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Week in Review — January 4, 2026
The first week of the new year, and a new CEO officially at the helm, alongside the usual post-holiday wind-down. CEO transition: quiet so far, as expected Consistent with our coverage this week, no major announcements or changes have come from Goyal’s first days as CEO, which tracks with typical transition patterns at large companies.…
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Etsy’s New Chapter: What Sellers Can Expect From CEO Kruti Patel Goyal
As of today, Kruti Patel Goyal has officially taken over as Etsy’s CEO, succeeding Josh Silverman, who moves into the role of executive chairman. We covered the announcement back in October; with the transition now actually in effect, worth revisiting what’s realistically ahead. What we actually know versus what’s speculation Goyal’s background overseeing Etsy’s Depop…
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How to Adjust Listings for a New Year Shop Refresh
Etsy caps every shop at 20 custom sections, and most shops walk into January with several of them still organized around a holiday that ended a week ago. Table of Contents Introduction With 2025 now behind us, this is the practical, listing-by-listing version of the broader refresh we talked about on New Year’s Eve, in…
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New Year Shop Refresh: Setting Up January Before the Year Actually Ends
31% of Americans say they’ll make a New Year’s resolution for 2026, according to a YouGov poll fielded December 9-11, 2025, and the search behavior tied to those resolutions, planners, organization, self-improvement, starts climbing before the ball even drops. Table of Contents Introduction With 2025 closing tonight, most sellers are doing one of two things:…
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DodgePrint for Etsy Sellers: What Changed in Their Latest Update
DodgePrint added a handful of new product types to its curated apparel and accessories catalog this quarter, without abandoning the simplicity that made it worth covering in the first place. Table of Contents Introduction We covered DodgePrint’s simplified, beginner-friendly print-on-demand approach back in September, when its whole pitch was a smaller, curated catalog traded for…
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Closing Out 2025: Year-End Records Worth Pulling Now
Etsy sellers who track cost of goods throughout the year can generate most of their tax-season profit and loss report in minutes rather than reconstructing it from a shoebox of receipts, according to inventory-and-accounting platforms built specifically for makers. Table of Contents Introduction This is the exact five-record pull we recommend to Etsy sellers every…
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Week in Review — December 28, 2025
A quieter week, as expected, with attention shifting from the season’s peak intensity toward wind-down and early reflection. Return scam pattern confirmed circulating Following Friday’s alert about fake refund-redirect requests, we heard from a few additional sellers describing similar attempts this week, consistent with the pattern of scams exploiting genuinely elevated normal activity, in this…
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Post-Christmas Keywords: Gift Cards, Returns, and the Quiet Shopping Window Nobody Talks About
Gift card redemptions run nearly four times higher in the week after Christmas than during a typical week of the year, according to retail data cited by the National Retail Federation. Most Etsy shops spend that week doing nothing but resting. Table of Contents Introduction Most Etsy sellers treat December 26th like a finish line.…
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Scam Alert: What’s Targeting Etsy Sellers This Week
This week’s pattern: fake “return and exchange” requests exploiting the natural post-Christmas surge in genuine returns, designed to blend into a period when sellers are already processing more return requests than usual. The setup Several sellers reported buyers this week claiming a gift item needs to be returned or exchanged, but requesting the refund be…
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Christmas Day: Taking the Rest You’ve Earned
A 2023 American Psychological Association survey found that 57% of workers reported negative impacts from work-related stress commonly associated with burnout, and self-employed owners carry that risk longer because there’s no manager telling them to stop. Table of Contents Introduction Most Etsy sellers treat Christmas Day like any other day the inbox is open, quietly…