Showing posts with label shopify. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shopify. Show all posts
January 24, 2019
Moving my Etsy shops stock
The move has started. Most of my stock will be moved to www.dinafragola.com and dinafragola.storenvy.com
Labels:
accessory,
bodmod,
dainty,
gauges,
handmade seller,
independant seller,
jewelry,
kawaii,
online shops,
plugs,
shopify,
storenvy
October 30, 2018
Moving to Shopify
I have started the big move to Shopify.
I figured arther than spending 30 Euro each month on renevwing on Etsy, I'd rather spend that money somewhere else.
The new shop still needs a lot of work as Shopify is not very intuitive...not as complex as Magento but defintely not as smooth as Etsy.
Still have no idea why tags create new section in your shop, for exemple...and it's hard to find where things are...but I'm getting there.
The pin and patch are already up and you can now buy them there ;)
Here's the temporary link to the shop https://dina-fragola.myshopify.com/ but it will be soon link to my own domain.
September 06, 2018
Etsy rant
It has been a looooong time since I've been happy with Etsy. Have you been there long enough to remember the "Etsy Etsy Etsy Etsy" video? I have. That type of enthusiasm has long gone.
I made do with all the changes...but now I am at my wits' end. My shops had been doing relatively well, but they killed all competitions (A Little Market and Dawanda, that were my main shop sites, were bought by Etsy)...and I got nothing out of it. Worse, they seem to have done something to SEO which make my shops invisible.
According to the stats (provided by Etsy...) my views are OK...still no sale. And I have been promoting and adding new items on a very regular basis. Worse, I get ZERO custom inquiries, and I got quite a few of those in the past. I bought some promoted listings, I didn't break even with the 2 measly orders they brought. A stark difference to last year when I basically had no time to look after my shops and still had regular sales.
I know you can longer count on people browsing Etsy to get orders and I kind of suck at networking so this seems like an unsolvable problem.
But really, with shop one and with with moderately narrowed search terms my first item is on page 5 and with shop two, it's on page 10. Buyers rarely go beyond page 3.
I tried Pattern for a year, that really sucked. I had linked the shop to my domain and, seriously, I had less hits when it was linked to my Pattern site than to my crummy html page.
I think they deliberately make invisible any shop that doesn't subscribe to their new plans. I still haven't caved in.
First I'll try Shopify once I have more new items available.
Cute new items like this one ;) (in case you haven't seen it yet...)
Rainbow cat patch available here.
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