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[Former_Member]

Does Twitter really help with views on your etsy shop?

Also, does posting on teams help with veiw/orders with your etsy shop? Do you follow any teams that do a lot of promoting threads?

[Former_Member]

In my experience, yes to both! I get tons of traffic from Twitter and Facebook when I post things there (but I will say it helps to actually go to Facebook and Twitter and post a photo of the item rather than tweeting and posting the new listings from Etsy).

When I first started on Etsy, I stayed away from the teams for quite a while and didn't get a lot of traffic, but the first day I joined a team, I had 30+ views from team traffic alone. I don't do the teams that promote items...just too much work for me, but from support teams I continue to get tons of traffic.

[Former_Member]

If you want views, then any social media that you use will do that for you.

But if you want those views to turn into sales, you will need to be engaging your your target customer to get the sales.

Posting in the 'post and run' threads may help with views but ask yourself this.. how many items have you purchased from looking at the post and run promo threads?

My stats show that for the past 30 days, I've had about 5% of my views from teams. Of those views I do know that a few have turned to sales simply because I'm involved with a lot of knit and crochet teams and I sell yarns.

But the majority of my sales come from people who find my shop from outside of Etsy.

[Former_Member]

Thank you guys. Everything helps.

[Former_Member]

I actually get most of my external traffic from Deviant Art. I create a "deviation" of my piece there, then post it to 16 different groups that focus on jewelry and smaller niche categories (Skull Art) and I actually get more traffic that way than from anywhere else.

The nice thing about this is that these are typically folks that are already interested, and so these often become sales.

[Former_Member]

I get views from tweeting new items and from my facebook page. But as crochetgal says, the more meaningful views (the ones that lead to sales) come from engaging your niche market. As I selectively promote on twitter, facebook and pinterest, I'm finding that more of my views come from outside the etsy community - from direct search etc.

That being said, I'm part of a couple of teams that mostly promote, and a couple of teams that are seller-building info and community teams. I've chosen those teams for the support, not for the promotion in itself.

Hope that helps - good luck!