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This team is dedicated to sharing business advice in a supportive environment. From the day you first set up your shop to the day you think about quitting your day job, there's so much to learn. Luckily, one of the best things about selling on Etsy is the support and encouragement from other sellers.

Whether you’re brand new to selling on Etsy or you can count the years on both of your hands, you probably have some milestones that you’d like to celebrate with all of us. Post your milestone in this thread. Every month, we'll highlight some of our favorite posts, so join the celebrations!

Please also introduce yourself in your post if you’re new to the Etsy Success Team—describe what you sell and how long your shop has been open.

Here are some examples of milestones (but remember that all personal milestones big or small are worthy of celebrating!):

• You made your 1st sale / 1st international sale / 1st custom order
• You reached (x) # of sales
• You added (x) # of listings in your shop
• You have (x) # of views / favorites / admirers
• You received positive feedback from a buyer
• Your shop was featured in the press or in social media
• You recently opened your shop
• You’re celebrating your Etsyversary
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I am celebrating my two sales this past week. I'm so glad I joined Etsy!
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Hi everyone, I just had my first ever returning customer today. She must have liked her purchase last time as she's buying the same but in a different colour. Very happy!
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I made a to-do list for my shop on Thursday, and accomplished everything on it! Small victories - now if only I had one extra weekend day to spend relaxing! :)
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Officially made our 5th sale and we hit 1700 shop views and 700 likes!!!! Just need to get some more facebook likes which seems to be the toughest!
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I've reached 200 followers on Twitter! :D
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Hey there!!!!
I had 3 sales this weekend after a slow month and I am now on 29!!! Looking forward to the 30th!!!
Best of luck to all of you here!
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My Marketing Blog has had 4,000 views in the 2 months since it has been launched, and 2 of my posts made the NY Times Small Business blog in January.

Plus, I had 5 amazing reviews this week of my marketing guides by various Etsy shops.
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I have started redoing my shop pics!!! finally, LOL
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rebeccalhall
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I had a great sale of 5 necklaces to one customer last week and I finally hit 300 likes on my Facebook page today! Woohoo!!
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LettersAndPine
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I'm on the front page right now! My views are going crazy...and so am I! This is AWESOME! =D
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I was interviewed and featured on this vintage fashion blog:
http://sararavintage.blogspot.com/2013/01/memoirs-of-costume-designer-vintage-in.html
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I opened my shop at the end of last summer, but once school started was forced to neglect it a bit. All of a sudden, two weeks ago, the Daily Mail in Britain features a story on me and my work! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2262121/Let-wear-cake-Student-creates-incredible-range-jew...

In 24 hours, my number of views goes from 7 to 1,215! I got hit with over 10 orders (and was a little overwhelmed, to be honest).

Since then, I've been interviewed on my local TV broadcasting station, blogged about, and Anderson Cooper from Anderson Live has asked to feature my jewelry on his show! It's amazing!
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IndigoEmber
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Celebrating my January sales (V-day) doubled my Christmas holiday sales! I'm excited that I'm getting so close to 60 sales! Just two more to go...
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Hi!

I'm Triona. I'm new to this team, and relatively new to Etsy.

I'm celebrating my third sale which consisted of two items that I just shipped out today. Each sale is a learning experience, and I know as time goes on and as I am able to put more energy and time into my shop, I will continue to learn and to grow.

I hope to be able to teach and learn through this team. :)
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Just reached an all-time high of 400+ views in one day!
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IndigoEmber
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Congratulations everyone!
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I just reached 4 sales from the day i opened my shop.
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Today is my one year anniversary here and it has been the most amazing journey! This year has exceeded every possible dream and goal that I had when I first opened my shop:) It is so nice to see my business growing.

I have worked really, really (honestly seven days a week, from 12 to 14 hours a day) hard to make my Etsy shop work and I will continue to do so in the future. Every day there is something new to learn when it comes to online selling, but I really like to earn new things.

And now encouraged by Etsy, my B&M store is moving to a bigger premises, so my business will continue to grow:)


Have a great day everyone and a lot of sales!
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Made my 70th sale yesterday!
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Getting to the end of January. My sales this month are the highest ever! I am also very happy with the amt. of views my shop has been getting! AND I am one like away on my FB page from 200!
Looking forward to 2013 sales!
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1AEON
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So normally I'm going to bed around 3-4 am, my shop keeps me up at night, plus always something to do and I like to working at night time, but yesterday went to bad early (midnight) so I'm up early. Guess what Early bird!?
My shirt will be on a cover of a German Tattoo magazine (on a model) Hurray!
SO happy!
Thank you Etsy, again!
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Thank you all for sharing ! I'm new around and I find your posts very encouraging... looking forward to share soon "celebrating my first sale..." small step maybe but pretty huge form me at this point.

Good luck & thank you !
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My shop is a few years old, but last year I started putting effort into the shop, creating goals, listing more items, creating new items, tagging, re-tagging, etc... I had a very successful go of it last year, and January of this year has been a great start to another year! If I can continue the growth I had last year into this year, I will officially be able to quit my 24 hour a week job when my second baby arrives this summer. I am beyond excited! :) :) :)
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denisemcguire
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Just got my 100th sale! Yipppeeee!

Had to share here, where I knew people would understand! :)
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I've got a reason to celebrate too!

I opened my store 3 weeks ago and already had 2 sales! Yippee!

However, there's still a lot I need to learn about marketing and other things, so I'm always ready for advice! I find this group to be very helpful for that!

Here's my Facebook link:

https://www.facebook.com/AlinaZMonkeyVillage
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