The Biz card/ promo item shipments went out today - I was impressed with the promos and the business card designs.
The home made cards were well done; the graphics on all cards were really well done.
The promos included some pin backs and magnets; pinbacks in tiny baggies - so they had a little introduction card that explained everything!
Pretty scented soap samples
Post cards! I also included a group promo idea where we each bought a square. I love mine.
StellaBean made some tiny notebooks - this idea is pretty cool & could be customized to work for anyone.
I even included some of the goodies in my weekend orders! Keep your eyes peeled for the boxes & let me know if you don't receive yours.
~Betsy
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Showing posts with label NEST. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Biz Card Swap
Reminder!
This is the time to ship your last minute business cards & promo items to Zesty Betsy for a business card swap. Send her a convo for the mailing address
What makes a good Promo?
Something the customer will keep around long enough to see again & remember you/your product by.
Something that isn't cost prohibitive
Best ones for Etsy are hand made!
What do you use?
This is the time to ship your last minute business cards & promo items to Zesty Betsy for a business card swap. Send her a convo for the mailing address
What makes a good Promo?
Something the customer will keep around long enough to see again & remember you/your product by.
Something that isn't cost prohibitive
Best ones for Etsy are hand made!
What do you use?
Monday, July 30, 2007
More Events - deadlines very soon!
Hamden, CT Craft Show weekend of Aug 24 - 26. - send email to SulimosDesign@ yahoo.com for info
shop til you drop
Stoughton, MA
Canalfest
Worcester, MA
Sign of the Dove
Belmont, MA
This Thursday (August 2) you can stop by the Shops on South in Jamaica Plain (Boston) to meet and support a group of Etsy crafters showing their works as part of JP First Thursday events from 5-8-ish.
shop til you drop
Stoughton, MA
Canalfest
Worcester, MA
Sign of the Dove
Belmont, MA
This Thursday (August 2) you can stop by the Shops on South in Jamaica Plain (Boston) to meet and support a group of Etsy crafters showing their works as part of JP First Thursday events from 5-8-ish.
Friday, July 20, 2007
NEST chat meeting
A very informal NEST meeting was in the Chat rooms yesterday.
Generally discussed:
Reminded folks of the business card swap. Zesty Betsy has already received a nice group of promotional items & it looking forward to more.
Yahoo Polls online for fundraising/budget/marketing ideas. NESTshop had another sale!
KathiParker has found a free hosted database application she will set up for us to log and catalog and rate arts and crafts events.
Decadence Designs Boston Event in general.
Western Massachusetts plans for a fair for the fall.
Zesty Betsy found that stART on the Street might be interested in items for goodie bags for the September 16 event. If you are interested in adding items (More than business cards) send her a convo. If anyone else knows of promotional opportunities such as this; event goodie bags, hospital baby bags, home party gift bags....etc - let's make a list!
Generally discussed:
Reminded folks of the business card swap. Zesty Betsy has already received a nice group of promotional items & it looking forward to more.
Yahoo Polls online for fundraising/budget/marketing ideas. NESTshop had another sale!
KathiParker has found a free hosted database application she will set up for us to log and catalog and rate arts and crafts events.
Decadence Designs Boston Event in general.
Western Massachusetts plans for a fair for the fall.
Zesty Betsy found that stART on the Street might be interested in items for goodie bags for the September 16 event. If you are interested in adding items (More than business cards) send her a convo. If anyone else knows of promotional opportunities such as this; event goodie bags, hospital baby bags, home party gift bags....etc - let's make a list!
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
NEST Chat room meeting
Hola Amigos!
Tomorrow evening at 7:30 congregate in our own custom chat room to meet & discuss topics of business, craft & promotions!
Gracis!
Tomorrow evening at 7:30 congregate in our own custom chat room to meet & discuss topics of business, craft & promotions!
Gracis!
Saturday, July 14, 2007
NEST team minutes from Kathi Parker
NEST - NEST New England Street Team chat of 7/11/2007
kathiparker says:
Somebody will have to add whatever I have missed.
ZestyB made some edits prior to posting here.
NEST has some 200 member names - of them some are likely inactive, but some are just not involved or participating with this team. Some vague suggestion of reaching out to them was floated.
ZestyB created a team blog at: http://nestshop. blogspot. com/
Members from NH and CT also have access to it; Others who would like to be regular reporters or just contribute occasionally are welcome to do so. If you're interested in having yourshop profiled on the Blog - please look in the files section of hte Yahoo group for the interview questions.
