Wednesday Wellspring: Our First Monthly Team Challange

A team challenge is a wonderful way to showcase the creativity of the members of this team. This, our first monthly team challenge, is a perfect demonstration of our uniquely creative minds. The theme this month is Alice in Wonderland and each entrant created their masterpiece based on her interpretation of that theme.

Cast your vote for your favorite on the poll on the upper right corner of the blog sidebar. Voting will end March 30th, with the winner announced on March 31st!

And now, in no particular order:

Alice's Teapot by creative.hodge.podge

Mr. White Rabbit by Sarah's Amiables

Mad Hatter's Tea Party Lamp by buenahelenaQueen Of Hearts Tart by Duncan Creativealice's keys by inky star shop

curiouser and curiouser by inky star shop Girl holding easter bunny from the turn of the century by Vintage Holiday Shop Cashmere Harlequin Alice in Wonderland Mittens by EnviroCrafterThe Red Queen's Hot Pads by The Quilted House

Etsy Success - Tip #1

This is the first of a series of articles I will write in the middle of each month. These articles will help provide tips & challenges to help you and your etsy shop be a success!

Some members of our local etsy group have been asking for hints & tips for making their etsy shops more visible. After reading How To Prosper on Etsy, Etsy Tips and blogs including Timothy Adam, I have suggestion #1-

List at least an item a day. Listing items daily helps your products remain in the top pages of etsy searches. Items are listed by those most recently listed, so it makes sense to keep your shop current. For example: if someone searched "Geisha" "Pottery Shard" "jewelry" they would find the most recently listed Geisha necklace first. There are a few sellers on etsy who sell pottery shard jewelry. If I have not listed anything recently, it's possible you wouldn't even "find" an item from my shop, or the link to my shop itself within the first few pages of your search. In fact you might never see one of the geisha necklaces listed in my shop!

We have started a challenge, to help improve business in our etsy shops... The challenge is simple, and it starts today!

List an item a day in your etsy shop! Relisting does not count... It needs to be new and "fresh". I've listed my item and tweeted about it. I'm calling it my "Item of the Day". Todays item of the day is TWEET a cute one of a kind pottery shard necklace.

Here is the list of the shops participating in this etsy challenge:

The Quilted House RNEST member
Heavenly Creations pgh
Braggin Rights Bath
Just Ice Jewelry RNEST member
Buena Helena starting 2/15 RNEST member
Karols Treasures starting 2/17
Cocos Green House New Recruit, starting 2/22

Click on a shop listed above, see if we've listed our item of the day, See if we're keeping up on our challenge!

If you want to join, head on over to my blog and sign up! There is one catch... If you fail to list your "Item of the day" you must send a gift to the shop above you on the list! Also, as your shop becomes busier, you'll probably need to go to the post office more frequently, to send your items off to their new homes!