{"id":3598,"date":"2011-01-19T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T17:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stephenpickering.com\/?p=3598"},"modified":"2011-01-20T11:19:34","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T16:19:34","slug":"internet-shopping-etsy-com-continues-to-flourish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/19\/internet-shopping-etsy-com-continues-to-flourish\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Shopping: Etsy.com Continues to Flourish"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3602\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/etsy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3602\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3602\" title=\"etsy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/etsy-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/etsy-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/etsy-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/etsy.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3602\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">You just might if you sell your wares on Etsy.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On the heels of a recent report that <a href=\"http:\/\/etsy.com\">Etsy<\/a>, the ecommerce site known for &#8220;arts &amp; crafts&#8221; is set to do $50,000,000 in revenues this year from a base of 7 million customers and over $400 million in transactions, I felt it would be good to write about it. I&#8217;ve heard about Etsy for years, but always let it slide off my consciousness. The moniker &#8220;arts &amp; crafts&#8221; has never had a positive connotation in my mind for whatever reason. But a business that is doing well financially usually is also a business that has a good product. So I decided to investigate further.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;The site itself does a really good job of blending content and e-commerce.&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/katquips\">Kathy Choi<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/thisweekin.com\/thisweekin-startups\/this-week-in-startups-107-john-borthwick-ceo-and-co-founder-of-betaworks-com\/\">&#8220;This Week in Startups&#8221; #107<\/a> (During the news section at the end of the show)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Really Unique and Authentic Products that are often cheaper than non authentic, mass produced products.&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jason\">Jason Calacanis<\/a> (same show)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The site itself has the feel of shopping from a upscale department store, but it&#8217;s all hand-crafted.&#8221; &#8211; ditto, Jason<\/li>\n<li>Kind of has a &#8220;Shabby-Chic&#8221; feel. So this might be the internet&#8217;s version of going &#8220;antiquing&#8221; kind of thing or a warm, old-fashioned street market, a chance to find unexpected things that may delight you. &#8211; (that&#8217;s mine, hehehehehe)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Halloween costumes, linens, furniture, hats, clothing, dry-goods, are some of the main types of things you might find there. <a href=\"http:\/\/etsy.com\">But go check the site out<\/a> yourself. There&#8217;s lots of categories, and also if you happen to have a passion for a certain craft you can also sell your own wares there, making a business out of your passion. The business has a great reputation, and trust is the key ingredient in e-commerce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the heels of a recent report that Etsy, the ecommerce site known for &#8220;arts &amp; crafts&#8221; is set to do $50,000,000 in revenues this year from a base of 7 million customers and over $400 million in transactions, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/19\/internet-shopping-etsy-com-continues-to-flourish\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[298,66,20],"tags":[336,437],"class_list":["post-3598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-sites-apps","category-shopping","category-tech","tag-etsy","tag-shopping"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}