Six quick holiday seller tips

Here's a few quick things you can do to get your etsy/artfire shop holiday ready.

1) Make sure you are set up with Paypal to accept credit card payments from those who do not have or do not wish to have a paypal account.

2) Review your item titles. Titles should be packed with every key word a buyer might use to find your items. This is also how Google indexes your items so make those titles count! You should also be using every tag you can.

3) Review your prices & shiping fees. You may need to raise or lower slightly. Do you have a good range of items and prices? Do you have a few things in the impulse buy range of $20 and below? What could you add to fill this need? Is your shipping fair and correct for each item?

4) Update your blog/facebook/twitter with any holiday specials you are offering. If you have a mailing list, now is a good time to send an early holiday special out to your customers.

5) If you have facebook, install the Artfire Kiosk or Sellit app.

6) Create a facebook fan page for your business and add lots of pictures. Once you get 100 fans, you can change the URL.

Any tips you'd like to share with other sellers?

The Wholesale Question

We've had a lot of discussion lately in our team forums about wholesale pricing. Team Member Studio Cherie interviewed Janine King, one of the top etsy handbag sellers, on her thoughts regarding selling wholesale. Check out the post on her blog for some insight into how a high volume cottage business handles this tough question.

Bag your title to get people to your shop

Good advice for search engine optimization in your items titles using both Etsy and Artfire from Kristy over at Shiney Adornments. Most of us really don't think much about our item titles, but these are what Google uses to generate search results. It's worth the time to consider each one carefully and change them to get better placement. You can't rely on just "walk through" traffic on etsy or artfire to bring people into your shop .. afterall they have HUNDREDS or perhaps THOUSANDS of other options on both sites selling similar products to yours. In that kind of maze, every little bit of edge helps people find YOUR SHOP.

Check out the articles below for an explanation of how both sites generate the search titles and how you can impact your rankings by working within their framework.

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