Seller How-To: Shipping
On Etsy, shipping and fulfillment are handled by sellers individually. This leaves a lot of flexibility for a seller's shipping options — which means it also presents a lot of decisions! This post will give you an outline of the most important shipping issues to consider as well as some tips and links to …
Five Money Questions to Ask Before Quitting Your Day Job
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. I quit my full-time job four years ago to be a full-time entrepreneur. I earn my living running websites …
Holiday Tips for Sellers: Notes on Cyber Monday From DiffractionFiber
Beth of DiffractionFiber held a very informative workshop in our Virtual Labs last week on promoting your Cyber Monday sales. Did you miss it? Hopefully these notes will help! What is Cyber Monday? Cyber Monday is the Monday after Thanksgiving. Traditionally (or at least how the media markets it), Black …
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 …
Seller How-To: 5 Tips for Item Descriptions
Do you have writer's block when it comes to crafting your Etsy item listings? You're in luck! Optimize your shop with the following five tips for effective and descriptive prose in your product listings. You'll have a way with words in no time! 1. Create an inverted pyramid. The most important information …
The Etsy Seller Handbook: All Our How-To's About Selling
Sellers! Below you'll find a handy index of all the useful How-To's about selling on Etsy. We're calling it the Seller Handbook, and we first posted it on the Storque in September of 2007. We'll be adding all new how-to's for sellers to this index and bumping up the post when we do. In this way it's a living document …
Fabulous Packaging and Wrapping With rikrak
Have you missed the first half of our series of holiday workshops for sellers? Don't worry, there are many workshops left to help you get your shop in shape this season. (View the entire schedule here.) Last week's workshop was hosted by Etsy seller, rikrak, our resident branding-with-packaging specialist! I …
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 …
Handmade Code: Sellit.com
As part of our Handmade Code series, we're bringing you news and how-to's about the innovations emerging from the Etsy Developer Community. Located at developer.etsy.com, the Etsy Developer Community serves as a hub for third-party software developers who are making neat and helpful programs for Etsy …
Seller Tip: Present Yourself to the Press
Attention, sellers! I have been your faithful blogger for the past two years and I have an important tip for you: You need to be prepared with photos that represent you and your business. I cannot tell you how many times I've been working on a blog post spotlighting an excellent person — seller, blogger, figure …
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