Etsy : comme un poisson dans l’'eau ! Un des lancements web le plus en vogue à New York actuellement est certainement Etsy.com, société basée à Brooklyn, qui développe un marché en ligne où vous pouvez vendre, acheter des produits faits main réalisés par des artisans et des artistes indépendants.
Certes tous les produits ne sont pas d’une qualité renversante mais il est possible de trouver des articles qui en plus d’être de bon goût, sont tout à fait uniques. Is Etsy the Next eBay? A lot of people scratched their heads when Etsy raised $27 million.
What on earth? Handmade goods, that's about as low tech as you can get! Then Umair Haque, a well respected blogger and strategist - albeit one who is known for being a bit “out there” - asked Is Etsy the next Google? Maybe Umair was just saying that this is big. One of his commenters pointed out: “not Google, but maybe the next eBay”. That makes sense. The bloom has gone off the eBay rose recently, so it is interesting to think about what went wrong at what was almost the perfect start-up success.
Selling off inventory from big companies (eBay’s diversification) may be a great business, but it was not what made eBay magical. Handmade goods have the same appeal. Etsy Connections The reason it is so hard for most technologists to see the power of services such as eBay and Etsy when they first come out is that we tend to look at the world through the prism of big companies and consumers. The Rise of Mass Customization. Survey Says: International Seller. Thanks again to everyone who took the International Seller Survey, which was live from January 14-26, 2009.
Below are some of the findings. Please bear in mind that this survey was not scientific and findings are provided for informational purposes only. Etsy makes no guarantees about the accuracy of the results. International Seller Survey Demographics Nearly 1600 people took the survey, and almost all (97%) were women. Here is a quick look at survey takers by country and/or region (e.g., Europe) – no country within a region had more than 3% of the respondents. For languages other than English, 20%-25% of survey respondents speak French, Spanish or Dutch with another 10%-15% each speaking Italian or German.
In terms of areas of the site our international sellers would like translated—either for themselves or their customers—Payment/Checkout was the number one choice. International Currency, Payments & Shipping International Seller Marketing Approaches. eBay Alternative for Artisans: Etsy Expands Your Exposure — eCom. eBay Alternative Watch: Etsy Readies For Holiday SalesPopular niche alternative site, Etsy offers crafty sellers a platform for selling all things handmade.
The site actively supports those who choose to create and buy alternatives to mass-produced objects. Conceived by Rob Kalin in early 2005, Etsy was born out of the founder's desire to exhibit and sell his own creations online. Since its official launch in June 2005, this unique online marketplace now boasts more than 1.5 million members of which 170,000 are sellers.
Arts and crafts for the space age. Etsy: eBay for arts and crafts. Etsy, the website which provides an online marketplace for artists and crafters to sell their handmade goods, has proved hugely popular since launching three years ago.
It now boasts more than 1.3 million members and has even been touted as a potential successor to eBay. But in an interview with the Guardian's Tech Weekly podcast, chief executive Maria Thomas said the company needs to focus on a number of challenges before it can reach its potential. Among the problems she highlighted was fraud, which has been a growing concern for the site's buyers and sellers. In recent weeks there have been a number of accusations that unscrupulous vendors are passing off other people's handmade work as their own – an allegation that the site's community of artisans and crafters take very seriously.
"It's an important question and one that Etsy going to have to get smarter on," Thomas said. "We have to learn from eBay and Amazon about planning for the long term. Point de vue commerçant 1. It's not uncommon to meet people who are convinced that running an online store is a piece of cake, and less work than a traditional job.
While that may be true for a rare few online sellers, most successful merchants - especially those peddling art or crafts they create themselves - work harder and longer hours than other jobs might require. But for many of them the other benefits of being self-employed outweigh the extra work. Etsy is a E-Commerce Website for Selling and Buying Handmade Items While eBay used to be the main marketplace for sellers looking to distribute their items without setting up their own e-commerce site, much of their handmade and craft market has moved to Etsy.com. Launched in 2005, they describe their purpose on the website as "reconnect[ing] producer and consumer, and swing the pendulum back to a time when we bought our...shoes from the cobbler. " #!etsyhacks. Etsy. Sales Update: Etsy Rushes from R. Etsy sellers broke new sales revenue records in the summer months with figures of $7.1 and $7.6 million in July and August.
They’re therefore in good position to reach their publicly announced 2008 yearly target of $100 million. In the first eight months the gross sales volumes surpassed the $48 million mark. The average sale price drifted to the $14.60 range. Etsy takes for itself 3.5% commissions on sales revenue and a 20 cent set up fee per product. Etsy Sales Update: $33.6 million. Ready to Sell a Bionic Man? Etsy. Etsy Hits New Revenue Record in.