Analyze Your Stats
A great way to prepare for holiday shoppers is to take some time to analyze your Etsy shop stats. These stats could shed light on which days/weeks may be your busiest and also which products may be your best sellers.
Holiday Product Photos
Adding a few extra photos to your shop that incorporate holiday decor and props could help boost your sales. Etsy may also choose these photos to use in their newsletters and shop sections.
Updating Your Shop Sections
On Etsy you have the option of creating "Shop Sections", these sections help to keep your products organized into categories. Around the holidays you can have fun with how you arrange your items into sections, and it can also help your shoppers find gifts and decor that they would have overlooked otherwise.
Tagging Your Products
Product tags are those keywords that customers use to find your products. On Etsy you're given up to 13 tags for each listing. Around the holidays there are a few things you can do to increase traffic to your shop by adjusting your tags.
Organizing Orders
There are endless reasons to stay organized through the holidays, but it always seems like an impossible task.
Maximize Your Processing Options
For your holiday shoppers wouldn't it be great for customers to be able to select when they want to receive their orders?
Work Ahead to Stay on Time
Work Ahead to Stay on Time
Preparing for the Holidays - A Guide for Etsy Sellers
This time of year there are several opportunities to participate in craft fairs and holiday themed pop up events. While these events can be lucrative, they can also be exhausting and require more output than they guarantee input.
Handmade on Amazon Update - 2 Weeks
Two Weeks Later - Handmade on Amazon
October in Oregon
Traveling is one of the ways in which we stay inspired throughout the year.
Boots for Fall
Fall + Boots, they go perfectly together.
A boot guide for both Him and Her.
5 Simple and Lovely Fall Front Porches
Whether you're on a budget, short on time, or a minimalist, decorating for autumn can be simple.
Handmade on Amazon
Many of you may have heard the buzz today surrounding Amazon's new marketplace, Handmade on Amazon. (Media links below). How will this new handmade platform challenge Etsy in the coming months/years?
New for Fall 2015!
What's new from the Hurd & Honey workshop...
Crowdfunding with Hurd & Honey
What is crowd funding you ask? Basically it's a way for a large group of individuals to come together in support of a project or business. With our campaign, funders will offer support through the purchase of one of our new reclaimed wood tea light runners.
A Simple Beach Loft Bedroom
Valerie, from Mint + Varnish lives in a beautiful 840 square foot beach loft in Venice Beach, California. She is passionate about embracing simplicity: "living with less is more".
The Easiest House Plants
Plants can add so much to your home, giving each space a more natural and clean feel. Most of us are afraid that we'll kill our plants, and that's why we don't buy them. It's okay to give yourself a second (or third, or fourth) chance, and try some of these plants!!
Bedroom Inspiration
Last month Sam and I began a new home project; we felt it was time to redesign our bedroom. First we designed and built a new bed; we went with a simple/modern platform design paired with a geometric mid century modern headboard.
On Succulents and Keeping them Healthy
We don't claim to be experts, but rather, plant enthusiasts, and these are just a few of the things we've learned. Happy planting!!
Bulk Adventures
As many of you already know, we recently completed a bulk project for a hotel in Boston. For those of you that are being approached with these type of requests, or others of you that would like to know more about bulk processing, here is what we've learned...