Cool street team stuff!!

hi all!
it's been so long, i feel like we should get together soon! how does next week sound? also, just in case you all haven't visited the etsy blog lately, they've just revamped the team page and there's all kinds of cool stuff on there now. great info on doing fairs and advertising, buttons you can put on your blog, and other stuff you can download. if you explore a little there is also a place for different things teams are doing through the sight- like challenges and stuff. i'm going to print all the info out and start a little folder/binder for our street team okay. i'll bring it to meetings and we can use it for brainstorming and working out details! yay!

let's get together and work on promotion asap :)

wren :)

p.s. post a comment if you want to meet soon, and when...

Wren's research results:: aka, fairs and ads...

hi all!
i just did a little research to follow up on a few things we discussed yesterday:

first, i looked into eugene weekly ad space (via their website). there are two types of ads offered- display ads and classified display ads. the least expensive display ad is $179 for one week, and is 1/12 of a page! yikes! the least expensive classified display ad is $70 for one week, and is 1/32 of a page- better in price, but fairly small. if we were doing an event or something, and had enough people to chip in, the display ad might be feasible, but definitely not at this point!

second, i checked into the spring street faire. it's a good thing i did too, because the application is due march 20th (tuesday). that is probably cutting it a little close, but here's the info: it runs from wednesday, may 2nd through friday may 4th (10-5). a 10x10 space is $125 for all 3 days, a 10x20 space is $250, a table outside is $75. the website said spaces are limited, they expect it to sell out early, and to send in the application and fees asap. it didn't mention anything about sharing, so it seems like that would be fine. it's usually nice weather then, so a table might work with a canopy thing... i would love to do this if others want to work together/chip in/share, so email me (wbirdy@gmail.com) with your thoughts- since we need to apply asap.

third, as i mentioned last night, anyone who is interested in being involved with the pdx street team's fair this spring needs to send a convo to urbana on etsy. she needs your: username, full name, phone number(s), city you live in (duh!), and amount of space you require.

okay! that's a lot of info, hope it helps! lets get on this street faire thing!
wren ;)-

Some nifty changes

Hi everyone.
I was a little bored this Sunday morning and made a few nifty changes to the blog. I added all of our avatars and links to the side so you dont have to scroll down to forever to see us all! And I gave us a page counter! Yeay Hope you all like :D
Also glad to see alot of people are planning on coming to the new meeting on the 15th :D
xoxo
Courtney

New Meeting scheduled!

Ok everyone, the votes are in and it looks like thursdays are our best bet! So with everything that were trying to plan lately we would like to meet on
Thursday, March 15th @ 6:30 pm at World Cafe

I really hope alot of us can make it because we are going to be talking about buttons, our flyers that we've already started to put up and also crafty wonderland trying to set up carpools and possibly booth sharing. So please try and make it if you want to be a part of this. :D
xoxo
Courtney

Etsy Mini and Craftywonderland!

hi guys! wren (aka dandilion) here. fyi- go to your etsy shop and click on your etsy. at the bottom there's a new feature called Etsy Mini. it lets you build a little gallery from your shop or faves and gives you the code to put in your blogs! yay! check out mine for an example. maybe you could add one here courtney...

wren:)
p.s. if anyone else is interested in attending craftywonderland (april 15th) with pam and i please contact us asap.

Official Etsy Street Team

Hi all...Pam here. We are now an official Etsy Street Team! Check it out http://team.etsy.com/profilest/or.shtml It would be nice to put together a profile at some time, but for now I think that's a great start. Another thing that we can do is post upcoming events on that site. Which brings me to a subject that we have discussed in our meetings. We would love to be able to have a sale or booth in a show as a group to get the word out about Etsy and, of course, to promote our shops. If anyone has any ideas on this, please post in comments or contact me. Some possibilities might be church bazaars, spring flower shows, coffee shops that like to promote local artists...things like that. Any ideas?

Reminder

It seems we didnt get enough people willing to meet this thursday (only one commented) so we will not be meeting. We'll let everyone know when were planning another meeting. Hopefully it will be soon and all of us will be able to attend. So far we have thursday winning on the votes with 75% but there is only 4 votes so please scroll down and vote/comment :D Especially if thursday is a problem for you.
Courtney

Vote for which day your most available...

If there are any stipulations such as "yeah i can meet on tuesday but not after 5" < please leave them as a comment. :) Vote everyone so we can get a better idea and actually all get together! :D Thanks Crye for the idea!!
Courtney

	Which day is best to meet?
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Our first Treasury!

Ok Guys Great News! I scored us a treasury. Pam mentioned making a treasury for the street team and I was lucky enough to snag one just in time. Take a look at our page!
http://www.etsy.com/treasury.php?id=1173139886594U106886
I was able to showcase everyone so Im happy for that. View it and feel free to post in the forums about it and get people looking at it! :D Anyone know any tips or tricks for getting us on the homepage? :D

Also, another important topic. Our planned thursday meeting. Since some of us met yesterday we were going to cancel our thursday at world cafe. But if alot of new people that havent attended a meeting want to meet then, Pam and I are willing to meet with you and catch you up or just chat about ideas you have, and we now have flyers to pass out.. So please please post here and let us know by a show of posts who wants us to keep the thursday meeting. If we have alot of people posting we'll still plan to meet. We are trying to find a good day to meet for everyone, So please leave us your feedback on this! :)
Courtney

This message is from wren. She's got alot of important info in here so check it out and remember to email me your email address either via etsy convos or through my email at labelmeclothing@yahoo.com if you want to be an author for the blog!
Courtney


hello hello,
here is the link for craftywonderland:
http://www.craftywonderland.com/index.htm. it looks like we can share
spots, and they have a couple bigger/odd shaped ones that we might be
able to get. otherwise we can still carpool. lets decide if we're
going to apply in the next couple days so we can email them asap.

i checked on the buttons/pins again. it looks like i was wrong about a
bulk discount. i may just buy some for myself and let others do the
same. or we could do it together and get them somewhere else. the link
for those is: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=5436823.
there are also some cute ones with a heart
(http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=5478469). the only
problem with these is they don't say etsy.com like we wanted. i also
found a listing for 100 1in. buttons for $25 (+$4 s&h). that's a much
better deal. that link is:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=5470079.

i emailed etsy support about setting up a group conversation, and i'll
let you know when they respond.
i think that's about
it for now.

wren :)

Hi Everyone

Courtney here....Sorry I missed the meeting this sunday you guys. I read the comments here and I would love to add everyone as an author for the blog. I have pam and emily added but i need everyone elses email addresses to add you as an author....If you email me at labelmeclothing@yahoo.com with your email Or convo me on etsy. Ill work on emailing everyone back with the user id and password for the blog and Ill add you as an author to the blog :D
Once again Im sorry Molly and I missed the meeting today. I hope you all liked the flyers.