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May 5, 2008 at 6:03 pm · Filed under Chat, Etsy Communications, Events, The Future · By JB
As reported in this Storque article, Etsy is holding a chat to gather community input on the issue of Etsy sellers having employees. This issue has come up a few times recently in the Etsy forums.
The meeting is Friday May 9
6 pm Central European time zone
5 pm UK time time zone
12 noon eastern USA time zone
11 am central USA time zone
10 am mountain USA time zone
9 am pacific USA time zone
Join us for a discussion and feedback session about employees and your Etsy shop. Rob, aka Rokali, co-founder and CEO of Etsy, will be leading the workshop.
When: Friday, May 9, 12 noon (Eastern US time) times on the Virtual Labs schedule are displayed in your local time
Where: Treehouse Room, Virtual Labs
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Agenda:
For those selling handmade goods: Are employees necessary for a seller to “make a living making things”? Are the items still “handmade”?
What sort of hired help is needed for handmade sellers? Is *what* potential employees do for the shop relevant?
Does the number of employees that a business has impact whether the shop belongs on Etsy? If so, how many is too many?
Are different rules necessary for sellers of commercial supplies and vintage goods? Are employees acceptable for these types of shops?
What sort of information do you need (for example, links to information about employment law) to grow a business that includes employees?
Should sellers who are outsourcing, involved in collectives, and employing people be approved by Etsy? What sort of approval process would you be interested in?
UPDATE Monday May 12 by JB:
The minutes to the meeting are here
April 11, 2008 at 4:58 pm · Filed under Etsy Communications, Events, Features, Miscellaneous, The Future · By quirke
Today’s Town Hall meeting in the Treehouse of the Virtual Labs was attended by over 130 people. While a transcript will be available later in the Storque, here are a few notes in advance:
General notes:
-Etsy currently has 73,478 shops with at least one item
-There are currently 60 Etsy employees
-Engineering comprises ½ of the company
Rob said that they are developing 2 major changes for the near future and 6 other developments for further down the road.
The 6 future developments are:
-currency conversion
-shop stats for sellers
-dynamic Team sections
-“stuff with video”
-“real-time multi-user stuff” (like the virtual labs)
-an in-house payment system
The 2 upcoming changes are:
Changes to Listing Periods for Renewals – This change will mean that when you renew an item, instead of adding 4 months from the previous expiration date, the additional 4 months will start from the date of renewal.
Changes to Search/Categories – Top level categories will be clarified, and “filters” will be added, such as “who is it for?” and “what is it made of?”.
Other items of interest:
-revamping the forums is being looked at from a database perspective right now and remains under development
-the “first draft” of the separation of supplies/vintage from search is completed
-supplies/vintage will hopefully get their own place by the end of the year
-when shop stats are provided there will be different levels of stats available starting with free, and then more detailed stats costing “a few bucks”
A great many other smaller issues were discussed – we will link to the transcript once it appears in the Storque.
UPDATE April 15 by JB
The transcript of the town hall meeting is posted here
The Storque article summarizing the meeting is here
April 9, 2008 at 9:33 pm · Filed under Etsy Communications, Events, The Future · By JB
The Storque has announced the next Town Hall meeting with Etsy founder Rokali, at 4:00pm EST on Friday, April 11th in the Treehouse room of the Virtual Labs.
A couple caveats:
The room will fill up quickly. We’re working on a Balcony feature, which will increase the capacity greatly. Till then, it’s first come, first served.
Since there’s no single time that everyone in our global community can attend, so each meeting will be recorded and posted in the Storque for your re-viewing pleasure.
editorial- the article says EST (eastern standard time) but I am guessing they actually mean EDT, since New York does observe Daylight Savings time and it is in effect right now. This is important when figuring the time differential from GMT.
Time conversion:
4 PM, EDT Eastern USA
3 PM, CDT Central USA
2 PM, MDT Mountain USA
1 PM, PDT Pacific USA
8 PM GMT/UTC
9 PM United Kingdom (UK is now on Summer / Daylight Saving Time (NOT GMT))
10 PM Central Europe time zone, (+2 GMT), in countries which are currently observing Summer / Daylight Saving Time (which I think is most of them). This covers France, Spain, Germany, The Netherlands, etc.
October 6, 2007 at 1:35 pm · Filed under Events, Marketing, Seller Opportunities · By www.bathinginluxury.com aka Soap
Submit your entries to Etsy’s Costume Contest. There will be six categories:
Pet
Kid & Baby
T-Shirt Costume
Sci-Fi
Green
General Awesomeness
Treehugger.com, Boingboing.net, Craftzine.com, Makezine.com, Babble.com, Threadless.com, and Tcritic.com will be donating some prizes and will join Etsy in the judging. First prize in each category includes a $150 Etsy shopping spree.
