Tips & Tools For Etsy Sellers

[MadisonStreetBeauty]

I thought I would share a tips & tools thread here to help everyone out that they can use to use to grow their business.

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You can display your Etsy listings direct to your fans on your Facebook page. There are many apps out there. Here is a great one that we personally use that is simple and free! Just like the name suggests is very easy to use and even easier to set up. Entering your shop name is pretty much it! You also have some options to customize it if you wish but the default settings are great :)

Check it out at: apps.facebook.com/easysocialshop/?sc=pt&m=gr&cp=grrc

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Get 1000's of fans on Facebook

We found an amazing site designed specifically for Etsy sellers that allowed you to get hundreds of fans each day on Facebook. As long as you have a few minutes to spend now and then its an amazing tool. The site has proven very popular recently with thousands of Etsy sellers joining and networking with each other. Check it our here www.welikeetsy.com/promo

Having a good fan base on Facebook is very important so being able to get so many new fans so fast will surley give your business a huge boost! The site has some impressive feedback from sellers here on Etsy who recieved hundreds of new fans each day.

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Promote your Etsy store on Pinterest with this amazing app!
I was recently introduced to this pinterest promotion tool. It allows you to select what items you want to promote and then you sit back and watch the repins and likes flood in! It’s that simple and it’s a great tool to get maximum exposure for your Etsy items on Pinterest. This app is one of the top ranking apps in the etsy app section so check it out storewoot.com/join/

We love them not only because it’s a great app but any questions we had were answered instantly and I mean instantly! The first message I sent was answered in 4 minutes! I have personally used this site to promote our products and saw a huge jump in traffic from pinterest, remember people that traffic = sales….End of. On day two we had a number of sales right around the hour of lots of traffic coming in, after doing research one of the people who repined us had 32,000 followers and even some of them repined the pin that person made. It was at this time we had a spike in traffic and several sales all around the same time. I love finding new services like this as it’s an extra stream of traffic and potential revenue for our shop…every bit helps!

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There are many pages and communities for Etsy on Facebook that will allow you to post and promote your products for free. Check out some of these pages and join the communities today and start promoting! All of the pages listed here allow you to share your creations by posting to their page. Go there now and get in front of hundreds of thousasnds of new people!

www.facebook.com/ForeverHandmade
www.facebook.com/EtsianSuccess
www.facebook.com/VintageGuide
www.facebook.com/EtsianBabyShower
www.facebook.com/VintageJewelryGuide
www.facebook.com/HandmadeJewelryFans
www.facebook.com/IHeartAccessories
www.facebook.com/JewelryGuide
www.facebook.com/VintageFashionGuide
www.facebook.com/EtsiansUnite
www.facebook.com/WeddingPlanner101
www.facebook.com/WeddingSuppliesGuide
www.facebook.com/HandmadeHunters

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Don't forget to promote your treasuries by using team threads and games to get it out there. There is a limit as to how many treasuries a users can comment on in a day so take advantage of that by playing many of the treasury games that get you networking and in front of more people.

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Changing your tags, creating sales for your shop and renewing listings at a specific time are so easy with this app.

We use and love more than anything the etsyonsale app, it’s wonderful! You can remove and add tags to all listings in one go, and schedule sales.

You may have seen many listings that display what the price used to be in the picture. They are listings that have been placed on sale using the etsyonsale app. If you sign up directly at the site you get 5 free credits to get started or if you sign up using the referral link of an existing user you both get an extra 5 credits, so you start off with 10 instead of 5. Feel free to use the code below to get 5 extra credits or do a search for an etsyonsale referral link, don’t just sign up, you should find a referral link first as you will get double credits on sign up.

www.etsyonsale.com/sellers?referralCode=I3LUH8DT0Z

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We are always here to help other Etsy sellers so please feel free to get in touch with us :)

Bridget & Rhys

[Former_Member]

Gosh what a lot to think about! Thanks for this I will check these out.

[MadisonStreetBeauty]

Our pleasure Jane. I hope this info helps :)

[GoMonogram]

Thanks for all the great ideas! I've already checked out several of the links. :)

[MadisonStreetBeauty]

Thanks Alecia. I hope you find them useful ::

[MadisonStreetBeauty]

At one point we had more twitter followers when we started than MAC, Urban Decay and Clinique combined! How did we do this without investing any money whatsoever? We started our whole business with just $150 and that was pretty much all we ever spent to get set up, the rest we reinvested from the growing business.

We utilized the daily limits Twitter has set out for connecting with others and targeted people who we knew would be interested in our products or discussed the topics relating to our industry. Do you have a twitter account? If you do then there are amazing networking opportunities awaiting you. No matter what industry or niche you sell in, there are plenty of people who would love to hear about your products or services.

You can connect with as many as 1000 people every day on Twitter. You can search for profiles in your category or pages you know your demographic will follow and connect with those that follow it or are followed by it. It takes about 20 - 30 minutes to go down a list or two of people adding before you hit the daily limit. Take full advantage of this for as long as you can. It’s easy to see a spike of hundreds of views during the minutes and hours following when you connect with others so it’s well worth it and a reason why we have hundreds of thousands of twitter followers.

Get started today because you will already regret it once you start and see the explosive growth it can bring.

Good luck :)

[MadisonStreetBeauty]

Are you on Pinterest? If you are there are plenty of ways to promote yourself.

You can start by joining many of the group Etsy boards that are available. When you pin your items to a group board they show up in the feed for all members of that board. Group boards for marketplaces like Etsy are a favorite for shoppers so pinning your items there will mean that your items are not only seen by other pinners but all the visitors to the board as well. In many cases the easiest way to become a member of a group board is to message the creator asking them to invite you. You have to be following the creator in order for them to be able to invite you. Some boards have you leave a comment on the pins asking for someone to invite you. You can also create your own group boards by inviting your followers to pin there too.

Here is an example of a group board www.pinterest.com/madisonsbeauty/i-love-etsy/

[DonnaLeeBags]

WOW thank you for all the helpful tips and links I will definitely be using these tools in the new year. What if I already have another business pinterest page can I still promote my etsy store with the app?