Any thoughts on improvement?

[Former_Member]

I have had an Etsy shop before, and now I have this one that I started in August of last year. I have only made a few sales, and haven't gotten many views without paying for the ads. I stopped paying for them since I didn't have enough income to support it, so the majority of my views have dropped.

I want to know if there are other things I can do to help specifically. I read almost all of the articles in the Etsy success newsletter, so I know there are things like photography and cohesiveness of my shop to work on, but I'm not exactly sure where to start.

Any thoughts, comments or suggestions would be so amazing.

[JustForGiggles]

The best thing I ever did for steady views was rethink the way that I describe my work in titles and tags. It took me ages to see that most people won't run a search for 'embroidered' anything. Well... except other embroiderers digging for ideas ;~) They will look for 'funny sign' or 'skull pillow'. Lead with what the customer's looking for. I'd look for 'baby booties socks baby shower gift' I wouldn't have the slightest clue what the difference is between knitted and crocheted if I didn't knit myself. I'd describe something as soft and leave off acrylic. nobody's searching for acrylic anything. Tell them that in the description. In tags & titles, think like a customer and not so much like a creator. Hope that helps :~)

[Former_Member]

One thing that helped me with my title is to try and search for my own items, this is a personal exercise I do to think as a buyer. A lot of times, I also run into tag and title ideas that works better than my current tags and titles.

[Former_Member]

Thanks so much! I'm sure that will help a lot, I hadn't even considered that haha. I really appreciate it.