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Community Specialist
Community Specialist

Celebrate your shop milestones: May & June 2019

Hi everyone,

My name is Ann - I’m on the Community Marketing team and one of the Community Specialists here. I’ve been on the team for a little over two years, so you may have seen my face in the Forums before. I’ve got some exciting news to share with you all today!

There’s no denying that we’ve got a strong seller support system in the Forums, so going forward, I’d love for you all to share milestones or goals you’ve achieved here. Did you get your first sale or positive review? Or maybe you just listed your 1000th item? Whatever it is, we want you to share it with the community! And in addition to sharing your recent achievement, feel free to share a milestone or goal you’d like to hit in the next month.

We’ll be posting these threads monthly so that you can all have a space to celebrate your work and of course, each other. I’m really looking forward to celebrating your achievements - post away!

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Re: Celebrate your shop milestones: May 2019

I just passed 2500 sales this May!

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Hi there, Congrats on this amazing milestone!

Hopefully there is a lot more to come for you. Wishing you all the best in the future and I'm definately going to check out your page.

May I ask for how long you have been actively selling on Etsy and especially how many sales you had in your first six months?

Sending lots of positive vibes your way!

Kind regards,

Robin

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Re: Celebrate your shop milestones: May 2019

Thats amazing! Any advice to people like me that are just getting started?

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Re: Celebrate your shop milestones: May 2019

My first sale was in May of 2011.  By the six month mark I had sold 39 pair of earrings. It was a slow start, but it usually is.  My advice is have good clear pictures from all directions. Put as many pictures as you can in the listing. Also, use all your tags and repeat them in the title and description.  Fill out all your policies. Good luck to everyone.

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Re: Celebrate your shop milestones: May 2019

I've read your advice and this is very inspiring for me as new seller. Thanks

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Re: Celebrate your shop milestones: May 2019

April/May marks five years on Etsy, first order anniversary, and hit "3500" hundred sales.  Most of which were in the later two or three years, once things got to rolling.

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Re: Celebrate your shop milestones: May 2019

Hi there!

Congrats on the 3.5k sales. Thank you for sharing that most sales were in the later two/three years.

My business partner and I are active on Esty for over a year and have done 81 sales since.

We are seeing a upward trend appearing as we had 28 sales in the last 30 days.

Pleae take a look on our page! I would love to hear your feedback.

Will check out your page too.

Sending lots of postive vibes your way and wish you the very best in the upcoming future.

Kind regards,

Robin

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PrettyDieCuts
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Re: Celebrate your shop milestones: May 2019

Next month, I'm aiming to hit 12,000 sales... only 120 to go which is totally possible in June.  Fingers very tightly crossed!

And my fingers are crossed for anyone else with a goal for June, lets hope we see lots of us saying we did it in 30 days time!!

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apaperaffaire
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Re: Celebrate your shop milestones: May 2019

12,000!! That's amazing! Congrats to you!! 

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Your felt foxes are precious. Congrats!

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Hi there,

You have such cute stuff. I love it when I read that you almost sold 12k. You must be an amazing entrepreneur :)

I hope you will achieve your goal and I'm positive you will!

Sending lots of positive vibes your way ^^

Kind regards,

Robin

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PrettyDieCuts
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Re: Celebrate your shop milestones: May 2019

Thanks all :) 

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Wow! That is amazing.  I just hit my 600 sales milestone. 

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PrettyDieCuts
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Re: Celebrate your shop milestones: May 2019

Congrats @FieldsOfVintage !

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I like to think that will happen. Would like to ship out of country but very expensive and when I posted I had sold a plate for 15.00 and shipping was 26.00 so I could not send it to Norway and had to change all my items to US only. If anyone has any information on how to ship out of country I would appreciate it.

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We hit 150 sales in our shop this month, now past that, and just opened mid July last year. It may be a low number compaired to most but for the items we sell and their price point it is great! 

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BlackSackButtons
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Re: Celebrate your shop milestones: May 2019

Number of sales can be impressive but higher dollar sales are oh so sweet in their own right.🙂

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Re: Celebrate your shop milestones: May 2019

Hi there!

Actually you are dong great! Looking at the unique crafts you sell and the pricetags, 150 sales is an amazing achievement.

Ourselves have been active on Etsy around the same time as you. We are specialized in traditional handmade jewelry from Peru.

Knowing that it is a niche market we already sold 82 items which 28 in the last month. We can really see an upward trend here.

Please check out our page as we like to have as much feedback as possible on how and what we can improve. 

Hopefully you wil sell many more items in the nearby future. I absolutely love your store!

Sending lots of positivity your way ^^

Warm regards,

Robin

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DonnaDesigned
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Re: Celebrate your shop milestones: May 2019

My shop passed 1600 sales in May.

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BlackSackButtons
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Re: Celebrate your shop milestones: May 2019

Yay!!!!!

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Hi Donna,

Keep up the good work! Are you using promoted listings on Etsy? 

Hopefully there will be many more sales for you in the nearby future!

Sending lots of positivity your way.

Kind regards,

Robin

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DonnaDesigned
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Re: Celebrate your shop milestones: May 2019

Hi Robin @ColoursOfCusco  and BlackSackButtons

I'm just seeing this.

To answer your question, Robin, no I don't use promoted listings.  I never have paid for any advertising.  I promote on facebook, which gives me very few visits and I only know of 1 sale.  And I promote on pinterest, which gives me a lot of visits but I don't know how to know if any sales resulted.  I tried a couple other sites early on:  tumbler, wanelo, polyvore but gave up on them as they didn't seem to help my shop.  I have some Etsy friends on teams who have helped promote by sharing my items on twitter, pinterest, and others.

Wishing you both much success!

 

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I got my 21st sale this month!! So happy to cross the 20 sales mark!!! :) 

 

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BlackSackButtons
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Re: Celebrate your shop milestones: May 2019

Way to go!  These are the ones you really work hard for!!!  Congratulations!!!

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