Improving views. . .

Ok so I'm not ready to confirm that 100 listings is some sort of magic thing but since I broke the 100 listing mark I have had pretty steady views and another sale.  Lucky for me the sale was an item that had a multiple quantity so the listing auto-renewed.  Plus I made another fabulous wire tree so now I'm at 102.  
 

Holidays are rapidly approaching and I'm working on my promoted listing bids and google ads.  I did a Facebook post with coupon codes for nearly the whole month. 

NOV10 is 10% off any purchase of $10 or more it's good for most of the month.  

THANKSGIVING is 15% off any purchase of $10 or more it's only good for a couple of days (23-24th).  

BLACKFRIDAY is 25% off any purchase of $10 or more and it's good for the whole weekend through Cyber Monday (25-28th).

I'm also considering making a special banner for the shop with the coupon codes on it because everyone always says no one reads the shop announcement section, so maybe if I put it in a huge colorful picture it will get noticed.  LOL

 

Yee-Ha !!!

Total "hot damn" moment I broke 100 listings.  

Ok, so I kind of cheated by listing the necklace and matching earrings separately instead of as a set.  ~LOL~ 
 

So I now have 101 listings all with "A" grades that show up well placed in search and sadly no huge surge of views or sales.   :-/

I'll just have to keep plugging away at the Facebook and Instagram and promos.  

 

Oh so close. . .

Ok so I had a goal of 100 listing and I've been making things pretty steadily.  I was making real progress too, I was up to 97 and had a few in the works that would have made it 100.  However, I actually had a sale over the weekend, I did a little happy dance when the cha-ching sounded.  I love sales, but then I realized I'm not going to hit 100 when I list the things I have finished.  LOL

 I'm going to end up with 99 listings, oh so close to my 100 goal.

 

Oh I like that alot !!

I bought some odd rings a while back, not my typical material or size and twisted.  Literally, square wire twisted as it's coiled makes for very cool looking results.  They are gunmetal plated brass nickle free not too shiny and with a nice weight.  I only bought a limited quantity at the time because I wasn't sure I was going to like them.  The rings have an interesting look on their own and they are not easy to get smooth closures on because of the tiny corners but once worked into something wow. 

 The texture and depth they add are simply amazing.  I made a couple of bracelets and I seriously think I need to order more of these rings.  I only ordered them in 1 size initially I think this time I may have to buy a larger quantity and more than one size.  LOL

I am sorely tempted to keep one of these, not that I need another bracelet but it's just soooo darn cool.  

 

New New New listings. . .

I have been adding new listings for earrings and other things, new styles and chain patterns.  I am at 93 listings now and still aiming to break 100.  Over the weekend I made a new rainbow boxchain necklace, it's awesome.  

I need to shoot the listing photos for it but it will soon be number 94.

 

New listings. . . .

I have continued to work on photos and listings I'm beginning to think it will be a never-ending process, so I gave up on adding photos, there are in fact about a dozen listings that are still short a pic or two. 

I have instead moved on to adding a few new listings.  I found a full diamond Japanese 12-in-2 bracelet that had never been listed.

 

I also decided to go ahead and create a secondary listing for the Leather Barbed Wire necklaces in 2mm. 

 I think I'm going to add a few more earrings, try to have an even dozen listings for that section.  I think I should also add the old gridlock bracelet to the clearance section along with a few pairs of the older earrings that match it, maybe I'll just make it a set like the others.  

I'd like to hit 100 listings before the end of the year.  There are conflicting opinions but some say that 100 or more listings is like a  magic number in Etsy and leads to more views and sales.  ~fingers crossed~

 

New listings, new photos, new new NEW!!!

Ok so I have been working on new listing photos, not just adding 1 or 2 photos so that each listing has all 5 but in some cases completely changing all the photos to newer better ones.

Many of the original listings had photos taken with my phone on the dining room table.  LOL  So the fact that I now have my full shop with all it's bank of lights and my actual back-drops and stands and a new Nikon camera means that I can get much much better photos.  I'm actually adding some photos of me wearing them.

While going through the box that is my chainmaille jewelry inventory I have found or more accurately I have not been able to find a couple of things, maybe they sold at the last event, I think one of them I gave to a friend.  However, I have decided not to take the listings down because I can easily make another but I can't shoot new photos of things I don't have.  The flip side of that is I have found things that I had never listed.  Plus I made a new Hogwarts School Crest tree that I actually listed for sale.

So I've added a few new listings and I have a few more to add yet.  I have been rearranging the photos on some of the listings making the new photos the first photos, hopefully they will get more attention in search that way.   We'll see if there are any stat improvements, as I've also been tweaking titles, descriptions, and tags while I'm at it.  

Some of them I have staged and laid out different than before.

Some of them I really do like the new photos way more than the old.

I am hopeful that the photos of me wearing them will help people with scale and seeing how they hang/lay/drape.

I seriously doubt that I will actual do all new photos for all 80+ listings mainly because I'm kinda bored with the process already but I am hoping to at least have 5 photos for each listing eventually.  I am going to have to re-make a few things first in order to make that happen though.  In the mean time I am planning to add a few more new things and pray for sales.  o:-)