Several ideas were suggested for use of any funds raised by the NESTshop. It was suggested that a poll be set up to get an idea of what the team thinks. (Poll posted on Yahoo - get your votes in!)
Biz card & promotional items swap - convo ZestyB for address to participate.
We discussed having our own Etsy craft shows and think that they needed to be run by members who were in the area where the show would be. There are 7 other street teams in New England and it was suggested
that those teams might be able to get together more easily to run and promote shows.
"Fortheloveofcrafts " stated that no one she talks to has ever heard of Etsy and while the conversation didn't take us in that direction, I totally agree and think that the street teams were set up to get the Etsy word. We need to think of things which we can do individually in this regard.
(What things can you do to spread the work about Etsy? Let's think about how do we, personally, get interested in a new shop/store/product? ZestyB will post a question on the blog - perhaps you can comment with some ideas.)
We were reminded to put "Nesty" in listing tags. As well as, use our own shop names in our listing tags. The store name because newcomers dont' realize (and oldtimers forget) the pull down menu in the search
NESTY because one of the things we'll be doing as NEST members is tell the people they can find and buy from local NE vendors using NESTy as a search term.
BackWoodsCreations is working on one or more shows in Maine July 28! and needs help and vendors.
DecadenceDesigns is pulling together an ongoing venue in Hamden CT.
BackWoodsDesigns wondered if our blog was listed with Tecnorati,
ZestyB invited folks to join NEST group on flickr.
What other sites can we use to spread the word?
I know I've missed a lot here. I have trouble keeping threads of conversations straight in big IM meetings. If you remember something more, or something different, please add it to this thread.
Posted at 11:13 pm, July 13 2007 EST
kathiparker says:
Somebody will have to add whatever I have missed.
ZestyB made some edits prior to posting here.
NEST has some 200 member names - of them some are likely inactive, but some are just not involved or participating with this team. Some vague suggestion of reaching out to them was floated.
ZestyB created a team blog at: http://nestshop. blogspot. com/
Members from NH and CT also have access to it; Others who would like to be regular reporters or just contribute occasionally are welcome to do so. If you're interested in having yourshop profiled on the Blog - please look in the files section of hte Yahoo group for the interview questions.
Several ideas were suggested for use of any funds raised by the NESTshop. It was suggested that a poll be set up to get an idea of what the team thinks. (Poll posted on Yahoo - get your votes in!)
Biz card & promotional items swap - convo ZestyB for address to participate.
We discussed having our own Etsy craft shows and think that they needed to be run by members who were in the area where the show would be. There are 7 other street teams in New England and it was suggested
that those teams might be able to get together more easily to run and promote shows.
"Fortheloveofcrafts " stated that no one she talks to has ever heard of Etsy and while the conversation didn't take us in that direction, I totally agree and think that the street teams were set up to get the Etsy word. We need to think of things which we can do individually in this regard.
(What things can you do to spread the work about Etsy? Let's think about how do we, personally, get interested in a new shop/store/product? ZestyB will post a question on the blog - perhaps you can comment with some ideas.)
We were reminded to put "Nesty" in listing tags. As well as, use our own shop names in our listing tags. The store name because newcomers dont' realize (and oldtimers forget) the pull down menu in the search
NESTY because one of the things we'll be doing as NEST members is tell the people they can find and buy from local NE vendors using NESTy as a search term.
BackWoodsCreations is working on one or more shows in Maine July 28! and needs help and vendors.
DecadenceDesigns is pulling together an ongoing venue in Hamden CT.
BackWoodsDesigns wondered if our blog was listed with Tecnorati,
ZestyB invited folks to join NEST group on flickr.
What other sites can we use to spread the word?
I know I've missed a lot here. I have trouble keeping threads of conversations straight in big IM meetings. If you remember something more, or something different, please add it to this thread.
Posted at 11:13 pm, July 13 2007 EST
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
oh no what's a promo?
What makes a good promo item?
anything that you can put your business name onto or that will remind folks of your business.
ideally something that they person will keep around to look at for a while.
magnets strong enough to actually stay on fridge
pin back buttons especially if your market is a younger crowd
key fobs if you can get your name on them
stickers might be good
tiny parts or pieces of your normal work (I heard of one person who promo-ed out 1 earring, and if you ordered from her store you got the mate as well for free!)
matchbooks imprinted with your info
small art & info glued to a match box?
candy? shorter life span since folks wouldn't keep the wrapper, but they might remember the sweet.
a small pouch with your logo & info
a t-shirt with your logo & info
a mug or cup etched or painted
tiny gift sized note cards
What do you use as a promo item?
anything that you can put your business name onto or that will remind folks of your business.
ideally something that they person will keep around to look at for a while.
magnets strong enough to actually stay on fridge
pin back buttons especially if your market is a younger crowd
key fobs if you can get your name on them
stickers might be good
tiny parts or pieces of your normal work (I heard of one person who promo-ed out 1 earring, and if you ordered from her store you got the mate as well for free!)
matchbooks imprinted with your info
small art & info glued to a match box?
candy? shorter life span since folks wouldn't keep the wrapper, but they might remember the sweet.
a small pouch with your logo & info
a t-shirt with your logo & info
a mug or cup etched or painted
tiny gift sized note cards
What do you use as a promo item?
