Store Score Team
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Etsy Wholesale Alternatives: Getting Into Physical Retail
Etsy Wholesale, the platform’s dedicated marketplace connecting sellers directly with vetted retail buyers, closed on July 31, 2018, after struggling to gain traction (only about 5,000 of Etsy’s roughly 2 million sellers were active on it) (Etsy Shuts Down Etsy…
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How Successful Etsy Sellers Actually Spend Their Time Each Week
New sellers often picture running an Etsy shop as mostly making things and occasionally answering a message. The reality, based on Etsy’s own seller-reported data, looks different: making and designing does take the largest single share of time, but the…
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Etsy vs. Shopify: When It’s Time to Build Your Own Store
Etsy brings you the buyer. Shopify makes you build the traffic yourself, but keeps every customer relationship you build along the way. Table of Contents Why This Comparison Matters Every growing Etsy seller eventually asks the same question: is it…
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Building a Direct-to-Consumer Funnel Alongside Your Etsy Shop
Etsy owns the customer relationship by default – the buyer’s email, their purchase history, and Etsy’s own algorithm decide who sees your shop again. A direct-to-consumer funnel is how a seller starts owning that relationship instead. Table of Contents Introduction…