Click here for full rules, deadlines and other details.
August 10, 2007 at 10:53 am · Filed under Events, Treasury · By starrydesigns
Due to an overwhelming response of entries, Etsy admin has not been able to finish judging all entries yet.
Check the forums for an update.
Read Jared’s official response here.
July 29, 2007 at 12:22 am · Filed under Events, Treasury · By starrydesigns
If you are curious what the Etsy Teasury Poster Challenge is about, read the original post here.
There are only 3 days remaining for the Etsy Treasury Poster Challenge. So far Etsy has received more than 1,000 entries (with 40% coming from Treasury, and 60% coming from the Poster sketch tool).
If you are still interested, submit your entry soon (before Aug 1)! Instructions are here.
With regards to the finished prints, here is Jared’s response:
There has been discussion about selling these prints. For this contest, we really just want to give them away. There has also been talk about creating a coffee table book with all the entries. Both of these are wonderful ideas, although unfortunately they are probably outside the scope of our abilities at this time. We’ll keep the possibility open for the near future.
Read the official update here.
July 18, 2007 at 9:42 am · Filed under Events, Treasury · By Elizabeth
jared
Etsy Admin says:
We’re having a challenge to turn some of the best Treasury lists at Etsy into limited edition prints.
Here’s an example: http://flickr.com/photos/generated/838351743/
Up to twenty lists will be selected over a two week period in July. Special software will take a Treasury list, combine it with the original full resolution sources and generate a high resolution arrangement suitable for digital printing. Printing will be done in-house using archival processes and the highest standards of craftsmanship. This is a one time only, limited run event. About 100 prints of each list will be made.
One entry per person please.
Two week competition begins July 17, 2007 and ends August 1, 2007.
You can read the rest of the post with details here.
EDIT by starrydesigns: Read update here.
July 11, 2007 at 2:59 pm · Filed under Events, Marketing, Seller Opportunities · By www.bathinginluxury.com aka Soap
From the Etsy Team page:
Trying to decide whether or not to join a street team?
Currently a member of a couple teams?
Are you one of our dynamic, fearless street team leaders right now?
Kind of confused about what a street team is?
Excellent! Please join us in the [deleted text] Workshops on Wednesday, July 11 at 10pm EDT. We’ll address questions, share tips from successful street teams, and brainstorm new ideas on what we can all do to make this program the best it can be! Check in on this forum thread for updates and current information on the round table chats. (We moved it from the Chat Room to the Workshop so that more people can attend. Thanks!)
Find out when this is in your local time zone by using this calculator.
June 29, 2007 at 2:39 pm · Filed under Blogs, Events, Marketing · By www.bathinginluxury.com aka Soap
If this has already been posted, I’ll remove.
NB: I didn’t replicate the links in the post found in the blog below - please go to the original blog entry to see those links/linked pages
EDIT: here’s Vanessa’s matching thread.
The Global Microbrand workshop.
Many entrepreneurs want to grow their businesses but at the same time, they want to remain in control of what they produce. At Etsy, we would like to help more independent artists make a living from what they make. We’ve discussed trying to find an alternative model to “business-as-usual.” This Monday July 2nd, we’ll be opening our doors at the Labs and to the online Workshop to further discuss how to remain independent while creating a sustainable business. Part of this entails a new approach to marketing and communications.
On Monday July 2nd at 7pm, we’ll be hosting an informal talk led by Englishman Antonio Gould: The Global Microbrand: Using the Web to Stay Small whilst Selling all over the World. Antonio will address many of the issues Etsy sellers face as they try to make a name for themselves. He has worked as a new media consultant in Europe and approached Etsy, seeing it as an interesting manifestation of many of his key points.
If you are NYC-area based, please join us in person for this free talk. As many of our members can’t be there face-to-face, we’ll be using the Workshop to open up the discussion to everyone. Please wait for the virtual doors to be unlocked in the Workshop Lobby at 7pm (Eastern time, see timezone info here) on July 2nd. You just have to be a logged in member of Etsy to get into the workshop (registering for Etsy is free and easy).
Anyone who has an interest in blogging, social-networking, online video, etc is much welcome. We want this to be a lively discussion with folks sharing their experiences and newbies raising important questions from their point of view.
Please RSVP@etsy.com and say whether you’ll be coming in person or online via the Workshop. Here’s my post in the forums about the talk. See you soon!
–Vanessa
June 11, 2007 at 7:57 pm · Filed under Etsy Staff, Events, Marketing · By Serena
Her name is Michelle (screen name “reconstructionist”). Her new duties include planning parties, trunk shows, and other events; working with the street teams; blogging; and other promotional activities.
You can introduce yourself in the forums, in this thread (not coincidentally also our source for this article).
Thanks to eclipse for sending this in!
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