What I learned last week. #3

I learned that doing a weekend sale and not promoting the heck out of it is basically like not having a sale at all.

I learned that StumbleUpon will get you a ton of hits...Which does not translate into sales necessarily but hits none the less.

I learned that sometimes it is no so easy to stay confident...

80s Punk Hair Fascinator or Brooch

80s Punk Hair Fascinator or Brooch - Rosette - Pink and Black - FREE SHIPPING - Cruelty Free by 10eisha on Etsy

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BOGO!

~ * Buy One Get One Half Off!* ~

This weekend only. Buy one hair accessory and get a second one of equal or lesser value half off! Difference will be promptly refunded through paypal after payment.

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BOGO Sales in my shop and all over Etsy! Check out this Storque gift guide for more participating shops!

3 Tools You Should Be Using...and Why

• Craftweasel : Tag Finder - The trick with this tool is to know what your best tags are in the first place. If you just type in "hair clip" you are going to get a million tags that may or may not have anything to do with your item. But if you type in something like "goth fascinator" you are going to get color tags, description tags and other genre tags that you may not even have thought of otherwise. And by the way - the best way to use this tool is to type in your words - hit "find tags"- then "complete table of related tags" then "average views per day".

• Statsy : Featurator - e-mail every time you get featured on Etsy's front page. It's good to have something like this because being featured on the front page these days usually lasts about 4 minutes.

• Craftoplolis : Treasure Hunt & Gift Guide - All you have to do is type your shop name in and you can see if you are in any treasury's or gift guides. Easy peesy.

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What does it all mean!!!!???

Today I was on the front page for what seemed like just a few seconds. I got over 500 views from it and 30 new shop hearts. The item featured received 25 new hearts.

But I didn't sell one thing as a result...

What does it all mean!!!!??? This etsy stuff is hard....that's what it means. Featured, front pages, ads, free publicity, paid publicity. I'm really starting to thing that none of it matters. Its sort of just being in the right place at the right time and having the right viewer.

I think the only thing that we can do as sellers is just try to work on our craft more than our marketing. If you have an amazing product...word will get out eventually, right?

So far the things that work for me are: Facebook and $10 ads on Offbeat Bride. My two biggest hit makers are google and direct hits on etsy which cost me nothing.

What are your top 4 traffic sources?

What I learned last week. #2

Well, I learned that good things normally come in bursts. For example after not being in a treasury for a few weeks I was, in one day, in two treasury's and a gift guide AND I got my acceptance letter for a huge juried show (Holiday Hit List) in December.

Actually, come to this of it, that good day, which was Friday sort of steamrolled into the weekend and i managed to make a box full of awesome new fascinators, found time to keep up with listing new items, my weekend sale was successful...and i even cleaned my house and got chores done.

Amazing!

Ok so back to what I learned.

Twitter, on a daily basis does not bring me much traffic. For example, when looking at a single day on Google Analytics it usually ranks #20 or so. However, overall when looking at a few months, it makes it to #4. So I guess Ill keep doing it.

I've also learned to keep up with that sort of thing. Meaning you should just be looking at your hits but really thinking about where your traffic is coming from so that you can stop wasting time with avenues that are only bringing in 1 hit a day or whatever.

Looking ahead I'm thinking about doing a tutorial for a craft but I am trying to decide whether i want to do a video or picture tutorial. I'm thinking videos are usually more interesting.

Hope you all had a fantastic weekend!
Teneisha

By the way everyone- this is the last day of my sale! 20% off with the code WD21. Enter it in the message to seller in Etsy or PayPal and I will refund 20% of your order.

Have a fantastic Sunday!

fantastic

wow, I can not wait to take pictures of the hair peices I made today! They might be the coolest yet. woot!

Thank you to anyone who has passed on my sale information. I have gotten 8 sales out of it! Granted they are mostly small ones, but that's ok!

Have a fantastic Saturday night!
Teneisha