cassettes to everyone ZestyB: or it might sarawearsskirts: but we can figure out what aspect of that might be effectivew sarawearsskirts: *effective PaperScissorsArt: but while those things might not be practical for etsy smashing joined the room PaperScissorsArt: could the same ideology be effective? sarawearsskirts: exactly., stellaloella: the concepts we borrow from traditional street teams are the grassroots and word of mouth style promoting sarawearsskirts: what can we take away from that? virtuallori: the core is sharing the passion for something liskidder: The same ideology? sarawearsskirts: being genuine and promoting the big idea DBrownDesigns: I think local street team write ups in online newpapers is great for traffic PaperScissorsArt: and doing it indie style sarawearsskirts: the big idea being "buy handmade" of course. sarawearsskirts: right, ending mass production, having handmade holidays, etc PaperScissorsArt: street teams made such an impression because of how they marketed the band ZestyB: We're doing a stitch n bitch at eh open market PaperScissorsArt: and what they got out of it in the end virtuallori: we may not pass out cassettes, but we can pass out promos for our teammates and Etsy in general at our shows stellaloella: when we represent Etsy at craft shows, one thing that seems to resonate with people is when we talk about the mission of Etsy and the handmade lifestyle, rather than just trying to sell merchandise sarawearsskirts: the very core of what etsy's about is very perfect for grassroots style, make your own flyers / business cards campaigning. SweetyPrize: i think those tracks you made are neat ZestyB: 2 tents, comfy area & some promos, business cards, lemonade virtuallori: We talk up Etsy and what it's all about SweetyPrize: that resemble the street preacher zines virtuallori: to those who haven't heard of it sarawearsskirts: word of mouth is by far the most powerful marketing anyone could ever want PaperScissorsArt: anyone have a "street team" only booth at the events they attend? ZestyB: yes DBrownDesigns: How about online, how do you promote your team online, other than a blog and site? SweetyPrize: i would definitely pass out a gazillion of those virtuallori: DBrown, it's about being visible online sarawearsskirts: that's a great question, dbrown virtuallori: commenting on blogs ZestyB: I think the tought thing about the mission - is that not everyone shares the precepts... DBrownDesigns: online is where it is at, clickable you know.. smashing: having the support of people with a similar craft or location also strengthens my personal bond with etsy-not that etsy is a cult ;) sarawearsskirts: maybe if you have an avatar on other sites, having Etsy as a part of it sarawearsskirts: including it in the signature of your email if you can virtuallori: getting your name and shop out there sarawearsskirts: little things that make Etsy more visible GeminiMoonMosaics: etsy mini on personal sites and blogs GlassCat: Every customer of mine at a craft show, hears about etsy DBrownDesigns: I do try to inlcude a link to my team in addition to my personal store virtuallori: shop address on business cards and show promos stellaloella: in talking to sellers who have successfully used their personal blogs to market their Etsy shop, one of the things they always talk about is building relationships with other bloggers sarawearsskirts: swapping links to your blog with other bloggers (especially if you know non-etsy bloggers) sarawearsskirts: exactly, stella stellaloella: go to other blogs and make useful, interesting comments ZestyB: ...sara...thoes are personal things stellaloella: so people click back to your site from the comment you left, because they'reinterested in you virtuallori: getting involved with local bloggers (like brewedfreshdaily.com in Cleveland) sarawearsskirts: but they're things everyone can do, and they're free, essentially DBrownDesigns: does all the blogging really work? What is the next level? sarawearsskirts: when you have actual, enjoyable, readable content that is not just ads, blogging totally works. liskidder: Writing an opinion piece for a local paper is probably the next level Hoolyghans: I think some people definately have created enough buzz w/ their blogs sarawearsskirts: but don't expect it to work if you only talk about what you're selling. virtuallori: exactly, Sara sarawearsskirts: that's like those informercials that come on at 3am Hoolyghans: look at Black Apple and Shim & Sons sarawearsskirts: ashleyG has a great blog. so does stilettoheights. stellaloella: yep, people read blogs because they want to learn something -- either about a person or a topic. DBrownDesigns: yes, not all about you... DBrownDesigns: 2 of my teams are working on free PR sarawearsskirts: so a team's blog should not be all about what the team is selling, but about what the team is DOING HiAnnie joined the room SweetyPrize: i think if you post some of the ways anyone can promote etsy in