{"id":137,"date":"2008-07-02T19:52:19","date_gmt":"2008-07-03T02:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/etsy-handmade-polymer-clay-jewelry-sellers\/137\/"},"modified":"2013-07-03T17:56:54","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T00:56:54","slug":"etsy-handmade-polymer-clay-jewelry-sellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/etsy-handmade-polymer-clay-jewelry-sellers\/137\/","title":{"rendered":"Etsy Market Boom is a Boon to Handmade Polymer Clay Jewelry Sellers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Etsy Growth Chart - Google Trends\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/2008-07\/02-etsy-google-trends-growth-curve.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Still fretting over this weeks etsy server crash and log-in problems? Here&#8217;s something that will cheer you up:<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">If you sell handmade stuff in a shop or store at www.etsy.com then have a look at this Google Trends growth chart and say to<\/span><!--more--><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> yourself, <em>&#8220;I&#8217;m in the right place at the right time!&#8221;<\/em> You can bet that&#8217;s what Etsy&#8217;s founder Robert Kalin is saying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">What the chart tells you is that Rob Kalin and his team are doing a phenomenal job at bringing web traffic (aka customers) to see all the wonderful polymer clay jewelry pendants, handmade beads and felted bunnies that you have posted up for sale in your Etsy store.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">According to this article at The Storque blog, Etsy&#8217;s June 2008 numbers are record breaking with 301,850,000 page views and $6.5 million of goods sold for the 30 day period! <\/span><em><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Wow!<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">As a polymer clay bead maker and hand made jewelry maker, there&#8217;s lots for you to love about etsy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">First of all, it is an easy to set up stores and they are inexpensive to maintain, No need to pay overrated table fees and spend endless hours sitting in a booth at poorly attended craft fairs. In my opinion, the online marketplace is much better place to be and from what the Google chart above is telling us, I think others agree (many others).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">There is lots of support and how to tips in etsy forums and on their blog (The Storque). Etsy labs is a fun resource with chat rooms on all things an etsy seller might need or want such as info on business, support, shop set up and team meetings. There are also places like the &#8216;Lounge&#8217; where you can show and tell what you are working on and get feedback from other etsy shop owners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Etsy is also a cool experience for the buyer. with the treasury feature, gift guide, geolocator, time machine and the coolest color tool you could ever play with!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">No wonder sales are going through the roof!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">So for all of you making <strong>handmade polymer clay jewelry<\/strong> and polymer clay canes that have been tossing around the idea of selling your goods, forget about those horrid craft fairs (they are so last year anyway), and consider becoming an <\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Etsy Seller.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cindy Lietz Signature\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/cindy-sig.jpg\" width=\"114\" height=\"99\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Polymer Clay Tutor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/polymer-clay-tutor.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"26\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still fretting over this weeks etsy server crash and log-in problems? Here&#8217;s something that will cheer you up: If you sell handmade stuff&#8230;&nbsp;<span class=\"cmtcnt\">7<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,2769,1067],"tags":[2647],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feature-guests","category-pct-show-tell","category-selling","tag-marketing-selling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}