Seller How-To: Shipping
On Etsy, shipping and fulfillment are handled by sellers individually. This leaves a lot of flexibility for a seller's shipping options — which means it also presents a lot of decisions! This post will give you an outline of the most important shipping issues to consider as well as some tips and links to …
How-Tuesday: Stuffing Recipe From The New Thanksgiving Table
When it comes to the Thanksgiving feast, I reserve most of my plate for the stuffing. Savory, moist, and hearty, the irresistible mixture is my primary motivation for stumbling across the Turkey Trot's finish line. Families tend to adhere to traditional Thanksgiving recipes for generations and …
Five Money Questions to Ask Before Quitting Your Day Job
This guest post is by Amanda Steinberg, founder of DailyWorth.com. DailyWorth is a daily email about money for women — delivering practical tips, empowering ideas and the occasional kick in the pants. I quit my full-time job four years ago to be a full-time entrepreneur. I earn my living running websites …
Holiday Tips for Sellers: Notes on Cyber Monday From DiffractionFiber
Beth of DiffractionFiber held a very informative workshop in our Virtual Labs last week on promoting your Cyber Monday sales. Did you miss it? Hopefully these notes will help! What is Cyber Monday? Cyber Monday is the Monday after Thanksgiving. Traditionally (or at least how the media markets it), Black …
Seller How-To: Get Involved With Black Friday and Cyber Monday Promotions
Black Friday through Cyber Monday is a recognized shopping weekend that has quickly gained a reputation as the best time of year to find promotional sales on gifts for the holidays. For businesses, it is recognized as one of the most profitable weekends of the year that officially kicks off the busy …
Seller How-To: Plug in the My Etsy Facebook Application
The new My Etsy Facebook app is here and ready to help you share your shop with a new audience! This app not only provides a great way to share your Etsy shop and Favorites with your Facebook friends, but also lets you include a feed from your own blog and will alert you and your friends when your item is …
How-Tuesday: Rolling Balls From Magic Books & Paper Toys
As a lover of both books and crafts, I have a very difficult time letting my coffee table volumes or National Geographic issues sit on the shelf for long before I'm ripping, cutting, folding, and gluing. Pages sticky with mod podge, my collection of paper transforms into a vault of materials and inspiration …
From Etsy's Merchandising Desk: December Festivites
It's that time again, and those of us behind the scenes at Etsy would like to share our merchandising plans for December. As we continue to plan Etsy’s calendar for the year ahead with thematic merchandising, we will be incorporating many of the concepts you shared in response to November's report and …
Seller How-To: 5 Tips for Item Descriptions
Do you have writer's block when it comes to crafting your Etsy item listings? You're in luck! Optimize your shop with the following five tips for effective and descriptive prose in your product listings. You'll have a way with words in no time! 1. Create an inverted pyramid. The most important information …
How-Tuesday: Miniature Stocking Ornament From Sweater Renewal
As the season of bulky fibers descends upon us, I inevitably must clean out my sweater drawer for new finds. Pulling out fistfuls of thick wool, I mourn moth holes, shrunken sleeves, oil stains. The colorful knits, even flawed, nevertheless feel enduring, and thus when I came across Sharon Franco Rothschild's …
The Etsy Seller Handbook: All Our How-To's About Selling
Sellers! Below you'll find a handy index of all the useful How-To's about selling on Etsy. We're calling it the Seller Handbook, and we first posted it on the Storque in September of 2007. We'll be adding all new how-to's for sellers to this index and bumping up the post when we do. In this way it's a living document …
How-Tuesday: Rose Petal Tee From Appliqué Your Way
Picking through the scrap bins at fabric stores is my cherished scavenging adventure for texture and pattern. In every nook of my craft storage, strips of vibrant textiles bloom forth. When I find projects made for these sweet trims, I'm not only reinventing a T-shirt or a tote bag, I'm also creating …
Fabulous Packaging and Wrapping With rikrak
Have you missed the first half of our series of holiday workshops for sellers? Don't worry, there are many workshops left to help you get your shop in shape this season. (View the entire schedule here.) Last week's workshop was hosted by Etsy seller, rikrak, our resident branding-with-packaging specialist! I …
Halloween Hosting: Kill Devil Punch Recipe From Food & Wine Magazine
Your guests will be reeling (in a good way) from this punch! The recipe for Kill Devil Punch came to Food & Wine Magazine from Phil Ward, bartender at the aptly named Death & Co. It features a block of raspberry ice that melts, slowly releasing its juices (a.k.a. raspberry blood) into the bowl throughout the evening …
Halloween Recipes From Parenting.com
So you've knitted your toddler a frog suit, transformed your home into a haunted mansion, and rehearsed your shadow puppet performance. Now it's time to party! This weekend, shock and delight the little monsters in your living room by serving up a tray of delectable gore. Parenting.com has a slew of recipes …
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