Navigating around Etsy #2- FOLLOWERS

Let's talk about followers today. Your followers are the folks that see your favorites in the Activity Feed. If they like what you posted, they will favor it and send it on to their followers who in turn do the same. It creates a cascade. It gives you exposure in the Activity Feed. The more followers you have the more exposure for you. There are steps you can take to gain followers and they are as follows 

ETSY allows you to follow 1080 members.

• Clean out your following list by unfollowing ones who are not helping you with your goal of sales. Start at the last page of people you are following. Delete those with less than 1000 followers or whose favorites are private. Another group to delete are those whose favorites are less than 3 times their followers.  If they don't have many favorites, they don't like to click on that little heart.

• Choose a member of a team you may belong to who has a large number of followers and go to their page. You can start with the Captain and the Leaders of any team you may be on. 

• Open their Profile and click on FOLLOWERS

• Choose from their list and FOLLOW people from their list who have a minimum of 1000 followers and thousands of favorites until you again have 1080 you are following.

When following someone, open their shop and favor it and a few items. This might get their attention. Hopefully about half will follow you back.

• USE the ACTIVITY Feed: 

1. FAVOR EVERYTHING in sight, not just what you like. Boosting your number of favorites will encourage members to follow you

2. When people favor you, favor back.

3. Do this at least twice a day until you reach your goal of followers. Do more if you have time.

Aim for 500-1000 followers. Once you hit 1000 followers you can relax and the followers will filter in.