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LOL I hope not. Sometimes I feel like i'm going a million miles an hour, my brain is hard to slow down sometimes. When I really get focused on something I really like to give it my all.
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I agree with the suggestion about Stumbleupon. I signed up for it yesterday and had hits right away on my shop and my blog. The more people give you thumbs up, the more popular your pages are, the more people will see them. Squidoo is another one but it didn't do much and it requires more work. Byhandme featured my Cloche hat as its Artisan Item of the day and I got a lot of views from that. You can upload an RSS feed to your shop on that site. Kaboodle never sent anyone directly to my shop, but when I do a Google search for my items they come up in Kaboodle in the first page and my Etsy shop doesn't come up at all.
You can submit your shop url directly to Google too at and that will help the bots to find you.
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Thanks Rachel I just did the google URL submission. Another thing google related that I did was Google Base, now i'm not so sure what's up with it so far but it's worth a shot and it updates from my shop daily at 9pm through the RSS feed. It's cool I suppose I need to check out Stumbleupon, I hadn't even heard about it until today.
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Just popping in to say hello!
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Hey twocats I think i'm the only one here
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Hi everyone!! I'm so glad to be on the team!!! Can't wait to get things going!
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hello all!!!
this is fantastic, it's nice to feel a part of a team and not be thrown into what feels very deep waters of etsy at times!!
it'll be great to get to know you all
www.amzjewellerydesigns.etsy.com
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Hi everyone!
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Morning Everyone. Love the info flying around in here. It's awesome. Just added a bunch of tid-bits from this board on my blog...
Have a good one!
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Would someone mind explaining to me, like I'm a 5-year-old, how to plug my shop on Stumbleupon? I just signed up for Stumbleupon but I can't figure out how to get at my shop through their site. Thanks!
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LOL, I had the same question. I think if once you register, you click on the "favorites" icon and just below your favorites menu is a "post new" (site) that's where you can add your site. At least I think that's how you do it. If anyone else has any other way... please post.
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Yep, that's how you do it. I just posted mine.
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I linked to soulstone and HC's blog & shop on my blog. Hopefully that gets some more exposure for you guys too. BTW, HC, I can never post a comment on any of your blogs. Maybe it's a setting? Anyway, CUTE idea about featured etsian of the week.
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that seems to have worked! thank you!
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Great all. I hope someone Stumbles Upon us... and buys!
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HippieChick, Thank you so much for developing this forum. I've been selling for a couple of months and, due to my age, I feel that I don't "fit in" the Etsy forums. The threads move so quickly & my posts get buried (aka ignored). I'm looking forward to being part of this community and meeting all of you! ~~Margie
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Hey you guys! I feel like i'm behind right now LOL Ok so stumbleupon, what I did was post some of my items as photos, when it asks you for the photo url you plug in the url to that item specifically in your shop this would be my berry sweet towel set
to start our you need to click on the my home tab, from there you click on post new: site or picture
after that you type in a short description of the item in the box below. that really works well for item specific stumbleupon's, that way when they click the photo it takes them straight to that item in your shop. You can feature a few of your items that way.
I did the site posting as well and linked it to my store front of course, but great job everyone! I hope that helps.
Sandy- Dude you rock so awesomely I super <3 your blog!!
Margie- Welcome! I'm glad you made it! You're very welcome and i'll be working diligently to help everyone and answer questions as quick as I can. I'm not afraid to say if I don't know the answer to something, if that's the case i'll try my best to find the right answer! Don't worry about being ignored here, we don't move fast enough to let anyone get buried LOL
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OH OMG I can't believe I almost forgot about this! I got a convo on Etsy this morning asking me if I could fill a specific request with a couple of towel sets. I do have it posted in my shop that i'm not taking custom requests but holy freakin cow how excited am I! I hope this lady is serious I wrote her back asking her some more specific questions and WHEN she writes back i'll fill her request! STOKED!
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HC, THAT IS AWESOME! Congratulations. Do you know if her request came from the "D" list fever? Just curious. I was thinking it would be cool to have a forum thread just on successes. When someone sells or get's a good break on something. It's encouraging to hear when someone has something exciting happen.
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OH, PS... I've been hitting the Etsy forums every time I post an entry on my blog and I've recruited a bunch more "D" listers. They were specifically excited about the message board! Isn't that cool?!
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Sandy-I think it was just a random person, she saw my "wine basket" towel set, I'm guessing since she referenced it in her convo. Actually she posted the listing URL in the subject line. So i'm thinking she saw it in my shop or under the search results. What she's asking me for I don't currently have even in my unfinished stuff, but that's cool i'm sure I can find something to fit her needs. Cool beans about finding more folks that want to be a part of this, the message board is great because they don't necessarily have to be part of the etsy team to participate. Speaking of which it's driving me nuts wanting to know what's going on with that. I still have yet to check my email today....
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Christy, having a random person interested is fantastic. Let me know how that all turns out. I'm sure you will hear on the team soon. I bet they have a lot of submissions. But, none as cool as ours;-)
Hey, love your blog background. Very nice.
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I've been screwing around with the blog background and think now i've settled on one. I had some probs with it. Oh and FYI to those that have had issues leaving comments on my blog....I fixed that So comment away! Yeah i'm pretty excited about that message, it was almost as good as a sale LOL
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Christy, AWESOME news with that convo. Hopefully she's serious and makes a purchase. What a great surprise. And yay for fixing the comment thing. I'm going to have to leave lots of comments now.
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Hi everyone! Looking forward to getting to know you all!