Streetcrossing Hobbybox: Etsy Shop

I have been now on Etsy for 7 years. I have 2 names of course and one name StreetCrossingDesign.etsy.com started in 2012. My second name has been online for 5 years. VickiesVintageroom.etsy.com I have seen so many changes happen in the past 7 years. There has been new leaders who came in and turned Etsy upside down last year. Some for the good, but some for the bad. They are continuously changing things for us all and it gets very frustrating continuously making changes.  I am not making nearly as much as I did in the past and I am not having as many sales. I have contemplated going off Etsy for years, but I just keep hoping it gets better for my sales.  Last year I had double the amount of sales as this year. I am not putting as much in my shops to keep the cost down, but this I am sure is not helping.  I like How Etsy teams were fixed. If you want to post something and someone is to favor it, they have to go to that page. By doing so then you get more views. But,...

Well, I am sorry I have not posted on here for a while. I have been trying to adjust to the new changes that Etsy has once again made. This time to the teams and forums. I have not been posting as much due to the fact that they take out the money immediately as soon as a sale comes in. If you owe more than you get on a sale, then you have your entire sale swiped from you. The Teams are no longer letting you show the item that you post of pictures. So you now have to click on each item individually to favor or heart that item. Oh well, you have to roll with the changes they make if you want to sell on Etsy. Life is how it is.  My shops are doing okay, not as good as last year at this time, but I will work at improving them starting today. Once again my shops names are StreetCrossingDesign.etsy.com VickiesVintageroom.etsy.com

Once again Etsy has done more changes. This time to the payment account. First they stopped letting us have our sales sent to PayPal, now they have it fixed so that every sale you get they automatically take out the fees owed and so if you have a sale for say $12.00 and you owe after shipping and fees, $11.00. You get $1.00. It will then go to your bank account. Instead of giving us the choice of paying at a later date or paying a certain amount now. It is immediately deducted. I am not happy about this and therefore after the holidays this year. I will only have 50 items or so on each name. The thing I used to do is pay for my bill and add a few cents or dollars to the amount. It would then reflect that I had a credit of say 1.50. Now can not even do that. I just am tired of all the changes.  However at this time I do have sales and free shipping on many of my items. StreetCrossingDesign.etsy.com VickiesVintageroom.etsy.com Until next time, see you at a later time.

I am sorry about not having an Etsy post for so long. I have had ups and downs with my health all year, including surgery, cancer, and now radiation. I am guessing I will be okay and I am just trying to keep my head out of sand with Etsy and the listings. Sales have been okay, I have had 200 sales on StreetCrossingDesign.etsy.com , and 80 sales on VickiesVintageroom.etsy.com . This is of course since I started these shops. I will continue to try to list my items on Etsy more every day. I am trying to battle my own health and do work with Etsy and Ebay. Today I am listing a crafting book on VickiesVintageroom and a pattern as well.  So if you desire to go to my shops and buy, there is a 10% discount for you in there as well. Thanks for reading. Till next time, Vickie

I have not posted for around a month. Not since the holidays have been over and done. I did a great deal of sales on eBay and Etsy last 3 months of 2017 for the holiday season. I was very shocked at how much sold, but I have worked 5 years to get these type of sales.  My secrets: well, not sure I have any in particular. I have a few teams I work with on Etsy and maybe they are helping to get my items noticed. I think that Etsy and eBay had to do a whole lot of changes to compete with Amazon and they did do that. They revamped on Etsy and changed so much, starting in August I seen a great deal more sales. I usually have a sale or 2 always going in my shops, so this now helps.  My eBay secrets: usually I just put the prices lower than what most others sell theirs for. I am pretty much honest. Out of the 70 sales for the holidays, I had one shirt returned. I am glad nothing broke and I had lots of good feedback. I also gave all the people on eBay and Etsy a gift if they bough ...

