Sweet MEventide: Improving an Etsy Listing

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Good morning friends!

I'd like to introduce you to my new, regular Thursday feature here on my blog where I will focus on my photography business. It is called Sweet MEventide, and I must give full credit to Erin Loechner from Design for Mankind for suggesting the idea and the witty name. xoxo Erin! :)

As you know, I took a part-time day job almost six months ago and it has taken up most of my energy ever since. I want to shift that balance and focus on my dreams again. I will share with you the baby steps as I take them.

This week, I started with a new listing in my shop. I have a folder on my computer called "Items to List." I have had this Polaroid in there for about a year! It was high time to put it in the shop and I was inspired to do this today because yesterday was our first really warm spring day.




I tried three new things for this listing.

1. I created a color palette from my photograph and using it as one of the listing photos. I created an account on COLOURlovers today for this purpose. 

2. I created an example of the photo framed to help buyers visualize it. I give full credit for these ideas to the inspiring women from my Etsy team, the Female Photographers of Etsy. As soon as I hit publish, I used my momentum and went to Statsy Clockbot to schedule renewals of my newest listing.

3. I used the Wikipedia List of Colors to go beyond "pink" in my Etsy tags. I chose "cotton candy pink" instead. 

All in all, this listing took one full hour. I suppose it will get faster and easier if I continue to practice. If you have an Etsy shop, how long does it take you to create a new listing?