| Workshop Minutes: Town Hall Meeting 2008.4.11 |
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Rokali: Thanks everyone for coming
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Rokali: we used to have these Town Hall meetings regularly
Rokali: and so we shall, again
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Rokali: they serve a bunch of purposes
Rokali: 1) have fun, see each other
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Rokali: 2) get feedback on stuff
Rokali: 3) pure entertainment
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Rokali: as we keep growing, there'll be more and more people to chat with
Rokali: and we're working on ways to let people chat in more places
Rokali: anyhow
Rokali: here in the room with me now
Rokali: I have 2 very special people
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Rokali: to my right is Caterina
Rokali: an Etsy board memeber
Rokali: and ex-Beatle
Rokali: I mean, co-founder of Flickr
Rokali: and then there's Maria, our new COO
alexandersomma: Hello Caterina.
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Rokali: you'll be seeing a lot more of her
Rokali: and we'll get a good video interview tonight
Rokali: for now, you can spin hello
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Rokali: spin!
Rokali: spin!
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Rokali: ah that's fun!
Rokali: later we'll try a wave
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Rokali: ok, moving on
Rokali: this Town Hall is more a general update form our end
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Rokali: *from
Rokali: I turn 28 today, and I remember when I turned 27, things were much, um, saner
Rokali: as we keep growing the business, there's more and more to do
Rokali: which I sure many people here know
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Rokali: you have something you like to make
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Rokali: and you make it, and start selling it
Rokali: and there are 100 things
Rokali: that are *not* making things
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Rokali: that you suddenly have to do
Rokali: and learn
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Rokali: which is all part of this beautiful challenge
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Rokali: I'll get back to this in a bit
Rokali: for now, some stats for everyone
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Rokali: there are 73,478 shops on Etsy with at least 1 active item listing in them
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Rokali: the # of items per day that sell routinely goes above 15,000
Rokali: and there's a whole lot we're doing to grow those #'s
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Rokali: and on that note, I'll talk about what's going on here at Etsy
Rokali: inside Etsy Inc., the company tiself
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Rokali: first, everyone is always welcome to come visit our offices in Brooklyn
Rokali: just let us know beforehand
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Rokali: we have Monday Crafting night
Rokali: Jared, my seats!
daniellexo: yes please do!
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daniellexo: and lots of classes!
EtsyLabs: yes!
Rokali: so, as a business grows, you need more people to help out
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Rokali: I like to see how Etsy sellers manage this
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Rokali: I'll be posting in the forums about this a bunch
Rokali: but the basic idea is
Rokali: what help do you need to make a living making things
Rokali: because it's really tough!
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Rokali: so, here's how we're handling it inside Etsy
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Rokali: first, the company has just reached 60 employees
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Rokali: and we divide ourselves into teams
Rokali: there's the Storque team
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Rokali: Support / Community / Labs team,
EtsyLabs: yeah!
marymary: Holler!
Rokali: Engineering team (almost half the company)
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Rokali: Biz Ops
Rokali: Marketing
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RevolvingDork: woo engineers
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Rokali: so, as the work to do piles up, and gets more complex
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Rokali: we need a bit more process, and a bit more expertise
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Rokali: the folks in engineering have been doing a great job with this
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Rokali: on my Product team, not so much :)
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Rokali: as I said, we're learning!
Rokali: what's very very important to me
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Rokali: is that as we grow, we keep our culture
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Rokali: that's what makes Etsy Etsy
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Rokali: and I'll be the canary in the coalmine for this
Rokali: but
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Rokali: to get through this next round of growth
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Rokali: we needed someone whose done it before, a couple times
Rokali: and this is where Maria comes in
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Rokali: because our responsibilities keep enlarging
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Rokali: and we certainly don't enjoy making public mistakes
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Rokali: as much as we did, say, last week!
Rokali: (just kidding)
Rokali: so this is the challenge: grow big while staying small
Rokali: there have been some fun rumors, like Martha Stewart buying Etsy
Rokali: (she can't afford us)
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Rokali: (hehe)
RobWhite: Oh snap.
