Lets Look At a Few things

Someone (no names) asked me last night how I get so many views on my treasuries ..... and as I'm not one to keep things to myself I will let you all in on how I do it....

So lets take TTC as an example ......and lets use yesterdays....

I have posted my Treasury so you can see where I'm coming from



So I have 6 team members in it ......
I then have 2 shops that also come under the term Undiscovered .....
The rest is up to me... That's where the secret lies....

 1: I use shops/people that I know from other teams, people I know will promote because they are featured in it, people who are all about getting their face out there and making money.... maybe not big shops with huge sales but people who are serious about what they do.... but also people who are not selfish and are happy to help other out in anyway they can...call it pay it forward....

2: not all the spots go to them ... I then use shops who do have big sales... just one or two spots go to shops like this. and nine out of ten times they also will be in a another team I'm in. Again its a pay it forward thinking.

If I feature them there is the chance they just might feature me.

My Mellow Yellow Treasury was promoted by 5 other people who where featured in it .....

I twittered my treasury, I promoted it on my TatterBeans FB and my personal one...

I posted it on my tumblr

It was re twitted once...only once but how many looked at it from just that one re twitter.....?

It was re blogged twice on tumblr ..again only twice but how many looked at it from there?

I know of two people who viewed it from my personal FB page .....

I know of 3 who viewed it from TatterBeans FB page.... all of them outsiders to Etsy

I also posted it in other groups....


I also Pinned a few of the items from that treasury on Pinterset

Here is the other thing I do... My first three pictures are pictures I think will catch peoples eye.... as they are the first things people will see... don't be offended if I don't feature you first ... you will still get looked at ... 

The other big thing is...convo everyone who you have featured... asking them to come view click and comment and promote if they can....

I was featured in a few yesterday that I knew nothing about ...its important to let people know you have featured them ....

It is all about promotion ... and ok I may or you may not have any sales from it .... but your work was viewed ... it had to be there are now 179 views and 32 clicks ..and 28 comments... now this morning when I got up it had gone up a page.. it has now dropped big drop...

Can I just say I didn't over promote this .... but I know if I had it would have done better.... but you don't always have the time to do that .....

Remember the Treasury I made...and you all helped me get it to 1st on the treasury list ... remember that one.... well let me tell you I spent a whole day promoting that ....

So I guess the moral of the story is ..if you want to be seen... do something about it..... don't wait for others to do it for you ....

And also remember Its not just me being seen its you to... its a win win situation 

I hope this gives you some ideas on how to promote your treasury...

2011 Here We Come

Imagine Credits

Happy New Year team....

I am so excited about what the New Year has to bring us all,.

I remember as a child I would be very overwhelmed by the new year coming around and I still am as an adult but as an adult I am able to look beyond the expectations and see a path to take.

Do you often wonder where am I going with all this, why did I set this Etsy shop up.
I'm gonna take a pretty good guess why you did it, cause I think it may be the same reasons why I did to.

You want the world to know your an Artist.

Put aside money right now lets not even go there.

So how do we let the world know we are Artists?

I have a few ideas on that question...... I wrote last time about blogging and getting your face out there so lets begin there.

SETTING UP YOUR BLOG.

There is so much help out there for setting up blogs, but the key is you have got to want to blog if you don't have that desire then blogging will become a pain in the B**T to you.

You will need a name for your blog... name it after your business or come up with something that is related to you and your life.
Get a header, one team member has offered to help out in this area.  (HERE)

IDEAS

So the next step would be what do I blog about ....
I have a basic plan of what I blog about daily and I do try to stick to it... it doesn't always work but for the for most I do stick to it.

Linking up with others is always a good thing, there are blogs out there that invite you to join them on certain days ... some might be certain topics others are just link up talk about what you want.

Monday .... Much Love Monday .... so easy so simple but so lovely ... you post a picture of something you love but it must feature a heart in the picture... how easy 

I do I love to Pounce on a Tuesday... which I will make a team event if you are all up for it
I love to pounce is all about pouncing on undiscovered shops of Etsy... pounce is a feature Etsy use to help others find Undiscovered stores, I think I found some of you there.

Wednesday is a simple day if your a team member ... You can blog about our Team Challenge Treasury 

Thursday/Friday this is an Australian link up but has lost of people in from all over the world. Its called Flog Yo Blog Friday .(but if your not an Aussie you need to  flog on a Thursday) this is whatever you want to talk about link up.

Friday/Saturday again another Australian link up called This Week I'm Grateful for... this does take place on a Saturday but again if your not an Aussie its Friday for you.

Saturday/Sunday ... write about your work, talk about what your up to.... come up with another link up for us all the world is at your bloggy feet be imaginative... if you created such beautiful works of art then I'm pretty sure your imagination will stretch to coming up with a blog post

Here on Undiscovered Saturday will be our featured artist day ....
On a Sunday on my personal blog I use to share about A featured Artist not always Undiscovered but just something that caught my eye... I would be happy to start that up again if there was enough of us wanting to do it.

Remember the more people you connect to the more you face is out there....
Artist have a way of connecting and seem to come from very big circles... they are the circles you want to be in

So that is just some ideas...there are loads more link ups out there... and as the weeks go on I will reveal them to you... but for now lets not overwhelm

Hope this helps... hope this makes it just a bit easier ...

And as it is the New year I wanted to just point out a few articles I have read on Etsy... maybe you have seen them maybe you haven't ..always good to recap

Jump Starting January

Are Your Photos Frontpage Worthy?

Stretch Your Boundaries

Tag-o-rama With Descriptive Keywords

Have a wonderful day...and don't forget to pop into the Teams BNR