Vote for Your Favorite Embrace Treasury!

To celebrate our Storque Article we decided to have a fun treasury challenge. Everyone who wanted to participate used the word "embrace" in the title of their treasury. Our judges had their work cut out for them....the entries were all beautiful!

The judges are:
Kristen, Ames and Rebecca


....and here they are!

Embrace Life by Sacred Suds

Embrace Innocence by Little Bug Jewelry

Embrace the Old and New by Ginny Huber

A Romantic Embrace by Erika Price

Embrace the Talent by Knot Original

Embrace Softly by Wild Woman Jewelry

Canyon Embrace by Wish Art Glass

Embrace Sunshine by Monarch Dancer

Embrace with Love by Rough Magic Creations

Which Embrace Treasury is Your Favorite?
	Embrace Life Sacred Suds
	Embrace Innocence Little Bug Jewelry
	Embrace the Old and New Ginny Huber
	A Romantic Embrace Erika Price
	Embrace Talent Knot Original
	Embrace Softly Wild Woman Jewelry
	Canyon Embrace Wish Art Glass
	Embrace Sunshine Monarch Dancer
	Embrace with Love Rough Magic Creations
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Keeping Your Treasury Tidy

Yep, I said it..."tidy."

Etsy admin does use treasuries with sold items in the collection for the front page. They also use treasuries that are days/week old. However, they will put an alternate in place of the sold item. Since treasuries do not expire and if you don't delete your own then you should consider keeping up with the sold items. I generally check mine once a week and choose to delete some and then replace the sold items with new items from the same shop.

I have noticed in many of my treasuries that one to five items have sold in a very short time. If five have sold you will not have enough alternates to cover the ones sold. Good reason to keep an eye on those rascals!

There is also a bug in treasury making. Some people have found that if you use an item for your treasury that has a number in the title, either that item will not show up, or one of your other items will not show up. It doesn't always happen, but a pattern has been observed. If you have numbers in your titles, you may want to consider taking them out so that people feel safer using your creations.

Clicking and commenting is still important for treasuries. Doing this helps keep the treasury you made on the first page of that huge list. I've seen one of my treasuries stay on the first page for an entire day when it got plenty of comments and clicks.

So, get those brooms and dust mops out and clean up your treasury!

Social Media Engagement

The comments in my last post seemed to focus around the time it takes to use social media and also whether it's really important. It is hard to determine currently what the real return on investment is. Is it better to spend your time using a social network, or devote the time to creating? I think the answer to this is to go back to what YOUR goals are. If you create as an outlet, but are not really looking to take over the world, then perhaps you don't need to use Social Media. If you are trying to grow your business then people need to know you exist. Especially if you can't find ways locally to promote your creations.

You don't have to spend hours and hours using Social Media, but you do have to be careful not to get sucked into it and not be able to tear yourself away. Make a plan. Maybe you start with twitter and just spend 20 minutes a day, three days a week making connections. This doesn't mean posting links to your shop, it means just talk about what you are doing. What you are creating. At first, since you won't have many followers it will seem you are talking just to hear yourself type. This can be cathartic. Really. Eventually people will begin following you and will respond. It's a delightful feeling when that happens. Once you begin engaging this way and establishing who you are, then you can tweet a link here or there about one of your creations. Or, you can retweet someone else's link. Try starting here if you are working to grow your business. No more no less.

Etsy has a Storque article that is very appropriate to this topic written by Sister Diane from Portland, Or. There is even a podcast if you prefer listening to these kinds of topics rather then reading.

After you sign up for Twitter come back and post your twitter name so that we can all follow you. Perhaps we can even schedule a time and day that we all tweet...so that you have support and don't feel all alone. Plus, those of us who tweet can help you get followers.