April 3, 2008 at 2:46 am · Filed under Miscellaneous, Payments, Profit · By quirke
We just discovered this free handy-dandy Etsy Fee Calculator!
It uses your item price, quantity, shipping charges, cost of postage, PayPal fees (percent and flat sale fee), Etsy fees (percent and listing fee) to calculate your item profit. Of course, don’t forget to subtract your materials costs and overhead to get your true profit.
The Etsy Fee Calculator also has a reverse-calculator that allows you to enter a desired profit to calculate how much you should charge to receive that profit.
The Etsy Fee Calculator is brought to you by Doug Boudreau.
March 8, 2008 at 10:22 am · Filed under Marketing, Press, Profit · By Serena
American public broadcasting service NPR mentioned Etsy in the article “Digital DIY: Web Helps Do-It-Yourselfers Share Ethic.”
Under the header Making a Living from Making Something Unique:
Tens of thousands of small entrepreneurs do just that at Etsy.com, which reported $26 million in sales last year. Etsy’s CEO, Rob Kalin, says those sales came from hand-made jewelry, clothing, bags and accessories.
In the spacious workroom known as Etsy Labs, at the Web site’s Brooklyn headquarters, during Etsy’s monthly crafters’ open house, Kalin runs the numbers.
“In 2007, over 50 Etsy sellers made over $30,000 on the site, and our top seller made over $125,000,” Kalin says. “Our big mission for 2008 is to show that you can make a living making things. Theres a whole world out there for doing something you love.”
In addition to Etsy, several other websites and services are discussed.
Audio will be available later on today here. (For our non-US readers, NPR is primarily a radio station.)
