If you are handmade specialist and can make jewelry, sew clothes or if you are carpenter or potter and can paint portraits than you can make money from your these skills. Whatever skills you have either crafty or artsy, you can market it on etsy. If crafting isn’t your thing, but you have estate sales and have an eye for vintage treasures, you can sell those also on etsy.
Etsy.com is an online marketplace for all things that is handmade and unique . On etsy there are endless possibilities as well as opportunities. In addition to handmade, etsy includes vintage items (at least 25 years old) as well as arts and crafts.
So today, i will tell how you can earn money from your skills on etsy?
Decide what you want to sell
Firstly you have to decide what you want to sell? You should sell something that you enjoy creating and something in which you’re good at making. Something that is your specialty or of course that’s unique. If you have, an idea how to ship, then go and sell it on etsy. If it’s something that you can’t ship, than you can sell a pattern or tutorial how to make it? You can sell digital creations, patterns, photography, printable, web design and so many other ideas on etsy. If you really want to make money on etsy, than you have to choose a product which is different and that really stands out.
Pricing of product
You have to be complete control over the price of the item and the shipping charges. You can decide where you are willing to ship. Many handmade items are made-on order and production times vary, in such cases you can specify it, in your listing how long it will be before the item is shipped?
Beside this you have to choose price of your items not to very high or low. For price determination you can keep your eyes on other products and compare your products to others. You can offer discounts and coupons on bulk buying as well as keep customer attentive towards your products.
Specify you niche
You should find your niche and focus on that only not to try cater to everyone .if you will target everyone you will fail and be smart and target a specific segment for your products and make policies regarding selling according to your niche .if you do this chances of your success are more.
Photography of product
You can see the importance of photography in online business like any e-commerce site, etsy buyers are generally purchasing items by seeing photos .it means photographs and product descriptions need to be spot-on.
Photography and descriptions are a crucial for a business on etsy. One of etsy seller says, "etsy is very focused on photography. I've learned more about editorial-style photography from my experience on the site than i could have ever imagined."
she says “photo and prop stylists frequently peruse the site and look for not only a beautiful photograph, but also as much information about the product as possible”. Descriptions include the product's dimensions, weight, materials, condition, history, and more.
If you need more information and help in photography for products you can go for etsy's blog features sections "the seller handbook" and "your shop 101," in addition to hundreds of forums are there that provide sellers with photography tips and tricks.
Tittle of product
When an item is listed, it can be marked with up to fourteen search 'tags' that allow the item to be searchable for potential buyers. "the tags have to be relevant. If you try for long tittle, this will not work, but if you are very specific and descriptive, then you have good chances of success, “so shorter titles are better than longer ones and good possibilities to appear in searching “also. There are so many incredible things on website that are not being found, just because of the way they are named."
Number of listings
The number of listings, and how often you list, depends on what type of product you're selling. Having 50 to 100 items in your store at a time is optimum. People browse through two to three pages of listings (each page features about 20 items)," so 60 items is about all you'll have the chance to get their attention. If you don't give them what they want within the first 60, you've lost them.it is also found that if seller have only a few items in store, people won't stay to click around.
On basis of etsy's search function, the most recently listed items show up in search results first. "if you listed something three months ago, it will be at the very back of the search results, even if it's the exact thing that someone is looking for, so you should try to list two or three new items each week.
Treat your customers well
You should entertain your customers on social media networks and also offer customers coupons and discounts. .
So like this your hobby can make money for you, just analyze yourself and if have some either crafty or artsy skills then go for it…
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