the teams section, that would be good sarawearsskirts: if you do a charity event, together as a team, that's interesting. sarawearsskirts: to individuals, and to a newspaper, perhaps. PaperScissorsArt: i think it is a good idea for teams to have identifiable goals and a plan virtuallori: great idea, Sara! sarawearsskirts: it's about having content willowglass: EGA's blog has included reviews of other Etsy shops as well as having an Ask the Artist section, both of which help to cast the net a little farther. sarawearsskirts: doing things that are worthy of talking about sarawearsskirts: and that's how Etsy teams are different than street teams liskidder: I started working on the team resources page on etsywiki - it has some links to ways to promote Etsy http://etsywiki.com/index.php?title=Etsy_Teams_Resources_and_How-To%27s liskidder: that I think Matt put together stellaloella: that looks great, Lis! thank you! :) smashing: cleveland's team blog has offers for skill shares-i love that-people off etsy are interested too :) shoozles joined the room smashing left the room sarawearsskirts: fantastic! PaperScissorsArt: can you share the link smashing? virtuallori: http://clevlandrocksetsy.blogspot.com virtuallori: Smashing disappeared. :-( smashing: http://clevelandrocksetsy.blogspot.com sarawearsskirts: oop, right. there it is sarawearsskirts: excellent smashing: where am i??? :) virtuallori: Don't know, babe DBrownDesigns: so how do you identify the effectiveness of your promoting? Do you know it is working? smashing: freeky :) sarawearsskirts: maybe try clicking a square to take a seat? sarawearsskirts: anyway, there are a couple ways to measure that, i think groovyglassgirl joined the room sarawearsskirts: good question, dbrown Shutterkate: i'd assume team sale increases would be a decnet indicator DBrownDesigns: but we don't know where the sales come from sarawearsskirts: if you have an off-etsy blog, you can tell by a hit counter, so that's a little info Shutterkate: true sarawearsskirts: (but you don't know how many people actually read vs. clicked through) groovyglassgirl: Hello! sarawearsskirts: but ideally, you might notice sales are more consistent PaperScissorsArt: you can ask them sarawearsskirts: although i'd caution against expecting it to increase sales directly. PaperScissorsArt: where'd you hear about me Shutterkate: but if sale increases co-incide with increased team marketing you could assume that's the cause Shutterkate: at least in part stellaloella: i know some of the successful sellers I've spoken with have a definite relationship between the number/frequency of sales and the amount of promoting and listing they do PaperScissorsArt: but some marketing works better than others sarawearsskirts: in my note from seller, i used to offer to refund shipping if people emailed me to say how they found me smashing: ((i have to disappear on purpose this time-thanks for the roundtable!!)) DBrownDesigns: interesting, sara, I will have to think on that. willowglass: That's a good incentive, Sara smashing left the room DBrownDesigns: I feel like I am bothering the buyer though... sarawearsskirts: right - your sales stats can be affected by a lot more than just blogging, but blogging really can't hurt it (unless you write horrible terrible things in your blog, whihc would be silly, of course) sarawearsskirts: if it's just in the note to buyer, they can ignore it (and many do) shoozles: yes it would! DBrownDesigns: most of mine ignore it, especially new buyers sarawearsskirts: anyway. have we gotten too off on a tangent (yep, the note to buyer is oft overlooked) HiAnnie left the room sarawearsskirts: ? sarawearsskirts: what else can we learn from general, traditional street teams? PaperScissorsArt: plastering Alteredevents left the room stellaloella: so, high volume promotions? SweetyPrize: that you need a giant mass of people to simply go 'do' Alteredevents joined the room sarawearsskirts: that's the spirit of it - doing things as a group that you can't accomplish alone PaperScissorsArt: or that you need to get your name out there a million times in a million ways before people will notice you sarawearsskirts: we covered that you can do an event that will be more interestnig as a group sarawearsskirts: like picking a day and making it 'buy from etsy not from big boxes' day sarawearsskirts: and really promote it sarawearsskirts: and making it newsworthy stellaloella: this is interesting, because in prior round tables, we discussed how to engage more members of a team -- having a small task that everyone can help with would accomplish that -- like flyering or commenting on blogs and linking back to the team or Etsy, etc sarawearsskirts: that sort of a guerilla, anti-mass-production mentality is street teamy to the core GeminiMoonMosaics: what if you only have a few people on the team willing to "plaster" DBrownDesigns: what about a combined street team day? Pick on day for everyone to blast it out there? PaperScissorsArt: