your Etsy daily routine to sell!

[MissPunkFlamingo]

I am wondering what successful sellers do each day to keep their sales going.

Each day I login and post on Teams and Forums, then check direct messages and stats. However, my views have been low lately and no sale at all :(

What do you do each day to promote your shop and improve it?
thank you for any advice!

[KaliHerbs]

I am new to selling on Etsy so shall be watching this discussion to improve my store have a good day everyone

[CozyDawg]

I believe your time is better spent promoting and networking on social media, rather than posting within etsy's forums. Playing the like games doesn't do anything. I have been told that the number of likes an item has has no influence on placement in search.

Work on your tags, titles, photos and listing descriptions whenever you have free time.

[peaceandstitches]

I'm the same, I'll log in and post on my teams threads. I try to keep fairly active on social media too since I know this can be a good way to catch peoples eye and get their attention. Every now and then I'll check my tags and do random searches to see if I can up with any more effective tags to use.

I've had a bit of a drop in sales this week though so maybe everyone's already spent their money! :)

[Former_Member]

I have found that the single most important thing you can do is exactly what you're doing already, which is devoting time each day to your etsy shop. I'm a full time college student, and when the term demands top priority, I have a tendency to fall into periods of inactivity on etsy. Making sure to spend at least an hour each day doing something, anything, shop related does wonders for my shop success. Usually that translates into simply creating more items as opposed to posting on social media. It takes some serious effort to keep items stocked! I've seen my stats go up significantly from simply adding more items with the right tags.

[CaliforniaCrownJewel]

Hi Diana,

Besides all the other tips from team members...

I spend a lot of time every day just browsing other Etsy shops to see what they are doing...tags & titles, etc. It's amazing how much you can learn by doing that.

I try to take photos and add listings every day. When you add a listing, it goes straight to page 1 for a brief time...probably 1 minute. But if someone clicks on it, they have just entered your shop and you may get a sale on any of your items. Currently, I'm trying to experiment on the best time of day to add a listing to get the best results.

I rearrange my shop daily and after each sale to keep up appearances and am constantly tweaking titles, etc.

I read Etsy Success articles...try to do one a day. I flag them in my inbox to make it easy to locate them, then delete once they're read.

<3 Jewel

[Former_Member]

Umm I ignore the stats. Will check on the 7/30 days once in a while...but mostly ...how I am doing right this second right this moment at 9:37 AM isnt important anymore. Not sure it ever was.

I ignore the teams as 90% of them are games which Yaaa might get you a few more views and favs....which dont equal sales. I dont have time for looky loos anymore and dropped such about two years ago.

Mostly ignore the forums unless I think there might be a bug glitch then I check those. Sure to be someone gibbering about it if there is.
Course messages are checked and replied too.

Basic normal work day for me.....
Coffee ...shovel shove kids out the door for school so that 7am
(timing flip flops if I do this bit First or torching first pending time of year pending weather stuff basically trying to avoid too hot or to bloody cold in my studio)
but winter wise....it's photos...ALWAYS have something new to put up on at least one site.
photo editing,
listing it here, my site, amazon and or custom made
advertising, Instagram is the current main have IFTTT set up to FB it, and Twitter it so thats basically 10 mins try to blog Something once a week but thats another day atm
so then packaging ...all orders ready to ship are packaged up and wrapped.
Lunch and PO trip(lumped with mom duties like grocery store )
then creation time... put in 3 to 5 hours doing that go out with Must make list! A to be done list.. and I am sure to do a few extra pieces for the must have something new for the next day.
4 to 5 now... clean up house, make sure kids get homework done...
answer more emails during cooking dinner time.
list anything not listed but have decent photos of!
check kiln see how the days torching went..(about 9-10pm) glue any bottle stopper to go out next day(they take least 12 hours to dry, 48 to set but over night is plenty of time to dry enough to ship em out. package anything ready to go up.
reevaluate everything if my brain wont shut up stay up way to late editing listings...like tonight.

[MissPunkFlamingo]

thank you very much for your tips and for sharing your Etsy routine!
I think it also depends a lot on what kind of items you are selling, being it ready to ship or not etc.

I have noticed how trying to think as a buyer can be important - it reflects on the words and tags used in each listing!