The Etsy Seller Handbook: All Our How-Tos about Selling
Dear Sellers!Below you'll find a handy index of all the useful How-Tos about Selling on Etsy. We're calling it the Seller Handbook. We'll be adding all new how-tos for sellers to this index.You can also search the Storque tags for "Seller Handbook" for a chronological list of all our published how-tos related …
Holiday How-To: Top Ten Financial Tips for the Holiday Rush
The Holidays are a busy time of the year for most people — parties, shopping, traveling, baking, and various errands. If you are a seller on Etsy, you have one more responsibility to add to that list . . . managing the holiday rush that is associated with your business.I hope the holiday season for your business will …
Tech Update: More Info on Search & Categories
Last week Etsy's new CTO, Chad Dickerson wrote an honest account of some of the technical challenges Etsy.com is currently facing, specifically in reference to the search function. In that article, Chad mentioned some new hardware and "other tweaks" to improve things. Many of you may be curious about what we …
The Numbers Game: Sales per Day
Dear Sellers, Let's continue the journey of listening to the stories that the numbers our Etsy shop tell us. As a review, a ratio is the story that two numbers tell when they are together. So far, we have explored a popularity ratio called the heart-to-sale ratio and a couple of inventory ratios. This week, we …
Holiday How-To: Sagittariusgallery's Top 10 Tips for Newbie Sellers
Attention Newbie Sellers! If you don't know Sagittariusgallery, you should. Not only a painter and an experienced seller, she takes it upon herself to share informative Newbie Guides on the forums (and on the Storque too — see here for her past posts). We invited her to list her Top 10 Crucial Holiday Rush Tips …
Holiday How-To: Wholesale on Etsy
Have you ever received an inquiry about wholesaling your work from a boutique owner and wondered how to respond? Also, what should you charge? And how do you handle the increased volume of this kind of order? So many questions spring to mind! With the holidays around the corner, brick and mortar shops are …
Etsy's 2008 Holiday Marketing Plans
Friends, the holidays are upon us, and for the last several weeks we have been working hard to make sure that we are doing whatever it takes to make the season a success for us all. My role, specifically, is to bring more buyers here. What follows is a general look at the seven major areas of my holiday marketing …
Community Topics: Resellers on Etsy
Dear Etsians, With the exception of properly tagged commercial supplies and vintage, Etsy does not permit the reselling of items not made by the seller (see the DO's and DON'Ts on Selling). We take this rule very seriously, and we share your frustrations when we see resellers intent on listing here. We know …
Etsy Statistics: Summer Storms in August?
...We avoided them last month! August was another month of good stats, and August 15th was the biggest day we’ve ever had: 18,484 items sold for a total of $287,000! Here are August’s key numbers, all of which represent the highest total ever for their categories:$7.55 million of goods sold — a 6.5% increase over July. That …
