Promoting Etsy: My Story

Here's my story! I joined etsy a while ago, but I had plans to sell little girl clips. It didn't work, I sold nothing. But then I received a large amount of yarn from my grandmother who no longer needed it. I have so much. That's when I decided to would crochet stuff to sell instead. That's how much yarn I have, I could never use it all for my family and friends. I do how ever make things for friends as gifts. Just recently I have gotten a few sales from friends and that motivated me to work hard to promote my store. I love having my store on etsy. I just wish it was easier to sell stuff. I have gotten lots of advice as to what to do. I have updated my photos, still want to redo them yet again, added more than 24 items to my store, and I was putting one item in a day to keep my store fresh and at the top of the list. But there comes a point when it costs to much to do it all the time. Now that my store is full I decided to hold off on renewing for now. I intend to add more stuff to my store once I get photos of the new stuff done. So with that not working I decided to look into getting involved in teams. I started in the newbie team. From there I found out about another team called the promotion and fun team. I love that team as well. There are two threads on that team where if you purchase something from the store on the list you will be added to the list! I have joined both threads, I love that since this is a business I keep track of all my expenses and income, so the cost in buying into these threads goes toward advertising costs!!! One of these threads the gal who runs it also runs a lot of bnrs. So when she is short on stores to fill a bnr she will pull one of us from the list to fill in the blanks! It's great because I have gotten three sales from it. But sadly that is the only sales I have gotten. I have been fortunate enough to have some sales threw friends as well.

I have done some other advertising stuff, but with no availe. I gave a pair of earrings to a waitress that was extra sweet, giving out business cards to people who comment on the stuff I made that I wear. But the one I am the most excited about is an upcoming boutique a few friends and I are planning on holding! I am hoping to not only sell lots of stuff, but to hand out lots of business cards that they will in turn give away to their friends and family, you know, get my stores name out there even more! For now I am just working hard making stuff and trying to continue being a part of all the teams I have joined, and get my store out there for others to see.

Here is the link for the fun and promotion team that has the two threads of sellers:

www.etsy.com/teams/7693/fun-and-friends-promotion-team

one of the threads is called: under$20bnr fun and prizes
the other is bns buy and stay treat yourself (this one is updated daily, so just look for the days date. Also this is the one the gal does all the bnr's that she adds people too.)

I hope this is encouraging and helpful to all you etsians out there!