Way No 8 - Sell Art and Crafts on Etsy
Who can do this ?
Artist's,Craftman's and Designer people who love to envision, design and create their own items/products.
What is Etsy.com?
Etsy is an online buyer and seller community similar to eBay, but focuses on selling arts, crafts handmade or vintage items and supplies.
Why Etsy ,Why not Our Own Website?
With around 30 million visitors per month Etsy provides a wonderful platform for artisans, crafters and creative designers which helps them in spreading their work to the worldwide audience and grow their business.
Your aim should be to leverage Etsy’s powerful visitor base to reach millions of people and sell your products to them without getting into the hassle of creating your own website, promoting it and handling payment processing.
Top Etsy sellers make upto 1 million dollars a year by selling arts, crafts and handmade items.
If you take action, you can also be one among them.
What Skills do i need?
1. Creative abilities to imagine, think, design and create items which can be sold online.
2. Ability to promote your Etsy store using social media channels such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, along with other methods such as blogging, guest posting, networking.
How much time it takes to establish Business on Etsy?Registration on Etsy is pretty easy and will take only few minutes.
But building your store depends on how many items you wants to sell.
Tips for Success:-
No1:- Decide what you are going to sell ,Make a list of the items you want to sell.
No 2:-Do some reserch about your competitors.
Discover what they are selling? how do their products differ from others? What are their pricing strategies?
Do some competition analysis and try to find items within your list which will face less competition.
No 3:- Select a name for your store.
Select a name that represents what you want to sell.
Etsy gives you one more chance to rename your store, so pick a name right away, and give it more thought later on.
No 4:-Set up your store -
Create a logo
Creating a logo is very important for building a brand and improving credibility.
If you don’t have graphic design skills it’s always better to outsource the logo designing task to somebody on Fiverr.
Take appealing photographs of your items coz item photos are the very first point of contact between you and your customers.
5. Write compelling descriptions.
Also, try to answer potential customer’s questions so that they don’t have any reservations while placing an order with you.
6. Include right tags and keywords.
How i make money?
Its very simple more people place orders with you more money you make.
Go to Etsy:-https://www.etsy.com
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