No sales or views what am I doing wrong?

[Former_Member]

Hello everyone!! I actually opened up my shop a few days and have been promoting everywhere such as instagram,twitter,facebook for several weeks. I had many likes,comments and pm but it just doesnt seem to sell. Now that my store opened I only have a few views here and there but thats about it. I was wondering if anyone here could critique my shop and please let me know where I'm going, what I am doing wrong and what improvements needs to be achieved. I read a lot of past reviews from fellow etsy sellers that time/patience is needed, using new tags would help a lot but I was wondering what I was doing wrong here. Is it really time and patience I need for this to expand? I already lowered my price from 32 to 26 today thinking maybe it was too expensive. I'm excited to become part of the etsy community and look forward to meeting fellow etsy sellers/buyers-thanks again!! :-)

[StuckOnSilver]

Hi, Finessly Carved, congratulations on your new shop! Beautiful items!

Complete your Policy page.

Complete your About page.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/244556836/japanese-samurai-laser-engraved-slim?ref=related-4

I looked at this item.

Photos should be landscape orientation (1000 x 750 pixels) not portrait orientation. I couldn't tell from your thumbnail photos that you were selling phone covers. Use a contrasting background without anything to clutter your shot. IMO a straight-above shot would be better than an angled one.

The first three or four words in your title are the most important. Maybe you could begin your title with "Samurai IPhone 6 cover, laser cut Japanese cover, bamboo IPhone 6 cover, carved wooden iPhone case" etc......

Your tags should be phrases, not one word, and they need to replicate the phrases in your title.

Then in the description replicate the phrases in the title again for search engine optimization (SEO).

You can describe your case in a little more detail--what part is bamboo, what part is wood, what part is plastic e.g.

More inventory.

All the best,
Bev

[Former_Member]

I disagree about photo orientation.
Your products are made to be viewed in portrait so that's how you should photograph them, imho.
Quality of pics Could be better, but you've only been open a very short time so don't panic.
Perhaps might be an idea to initially use etsy's promotion option, I did when I first started, have now stopped, but might be worth a go.

[BrushStrokeOrnaments]

I went to your home page to take a quick look. And I had NO idea what you are selling. I don't see a full view on any of your pictures. All of the titles begin with "Japanese Samurai Laser" (that's all you see on the home page...again, so I don't know what you are selling).

Work on your pictures, work on your titles/SEO and list many more items in your shop (you'll never be found with less than 10...shoot for over 50).

Good luck.