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Etsy Auto Renewal LIES!

Etsy Auto-Renewal and Other Broken Things

Etsy Auto-renewal is full of lies!

Remember my grand plan about working with the Etsy listings so they would fall into a pattern of one listing renewing every day? Well apparently I should have done a little more research into the actual functionality of the auto-renew first. *sighs*

The ‘auto-renew’ date is more of a ‘will renew within 48 hours after this date’ marker than anything concrete. Add that to the fact I’ll be focusing in on the body box trade for the next month and it looks like the ‘hands-free’ date of August 25th is a no-go. So… new plans! 🙂

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Etsy Shop Stats for May 2016 to April 2017

Rethinking Etsy

Etsy Shop Stats for May 2016 to April 2017 I've been all kinds of horrible about adding new work to the Etsy and the statistics…

Listings Braindump

Model Horse Listing Rotations: Take 4

Round 1, Fight!

I’m starting to run out of 2013 and with my goal to at least break even this year, it’s time to get serious about my sales.

I’ve made stabs at getting a listing rotation done before, but that was primarily looking at the Model Horse Sales Pages and after looking at the traffic results I’ve moved away from that venue.

Which leaves me with just Etsy and eBay to build my scheduling around.

I’ve built up a nice little herd on Etsy and since the main page can only display 24 horses (6 x 4), anything beyond that isn’t going to catch the eye. I’d still like to keep most of the horses in the store, but it’s time to start up an eBay rotation to get the old horses moving out as the new horses move in. (more…)

Model Horse Sales Pages Listing Rotations: Take 3

I’ve decided to take another stab at getting the two month rotational listings up and running over at the Model Horse Sales Pages (MH$P). Although I haven’t had much luck in the past in terms of traffic to the website and the Etsy store, I figure it can’t hurt to give it one more test.

As a counter-weight, I’m also going to be posting the horses to other locations so I can test the various venues. Right now I know I’m doing Model Horse Blab, but I’m testing out some other ideas as well. (Facebook, Twitter, G+, Yahoo Groups, etc.) (more…)

Model Horse Sales Pages Rotation: Take 2

I wasn’t paying attention when I created the first listing plan for Model Horse Sales Pages (MH$P) and I didn’t notice that the minimum length for the renew feature to work was 1 month. So instead of running on a two week rotation, now I’ve got to shuffle things around a bit.

I’ve finally gotten a few more horses off the workbench, so I have just enough to do any every-other-day posting schedule for May. While it’s not as consistent as a daily posting, the listings should still pop up often enough to bring in the page views. *crosses fingers* (more…)

Model Horse Sales Pages : Listing Rotations

I’ve managed to roll into the second quarter without selling anything so it’s time to get serious about making a profit from the model horses—and that means getting serious about marketing!

The Model Horse Sales Pages (MH$P) website is the default sales/listing arena for the model horse hobby. No matter where or how people are selling, they post an ad here. The galleries contain everything from eBay auctions to direct sales, making MH$P one of the first places buyers visit. (more…)