Book
Starting an Etsy Business For Dummies
Kate Shoup, Kate Gatski
Why we picked it
A step-by-step guide to opening and running an Etsy shop, updated in this fourth edition for recent changes to the site. It covers setting up the shop, photographing products and making short videos, writing descriptions, pricing competitively, getting a new shop to show up in search, and finding customers. A good fit for makers of patches, embroidered goods or print-on-demand items who want to sell on Etsy.
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