I was pretty excited when I got the Etsy Australia email yesterday and discovered we now have an Australian homepage!
Basically, if you have your region set to Australia, you’ll see the Aussie homepage, which will feature treasuries of Australian sellers.
This is fabulous in that it will mean customers from within Australia will see Aussie items on the homepage, which should help them to discover new Aussie brands and shop local! I’m also hoping it means we will get to curate treasuries that are aimed towards our seasons, rather than the Northern Hemisphere seasons.
Of course, like me, you may want to check out the ‘main’ or US homepages, too, but that’s pretty easy to do with the click of a button down the bottom of the front page (just change your region to ‘everywhere’ or ‘US’) – I’ll probably swap back and forth occasionally to check out the NH trends.
The most exciting part of this for Aussie sellers is that we should get our products on the Australian front page more often – but only if we’re all making treasuries! Kirsteene wrote a little announcement here telling us all we need to know about this change, so go have a read for some treasury tips.
If you’ve made an Aussie treasury today, please feel free to leave a link to it in the comments, I’d love to check it out!
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Yep, I made one:
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/MTY1NDc5NTl8MjcyMjgyNTAwMg/feeling-blue
Hope they will change them a bit more often than they do now…
Ohh Linda, that’s gorgeous!
Ah, I wondered why there seemed so many aussie sellers on the FP lately!
That’s great …off to make some treasuries!
Hi Jess, I sell on madeit at the moment but have been considering trying Etsy as well for a while now. This Aussie front page sounds great! Cheers Jane
Jane, you really, really should. Madeit is fabulous, and I love it – but I have only ever sold to other Aussies there! On Etsy I sell 3/4 to the US and overseas, so it’s a really great easy way to expand your reach beyond Oz – if you want to sell internationally, of course! 🙂
Hmm. I changed my region but no aussie sellers on the FP 🙁
I went and had a peek – most of the ones right now are, though a few are from elsewhere… I think the rules are that 8 of the 16 peeps in the Treasury have to be from Australia, and all of them have to ship to Australia?
Plus there might not be enough pure-Aussie treasuries to fill all the spaces, methinks… hopefully that will pick up! 😀
Wow I didn’t know about the Aussie homepage,I need to catch up on my emails 🙂
Here is the treasury I did last night
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/OTYwMzQ5M3wyNzIwMjYwNzU5/emerald?ref=pr_treasury
Oops need to improve my reading skills too, sorry mine’s not an Aussie treasury!
yay for Aussies on the front page 🙂
& I’ve made a treasury:
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/NTYxODMxMHwyNzIwMjYwNTM3/with-a-golden-glow
Great news! Its time to finally start using Etsy!!!
Thanks Jess for sharing!
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I made two yesterday 🙂
Pretty party: http://www.etsy.com/treasury/MTI1NzY0OTB8MjcyMDI1OTc3NQ/pretty-party?index=0
Must have at work: http://www.etsy.com/treasury/MTI1NzY0OTB8MjcyMDI1OTY3NQ/must-have-at-work?index=1
This is how you get your Treasury List onto the Australian Etsy FP… taken from the Merchandising Desk blog in June – http://www.etsy.com/blog/en/2012/from-etsys-merchandising-desk-june-2012/
– One item per shop, please don’t include your own items.
– Create collections with great item photography.
– 8 items ship FROM Australia
– All items SHIP TO Australia (or “Everywhere Else”).
– 16 items total. (Tip – make your top line the strongest.)
– Treasury tagged “EtsyAU” (without quotations) – so we can find them!