Finding Your Niche with DiffractionFiber
DiffractionFiber here! A few weeks ago I hosted a live workshop in Etsy's Virtual Labs on Finding Your Etsy Niche. Thank you to everyone who joined me. For those who couldn't make it, watch the short videos below for a recap! On the left you'll see the live chat during the workshop and on the right you'll see the …
Shop Makeover Series: Broaden Your Target Audience with Tiered Product Lines
Hey there shop owners! A popular strategy for maximizing traffic and sales in your shop includes broadening your target audience. Think about your niche — if your items have a distinctive brand or style, you can extend what you make in order to start inviting new types of purchases. Consider the items you …
Tagging Tips for Sellers: Kids, Baby, and Maternity
Hello sellers of children's, baby, and maternity items! The Handmade Kids series prompted us to start a conversation about tagging your items. Finding the right tags is an easy way to increase the number of buyers who are seeing your items. Here are a few suggestions for tags to use to improve your exposure …
Vegan Tagging: A How-To for Sellers
Samantha Sauvé aka bookworms helps clear things up in the ongoing debate over what should or should not be tagged as "vegan" on Etsy. A vegan is defined by Vegan.org as "someone who, for various reasons, chooses to avoid using or consuming animal products. While vegetarians choose not to use flesh foods, vegans …
Handmade Cults: An Interview with Douglas Atkin
Douglas Atkin, from Meetup.com, answers Etsy's questions about networks, branding, and gender in our continuing series, A Dude's Perspective. Please introduce yourself and talk a bit about what you do at Meetup. My title at Meetup is 'Chief Community Officer.' We’re a company that’s all about creating local …
UPDATE on Showcase: One More Week of Travel, Then Pets
Sellers, UPDATE: The frontpage Pets Showcase is now on sale at the Showcase Gateway. You get a free Pets Category Showcase with your spot. The original June 19 post has details below:We are excited to announce a special Pets Showcase. This will be on sale on Thursday June 26 at 10am. Items in the Pets Category …
Seller How-to: Bridal Shows
Well Sellers, I just finished my first bridal show and it was well worth it, I think! Other than hearing two of the worst reception singers sing, loudly, and often, it was a lot of fun. Things sold, I have custom orders to work on, and I'll certainly do it again next year.I thought I would write this post for those …
Earth Tones How-to: Tagging Your Eco-Friendly Items
Dear Sellers: In one sense, all handmade and vintage items on Etsy are eco-friendly, since they are made in small production. Many Etsy sellers reuse materials as their supplies. In another sense, when people search for eco-friendly related terms, they are looking for some specific things. This is the …
Shop Makeover Series: Introducing a New Line
As part of our Shop Makeover series, we're sharing some tips and tricks for organizing your shop. You can think of this as introducing a new line or just using the sections function of your shop to better entice customers.One of the fastest ways to give your shop a makeover for the New Year is to create and …
Seller How-To: Finding Your Etsy Niche
So you’re a seller on Etsy. You're trying to get your name out there and be noticed. However, standing out in the crowd of enormously talented sellers and the wide variety of high-quality items is no easy feat. In fact, it can be daunting. How do you make your work seem different than everything else that's …
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