Introducing Geek Chic Social Media!

Whooo. Today is that day launches my new site called Geek Chic Social Media! I have been working months for this site to happen: writing content for e-courses and staying up late til 2am thinking about how I can make this blog successful and then went to my day job (which I love) and did some more social media there. How much better can it get? To find something you're passionate about and do it during the day and when you come home at night.

Come check out my site and read my about me post, about page, and check out my e-courses page to see what's coming up next!

http://www.geekchicsocial.com/
http://www.facebook.com/geekchicsocialmedia <---- you'll also wanna like me here :)

Anyway, thanks everyone for your support! I'm UBER excited!

Social Media E-Commerce Tip: Utilize Etsy's Shop Stats to Increase Shop Visitors

I was looking through Etsy's new shop stats for my LoveURblog shop and I noticed that there was a HUGE jump one day in visitors. I thought to myself.. well, what happened that day? What did I do that I got sooo many visitors?

Me being in Social Media, I decided to investigate. I went back to my Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Blog posts to look at the dates of my posting. I looked for January 16 and found that I had posted something on my blog introducing my new blog shop. That was probably it. In my blog post, I linked to my shop and somehow brought people from my blog to my Etsy shop. Brilliant, huh?

So what can YOU do with this information? Find the days that you have a high number of visitors and check all of your postings and see if you had anything to do with your shop view increase. If your readers liked a certain blog post that brought them to your store, then write more of them. If you found that posting a "product of the week" on your Facebook brings the most people to your store... then do that more!

Also, take a look at your conversions too. When are people buying? If they buy a certain time of the day or week, keep doing what you're doing and do that more too.

Statistics come in use for more than just seeing how many views you got. Monitor them, learn them, utilize them and improve your strategy based on them.

Using Photobucket to edit your photos

This is going to be a longer post, but with Picnik going away, I wanted to show how many different simple photo effects you can do in Photobucket. It's actually... a lot! I really like Photobucket for image hosting because it is easy to upload and retrieve your photo link to add to your html. It is also great for easily adding a slideshow to your blog!

Here is the original photo:

 

bronze

 sketch

 duo tone

 film grain

 fresno

 greyscale

 heartfelt

 painting

 pixelate

 soften

 tint