My experience of selling on Etsy 2024/2025
I had an Etsy store selling my art many years ago, not long after Etsy launched. I had some of my lino cut prints on there, and made sales, however my anxiety and lack of confidence got the better of me and I closed it. I opened another one some years later, and stopped selling again for the same reasons! I've been on a veritable roller-coaster of trying to sell my work for years, the biggest obstacle being me! I didn't have the best start in life and I've been on a real journey of learning about myself to get to a better place. Although I'll never be confident, it's so ingrained in me like a reflex of pulling your hand away from a hot surface, I have learned to have courage. Courage is doing things when you are afraid. I'm in a different place now, where I'm determined not to let things stop me. I'd been selling art on another platform for a couple of years but decided to make the move back to Etsy last year, part of the reason being I don't want ...
