Catching Up

Today I decided to catch up on some things that I haven't had time for over the past couple months. I have just started a new job that allows me a more structured schedule to work on my Etsy Shop and my crocheting.

It had been about a month since I last uploaded more photo's on to flickr. In my previous post I talked about how I had finally update some old photo's in my etsy shop. So today I added them all to my flickr page. It feels good to have them online and visible for people to see.

Along with that I decided to take a look at my favorites on etsy. I had 197 pages of favorite sellers. I started going through them ( as I haven't looked at them in forever) and realized some of the shops had unfortunately close and some of the items were no longer listed. So this is my current project: updating favorites. It is giving me a chance to see what I liked over the years and what is out there on Etsy. It is also helping me with a little research.

As I am getting use to my new schedule, I hope to a lot more time to my shop and reaching my goal: To be a full time Crochet Designer!

One WHOLE Day Spent on Etsy

Due to my spend to pay the bills, I have to work somewhere other than Etsy. I wish I could spend all my time and efforts on my crocheting and photography but many factors are preventing me from doing so.

So I finally had a full day to do nothing but Etsy. As I have said before in previous blog posts, I pulled out of the gift shop that I had been selling in and as a result have a large amount of inventory that I needed to post on my shop. Yesterday I finally went through a great deal of it.

Here is a list of the links to the items that I added yesterday:

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11928423
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11918736
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11917830
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11905465
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11904629
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11903682
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11902586
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11887029
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11886873

I think this is the most items I have posted in one day!

I also worked on my Flickr account: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aniemancrochet/. I haven't really done much with this site since starting but I figured out how to do certain things like add my photo's to group pages.

Also I put some more bids on ad space with Project Wonderful. I have definitely noticed my views increasing since I started using Project Wonderful. This is a site that if you put more money into your going to see more results. I will say though with my less than $5 a week budget I have been putting into it I think I have been getting my money's worth. I would definitely suggest this site to other Etsians.

As you can see I had a very productive day. OH! and almost forgot! I had my 1st international sale! The sale was to Japan. Despite the distance and not having a scale at home I did not under estimate my shipping. Having a good experience with selling international makes me more confident about doing it again.

The only thing I did not do yesterday was blog! Ha!
Thanks for reading!
Have a Nice Day!