Planning for success is necessary to reach your goals and keep you accountable. Feel like you're behind because you didn't do this on January 1st or earlier? No worries – whether you start in January or December, it is all good. Planning the year helps you be successful and organized in your work at home life. I will show you the process I use that ensures my success as well as a balanced work at home life. …
Etsy “Free Shipping” Changes – The Who What When Where Why and How!
Etsy has been asking shop owners for quite some time to offer free shipping on their products to buyers. Many shop owners complied, but others resisted the change or took a wait and see attitude. Now, Etsy is doing more than asking by announcing that Etsy shops offering free shipping will get priority ranking in the search algorithm.
What does this mean for your shop if you haven't been offering free shipping? I'm going to answer all of your questions about the change below so just relax and read on. …
Setting up Shipping Profiles in Etsy – Step by Step Guide to Ship with Confidence
Are you shipping physical products on Etsy? If you are, then you will need to create shipping profiles. Setting up shipping profiles in Etsy is not difficult if you are prepared. Etsy lets you have almost unlimited shipping profiles, but only use the ones you need or it will be overwhelming to manage (I'm speaking from experience – at one point we had over 25 shipping profiles!). I will even tell you what shipping profiles I would recommend. …
Top 10 List – Things to do When Your Etsy Shop is Slow
Let's face it – there are slow months in all retail settings, even on Etsy. You can be frustrated during those times or you can be productive and do things you don't have time for at any other time. Here are my “Top Ten List” of things to do when traffic is slow in your Etsy shop. I have put them in the order that I would complete them. For example, I would do marketing before anything else. …