No One Cares About Your Etsy Sales Number

⚠️TOUGH LOVE ALERT ⚠️ I’ve posted about this on Instagram before, and it always seems to ignite a little fire. No one cares about your Etsy sales number besides you. Etsy is not a perfect platform, but it is a damn good one. We believe it is the best marketplace handmade business owners have right now. ⁣ Sellers (and some buyers) often gripe about Etsy changes, but for me I find this one UNCHANGED thing is my biggest grips: displaying the seller’s sales number on the homepage of the Etsy shop. It’s been this way since day one and hasn’t changed.⁣ The fact that Etsy publicly displays your sales number has ALWAYS seemed ridiculous to me.⁣⁣ For years, I have heard so many sellers express discomfort with this number on display so publicly. ⁣Etsy sellers take it to mean something about them and their product or as an indicator of success or failure.⁣ It’s not. For full show notes for this episode and a list of all episodes visit merriweathercouncilblog.com/144