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Selling 101: How to sell in a Sloooooow Time and when Renewing/Relisting isn't working for your shop.

Renewing and Relising won't work... if your target market isn't on Etsy.

Yes, renewing keeps us high in the searches but if you have no one coming in to search you, it's money down the drain. So, what can you do to become a super selling machine???

Few things you can do if your target market is not around Etsy.
1) Find blogs and websites to feature you - long time links are great because they keep bringing traffic in.

2) Go to the places where your target market is around ( example: mine are in college etc.) and drop off flyers or cards and promo info.

3) Use sites like Indie Style Media.com or Project Wonderful and custom how you ad runs so you can hit the sites where your potential customers can be. Or contact blogs or sites to run your ads. Remember always to check their traffic, some can be very inexpensive. I run ads on my fashion blog and it's both high traffic and very affordable. (only like 10 bucks a month). So places like this are a good choice, oh! and make sure they hit your target market directly. Why advertise in a mechanic blog if you sell vintage, right?

4) Use the social networking system that works for you. (Sometimes to do all sites at once is overwhelming and you end up doing nothing at all) So just promote and announce sales at your twitter or your FB fan page.

5) If your creations are wearable, wear them! Some selfish self promotion don't come wrong, and hey, it's free, You are your products best model!

Hope these tips help out in this hyper sloooooooooow time. I know I'm going to get some flyers done to drop at school. Lol.
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Re: Selling 101: How to sell in a Sloooooow Time and when Renewing/Relisting isn't working for your shop.

this is a great reminder to not always focus on the people on etsy but also focus on bringing people to etsy
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Thanks for all this good advice. It's easy to get mired in details and get tunnel vision. And, it is good to hear from a more accomplished marketer that this is indeed a sloooooow time!
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Re: Selling 101: How to sell in a Sloooooow Time and when Renewing/Relisting isn't working for your shop.

sophiaTHAYAHT says

Thanks for all this good advice. It's easy to get mired in details and get tunnel vision. And, it is good to hear from a more accomplished marketer that this is indeed a sloooooow time!
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Aww thanks. Tho I'm not really that accomplished. But glad the info is of use! =D Btw my name's Sophia so totally had to check your shop out!
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Thanks for the advice. I'm never sure just where to bring people from. How do you get a blog to feature you? I'm new to this and have no experience with marketing so a little lost. I do have two ads going in two different blogs and it's bringing in some traffic but not tons.
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Re: Selling 101: How to sell in a Sloooooow Time and when Renewing/Relisting isn't working for your shop.

im not totally sure how you do that springwoodsoaps but you could offer them a sample? they can use it and blog about it,
if you have a blog you could trade blog posts about each other.
offer them a sample that they can do a contest with?
just try and find one that suits your target market!
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NIce suggestions. Thank you.
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Thank you. Very helpful.
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Re: Selling 101: How to sell in a Sloooooow Time and when Renewing/Relisting isn't working for your shop.

Thanks... really helpful. Being a newbie, I was wondering why things seemed so slow...
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You're welcome everyone! Hope they help. =D
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great advice, thanks!
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Very good suggestions!
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Re: Selling 101: How to sell in a Sloooooow Time and when Renewing/Relisting isn't working for your shop.

Marked... Read Laterz
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Finally some good advices, thank you!
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Re: Selling 101: How to sell in a Sloooooow Time and when Renewing/Relisting isn't working for your shop.

Thank you! I'm always up for suggestions.
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Re: Selling 101: How to sell in a Sloooooow Time and when Renewing/Relisting isn't working for your shop.

Great advice. Something that works well for me are trunk shows. I pick up alot of new customers this way. I would like to try advertising in other blogs, how do I find such blogs?
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Re: Selling 101: How to sell in a Sloooooow Time and when Renewing/Relisting isn't working for your shop.

Great advice...going to make some flyers :D

I was also thinking of calling local gift shops to see if they would carry some of my stuff especially my "tourist-y" pieces!
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Re: Selling 101: How to sell in a Sloooooow Time and when Renewing/Relisting isn't working for your shop.

NenasArtandDesigns I was just wondering what is a trunk show?
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Re: Selling 101: How to sell in a Sloooooow Time and when Renewing/Relisting isn't working for your shop.

Thanks everyone! Great advice and feedback.
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Thanks a bunch!
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