Marketing Your Etsy Business
Etsy recognizes the importance of marketing your business — which is why it offers several built-in promotional tools, such as widgets and coupon codes. Marketing on Etsy is easy when you take advantage [more…]
Pricing Your Work for Your Etsy Business
Running a profitable Etsy business means being comfortable with doing a little math — especially when pricing your pieces. Putting a price on your Etsy creations may seem challenging, but don't freak out [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 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 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 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…]
How to Rearrange Your Etsy Shop
As you add more listings to your Etsy shop, you may decide that you want to rearrange the order in which they appear. For example, instead of having your items listed in the order you added them to your [more…]
How to Open a Sales Invoice on Etsy
When you make a sale on Etsy, you get an email with a link to the Etsy invoice. But what if you misplace that link? Don't worry; you can check on your Etsy invoices any time you're logged into your Etsy [more…]
Sending a Revised Invoice to an Etsy Customer
What if you need to send a one of your Etsy customers a revised invoice — for example, to upgrade shipping? Unfortunately, Etsy doesn't offer any tools to handle this task. You can, however, use PayPal [more…]
How to Keep Track of Etsy Payments Received
After you receive payment for an item purchased from your Etsy shop — or if the payment is a check, cashier's check, or money order, after the funds have cleared — you need to do one more thing [more…]
Finding Legitimate Tax Deductions Related to Your Etsy Business
If your Etsy shop is a proper business (rather than a hobby) and it's set up as a sole proprietorship, you're free to deduct shop-related expenses from your taxable income. Here are a few examples [more…]
Where to Find Apps to Run Your Etsy Store
Need some extra help running your Etsy shop? Try installing some Etsy applications. Apps are available to handle all the tasks you perform when running your Etsy shop. They help you minimize the hassle [more…]
How to Use Google Analytics to Track Your Etsy Business
Ever wonder how many people have visited your Etsy shop? Or what keywords they used to find an item in your store? Thanks to Etsy Web Analytics, you can find out. With Etsy Web Analytics, a free service [more…]
Shipping Your Etsy Merchandise through the US Postal Service
Most Etsy merchants (at least in the United States) use the United States Postal Service for their shipping needs. It you opt for USPS, you need to decide whether you want to go with First Class or Priority [more…]
Shipping Your Etsy Products Internationally
Although you can certainly limit your Etsy business to domestic buyers, part of the fun of selling on Etsy is connecting with international customers. First, however, you need to get a feel for the ins [more…]
How to Issue Etsy Gift Certificates
Etsy recognizes the importance of marketing your shop and offers several built-in promotional tools. In addition to offering coupons, you can sell gift certificates to your Etsy shop. A gift certificate [more…]
Marking an Item as Sent in Your Etsy Account
After you ship a product from your Etsy shop, you have one more step to complete: marking the item as Sent in Your Account on Etsy. Etsy provides the tools you need to keep track of your business. [more…]