Rokali: and everyone here can know we're not going to sneak off and sell the company
Rokali: without, say, a Town Hall first
Rokali: and some cookies
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Rokali: no, really, that's not our goal
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Rokali: I think that what we're building
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Rokali: is vital to how the world needs to work, will work
Rokali: in 10, 20 years
Rokali: and as such, it needs its own 2 legs to walk on
Rokali: and the 200,000 legs of all the selelrs
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Rokali: so, having Maria here and giving our Operations inside Etsy a nice tune-up
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Rokali: means that the new product dev will be more orderly
Rokali: and we'll be able to do more at once
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Rokali: the Forums are a great place to give continual feedback
Rokali: and I can't wait till the ideas forum is a blank, becuase every idea is on the site, har har
Rokali: there's so much to do!
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jared: lol
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Rokali: I've learned a lot of patience this past year
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Rokali: I know that being a Web company
Rokali: people expect immediate results
Rokali: I'd love to close up shop every day at 5pm
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Rokali: to mop the floors and such
Rokali: but it's always a moving target
Rokali: so, moving along
Rokali: here are some things I personally would like to roll out onto the site
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Rokali: these are things being researched
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Rokali: and we'll follow up with a more detailed update later, in the Storque
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Rokali: 1) Currency conversion
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Rokali: 2) shop stats for sellers
Rokali: 3) A dyanic Teams section
Rokali: dynamic
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Rokali: 4) Stuff with video (secret for now)
Rokali: 5) more real-time multi-user stuff like this
Rokali: 6) an in-house payment system
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Rokali: and two other announcements
Rokali: these are important
Rokali: #1
Rokali: Right now, when you renew an item
Rokali: it adds 4 months
Rokali: to your original 4 months
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Rokali: so if you list an item, you get 4 months
Rokali: and if you renew it a week later
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Rokali: you get a whole 'nother 4 months
Rokali: this is going to change
Rokali: we know that renewing your item is advatageous from a marketing perspective
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Rokali: because it puts the item back atop the category list
Rokali: and search results
Rokali: and so people renew their item often
Rokali: but this leads to items that expire in 2100
Rokali: 2100!
Rokali: and on the legal side of matters
Rokali: who knows is humans will be around then, or the internet, or Etsy
Rokali: so, this is a liability for Etsy
Rokali: anyhow
jared: Mars
Rokali: starting in a couple weeks
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Rokali: when you renew an item
stellaloella: (i do hope etsy's still around in 2100 though)
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Rokali: you will get 4 months *from the date of renewal*
Rokali: we'll write a Storque article about this
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Rokali: and we can have another offsite Workshop about it
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Rokali: this is just the announcement :)
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Rokali: ok, and the next announcement
Rokali: concerns Search & Categories
Rokali: we've been spending months and months researching categories & subcategories
Rokali: & subsubcatgories
Rokali: and how people tag
Rokali: and the upshot of it is:
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Rokali: Tags are for loosely coupled metadata
Rokali: (I have no idea what that means)
Rokali: what I mean is
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Rokali: Tags are just that: tags
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Rokali: and we're not going to base our categorization or default search off free-form tags
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Rokali: additionally
Rokali: the top-level categories on Etsy are a bit wonky
Rokali: if you knit a sweater for a child
Rokali: that item could go into 3 categories
RevolvingDork: ( this is still being researched and isn't final , FYI to all )
Rokali: Clothing, Children, Knitting
Rokali: so, we're going to change things up a bit
Rokali: and have filters, like: Who's it for? What's it made of? etc.
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Rokali: and clarify the top-level categories
Rokali: this isn't something immediate
Rokali: it'll take a bunch more planning
Rokali: but the goal here is to make things much clearer, especially for buyers
Rokali: so, that's an update on the "Prodcut"
Rokali: um
Rokali: "Product"
Rokali: which is what we call the Website
Rokali: I have no idea why, I think because of IBM
Rokali: when software was in boxes
Rokali: so, I'll open up the floor for general questions
Rokali: which I'd be happy to answer
Rokali: type /ask and then your question
Rokali: in 1 sec
daniellexo: and... now
Rokali: ok, try now
jared: for example,
Rokali: I'll see the questions in my handy little queue here
jared: /ask How do you smell so good?
Rokali: and answer them with wit and honesty
RobWhite: Mmm, wit.
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quirke asks, When is your proposed forum revamp going to happen?
RevolvingDork: "when
Rokali: timelines are really tricky to say, so I'll note priorities
RevolvingDork: " is a funny kind of question
Rokali: Revamping the foums is being looked at from the DB perspective right now
Rokali: so, it's under dev
keepsakekatie asks, Is there any chance, ever, of being able to pay Etsy fee's with paypal
Rokali: This is a slippery slope
Rokali: because there is no reliable way for us to tally that
RevolvingDork: i can add some info to that one
Rokali: "I paid my bill via PayPal"
Rokali: "You did?"
