I recently invited Maria Thomas, Etsy.com’s CEO to give a speech to the attendees at Hello Craft’s first annual Summit of Awesome in Washington, D.C. The Summit of Awesome is a conference where crafters and artists get to spend the weekend meeting, learning and making. When I asked Maria to address the group, I sent [...]

For those who can’t make the Summit of Awesome in person, you can still get a dose of awesome in the Etsy Virtual Labs.
The following sessions will be in the Labs on the listed date and time. Hope to see you there!
Friday May 1:
11:30 am – What’s a Social Network and How to use [...]

Below are descriptions of the learning sessions, workshops and demos at the Summit of Awesome.  Check the Summit of Awesome schedule for session times, locations and speaker info.
Learning Sessions
Am I a Business? How and when to form a business for your crafty endeavors. Representatives from the Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts will walk you [...]

Danielle Maveal, Etsy.com’s Education Coordinator, is committed to help crafters make a living making things! She runs daily workshops for crafters and artists in Etsy’s Virtual Labs. She also creates a twice weekly Etsy Success newsletter for Etsy sellers and helps run Etsy Teams. Before working at Etsy, she ran her own craft business [...]

Join Hello Craft in the Etsy Virtual Labs this Tuesday, as we talk Craft Show 101!
With many indie craft fairs putting out their call for vendors for their Spring and Summer shows, it’s time to start filling out those applications.  Whether your applying to one fair or twenty, Hello Craft can help you get into [...]

Recently, at long last, Etsy.com added Google Analytics integration. You can now track, in amazing detail, the visits to your shop. To set it up, go to Shop Setup on the bottom left and click on Web Analytics. Then follow the instructions from there.
I am still playing around with it, but am increasingly impressed [...]

Welcome back to Craft Chat, a series of interviews with crafters from all over the globe. Our current focus is on select artisans found on the UK site Folksy. Today’s cozy conversation is with Francesca Iannaccone of mrs eliot books, a charming little print shop located in the north of London.

What do you [...]

(Business cards I’ve made for my AlwaysAmy & AlsoAmy shops using photographs of my own items.)
Every one’s always talking about photos because taking great photos of your items isn’t easy but it is absolutely necessary if you want your shop to sell well & stand out.
I always say, ‘When in doubt, retake your photos!’ If [...]