Ideas for an Etsy store

by Rick Brentlinger
(Pace, FL, USA)

If you’re artistic, crafty - good at making pretty crafts or graphically and photographically talented, an Etsy store may be your way to earn extra income. You’re not going to get rich and you’ll probably not make enough to quit your job but you could bring in an extra $200 a month.

Etsy offers a platform to sell your hand-crafted jewelry, your graphic arts greeting cards and perhaps small hand-crafted wood products like candle holders

You can make unique greeting cards by using your own photographs or paintings or by using dramatic black and white and color photos which are in the public domain, for example, these parrot photos and these nature paintings are in the public domain.

You may freely use them to make and sell your own line of unique greeting cards. Or use Zazzle to put these photos on tee shirts, ball caps, coffee mugs, posters and more. You may also offer your Zazzle creations through your Facebook page, your Twitter posts or through your own Blog.

For the privilege of using your Etsy Store, you pay a 3.5% transaction fee for every sale plus $0.20 cents per item you list in your store. The $0.20 cents listing fee keeps your item on Etsy for four months.

Etsy also provides a paid service which allows you to list items in a seller’s showcase. One day on Etsy’s Homepage costs $15.

If you Twitter and Facebook, you can leverage those venues to pull traffic to your Etsy store by Tweeting Links and posting Links to your Etsy Store on Facebook.

Learn more about Etsy, what to expect, how it works. And just so you know, you can do all of the above and sell it locally in antique malls, craft shows, flea markets, without using Etzy at all.

Get creative. Dream outside the box! Your Brains, Attitude and Motivation will take you as far as you need to go. Have fun with it, pursue your passion, allow creativity to flower. You may be pleasantly surprised where your dreams will take you.

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