I slept a little late last night, at about 1 AM+. I was jokingly telling a fellow Etsian on Twitter that oh I wanted to wait for at least a transaction email to appear in my Inbox before I go to bed. And it actually happened. I wasn’t thinking too much about it and simply thought, oh good, people are starting to shop again, and I went to bed.
Early this morning I woke up to check our shop hearts and status, and found that we’ve got at least a dozen of new hearts! So I immediately checked and OMG, we were featured in Etsy’s Storque! And the item that we’ve just sold is the one featured in the Storque post!
Check the Storque post here.
I started thinking about the effect of the Etsy Front Page and Storque. Weird enough, everytime we were on the Front Page, none of our items were sold. But everytime we were in a Storque post (another time was with our other digital shop sometime last year) we sold the item being featured and perhaps some other items too (during the last featured). Front Page is perhaps, good for people who are constantly or more into browsing on Etsy, and it’s probably only good for 30 minutes. The Storque, on the other hand, has huge subscriber base and is definitely good for longer period of exposure – the post is going to stay there like, forever!
But either way, we love both. :D
P/S: We have a discussion-meet up-appointment sometime next week for a potential big leap in our business. Will reveal more by then. Hopefully everything turns out great – so the horoscope that mum sent was right. 2010 is going to be a good year! :)
