Etsy Finds: A Capital Idea
With holiday shopping days rapidly dwindling, shopping locally may be your best bet for finding a gift in time. You'd be surprised to discover how many Etsy sellers live right in your own neighborhood. You'll find 44 shops in Abilene, Texas, 28 up in Fairbanks, Alaska, 27 in Thessaloniki, Greece, and even one …
Etsy Finds: Choose Your Own Adventure
There's no such thing as a "typical" journey through Etsy's infinite expanse. I usually spend my days meandering a galaxy of denture soaps, dog coats and fruit cozies in a sweeping, loop-filled path that rivals that of the perpetual wanderer, Billy from Family Circus. Today's Etsy Finds chronicle a …
Tech Update: Google Product Search Syndication
UPDATE 12/1/09: The initial rollout of Google Product Search Syndication to Etsy sellers with active individual Google Merchant Center accounts has been completed. A gradual rollout of this feature to the remainder of the Etsy seller community will now begin. Questions and comments welcome in this …
Guest Curator: Shop Local With Diane Vadino
Diane Vadino is a novelist, blogger, and printmaker. She is only 62 credits from completing an undergraduate degree in conceptual art. Her novel, Smart Girls Like Me, was printed in one language and in one country but earned an A- from Entertainment Weekly, and her author’s edition of it, with handmade covers …
Etsy Finds: Wandering the Manifolds
Buddy Glass, my favorite character from all of literature, reflects at one point, "We speak a kind of esoteric family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle." I consider my shopping experiences on Etsy in a similar fashion. Some of my …
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 …
Etsy Finds: Four Corners
For this month's edition of Etsy Local Finds, I pulled up trusty Google Maps along with Etsy's Shop Local tool and picked out shops from six different cities on four different continents. Shop Local and other features like Colors, Pounce, Time Machine and Etsy's Gift Guides offer unique ways to explore the …
Customer Care: Improving Etsy Support
Etsy's Support Team is committed to providing the best possible service to the Etsy community. We are delighted to announce that we are launching a brand new Help section and a new set of internal tools for Etsy's Support Team. As we have with other recent features, we are going to roll out use of the new Help …
Etsy Finds: True Colors
Swoon! I wait all year for the feast of sensory delights that is the holiday season. Nothing warms the cockles of my heart like adorning my family's heirloom aluminum tree with fat, softly buzzing strands of multicolored lights and ornaments made in my youth, all while Billie Holiday plays on the hifi …
Talking Product: An Update on 2009 Site Feature Priorities
Hi friends,Welcome to the latest installment of Talking Product. For those of you who are unfamiliar with these posts, they are part of a regular series from my colleagues and me. Our CEO, Maria, started this series last year with her Talking Shop posts. In 2009, we’ve offered more posts by disciplines: Talking …
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