Here are some helpful tricks to help you improve your Etsy business:

-Re-new or list a few items before Etsy treasuries open up, and you'll be featured in a lot more treasuries.

-If your Etsy item makes it to the front page or gift guides, make sure to edit your quantities (if you have more than 1) so that it won't sell out and get your item kicked off front page or gift guide.

-How to make a listing in advance, without activating it: Create the listing. When you get to the final page, don't click the finish button, and then bookmark the page. Go back to the bookmark when you're ready to activate.

-Use your Etsy shop name as one of your tags. When people are new to Etsy, many times they don't know that they have to click the drop down menu and pick "sellers" before they can search a seller. This way you'll come up even if they just use the regular search.

-Customers can complete check-out without a Paypal account. At checkout, have them choose "Pay with Paypal" and when they get to Paypal they can click Continue next to a small form that says "Don't have a Paypal account? Pay with your credit card or bank account."

-Whenever you go to your Etsy shop, click "apperance" and then "save" at the bottom of that page, even if you haven't made any changes to the page. By doing that your Etsy shop will move to page one, if anyone is doing a search in "shop local".

-Use "location" to is fullest. Put your city, county, state, country, zip, and city or country nicknames or abbreviations. Example: US, USA, America, United States of America.

-Use stats from flickr and majaba to find out what is most popular and keep those top items on your first page and use them as your Etsy avatars and showcase items.

-Instead of making trips to the post office, have your mailman take your packages with him. It's called Carrier Pick-Up, it's free, and it's offered by USPS. http://www.usps.com/shipping/carrierpickup

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