Shop Help + Boosting Sales

[Former_Member]

Thought I would start a thread so we could help each other with our shops + to boost our sales.

One thing I do,is to go into my Shop Stats everyday.

Check out your least viewed items..change your title tag..use your words that are being viewed the most. This will help to bring your least viewed items to the top.

Featured Items
Change these every 2 days. Use either new items you just made or bring up items from your shop that are in the back pages.

If you have a Facebook Page for your shop,keep that updated with your new items.

Also try to add new items daily,even if its only a couple of items.This keeps your shop in the forefront in search listings

[ghostgap]

Great info and an excellent thread!

Okay we don't have the time to list one item everday so most of you probably pick a day to download photos of your new crafts and post them that day. Here is what I do. I take pictures of 4-6 things and go into etsy and save them as drafts. You are not charged your etsy fee untill you post your drafts.
This way I can go into my drafts and list one a day to get more exposure. You can post a draft on your lunch break if you work in a snap. I have seen shops with listings 20 in a row.well great for that day but as the day goes on with the thousands of sellers you keep going down in the pages.

Sometimes I do a draft in the morning and later that evening.i keep spreading this advice in teams and I think it is a great way to do your multiple listings in one day.It saves time to make a few things and have a draft listing day.I also think this could help you boost your sales because you will increase your exposure.

[Former_Member]

Great info Ghost! I also will re-do pics of items that have jet lag so to speak! lol
A fresh outlook is always good. :)

[Former_Member]

Thank you for the advice! :)

[Hauntedswampdesigns]

I do drafts too! Something I saw made me wonder if Etsy charges you the day of the draft... my memory is so bad... anyway....
I build up my drafts and leave my page open and if I get up in the middle of the night I might stumble in and list something.
I read this in a team somewhere... it may be the middle of the night here but the middle of the day somewhere else!

[ghostgap]

So true the astralians are have morning when we are having evening!

[Former_Member]

I didn't think to use drafts...if they charge you for that I probablly won't.....I get at least three items finished a week depending on what the item is and I sit down in the morning and list them all......I have a few clay monsters ready to list I saved them all in my pictures album so I can look for them and add listings later.I do need to do dishes so I shall return fellow spooky cute lovers!

[ghostgap]

They don't charge you! I been doing this for months!

[Former_Member]

Neato!

[jansbeads]

Ghost

Using the draft feature is a good idea. You are right in a free moment you can pop an item into etsy. I am going to try it. Thank you for the idea.

As for treasuries. Have you found that they help bring in sales? Not BNRs but just a viewing treasury.

[Former_Member]

Thanks for the info. Treasuries do help bring in views, plus it speaks to what the curator's style is. Check out my shop where everything is on sale!

[ghostgap]

Well I will be honest and say I never got an item sold that was featured in a treasury but more shop views has to be helpful. But I will tell you this twice after making a treasury the next day I got a sale and I can't help but think it was the treasury because these were etsy buyers and not shop and most my sales are from BNRs. I opened my first shop 1-13-11 and ghostgap May of 2011!

[Hauntedswampdesigns]

Well... for treasuries I pick a phrase or word (idea) for a treasury and build one from that. Believe me all my treasuries are not my style.

I've tried BNR's I don't think I have gotten a sale from any.

I think circles are the best way to be found.

[Former_Member]

Oooh, this is very helpful! My shop is only in its 3rd week and I've added new items 3 times, always in 'bunches'. I didn't realise adding them bit by bit would help- thank you for that tip! Also, treasuries are the only thing I haven't really ventured into on etsy yet... what are they and how can they help me? Sorry for the silly question but I'm still new! :-)

[Former_Member]

Oh and what are BNRs? Thank yoooou!!!

[ChrisOsCreations]

i think u are good :-)
i had my first sale after 6months so:P
but @ etsy blog u can find some useful tips too