Selling on Etsy & Shopify - 24th Oct 2024

This highly interactive and collaborative workshop will provide you with the skills to sell your Handmade Products Online. Designers and makers have always had markets each year to sell their wares. With COVID-19, many of these opportunities have been taken away. This course will help them to sell to their regular customer base and beyond by setting up an online store in the simplest way possible, while equipping them with the tools to promote their store using their social media channels.

Key outcomes

• Assess the advantages of both Shopify and Etsy and see which suits your offering.
• Set up an Etsy store.
• Set up a Shopify store.
• Learn the value of good photography and how to take great photos for selling your creations.
• Deal with the mindset of selling.
• Write descriptions that maximise interest and sales.
• Manage your customers.
• Understand the importance of presentation and packaging.
• Ask for customer reviews.
• Nurture your customers after the sale.
• Use social media for selling.
• Understand the importance of story in selling work.