Selling on ETSY

I need to grow my business...

Finding new products to sell is only half of the solution - where to sell them is a whole new story.

So here it is - the new match - a new product on a new platform: Nathan Halpern, an Israely artist whom I know for many years now, creates lovely clay sculptures of imaginary vintage cars that "has curves and wings" - lovely, one of a kind, pieces.

These sculptures are hand made and glazed-painted, burnet in high temprature (above 1,000 C).

I opened a new shop in ETSY. Must say it is a piece of cake - well done ETSY! Took some photos, rendered them (as I know how good they are for traffic generation) and uploaded new items.

Than... Nothing happened :-( welcome to the cruel world of ecommerce - it is time to promote my site and create traffic.  More hard work. More to learn - how to generate traffic to ETSY, how to sell art. Already started doing so on my Pinterest boards.

Here are some of my items on ETSY:

Setting Up An Online Store

So far, I was doing some eCommerce on ebay, learning its secrets, understanding how to be a seller, find what to sell (tough one). Quite fascinating!

I felt its time to move on and have my own store. Sounds simple? Yes. Sounds like it.

First, I had to choose a name. What comes first? An available domain that fits my store name, or a store name that will match an available .com domain... (-:    Not so obvious!

I am selling some unique stuff from the holy-land - key chains, amulets, olive-oil soaps, Palestinian kufiya (shemagh) etc. Guess what? I managed to put my hands on HolyLandTreasury.com!!!

Did any one mention a logo? 

I took a picture of this nice pendant with my iPhone, played with it in Paint.NET for 1 hour, and here it is.

Then, I had to select a platform. I chose Auctiva and discovered a whole new world. It took me 2 days just to set up my shipping methods (weight vs destination). I am a programmer and feel comfortable with continues dull work that has to do with tables of numbers. But this one was a record. I simply fell asleep so many times.

Now, I have to move on to product upload. It is so annoying to do it over and over again for each selling platform. I wish there was a tool that simply uploads to all your commerce sites at once (that does not cost $200 a month..).

...I read what i had just wrote - sounds like an old wailing bitter lady, isn't it?!

See you tomorrow, with some more stories.
A.

Wow. I have a blog of my own. Now All I have to do is write about... what?

That's funny. I never thought I can do that, but after 40, every day is the last day of the rest of my life. As I'm 43 (+), I already lost 1000 last days.

I'm Assaf, 43. I live In Israel in Ramat Hasharon, married to Shani and a father to Shira, Alona and Zohar.

I fill my days (and nights, and sometimes I even manage to invent some extra, "undocumented" hours)  with 3 major activities. First the family (kids are 3,7,11), second my startup company  - face4place that aim to change the way consumers interact with businesses (yes, so am I, with the rest of the world, think I have the winning card) and third, eCommerce - I sell holy-land unique items on ebay, amazon and my own online shop - holylandtreasury.com

 In between, I'm consulting to paying customers (what can I do - kids have to eat) about Information integration (data quality, data governance, data in general). I had quit my job and become self employed  about a year ago, so I can free time to turn my dreams into reality.

So, tomorrow is another day - with new stories to tell dr. Blog.

A.