I've read everyone's comments and all of you are correct. I'll throw a few things in the mix too.
I have been on Etsy now for several years and I didn't get help right away and I didn't know what I was doing. The best thing I did for myself was to find a mentor with more experience and success.
I didn't do anything right to begin with but my mentor really helped me. She helped me with my photography, my listings, the descriptions, shipping, and promoting. She was a godsend. My sales began to come in, albeit slowly, if you know of any overnight success stories they are like freaks of nature they don't happen often and their success usually slows down like everyone else, and they have ups and downs like the rest of us.
I am now a Team Captain and I work hard to keep up the morale of my team mates as I see them struggle and want to quit because they think they are complete failures. And they don;t know what they are doing wrong, they always blame themselves and they have doubts about their products, they begin to think their stuff isn't as good as others, so they start lowering their prices. Wrong thing to do.
All of you were right when you said it just takes time, it does. It takes hard work, you have to promote, promote, and promote some more and when you think you're done promote some more. But..............not all promotion is good and worthwhile promotion. So choose your promotion methods wisely.
Get yourself onto a clicking team, get on a circle clicking team, make treasuries every day or as often as you can. I won;t tell you to forget about Twitter and FB but I will tell you this, I personally have found them useless and a waste of time. But you do what works for you. Try it out and see what makes your views go up Twitter or Clicking. I know the answer. During this slow period my views are up in the 700's daily that's while things are slow and off season. When the holiday season gets going they will go above a 1000-1200 or so per day.
Another thing you want to do is work on your tags and make sure they are good tags. Join a team where you can learn about tagging and there are ebooks available for as little as $6 , well worth it for what you will learn. The most important thing is to get people to see your stuff, you need Google to send people your way, also Etsy, so become knowledgeable about tags, and do them right. You will have views.
I know that I've covered a lot here on the other hand there is so much more. Promotion is the most important thing to do, but do it right and you will succeed.
Marilyn