Rokali: "Yes, go check"
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RevolvingDork: the existing paypal ipn hasn't eben very reliable for us
Rokali: people will pay with PayPal
Rokali: and we won't know
Rokali: we'd LIKE to let you do this
RevolvingDork: and the worst thing we can imagine is someone sending us money, and it not being noted in their bills
Rokali: believe me, anything that helps you pay your bill
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Rokali: we're all ffor!
HelloKnitty asks, when will there be a separate Etsy for supplies
Rokali: great question
Rokali: I'd like to say, by the end of this year
matt: (db = database btw)
Rokali: but that's ambitious
Rokali: I think supplies are vital to Etsy
Rokali: and we want a proper space for them
eclipse asks, when will advances search be ready?
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Rokali: hmm, everyone wants dates
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Rokali: tricky stuff
Rokali: let me go check the oven
RevolvingDork: lots of "whens" flying around :P
neawear asks, so for announcement 1, that means less for our buck, basically?
HeyMichelle: heh, neawear
Rokali: for the item renewal change
Rokali: it's 20 cents
Rokali: and it's your call
Rokali: if you think it's worth it for another 20 cents
Rokali: to get your item to the top of them list
Rokali: then you can decide to do that
ButterflyChic asks, will there be a shiping calculator?
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Rokali: this is a good idea, we'd have to decide which carriers to support
Rokali: UPS, USPS, DHL etc.
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Rokali: def. something we'd like to build
MarthaHaskins asks, Will it be possibly to categorize our favorites and add notes?
Rokali: Yes!
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Rokali: that's on our improvements list
jared: cool
Rokali: again, can't give a time, but I promise you we're workin' on it
TeenAngster: yay!
JessicaSharrah asks, no question - but happy b-day!
astraled asks, what about the split between vintage/commercial and handmade in search?
Rokali: we'll be posting a storque article about this, we have our initial draft of the plan done
Rokali: too detailed to go into here, but a very important matter
ginchy asks, What is our user capacity and what is the estimated rate of growth?
Rokali: we're almost at 1,000,000 members total
Rokali: each day about 3,500 people sign up
Rokali: and that's been growing steadily for a long time now
Rokali: lots and lots of new buyers, especially
Rokali: and we want to build more toys for the buyers
eclipse asks, will the inhouse payment system be optional, i.e. can we still use paypal instead
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Rokali: as of right now, the answer is: Yes
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Rokali: our goal is to build a payment system superior to PayPal's
Rokali: but we need to earn your business, we understand
RunAliceRun asks, will the 4 month date of renewal affect our past renewals?
Rokali: nope
Rokali: we won't change anything that already exists
sherrytruitt asks, by flagging non handmade products are we over loading the support staff, do you think this is the best way? thanks
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Rokali: right now it's the only way, and we're building much better tools for this, so, it's OK
SmartBird asks, about the filters for top-level categories: are these filters the seller has to click through, or the buyer?
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Rokali: I'm not sure I get it, but we'll have another meeting around this issue
Rokali: it'd be in the drop-down up top
Rokali: next to the search bar
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DesignedByLucinda asks, When you revamp the Categories, will it be possible to coss-list under several separate Top Level Categories (like, in your example, clothing, children and knitted)?
Rokali: the goal is that pure top-level categories are mutually exclusive
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Rokali: and "for children" is a kind of filter, not a category on its own
whimsidoodle asks, on the shop stats- will you be able to see keyword info i.e. what keyworsd your buyers or people who hearted you used to find you?
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Rokali: we'd like to get you everything we can
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Rokali: one word on shop stats
Rokali: this is something that's very server-intensive
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Rokali: meaning that it takes a lot of resources for us to provide these stats
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RevolvingDork: ( that's the technical term ;P )
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Rokali: there will be several differing levels of stats
Rokali: starting with free, and moving onto a couple packages that cost a couple bucks a month
Rokali: (pricing to be set)
Rokali: we'll give you the most we can for free ;P
ArtMind asks, Any idea when the currency converter will be implemented?
jared: with excellent graphs and visuallizations
Rokali: if I give you a date, Chris will cut me
Rokali: :)
RevolvingDork: "whens", sadly, cannot be answered ( at least, not answered in any satisfying way )
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RevolvingDork: and yes, cutting
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ginchy asks, will the in-house payment system be for etsy transactions and etsy bill paying both?