Monday, July 2, 2007
Business Card and Promotional Item Team Swap
It's that time again to get your business cards and promotional items out there with other sellers.
How does it work?
1) buy, make, or otherwise get some business cards.
2) create, find, or snag some items of a promotional nature.
3) Send in your cards, promos and a buck or 2 for return shipping to Zesty Betsy
check the Yahoo Group for her address, or send her a convo.
4) Make sure you get them to her before August 4th
5) The week of August 6th you should receive a package with cards & promos!
Just in time for the Holidays!
How does it work?
1) buy, make, or otherwise get some business cards.
2) create, find, or snag some items of a promotional nature.
3) Send in your cards, promos and a buck or 2 for return shipping to Zesty Betsy
check the Yahoo Group for her address, or send her a convo.
4) Make sure you get them to her before August 4th
5) The week of August 6th you should receive a package with cards & promos!
Just in time for the Holidays!
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Meeting in Chat Room
NEST meeting in Chat room - Blue - tonight at 7pm - please feel free to stop in even ifyou haven't officially joined.
Some agenda items:
1) Having a membership "drive" - contacting every seller that is in the New England area and not part of NEST, inviting them to join NEST. There are so many sellers that don't know about NEST. This should be done about every 3 months to be able to catch the newbies :D
2) Have subdivisions - perhaps by state? - within NEST. NE is such a large area and some of the information that applies to CT doesn't apply to VT, etc.
3) NEST needs to have more forum/blog activity. We seem to exist in name only.
4)I am trying to put together an Etsy seller craft show (or several "spotlights" depending on how big the space is).
5) Business card & Promo Swap - Let's do another one. I have some new promos to share; & I already have one set of cards from an eager seller! Please a comment or convo NESTshop for the address. Please include a dollar or two for return postage. And we can talk about different promo ideas.
6) NEST shop is looking for some volunteer(s) for some listing like banner/avatar; business card design; perhaps custom promo packages; Reserved Listing images, etc. You may have another idea as well in this vein - bumper stickers, magnets, magnet signs for cars, signs or banner for craft fairs. Stuff you use for your crafty business.
7) NEST blog - is new. Anyone interested in a seller profile/shout out - I can send a little set of started questions to you.
Anyone interested in reviewing or reporting on local happenings? I'd like to give access to folks on the local Street Teams within New England as well. (I have NH and CT on board! and articles from Western MA!)
(Yay!)
8) It's time to start thinking of Christmas! Perhaps we can storm up some ideas for holiday sales.
Some agenda items:
1) Having a membership "drive" - contacting every seller that is in the New England area and not part of NEST, inviting them to join NEST. There are so many sellers that don't know about NEST. This should be done about every 3 months to be able to catch the newbies :D
2) Have subdivisions - perhaps by state? - within NEST. NE is such a large area and some of the information that applies to CT doesn't apply to VT, etc.
3) NEST needs to have more forum/blog activity. We seem to exist in name only.
4)I am trying to put together an Etsy seller craft show (or several "spotlights" depending on how big the space is).
5) Business card & Promo Swap - Let's do another one. I have some new promos to share; & I already have one set of cards from an eager seller! Please a comment or convo NESTshop for the address. Please include a dollar or two for return postage. And we can talk about different promo ideas.
6) NEST shop is looking for some volunteer(s) for some listing like banner/avatar; business card design; perhaps custom promo packages; Reserved Listing images, etc. You may have another idea as well in this vein - bumper stickers, magnets, magnet signs for cars, signs or banner for craft fairs. Stuff you use for your crafty business.
7) NEST blog - is new. Anyone interested in a seller profile/shout out - I can send a little set of started questions to you.
Anyone interested in reviewing or reporting on local happenings? I'd like to give access to folks on the local Street Teams within New England as well. (I have NH and CT on board! and articles from Western MA!)
(Yay!)
8) It's time to start thinking of Christmas! Perhaps we can storm up some ideas for holiday sales.
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