Introduction In the US and most other countries, when a consumer buys something new, they have the legal right to know where that product was…
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General information for Etsy sellers, artisans, and small business owners.
For the past couple of months, ISG president Kristi has been digging very deep into the reasons our guild isn’t building an alternative marketplace to…
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During the Etsy Strike, our first demand was “Cancel the Fee Increase” – timing and all that – but when we polled our membership, that…
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This post is part of a series. Click here to start at the beginning. The Indie Sellers Guild launch on September 5th, 2022 was 3…
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This is the second post in a series. The first – Can we Build an Etsy Alternative Marketplace? – can be read (or listened to)…
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Correction: Goimagine is converting to a “Shared Ownership Model” rather than a “Multi-Stakeholder Coop”. Goimagine maker members will have voting rights and representation on the…
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There’s an updated version of this blog post! Read it here. We’ve had quite a few people reach out and (basically) say, screw Etsy, let’s…
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Part 1 in a series on Etsy fees: A breakdown of Etsy’s unnecessarily opaque and complicated fee structure, with examples.
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I have found that there are smart choices to better market your store and help move away from Etsy. For me, I couldn’t cut the…
Comments closedOne comment I’ve heard numerous times – both directly in regard to Etsy’s increasingly cynical business manoeuvres, and to the similar actions of other corporations…
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