Rokali: Yes, we plan so.
MarthaHaskins asks, Do you need volunteers or employees to help you with all this?
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Rokali: we do, and you can help in the forums and, if you live in Brooklyn, let us know
Rokali: sadly we are not hiring people outside the locale anymore
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pawandclawdesigns asks, Is a way to notify sellers that they are in the gift guides a possibility, for example, like the orange star in Treasury?
Rokali: this is another great idea
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Rokali: I love the Recent Activity screen on Flickr
Rokali: and owuld like to have something like it for Etsy
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jenngee asks, can you show us which questions you are answering?
Rokali: This one.
juneblue asks, and a separate Etsy for vintage?
jared: your listings are viewed in so many ways, it would be great to see how
Rokali: We're not sure how much we want to separate things, in terms of domain names
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SmartBird asks, about the "in house payment system" - guessing that would be for buyers. So does that mean they wouldn't have to register in order to shop/pay?
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Rokali: another good question
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Rokali: Amazon requires you to register
Rokali: so, we're not sure how we'd handle it
VanFleetStreetDesign asks, Why is Etsy allowing selling vintage items ?
Rokali: this was a category we added way back when, in the beginning
Rokali: thinking it'd be useful and enjoyable
Rokali: and I think it has been
Rokali: it's also grown quite a bit
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Rokali: I think it serves a good purpose
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Rokali: but we want to make sure that it keeps apart from the handmade stuff
Rokali: so, we have some good ideas about this
Rokali: another time, though!
buffalonerdproject asks, I don't have a question, I just want to say that I *love* the renewal idea. It freaks me out to see dates like 2010. Too far ahead for me to think.
Rokali: thanks
GreenMamba asks, Is any consideration being given to allowing users one 'secret' account - with restricted access to forums and such - to protect their privacy and buying history?
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Rokali: hiding your buying history is a good idea
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Rokali: anonymous on forums = bad idea, IM
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Rokali: O
JensJewellery asks, I just wanted to say that I am from Australia and stumbled upon etsy one day and I think that this site is awesome!
Rokali: yay
sierracreations asks, Are we ever going to be able to put items in more than one section?
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Rokali: in your own shop, or top-level category?
Rokali: there's a duality here
Rokali: buyers want a narrow section of items
Rokali: just what they searched for
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Rokali: sellers want their items in as many places as possible
Rokali: we need to find the middleground
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PetitPoulailler asks, that "new search" for Supplies that you'd *like to say* will be unveiled by the end of this year ...does that also include a separation of Vintage ?
Rokali: Yes, we'd be tackling both at once
BlackMtnFurniture asks, Will we ever have the ability to change our shop name should we want/need to?
Rokali: it's tough because it breaks our database
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Rokali: if you get sued for your shop name
Rokali: we'll help you out ;P
keepsakekatie asks, When can we do a spin wave, now I have worked out how to spin?
jared: that's a great idea
Rokali: click the button below the chat bar
jared: i'll lead it
SupernovaDesigns asks, are there any plans to remove empty shops as was indicated with the D&D were drafted?
jared: we'll start up here
Rokali: yes, they'll expire, we're working on a policy about this, but we'll be very conservative
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RunAliceRun asks, I wonder how many of those 1,000,000 are the same person with one or more shops?
Rokali: 3,456
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pawandclawdesigns asks, with the success of the bulk shipping editor, are there any plans to make a bulk PRICE editor, for store wide sales, materials increases, etc?
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Rokali: yes, lots of bulk features
Rokali: we realize this is an issue
keepsakekatie asks, when will you fix the color search, so it doesn't just bring up things on that color of background?
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Rokali: it works OK now, we'll always work to improve it
BululuStudio asks, what about RME?
Rokali: what's RME?
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quirke asks, Are you planning any changes to the feedback system i.e. ability to respond to feedback, block buyer feature, etc
stellaloella: RME = Revolution Money Exchange, a paypal alternative
Rokali: ah
Chillionaire: my bad!
