What you need to know about owning a business...

1.  If people don't know you exist, they won't buy from you.
2.  If you want to sell 100 items but only have 10 in your shop then you have a problem.
3.  You need materials to make items.
4.  You need money to buy materials. 
5.  Be willing to lose money.
6.  People want to know what they're buying. Have good photos and descriptions
7.  Procrastinating doesn't earn money.

It can't get more simple than this.

Crafty Cash: Make Money on Etsy - Walletpop Canada

My wonderful fiance sent me this video about making money on Etsy and the tips to do this.... so I thought I'd share it here!

Crafty Cash: Make Money on Etsy - Walletpop Canada

And I just listed a new item.

The Power of Tags!!!

I've been quite busy with teaching lately so I haven't been tending my shop or making any inventory. So last week, I was checking my email and was surprised to see that I made a sale! I was so excited that I was literally jumping off the walls. This was the first sale that I made where I didn't know who the person was. Not only did I not know the person, but I didn't even do any promoting (ie. renewing/listing, etc). I realized that I got this sale because the customer was looking for wedding jewellery and must have done a search on Etsy. The sale made my day and I stayed up till 12am (normally, I'm in bed by 10pm) packaging it and couldn't sleep all night.

Moral of this story: tags work! and so do nice looking pictures!

A little blurb about teaching and reading

When a reluctant reader suddenly becomes interested in a book about bears, he might say "I want to learn to read this book!" So he would begin to read other "just right" books in order to reach his goal of reading books of his own interest. As teachers, we need to provide these high interest books and expose them to our students. This will motivate them into learning to read. Intrinsic motivation.

*Just something I was thinking about while working on my online course.

I also found a really good link to taking photos of jewellery! here

How to improve your Etsy shop...

Just found this great blog post about improving your Etsy shop.
Here is the link to Canadian Rockies Art's "10 Easy Tips to help you improve your Etsy Shop: Part 1"