Rich Mom Business - Mom Entrepreneur Podcast

Rich Mom Business - Mom Entrepreneur Podcast


Etsy vs. Your Own Site

October 28, 2014

Go to richmombusiness.com/myvote to cast your vote if you want this extra Etsy tutorial and don’t forget to share.
At least 200 people need to commit to using it for me to thoroughly make it. Love you Besties! - X0X0 Renae.
Watch the video to know more about if you should opt for etsy or your own site.

 
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Hi Etsy Besties. As you may or may not have heard, etsy has made some massive policy changes that will affect your etsy shop. Etsy now allows mass produced products to be listed which has caused an enormous amount of Chinese suppliers to list items at unprecedented cheap prices. Which, in turn, has or will affect your own sales on etsy. This is heart breaking news to a lot of you as you can’t keep up with mass produced manufacturers. I have received dozens of emails from you etsy besties with pretty much the same concerns and questions
Should you stay on etsy? or should you leave?
I actually have a solid answer for this that I shall reveal shortly... we’re just waiting for the intro
The answer is to keep both an etsy shop AND make your own site but without the work of keeping up both. Allow me to explain.
Even if you’re banking on Etsy for traffic and sales, you should ALWAYS have another website to send people to and you should ALWAYS have an email optin so that you can create what we call in the biz repeat customers. So if you get your initial sales on Etsy you should still forever more try to send them to your site through that email list.
Why?
Because if they are shopping on your site during their 2nd purchase instead of your etsy shop on etsy you won’t be dealing with all of the millions of other shops competing with you on Etsy. Get it? Your own site has no competition. But Etsy has LOTS of competition. This is good and bad for you. It’s good for your original sale because you can STEAL your competitors sales
What? I swear I’m not crazy don’t unsubscribe. But during your loyal fans second purchase, you could actually lose the sale if they are on etsy instead of your site because of previously mentioned competition.
Woah woah woah, don’t give me that frustrated face. Those lines aren’t becoming you know. I have an easy solution for you. Now you listen to me. If you build a very very simple wordpress site and add an etsy plugin right inside the wordpress site, then every time you add a product to etsy, it shows up on your website. So you only have to enter products once. In other words, when you maintain your etsy shop, you update and maintain your wordpress site automatically.
Hey, I still see the scaredness on your face. Don’t worry. I’m thinking of doing another step-by-step screencasted tutorial for you. I’m thinkin’ of showing you step by step how to create this new etsy wordpress site plus I’ll show you how to install all the plugins you need including the etsy plugin. Oh, I’ll also give you the graphics for the site for free. So you’ll have absolutely everything you need for your brand new gorgeous site with all of your gorgeous etsy products inside. And the tutorial will be so easy that even the most tech-scared bestie can do it. You just follow my lead on my computer screen k? No skipped steps.
Wait how do I get paid?
Ok, here’s the deal. If you really really want this tutorial, totally free, I kind of need to know you’ll use it. Tutorials of this magnitude take me about a month to create. So if you want this tutorial, you’re gunna have to vote for it. To vote simply go to richmombusiness.com/myvote and let me know that this is the next tutorial you want. Now, I have to get at least 200 votes to make this tutorial worth it And I’m not exactly as popular as marie forleo so make sure you share this video everywhere if you want this etsy wordpress tutorial, totally free.
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Love you all
peace out yo!
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