Greetings from the future!
I have traveled here at great expense, to share a small part of our advanced knowledge and technology with you. For example, in my time, we enjoy vending and shopping from elaborate
"cloud" malls. These are places that do not exist in real-space, but where a multitude of wondrous and handcrafted items may be bought and sold.
However, as amazing as these cloud malls are, what makes them so useful are their robot caretakers. These clever 'bots liberate the artisan from the drudgery of store maintenance and enable them to pursue their craft.
So what kinds of services do the robot shop managers provide? I have listed several below. Set these up once and free yourself to do other more interesting things.
- Use statsy-clockbot to schedule your relistings. Set up all of your renewals a week or more in advance. You can pick the date and the time for optimal exposure.
- Send your Etsy shop's RSS to twitter. Look on the bottom left of your Etsy store front. There is a link for the RSS feed from your shop. Twitterfeed is an app that will convert this into a tweet automatically for you.
- Tweet your Facebook posts using the Facebook Twitter app. Everything that you post on your Facebook Fan Page will be automatically tweeted to your followers.
- Use Hootsuite or Tweetdeck to consolidate your social media accounts. You can selectively tweet or post to any of your accounts. You can also schedule your posts so that they are sent when your followers are most likely to be online.
- Use hashtags like #etsy and #handmade to catch the interest of 'tweeps' who might not be following you.
- Use Craftopolis' Edit Express. This tool lets you easily edit multiple listings at a time. So add text to titles and descriptions, and change prices to quickly set up sales and discounts.
- List your coupons on Etsycoupon.com. Its a clearinghouse for Etsy sellers to promote their coupons.
Read on for more tips and links to these tools.
http://www.squidoo.com/artsy-business
