Comments on: Craft Market Research – Utilizing Etsy.com http://handmademarketing.org/etsy-reserach-craft-market-research-online/ You can sell handmade, here's how. Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:24:57 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Cindy Lietz, Polymer Clay Tutor http://handmademarketing.org/etsy-reserach-craft-market-research-online/comment-page-1/#comment-1292 Cindy Lietz, Polymer Clay Tutor Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:59:02 +0000 http://etsymarketing.org/?p=2173#comment-1292 Thanks for the great write up! Was reminded just this morning what a valuable tool Etsy really is for the handmade jewelry designer. Although polymer clay has been around since the 40's it has only been the last few years that it has really come into its own. A site like Etsy can show you this trend in real time. A search on polymer clay in Etsy today brings up many more high quality, higher ticket jewelry pieces than what a search six months ago would have. Also you can see that more jewelry artists are adding their own polymer clay art beads to their regular designs than ever before. If you were to do regular searches on whatever your particular niche is, you will be able to follow upward moving trends as well as, downward moving trends, which will help you stay ahead of the pack. Very valuable information indeed! Thanks for the great write up! Was reminded just this morning what a valuable tool Etsy really is for the handmade jewelry designer. Although polymer clay has been around since the 40’s it has only been the last few years that it has really come into its own. A site like Etsy can show you this trend in real time.

A search on polymer clay in Etsy today brings up many more high quality, higher ticket jewelry pieces than what a search six months ago would have. Also you can see that more jewelry artists are adding their own polymer clay art beads to their regular designs than ever before.

If you were to do regular searches on whatever your particular niche is, you will be able to follow upward moving trends as well as, downward moving trends, which will help you stay ahead of the pack. Very valuable information indeed!

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