Comments on: Guest Blog: Special Topics in Calamity Business – Are You An Indie Blogger? You Should Be by Anna Powers

By: jen jafarzadeh

jen jafarzadeh — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:28:17 +0000

have to say – I love that typewriter photograph!

By: Rachel

Rachel — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 06:37:55 +0000

These posts are fabulous. I’ll be linking to this.

By: Anna

Anna — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:56:44 +0000

Thank you all for the comments!

Jamie, Robin, and MaizieDesigns, hopefully I can give you some more ideas in my coming posts. (And p.s. to MaizieDesigns: total sidenote, but my daughter is named Maisie!)

Marianne, very well said; hopefully I can give concrete examples of all your points. And d’oh about Decorno! I know she’s not a he, but I fumbled my fingers (and brain) on that one. Lady Decorno, my apologies 🙂

By: JoolzGirl

JoolzGirl — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 06:32:14 +0000

This is great information! I only really started blogging this year so it will be great to get some tips 🙂

By: Maiziedesigns

Maiziedesigns — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:06:10 +0000

I opened an Etsy shop two months ago and have sold 50+ items so far. I would like to keep my momentum and grow, grow, grow so I just started a blog two weeks ago. I am having a ball with it so far-a great tool too. Thanks for the tips and I’ll be checking back next week about upkeep!

By: robin

robin — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:18:27 +0000

PS any tips on getting the etsy mini (the pic and link to your shop provided by etsy) to work? it has never worked for me when i have tried to create a gadget for it in my sidebar on blogger.

By: robin

robin — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:10:36 +0000

thank you anna for this post. this is exactly what happened with my etsy shop. so funny to find this as i was just discussing it with my aunt. i do already have a blog, but i should discuss more about my shop there i suppose. thanks for the tip.

By: Marianne

Marianne — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:52:07 +0000

Interesting article. Small correction: Decorno is a she, not a he 🙂

I think a common mistake people make, especially at the beginning, is having their blog be too much of a soliloquy. It’s better to talk about industry trends and what other handmade artists are up to IN ADDITION to comments on your own creative process. That way, you get love by giving love, and you’re really participating in conversations buzzing around the blogosphere instead of just talking to yourself 🙂

Marianne
http://imakejewelry.blogspot.com/

By: Jamie - City Chic

Jamie - City Chic — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:24:03 +0000

This is wonderful! I am looking forward to next week’s post. I just started my blog so this is perfect timing!