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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2019 22:52:34 GMT
I have sold in the past, and just got another large quantity of a cleaning cloth that works with just water, removes just about anything, and has a three year guarantee. I sold a lot of them on eBay because I have a little higher visibility with over 10K feedback, and would like this time to just stick with Etsy. I have done the listing, made a Facebook page with a link to the etsy page.
How does one promote listings on etsy? I did a posting on my Facebook, but I don't want to bug my friends. Facebook will sponsor ads for $$ but I'm looking for ways to promote to push this out without a lot of cash outlay. I used etsy before but I sure don't know anything about it.
Any tips or ideas to share about promotion?
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Post by chapeaunoir on May 17, 2019 23:28:51 GMT
Are you selling it as a tool or supply, because unless it's a supply, handmade or vintage, it's not Etsy compliant. If you're selling as a tool/supply then it's compliant - you pay per click for promotions on Etsy. Go to your shop manager page, click on marketing and then click on promoted listings. You'll be prompted to toggle on promotions for that listing and name your price per click and a daily click budget. Give it a good week at least to see how it's working. The budget/PPC can be changed at any time.
ETA: If you're selling it as a tool/supply, vintage décor sellers and silver/goldsmiths might be a good market for that.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2019 0:02:54 GMT
Yes it's a supply, and etsy compliant. Thank you for the help. I just joined Poshmark too (not for this). Just trying to branch out from eBay because they are really tiresome. I see you are on Posh too, I will go and check out your closet and give you a follow. I have the same closet name as here.
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Post by chapeaunoir on May 18, 2019 7:06:24 GMT
Yes it's a supply, and etsy compliant. Thank you for the help. I just joined Poshmark too (not for this). Just trying to branch out from eBay because they are really tiresome. I see you are on Posh too, I will go and check out your closet and give you a follow. I have the same closet name as here. OK, I wasn't sure if you sold there or not (I can't see any links) - that's one of those items that can get easily slipped into the wrong category but obviously you know what's what and I don't need to worry lol. Totally, I understand branching out. I've sold on Etsy since late 2015 but have sold out almost all the vintage I have now and don't have enough left to make much of a go of it (only about 100 items, of which probably half are very slow sellers) - so haven't been doing much with it lately and it has been extremely slow (the search engine there is a mess). I might just shut it for a while and then re-open as a budget vintage kimono shop. The rest of the vintage I sold on Posh. Check out our Posh threads - @makinmagic and kat are two who know all about Posh and have lots of great info. I'm pretty new on Posh, just started really selling there last September so just learning, too. I'll check out your closet! |
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Post by val2525 on May 21, 2019 19:34:11 GMT
Yes it's a supply, and etsy compliant. Thank you for the help. I just joined Poshmark too (not for this). Just trying to branch out from eBay because they are really tiresome. I see you are on Posh too, I will go and check out your closet and give you a follow. I have the same closet name as here. You might want to add links to your various stores to your signature line here. |
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2019 14:19:23 GMT
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Post by sunsetpainter on May 24, 2019 17:02:22 GMT
I quit promoting just after Christmas. My sales there were poopy before and they're poopy now.
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Post by chapeaunoir on May 24, 2019 20:08:23 GMT
Promoted listings worked OK for a while (I used them when they came out, going back and forth between that and Google shopping) but their efficacy has steadily decreased at least in my shop - when then went to 30% of spend I quit using them. IMHO, PPC is a very poor way of promotion and I don't know why Etsy chose this lame method. Quite a few sellers reported on the forums that their shoe listings were suffering from click fraud, with hundreds of clicks at odd hours of the day running through their budgets, without any corresponding other activity in their shops (likes, questions, etc.), and their budget would be run through in a matter of hours. My budget was run through almost instantly and my sales have gone from very good to basically none over a period of six months.
Something's really off and people are bailing from PLs right not.
ETA: On being shown evidence (photos) Etsy did refund a few people.
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Post by frakinfashion on May 24, 2019 23:01:40 GMT
Etsy is just dead to me now. I hope it resurrects itself. I even have things on sale but it's dead, dead, dead.
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Post by chapeaunoir on May 25, 2019 1:45:54 GMT
I went from 1000K/month or more to about $150/mo in a matter of a few months, and nothing I did (and I'm pretty good at SEO, etc.) has helped. Part of it is I've been running out of good vintage, but I used to able to sell a dead rat on that site - no more.
BTW, Josh was quoted in an interview as saying that Etsy's emphasis on cheap...that is, 'inexpensive' mass sales isn't working because it's not bringing in enough money, so they're going to try to 'surface' more expensive items now.
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Post by RetroMonde on May 25, 2019 16:23:16 GMT
Good God, I wish JUST ONCE one of these venues would hire a CEO that knows how to run a online business, not just how to milk one.
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Post by chapeaunoir on May 25, 2019 18:52:15 GMT
Etsy is ecommerce's big turn-around success story, but it has been at the expensive of a lot of once thriving shops and is diminishing a once versatile, marketplace. If you sell cheap n' cheerful and can replicate it fast (read mass manufacture) that's where the profits are.
ETA: Evidently this is backfiring a little.
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