{"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’s the benefit of looking back is you can see all the things you didn’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’t know wouldn’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’t hurt me.\u00a0 I imagine I lost out on a lot of sales because of what I didn’t know.\u00a0 If you’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&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,2000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}\" data-image-title=\"5 Things About Etsy I wish I knew before starting\" data-image-description=\"<p>5 Things About Etsy I wish I knew before starting<\/p>\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&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&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&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&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&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&ssl=1 410w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I’ve written a few articles on Selling on Etsy that I hope have loads of helpful tips for you. So if you’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’ve already started your Etsy shop what are some of the things you wish you’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’s the benefit of looking back is you can see all the things you didn’t know.\u00a0 I literally knew nothing about selling on Etsy when I started. I was under the delusional impression that I would figure out everything I would need…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[117,255],"tags":[257,1424],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-etsy","tag-etsy-selling-tips","tag-selling-on-etsy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"gutentor_comment":1,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.peonylanedesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/5-Things-About-Etsy-I-wish-I-knew.png?fit=1350%2C650&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qHlv-j4","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peonylanedesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peonylanedesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peonylanedesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peonylanedesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peonylanedesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.peonylanedesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peonylanedesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peonylanedesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peonylanedesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peonylanedesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}