Your Robot Etsy Store
Learn how to use free tools to renew your listings, advertise your shop, collect data, and quickly set up sales and promotions. Put your Etsy store on automatic pilot and spend your time doing things that are more fun.
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Your Etsy Shop on Automatic Pilot
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.
Best Tools for Automatic Updating and Promoting Etsy
Use these sites to set up automatic tasks associated with promoting your Etsy shop.
- Automate your Etsy renewing
- Precision-time your Etsy listing renewing!
- Craftopolis Edit Express - Convenient Etsy Seller Tools
- Save time by editing multiple listings at once. Change price, title, description, and quantities.
- twitterfeed.com : feed your RSS to twitter
- Copy the RSS feed link from your Etsy shop and use this tool to automatically tweet or post each new and renewed listing.
- Twitter App on Facebook - Link Your Facebook Pages to Twitter
- Your Facebook page posts are automatically sent to your Twitter
- SelectiveTwitter - lets you update your Facebook status from Twitter
- You can choose which tweets you want - just end a tweet with #fb when you want to post it as your Facebook status - simple!
- HootSuite - Social Media Dashboard
- Monitor and post to multiple social networks, including Facebook and Twitter using the HootSuite dashboard. Also, draft and schedule messages to send at a time your audience is most likely to be online.
- TweetDeck - Your social world
- TweetDeck is your personal browser for staying in touch with what's happening now, connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and more.
- Etsy Coupons
- Post your coupons here. Find the best Etsy coupons, deal, and discounts here on Etsy Coupons. Handmade, Vintage, and Supplies!
Best Places to Clone your Etsy Store
These are sites that will either let you easily copy your listings or automatically update, based on your Etsy shop activity.
- Shoply. The Social Shopping Marketplace
- Discover and buy from passionate independent sellers and connect with like-minded buyers. Open your own free online shop and start selling on Shoply today!
- Artuit, the artist's web site creation tool!
- Unique designs. Import Etsy shop data, add, edit and rearrange text and photos with ease.
- SoopSee - Beautiful Websites
- One stop shop for your artsy website. Automatically consolidates your Etsy, Blogger, Twitter and more.
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KANEsUgAr
Jul 1, 2011 @ 2:08 pm | delete
- Great information, I didnt know this, thank you.
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marsha32
Jun 23, 2011 @ 10:31 pm | delete
- Good info! I had noticed that the share on facebook after we list was shortlived and now it's share on twitter. I know I have more on facebook that read what I do over twitter.
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MomwithAHook
Jun 23, 2011 @ 9:44 pm | delete
- Just found this and just want to pop on in to tell you this is a fantastic resource. Thanks for sharing this and I will be sure to pass this on.
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purpleslug
Jun 21, 2011 @ 10:27 am | delete
- Great lens! I've been on etsy for over a year and didn't know some of these things. Thanks!
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