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Ok so I found this amazing banner creator, if anyone needs a new banner use this one because it's awesome! You can upload your own picture to use for a background which is great. It has a temporary watermark on it during creation but never fear it won't be there when you get the final product. If anyone needs help using it let me know and i'll give ya a hand!!
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I don't know if you guys already know about this but I love this tool! It's the Heart-O-Matic! It tells you how many shop hearts you have and how many individual item hearts as well, it even breaks down your item views
I <3 the heart-o-matic
Last edited by HippieChickBoutique (9/22/2009 10:05 am)
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YEAH!! So glad to be a part of this. I found a really cool website that has 91 ways to promote your etsy shop. I haven't tried them all but many are free.
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Thanks fiberpuppy! I just found this one in a forum post
50+ free sites to promote your site!
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Hippiechick, the heartomatic is really addictive!
Do you all know about the treasury clock? It counts down to the time when the treasury is emptied out enough for you to snag one.
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dobatseatcats- No I didn't and thanks! I needed that kind of info
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Wow, all really cool stuff I knew nothing about. Thanks.
Have you guys heard of the Sneak Attack... it's pretty cool. Just wondering how obscure it is.
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Ooooh Ooooh I almost forgot about this forum post...it's super. I found out about google base through this.
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Sandy- I seriously like that....maybe we can start nominating people for sneak attacks
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I was thinking the same thing. Or, maybe figure out a way to get our team or forum on their site!
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Yeah that would probably help. I'll figure out how to send them an email telling them about our band of misfits and kind of highlighting us as people with low sales (ugh i hate the sound of that) for them to take into consideration!
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HC, yeah, know what you mean about the "low sales" thing... but that's why we are working so hard, to change that and help eveyone else too, so , it's all good!
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This effort will not be in vain! Seriously....I will not let this fail
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This is a pretty cool blog!
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Great links. I am off to check them out now.
Ha I have just had a thought. I bet most of the forum posters on here are in the US and tucked up fast asleep in their beds. I am in the UK so probably talking to myself on here!!
Incase there is another Brit on here this is a good place to register your etsy shop.
www.shophandmadeuk.co.uk
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oops sorry just checked that link and it should have been
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So once our team is all set up on Etsy, will we have a site like a team store that will show all of our items together? It would be fun to post it various places and promote all of us at once.
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IngaStitch- That would be something we could think about in the future, and really if that's done it's up to us to make that decision. What will happen is once the team is approved by Etsy I will develop a "team tag" Etsy recognizes those differently and once a person buys from one of us let them know that we work as a team and to use the "team tag" to check out some of the other shops. Make sense? It's just really difficult to do a team shop at first since money would have to go to one paypal, and then be split accordingly, there would have to be a ton of trust in one person to do that.
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Just found this in the Etsy Forum about ways to promote your shop:
Steph
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Cool, SaddyBelleWares. I just responded to that thread suggesting people join us here for more ideas. ;-)
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Lots of helpful resources! Thanks everyone!
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have any of you tried sending your poduct pictures to www.handmade.com ?
they'll upload a picture of yours for free in their gallery, and people can vote for it. it's pretty good just to have your items online at different places.
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Hmmmm, I checked out www.handmade.com and didn't see any sort of free gallery. How do you get to it?
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ooops sorry, the website is www.tryhandmade.com
Just go to contacts and give them the picture you want to submit and they will add it to your gallery.
Here's my seriously bad pictures:S:S:S
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I'm hyperventilating now 'cause my cozies, which are currently listed in the Gift Guide, are now featured on the front page. They were selected by Etsy using the search word "rust." Now I would never have thought to use the word "rust" as a tag, but I used this link to find recommended tags:
I think I did a tag search on "orange" & the word "rust" was really popular....guess it worked!!