New to Etsy, help needed

[Former_Member]

Hello Etsy Members,
I've had my store open for almost 2 months now and I have had lot's of views (primarily listing), but no sales? I've been told to get involved in teams and social media more. I've never been very active in social media ( except pinterest) and I really don't know where to start. I did open a Facebook, Twitter and Instagram account and have posted on them. If anyone could share some " words of wisdom" that helped them in this process, it would greatly be appreciated. Thank you.

[BarbarasLaborofLove]

Pam-
I am following your post- I too just opened my store. I try and change up my descriptions, I made Shop Options for sorting and hopefully soon I will be adding more items- After my second set of postings- I did get 1 sale- I too joined a bunch of teams and favorited, followed, and posted to Pinterest. If you search Etsy in Pinterest there are a ton of ideas from people- You could be here all day changing your descriptions- making sure you have the correct pricing, etc. Have you changed anything? The featured items in your store??
Moving items to a different category??
Hope any of this helps- Best of luck to you!

[Former_Member]

Thanks for the advice Barbara. I have not changed featured items or moving items to a different category. I will also do a search in Pinterest.

[SummerSpinner]

You are at the very beginning so there's a lot that you will have to learn by trail and error.

As far as social media goes, I don't believe the return is worth the effort for very small businesses. For example, if you are on twitter and all you do is post items for sale you will not get many followers, so you end up posting a bunch of social posts and throw in an occasional promo for an item. This takes a ton of time and yields very little sale.

Social media works great for big companies because 1) They already have a following and 2) they have people whose sole job is to post on social media. For a one man/woman operation time is the most important thing and it's better coming up with new products, refining old ones, and making the descriptions and titles the best they can be.

I have over 3000 tweets on twitter and can point to only 2 sales from them. If each tweet took only 10 seconds, I took over 8 hours of time. Not worth it.

[SummerSpinner]

Hi Pam, this is a link to a great thread that has a lot of good links to resources you can use to help you improve your titles, tags, descriptions, photos, etc:
www.etsy.com/teams/5002/etsy-success/discuss/16149239/page/1?ref=te...