Ms. One Million: dorothywyn
On June 10th, 2008, Etsy had its 1 millionth registration. Needless to say, this milestone has symbolic value to us and we're so excited about it! But it led admin and the community alike to wonder about the person behind that big, round number. Who is she? We are happy to welcome dorothywyn to the Etsy community …
Etsy Statistics: May Flowers Indeed!
Thanks to all of the terrific members of the Etsy community who made May 2008 another record month with all-time highs in both amount of goods sold, new listings and page views. The numbers for May:• $6.5 million sold here on Etsy last month — 8.3% more than April. • 449,000 items were sold to make up that sales figure. • A …
Etsy Statistics: April $howers
Frankly, we were a little worried about April’s numbers at the start of the month: Easter, a big shopping holiday, was in March this year, and April has one less day than March. Overall, our fears were unfounded — while our growth wasn’t quite as robust as March, we did hit some terrific milestones. The numbers: 295 …
Focusing Our Priorities: Your Top Three Ideas
We're taking a bunch of steps here at Etsy to make sure we're in tune with what you, our members, would like us to change or add to the site. Last Tuesday, we posted a forum thread in the Ideas Section of the forums asking for your top three ideas as both buyers and sellers on Etsy. We were so happy to follow this …
Town Hall Meeting: Notes from Friday, April 11th
We had a great discussion this past Friday, and for those of you who couldn't make it, here's a rundown of what was covered. In addition to these notes below, here are the full minutes. We began by looking at where Etsy is at right now, as we prepare to turn three years old on June 18. It's been quite a ride, and there's a …
Handmade Weddings: The Sales Results, Happily Ever After
We chose handmade weddings as a month-long series for a lot of reasons: There are tons of different aspects of a wedding that can be handmade, the styles are almost infinite, and there are tons of fabulous wedding items on Etsy. That's all great, but we also wanted to see whether or not an in-depth series would …
March Numbers: No Foolin'
As tempted as I was to post this yesterday and throw some April Fool’s numbers into this article, March’s numbers were just too good to mess with. You better believe it!All of the numbers below are the highest Etsy has ever achieved, even more than this past December 2007! We sold a hair over 400,000 items …
Tech Update + How-To: Download your Sales and Billing Data to a Spreadsheet
Sellers who do their own accounting will be excited to hear this: you can now download your sales information to your computer in CSV format ( Here here! for "comma separated values")! A CSV is a type of file that can be opened by programs such as Microsoft Excel or Open Office Calc (a free spreadsheet program). If …
Survey Says: The Results Are In
The results are in! We had over 30,000 respondents to the survey, an overwhelming response. After careful data scrubbing to clean out multiple entries and comparing the survey data to our registration and site statistics to review how representative the sample was, we are excited to present the results …