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Rokali: I don't know, we'd have to research that
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Rokali: we'd like to make the feedback system more qualitative, less quantitative, yes
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snappyshop asks, how many items are there for sale on etsy? just curious
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Rokali: (looking)
matt: million
Rokali: 1,520,007
matt: 1.5 million
Rokali: items
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jared: i've always been impressed with how fast Rob can count
Rokali: if you bought all the items
Rokali: you'd have to spend
Rokali: $53,515,447.63
Rokali: Jared, get yer checkbook
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juneblue asks, will we ever be able to link in our profiles or shop announcement to flickr for more photos?
Rokali: we'd like to find a way to get photos in there, yes
HelloKnitty asks, How do you think Alchemy is going ?
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Rokali: great, we already released a round of improvements, and it generated around $50k of sales in its first month
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MarthaHaskins asks, When listing an item or relisting - would it be possible to click back to any page instead of just hitting forward or back?
Rokali: tough technical challenge, but we're working on it
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Humsandtiddelypoms asks, will we ever be able to leave a comment on someone's item or shop?
Rokali: dangerous!
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Rokali: we'd like to have in-house blogs
Rokali: and you could blog about items
ginchy asks, would you consider a feature to let us organize or search within our favorites?
Rokali: yes indeed
Jenarter asks, is there any risk of the site exploding and melting our faces, ie, too many people too fast?
RobWhite: Not in the face!
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Rokali: we're doing a whole lot to make sure that doesn't happen
Rokali: we could try exploding this chat room
Rokali: in a couple minutes
Rokali: I'll turn on video if I can
whimsidoodle asks, anyway that each individual shop could be able to edit metadata so google and other search engines could find us?
pawandclawdesigns asks, will all the "new fangled bells & whistles" make etsy less dial up friendly than it is now?
RobWhite: "What'd we do for Rob's 28th birthday?" "Well, we tried our darnedest to blow up the Virtual Labs."
Rokali: the enws bells & whistles will be on their own pages, really
Rokali: so no
RobWhite: '
Rokali: as for Metadata for Google
Rokali: that's what tags are right now
neawear asks, will we be able to transfer funds from in-house payment from sales to our paypal?
Rokali: yes, that'd work
snappyshop asks, how did you get so funny?
Rokali: drinking raw milk
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dennisanderson asks, Question for Jared.... Can you make a star link on the top field of the trasury so we can click and it brings the stars to the top or bottom of the list, like the "hotness" or "expiration" ?
jared: yes
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jared: i'll work on it
pawandclawdesigns asks, is blocking non payers an option Etsy would consider, other than the current "convo them" method?
Rokali: yes, we'd like to have that
snappyshop asks, I love the vintage!
daniellexo: good one dennisanderson
daniellexo: good one
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wittyworkshop asks, will there ever be an ETSY craft fair/event?
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Rokali: We've partenred with some places for one
Rokali: might be an all Etsy one someday
ButterflyChic asks, what about putting sub-sections in shops?
Rokali: we have this now, I hope!
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Rokali: or you mean subesctions of those sections
Rokali: I dunno
jared: doh
xiane asks, will we ever be able to arrange/organize items in our shops freely, rather than in order of listing only?
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Rokali: Yes
pookeh asks, What does "etsy" mean? Tell us, plz!!!
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Rokali: just watch this video
Rokali: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YozQlhdu4QU
SarahsSky asks, will rss feeds for etsy shops ever include the photos?
Rokali: sure, if technically possible
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CorinneElaina asks, No question here, but want you to know I think Etsy and all who work for Etsy are the bees knees.
Rokali: thanks!
jared: cheers
keepsakekatie asks, WHat exactly is the point of caring how many hearts you have? DOes it make you show up more anywhere or anything useful?
Rokali: I care who loves me!
ginchy asks, will we ever be able to put our etsy shop in a frame of our own website?
Rokali: even more than that, how about AT your own website?
Rokali: it's a plan
BululuStudio asks, what is the average price, sold item?
Rokali: $15
snappyshop asks, OK, bart B of my curious questioning, what's the price of the most expensive Etsy item?
Rokali: that's sold?
Rokali: I don't know
Rokali: I sold a computer I made for $2k
Rokali: that was the record for a little whil
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Rokali: http://www.etsy.com/view_transaction.php?transaction_id=4814
krisi asks, no question, just a comment, finished my first alchemy buy and it was a joy !
Rokali: cool! I'm getting a bunch of quilts, and a guitar made
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CreationsByRobin asks, the new virtual labs is great! Any more updates in the near future?
