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What am I doing wrong??

I have been trying Etsy for quite a while now...STILL not 1 sale! What the heck am I doing wrong?HELP...:)
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Re: What am I doing wrong??

Hello! Let's see if I can offer you some helpful advice.

Your pictures need a little work. You have some cute designs, but the pictures aren't doing them justice. Do you use a photo editor? I like PicMonkey. I can enhance my pictures' colors and make the brights brighter and shadows darker. It really makes the products look more like you're actually looking at them.

Also, don't use a watermark. It's very distracting and competes with the product for attention. If you would like to brand your pictures so that someone cannot use them as their own, include a labeled product in your pictures that shows the name of your company.

In your product descriptions, add descriptions of your soaps. Add the ingredients that you use.

All of your titles look the same. Instead of "Maine Made Hand Felted Soap Buoy Design" try "Lemongrass Felted Beer Soap" if it's made with beer. Save the "Maine Made" "Buoy Design" and other such descriptive words for your descriptions and tags. You don't have to include the same words in each title.

Do a search for handmade soap and see what the people in the first few pages are doing. They're there for a reason. They know how to work the system. I'm not saying copy them word for word, but take some pointers from their listings. Look at what tags they're using. Look how their titles are laid out. Read their descriptions and see how they word them.

Good luck!
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Thank you so very much for the help.Im going to re-do them and see what happens.I have used PicMonkey before...I have a light box that I have never used,so Ill try a few using that also.Thanks for your help!!
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I would love some help on mine too if anybody has time :)
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dear Gemma,
you have very nice idea, you could develop it further.
Let's say I am a buyer: I would like to see more items in your shop.
about the photos: I would like to see the picture from different angle, ofcourse would like to see the back of it.

would you have a minute to critique my shop? :)

good luck!

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Hi Asta,
You have a lovely shop and I find it hard to criticise anything. On that basis I can only suggest the following:

One thing I did notice was that in a couple of the pictures the model is standing in front of a busy background and this can take away some of the focus from the item. I love the pictures where you can really see the texture of the items.

It might be worth spell checking some of your writing also (I really don't mean to be rude as your english is great - there are just a few words that need amending).

Also maybe try and add some more materials that you use in order to increase your chance of being found as your products are lovely :)

I hope you find this useful and good luck!
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