Comments on: Turn Your Hobby Into a Business http://blog.lionbrand.com/2008/08/01/turn-your-hobby-into-a-business/ News, Ideas and Information for Crafting with Yarn Thu, 23 May 2013 13:00:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: kim luxuch http://blog.lionbrand.com/2008/08/01/turn-your-hobby-into-a-business/comment-page-1/#comment-1610 kim luxuch Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:10:55 +0000 http://blog.lionbrand.com/?p=254#comment-1610 I joined stay in April of this year, and while only having 4 sales on the site thusfar, I have had much sales off the site due to people viewing my shop. I have business cards made so whenever someone local asks about something I’ve made, I give them a card so they can look at my other available products. I’ve sold many items this way. So while success on etsy is not definite, it has helped boost my local business a bunch. I think the .20 listing fee is a fair trade for this. It keeps me from having to carry around tons of my items all the time.

]]> By: ekgheiy http://blog.lionbrand.com/2008/08/01/turn-your-hobby-into-a-business/comment-page-1/#comment-1543 ekgheiy Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:18:24 +0000 http://blog.lionbrand.com/?p=254#comment-1543 Etsy was and actually still is a great concept, but fails in use … in my experience, at least. :) I wish I could say that I’ve met with success on Etsy, but I haven’t.

The search function really isn’t useful. Your listing becomes burried pages-deep in a short amount of time. And while $0.20 is cheap for a listing, it can add up to a big disappointment when your listing(s) doesn’t sell- or worse yet, doesn’t even get viewed.

I’m thinking that if you expect to do well on Etsy, it’d be a good idea to have a marketing strategy to drive traffic to your Etsy Shop. But if that’s the key to success with Etsy, then I fail to see what Etsy has to offer that running your own shop from your own domain can’t offer. :-/

I give a heartfelt congratulations and “more power to you” kudos to those who’ve found success on Etsy; otherwise, don’t shy away from considering alternatives. ;)

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