Etsy Success Reading List - March 21st

[#1]

You're homework assignment for this week is here! Check out these five blog posts I've put together for the Etsy Success Team and share one you find on your own.

10 Awesome Videos On Idea Execution & The Creative Process
http://the99percent.com/articles/7001/10-Awesome-Videos-On-Idea-Execution-The-Creative-Process

How a Single Bullet Can Get a Customer to Buy
http://www.copyblogger.com/copywriting-bullet/
(Those of you who attend my workshops know I'm obsessed with bullet points!)

Crafting Your Online Presence: Let's Make a Bite-Sized Online Marketing Plan
http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2011/02/crafting_your_online_presence_3.html

10 Top Tips to Combat Procrastination
http://freelancefolder.com/10-top-tips-to-combat-procrastination/

Is Obsession Stopping Your Marketing Success?
http://www.m4bmarketing.com/marketing-tactic-obsession/

Let me know if any of these give you a lightbulb moment!

Danielle

[Former_Member]

Having "one of those days". Great articles, hopefully they will help me thru...
thanks!

[Former_Member]

Great list! Thanks so much!

[JeanineDesigns]

Bite sized marketing and Ira Glass... brilliant!

[Former_Member]

Thank you Danielle!

[spidersbymary]

thanks for the pointers!

[Former_Member]

Can't wait to read all of these, thank you! As a new(er) store to Etsy, I have so much to learn!! So happy to have joined the team and hope to learn as much as possible to better market my DJ tables! Thank you!

[metalicious]

I love the marketing article!

[KathyDee]

I found three of them very helpful. Thanks so much!

[Former_Member]

This was great I thought the bullet points, marketing, and pricing posts were very helpful!! Thanks for helping me learn more.

[Former_Member]

this was really useful information. read through it all, made me consider lots of things.

[Former_Member]

Thanks for that underselling article! I really needed that!

[Former_Member]

I love the Crafting Your Online Presence...I use both my blog and facebook as tools and worry about over posting. This is a great balance and perfect for my Type A personality!!! Thanks so much!!!

[Former_Member]

This a big homework, by the way:-)! Sure, I found something helpful! Thanks!

[Former_Member]

I really love that underpricing yourself blog. I had an art teacher who told us that when we sell our drawings it should be $129, at least, all of us were like WHATTT!! He explained to us that it is our work, our original idea. Thinking on that and on this blog, am I underpricing myself? I am an artist, I am an unknown artist, my 11by14 are $50, I wonder what my old art teacher would have thought of that, considering he really liked the work I did in his class. Should it be $150 instead? Something to think about.

[Former_Member]

Great resources. I need time to absorb all these. Thank you so much for sharing.

[BeadedDelightsByStef]

Thank you for this article. Love the win calendars. I'll start working on that. And like the copyblog site. Found a great link to Twitter there with info about how one lady came up with a marketing campaign. Planning tweets for 6 weeks, about 5 a day. Very interesting. thanks again!

[happeemonkee]

I loved the 10 videos and I found it incredibly motivating and inspiring. It really widened my mind by just listening to what some of the speakers had to say. Ole! Ole! Ole!

[Former_Member]

"UNDERSELLING: WHY DISCOMFORT IS A TERRIBLE PRICING STRATEGY"

Does this mean that I can decline a former customers offer for an identical item at half the price?

[Former_Member]

thanks for this post - much needed information and reminders...
have a great day everyone!

[Former_Member]

You've already helped me heaps today, just by skimming the article on procrastination, I knocked up a quick (but detailed) schedule on my Google calendar and have had my most productive day in ages - four significant things already acheived and it's only just time for lunch!

[Former_Member]

Love the Underselling Post. Great info.

[Former_Member]

Thank you so much!

I thoroughly enjoyed the videos and the article on bullets was very good as well.

[Former_Member]

Thanks Danielle!

[Former_Member]

thank you so much!

[NutfieldWeaver]

daniellexo says

NutfieldWeaver - let me know how your experiment goes!

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So far, so good with the listing/bullet experiment! I am getting steady views on the items that I've edited, and hearts, etc...I have no idea if people are actually reading the item descriptions, but I like the clean look that the bullets lend to the listings!

Lots more editing to do!
-Kate/Nut :)