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What Happened to our Etsy Shop When We Took a Five Week Road Trip?

What Happened to our Etsy Shop When We Took a Five Week Road Trip?

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What happened to our Etsy shop when we took a five week road trip?  Well, if you have followed our blog (and read Should you put your shop on Vacation?), you'll know we don't close our shop when we go on vacation.  Yes, we leave our shop open and keep the income coming while we're gone (after all, someone has to pay for our vacation, right?).

My better half retired last year (thanks to our Etsy shop) and we had so many plans for traveling here and abroad (again, thanks to Etsy) since we had no time constraints – we could go wherever we wanted whenever we wanted. …

Etsy Listing – the Who? What? When? Section of your Etsy listing

Etsy Listing – the Who? What? When? Section of your Etsy listing

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After your photographs and title, the next part of the Etsy listing is the Who? What? When? section.  This section is important because buyers want details about a product they plan to purchase.  This is especially important if you sell vintage products because the details of a product can be the difference between someone buying your item and not buying your item.

Who?

Who is where you explain who made the product.  The choices are I did, a member of my shop, or another company or person. …

Ultimate Guide to Writing a Compelling Title for your Etsy Listing

Ultimate Guide to Writing a Compelling Title for your Etsy Listing

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Writing a compelling title for your Etsy product listing is critical.  Why?  Because the more your products are shown to potential buyers the more likely you are to sell your product.  You want your product listing to be shown on Etsy as well as search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.

So, what is a compelling title?  A compelling title should answer your buyers questions and provide enough information that they will click on the listing to get further information. …

Top 3 Strategies to Optimize your Etsy Listing to Sell (and Not Sit on the Proverbial Shelf)

Top 3 Strategies to Optimize your Etsy Listing to Sell (and Not Sit on the Proverbial Shelf)

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You've opened your Etsy shop, set up your shop and listed your  products, but you'd like more sales.  We have consistent sales because we use 3 strategies to optimize our listings so that they sell.

“If you open it, they will come” is not a successful strategy on Etsy or any online selling platform.  Nope, it doesn't even work on ebay.  Yes, we sell there too.

What if I told you there are three strategies to ensure your Etsy products sell rather than having them sit on the proverbial shelf?…

Top 10 Vintage Products to Sell on Etsy

Top 10 Vintage Products to Sell on Etsy

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Etsy vintage shops sell a large variety of unique items, but I wanted to give you my Top 10 vintage products that actually sell on Etsy.  We have sold all of these items in our shop so we know they sell with a good profit margin.  I've learned from my years of experience selling on Etsy what to buy and what not to buy.  I've made lots of mistakes, and I want to keep you from making them in your Etsy vintage shop.…