I started to remove some items from the online market places in which were for Christmas and are basically nothing but Christmas. I deactivated them on Etsy and will put them back on next year in September or October. I did have a great deal of sales. Between Etsy and eBay I sold 65 items from October 1st to today. This is more than I ever sold in that time frame. I gave each customer an extra gift with their packages, whether it would be a Christmas Pencil, gift tags, stickers, etc.. They all got to have something. So this was a lot of work but it had paid off in the long run.  Now onto other matters of the heart, I am going to removing many items from both avenues of selling, eBay and Etsy in the next month. I have already started. Some of it will be going to Goodwill, some of it will be deactivated until a later day.  Well this is all for now,.

We are well into the Holiday selling season. This year Etsy changed a great deal of things and I feel the changes improved our sales. They added go on sales, percents off and so on. They also did a social media sharing change for both the phones and online. The sales reflects next to our items when we have them on sale now. I have seen a pretty big difference in the amount of sales I have had compared to last year. I am glad I stuck it out with Etsy and have decided to add clothing and scarves and purses to the shops. It has been a success on the selling of these items. Will I continue to sell them in the future, maybe. I do think the clothing is a good thing to sell.  So some items I have listed that are new can be found in my 2 Etsy shops. Have a look StreetCrossingDesign.etsy.com Vic kiesVintageroom.etsy.com

Streetcrossing Hobbybox: Etsy Shop: Why should a buyer use Etsy for their buying? : Today is October 24th and I have not posted in more than 2 months on my blog. But, today I decided to do so because I feel this is important...

Today is October 24th and I have not posted in more than 2 months on my blog. But, today I decided to do so because I feel this is important. I started selling on Etsy over 5 years ago and it has been an up and down ride for me. Sometimes it has been steady for months. But, this year, Etsy changed some staffing and changed a great deal for the sellers to post their items better and easier.  I sell vintage, jewelry, hand crafted, and now clothes and purses and scarves. Well, I have decided to add these type of items to sell on Etsy because of the fact that Etsy has done all they can to help us sell. They added 5 more photo spots so the buyer will get a better idea of what they are buying. They added sales and free shipping options for us and it is seen on the pages as you look at an item. They also now offer gift wrapping, and this is an option you can decide on whether you want to do that or not. Yes they made some decisions that bothered me, like losing the treasuries and messing...

Streetcrossing Hobbybox: Etsy Shop: August 8, Etsy : Hello again, I have not written here for a while. I have been trying to figure out what all changes that Etsy had made to the shops and I al...

Hello again, I have not written here for a while. I have been trying to figure out what all changes that Etsy had made to the shops and I also have been making changes to my 2 shops.  StreetCrossingDesign.etsy.com VickiesVintageroom.etsy.com I had added a whole lot of items in my shops in the past few months, and a whole lot has been sold. I lost track of how many sales between Etsy and eBay. Used to eBay was the biggest seller for me. Now it has been Etsy. Last weekend I had 5 sales and usually I get 1-2 sales a week. Sometimes I do not even get that. But, I am still working at it and trying. This is all an Etsy shop owner can do. I have already sold over the amount I sold last year on Etsy for the whole year. So this year it might double. The changes: Pictures: You now can add 10 pictures. This is great for some items. Such as books, clothing, etc.. sales and coupons: they are trying something new so that people will see what is for sale with coupons and so on. Will wa...

Streetcrossing Hobbybox: Etsy Shop: Etsy changes again : Please check out my Etsy shops:  https://www.etsy.com/shop/StreetCrossingDesign https://www.etsy.com/shop/VickiesVintageRoom I have ma...

Please check out my Etsy shops:  https://www.etsy.com/shop/StreetCrossingDesign https://www.etsy.com/shop/VickiesVintageRoom I have many new things I have listed and more to come on both names. This past month in May Etsy rolled out their new Shop Manager. They took away our views that we were getting to just the few from actual people who go to Etsy and click on our pages. So now we all have to work 20x harder to get our views instead of focusing on adding more items to our shops or creating. Maybe we were getting some bots in there with some of the stats but that was up to us if that is how we really liked it.  I also see where you have to add 500 characters or 100+ words to your descriptions now. They really push this and even after you fix it and I add 200+ words they still do not take off your little note that it needs to be fixed.  It is okay that they let us know about the pictures, that we need 5, but I am aggravated over this idea of how the photos sh...

