Setting up Google Analytics for your Etsy shop

Google Analytics is a very powerful tool to use when marketing your handmade goods.  Google Analytics allows you to track incoming traffic to your Etsy shop.  You can even get extremely detailed info like what time of day your visitors are viewing your Etsy shop.  This video below will walk you through step by step how to set up an Google Analytics account and then add your Etsy shop.

If you are looking for more indepth information about what Google Analytics can do for your Etsy business check out this Google Analytics video that explores in depth how to read and process the info found in Google Analytics.

Google Analytics In Depth

More Google Analytics Tips and Info

Etsy Tip of the day (Love what you do)

Tip By: Drops of Sunshine : Blog
Don't take more than you can handle but don't be afraid to try.

I found that when I put all my effort into a few items I got more traffic than doing things "half-way" and not giving them my all because I was focusing on imputing a lot of items. Now my focus is to take the best pictures, do my best description, do things I would love to see in my shop and promote them like my babies.


Tip BY: Sleepy Moon Design : Blog

LOVE WHAT YOU DO... it's that simple. You wouldn't want to sell something that was only half good.

When you put your full self into something it will show and your personality will come out.

This works for your item descriptions as well. People always love to read interesting descriptions and here more about the item and what went into it.

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ArtFire’s Anniversary Special

ArtFire’s Anniversary Special: Allowing Members to Pre-Purchase and Save

ArtFire.com Launches new Payment Option for Pro Members

Tucson, Ariz. – To celebrate their one year anniversary, ArtFire.com has announced the Anniversary Special, which allows users to pre-purchase a Pro account at a discounted rate. However, they are only offering this option to the first 500 members to take advantage of the deal.



Previously, ArtFire Pro accounts were available for a monthly subscription only, with Pro members paying a flat rate of $12 a month (ArtFire also offers free unlimited listings to its Basic seller accounts). This pre-purchase option will allow members the opportunity to pay $100 for an entire year of membership. This allows users to save over 30% or $44 per Pro account.



ArtFire plans to allow for more pre-purchase opportunities in the future, including options for quarterly payments for all members interested in the program. However, this Anniversary Special is only open to the first 500 to register for this pre-purchase option. Future regular pre-payment options will not have such a substantial discount.



“We couldn’t have come this far and been so successful without our artisan members,” said John Jacobs, CEO of ArtFire. “This special will help reward them for working with us to build this wonderful community and allow us to grow even further in 2010.”



A Little More about ArtFire



ArtFire.com is the premier artisan marketplace online. Although ArtFire has only been in open beta for one year, they’ve seen phenomenal growth in that time. In just one year ArtFire has grown to 50,000 members with 700,000 products listed and more than $1.5 million in product sold by artisans. These numbers make ArtFire the most successful artisan marketplace ever launched. To celebrate this success, ArtFire is offering their artisans a way to save money as well as time with their Anniversary Special.

Adding a Retweet Button to Blogger

Providing a Retweet button on in your blog posts is a great way to increase traffic to your blog. Having this button allows your readers to quickly post your link on Twitter. The video below will walk you through the process of adding a Retweet button to your Blogger blog.



Here is where you will find the code talked about in the video: Tweetmeme.com Code Page

Here is a small revision to the video: If you want the code to show the correct Tweet numbers paste this small code along with the code you just posted:


tweetmeme_url =" '<data:post.url/">';