Handmadeology

Ever wondered who the top jewelry sellers are on Etsy.
Here are the top 100 Etsy sellers in the jewelry category for 2012. These rankings are by sales numbers .

We’ve been working this January and February to bring you the best bookkeeping solution for handmade artists ever made! We call it Handmade Bookkeeping Complete.

One of the keys to maintaining success is the mentality of it. It creates an illusion for not only myself, but those I meet. One of the keys to keeping people thinking about you is to appear to have something no one else has–especially some inner light no one else has.

There is a new Etsy app that just came on the scene called the Shop Marketing Helper that will help Etsy sellers save time by scheduling all their social media marketing efforts.

In the second part of Planning for Facebook, we will explore four more categories: Invitation, Promotion, Seasonal and Visualize. They will also help you organize your business and creative information in clear and logical streams for quick and engaging updates when you need to catch your Facebook likes attention.

The Attic Light is an online venue where we showcase unique handmade items at privileged-membership savings. Our goal is to bridge the gap between your items and interested buyers. In doing so, this will bring more exposure to your shop and also bring the recognition you deserve.

We all know that maintaining a lively and exciting Facebook page is a great marketing tool for your handmade craft business. So, you create your page, spread the word about it, attract your first likers and then you post your first status updates.

For the handmade world, Twitter can be like hanging out at the water cooler. It gives you a chance to have conversations with people who share some of your interests and offers an opportunity to broaden exposure for you and your products.

As handmade businesses, we want a lot of bang for our advertising buck. I am as attached to the dollars in my Paypal account as you are to yours, and so I’m happy to answer questions about my strategy and share my wins and losses. As handmade business entering the advertising world, we have a few options for cost-per-click ads

Do you have a business blog? Have you considered it, but thought it would take too much of your time? Once you have a blog built, it is fairly easy to maintain and if you are simply using it to help build your brand, you can post as few as 1-2 times per week, however, you may find that you enjoy it so much that you choose to connect with your readers more often.

Decision paralysis is when there’s a decision that needs to be made, like where to start on making your wreath patterns, but there are so many choices that you get stuck, not knowing which choice to make. So you do nothing. You stop. You become stagnant.

Use an engaging thumbnail to get attention to your shop and additional pictures with an exact description of your product to avoid client disappointment.

In 2011 Handmadeology saw over 2.5 million pages views. Hundreds of articles were published and thousands of handmade and vintage items were featured from Etsy. Here is your chance to get your Etsy shop in front of thousands of readers!

This is for anyone who has an idea, a passion and a desire to do something that scares them. My advice? Start small, start somewhere, start today.

For way to long the Etsy community has been taking screen shots of Etsy treasuries to show them off on our blogs.  Martin from Whale Shark Websites has made our lives so much easier!  He has created a very simple tool that allows you to place any Etsy treasury on a blog or webpage.  You [...]