I thought I'd share with you the fantastic weekend I've just had at the Folksy Summer School in Sheffield. When Folksy first revealed they were planning a weekend of workshops and speakers for designer-makers I knew immediately I wanted to go. There were a nailbiting few weeks while they decided on dates - it would either take place on a weekend when I was going down to Cornwall for a friend's wedding, or the 10th of August, when I was free. Thankfully they picked the 10th and so I bought an earlybird weekend ticket the first day they went on sale! A few weeks later I booked my train ticket from London to Sheffield, and two nights at a Premier inn (£29 a night, bargain!). I was all set! Just had to wait until the big day now...
Wednesday 14 August 2013
Friday 15 March 2013
How to (try and) combine a shop with a full time job!
On the Etsy forums this week, a newish seller was asking for
tips on how to run a shop around a full time job. Having done this for the past
two and a half years I thought I’d give a few suggestions that have worked for
me, and thought I’d flesh them out a bit in a blog post.
Tuesday 15 January 2013
Bad online experiences - in real life
My brother pointed me to these great videos from Google Analytics just before Christmas. They were designed to make webshop owners think about some of the barriers between your customers arriving at your site and actually completing a transaction. Instead of a boring lecture, they've turned some common online shopping frustrations into real life comedy scenarios which take place in a poorly planned supermarket with some rather annoying staff.
Thursday 15 November 2012
Famous for five minutes!
As you may already have seen if you follow Mog's Togs on Twitter or Facebook, or are visitors to the Folksy or Etsy forums, last week I was included along with some other UK sellers in this article on the BBC website, all about the resurgence in crafts and particularly selling them online.
You can read it here: Etsy, Folksy and the mania for making crafts
You can read it here: Etsy, Folksy and the mania for making crafts
Wednesday 17 October 2012
Saving time on packaging orders
My sales
are creeping up at the moment (I think Christmas shopping is already beginning!), which is great of course, but I’m increasingly conscious of how much time I spend packaging orders.
Because I work full time everything is done in the evenings and at weekends, so
most nights before I go to bed I package up any orders outstanding, and even 4 or 5 orders seems to take me half
an hour to take through from on the shelf to ready to post. I think this is too long, considering that I don't have particularly fancy packaging. International orders
are the most time consuming, and since most of my increase in sales is happening on
Etsy, the hours spent sticking, writing, printing, are really starting to encroach on
both making time and sleeping time!
Determined
to do something about it I realised that the two big time-killers are finding
the extra 4 digits for US orders, and printing postage on Royal Mail’s online
site, so I tried to find ways around these.
Friday 21 September 2012
Well that's summer done...
Hm, so it seems I haven't blogged since May! I guess I got struck down by blogger's block, and a bit of Olympic and Paralympic fever too, and Mog's Togs has been keeping me pretty busy as well. I've hardly written anything on my cat blog either. Ah well, onwards and upwards!
Thursday 31 May 2012
Airmail: Small Packet or Letter?
In my article on postage I say that you can send anything internationally as a Letter rather than a Small Packet if it is cheaper. When I first wrote that article, it was only cheaper up to 40g, but now it is cheaper up to 100g, so this issue now applies to more people.
I had a question on the blog about whether I had any proof that this was true, and also got involved in various threads on the Etsy and Folksy forums about this issue, so I wanted to collect together the facts and myths in one place. Let me warn you, this is a bit of a long post, and there are no pictures to break it up, sorry! Update - I think we've cracked it! Whizz down to the bottom to see!
I had a question on the blog about whether I had any proof that this was true, and also got involved in various threads on the Etsy and Folksy forums about this issue, so I wanted to collect together the facts and myths in one place. Let me warn you, this is a bit of a long post, and there are no pictures to break it up, sorry! Update - I think we've cracked it! Whizz down to the bottom to see!
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