It's been a long time since I've written on my blog. I had problems with the way it looked and that was my fault. I changed it and didn't know how to change it back.
Anyway, now that it's mid November and things on Etsy are getting very serious regarding the holiday season, I'm trying to figure out what the public wants and what I want to give to them. In October I had quite a few sales. So far this month, NOT ONE. And people are starting to shop for Christmas. Why are they not buying from my shop?
Recently I read some of the posts on the forum at Etsy, and found that there are nearly 350,000 shops there!!! No wonder that we don't all get a lot of business. However, they do have over a 1,000,000 sales per month (!!!!), so people are visiting and buying too. A lot of people don't realize that Etsy is all over the world. Those people not only sell, but they purchase too. I'm working on figuring out how to make my shipping almost free. I think that would help my sales. In order to do this though, I would have to raise the prices of the products because the shipping price currently includes what I pay for my shipping materials. That's the box the jewelry is in and the padded envelope to ship it in. It also obviously includes the postage.
On another note, I went to the card shop today to buy four Christmas cards. I couldn't believe the prices! Most of them were over $5.00! I think my homemade cards at $3.00 are still a great deal! However, I do know that very few people buy cards anymore. They all send e-cards which I wrote about in a past blog.
Ho hum, so many things to consider for the holiday season of sales. I need to pay some attention to my shop and get some things put on it so that I don't miss the whole season of sales!
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