Using Etsy.com to Market Arts and Crafts
If you’re involved in arts or crafts, you’ve more than likely heard of Etsy.com, an online venue for buying and selling handcrafted products. Like any online presence, maintaining an Etsy shop takes work. Curious about Etsy? Thinking it may be a good compliment to the way you’re marketing your craft business at present? Check out my brief Etsy tutorials.
If eBay’s the king in online marketplaces, the queen for crafters is Etsy.com. Etsy accepts listings for handcrafted items, is an online marketplace for supplies and also allows listings for vintage items.
Learn the ins and outs of opening a shop on Etsy. Walk through the seven basic steps from picking an Etsy username to finding out about the listing fees and the Etsy community of crafters.
Your first step to open an Etsy shop is to create a Etsy account. This requires you select a unique username representative of your shop concept.
Ever open a brick and mortar craft shop? The concept online is similar. Your Etsy shop should be visually appealing, easy to navigate and clearly spell out all your shop policies. Etsy provides templates for your shop setup to accomplish these purposes.
Before you can sell on Etsy, you need to add items. Etsy has five templates to help walk you through this procedure. Your first step is to make sure you have a good description and images for your item.
