Got a message from the Women in Business team and I'm re-posting it here in case anyone is interested:
Dear Blogging Team Captain,
Women in Business Team is exploring some new marketing strategies to bring in target customers from outside of Etsy to our Etsy shops, and have decided to do a long-term blogging project because of the high value placed on blogs by search engines.
We have approximately 124 members at the present time (give or take some who join and leave), and we would like to partner with some other teams who are reliable and serious about blogging regularly.
In order for this project to have maximum benefit it will require at least 200 members to be blogging at the same time and featuring one another to create the necessary number of backlinks to make a significant web presence for all involved. For this reason we are contacting a number of blogging teams to adjust for a few here and there from each team who may not follow through.
See this link for the instructions we have given to our team about what the project requires; www.etsy.com/teams/14901/women-in-business-wib/discuss/12704348/
This project is an adaptation of a project Pippit Carlington (Giftbearer) developed on Etsy several years ago called "The 90 Day (Blog) Challenge" which achieved amazing results for some participants, and at least an improvement in sales for most after a few months of regular daily blogging (doing 1 feature a day per person).
We are very excited about the potential of this blogging project and hope that your team will be interested in working with us toward this common goal. If you would, please run this by your team and get an idea of how many would be willing to commit to this project, and let me know whether this is something your team can/would like to do with our team. If at all possible we would like to begin blogging on September 1st.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Sincerely,
Iris Shuee (Captain)
Pippit Carlington (Team Leader)
