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I would love to know how you do the listing process on Etsy. I keep trying to use the app, but there is really a challenge for me as it crashes a lot on my iPhone.
So… right now, I do a draft listing on the computer and then add the pictures. Oh, the horrible photo editor is a challenge for me too!
Please let me know any tips you have for listing!
Tara
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I am on the same page as Tara. I’ve been trying to figure out how to list thru taking pictures with my iPhone and finishing up the listing on my desk top. We don’t upload the pictures through my desktop because it just takes too long. If there’s someone that can shed some light, it would be great! 🙂
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When I take the photo that I’m going to use for my gallery shot I edit it two ways. One I save as a square photo for ebay and one I save as an 8×10 for etsy. That way there is no awkward cropping of my picture on etsy. I take pictures using a camera and edit them using a photo editor. I don’t use ebay or etsy to edit my photos. I’ve tried but have found they just don’t do the job for me.
Then I create my listing on ebay first. After that I create my etsy listing. I just copy and paste all of my text right from ebay for my title and description. I then add as many relevant keywords to my title as I can think of as etsy allows a much longer title. After that I create my tags.
I’m so happy to see an etsy board created! Now I have all my favorite things (ebay and etsy) in one place! And I’d love to help others starting out on etsy.
Thanks Jay and Ryanne!!
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I have two Etsy shops, and they have been going for a couple years now:
I always do my listings on my computer. Unlike eBay, using tags on Etsy is extremely important, so you want to be able to access that. It’s much more time consuming on your phone. You can also have pre-set shipping settings for like-items. I’m not sure if you can access all of that on the app.
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Has anyone found a program or website that will cross-list for you between ebay/etsy with inventory management, etc.? That would be extremely beneficial for those of us who sell mainly vintage goods.
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SixBit is about to come out of BETA Mode and offer it. They are somewhat hush mouthed right now, but I was speaking with one of their tech the other day and it was mentioned that they are about ready to go with it.
I am a WonderLister user for several years and have also spoken with them about it. It is their To-Do list but they are behind SixBit as far as that goes. I just recently posted about my 30-day trial that I am working on with SixBit and from what I see it is going to be great, to manage inventory especially with two sites.
I was originally looking for something to do what my spread sheet does so I could integrate inventory management into the other features and have an all in one program for everything except my financial accounting-banking. Looks like SixBit will do it.
The owner of both WL and SB are from the old Ebay Blackthorn Group and when Ebay abandoned that and now Turbo Lister, these former employees went off and started their own database company to do what Blackthorn used to do.
Go to both of their web sites and watch the videos of how they operate, especially SixBit. I know there are others users here at SL that also use SixBit. They are both paid services and there is somewhat of a learning curve. Probably not for a seller of only a few hundred items, but over a thousand it gets more feasible. Especially if you have implemented and inventory control system and also would like to bulk edit all of your store items at once. Ryanne has to edit all 6,000 items 500 at a clip. That’s 12 different times she has to go into Ebay and work the magic on their bulk lister. On WL or SB you can change multiple things on all 6,000 all at one time if you wish. That would be worth something to me if I had a big store.
Jay asked me the other day what all could these programs do and I gave a long rambling answer, but you can search SixBit and probably find it.
Hope this helps
Mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
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Thanks Mike! I was actually interested in utilizing SixBit, but right now they are not compatible with Mac products. I wasn’t sure if it would be worth to go out and buy a PC just to use that program. If they are serious about implementing etsy though, it might be worth it. Thanks again!
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It’s not economical at all to use sixbit for more than just ebay. According to their pricing structure, you have to have a $100 monthly subscription to list both places! What’s is gonna be to add etsy? $150?
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Well I am also doing just fine with WonderLister at $25 per month and also I have the Consignor Module at that price. I have a few consignors and create their monthly reports within WL. It handles all of my inventory as well as theirs.
Also at the $25 level [it was $20 for the first few years] I have all of the names, addresses and phone numbers of all of my customers for the last 4 years. I can see who has bought from me from years past and occassionaly when I get similiar items I email them. Have only sold a few that way but nice to have everything that Ebay collects on us sellers, pulled off of Ebay servers and all of that data as well as all of those former listings and sales on my hard drive forever. Many times I do a search, find an item I sold months or years ago, hit duplicate, then do minor revisions and submit. How far back can we go with Ebay’s archives? I think only 3 to 6 months or so?
I also last week clicked on local sales tax and instantly got my report for what Sales tax I owed from local sales here in Georgia for the past 12 months.Guess it boils down to the type of person or personality one is, what type of seller or store level-number of items one has and if you re-list your listings every 30 days, if a program such as WonderLister is worth the time or money or not. Then if you are a Mac user, guess you are out of luck anyway.
