Chapter 12
For Your Listing Pleasure: Adding and Managing Item Listings
IN THIS CHAPTER
Listing, relisting, and removing an item
Modifying, sharing, and duplicating listings
Tidying up your Etsy shop
Featuring a listing in your Etsy shop
Fish gotta swim. Birds gotta fly. Camels gotta spit. And Etsy sellers … well, Etsy sellers gotta sell. The first step to selling on Etsy — after setting up your Etsy store (and crafting or curating the piece you want to sell) — is to create an item listing.
An item listing is a page in your Etsy shop with information about an item you have for sale. This item listing features 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 ten), a video of your piece (optional), pricing information, shipping details, and more.
This chapter steps you through the process of creating your very first item listing so that you can get your shop up and running. It also tells you how to copy, renew, share, and deactivate listings, as well ...
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