I accept the challenge!

Okay, we all know I love Etsy, right? If you don't know that or what
Etsy is, see my earlier posts or click on my Etsy shop selections over
there----->

Well, in order to improve my work, my shop and hopefully my sales, I have accepted the challenge of a fellow Etsian, Christina Perdue. It's called, "30 days to a better shop", and we can all improve, yes? Yes!

So, I have to get caught up. Day one's homework ( I think Christina is or
was a teacher!) is to list short and long term goals. And here goes:

October's goals

1. List enough items to get to a second page in my shop.
2. Finish pending projects and list them. Hmmmm, 1 and 2 seem somehow related.
3. Polish existing listings so that ALL info about shipping, returns etc are checked
for each listing.
4. Dream up some designs for wet felted Christmas stockings. No one else is doing
it, but I can find a way to do something tasty!
5. Keep up with the "30 days to a better shop series.
6. Blog at least every other day.
7. Try for every day.
8. Get to 100 hearts. (I'm at 56)
9. List something every 3 days. (my items sometimes take a week!)
10. Sell one item or more per week.

Long term goals:

1. Make enough sales with Etsy to be able to make this my exclusive sales venue.
2. Say good-by to the 2 galleries who feature my work and take their percentage.
(I love you Denise and Brenda, but Etsy works soooo well for me) Again, 1 and 2
seem to be related.
3. Find the time and venue to teach more wet felting workshops.
4. Spin more revolutionary yarn, the fat, chunky, include everything stuff.

I like the idea if giving these goals some thought and telling the blogosphere about it. Hope you'll hold me accountable!

On to day two, in which we are instructed to inspect our Etsy shop announcement and to be sure that it is short and sweet.

Here's the new one:


Hi and welcome to my shop.

I am a full time fiber artist working in felted wool and creating hand dyed hand spun yarn which I frequently knit into unique treasures. I currently show pieces at galleries in FL and ME.

My passion is creating vibrantly colored yarns and useful things made with my obsession, wool.

See my profile for an explanation of the processes I use to create my
unique felted pieces. There you will also find my return policy.

Visit my blog at mmfiberstudio.blogspot.com for hints about my inspirations, the creative process and future items for my shop.

So.... what do you think?