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Etsy Alerts: The New News Emails


Story by TechUpdates, Vanessa Published on April 23, 2008 in Etsy News	Photo by Anda

Many Etsians have been asking for a cut and dry way to get only the important site news from admin. The Storque is great and all, you say, but there's so much content, it's hard to pinpoint what's what in the Etsy News Section.

We over here at the Storque are up for the task. We are converting the Etsy News Email list to be an Etsy News Alert system. In the past, Etsy News was about a weekly or so collection of headlines from the Storque. Pleasant enough, but not instantaneous! Not hard-hitting!

That was then, this is now: just sign up for the Etsy News Emails listserve here, or by clicking on the envelope icon on the homepage of Etsy.

You will get breaking news headlines straight from Etsy Central, as they are published on the Storque, delivered to your email inboxes. Hello, synchronicity!

Included Topics:

Downtime & site outages
Cooperative Advertising announcements
New site features launched
Statistics
Showcase announcements
Policy & legal announcements
Important Customer Support how-tos
Major posts from Etsy's founder Rob Kalin, aka Rokali
Town Halls or other community-wide events
Other news important enough for us to bug you

We realize the need for a swift, targeted and convenient way for Etsians to get headlines. We know your are busy and you need the headlines which will help you run your businesses on Etsy. As with any curated content, we'll be making judgment calls on the fly as these stories break, and those calls may fall prey to human error once in a while. But we promise to do our best! Of course, we hope you'll read the rest of the Storque too for other Etsy News on Competitions & Opportunities, EtsyinthePress, as well as insightful and useful posts about Legal Info for Artists, EtsyTeams, Virtual Labs Schedule, Shop Makeover Series, etc. But these can be read at your leisure if you feel the urge...

We are just starting this, so please let us know your thoughts below in the comments! And go subscribe here!

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April 23, 2008 at 12:16 p.m.

fernfiddlehead

Sounds good.

April 23, 2008 at 12:16 p.m.

SalmonStreetStudio

Great idea, thanks!

April 23, 2008 at 12:19 p.m.

ArtMind

I follow the Storque on Twitter and I find it a great way to keep updated. :)

April 23, 2008 at 12:22 p.m.

bluesnailpapers

Yay, thank you!

April 23, 2008 at 12:37 p.m.

operatic

Thank you for the email I'm SO glad you guys are doing this -- I think it will make a big difference to sellers here.

April 23, 2008 at 12:43 p.m.

AllAboutTheButtons

If you get all the e-mail already do you have to re-sign up?

April 23, 2008 at 12:48 p.m.

GreenMamba

I'm going to love this improvement! Many Thanks!

Just wondering, though, if Etsy will consider e-mailing the News (just the News, as it is non-fluffy-essential-info) to all Etsy sellers, whether they've signed-up or not? It would certainly help keep everyone informed and on the same page. Might even cut down on some repeat threads in the fora . . .

April 23, 2008 at 12:50 p.m.

GreenMamba

AllAboutTheButtons, Vanessa said in the announcement thread that no further action is required for members who are already on the News e-mail list.

April 23, 2008 at 1:21 p.m.

Vanessa

GreenMamba, I'm not sure about your suggestion for all Etsy sellers, whether they've signed-up or not. I will ask engineering and see if it's feasible. When you send out truly massive emails (70,000 is a lot!) I think you run the danger of aol thinking you're spam. And other email providers too.

There's also the Community aspect of people being upset when they get emails they didn't sign up for. We will discuss! We will look into it!

April 23, 2008 at 2:01 p.m.

RaeGun

A step in the right direction, thanks.

Yup I agree I think etsy sellers should have to opt out not opt in. ANd then when you go to opt out it should say something like "are you sure, you could miss important changes like if we change the fees." and something like "if you opt out of these emails you are responsible to go to the storque and keep up with any policy changes"

And I would really prefer to get a convo from "etsynews" rather than a convo, not sure if that is feasible though

April 23, 2008 at 2:02 p.m.

RaeGun

oops I meant rather than an email

April 23, 2008 at 2:07 p.m.

beadyize

I think this is a fantastic idea. It's a very convenient way to be sure sellers will stay on top of the latest critical news. I try to check out the Storque & forums once or twice a week but sometimes get so busy I forget. This grabs my attention by putting the info right in front of me in my inbox. Thank you!

April 23, 2008 at 2:20 p.m.

esdesigns

good idea, thanks

April 23, 2008 at 2:34 p.m.

greygoat

Great stuff! Thanks for adding this feature.

It's important to know new stuff soon, often by the time I catch something in the Storque I hop over to the forums and everyone's been talking about it for 24 hours and all the excitement has gone :)

April 23, 2008 at 3:02 p.m.

judysnow

Like this so much have subscribed already thanks for doing this. You are appreciated.

April 23, 2008 at 3:02 p.m.

Vanessa

I will ask about the seller-site-wide convo suggestion.

Also, we are talking about a prompt to have people sign up for the Etsy News email alerts when they first sign up to be sellers.

There are more things we can do when people are "initiated" on Etsy that would let them know where to get info.

April 23, 2008 at 3:09 p.m.

GreenMamba

Thanks again, Vanessa! It's great to know you all are brainstorming ways to keep everyone in the loop. I love RaeGun's suggestion to have sellers manually opt-OUT, rather than having to opt-IN. I do understand the possible Spam issues, but am hopeful there will soon be a way to implement a reliable all-inclusive news-delivery system, whether by convo or by e-mail.

Hip Hip Hurray! for timely communication!!

April 23, 2008 at 3:58 p.m.

dancingcircle

Thank you! I also posted in your forum this morning that I think it's so important to have everyone get at least the first one whether they've signed up or not and then have the option to "opt out". I definitely agree it should be mandatory for new sellers to opt in or out at time of registration.
Can't wait to see the first one!

April 23, 2008 at 4:22 p.m.