do it anyway SweetyPrize: dbrown thats a good idea sarawearsskirts: right - if you only have a couple people on your team, do it up and others will want to join (it's easier to join something that's already rolling) sarawearsskirts: or join up with another team stellaloella: the idea behind teams is that every little bit counts -- the sum of the parts is greater than any individual voice sarawearsskirts: that's the wonderful thing about how many teams - esp. global teams - there are. DBrownDesigns: so why not sum up all the teams together for a blitz? virtuallori: right, Stella. Same with all promotion. It all adds up. stellaloella: that's an interesting idea, DBrown. sarawearsskirts: i love that idea, dbrown. PaperScissorsArt: there is a group of women in Portland that do meetups and walk around neighborhoods handing out promos in bags catrocks left the room PaperScissorsArt: kinda like avon sarawearsskirts: i've been thinking of having teams try to partner up, but rallying all the teams together is fantastic PaperScissorsArt: everyone gets together and stuffs and then walks and hangs bags on doorknobs sarawearsskirts: the UK just did some awesome knitted graffiti with Etsy tags - so beautiful DBrownDesigns: in person and online line. A national Etsy Team Day! lol PaperScissorsArt: I am trying to get my team interested in doing a Xmas float sarawearsskirts: it's in the flickr group photos here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/teametsy/ ZestyB: international sarawearsskirts: INTERnational! sarawearsskirts: yay! DBrownDesigns: even better! virtuallori: global Team Etsy day! sarawearsskirts: totally. GlassCat left the room sarawearsskirts: so, what would we tell teams and people to do on global team etsy day? virtuallori: If they have a blog, do a post PaperScissorsArt: something crazy virtuallori: comment on other blogs PaperScissorsArt: something to get noticed virtuallori: post flyers at coffeehouses PaperScissorsArt: wear orange sarawearsskirts: everyone makes one etsy purchase, and leaves a promo posted somewhere, and takes a photo of their promo? virtuallori: charity run/walk shoozles: a sale as well DBrownDesigns: Pick a day in advance, have them advertise it, some might so sales, post flyers locally PaperScissorsArt: have an event PaperScissorsArt: do a bake sale sarawearsskirts: it would have to be advertised in advance - all the etsy bloggers could write about it DBrownDesigns: online promotion, and how about team treasury lists rotating on the front page? sarawearsskirts: (there are hundreds of etsy bloggers) PaperScissorsArt: something to conjure up a conversation and for people to ask and be interested virtuallori: donate a portion of proceeds to chariry stellaloella: I'm reminded of the "Day in the Life of Flickr" that just happened this summer. virtuallori: *charity GlassCat joined the room sarawearsskirts: yeah, stella, that's what i was thinking GlassCat left the room sarawearsskirts: i love the idea of everyone doing some creative graffiti (non-harmful, removable, not vandalizing) Shutterkate: what happened for "day in the life of flickr"? sarawearsskirts: and taking a photo to post sarawearsskirts: so it would be of-notice on flickr PaperScissorsArt: scavenger hunt DBrownDesigns: Would be great to do a blitz in early November for holiday sales! Shutterkate: neat PaperScissorsArt: invite the public Ramona joined the room virtuallori: love the Flickr tie-in sarawearsskirts: stella, want to explain day in the life? sarawearsskirts: flickr is just such a highly visual site, i think it's so perfectly suited for etsy stellaloella: actually, it was called "24 hours of Flickr", now that i looked for it sarawearsskirts: and etsy activities stellaloella: basically, flickr asked everyone to document what they did for a single day, and post it on their flcikr page -- then add it to a group chickadeebeads: DBrown~great idea on front page exposure! might get more sellers to join teams as well as buyers to look stellaloella: so it was a giant global photo diary for the flickr community for one day virtuallori: The Flickr people seem like cool people; might be worth exploring an official tie-in for that day DBrownDesigns: a contest for bringing in new buyers and sellers? sarawearsskirts: if we can get the majority of teams and team members to participate, we can blog about it on the etsy blog, have team treasuries on the front page and other great things. virtuallori: Love it. sarawearsskirts: but we need great participation in adnvance - organization stellaloella: http://www.flickr.com/groups/24flickr/ DBrownDesigns: Global Team Etsy Day! Love it! Ramona: Hello! PaperScissorsArt left the room sarawearsskirts: (we'll have to have a workshop dedicated just to planning this in more detail) virtuallori: Hey, Ramona! Ramona: Hi Lori sorry i'm late hey everyone SweetyPrize: it could become a national holiday SweetyPrize: handmade day sarawearsskirts: the best thing about this whole global team