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How Many Listings Should You Have on Etsy?

 

Prefer to listen instead of read? This episode is also available as a podcast, so you can stick it on while you’re making, packing orders, or staring at your social media stats wondering what on ea...

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Should You Use Etsy Ads As A New Seller?

 

Prefer to listen instead of read? This episode is also available as a podcast, so you can stick it on while you’re making, packing orders, or staring at your social media stats wondering what on ea...

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Why Is My Etsy Shop Getting Views But No Sales?

 

Prefer to listen instead of read? This episode is also available as a podcast, so you can stick it on while you’re making, packing orders, or staring at your social media stats wondering what on ea...

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Switching Your Etsy Shop from Hobby Mode to Business Mode

 

OK, so your Etsy shop is open, you’ve made sales, you’ve got reviews! and you probably have a few products that sell better than the others, and you’re well past the point of wondering where the “o...

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Etsy Stats for Beginners: Views, Visits & Conversion Rate Explained

 

So you’ve opened your Etsy shop, added your products and now you’ve discovered the Stats page...

Views, visits, orders, conversion rate, traffic sources, search terms.

Brilliant! Another collecti...

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Why Your Social Media Isn’t Leading To Sales Yet

 

Prefer to listen instead of read? This episode is also available as a podcast, so you can stick it on while you’re making, packing orders, or staring at your social media stats wondering what on ea...

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How to Get Your First 100 Email Subscribers in Just One Weekend

🎧 Listen to this blog post as a Podcast instead #88 - How to Get Your First 100 Email Subscribers in Just One Weekend

 

What if by Sunday night you could have 100 new subscribers on your list - real...

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Why More Etsy Listings Won’t Fix Your Sales Problem

🛑 Why More Products Won’t Fix Your Etsy Sales Problem

And what to focus on instead if you want consistent sales without burning out

If your sales have slowed down lately, you might be thinking…

“I ...

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Here’s Why Your Etsy Shop Is Stuck (And What To Do About It) 🛑

You’re doing all the things - listing products, posting to socials, tweaking tags, maybe even dabbling in ads…

But your sales graph?

Flat. 😩

 

If you’ve been wondering, “Why isn’t my Etsy shop gro...

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💛 Welcome to the Listathon - Let’s Get Those Listings Working for You

🎧 Listen to this blog post as a Podcast instead #83 - Here's why your Etsy shop is stuck.

Are you working harder than ever, but your sales graph just… won’t budge? 😩
You’re not lazy. You’re not failin...

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