Team Blog Features

Our friend and teammate, Gail, is doing an ongoing series of shop features on her blog. Stop over and check it out. There are 6 different team shops featured there over the last few weeks, so scroll down and read. Also, Gail is having a big sale in her beadedsplendor shop which is linked on her blog. Sorry this isn't the prettiest or most informative post I ever did here, but I just want you to go read Gail's blog - that is where you will find the pretties!

Morning Meeting and merchandising

One of the topics of discussion at our morning team meeting was Etsy's merchandising schedule. Did you know that Etsy helps its sellers by posting monthly merchandising focus areas? We can be tapping into the kinds of things shoppers will be looking for and Etsy will be featuring each month. Here is Etsy's post for June from their blog. Megan's shop will be sure to get a lot of features through the Spring as shoppers focus on fitness. Here is one of her yoga mats on the front page last week. Congratulations, Megan! If any of us have items that fit into the merchandising schedule, be sure to tag them with keywords that Etsy will be searching as outlined in the article.

New Members and Features

Check out the roster of shops on the right and you will find lots of new talent here. Like Sarahndippity, who made her first front page appearance last week. Welcome to the team and congratulations! See one of Corid's sweet illustrations in the other FP from a couple of days ago. Way to go. Keep making the great stuff!

Made the FP recently!

CoriD
SageGold

StudioCherie

Congratulations ladies!

Team Members Featured

How exciting for Lauren who is brand new to Etsy to have her first front page appearance! Congratulations on the exposure (pun intended - or maybe that is double entendre) Lauren. You know I love that darling kitten photo.

Kim of SentimentalStones was featured in a blog this week. Congrats Kim! Here is the blog link.

I thought it was about time that some of Randi's handmade flowers popped up on the FP, so I plugged her name into the search bar at the vault, and there she was just this morning! What a wonderful wedding treasury. Congrats Randi.

Megans yoga mats had a very popular mention in a great blog this week. Check out SocialWorkout.
Kim has graciously opened her home to us to have an in-person luncheon on Saturday the 24th, where both Lauren and Randi have offered their expertise at photography to any who want to bring items to be photographed. If I were you, I would take advantage of this offer. Bring several things!

Team Meeting and Features of the Week

The shops represented above attended our monthly morning meeting in Etsy's chat rooms. We discussed the importance of shop profiles, and reviewed some tips for writing a good profile. We will be sharing our improvements with one another and asking for feedback on the Yahoo group. In this way, we can help one another with shop makeovers a small bit at a time.

Leanna was featured by the stately Estelle Barada who looks absolutley queenly in the skirt and bodice she bought from SeamsVictorian.

One of StudioCherie's customers printed her own time travel fabric to sew up a travel bag from Cherie's duffle pattern. I think her ingenuity deserves a blog link here.

Lastly, here is Cherie's houndstooth duffle on an Etsy homepage featured this week.