Good news for Etsy sellers who ship packages by way of the United States Postal Service. USPS® has announced that there will be NO USPS PRICE CHANGE in January 2015. This is great news for businesses that ship packages. Combined with other recent announcements by USPS and the private carriers, there are now even more… [read more]
5 Attention Grabbing Logo Design Tips
There will never be a better time than now to perfect your brand identity. If your business is selling online, this year is looking very good for you. Online business these days is like exploring some amazing new world where every new bend in your path reveals a view bigger and better than the one… [read more]
Free Printable Labels to Kick Up Your Packaging! {Handmade Collection}
Packaging and labels are one of my all-time favorite parts of buying and selling handmade! Labels on your handmade items and on the packaging that you send it out in are wonderful opportunities to show your buyer that they’ve bought something special. Something they can’t find just anywhere. We’ve teamed up again with World Label… [read more]
10 Awesome Back-to-School Printables
Everyone loves a free printable, right?! Well, you are going to love, love, love these back-to-school printables to make those first days of school more fun! You’ll find everything from gift tags to lunch box notes. These will add a sweet touch to back-to-school! 10 Awesome Back-to-School Printables Back-to-School Printable Teacher Note – Kristen Duke,… [read more]
USPS To Lower Rates and Endicia Announces Pay-on-Use Return Labels
Shipping costs are dropping! Now there is something you don’t hear every day! I guess I won’t really be fully convinced until I see it happen, but the information couldn’t have come from a better source. We were on a call the other day with Endicia talking about their new “pay when your customer uses it”… [read more]
Twin Turbo Label Printer Giveaway from Endicia
If you sell anything online though Etsy or anywhere else, then you probably do lots of shipping and mailing. We sure do and getting our hands on a LabelWriter XL printer from Endicia a few months ago made that process so much easier and faster for us. We love our label printer. But what if… [read more]
Brand Building with Customized Shipping Labels {Tutorial & Video}
About a year ago, we started printing our logo and Etsy shop name directly on our shipping labels. It was a small effort that we feel resulted in huge strides for the professional image and branding of our business. In this post, we’ve laid out the steps you can follow to personalize your own shipping… [read more]
Selling on Etsy {Your Shop’s About Page}
Are you using the About Page on your Etsy shop to the fullest? The About Page provides a wonderful opportunity for you to reach out and touch your shop visitor and turn them into a paying customer in the process. People tend to do business with people they like and you can use that About… [read more]
7 Quick Tips to Start an Etsy Shop
I wrote a post last week, 15 Great Reasons to Start an Etsy Shop, and the response was so amazing I had to share more information right away. There are so many of you out there that are considering starting a shop! Yay for you! I want to share a few quick tips to help… [read more]
Selling Tools — Dymo Label Printers on Sale
If you’ve been thinking of taking the plunge and purchasing a dedicated label printer for your Etsy business, now would be a good time. Endicia is having a sale from now until the end of March. Click Here to get a free roll of labels and $20.00 off the LabelWriter 4XL shown above. (We checked this… [read more]
How To Install Your Etsy Mini in WordPress {video}
Etsy Mini’s have been around since before we started selling on, or blogging about, Etsy. In fact, we wrote about using them and did a video like this almost five years ago right here on EverythingEtsy.com . A lot has changed during that time, but the incredible usefulness of the Etsy Mini is one thing… [read more]
USPS 2014 Rate Changes — How will they affect you?
USPS new postage rates go into effect January 26, 2014. How will the new rates affect you? If you’ve heard the news of the imminent rate increases at the US Postal Service, you may be thinking “here we go again” and wondering just how high the cost of buying stamps and shipping your packages is… [read more]