Handmadeology

I have learned so much about my business since I have joined Etsy. I really love the Etsy community and how they support each other.

My biggest mistake was to not pay attention to tags. By playing around with tags and looking how successful shops list their items I learned what to do and immediately increased traffic to my website.

Once piece of advice for new sellers would be to read about SEO and familiarize yourself with it before putting up work on Etsy.

I have learned so much since I launched my shop on Etsy. Narrowing it down to the top 3 I’d say merchandising, promoting and customer service have been the biggest learning curves.

I have learned so much about business in the last couple of years, mainly that there is a resource for everything, you just have to find it!

I started knitting when I was about 14. I picked up a DIY scarf kit at Target as a neat gift idea for a friend. Needless to say, teaching yourself to knit is much harder than I thought!

I spent hours, weeks, months creating my art, building my brand, researching logistics, getting my finances in order. This was going to be a real business, and that’s exactly how I treated it.

You’ll want to be “naughty” this year if it means Santa will bring you one of these little lumps of coal: Just picture those eyeballs peering over the top of your stocking Christmas morning … Cute right?

Beantown Handmade is home of high quality handmade dog sweaters and dog hats, cat sweaters and accessories for all your furry (and hairless) friends.

Anna is the owner of KORONECZKA etsy shop (Koroneczka in Polish means “Little Lace”). She also runs ANNAKNIT.

Think carefully about who you are and what you really want. Don’t give in inch by inch to the pressure of being who you are supposed to be so you can become a successful seller.

The best advice I could offer a new seller is don’t expect to put a new listing up and have it sell itself! YOU HAVE TO DO THE LEGWORK!

There are so many things I’ve learned since being on Etsy! Packaging, marketing, social media, SEOs, taxes, pricing, photographing my art, and even how to simplify my artwork to make it more cost-effective.

My name is Lori and I am charmed design. My first bracelets came into being as something constructive and positive to do while recovering from a sudden and life threatening illness.

mukibubb 1. Tell us your Etsy story.. how you got started in your craft and how you started selling on Etsy. My mom is a quilter and my dad’s a photographer. I grew up in the 1970′s Sacramento art scene living a very tactile, visual childhood. The term “maker” is huge now, and it sums [...]

I have literally sold thousands of paper dolls since that first day, August 18, 2010! Most orders are for more than one item because buyers like to collect them. They become addicted to them!

Joining Etsy has cemented what I already knew about business from my other experiences. There is a market, a niche for everything, and our job is to find it. The bigger the market, the stiffer the competition. Be DIFFERENT. Make them try to copy you.

I have learned there is so much to learn! You need to work SO hard to get your product seen, to turn interest into sales and to keep up with all the technology you need to know to accomplish that. I take none of my success for granted and work every day to better myself as a human and as a self employed business owner.