Chapter 13
Selling Like (Burning Hot) Hotcakes: Listing Your Items
In This Chapter
Listing an item
Modifying a listing
Duplicating a listing
Relisting an item
Removing a listing
Tidying up your Etsy shop
Fish gotta swim. Birds gotta fly. Camels gotta spit. And an Etsy seller . . . well, she’s gotta sell. The first step to selling on Etsy — after setting up your Etsy store (and crafting the piece you want to sell) — is to create an item listing.
Simply put, an item listing is a page in your Etsy store that contains information about an item you have for sale. This item listing contains an item title and description, a list of materials you used to create your piece, a category and tags to help buyers find your item, images of your piece (you can include as many as five), pricing information, shipping details, and more.
In Chapter 11, you discover how to photograph your items. Chapter ...
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