If the golden rule of real estate is “location, location, location,” then the golden rule of Etsy selling is “branding, branding, branding.” Potential customers usually come to Etsy when they…
Despite what you make have heard you can still make a solid living from selling your handcrafted goods on Etsy. The site is home to 31.7 million active buyers, 1.9…
Etsy is the go-to online marketplace for handmade goods, but it isn’t the only option out there. After all, Etsy is huge, and it can be extremely hard to get…
Etsy lied to us. They didn’t mean to. Other businesses contributed to the misinformation, too. And we bought it. We believed them when they told us we could run a successful…
This month, I'm retiring twelve pieces from my jewelry line. Which has prompted a lot of my fellow makers to ask, how do you decide when it's time to retire…
It's easy to buy into the idea that if you set up an Etsy shop, hoards of paying customers will just find their way to your products and payments will…
Have you ever been cruising the web or wandering down the aisle of a local shop, seen a product, and thought "who would ever buy that?" Maybe it's useless, maybe…
You've been crafting in your garage for years, and everyone you know says you should sell your products in an actual marketplace. You've read the stories and heard the tales…
We recently had the SF Etsy team visit the San Francisco CreativeLive offices for a viewing party to watch Marlo Miyashiro's Etsy classes. It was so much fun to hang…
With monthly sales averaging about $150 million and monthly pageviews above two billion at last count, it's an understatement to call Etsy an important part of the craft community. Each…