etsy day is that it shouldn't cost people money to participate. which is true to grassroots style marketing. Shutterkate: sounds very cool virtuallori: with parades! stellaloella: we'll need to talk to the Etsy Marketing team to discuss how to accomplsh this, and maybe what resources Etsy can help with (graphics for fliers, blog banners, etc) sarawearsskirts: right sarawearsskirts: i'm thinking maybe a day in october or november liskidder: Very cool sarawearsskirts: closer to holiday shopping? virtuallori: November ZestyB: Tuesday after Thanksgiving? DBrownDesigns: Late October or Early November! willowglass: November sounds good sarawearsskirts: well, the monday after thanksgiving is the #1 day for online sales sarawearsskirts: highest online sales of the year stellaloella: While it's good to be excited, remember that we're just talking about an IDEA right now -- this is not a finalized 100% going to happen event. (but we hope so!) virtuallori: Not a Saturday. Too many of us are doing shows on Saturdays in November & December DBrownDesigns: cyber monday, ahhh sarawearsskirts: right, cyber monday. sarawearsskirts: if we're going to do this at any scale, we will need lots of participation liskidder: Just a quick thought - we all might be insane then because we'll be handling holiday orders sarawearsskirts: and your wonderful ideas. shoozles: I don't remember that being good sales on line willowglass: I agree Lis, earlier in November might be better DBrownDesigns: how to get the teams all fired up and what everyone is doing will be huge! liskidder: (and also I have to run to a meeting but I will read the transcript - thanks guys!) ZestyB: bring it back to your 5! ZestyB: I'll bring it to my 3 ZestyB: ets ZestyB: ops sarawearsskirts: okay, we can talk specifics at a later date - i'll be sure we dedicate a workshop to organizing thing. sarawearsskirts: *this, not thing DBrownDesigns: I think they will be more inclined to participate if they can see the benefit, like front page!! lol Shutterkate: very cool willowglass: Yup, Deb, instant gratification! shoozles: blitz would be front page news LOL sarawearsskirts: but this is really mostly about getting new faces to etsy Shutterkate left the room sarawearsskirts: so we will need to consider ways to get the name ETSY out there that day Shutterkate joined the room sarawearsskirts: so the front page is great, but we need to focus on marketing outside of etsy. artsyphartsy: if everone reads the transcript of this workshop and prepares ideas in advance for the next workshop to plan the event it would be helpful ZestyB: everyone make a handmade garment - post a pic of themselves in it ZestyB: with Etsy" emblazoned on it! DBrownDesigns: jpgs to insert on blogs, a press release we can all use. virtuallori: No one wants to see me sew. :-) ZestyB: draw ZestyB: duck tape sarawearsskirts: you can always post photos with ideas or marketing tactics to the team flickr group - http://www.flickr.com/groups/teametsy/ sarawearsskirts: (just please don't post your products there!) DBrownDesigns: k, :o) sarawearsskirts: do a nice deed - give someone a little surprise handmade gift with an etsy card - like your barista, your gas station attendant... shoozles left the room virtuallori: Didn't know we had a Flickr group; thanks for the link DBrownDesigns: how about a wiki page for everyone to list their ideas? sarawearsskirts: we can do that ZestyB: use teh flickr maybe? Ramona: yes thanks just bookmarked ZestyB: in the discussion area? stellaloella: the etsylabs library blog has some great ideas for interesting promos, not just standard business cards -- http://etsylabslibrary.blogspot.com sarawearsskirts: we can use the discussion threads on the flickr group to discuss sarawearsskirts: the labs have great tutorials SweetyPrize: and those tracts you made are nice sarawearsskirts: the tracts are awesome stellaloella: i think the EtsyLabs shop might have the tracts for sale SweetyPrize: the ones that basically say etsy will save you from consumer damnation virtuallori: Very cool — for the right audience Ramona: bookmarking Shutterkate: stella you are the link queen stellaloella: true, lori. :) sarawearsskirts: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=6792438 DBrownDesigns: gotta run, good chatting with everyone! SweetyPrize: i think those tracts are great sarawearsskirts: great chat, thanks, dbrown! sarawearsskirts: alright, we've about hit an hour, so we should probably wrap up DBrownDesigns left the room SweetyPrize: my team is a bit activist in its purpose, i think we are going to copy that sarawearsskirts: this was really fun and motivating, thanks everyone! Ramona: by by Hoolyghans left the room willowglass left the room virtuallori: thanks, Sara & Stella ZestyB: k c u sarawearsskirts: you're welcome! stellaloella: bye everyone! thanks for coming. :) About | Press | Contact | Teams | Jobs | Merch Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Copyright Policy © 2008 Etsy Inc.