Hello all,
I'm Maria from WithTin and also FluxPlay Jewellery. Myself and Sarah Wright from FloraBubble are going to produce a Pinterest board for you every month (we will take it in turns).
For those of you not familiar with Pinterest, it's like Facebook but image-based. A 'board' is a collection of items / images / artworks / designs with accompanying info direct from the image source. Clicking an image takes the clicker to the source (your EtsyShop). Images from Pinterest come up a lot in Google Searches these days, and people can 'follow' and a board or a pinner to keep in touch with what they're making / liking etc.
We have created an account called MadeInDevonEtsy where your boards will appear each month. Every month, myself or Sarah will post a new thread, where you are invited to submit a link to an item in your Etsy shop which 'fits the bill' of the theme of the board for that month. Sarah and I will come up with themes, but it would be really good if you could post any ideas for future board themes in this thread by replying to my post, it would be helpful if you copied and pasted the list into your thread then added your suggestion to the end of the list - that way, everyone can always see all the suggestions in the most recent thread and wont repeat any by mistake.
Sarah and myself will then visit everyones link responses to the monthly themes thread and pin them into the new board. We might 'pad-out' a board with Devon-ish type stuff too, to make the board more 'magazine-like' and juicy, so if a theme is titled "Delicious" for example, then we might pin a few recipes from Devon Life (
http://www.devonlife.co.uk/home) in with the mix and intersperse them amongst the crochet cupcakes, coconut soap and paintings of fruit! People who click on a recipe that we happen to have on our board, will see the name of the board and group and might come our way for a browse.....you see how it works?
The very first board is called "INTRODUCING". I have already populated this board by picking items from your shops myself so that you can see how it works, but that's the only time that I will do that. You will submit your own link in future, as previously described. Please feel to add another item if you wish to the first board, the thead for which I will be posting in a moment. Apologies if I have missed you out, it is inevitable as it takes ages to go through everyones shops!...so go ahead and submit a link into the Board Theme thread for "Introducing". Here is the link to the first board:
https://www.pinterest.com/MadeInDevonEtsy/introducing/There will be some months where the theme isn't appropriate for items in your shop and there will be other months when it is, which should keep the boards fresh, so feel free to add your suggestions for themes to the list below, I'm just getting the ball rolling, I'm sure you guys can come up with some better suggestions;
Delicious.
Fiery
Magical
Moors and Rocks
Coastal
Wild
Earthy
Mythical
Heritage
Ocean Spray
Nautical
Okay, so if you have any questions, then please ask them here, I hope I've made sense.
Maria
