If you sell on Etsy, one thing you have to do is promotion. Etsy will not promote your shop, no matter how fabulous you think it is. They give you tips on promoting though, so I started a little checklist of things I needed to do to promote the shop. Today, I'll tell you about Twitter. I am starting here simply because that is where I have gotten the vast majority of my views. We are, by the way, @AislingsNeedful Come twit us!
So we started a Twitter account. I know exactly zero about Twitter, so I just started following people. Random people, celebrity people, art people, craft people, boring people, funny people, it-had-a-pulse-and-a-twitter-account-people, all of them. I wasn't picky. Then I started tweeting links to my stuff. Constantly tweeting. Yep, I am a Twitter spammer. And suddenly I was getting hundreds of views a day in the shop. I was stoked!
And then I wasn't. Lots of page views but still not selling. Well, it seems you need to pick a target audience to spam, errr tweet, to. I confess I am still trying to figure out how to find my target audience. I was so disheartened, I quit the twit for about 5 days. I found out there were bots.
Things in the Matrix that were just scanning my pages without a real person behind them. I was pissed.
Ultimately though, I went back to being a Twit, because some views were better than NO views. And even if it is a bot, it still makes it look like your page is really popular to other bots that keep track of that sort of thing. And some people were actually looking. I get favorites. I get retweeted. I get my ego stroked. So being a Twit may not make me any sales yet, but once I figure out how to hashtag my target audience, I have faith the sales will come.
Are you my target audience? Well, spread some love! And cash. We love cash. Or credit. Or paypal. Go here and spend!!!
https://www.etsy.com/shop/AislingsNeedfulThing?ref=si_shop
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