Thursday EART blog ring: How do you freshen your shop?

Happy Thursday! This week's EART topic is How do you freshen up your etsy shop?

For me, I suppose the actual question is How would you freshen your shop if you could manage to get your act together and find some time... Febreze never seems to work.

Lately, the being a musician part of my life has been taking up most of my time, but when I'm managing to keep up, here's what I do.

First, I've noticed that the best thing to do is MAKE NEW STUFF! New stuff in the shop seems to garner the most new interest, which makes sense. I'm sad that I haven't made any new stuff in weeks, but see above, re music taking over. (Not a bad thing, by the way. My choir went from 43 singers to 60 singers this season - holy cow! And I've added several new private students - yay!)

Another option is to renew items to put them at the top of the search. However, with etsy starting to move to a relevancy-based search engine, this method may become obsolete. To which I say, it's about time!

One other great, and relatively new, etsy feature is the ability to rearrange the shop. Now that we can drag and drop items, it's much easier to change up the shop's appearance without having to spend relisting fees.

I like to arrange my shop in rows of similar items to give it a bit of organization, like this.

To read more EART answers to this question, check out the EART blog.

goals

Er, how did it get to be Thursday again??



The EART blog ring topic is shop goals for this year. So here they are:



1. Get on a schedule of blogging, listing items, and oh yeah, making stuff :)
2. Improve photography.
3. Start making prints of polymer clay wall art for cards.
4. Fill up thepaperwhisperer shop.
5. Get a couple of new ideas from my head into production.
6. Make enough etsy shop money to make loans to craftspeople at kiva.
7. Get holiday stuff made way ahead of time.





Keep reading at pnkgeeni's blog to see what the rest of the gang has for shop goals this year.

Packaging

It's Thursday - time for the EART blog ring. Our topic is packaging this week. I'm going to make this a short one :)

I use recycled materials as much as possible, as in reusing boxes, bubble wrap, packing stuffs, etc. I like to use as little packaging as possible and re-use as much as possible. Of course, if someone requests new materials, for instance if it's being sent as a gift, then I am happy to oblige. I did recently purchase special boxes for my newest item - penguins! - because they're ornaments and it's nice to have a box to store them in until next Christmas, right?

Oh, and if you are sending a gift, I will gladly gift-wrap neatly and include a note - just ask!

To find out how some other EART members deal with packaging, continue on to the blog of MichellesCharmWorld.

Happy Thursday, everyone!