Team ESST on Twitter

The team is now on Twitter! Please follow us at http://twitter.com/teamesst to enjoy quick updates, sale notifications and simply just to get to know us better.

Shop Advice: Analytics

Etsy announced today that as sellers, we can now add Google Analytics to our Etsy shops. Yay! Now we can more successfully grow our businesses.

Here are some quick tips to setting up Analytics on your shop page:

1. To set up Analytics on your shop, you'll need a Google Account. If you don't already have one, then you'll register for one at http://analytics.google.com. If you already have an Google Account (for example, Gmail or Adwords) but are not yet using their Analytics, follow the link and Log in with your Google Account to sign up for the service.

2. If you are already using Google Analytics, then you'll probably want to separate the data you'll be getting from Etsy from your other sites. To do this, log in and access your analytics. At the bottom of the page, you'll see in blue the option to "Add a Website Profile." Follow that link and select "Add a Profile to a NEW Domain." This will generate a new "UA" number that you can now input into your Etsy shop.

To learn more about this free service visit http://www.google.com/analytics/features.html and visit the Etsy Forums to discuss how other shop owners are using it.

We'd love to hear your thoughts about this in the comments.

UPDATE: Timothy Adams, an Etsy seller has a video on his blog to help out new GA users.
http://timothyadamdesigns.blogspot.com/

Get to Know -- SuppliesForU

Periodically, we'll post interviews with members of the Etsy Supply Street Team. This week, get to know a little about SuppliesForU. Linda offers all types of supplies for art pendants, from scrabble tiles to resin cab supplies. And, if I didn't know better, I'd have sworn these were my own answers!

What do you sell?
Mostly jewelry supplies; pendant trays, resin molds, memory/art frame pendants, charms, scrabble tiles, necklaces and more.

What's your favorite item/line that you sell?
Pendant trays, resin molds and scrabble tiles.

How did you choose your user name?
I wanted something with the word supplies in it since that is what I sell. I went through a few that were already taken and settled on suppliesforu.

Street clothes or Pajamas?
Street clothes.

Biggest indulgence or guilty pleasure?
Sitting down to watch TV with my nighttime snack.

Favorite food?
Shellfish; blue claw crabs and lobster.

Favorite non-craft website? Favorite craft website (not Etsy)?
Non-craft - Big Fish Games....Craft website HGTV Holiday Forums.

What is one thing that nobody would know about you?
If I told than everyone would know.....

What are your plans/goals for 2009?
To build up my shop and possibly sell in a few more places.

Where else do you sell?
I recently set up on Art Fire. I am in a consignment shop with handmade finished crafts in North Babylon, NY.

Happy Holidays!

Happy New Year! Welcome 2009!

Wishing all of our team members, fellow Etsyians and of course the wonderful crafters out there who have supported our businesses all year a very Happy New Year.

End of the Year Sales

Many of our team shops are having end of the year sales, including Car Don Creative Design - who sells Handcrafted Supplies. To find other shops having their end of the year sales, please search for Team ESST + Sale on Etsy!

Our team shops are looking forward to starting the new year with some new supplies in our shops. Please check back often to see what we have for you!

Happy Holidays!

And a Merry Christmas too!
- Team ESST

Happy Holidays!

Wishing you a Happy Hanukkah from Team ESST!



Looking through our team members shops, I found this Menorah stamp and some Hanukkah vintage gift tags too! We hope you have some time to get some crafting done during these next 8 fun nights!

Snowflake Ornaments -- How To

I adore snowflakes. Whether they're stylized or realistic, elegant shades of white or bright and garish colors, I love them all! Now you can make your own~

Materials needed --

Snowflake forms

Large round beads

Large white faceted oval beads

Large metal beadcaps

8mm silver beads

Metallic Silver ribbon - Available at supplycandy

Round nose pliers

Take one wire form. Working on one branch at a time, thread one spacer bead (I used vintage white lucite), a silver round bead, a beadcap, a large round bead, another beadcap, another silver bead, a large faceted oval, and a last silver round.

Using your roundnose pliers, make a loop on the end of the branch.

Repeat this pattern on each of the following 5 branches.

Your snowflake is finished, but you still need a way to display it. Decide how long you'd like the snowflake to hang, and cut a length of ribbon twice that long, plus a couple inches. Thread the ribbon through one of the loops you made and even up the ends. Tie an overhand knot, leaving a bit of a tail.

Now, you can display your ornament however you see fit. I like to make several in varying lengths and sizes to display in my front windows.