Wow. I wish I had found this blog about two months ago. The author, Gila, has writtien so much information about Etsy and how to get started and it really has become a must-read for anyone getting started with the service. Heck, it is so good that I would recommend that anyone selling on Etsy check it out, newbie or oldbie. Even more impressive is the fact that English is not even her native language and it is absolutely impossible to tell from her writing. It is wonderfully well done.
Especially helpful is her information on graphics and photos. Good images seem to be absolutely key to selling your work, and I have really been struggling with my photography over the last week or so. I think I did manage to get some good photos (with a bit of photoshop help from my husband), in spite of the fact that the marine layer kept blowing in every single time I set up to shoot. Boo.
From all of my looking around at various shops and items over the last few weeks in preparation for setting up my own shop, I have one piece of advice. Be absolutely certain that your photo that will become your main picture (the first one you upload) is cut to a square or that the part of the image you would like to show is absolutely dead center. Etsy automatically crops the thumbnails to a square, and I can't tell you how many images I've seen that really don't describe the item for sale since what is left in the thumbnail is most likely what was not intended. I've seen so many pictures of jewelry that is likely very lovely that just don't make me want to click and look further.
If your top picture does not describe and really show off your item, who is going to look at it? In my browsing, it seems that excellent photography is one thing that really sets the top shops off from the others.
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