Wednesday 29 April 2009

Front Page!

Unbelievably for the second time this month, I made it onto the Front Page of Etsy in this gorgeous treasury made by PoorRobin



Mine is the Purple and Green Memory Wire bracelet, first item in the second row. I don't care what anyone says, the views and hearts you get from your 5 minutes of fame on the FP, is great exposure!

Last night I decided to bite the bullet and open a shop on MISI. This is another British based handmade website that I have been reading really positive things about. At the minute I only have a couple of things listed in my shop but I'm hoping to get more listed this week. As with any new site, it took a bit of navigating and after I'd listed my first item, I realized with horror that I had listed it at 61p - the postage cost! Eventually after a bit of help from Overspill I worked it out!

Also, don't forget that I'm offering my blog followers 20% off in my shops this week, finishes on Friday

16 comments:

  1. Wow congratulations.

    Just a quick question, and one that will probably be obvious when you fill me in, but how do you know that a purchase if from a blog follower and then give them 20% off.

    I would love to use this concept to reward people who follow me too.

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  2. hi, the only place i've advertised this is on my blog, so it should be easy enough to see if they follow it. in my etsy shop there is a 'message to seller' so if they put 'blog follower' in the message i will either refund the 20% or send a new paypal invoice. with folksy, they can send me mail with the same message

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  3. Okay so If i did this on my site I would need to change my google checkout invoice giving discount, and need a message to seller or special request option once item is clicked to purchase and sent to me where they can write blog follower.

    genius

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  4. Congrats! Your designs are gorgeous! I'm not at all surpised you've made it to the front page twice this month. Beautiful bracelet!

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  5. wow, congrats! that treasury was gorgeous.

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  6. hurrah for fp! will check out the new shop too :)

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  7. Well done you, huge congrats xx

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  8. Congrats! Always nice to be on the front page!

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  9. Your pieces are most definately FP worthy - should be there more often. The only things of mine that have made it, I generally wonder "why????"


    Your welcome to any help on MISI - I nearly closed my acct there after the first time I tried to list. It does get easier though - promise!

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  10. Thank you Caroline! Thanks for the offer of help on MISI, amazingly I've had 2 sales on there this evening so I'm glad I perservered

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  11. Congrats on the feature! It's always exciting!

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  12. G'day, congrats on the treasury on Etsy, I too had a listing once, wouldn't mind another, find it hard to advertise my shop. Anyways, love your bracelets, great colors. Have a great day and weekend ahead, MonikaORse

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  13. CONGRATULATIONS!!! You've been discovered!

    Paula

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  14. Congratulations, I think your jewlery is stunning. :)

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  15. Congrats on getting FP on Etsy, I've not managed that yet! Good luck with Misi too, it didn't work for me when I tried it, although I may try again now the standard of work is more comparable to mine. (Not meant as a bitchy comment - just my work was more expensive than most of the rest so didn't get a glance).

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