by Jackie Beck

This update wraps up the results of my six-month experiment to see if I could sell my abstract paintings on Etsy. (If you haven’t seen it yet, you can check out my shop at http://www.etsy.com/shop/jacquelinebeck.) Read the rest of this entry »

by Jackie Beck

About five months ago, I began an experiment to see if I could sell my abstract paintings on Etsy. I’ve been tracking and reporting the results of the experiment here ever since, and will continue to do so for the first six months of this year. If you’d like to check out my shop, it’s at http://www.etsy.com/shop/jacquelinebeck. Read the rest of this entry »

by Jackie Beck

About four months ago, I opened an Etsy shop at http://www.etsy.com/shop/jacquelinebeck to try to sell some of my oil paintings as an experiment. I’ve been tracking and reporting the results of the experiment here ever since, and will continue to do so for the first six months of this year. Read the rest of this entry »

by Jackie Beck

As you might guess from the title of this post, I opened up an Etsy shop for my paintings as an experiment about three months ago. (If you’re looking for the shop address, it’s at http://www.etsy.com/shop/jacquelinebeck.) Since six months is the length of an item listing, I’ll be tracking and reporting the results of the experiment here for the first six months of this year. Here’s what happened in March. Read the rest of this entry »

by Jackie Beck

After writing about seven businesses you can start for $100 or less, I decided to take my own advice and give some of them a shot. So to start with, I opened an Etsy shop and listed my oil paintings there. I’ll be tracking and reporting the results of the experiment here for the first six months of this year. (Six months is the length of an item listing.) Read the rest of this entry »

by Jackie Beck

One of the businesses I mentioned in Seven Businesses You Can Start for $100 or Less was opening an Etsy shop. With its low listing fees of 20 cents per item and its sales fee of 3.5% of the sales price of items sold, it definitely met my “$100 or less” criteria.

And according to this Inc. article, as of April 2010 “…the number of items sold on Etsy totaled 1.3 million, and the statistics have been increasing exponentially since its inception in 2005.” So I considered that proof that at least some sellers are able to make money through Etsy.

But could I do it myself? Read the rest of this entry »