First Tuesday Review: Curious Crow Digital

I have decided that the First Tuesday of each month is going to be a review of a helpful Etsy Shop, Website or Service. To kick this series off I am going to review Curious Crow Digital, an Etsy shop that provides a very valuable service to other Etsy shop owners.

Rachel Birdsell of Curious Crow Digital is an artist and much more! Not only does she run a successful business as a digital graphic artist, she also has a very nice Vintage Shop and she creates wonderfully creepy and cute art. She is also the co-owner of The Curious Crow (That is our brick and mortar shop in Eureka Springs) She is also my wonderful girlfriend!

She specializes in Banner/Avatar sets. If you have browsed around on Etsy for any length of time you have probably seen one or two of her banners. But wait- There's more! She also sells image sets, collage sets, domino and scrabble tile images, ACEO backgrounds, Label Tags and MUCH More! 

She is doing something right with her SEO, Tags, Titles and more too because since opening in June of 2011 she has had over 1900 sales! Which, in my honest opinion, is seriously kicking butt! Have I given her advice on tags, descriptions and titles? Yes, but now she is the one I go to for advice!

Please check out her shops and share them with your friends:

Rachel Birdsell Owner

Curious Crow Digital - Digital art for Etsy users

Curious Crow Vintage - Vintage goods for everyone

Curious Crow Art - Creepy and Cute Art

The Curious Crow on Facebook

If you would like to be considered for the First Tuesday Review, please send me a link to your shop/s for review. If you are picked I will send you a list of questions to answer for the review. This is not a critique- it is for review for publication on this blog. Email to MarketMyShop@gmail.com

Will you follow me?

I am considering moving my blog to my domain at http://www.MarketMyShop.com I just want to know if you will follow me there when I have it all set up and ready to go? Of course I will be leaving this up as an archive but all new content will be on the website.

I will do everything I can to make the switch as easy and convenient for you as possible. At the moment it looks like the change over will happen on or around March 1st. anyhow, I just wanted to give you all the heads up.

I would also like to get a little info from you to help me better serve you. How do you read my blog? Is it though an email subscription? Are you using an RSS reader? Or do you actually come to the blog and read it? With over 400 subscribers and over 300 email subscribers it would be great for me to know!

Leave me a comment or send me an email to MarketMyShop@gmail.com I will keep you posted on when the move will be taking place. I really do hope you will follow me!

Shipping Cost Increases

In case you were not aware prices for shipping through the US Post Office have increased yet again. Domestic shipping has not changed all that much, but if you ship internationally you'll notice a HUGE difference in pricing.

You may want to take a look at your current prices for shipping and make adjustments accordingly. I just had to nearly double my international shipping costs because I did not raise my shipping during the last postage increase.

Speaking of postage...

Have you figured in your cost for packaging? I buy a lot of my shipping materials in bulk so that I can save every penny for me and for my customers. For example, Bubble Wrap at Walmart is $17 for 150 feet. I was able to purchase 600 feet on eBay for around $35. 4x8 bubble mailers at Walmart are 3 for $1.97 and on eBay I got 500 of them for under $50.

It is a good idea to shop around for your packing materials. And be sure you are not giving the packaging away. Add it into your shipping cost or pad it into your product price.

I hope all of you have a wonderful weekend. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to leave them here or send me an email to: MarketMyShop@gmail.com