Gift guide Update!

Here is Randi in the new Wedding Decor Giftguide with her paper flowers

Cherie made the new Back to School Dorm Decor Gift Guide with her office chair slipcover

Scott and Jacqui of Slidesideways appear in two newer gift guides Back to School and Office Supplies with their journal as well as Slow Food with one of their fun tea towels


Linda won a spot for AntlerPantry in the Pets Gift Guide. You can find her dog chews on page 3.


Congrats to all on the new gift guides. If I missed anyone, please let me know and I will do another post!

The weekly voter

There has never been a better time to team up on Etsy. With Etsy's new weekly voter feature in the Storque and the new members choice gift guide, being an active team member can help you promote your shop in a big way. Here is a link to the FAQ on the voter.

This week the take me to the beach voter features Enuwbe and StudioCherie.

Here is how to get involved. Nominate your teammates. The next call for items is fresh shops - under 3 months old. If you are new to Etsy and new to the team, let us get to know you and your shop. Come over to the Yahoo group and start getting in on the conversations. I will be watching the Storque for each round of voting and post on the Yahoo group and sometimes here as well the link to nominate shops. If you need someone to nominate you, call on your teammates, we are here to support you. Here is the link to nominate fresh shops for the next round.

Jen and Cherie want to say, Thank you for all of your enthusiastic support. It looks like we have a good chance of making the next members choice gift guide.

Weekend Deals Gift Guide

Pillow cover by Slidesideways

Etsy is really getting creative about speading the love. Be on the look out in the Storque for the links to forum discussions from which they choose items to feature. While there are just a few items featured in the actual Storque article about Fathers Day deals and YART sale deals, they also link to special limited time gift guides. There are several of us in the Fathers Day sale gift guide - Slidesideways, Ragnazidnar, and StudioCherie. I have noticed that Etsy has been expanding the yartfreeship gift guide over the past couple of days, so there may still be time to get in on that one too. Here is the link again to the Storque article that explains how to participate in this week ends special gift guides.
Randi is in the top 4 for the cozy vote. If you have not yet voted, please click on the link in the previous blog post and help her win!

Etsy is Spreading the Love

Looks like the Etsy voter in the Storque is going to be a weekly event. This week, we get to vote on our favorite "cozies." I have been wanting to see Randi's caffeine molecule coffee cozy in the Geek Chic gift guide for a long time, now it looks like she's got a shot at it. If you have not voted yet, go to this link and click on the voting link from there. As a team, let's get active in nominating one another for these opportunities weekly. Next weeks voter is going to be Birthday cards. Natalie has very sweetly made some nominations from the team. If you have a birthday card that needs to be nominated, feel free to send a convo with the link to your item to studiocherie, and I will nominate you. When it comes out, I will pop back on here to post all of the team contenders for the best birthday card vote. Good luck! VintageDresser and StudioCherie are also in the vote this week, but it looks like Randi is the one who really has a good chance of winning, so lets team up and make it happen.

Gift Guide Update

Etsy is updating and changing the Gift Guides more than ever. They are really focused on making them a great sales tool for the site. The administrators at Etsy are the ones who choose items for the Gift Guides, but they do ask for nominations occasionally, so it is a good idea to check their blog, the Storque, from time to time. Once you get to the Storque, use the search bar to search words like vote, nominate, and gift guide. To check if you are in a gift guide, go to craftopolis and type in your Etsy username in the Gift Guide search box. Send a convo to studiocherie if you find yourself in one, so she can post the good news here. The screen shot above shows a new gift guide being featured on the Front Page with a StudioCherie item in it. In a Storque article, Etsy had asked for Fathers Day promotions, and Cherie submitted that item with a buy one get something else free promotion. From that submission, they chose the item for the Gift Guide, and we will see if it makes it into the promo email later this month.

SlideSideways in the Gift Guides

Look in the Printmaking Gift Guide! It's our teamates at SlideSideways. Congratulations!

Original Art Gift Guide Featuring Cori D

Congratulations, Cori, you are in the original art gift guide! I love it.

In the Gift Guides

Ragnazidnar, appearing in the Writing it Down Gift Guide

This is something to celebrate, and something to aspire to. Suggestions for getting in the gift guides.
1. Photography! Maybe you are tired of hearing it, but photos are everything when you are selling online. Randi is going to run a workshop for us on this topic sometime soon.

Rachel323, appearing in the Pampering Gift Guide

2. Curate yourself. Read Am I Worthy and use the method in that blog post to put your items next to items that are currently in your target gift guide. See for yourself. Does your item look like it belongs? If not, go back to step one.

StudioCherie, appearing in the Travel Gift Guide

3. After you have done 1 and 2, you are ready to get noticed. A good place to do this is the Etsy Shop Makeovers Flickr Group. You can post before and after photos there. Etsy Admin looks in that pool for items to feature.

WHIMSYlove, appearing in the Nostalgic Whimsy Gift Guide

4. Keep doing what you do best, and fill your shop with the good stuff.

Threadric, appearing in the Carnivalesque Gift Guide