One of the hardest things about having an Etsy shop is figuring out how to balance the creative/designing/making tasks with the on-line marketing and promoting tasks. As any Etsy seller knows, spending time doing on-line marketing & staying involving in multiple social media sources is just as important as making new items for your shop.
But it's Soooooo easy to sit down at the computer with the best of intentions- planning to simply list a new item on Etsy, promote it on a few sites and get off line and on with the day- only to loose focus, get side-tracked by some interesting blog or tweet & get swallowed up by the computer. So what's the solution?
For me I need a plan. I need to commit to spending a certain amount of time each day doing on-line marketing, have a limited number of specific on-line tasks to do, have a written plan (prepared ahead of time) in front of me and commit to sticking to the plan NO MATTER WHAT!
I've made up a little spread sheet of my daily on-line promotional tasks so I can hold myself to doing No MORE and NO LESS than 4-6 tasks per day.
What do you think of the To-Do List? What would you add to it or change about it?
Stephanie Troutner
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