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3 Things You Need To Know About Your Target Audience Today

This is the second part of a 2 part series all about target market. If you haven't read the first part yet, you can do so HERE.

 

This blog post is all about 3 things that you need to know about you...

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How To Find Your Target Market's Pain Points

This blog post is the first part of a 2 part series all about target market. You can find the second part HERE.

In today's blog post, I'm talking about your target market's pain points. 

I don't kno...

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When To Say No To A Craft Fair

I've done my fair share of craft fairs in the past and more often than not, they were a complete waste of my time. This was useful to me and lead me to change everything over to online selling because...

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How To Come Back From Etsy Holiday Mode And Get Sales

I'm going to be talking about Etsy vacation mode and how to pull back your sales when you have put your Etsy shop on vacation/ holiday mode. 

You're probably thinking "what's so bad about Etsy vacati...

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How To Use Instagram Reels To Grow Your Etsy Shop

This blog post is all about how to grow your Etsy shop using Instagram Reels, and no, there is no dancing involved!

There's been a lot of talk recently as I'm sure you've seen, that Instagram are usi...

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5 Things To Get Sales On Etsy In 7 Days

In this blog post, we're going to talk about 5 things that you can do to get Etsy sales in 7 days.

 

If you have a shop that has a low conversion rate, or your shop hasn't converted before because y...

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Should Etsy Sellers Be Worried About A Recession?

Today we're chatting about whether Etsy sellers should be worried about a recession.


Throughout the UK (and possibly around the world) the majority of us are facing increased financial hardship, all ...

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How To Rank Higher On Etsy

In this blog post, I'm going to be explaining 5 ways in which you can rank higher on Etsy within 30 days or less.

1. Influence Yourself

Lots of Etsy sellers tell me that they feel like the Etsy algo...

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How To Use Social Media to Make Etsy Sales

This blog post is all about how to make sales on Etsy using social media, and how to be consistent with social media.

So let's get into it...

 

1. Schedule 30 days ahead

Our energy/ motivation goe...

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Etsy SEO - The Biggest Scapegoat

I'll hold my hands up and say that not too long ago, I was guilty of putting TOO much emphasis on Etsy SEO.

I've been where you are and heavily relied on Etsy SEO, and I've also done the opposite and...

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