Etsy Success: 4 Things to Do Now!

1. Sign Up for the Etsy Success Newsletter which is full of invaluable tips - Newsletter Sign Up

Here are 4 great articles to start with:

1. www.etsy.com/blog/en/2013/how-to-find-your-target-market/
2. www.etsy.com/blog/en/2013/top-10-marketing-tips-from-top-sellers
3. www.etsy.com/blog/en/2013/branding-101
4. www.etsy.com/blog/en/2012/how-to-create-a-cohesive-shop/


2. Color code your listings - the description and the tags!

This is important for not only customers who shop by color but also for Etsians who create Etsy Treasuries.  Having your products in Treasuries will increase their exposure.  Make your items easier to find and feature by including colors and feelings in your descriptions and tags ie yellow and gray, dreamy, misty, happy, nostalgic, vintage,...etc. Note: Your Keywords should appear in both your description and the tags to be optimized for search results.

3. Print and Read this report on Search Engine Optimization for your shop! - SEO Report  

4. Identify the TOP Etsy shops in your category, study them, learn from them.  www.CraftCount.com

5 years: It's your time. It's your life. What will you do with it? What could you do with it?

The Five Book by Dan Zadra

Where Will You be Five Years from Today?
The next five years can be the most exciting and satisfying years of your life—or just another five years.

Peak inside this book.

Graduating from college? Considering a new career? Inspiring your sales or service teams? Setting goals for retirement? Here’s your inspiration. The 5 book is your playbook for life. It features thought-provoking quotations and real-life examples to serve as both a spark and a road map for what’s exciting in your life.

Each year life offers itself to us an endless number of ways. Each moment comes to us with both hands filled with gifts, marvels, opportunities and adventures--but we seldom see or accept more than a tiny franction of the exciting possibilities around us.

The truth is, most of us are so busy doing what we think we have to do the we never get around to doing what we really want to do.

This book celebrate the "want to's," the "choose to's" and the "I can't wait to's" in your life.  Whether you're just finishing school, starting a new venture, celebrating a milestone or envisioning your retirement, you are the hero of this story.

 This is your life, your one-and-only life.  You determine what's possible.  Make choices, ask questions, take steps--today is the day.

The next five years can be the most exciting and satisfying years of your life—or just another five years.


Let the 5 book be your guide.  There are no rules here.  This is not a work book, it's a play book.  This is not a "here's how" book, it's a "why not?" book.  So be daring, be bold and be true to yourself.  Over the next five years, what do you really want to be?  Really want to do?  Really want to have?  Where do you really want to go?

The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own.  No apologies or excuses.  No one to lean on, rely on or blame.  The gift of life is yours--it is an amazing journey--and you alone are responsible for the quality of it.

Your journey is determined by the choices you make.  Your answers are determined by the questions you ask.  Your destination is determined by the steps you take.  Your future is determined by what you do today.

Where will you be five years from today?

Get MORE Sales in 30 Minutes a Day!

By Chief Dodo

A must read article from Marketing DoDo!

Haven’t got the time to get your marketing done? Rather spend your time doing something else? Did you know that spending just 30 minutes a day can super charge your online business…

Find out how now!...read on

Breath is Life: 23 Benefits of Breathing Right!

How we breathe, day-to-day, moment-to-moment, affects every system of our bodies.

Oxygen is more important to us than either food or water. We can live without food for weeks, even months and without water for days, but without oxygen, we will die within a matter of minutes.

It only stands to reason that good breathing is not just important for athletes or opera singers but essential for all of us.

In fact, both ancient teachings and modern research correlate good breathing skills with wellness, and poor breathing skills with a strong propensity towards illness. However, poor breathing habits often go unnoticed.

Because breathing occurs naturally without thinking about it, we don't generally think of breathing as something we need to learn to do correctly or even better. Yet, when we take into consideration the great number of things affecting the length, depth, volume, balance, rate, ease, and flow of our breathing such as posture, stress and pollution to name a few, we can begin to understand how the quality of our breathing can diminish over time.

Breath is life.  And so, we must ensure that we are breathing properly and aspire toward optimum breathing.

RESOURCES:

HolisticOnline.com: The Importance of Breathing An in depth look at correct breathing.

HolisticOnline.com: Learning to Breathe Correctly - Explains how to learn to Breathe Correctly.

Below is an introduction to Pranayama Breathing.


Benefits of increased oxygen

• Increases energy levels
• Increases stamina and endurance
• Enhances the absorption of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, proteins and other important nutrients
• Rapid fatigue recovery
• Lowers resting heart rate
• Kills infectious bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites, but does not harm the "Good" microorganisms the body needs.
• Relieves pain
• Improves circulation
• Sleep better
• Strengthens the immune system
• Heightens concentration and alertness
• Increases fat metabolism resulting in loss of body fat
• Calms the nervous system
• Improves memory
• Improves chemical imbalances in the body.
• Relieves headache
• Accelerates healing time for injuries
• Lowers blood pressure
• Relieves stress and anxiety
• Helps reverse premature aging
• Relieves symptoms of PMS in women
• Helps displace damaging free radicals
• Helps neutralize harmful toxins in cells, tissues and bloodstream

Be. Do. Have. Paradigm Shift

Make a video of your own at Animoto.

We can’t live our lives waiting to HAVE the right stuff
Before we can DO the things we long to do
In order to BE...happy, secure, healthy...

‘Have-Do-Be’ is not the divine order of things but has become a general way of thinking. Nonetheless, it is a dangerous misconception, a Mind Trap in Would-Coulda-Shoulda land aka 'Stag-Nation.'

The truth is…

You have to BE before you can DO and you have to DO before you can HAVE.
This is the process of Creation.
This is the law of Attraction.
This is no longer a Secret.

Be the person you want to be – happy, secure, motivated, rich, thin – Be it now, then Do what feels right for you, do what supports your ‘being’ and you will Have the things you want, you will Have abundance.