Listing and Managing Your Products

Get cozy with your Shop Stats!

November 15, 2012
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BlueOtterArt Etsy provides an incredible support system for shop owners. One amazing feature is the Shop Stats page, where simple graphs and lists show you exactly how people are finding and looking at your shop items. To see your Shop Stats, sign in to your Etsy account and pull down on the Your Shop link [...]

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13 Doors to your shop

September 2, 2012
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BlueOtterArt When you list or edit an item in your shop, you can add up to 13 Tags. 13 ways for people to find your items when they search for things. 13 doors to get into your shop. Tooth Fairy Doors by Enchanted Door at Etsy.  Tags are keywords about your item that Etsy uses [...]

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Think small

March 22, 2012
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BlueOtterArt As I populate my Etsy shop with prints and paintings, it occurs to me that I ought keep a balance of small, medium and large items.  I have plenty of large stuff – original watercolor paintings that carry an “art gallery” price tag.  And a fair amount of full sized, high end, archival ink [...]

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Today’s features!

November 10, 2011
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BlueOtterArt Featured Items from…. When folks come to your Etsy shop page, they will see all the items you have listed.  You can also choose to show them four featured items at the top of your shop page, just below your Shop Announcement. These can be your most popular items, or seasonal specials, or whatever [...]

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And some more shop sections…

November 7, 2011

BlueOtterArt Adding New Sections to your Etsy Shop The holiday season is upon us. Gift boxes, Christmas presents, shopping for that special something for your friends and loved ones. As I surf around other Etsy shops, it dawns on me that having a shop section especially for gifts might be a good idea. Well, duh. [...]

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Categories?

October 30, 2011

BlueOtterArt Choosing a Category when listing an item. Etsy has hundreds of different categories you can use to identify your shop items.  Usually this is pretty straightforward.  Is your item, for example, a piece of Art, or is it Furniture, or perhaps a piece of Jewelry? Each selected category then opens up an additional list [...]

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Get out there and paint stuff!

September 1, 2011

BlueOtterArt Off to the wilderness again.  My Etsy shop has a few products now, 24 as I log out today and leave town.  And not even that many, really, since there are duplicates – big prints and small prints of the same original. So how many items should I have?  Hmmm – let’s say 120!  [...]

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Taking the plunge

August 26, 2011

BlueOtterArt Time to List an Item! Finally, I get all the verification stuff back from Paypal and I have all the fields in my profile filled out. I put up a banner.  I have an Etsy shop, but it’s an empty shop.   Time to take the plunge and add an item! So I pick one [...]

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