Pinterest and Your Website
Want to see what people are pinning from your website to Pinterest? Put this URL into your internet address bar (but substitute the name of your website where it says “yourdomain”) and remove the space after the “h” at the start… I have those there so this won’t become a hyperlink.
h ttp://pinterest.com/source/yourdomain.com
I don’t think it works with Etsy shops, though… or at least I couldn’t get it to work with mine. I used my…
Warning…. I’m going to do that soapbox thing now.
Wasted Energy
Stop spending time and energy worrying about competing with other jewelry makers. Spend your time and energy on improving your work, your store, your listings, your audience.
First of all, it is a turn off to potential customers if you bad-mouth the competition… snarky, bitchy, whiny… all of it. And guess what? You NEVER KNOW where a potential customer is. Anyone and everyone who sees…
Can you imagine going up to a jewelry booth at a show and saying to the artist, “You work really sucks. These people around you are so much better than you. You shouldn’t even be here.”
Pretty shocking, right? I mean, even if you THINK it, you’d never SAY it.
But some people do say it… to themselves… on a daily basis.
It breaks my heart.
Ideally, we wouldn’t only NOT say these kinds of things to ourselves or to others, but we wouldn’t even THINK them. (Yes…
Need another internet way of wasting time? Check out Google Trends.
You put in a keyword (or keywords) and see what’s trending on Google (what others are searching for on Google and what country they’re from).
The website "About.com" says: “This isn't a measure of searches, but it is a measure of what people are talking about on the Internet.”
I thought it was interesting that the U.…
There are many DIY photo cube tutorials on the internet and I'm adding one more now.
For this photo cube, you can use any size box that fits your needs. The one in my example below was made out of a necessity to fit into a particular space (12 inches wide).
I hate having to set-up and tear-down my photography arrangement based on what I'm doing each day. Wouldn't it be nice to just have a little corner space set up at all times for when I want to shoot a picture?…
I recently ran across these great videos by Cyndi of JewelryFX that do an excellent job of explaining Etsy promotional listings.
Cyndi's explanations makes sense and she doesn't have those 5-10 minutes rambling introductions like some video tutorials do. Her instructions are right to the point and don't waste time.
Cyndi also has blog posts that go along with (or are instead…