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Rokali: it'll be renamed
Rokali: if someone has a good name
Rokali: post it in the forums
Rokali: "Virtual Labs" is soooo 1999
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ArtMind asks, It would be great if you can switch your photo's around when listing without removing them.
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jared: and there are some interesting plans
Rokali: yes! Jay has been working on this
ginchy asks, Will tag fractal ever become a real feature? :D :D
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TwistedThicket asks, :/ask Are you still thinking of adding a small gallery area within our profile so we can show pictures of our shops/studios?
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Rokali: yes and yes
buffalonerdproject asks, Is it okay for me to have a cyber crush on an admin?
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Rokali: as long as you wear protection
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RobWhite: =O
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GreenMamba asks, Will we ever be able to arrange our items according to our own preference, rather than date listed?
Rokali: yes
GreenMamba asks, With an in-house payment system, would sellers receive immediate payment for items sold, or would funds be transferred at set times each month?
Rokali: we'll have another talk about this another time
Rokali: lots of details
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Rokali: for now, yes, you could
Rokali: if you were in the US
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PetitPoulailler asks, Have we told you lately that we love you?
Rokali: Bryan Adams?
keepsakekatie asks, why is my boyfriend so mean to me?
Rokali: does your boyfriend buy mass-produced clothing?
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ArtMind asks, How are you attracting more International sellers?
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Rokali: for some reason we get lots of press in Germany
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Chillionaire: not all of us live in BK
Rokali: adding currency conversion etc. will help
Rokali: there's also a lot to get right with the marketplace we have now
Humsandtiddelypoms asks, how many shops have over 100 items and do they typically sell more?
Rokali: not sure
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Jenarter asks, I heart Alchemy and Rob!
UneFemme asks, will the suggestion tool ever come back?
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Rokali: I dunno, Jared?
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jared: yes, but it will look radically different
SarahsSky asks, how can we get our very own Rokali birthday mask?
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HeyMichelle: some of these questions about how to sell more items, etc. are great ones for the critique sessions and shop help sessions- check the VL schedule
Rokali: I'm sure Christine can help you there, or Mary
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WoodNGoods asks, I came in the middle of this - is there a way to see the whole conversation?
Rokali: yes, we'll post a chat log
RobWhite: LooseWireStudio made one for avatars. I made my own.
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PetitPoulailler asks, ... I'd love to search/organize my sales ~ by seller, by shop section. Will this be possible?
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Rokali: good idea, I'm adding it to our wiki
Rokali: ok, that's all the q's!
Rokali: now to try some video
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dennisanderson: woohoo
neawear: YAY!
fernfiddlehead: 3....2....1.....
Rokali: try throwing stuff
jared: can i open up the dance floor?
neawear: UH OH
haim: oh lord the lag
jared: feedbacklooppppp
SupernovaDesigns: oh god!!!!
SarahsSky: im stuck in my seat
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scaramouche: boom
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Rokali: bees!
HeyMichelle: muuuussst disssabbble giftssss
eclipse: all the gifts are freezing it
alexandersomma: Hart bomb
MidwestieLady: Hello! Wow, I caught a heart
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Rokali: I disabled them
Chillionaire: slooooooooooooooooow
xiane: ag! lag!
HeyMichelle: labs exploding! jump!
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dennisanderson: my pc is dying!
Rokali: wait 30 secs
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daniellexo: omg
neawear: LOL HAIM FREAKS OUT
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jared: haha
neawear: poor haim
knotsntangles: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
daniellexo: shlowqwwww
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SupernovaDesigns: these are no human bees!!
daniellexo: whew
HelloKnitty: someone sat on my face
daniellexo: that was nuts
pipsjewellery: help
pawandclawdesigns: halp me..dial up...dying...
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faro: great time!
PetitPoulailler: i was all covered in smoochies :)
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neawear: awww poor paw ;(
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BAKidAgain: thank you
HelloKnitty: MoTowne
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AriaImages: Did I miss the whole thing?
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daniellexo: i can't even find me
pipsjewellery: thanks
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JessicaSharrah: thanks all
PetitPoulailler: spin, daniell
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neawear: lol danielle!!
PetitPoulailler: e
JessicaSharrah: rob - happy b-day
MarthaHaskins: Thank you!
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daniellexo: whew there i am
BAKidAgain: mass exit
Rokali: thanks everyone!
OneHoney: Thanks!
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