Wanting to expand inventory, two shops?

[Former_Member]

Currently my husband and I sell paintings, prints and prints on cards- but I am wanting to start doing jewelry as well. Should I add the jewelry to our current shop, or should I create a second shop?

[Former_Member]

Unless you've got enough items to warrant two shops you may as well stick them all in together. There is a lot of jewellery on etsy, so it would be worth finding out if people are buying your jewellery before you go all out and set up a second shop. It is a lot of work keeping up with your shop, so you want to know it'll be worth your while before doubling your workload. If it goes well, THEN you open a new shop.

[ChrisOsCreations]

also if the jewelry you want to add are miniatures of your prints it would be nice to have them at the same shop

[AnneLondezGlass]

I have 2 shops, one for my glass beads and one for my fine art and I don't really have time to manage both. It does double the workload so I'd advise you to think carefully before you start a second shop.

[Former_Member]

I do loads of different things, jewellery, cushions, scarves, fabric I am not sure if its confusing to people, but I figured that they are all my creations and they are all the same aesthetic and look so I have stuck to one shop(for now) its hard enough to keep track or renewing etc with the one. Plus you will be starting all over again with feedback etc. That said I am going to be selling vintage but in a different shop. its a hard one to know whats right but I do think a shop with loads of different options for your customers is good. attack them from all angles right??? x

[PIXELGRINphotography]

I posed this question to the group a few weeks ago and the general consensus was don't do it, and I didn't, at least for now. Things I heard was that more often people forgot about one of their shops, and like someone already metioned here It was hard to manage both.

If you plan on making your art prints into your jewelry than it would totally fit! You are going to make the SEO per listing and although total shop elements do come into play, like your shop title and name... you are likely to get found based on your tags and titles more than anything. I've found at least in my shop, listings are viewed based on the search term, and more listing views than shop views or sections -- maybe not the case for everyone but certainly for me.

[PorcelainJazz]

I've got a fine art craft shop right now for the things that I make. And I would not consider starting a new shop for inventory that I make since it should be cohesive as it is coming from the same aesthetic.

However, I am thinking of starting a separate vintage shop as part of settling an estate as it will have to be handled very differently from my craft shop. I realize it will double my work load. But I should be able to go from part time shop keeper to full time shop keeper at the time that I do it.

Has anyone else done something like this?