So, I said I was working on opening an Etsy shop. No lie! But let me tell you this: Setting up a shop on Etsy is easy. Setting up a good shop on Etsy is HARD.
If you don’t believe me, take one look at the Etsy seller handbook. Pretty sure anyone who is toying with the idea of opening a shop should be required to look at that page for about 30 seconds and then decide if they want to continue. That, my friend, is a terrifying list of links — the kind that brings up questions you didn’t even know you needed to ask. Yikes.
Anyway, since I’m working on setting up shop, I’ve had less time for crafting (with the minor exception of making products… I’ll get back to that in a future post). So I figured I’d share all the trials and tribulations of the Etsy thing with you guys in a series of posts. By no means is this series meant to be a how-to, because if I knew enough about Etsy to write a series on that, we wouldn’t be here.
As far as I can tell, every good shop on Etsy has three things: gorgeous photos, effective copy, and great products. Oh, and positive feedback. Four things. (I’ll come in again…) I’m going to break it down as best I can into comprehensible bits. And to be perfectly honest, it’s not just for you. Some of this stuff is so overwhelming that I feel like I need to write it out to get it straight in my head.
So, in the next few posts, I’ll be doing just that — starting with what will likely become the bane of my existence: product photography.
shop setup: intro
So, I said I was working on opening an Etsy shop. No lie! But let me tell you this: Setting up a shop on Etsy is easy. Setting up a good shop on Etsy is HARD.
If you don’t believe me, take one look at the Etsy seller handbook. Pretty sure anyone who is toying with the idea of opening a shop should be required to look at that page for about 30 seconds and then decide if they want to continue. That, my friend, is a terrifying list of links — the kind that brings up questions you didn’t even know you needed to ask. Yikes.
Anyway, since I’m working on setting up shop, I’ve had less time for crafting (with the minor exception of making products… I’ll get back to that in a future post). So I figured I’d share all the trials and tribulations of the Etsy thing with you guys in a series of posts. By no means is this series meant to be a how-to, because if I knew enough about Etsy to write a series on that, we wouldn’t be here.
As far as I can tell, every good shop on Etsy has three things: gorgeous photos, effective copy, and great products. Oh, and positive feedback. Four things. (I’ll come in again…) I’m going to break it down as best I can into comprehensible bits. And to be perfectly honest, it’s not just for you. Some of this stuff is so overwhelming that I feel like I need to write it out to get it straight in my head.
So, in the next few posts, I’ll be doing just that — starting with what will likely become the bane of my existence: product photography.