RetroBabs Vintage

I recently read an interesting article on the Handmadeology blog. It talked about an idea to promote ones shop on Etsy. The author's brilliant idea was about the "marrying" of another shop to your own, thereby helping and promoting each other. The article was written by my good friend from RetroChalet, which happens to be the shop I AM MARRIED to! This arrangement has been a wonderful collaboration of ideas, treasuries, blog posts, emails and friendship. She affectionately calls me "Wifey" and has helped take an Etsy Newbie gain confidence and a fledgling vintage shop grow. Read the original article at: http://www.handmadeology.com/etsy-marriage-a-unique-approach-to-increasing-etsy-sales/ http://www.etsy.com/shop/RetroChalet Miss Cindy encouraged me to join teams and succeeded in getting me to change this very Blog. (Don't you like the new design and format?) One of the teams I join was Etsy Recyclers Guild Team and I entered a contest. Now I ...

Trade-a-Holics is a new team I joined and what it consists of are shops on Etsy that are willing to trade items instead of selling items. If they are willing to trade items from shop to shop and they must be members of this team. The items do go down as a sale because it is an exchange of goods instead of dollars. I have made two trades so far and I have to admit it is pretty fun. Check them out at: http://etsytradeaholics.blogspot.com The team is having a contest. Here are the rules for a new team challenge. "the rules are simple: - entries will be accepted until february 17th, 2011. - only one entry per shop - all entries MUST be handmade and listed for sale/trade in your Etsy shop. (no supplies or destash please!) - all entries must reflect in some way the current theme "it's cold outside!" - tag your item with this month's challenge tag "tradefebruary11" so that people can find your item! - starting on february 10th, CONVO muffintop...