You may be familiar with the blog post I wrote a few years ago for Lisa over at Marketing Creativity – Why I left Etsy: Hosting Alternatives. Every few months I get an email or message asking am I still with Shopify, do I still like it, and what about …
Did you see my post last week on a few reasons why Etsy is a great place to start your online shop? Here are a few things that I ran into when my Etsy shop got larger; if similar thoughts are running through your brain, you might want to start …
1. Etsy has very little startup costs. You have to pay to list your items as you list them, and other than that your only startup “cost” is your time. It does take time to photograph items and list them, and time is a factor when you’re one person running …
Yesterday I drove about an hour south of where I live, to buy some supplies from a reasonably-local business (I call it “reasonably local” because it’s only about an hour drive, tops, and it’s another woman-owned ceramic supply company that started off small and is not corporate/big-box owned). Anyway. While …
When it comes to doing something for your small one-person-run business, it’s hard to say “no.” When it’s something that can get you exposure, get your name out, make people aware of you, and maybe even make a profit? It’s hard to say no. But when it’s something that keeps …
I have a love/hate relationship with the forums over at Etsy. On one hand, there is genuinely useful information in there, if you can get past the misspellings and the lack of punctuation. On the other hand, sometimes I think I’m the only one who knows how to do a …
