Links
Business Resources
- Currency Converter
- Craft, Inc: Turn Your Craft Hobby into a Business
- Craft and Hobbie Association
- CraftZine: Business101 For Crafty Types
- Indie Craft Shows
- National Association For The Self-Employed
- SCORE
- U.S. Copyright Office
Improving Your Etsy Shop
- Finding Your Etsy Niche
- Guidelines & Tips: Tagging on Etsy
- How-to Network Offline
- Making the Most of Your Descriptions
- Tips for Sellers: Pawandclawdesigns' To-do List
- Shop Makeover Series
- Skill Share: Making a Banner
- Your Shop 101 Series
Finances
- The Art Of Pricing Series
- Etsy Seller Inventory Worksheet
- Customer Care Tip: Do You Know Where Your Payment Is?
- Customer Care Tip: Shipping Costs and PayPal
- Gift Certificates in Your Shop
- How to Deposit Your PayPal Funds into Your Bank Account
-Etsy Fee Calculator
Health Care, Safety and Emergency Help
- National Association For The Self-Employed
- Coverage For All
- Find A Low Cost Health Center
- The Haven Foundation
- Health and Safety in the Arts and Crafts
- Craft Emergency Relief Fund
Change Emergency Funds
One-time only emergency grants for visual artists of any discipline within the U.S.
Application Address: Robert Rauschenberg, Executive Director
Change, Inc. P.O. Box 54 Captiva, FL 33924
Marketing
- DIY-Friendly Guide to Advertising Online - DIY PR: Local Press - DIY PR: Plotting with the Calendar - Etsy + Moo: Ideas for how to use your new Moo products - Etsy Workshop Talk: Global Microbrand - Etsy Team Guide No. 1: The Art of the Press Release - Etsy Teams Mission: Ten Minute Marketing - Etsy Team Tip: Running a Promotion Online - How-to Sell Sell Sell 365 Days a Year - How-to Succeed Using Promotions Section of the Forums - I Heart Marketing My Etsy Shop and You Will, Too! - Marketing With Etsy
- The Sampler: What is it, and who can get one?
- Your Shop 101: Marketing on a Shoestring
Photography
- Bright Light, Big Color: Using EV and White Balance to Make Your Photos True to Life
- Etsy Video How-To: Photographing Your Items
- Forty's Foto Tips Series
- Hot Tip: Resizing Your Photos the Easy Way
- Hot Tip: Photoshop and Gimp 101
- On The Level: Make Your Photos Pop with Histograms and Levels
- Printing Digitally: Producing Beautiful D.I.Y. Photo Prints
- Shop Makeover series: Photographing for Success
- Your Shop 101: Photograph Your Way to The Top
Craft How-Tos
- Etsy How-To: Five Basic Tips for Making a Video
- Etsy How-To: How to Make Lip Balm
- Etsy How-To: How to Stencil
- Etsy How-To: Make a Box Out of Paper Scraps
- Etsy How-To: Make Paper from Recycled Material
- Etsy How-To: Make a Pinback Buttons
- Etsy How-To: Screenprinting and You
- Tugboat Printshop Tutorial: Woodblock Printed Shirts
- Tip of the Day: Shoe Box Shelves
Other How-Tos:
- MAKEzine
- Instructables
- Burdastyle Open Source Sewing Patterns
- microRevolt
- Knitknit
If you have suggestions or additions to this list, please email them to teams@etsy.com
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