ETSY SELLING TIP # 5

MAKE  YOUR  PROFILE  SOUND  REALLLLY INTERESTING

Etsy allows you to post a nice profile about yourself and this is the space where you need to let your imagination run wild.  Don’t profile yourself as “a housewife who is bored during the day and uses artwork as a hobby to keep busy while her dull husband works”….NO.   

Be creative and post a profile that is either (a) really exotic or (b) sadly pitiful.  

REALLY EXOTIC :

“I’m a fashion model here in Paris and I specialize in runway modeling and lacy lingerie advertisements.  In between fashion shoots, I paint landscapes to fill the loneliness in my heart.  You may think being a glamorous model in Europe is exotic and thrilling… but no, I often sit at the sidewalk cafes alone by myself and wish to find true love and happiness, but only find love in my art.   Please support my happiness and someday maybe we can meet on the Champs Elysees for coffee… or something more personal and intimate…like a long heated glance of love.”

REALLY PITIFUL :

“I’m a poor worm farmer from Idaho and I started drawing with mud and dirt as a child.   My new job as a janitor at downtown men’s  jail in Detroit is unappealing and dangerous, but my love of pastels and watercolors really allow me escape and explore my sophisticated side.  Please support my hobby, so I don’t end up having to leave my job here in Detroit to move back to Idaho, where the worm business has been ruined by the lack of rain… all the worms dried up and my mom and dad had to sell all my mud and dirt art to pay the bills”