[Jewelry making - Article 00811] - Re: [Orchid] Experience with Etsy?

[Kathi Parker]

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Hi Janet,

    I've been selling on Etsy since late last year. It's a tough market
    for jewelers without name recognition. There are a group of
    metalsmiths which promote each other who are a sanctioned "street
    team" but they don't seem to be accepting new members. OTOH, who
    needs to be officially sanctioned? We've been encouraging New England
    artists to include "Nesty" as a tag and then tell friends/customers
    to look for "nesty" in their searches to buy from NE vendors. 

    I've done better selling handmade supplies than I have done with
    handmade chain bracelets. A friend jenmaestre is pulling in about
    $1000 a month selling pencil jewelry but she did it with the help of
    a Chinese website similar to del.icio.us and she has name recognition
    in the art industry. 

    But you can't go wrong for the price. It's 20 cents to list an item
    for 4 months, and 3.5% of the sale price to Etsy, and if you use
    Paypal, it's another 3.5% to them. Paypal is THE way to go on Etsy.
    (Just get logged on to Paypal and get a confirmed checking account
    and address and register as a business.) People pay with a credit
    card through Paypal and the money goes into your paypal account - you
    move it to your checking account. 

    It's kind of nice to wake up on a sunday morning and see that you
    made some money while you were sleeping. 

    At the moment, I am pointing my website page
    (www.moonscapedesigns.com) to Etsy and using Etsy to point potential
    wholesale customers to wholesalecrafts.com 

    Now all I need is buzz. 

Hope this helps,
kathi
kathiparker.etsy.com
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