Saturday, August 6, 2011
Monday, July 11, 2011
Lostzelda
Our First Questionnaire filled out! Thank you Angela!
To everyone: if there are other questions you'd like to ask eachother, feel free to chime in and say! and Please if, you haven't yet joined the yahoogroup, do so and download the interview questions from the Files page!
Without further ado:
1: what is your name?
Angela
2: what is the name of your shop?
My shop is called Lostzelda
3: Did you start as an Etsy seller or is etsy and extension of a pre-existing art/craft business that you've expanded to online sales? why? (either way)
I started my Etsy shop as an Etsy seller.
4:How long have you been an Etsy seller? were you an etsy buyer before then?
I have been a seller since May of 2011. Before that, I had only been on Etsy a few times but really didn’t know a lot about it.
5: Where did you learn your craft and what prompted you to start a business out of it?
I have done many gallery shows for my paintings but I do many other things and haven’t really sold a lot of my other things. I usually make them for friends and family. One of my friends sells on Etsy and told I should start a shop and here I am.
6: Do you run your E
tsy business from home? a studio? as a side job? I run my shop from home as a side job.
8: Do you participate in local craft fairs? sell at any local businesses? have you found these to be good for your online business or do they keep fairly separate?
I haven’t participated in any local craft fairs yet but I would really like to.
10: Have you sold wholesale or would you be willing to? How do (or would) you set up a pricing scheme so that the wholesaled items would still benefit you but not be overpriced after the retail markup?
I am not sure what whole sale means. ***Wholesale is when you sell your items to someone else and they mark them up and sell them in their shop - they charge the sales tax and you do not, but normally you don't get to charge what you normally would to the general public.***
11: What else would you like to say about your Etsy business?
I try to offer all the things I find fun to make at reasonable prices. I hate when I find something made by someone else that I really love but can’t afford.
12: Do you have any ideas about how we, as a local team might support each-other?
I think it would be really cool if we could organize our own art fair. Like an Etsy shop owner craft/art fair in Davis. The farmers market is very successful and I think if we could g
et enough people to put up tables, we could advertise and have a great success.
***Great idea!!!!***Farmer's market is a little tricky - they have a lot of rules about the theme and content of your pieces....but maybe we could skirt around them a little?
Thank you again Angela!
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Friday, June 10, 2011
Our very First Etsy Craft Party!
Well, we didn't plan really to craft today, though we did get to do some, thanks to the awesome Etsy organizers who sent a super cool box of craft supplies!
Our first meetup, was a bit unorganized (my apologies there), but It was great to meet Karen from Gracelinepaperstudios
and Yelena and her daughters from Mysnoozles! 
We talked about blogging, and ways to support eachother's Etsy businesses, and how we really just want to get together again with a bigger group and have a craft day....so team, what do you say?!