Here is something that I started working on this past year. Throughout the time after Etsy stopped having Treasuries. I started to create lists on my Etsy shops pages. I have about 20 different lists for items of different colors, Retro, 1980's, vintage, handmade, etc.. Well, today, I wanted to go through them and see if I could pick up on some or any trends on the selling. I found out that ' Retro 1970's'  is selling a large amount in that era and time frame. The Funky/weird items, blue items, green, and purple are selling some things at this time as well. B lue items are selling the most of the colors. I imagine white will pick up due to wedding season coming up. As far as the Vintage items, just random vintage, this has picked up a great deal as well. I checked Yellow and Red item lists, nothing had been sold from them. I did try to create lists of many beautiful and unique items for sale, and I did find the Retro trend very interesting. So I am going to gear toward...

Streetcrossing Hobbybox: Etsy Shop: January sales on Etsy, and the Etsy Heart Exchange... : After my last post, I ended up with many sales for January. I had several on both Etsy shops. I had 7 sales in them and I was able to finall...

After my last post, I ended up with many sales for January. I had several on both Etsy shops. I had 7 sales in them and I was able to finally get a few items sold I otherwise was not able to for years. One of them was a little Napco figurine that I had listed for 3-4 years. I was going to let the listing run out on Etsy and put it up in my home because I figured it would not ever sell. So now it is at a new home and I do not have to do that. I have listed a good amount in January and made some new cross necklaces and working on a new Wall cross. I will get it done sooner or later. I will then be finished with the wall crosses until later on when a few have sold. I found a new extension that is called the 'Etsy Heart Exchanger' on Google. It really helps to get the views and hearts needed daily for your shops.  New cross necklace s https://www.etsy.com/listing/495266922/silver-cross-disk-necklace-19-inches?ref=listing-shop-header-0

Streetcrossing Hobbybox: Etsy Shop: Is Etsy alive right now? Wake up! : Etsy has been sleeping since the first of the year. Not many sales, I guess that is because the shopping season has went to sleep with Chris...

Etsy has been sleeping since the first of the year. Not many sales, I guess that is because the shopping season has went to sleep with Christmas over. So this month I have been painting and rejuvenating things. My son, Danny, is joining in some of the work. I have done a great deal of painting more frames, and I ordered paint to do more projects. I painted a new cross and a shelf as well. I am sharing my work right now, buy buy buy. https://www.etsy.com/listing/505887059/beige-distressed-wood-picture-frames?ref=shop_home_active_1 https://www.etsy.com/listing/504356833/purple-wood-wall-cross-religious-cross?ref=related-1 https://www.etsy.com/listing/489433214/yellow-distressed-wood-heart-shelf?ref=related-3

Streetcrossing Hobbybox: Etsy Shop: End of the Year selling in 2016, Changes for 2017 : The year 2016 has been pretty descent. The sales were numerous for the holidays. I believe I had about 30 sales in 3 months on eBay and Etsy...

The year 2016 has been pretty descent. The sales were numerous for the holidays. I believe I had about 30 sales in 3 months on eBay and Etsy. So I am not complaining and some of them happened in one week, which sent me to the post office every day for a few weeks. I am happy about it though.  The first of the year I will be painting many frames due to selling them all but 2 over the holidays. My son Danny will be joining in the work this year. He will be helping me here on out for the time being until he finds a job or returns to college. We are also going to make several cross necklaces, design several wall crosses. I am doing some art again, so this too will be added into it. We got vintage movies out the kazoo to list also.  Of course our crafting room is going to be changing and all so we  have more space for 2-3 of us to work. I want to be able to create new and sell new items with my son. I have no idea yet how I will involve him in this business yet, ...