How is your sales in Jan 2014 so far?

[KristianJessie]

I just got 6 sales in Jan. Very quiet for me. and no Valentine's Day order so far.

How about your shop?

[Former_Member]

Seeing as how I've done nearly half of my total sales this month - I guess pretty good! LOL. I'm not sure I've had any V-Day orders either which is kind've surprising given my heart pendants and earrings (plus it's jewelry, period, so..).

[Former_Member]

It's the best month so far. I had 10 sales already and I'm too happy with how my store is doing :)

[hipposdream]

A great month so far , 22 orders and the month is not over yet..... :-)

[Former_Member]

I have made more money this month on jewelry than I ever have. Totally awesome. I used to sell art and commission drawings but I am taking a break from that while I focus on gallery pieces for a while. So this is pretty cool. I hope we all have a lovely month!

[JewelMeShop]

I have 6 sales so far but 5 of them are from the same customer.
I wish I had some more.

[Former_Member]

0 :-(

[ForgedMettleJewelry]

I got a bunch of supply orders and 1 jewelry order the beginning of the month (more than my entire Jan 13 actually) but nothing this past week or so...

[Former_Member]

Just one sale, I was hoping for 3 at least, as I am working more than ever on my shop. :S

[Former_Member]

Is my best month so far, with 19 orders! I'm really happy :)

Happy sales to everyone!

[RebeccasRoomUK]

Your shop is beautiful Sara - keep at it - I'm sure the sales will come :)

[PiecesOfMePaperCraft]

This month I've gotten 12 orders with 29 items sold (many orders were for multiple items).

17 of those items were Valentine's related.

No complaints here. :)

[PAPERFLORISTS]

Very good. I can't complain.

[Former_Member]

Only 1 sale this month. Hard coming off the Christmas season where I had 7 in November and 7 in December. We really need the income so I just keep plugging away. :)

[Former_Member]

My on-etsy and off-etsy sales have been pretty balanced this month, and way above last January. I had a large custom order earlier this month which was a boost for sure!

The couple of weeks have been slow, but I'm looking forward to a weekend show coming up in early February.

[LaurasPaperCreations]

Valentine's day is rocking along here - having a good month.

[Former_Member]

I've had a total of 17 sales. And out of those 17 I've had a total of about 5 valentines day sales.

[KristianJessie]

Oh it's great to hear that most of you have good business this month!

[Former_Member]

ZERO Sales, HELP what am I doing wrong??? Work my Teams daily, post new items regular, paying for promotions, getting discouraged : (

[PiecesOfMePaperCraft]

Amarccindy, promoting on teams and paying for ads isn't going to work if you're not promoting to the right market.

I just took a quick peek at your shop and my first thought is that your photos are crisp but dark. A lighter background would really show off your pieces better.

The second thing that jumped out at me is that you've started every single item title with either "The Steampunk Pit Bull's" or " Steampunk Pit Bull's." You're sabotaging your SEO (search engine optimization) by doing that. You've got a brand new shop so very few buyers will be using those words in a search. What you are selling should be in the first 3 words of your title. This title, "Steampunk Pit Bull's Vintage Antique Silver & Glass Bead "Be Mine" Charm Bracelet." Bracelet is the 12th word in your title. A better start to your title would be "Valentine's Steampunk bracelet" and then add the other words. If you want to put the name of your shop put it at the end of the title.

Your tags need a lot of work too. I don't have time to over everything so I suggest you check out an SEO team to learn about titles, tags, description and how to improve your relevancy. This team has lots of good info;
https://www.etsy.com/teams/11352/relevancy-and-seo-for-all-etsy-shops?ref=pr_teams

[Former_Member]

Thanks Judy I appreciate your suggestions thank you soooo much going to start working on them ASAP. Any others would be appreciated, I am new to all this so I know I am making lots of mistakes : )

[Former_Member]

i just reopened my shop so i don't really take part but i expected january to be very slow because it's just after Chritmas, isn't it?

[TheSalvagedEdge]

More sales/revenue than last year. :-) works for me!

[Former_Member]

January's going surprisingly well for me - for my work as a freelance writer and designer at lixhewettdesign.etsy.com anyway! Someone bought a media kit design, that same someone hired me to design a blog for her, someone else hired me to do her labels and redesign her logo, and I have a bunch of paid articles to write. Not a bad start to the year at all! Gotta keep that going.

[Former_Member]

(Thought I'd point out that was all this week.)