{"id":1182,"date":"2019-03-14T10:24:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T10:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peonylanedesigns.com\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2020-06-14T21:50:04","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T21:50:04","slug":"5-things-i-wish-i-knew-about-selling-on-etsy-before-i-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peonylanedesigns.com\/5-things-i-wish-i-knew-about-selling-on-etsy-before-i-started\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Things I Wish I Knew About Selling on Etsy Before I Started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Selling on Etsy can be quite daunting and hindsight certainly is 20\/20 vision.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the benefit of looking back is you can see all the things you didn&#8217;t know.\u00a0 I literally knew nothing about selling on Etsy when I started.<\/p>\n<p>I was under the delusional impression that I would figure out everything I would need to know as I went along. Not surprisingly, I also believed that what I didn&#8217;t know wouldn&#8217;t hurt me.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I was right about figuring it out as I went along. With every stumble and set back I learned. Some of the lessons were hard.<\/p>\n<p>But I was so wrong about it wouldn&#8217;t hurt me.\u00a0 I imagine I lost out on a lot of sales because of what I didn&#8217;t know.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re starting on Etsy let me help you get a leg up straight out of the gate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.peonylanedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/5-Things-About-Etsy-I-wish-I-knew-before-starting-1-1.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1187\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.peonylanedesigns.com\/5-things-i-wish-i-knew-about-selling-on-etsy-before-i-started\/5-things-about-etsy-i-wish-i-knew-before-starting-1-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.peonylanedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/5-Things-About-Etsy-I-wish-I-knew-before-starting-1-1.png?fit=800%2C2000&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,2000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"5 Things About Etsy I wish I knew before starting\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;5 Things About Etsy I wish I knew before starting&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.peonylanedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/5-Things-About-Etsy-I-wish-I-knew-before-starting-1-1.png?fit=120%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.peonylanedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/5-Things-About-Etsy-I-wish-I-knew-before-starting-1-1.png?fit=410%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1187\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.peonylanedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/5-Things-About-Etsy-I-wish-I-knew-before-starting-1-1.png?resize=640%2C1600\" alt=\"5 Things About Etsy I wish I knew before starting \" width=\"640\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.peonylanedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/5-Things-About-Etsy-I-wish-I-knew-before-starting-1-1.png?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.peonylanedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/5-Things-About-Etsy-I-wish-I-knew-before-starting-1-1.png?resize=120%2C300&amp;ssl=1 120w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.peonylanedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/5-Things-About-Etsy-I-wish-I-knew-before-starting-1-1.png?resize=768%2C1920&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.peonylanedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/5-Things-About-Etsy-I-wish-I-knew-before-starting-1-1.png?resize=410%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 410w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;ve written a few articles on Selling on Etsy that I hope have loads of helpful tips for you. So if you&#8217;re looking for more information check them out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peonylanedesigns.com\/?s=etsy\">HERE<\/a>. If you can learn from my mistakes then I will feel like all my struggles were worth it.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve already started your Etsy shop what are some of the things you wish you&#8217;d known when you started?\u00a0 Comment down below and let me know what it was. Maybe we can all help each other make this journey to entrepreneurship a lot less scary.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">I posted on Etsy every day for a month. Find out what happened.<\/h3>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gyUisKXXM38\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selling on Etsy can be quite daunting and hindsight certainly is 20\/20 vision.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the benefit of looking back is you can see all the things you didn&#8217;t know.\u00a0 I literally knew nothing about selling on Etsy when I started. 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