I am excited to see what everyone has to say on this topic.  I just made myself an advertising outline.  First, I made a checklist for each new item listed.  It has room to check off for pics, etsy, artfire, facebook, album on facebook, twitter, flickr, add to groups (flickr), etsy critique forum, etsy promo forum, let's ets/add to google base, and soop see. 

I also have a daily/weekly checklist.  Daily:  Check treasure hunt website to see if treasury available, check heart o meter, check facebook fan page for photo comments, tweet something on twitter, contribute to the following forums: etsy, D listers, etsykids team, and flickr group.

The weekly checklist includes:  adding atleast one listing, tweet blog update, and review google analytics (shop, soopsee, and blog).

I also have a binder with the following tabs:  orders (sheet for custom orders with detail info), Listings (checklist and print out), sold (custom order detail sheet and invoice for etsy sales), to list, pattern tabs (so I can remember how I made the things that I have made). 

Hope this helps, but I am really excited to hear what others have done.  I feel very overwhelmed with all the information out there and all the places we could promote.  I think joining a team is a good start.

Charissa- I do something similar to you, I have a notebook that I write alot in. I have my bookmarks specifically separated by folder. I need to get myself a little better organized in the aspect of tracking what i'm doing everyday, like tweeting, facebooking, posting in forums etc. I try my best to just keep track in my head but with everything i'm trying to do right now that kind of gets hard. Trying to keep up with you guys on the board and blogging and all that good stuff...man it really takes it out of me. I promised myself that I would try to contribute to the board as much as I can, and at the same time i'm trying to fill requests and stock the shop in the process.

I do at times feel i'm falling behind on stocking the shop but with two little girls (3 and 7 months) it's really hard for me to just sit down and get work done. The one downside on trying to work from home. Don't get me wrong I wouldn't have it any other way, but at the same time they don't always just give me the opportunity to just get to it. Part of the reason as to why i've been staying up til 2 or 3 in the morning lately, it's quiet and I don't have kids needing stuff.

I'm going to spend this next week working on my organization and time management.

Thanks for the ideas, ladies! I'm glad to see I am not the only one feeling overwhelmed. I feel like I could spend all day on these sites promoting myself and end up not having time to actually make or list anything, hahaha.

mimisbabies, I am going to try your checklist idea. Not just to remind myself of what sites I should be promoting on, but also to set a limit-- I can't be the only one who has accidentally lost an hour to twitter!

Did you buy from http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6518960? I'm thinking about buying one of her kits. She also has a fan page and blog:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/myhandmadesuccess?ref=mf
http://handmadesuccess.blogspot.com/

(maybe those should also go under resources!)

I'm going to check out the networking guide right now.  I'm struggling with facebook and twitter.  So much to learn.