How to Start Your Own Etsy Team
If you don't find an Etsy team that meets your needs, you can start one of your own. For example, you may want to start a team for other Etsy members who share your passion for your medium, who live in [more…]
How to Join or Start an Etsy Chat Room
Etsy hosts chat rooms where you can interact with other Etsy members — for example, you may join a chat organized by the captain of your favorite Etsy team. And if there isn't a chat room to meet your [more…]
How to Find and Join an Etsy Virtual Lab
Etsy regularly hosts special events called Virtual Labs. In these special chat rooms, Etsy staffers and members run seminars, workshops, shop critiques, and other educational gatherings. To view upcoming [more…]
Etsy Community Etiquette
When it comes to interacting with the Etsy community, whether in the forums, within a team, in the Virtual Labs, or during a chat session, some important ground rules apply. [more…]
How to Find Information on the Etsy Blog
You can find all sorts of information on the Etsy blog. Maybe you're looking for tips to improve your Etsy shop, or you want to explore a new craft medium, or you want a glimpse into the lives of other [more…]
How to Sign Up for Etsy E-mail Newsletters
Etsy e-mail newsletters deliver handy information about all things Etsy right to your e-mail inbox. Get Etsy news, find out about labs, and even search wedding information in the various Etsy newsletters [more…]
How to Search for an Item on Etsy
If you've landed on Etsy with the idea of finding a specific item, you'll be grateful for the site's robust Search tool. With the Etsy Search tool, you can search for handmade items, vintage items, and [more…]
How to Buy Something on Etsy
As you browse the items for sale on Etsy, you're bound to find a thing or two that you want to buy. Fortunately, Etsy makes buying a breeze. All you do is add the item to your cart, check out, arrange [more…]
How to Pay for Your Etsy Purchase
After you add an item to your Etsy shopping cart, you have to decide how to pay for your purchase. Etsy offers PayPal, credit card, money order, check, or other as payment options. If you chose to pay [more…]
How to Leave Feedback after an Etsy Purchase
After you buy an item on Etsy, take a moment to leave feedback about the transaction. When you leave feedback about a sale, you indicate whether the experience was positive, negative, or neutral. You also [more…]
What Can You Sell on Etsy?
Many people think of Etsy as a sort of eBay for arts and crafts. Indeed, Etsy and eBay are similar, but the biggest and most obvious difference is that sellers on Etsy are limited to selling items that [more…]
How to Set Up Your Etsy Payment Methods
When you open a shop on Etsy, perhaps the most important policies you need to consider relate to payment. After all, you started your Etsy shop in the hopes of making money, right? As you craft your Etsy [more…]
Tips for Packaging Your Etsy Products
When you sell products on Etsy, you need to attend to details like packing your item for safe shipping, but you also want the packaging to look professional. The way you package your Etsy merchandise says [more…]
What to Include in Your Etsy Shipping Policies
When you open your Etsy shop, you will have to choose a shipping provider. Then, you'll want to outline a clear policy with respect to shipping so your customers know what to expect. As you develop your [more…]
How to Create a Shipping Profile for Your Etsy Shop
An Etsy shipping profile is simply a collection of shipping-related settings that you can apply to an item listing. This shipping information lets your customers know what to expect when they purchase [more…]
How to Price Your Etsy Merchandise
When you begin selling items in your Etsy shop, you may wonder how to determine how much your customers should pay for them. If you hope to run a profitable Etsy shop, you need to get comfortable with [more…]
Tips for Adjusting Merchandise Pricing in Your Etsy Shop
When pricing your Etsy merchandise for sale, take some time to scope out your competition, both on and off Etsy. If their prices are roughly in line with yours, you're probably in good shape. If they're [more…]
How to Add Sales Information for Your Etsy Item
After you write the perfect description and post and tag your item, you then have the chance to add sales information about your Etsy item. Sales information is a way to spread the word about the item's [more…]
Timing Your Etsy Post and Checking on Expiration
With a little planning and forethought, you can post your Etsy listing so that it reaches the maximum number of potential customers. Once it is posted, you can go into your account at any time to see when [more…]
How to Edit Your Etsy Listing
If for any reason you need to change you Etsy listing, you can. Editing an Etsy listing is a breeze (and free). You can edit any part of your item listing — the item title, item description, price, images [more…]
How to Copy Your Etsy Listing to Use Again
If you have created multiple items that are the same to sell in your Etsy shop, instead of building a new listing for each item from scratch, you can create one listing and then copy it. Here's how you [more…]
What You Can't Sell on Etsy
There are some items and services that Etsy doesn't allow you to sell. Because you can sell items you've made by hand, vintage goods, and supplies, you may assume, then, that as long as your item fits [more…]
How to Renew an Etsy Listing
If your Etsy listing has expired, or if the item has sold and you want to restock your shop by offering a new, identical item, the easiest thing to do is renew your listing. You can also renew an active [more…]
How to Deactivate (or Reactivate) an Etsy Listing
You can deactivate listings in your Etsy shop for any reason, free of charge. When you deactivate a listing, it disappears from your Etsy shop. Note, however, that deactivating a listing doesn't change [more…]
Pricing Vintage Items for Your Etsy Shop
If your Etsy shop specializes in the sale of vintage goodies rather than handmade items, you can forget about formulas. No "formula" exists for pricing these types of items. Instead, you have to rely on [more…]
