Has Your Treasury Been Featured on the Front Page?
I recently received a question asking if there was a way to find out if the treasury you curatored (created) was posted to the Front Page. After a few minutes of double checking my theory, I notified them that in fact there was a way. How, you ask? Well, these are the steps:
1.) Go to the Etsy Front Pager's Photostream on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/28488923@N05/
- This is a Flickr group that collects and posts photographs of all of the treasuries that were featured on the Front Page!
- Tip: If you've been featured and have a blog, you can copy & paste the treasury photo from the Etsy Front Pager's group and post a write up in your blog, letting others know you've been featured on the Front Page!
2.) Go to the search bar at the top right hand corner and enter your Etsy username (i.e. ImaginativeIntention). Click search.
3.) The search will bring up any Front Page treasuries you were featured on and if your a curator of any of the front page treasuries.
Well, I hope that helps anyone else who might have been wondering about it.
If anyone has any questions, please feel free to ask!
Offering a coupon or gift certificate on Etsy
A great way to encourage repeat business is through exclusive sales to current customers, event attendees, etc. Unfortunately, Etsy isn't setup to automatically to calculate a discount. So, what do you do?
Option 1:
1.) Give your customer a predetermined code or message (something that you'll remember).
2.) Let them know that they'll need to add it the "Message to Seller" section during checkout.
3.) You can either send them a revised invoice or refund the difference via Paypal.
- When refunding via Paypal, remember to use the "Refund" button at the bottom of the transaction page, otherwise the customer will be charged for accepting the refund.
- When refunding via Paypal, remember to use the "Refund" button at the bottom of the transaction page, otherwise the customer will be charged for accepting the refund.
Option 2:
1.) Have the customer convo you before they purchase, this allows you to adjust the price of the listing for the customer beforehand.
You can also add gift certificates to your shop for current and new customers.
- Remember to add a line in the description, that the gift certificate is accepted in your shop (and not for the entire Etsy site).
Well, I came across a few people with a few questions and I hope I cleared everything up. If anyone has any suggestions or questions, please let me know!
Finding the Fall Color Report
After some aimless wandering again last night, I came across what could be a invaluable resource especially to those who are slaves to the fashion trends!
Usually 6 to 8 months prior to the season (i.e. spring, summer, fall, winter), the wonderful people at Pantone put together a "Color Report" that previews the colors of that season that in turn will be used by the top designers! You always here that "this color" will be the "it" this season, this is how you find before the season even begins!
What does Pantone do? Who are they?
Pantone is the color people! They create colors the top designers use to create they own work. According to the Pantone website, "For more than 45 years, Pantone has been inspiring design professionals with products, services and leading technology for the colorful exploration and expression of creativity."
With the fall color report, it will enable you to choose and design your own pieces based on the "it" colors for the season before the season has even arrived! Allowing you be on top of the trends and then who knows how far you go!
Anyway, I hope this is helpful to someone! I'll be making some new necklaces based some of the new colors and see how that turns out!
And again the best thing of all....IT'S FREE!
Good Luck!
Website to help with SEO for your shop
Well, I was wandering around the World Wide Web this morning when I came across a very interesting website. Said website provided me with oodles and oodles of information that left me wandering if they could help me in optimizing my Etsy shop for search engines.
What was the website, you say, well it was http://www.websitegrader.com/. What does it do, you say, well let's see;
- you type in your Etsy shop URL and it analyzes your site and lets you know what's good and bad about your site in terms of SEO (search engine optimization).
- it points out the things you can improve upon including how long to make your shop announcement, how long to make your site title, how to improve your keywords, etc.
- it also lets you know your Google page rank, how many inbound links are coming to your site, if your included in directories, the last time Google crawled your site, your traffic rank, etc
- it also issues you a website grade (yeah just like in school) and if you make some of the improvements it suggests you can see your grade improve!
- and you can set it up to compare your site with another (a competitor for instance), allowing you to see what they're doing that your not and vice versa!
AND BEST OF ALL ITS FREE!
Anyway, I hope this might be helpful to someone, I know it was to me!
Good luck!
Creating a Twitter Background out of your Etsy Mini
I created this tutorial to walk you through creating an Etsy mini that can be added to your Twitter background!
If you have any problems, or have any questions, please feel free to ask!
1.) Click on “Your Etsy” at the top of the screen.
6.) Open Twitter. Select “Settings” at the top of the page.
2.) Scroll down to the bottom of the page, and click on “Etsy Mini”.
3.)
- Under “Items to Show” – select “Items from my shop”.
- Under “Choose Image Size” – select “Thumbnail (75px square)”
- Under “Items to Show” – select “Items from my shop”.
- Under “Choose Image Size” – select “Thumbnail (75px square)”
- Under “Choose Layout” – select “1” and “5”
4.) Scroll down, your Etsy mini should appear underneath the option selection section. Make sure you can see your entire Etsy mini on screen. Using your keyboard, select Ctrl + Print Screen. You have just copied the entire screen.
5.) Open your image editing software program. Hit Paste. Your Etsy mini should appear on screen. Crop the image. Save the image.
6.) Open Twitter. Select “Settings” at the top of the page.
7.) Select “Design”.
8.) Choose “Change Background Image”.
11.) VIOLA! You should have a new Twitter background of your Etsy images.
8.) Choose “Change Background Image”.
9.) Select “Browse”. Choose your Etsy mini image that you just saved. Select open.
10.) Select “Save Changes”.
11.) VIOLA! You should have a new Twitter background of your Etsy images.
New pictures with the new light box!
So, after some tinkering with the new light box setup, I thought I would post some of my new pictures. I finally bought a mannequin bust to take pictures, it seems to really help with visualization. It really helps you to see the size and how it should hang on a real person.
There is still room for improvement but its definitely a start! Fortunately, they are way better than the first photos I ever took!
Any tips or suggestions would be really appreciated!
Finally finished my new lightbox!
So after a bit of searching, I finally found a light box tutorial that I liked and FINALLY put it together. I can be such a procrastinator! In case anyone was curious this is the tutorial I used:
http://www.pbase.com/wlhuber/light_box_light_tent
It is made out of PVC pipes with a white cloth draped over it. I'm using 100 watt daylight bulbs on tripods, that I picked up at Princess Auto for $40 each.
http://www.pbase.com/wlhuber/light_box_light_tent
It is made out of PVC pipes with a white cloth draped over it. I'm using 100 watt daylight bulbs on tripods, that I picked up at Princess Auto for $40 each.
I've included some pictures of my new setup!
Let me know what you think!
Let me know what you think!
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