No seriously, I was one of the winners in Etsy's Holiday Free Shipping drawing. I was totally shocked by the email stating I had won, mainly because I only set up "free shipping" for orders over a set $amount and had very few orders qualify for free shipping. 😏
In spite of the limit and the few qualifying orders some how I won. 😲 That's the astonished face 😲 as I never "win" anything. ~LOL~
I did not win the $25,000 top prize but I am not complaining about the $250 I did win, that will supply advertising budget for the next year. 😊
Friday, December 28, 2018
Friday, December 21, 2018
Etsy 2018 Year in Review . . .
Ok so Etsy did a "year in review" thing for my shop. 😊 It's a bit like the Facebook "your year on facebook" memories thing. Etsy's version is not a video though it's a really long scrolling page with some cute graphics and shop statistics and other stuff.
These are just a few screen shots of my "year in review" there was a lot of other stuff in there like total $$$ sales, some info on other things my buyers searched for and bought, general shopping trends, info and articles on new shop tools, SEO, links to see the TV commercials, etc.
These are just a few screen shots of my "year in review" there was a lot of other stuff in there like total $$$ sales, some info on other things my buyers searched for and bought, general shopping trends, info and articles on new shop tools, SEO, links to see the TV commercials, etc.
Thanks Etsy
Thursday, December 20, 2018
Happy Holidays . . .
Wow, holy cow hard to believe it's been a month since I posted on this blog. 😮 I have been a bit busy though, as the shopping season kicked in around Thanksgiving and just slowed down for me on Tuesday. 😏 This is the best, busiest holiday season I've had yet on Etsy.
I had multiple custom orders and even though a couple of the initial contacts did not go all the way through and complete an order I have had enough sales to feel really good about it. My husband actually got to hear multiple cha-chings the other day and congratulated and complimented me on the success. 😇
In the 3+ years I've been working on this, and trust me it has not been easy, there have been many months with no sales at all. I have worked and worked on completing my shop, improving my listings, re-doing photos, brainstorming tags, re-writing titles and descriptions. It has been never-ending work on my part, I work on my shop every day in one way or another. I write this now because I just saw a post in the forums by a person who opened a shop and got pissed off because it was not instantly indexed and complaining did not result in instant action so they quit in 5 days. 😕😞 Seriously, 5 flipping days and they quit, I waited 5 fracking months for my first sale, I don't know if my shop was indexed the first week or not because I didn't know anything about the site or their search indexing. ~LOL~
Online sales is not easy and there is no such thing as instant, indexing is not instant, payment processing is not instant, delivery is not instant. I don't know what's wrong with people these days that they think it's ok to act so entitled, spoiled, bratty, it's ridiculous to expect such things and even worse for grown ass adults to have public tantrums and throw their toys when they don't get the instant gratification they seem to expect. It's like buyers complaining, writing negative reviews, and threatening to open cases because their order was not delivered the day after they placed the order. 😡
Some days I am just floored by the unrealistic expectations and over-entitlement that seems to run rampant in the forums, but most days I just thank God that my buyers have all been decent people who have not treated me that way. 😇 Heaven's blessings to all this holiday season.
I had multiple custom orders and even though a couple of the initial contacts did not go all the way through and complete an order I have had enough sales to feel really good about it. My husband actually got to hear multiple cha-chings the other day and congratulated and complimented me on the success. 😇
In the 3+ years I've been working on this, and trust me it has not been easy, there have been many months with no sales at all. I have worked and worked on completing my shop, improving my listings, re-doing photos, brainstorming tags, re-writing titles and descriptions. It has been never-ending work on my part, I work on my shop every day in one way or another. I write this now because I just saw a post in the forums by a person who opened a shop and got pissed off because it was not instantly indexed and complaining did not result in instant action so they quit in 5 days. 😕😞 Seriously, 5 flipping days and they quit, I waited 5 fracking months for my first sale, I don't know if my shop was indexed the first week or not because I didn't know anything about the site or their search indexing. ~LOL~
Online sales is not easy and there is no such thing as instant, indexing is not instant, payment processing is not instant, delivery is not instant. I don't know what's wrong with people these days that they think it's ok to act so entitled, spoiled, bratty, it's ridiculous to expect such things and even worse for grown ass adults to have public tantrums and throw their toys when they don't get the instant gratification they seem to expect. It's like buyers complaining, writing negative reviews, and threatening to open cases because their order was not delivered the day after they placed the order. 😡
Some days I am just floored by the unrealistic expectations and over-entitlement that seems to run rampant in the forums, but most days I just thank God that my buyers have all been decent people who have not treated me that way. 😇 Heaven's blessings to all this holiday season.
HappyMerryChristmaHanuKwanzakah
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