The beginning.....

It has been a few weeks now since the grand opening of my etsy shop.  I am using the term grand opening very loosely here because in reality it was more like "click" and my items were listed for sale.  That was it.  Just a little click of one button to ring in the opening of  Bats' Belfry Crafts!  After weeks of picture taking, editing pics, drafting item listings, editing the drafts, calculating prices of items, calculating postage costs, coming up with descriptions, coming up with  SEO tags, titles for each item, typing shop policies, writing my "about me", the list goes on and on and on.... all this just to be able to open and all that happened was one little click!  

I sat waiting after that fateful click for all those customers to come running.  After all, how could they not after all the hours, days and weeks of careful preparation? What happened was nothing!  That's right,  nothing!  No mass of online shoppers came and cleared out my inventory.  Just one sad little click and I was tossed in and lost in the massive sea of crafters and artists on Etsy trying to sell their items too.   So I wait ever so patiently ((snickers)).  I go back to each item editing tags and editing titles hoping that my item will stay "relevant" enough to stay on the first page of a search.  Then more hoping that just the right person will see it and just have to buy it.  I have joined etsy teams and have participated in the community forum.  I have asked for feedback from other sellers.  I have '"favorited" other shops and their items.  I have created a few "treasuries".  Outside of Etsy I have managed a facebook page, a pinterest board, a very lame tumblr account and now this blog.  All this so I can bring the news that Bats' Belfry Crafts is open for business on etsy.com and not just have the ringing of one sad lonely click in my ears.

 https://www.etsy.com/shop/BatsBelfryCrafts?ref=si_shop