Success: Your First Sale. You made a sale on Etsy, now what? This post will help you fulfill that first order smoothly, setting you up for a successful future! Shipping Policies Let’s take a step back. To keep customers from too much pacing and frustration, it’s important to manage their expectations. Your Shipping Polices, a subsection of your Shop Policies, let shoppers know when and how you ship the items in your shop. Payment So you’ve made your first sale. The first step is to make sure you have received payment. Package It Up As an Etsy buyer, I always look forward to receiving the mail.
Tip: In your thank you note, request feedback from your buyer. Communication Is Key Don’t keep buyers guessing. Add a Note Enter Shipping Notifications, a new tool you can use to notify buyers that a purchase is on its way. Now, when you mark an order as shipped, you’ll see a button to add a Shipping Notification. As part of the Shipping Notification launch, you can now add a note to your buyer. Reward repeat purchases. Seller How-To: Fostering Repeat Business. Tech Update: Coupon Codes for Your Etsy Shop | The Etsy BlogThe Etsy Blog. It’s our pleasure to introduce to you to the newest tool in your Etsy shop: coupon codes! No more revised PayPal invoices! (Insert wild cheers here.)
Now you can share a unique code with your buyers, fans and friends that applies a set discount to all of the items from your shop that they add to their shopping carts. Here are the details: A coupon code applies to all items listed in your shop and is not applied to shipping or sales tax. In addition, sales tax is calculated based on the discounted item price, not the full item price.Wondering if you will be charged Etsy’s 3.5% transaction fee on the price after the discount? That is correct! How to create a coupon code: Go to Your Etsy > Coupon Codes (under Promote in the sidebar).Click the Create New Coupon button.Create a 5-20 character alpha-numeric code. Here are a few ways you can use coupon codes: Have a group sale.
Do you have any ideas on how to make coupon codes even better? Create Something Saturday’s- DIY Stencil Art | 8th Continent Soy Milk Blog. By 8thlopez on July 26, 2010 If you are a fan of graffiti or any type of street art, chances are you have come across an artist named Banksy who does impeccable stencil art installations and is now a world-renowned artist, even though he keeps his identity a secret.
You may not be an aspiring Banksy, but would like to make some stencil art yourself. If you follow these directions you will be able to easily make stencil art of your own all by doing a quick picture edit, printing it out, cutting it out, and then painting! What you will need: A printer with black inkXacto KnifePaintsCard Stock Weight PaperCanvasRegular Paint BrushSponge Paint BrushBright Colored Marker Directions: The first thing you want to do is find a picture that you would like to make into a stencil.
Recolor the picture to grayscale. Turn the contrast all the way up to 100%. After you have printed the picture, take a bright marker and trace the parts that you will be cutting out. WARNING! “Oh cool stencil art?!? “Me.” Monochromatic Tree 14 x 17 by StaceyRaatzDesign. Beautiful Monochromatic Black & White Painting of a by WhiteLyme. ACEO Painting Purple Monochromatic Winter by JacquelineSwann. Socialize Your Shop: Connect to Facebook and Twitter | Etsy News. Editor’s note: This post was updated on July 12, 2012. In the age of social media, it seems that just about everyone (from political figures to cats) has a Facebook Page.
Similarly, Follow buttons with the Twitter logo are showing up on your favorite food trucks and at your local boutiques. With hundreds of millions of members active on these sites around the world, businesses big and small are getting in on the action and finetuning their social media presence. Etsy sellers are no exception — many of you are using Facebook Pages to create and maintain a following for your Etsy shops, and tweeting throughout the day to let buyers in on the goings-on of your shop life. To connect, simply visit your shop’s Info & Appearance page and click Connect with Facebook and Connect with Twitter. Connecting your shop to Facebook and Twitter allows your visitors to establish a connection with you off of Etsy, too. Seller Offers. How to Get Found in Browse. Earlier this year, my friend’s son had a milestone birthday — he turned one! On the hunt for a unique gift, my friend reached out to me asking for help. You see, she knew she was looking for something special, but didn’t know what that special something would be.
Girlfriend wanted to browse! Today, we announced new browse pages. With this facelift, browsing is now a more intuitive and effective experience for buyers. But what does this mean for you as a seller? What to Know What exactly is Browse? You might have noticed that the browse pages don’t exactly map to our listing categories, and here’s why: we’ve found that shoppers are more likely to shop by what the item is, who it’s for, or what it’s used for, rather than technique or material. Another exciting part of Browse is that an item could show up in more than one place, unlike categories. Boost Your Relevancy Factor The order of the items within the new browse pages will now also rely on relevancy.
Keep your shop fresh. 78289-29306.jpg (320×240) The 3-Step Cure for No-Sales Syndrome.