Etsy Success Reading List - June 8

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This week's best of the small business blogosphere...

Can You Say It In One Short Sentence?
http://www.chrisbrogan.com/onesentence/

5 Questions to Ask When Expanding Your Product Line
http://www.craftmba.com/2011/06/08/5-questions-to-ask-when-expanding-your-product-line/

Top 4 Interview Takeaways from ARTrepreneur
http://www.blacksburgbelle.com/2011/06/top-4-interview-takeaways-from-artrepreneur/

Your Business Model: Transactional vs Relationship
http://smallerbox.net/blog/growing-your-business/your-business-model-transactional-vs-relationship/

Craft A More Productive Day
http://handmadesuccess.com/2011/06/craft-a-more-productive-day-2/

Have you read an inspiring post lately? Share it in this thread!

[Former_Member]

OK, I'm stumped. I looked for the answer to Does Relisting Work and I couldn't find it. Where did you hide the answer?!
Janet

[CustomBrickTiles]

About renewing... maybe we should just start the discussion here instead of an article :)

I was torn about whether to renew or not... and then I decided to do an experiment. I gave myself $4 to spend on renewing for the week (which meant that I could renew 4 items a day during the weekdays), and if I didn't get one sale from it, I wouldn't do it again the next week.

That was a couple of months ago, and I've never had a week without a sale. In fact, my business has picked up quite a bit since I started renewing!

How often you need to renew to get results will probably vary by category- in my category, renewing 4 times a day was enough to keep an item of mine in the first couple of pages.

I'd encourage anyone to try the same experiment for themselves... you'll only lose a couple of dollars if it doesn't work!

[Former_Member]

does renew work

[Former_Member]

Wow. The hourly earnings project article is amazing. I was thinking about calculating my profit that way, but to be honest, I was a little nervous about the results. Maybe I'll try it and it will help me decide what to focus on. Thanks!
Love, Ivy and Otis

[Former_Member]

There's a little discussion about renewing in this article:

http://www.blacksburgbelle.com/2011/06/top-4-interview-takeaways-from-artrepreneur/

("renewing is advertising...advertising to people who are already there to buy")

Kinda bummed if that's it, though...

[LDphotography]

Hello everyone; just joined this team and am looking forward to learning more.

[Former_Member]

Great articles! Working on my one sentence slogan now. Thanks!

[Former_Member]

Great stuff here! Did I miss Does renewing "work"?

[SuePsales]

Thanks ...Craft a more productive day, it's just what I needed.

[Former_Member]

Going to check it out! Thanks

[Former_Member]

Great Danielle! something to read later on :)
Happy Friday everyone!

[LadyDylana]

wow this is so inspiring I made a post to my blog just a few minutes ago about why I love by business. Thanks for sharing indeed.

[DejaVuChicBoutik]

Thank you for sharing!

[Former_Member]

I just discovered these lists! Thanks for putting them together; they have been helpful.

[HummingbirdHillArts]

Thank you for putting this all together! Lots of important information to take in!

[pasqueflower]

Thank you! I really appreciate these posts.

[Former_Member]

This list has been so informative and motivational! Ive read a few things twice already! THANKS!!!!!!!!

[GiftCreation]

thanks for helpful info:)!

[kkswede]

I wasn't able to access "Does renewing help?" Anybody out there able to read and report on it?

[SaysTheStone]

Helpful reading, I liked the one on how to be more productive...I'm going to apply the Pomodoro technique and see what happens.
And yes, I find the computer very distracting...I'm more productive when my kids are using it :-)

[Twistmo]

Same here kkswede. And that was the main one I wanted to read.

[SaysTheStone]

I couldn't read that one (does renewing help) either

[shopgoodgrace]

I, too, was really intrigued by the "does renewing work" line in the email. ;) (Hoping there might be some additional information on the topic...)
Ever since the proposed change to move the searches to more "relevancy" rather than "recency", I'd been wondering if renewing was still going to help with sales. (I have always thought it helped tremendously to renew ... and especially my most "hearted" items to hopefully make it into more treasuries, or better yet, get a sale.) I had read that Mondays were the busiest viewing days on Etsy, so I focused on renewing earlier in the week. Although, I do renew at least a few things almost daily.

[Former_Member]

Thanks for the good info! Note pad in hand and ready to do some brain storming!

[Former_Member]

thank you for sharing all the finds - have had a good read