A Thousand Miles

Let us assume that you want to go somewhere a thousand miles away. You have no vehicle. You can only set off walking and hope that somehow, sooner or later, you’ll get a ride. There’s a risk involved. You have to make a gesture of intention, faith and determination and then see what it [...]

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43 Things: The Power of Intentions

When you start your business, almost any seasoned business owner or your counselor at the Small Business Development Center will tell you that you need a business plan. Basically, writing down your goals for your business and how you get there.
There have been numerous books written on this subject too. If you want something, write [...]

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100 Etsy Hearts and If You Need A Black Heart… ♥

I’m excited! I got my 100th Etsy heart today!!! Yippee!! And I haven’t been participating in forums where people critique stores or exchange hearts lately. And I haven’t really even been updating or paying very close attention to my store. Real work has gotten busy again and I had orders that had to get done [...]

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Getting Your Etsy Listings To Show Up On Google

In the Etsy forums the other day, there were a couple of posts about getting your Etsy shop visibility in the famed Google search. I thought I might condense some of the information and make it a little easier to implement what appears to be a pretty cool— and free— way to let those outside [...]

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From the Etsy Forums: A Great Paypal Shipping Link

When you create all of your shipping labels online, you get to bypass lines like these at the post office and just drop your packages at the counter.
That’s one reason I just spent 20 minutes going through all the forums I’d posted in to find the one with the link to paypal shipping when the [...]

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No More Listing Fees On eBay?

Rumor has it that eBay is getting ready to change their listing fees again.
This time though, supposedly, listing fees will not go up. They will go away. Final value fees, however, will go up. How might I know this? For more on this subject, check out Ina Steiner, at AuctionBytes.
What does this mean for any [...]

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We Need a New Keyword (Tag) For Artisan Handmade on eBay

When I started selling my handmade photo albums, scrapbooks and journals online, I started on eBay. It was the easiest place to start and at the time, the only game in town. Now I sell on my website and on Etsy too, but I do still sell on eBay and I have to admit, when [...]

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Paypal Required To Report Payment Transactions To The IRS

If you are selling your crafts online, whether on eBay, Etsy or anywhere else, you should be reporting your sales to the IRS. The upside of reporting your additional income to the IRS is that you can also write off expenses and as we know, there are many–materials, space in your home that you use [...]

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Etsy Top Sellers – What Are They Doing Differently?

Once again, the Etsy forums have provided the coolest link.

If you’d like to know who the top etsy sellers are and see what they are selling, go to etsy wiki, top sellers. Thanks to flandersfield photography for providing the link. By the way, that top number is 31,000 sales. That’s something to brag about!

WOW! Look [...]

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