Being Safe on Etsy: Spotting and Avoiding Advance Fee Fraud
It's important for us at Etsy to ensure our community is safe while using the site. Unfortunately there is no foolproof way to ensure safety online at all times. Sometimes all we can do is give information and hope that well informed users will be able to protect themselves. As the Etsy name spreads …
Seller How-To: Entrepreneurial Tips From DailyWorth
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. Want to learn more about money management? Make sure you check out DailyWorth.com. 1. Network From Your Desk …
Tech Update: Adding USD to Prices on Etsy.com
As you're shopping on Etsy today, you will notice that we are starting to add the suffix "USD" across the site to notify users that our prices are listed in US dollars. In this first phase, you will see this change in several places, including Checkout, Search results, view detail pages, Gift Guides and on Your …
The Art of Pricing: Three Helpful Pricing Exercises
How do you know if you're pricing your handmade work correctly? There's a lot of info out there, including right here in our Art of Pricing series. The trick is to keep learning and evolving, not only in your craft, but in your pricing strategies, too. I've put together three exercises to bring focus to your bottom …
VOTE! Get Your Career in Gear
It's tax time and you could cut the tension with a knife. On top of that, many people are losing their jobs. The hope in all of the economic turmoil may be that some of the creative types are turning their layoffs into opportunities to start their own small businesses and pursue their dreams. ("I didn't get laid …
Tech Update: Pay Your Etsy Bill with PayPal Now Available
Sellers,After a smooth and productive beta test, we're very happy to announce the full public release of functionality that allows you to pay your Etsy bills via PayPal. You will now see an option for PayPal under "Method of payment" when you go to Your Etsy > Your Etsy Bill > Make a payment. When you select PayPal …
Tech Updates: Beta Release of Etsy Bill Payment with PayPal
UPDATE: This feature is now live! Read about it here.Sellers, Today, Etsy is kicking off a beta test of functionality that allows sellers to pay their Etsy bills via PayPal. Many of you have asked to be able to pay your Etsy bills with PayPal. International sellers in particular overwhelmingly prefer PayPal …
Shop Makeover Series: Craft-onomics 101
After wrapping up a very busy and sometimes lackluster holiday craft show season, I have come to a few grand conclusions about the economy at the moment, and – no surprise – it sucks! Though the jury is still out on how the craft community will be impacted by our nation’s (and world's!) crashing markets, it's always …
$700 Billion Bail Out Cramping Your Style?
Many folks are shuddering at the thought of gifting in the upcoming holidays and wondering how to manage. And while some families and friends are deciding to go without exchanging gifts, we here at Etsy want to urge those who will be shopping to consider supporting independent artists and crafters …
Etsy in the Press: Creative Ventures
June has been buzzing with talk of crafty entrepreneurship. Where to begin? How about Sydney Stoyan's heart warming tale of her Etsy experience in the National Post? It is our favorite kind of story: buyer needs necklace, buyer finds Etsy, buyer meets seller, they start a friendship. Buyer goes on to form …
Love the colors - great collections!
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very lovely creations, made me smile:)!
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Those origami shoes are really neat!
by That70sShoppe
on Keep it Weird: The C...
Those origami shoes are very neat!
by That70sShoppe
on Keep it Weird: The C...
Those origami shoes are the neatest!
by That70sShoppe
on Keep it Weird: The C...
Those origami shoes are great!
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