Formerly Known as The Rights of Fans
ChatGPT is an extraordinarily useful tool for antique dealers, but its enthusiasm for selling furniture sometimes overrides an inconvenient detail: the truth. After hundreds of listings, I finally asked the AI monster why it keeps overlooking defects. Its confession was revealing.
Eighteen months ago we set up a trading website. To put it mildly, it was a disaster. The content was a half hearted attempt at best. The appeal of building one was obvious enough. Saving fifteen to twenty percent in selling fees and achieving higher prices than on the major platforms is a seductive idea. … Continue reading Building an Etsy Shop. Episode 1: How Etsy Became Both My Best Asset and Biggest Risk.
As I have said from the beginning, building my blog will take two years. Over two months in and I have sort of hit the buffers so to speak. Hit the buffers, very much in the sense that it feels that I have taken a step backwards, but actually I don't think I really have. … Continue reading Building my DIY Blog. Weeks 6-8. A Second Blog is Set Up.
We are actually highly proficient vintage traders selling on the Etsy platform, amongst. I think 10,000 Etsy sales qualifies you for someone of great experience. We currently have three successful Etsy shops. Plus an unmitigated disaster! Nobody wants to read a blog about someone running a successful Etsy business. But we all like to feel … Continue reading Our New and Failing Etsy Shop. An Online Retail Plate of Spam! Etsy DIY.
In a cynical frame of mind we sat down very early whils’t our minds were fresh and yes indeed in half an hour it was set up.
But the crux of digital marketing etc is not to have vast swathes of followers but vast quantities of sales.