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Review by Catherine Taylor "Catherine Taylor" : Etsy Success - How to Make a Full-Time Income Selling Jewelry, Crafts, and Other Handmade Products Online

Great resourceful book. I am fairly new to Etsy and needed additional information on how to create more sales. I have seen a slight increase, but I'm a far cry from making a full-time income. I create handmade beadwoven and embroidery jewelry. Not a big seller during a recession. The book helped me to try other avenues to be more social and hopefully create more exposure to my Etsy shop. I even joined Facebook which was one suggestion. I had an enter fight going on as I didn't want to be tied to Facebook or any other social network because of time constraints. This book will help you expand your networking. I'll probably refer to this book again when I need to expand my horizons once again.

Review by Martha Matusak : gets you selling NOW

I had an Etsy store before buying this book but it was not selling as much as I wanted to. By that, I mean that it wasn't really selling at all! ;) This book helped me to change up my store so that it would attract more people and get them to buy my products. It also have me good ideas for additional products. In short, this book taught me a different way of looking at Etsy and doing just a few of the suggestions within has helped me tremendously. I am continuing to work on my site and very excited about continued success. This book is good for people, like me, who are already on Etsy, but want to sell more products. I also think it will help people who are brand new to Etsy. In fact, it may actually be better for you if you're brand new, because you won't have to "unlearn" so bad habits. :)

Review by Stacey Szabados : gave me a some good ideas

For the past ten years, I've been selling my aromatherapy candles at farmer's markets and craft fairs. I'm not new to business of selling, but I am new to Etsy and how to get people interested in your Etsy store. Ideally, I would have liked this book to be a step-by-step guide (like an instructional manual) that would show me exactly what to do in order to be successful online. Instead, there was a lot of suggestions and advice, but not a lot of "First do this, then do this" kind of direction that I would have preferred. If you're pretty good with a computer or already on Etsy, and you're good at filling in some of the blanks, this might not be an issue for you. Here's what I liked: 1. Advice on how even the most little decisions (like choosing a good store name) are important 2. How to find your niche in the midst of all the other craft people out there so you'll be more likely to stand out in the crowd. (As an example, I got the idea to do a meditation line after reading this book) 3. Good ways to pair up with other Etsy sellers to help promote each other. This has lead to not only increased sales, but new friendships as well. What could have been better: 1. There's many chapters on how to market in other places besides Etsy. I wanted to know just how to completely focus on Etsy itself and nothing else, since I'm already doing other things and purchased this specifically for Etsy. 2. There was one chapter especially for jewelry makers. I know the majority of people on Etsy make jewlery, so I understand the need to include info for them, but I only got 1-2 ideas from it. You will like this if you make jewelry though. 3. I would have liked to have read stories of actual people who are successful on Etsy to see the things they did to get where they are Three things I really liked and three things to be improved on so I am putting this book right in the middle with three stars. I got enough ideas to feel like the book was worth my time and money. I am excited about selling my aromatherapy candle to meditators and that idea came directly from this book, so that was worth something.

Review by CS-Mitz : Be an Art Entrepreneure!

Having been an entrepreneur most of my life, new books and web sites always grab my interest. There are always new things to learn and new ways of being self employed that catch my eye or help enhance what I already do. Etsy Success is one of those books. It has easy to understand steps for the basic beginner and encouragement for those who can't quite believe they can leave the corporate work place to live a simpler life. Although it reads of making jewelry as it's basic example, it only takes a bit of imagination and thoughtful research of the web site Etsy to see a host of possibilities available for an inquisitive mind. A very worthy book to read for those venturing into the world of entrepreneurs and especially for those with an eye for art and an interest in making a living with their skills. It takes special skills to make a living with art and this book gives encouragement and insite into the world of art entrepreneures.

Review by Sandy Axelrod : Etsy is A Great Outlet for our Beaded Items

My sister and I create crafts, especially beaded necklaces and bracelets, and we do local craft shows and such. But really, the return there is just often not worth the effort and time. The time is not just the show itself. It's the 2-hours before the show unloading the van, bringing in the boxes, setting up our tables properly, and so on. It's the gas if a show is in another town, and so on. Etsy was always proposed to us by others and we purchased a few things on Etsy over the years. But I believe our experience with eBay (not great for what we sell) sort of left a bad taste in our mouths. Still, when my sister got this Etsy Success book, she read it that very day and called me the next morning to come get it and read it too. I had tons of things to do but she insisted and I finally got over there in the late afternoon. After dinner I started reading, reluctantly, and... well, I basically finished before I was able to go to sleep!!! The ease and speed --- and LOW COST (basically zero) of setting up an Etsy store that sells is something we like because trying new things is difficult for us, we don't like change! But Etsy Success makes this so simple that it's sort of silly for us not to open an Etsy store. We got great ideas here about maximizing our Etsy success. Did you know TIMING can cause a listing to be successful or fail? Also, don't do what we started doing in spite of the book's warning and try to be all things to all people. We have found that when we focused on a niche and stressing only bracelets and necklaces our sales improved right away. Plus, the tips on how to market our Etsy store offline and through using our previous buyers in our mailing list is superb! Now if we do shows, we care far more about getting potential future customers signed up through on our email list than actually selling at the show! Highly recommended.

Review by Kari Esparza : helped to increase my etsy sales

I just recently got serious about my online crafting business and got a couple of books to help me make more money with it. I really enjoyed this book. Here are a few of the highlights that really stood out to me: 1. Believing in Your Talent It sounds so crazy, because you would think that this would come naturally to anybody putting up am Etsy store, but I had my little store up and running for a while, without much success, until I really got serious about it. I am now making more money than ever and much of that has to do with the new-found belief in myself and understanding of how this business works that I have gained from this book. It has enabled me to sell my products for more money than I was previously. Same work and same products, just more money. If this is something you can relate to, you will love this book for that part alone! 2. Getting Focused on Customers This book gave me a new understanding of what it means to get focused on customers, from selling the types of products people want to buy, to keeping in touch with people who buy. Just to give you an example of how it helped me, I was not keeping in touch with people who had previously purchased from me at all. This book showed me a few good ways to do just that and my sales went up immediately. I was amazed at the results. So I can say for sure that what's in this book will help you make more money with you Etsy store. There is also some very good, specific information on exactly how to do things like: - banner ads (how to do swaps, so you get the ads for free, for example) - getting publicity from established craft web sites (press releases, etc) - setting up your store (best for beginners, but I already had a store and was able to benefit from this section) - setting up your own web site (and what to post on it) in order to get more people to your Etsy shop But probably the best part of this book is that it has profiles on people who have been successful with Etsy. That was really inspiring and also a really nice benefit to me, since I have a hard time figuring out who knows what they're talking about on the Etsy forums.