Hi,
Brittany here! It's raining where I live, so I thought I'd use my first post to write a rainy day to-do list of sorts. I hope it helps you as much as it's helped organize my thoughts.
- Connect your viewers to the handmade aspect of your
business by adding a story to your descriptions that tells how you made each
item.
- Review the prices of your items to stay competitive.
- Update (and use) all 13 tags to match current trends and
holidays.
- Read the Merchandising Desk Report for the current month
(again).
- Create a treasury. Include members from your various
teams and notify them of being included.
- Participate in the Etsy Success Team Forum.
- Ask your teammates for a shop critique.
- Update your titles to match your new tags (or vice
versa).
- Fotofuze your pictures to brighten your white backgrounds.
- List your items on Tophatter.com or Dreamers into Doers.
- Flip through the current treasuries and comment on the
ones you like.
- Comment on the current article on the Etsy Blog.
- Clean out the unused stock in your workroom and donate it
to another artist.
- Blog.
- Write a tutorial for how to make one of your items.
- Organize your workroom to fit your current needs.
- Add brief shipping details to your listings.
- Keep people viewing your shop by placing links to shop
sections in your listings.
- Design a new item.
- Learn a new method for making your items.
- Visit your local thrift store for supplies.
- Contact local shops about consigning your items.
- Create a catalog of your current items to leave in
doctors’ offices, banks, etc.
- Work on your wholesale linesheet.
- Take a bath and relax.
- Read magazines in your industry.
- Subscribe to a few craft blogs and add meaningful
comments to a few posts.
- Watch a tutorial video on YouTube.
- Search for your items in Etsy and take note of the tags
of the listings on the first page.
- Sign up for Google Analytics to better track your search
ranks.
- Look for suppliers that hand make their items.
- Ask your family members and friends to critique your
store.
- Design business cards specifically for your shop (without
your personal address on them).
- Sign up for, or use, Twitter – for your business J.
- Sing up for, or use, Facebook – for your business J.
- Read a few posts on handmadeology.com
- Analyze, or create, your yearly budget.
- Work on your Business Plan, or download and start the
template from sba.gov
- Sign up for Wanelo and list some of your items.
- Start, or update, your own website.
- Do something creative outside your field: paint, draw, sew,
write, etc.
- Find ways to cut costs in your daily spending.
- Find a good non-profit organization that could use the
items you make—and donate a few.
- Create a MailChimp newsletter to send updates to your
customers.
- Work on making more stock for your shop.
- Ask your friends for items they’d like to see you create.
You might be surprised by what they suggest.
- Make your best seller in multiple colors.
- Start working on a holiday line.
- Set goals for the rest of the month, or the next month.
- Streamline your processes.
- Check your listing views on statsy.org
- Find websites, or blogs, to advertise on.
