I am certainly not complaining about the sales I am getting, but Casey and I are trying to make this more of a main source of income, and right now, well... its not.
The changes that I made that got us to this point? First I added tons of new listings. Luckily, over the last couple of years, Casey and I had created a rather large collection of paintings, so I was able to post a new listing a day.
I find that the days I list, I generally get more views then normal and sometimes sales. I tried to space them out so that I was always bringing people in each day to see the new item, instead of listing all new things in one day.
I also worked on SEO, trying to pick up tips throughout the forums so that my items would come up in searches. The last two months especially, I have seen a huge increase in google views. (not a ton but from say 2 google views a day to now about 16 on average).
I was also not promoting outside of etsy before hand. Etsy is still my largest source of views, but I get a decent amount of views from other sources as well.
Its nice to see these changes pay off, but the results seem to have leveled off. So I am left to wonder...what else can I do, just keep doing what I have been doing, and hope that it will continue to grow? Or is there more I can be doing?
Thanks Kathleen, I should try to add more photos for the paintings. It just adds so much work when doing that for a watercolor painting, you have to matte it and frame it to show it in a different way. Only to unmatte/unframe it to store it away somewhere! Maybe that is just me being lazy....
