Saturday with Emicakes...and No Promoting

Today was a prime example of how slow my shop would be if I am not on my website promoting, chatting on the forums, or advertising on Facebook. I've noticed that a lot of my views come from Etsy itself from posting in the forums or uploading new photos of what I made the previous night. It really is exhausting work between creating (which is definitely the fun part), then photographing (not so bad - I bring out my inner Austin Powers), to editing (insert dark cloud here) and then listing and promoting (come on fingers and brain, don't fail me now!) It takes just about an hour to do just ONE item!

Any way, I digress. I got up at 6:30 this morning to have my coffee, feed the baby, and kiss daddy good bye as he went to work. (Off topic - he's STILL out...working 12+ hours today! Yikes!) I did not open any forums or chats, but I did check to see how many views I've gotten and if there were any sales. Maybe five views, two favorites, and nada for sales.

I made some yummy oatmeal white chocolate cranberry cookies for a dear pregnant friend of mine and met her for lunch with Emilie. We chatted and chased and chatted for almost four hours before I headed back home.

I checked my shop again....Twenty-five views and still five favorites. Oyyyy...this is no good. Let me edit the photos (and keep all the hair on my head in the process) and list the three bracelets I made last night. Two hours and maybe a fistful of hair later, they are listed and promoted. In just about twenty minutes, my views rocketed up to sixty-two views and (just) ten favorites. I did chat a bit on the forums and I think that also brought in more viewers to my shop.

Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of time to be on Etsy all day to promote my shop (although Ian likes to differ!) It really is a fun thing for me but as stated before, time consuming. Let's see what happens later tonight. It may just be a wine and movie night.

Here are some bracelets that I completed last night.