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From what I heard from the tech, they are seriously thinking about including the dual management scheme along with the $34.99 business level. But as I said I am still using WonderLister juct fine and may just stick with it for the reasons you state. Who knows, but it has been FREE to this point for me to try SixBit and because I already knew WL, then I was up and running in SB in a day or so.
Now when it comes to being frugal, see my post below about Macs vs. PC’s. People are paying more for a Mac and I ask why? chip set for chip set, processor speed for processor speed, item for item, what makes a Mac worth so much more? I have bought many of both for my printing businesses [for the reasons I stated], but would not put more money in Macs for all of the employees business needs.
Oh and by the way, I run two monitors side by side. I invested the $69 in a second monitor so I could be researching prices within my browsers on my right side screen while doing my listing entry on the left screen. That is a good investment for the increased productivity gained, in my opinion.
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Your welcome Lindsey.
Don’t want to start a war here but as “scavengers”, I just don’t see why anybody in this day and time want to spend 4 times the costs for a rig, parts or assecories for a Mac anyway? A $3 mouse or a $24 mouse??
Been around computers for decades, way back to the first Apple days. Owned them but gravitated to PC’s long ago because I could get into the guts if I wanted to. Also in the printing business we had to use Macs because every high end client used Adobe Photoshop and it was designed for the Mac environment. The Motorola chip sets they used, bench marked out at a little faster, so would process and RIP large graphic files much faster as we did color separations for 4 color process printing or outputting film. But for Business use, Spread sheeting and word processing once MicroSoft introduced MSOffice, Excel, Access for SQL database creation and Intel introducing it’s Quad Core processors, I don’t think an average Mac user can support why they spend so much more for a Mac.
Years ago, Apple did a smart thing by furnishing schools with free computers and maybe that is where many grew up with Macs. But bench test them side by side today and I think only a technician can see any difference. On top of that Macs have to use a work around or third party app to handle Office type programs. No big deal but why pay more to a rig to have to do that.
Used to hear that Macs were targeted less by hackers, well in todays world hackers go after anything, anytime, anywhere. And they go after your offline accounts and passwords besides.
To build a maxed-out Mac Pro, you start with the $3999 standard-configuration model. Then you customize it and select all the high-end upgrades. So, how much does a maxed-out Mac Pro cost?
Standard-configuration 3.5GHz 6-core Mac Pro $3999
2.7GHz 12-core processor upgrade $3000
64GB DDR3 ECC memory upgrade $1200
Dual AMD FirePro D700 (6GB of GDDR5 VRAM) video upgrade $600
1TB PCIe-based flash-storage upgrade $800
Total $9599I know this is a far out upgrade but you get my point. Seems like as “scavengers” looking for the best bang for the buck, that Apple products and Macs should not be on the BOLO list.
Now this all just came across my mind, let’s not get a feud going here. Just me thinking about why I would not invest into a Mac, not why you or anyone else should not.
Mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
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Mike, you’re completely right. It just depends on what your needs are. I’ve had a Mac since design school over 15 years ago, so it fits my needs for design purposes. I also like how it neatly pairs with my iPad and iPhone. But as you said, PCs have come a long way since then. My next computer may be a PC just for all the reasons you mentioned above.
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I agree. Looked at InkFrog and several others years ago. They focus more on just the listing part. Like Jay said what is wrong with the Ebay listing tool. Nothing, now that they got with the program and made those many changes over the last year or so. They didn’t start to do those changes though until they decided to drop the TurboLister affiliation. Now they needed to add more listing “management” type tools and add editing and flexibility.
These other programs have the added inventory management focus as well as the bulk editing and scheduling features which the scheduling feature is free-Ebay charges I believe]. List all day, one right after the other, then go to bed and click up load with a 30 second delay between each listing and you get up in the morning and all photos are loaded as well as the listing. All done overnight. These programs can handle thousands of scheduled listings one right after the other.
Then for those who use EasyAuctionTracker which I have also used, these programs handle all of the fees, what you paid for your items, where you bought the item, which of your sources you got items from that sell the best or most, what your gross profit is, what your net profit is, sales made in which states, which states you sell the most in. Now probably you can get that from Ebay, but these compile all of it so that data is at the touch of a click and archived for years as long as you use the software. Cancel your subscription and you still have all that data.Just so much stuff but one has to be liked mind to see a benefit of having this type of data and also one who knows what to do with it and how to use it to one’s benefit to help their business grow.
With 6,000 items and an employee working for them and now needing to implement an inventory control system, and a process whereby the employee(s) can work more independently without their presence, I would think Jay and Ryanne could benefit from these type programs and just go buy a $500 +/- PC to do it. It is a business expense anyway and out of a such a large revenue +/- Ebay store as they have, it is a small type of investment. But again, as Jay says simple is better but they have made changes through the years also.
mc in atl.
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