Ella has found a forever home!

It's been a long time since an update. Months, actually. Much has happened.

Wednesday, 23 October 2013 is a Red Letter Day for Petunia Magpie. It marks the day of the first sale on Petunia Magpie at Etsy. Pictured is Ella Elephant. Our first sale!

Shipment was performed the day following receipt of payment for the order. The order is out for delivery today and hopefully the buyer will provide some feedback.
   
A little over four months after launch.

Thus far the effort has exceeded the return.

Lots of new items!

Petunia Magpie now has 69 items online!

Newly added are Donald the Debonair Dragon, Gandolf Giraffe,  and Horace Hedgehog. Check all the new listings here.

Been busy making items. Hope to hit the 100 item mark by the 1 month anniversary date. [I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. LOL]


The photo shown above is a new marketing stream I'm trying. It was titled "Pincushions, Purses and Pachyderms". Made for Local Arts and Crafts category of a free online classified site. In the last 2 days the ad has been viewed 27 times and garnered an invitation to a local craft show (which I will be attending).

Still no sales. Am not giving up yet.

Published a treasury today for the Etsylvanians Team. Hoping it gets the shop a little more visibility.

Petunia Magpie is up to ten (10) followers.

Status Report - Day 12

Here's how Petunia Magpie's second week is turning out with regard to the numbers:



According to Etsy:  
Views:                   116
Shop favorites:         7
Listing favorites:    20
Top 3 items:

• Owl Hat for Children
• Chocolate & Teal Purse
• Pincushion Flower

Google Analytics (put in place on day 3):
Views:                  268
Top 3 items:

• Penelope Pachyderm
• Yo-Yo Mama Beach Bag
• Blue Variegated Treasure Bag

As you can see, there's a bit of discrepancy between the statistical methods. There are some metrics that can be analyzed, but measurements at this stage in the game don't provide a lot of feedback. Right now I just use view-counts to see what Customer's are looking at in the shop. After the site has grown (and with time) I'll be looking at Landing Pages, Exit Pages and relating how specific events effect viewer responses.

The Blue Seashell Purse has been featured in a Treasury List. See it HERE.

For now, it's Friday and I'm busy "making".

Y'all have a great weekend!

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Day Two

Yesterday after I published this blog, I went into Petunia Magpie's shop too look at the statistics and was shocked to see that a mere two hours after posting without really promoting anything there had been ten shop views and one person had added an item to their "favorites".

Today I want to make sure I talk a little about SEO tags and statistics.

First, a progress report.

The weather this morning has been rainy and cool enough for a sweater and warm fuzzy socks. I get my warm fuzzy socks from Mast General Store. Their buy three get one free promotion is always a fantastic bargain when you're in the market for a good pair of socks. The grey, gloomy day didn't slow me down. Once the dog was walked I got to work editing photographs and writing copy. Between 6:00 a.m.

I DID IT!

I opened a new Etsy shop! I'm so excited!

Can you guess the shop's name?