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New Here? Meet Our Recurring Series
Craftsdailywire runs a handful of named series every week — here’s a recent example of each.
- Mailbag: Seller Mailbag: Why Was My Listing Removed With No Clear Reason?
- Major News: Etsy Moves to Let Sellers Appeal More Policy Violations
- Scam Watch: Scam Alert: What’s Targeting Etsy Sellers This Week
- Tool Spotlight: eRank for Etsy Sellers: How It Stacks Up Against the Free Alternatives
- Seller Tactics: The 4th of July Weekend Ahead, and the Summer Wedding Peak Still Running
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The Last Full Shopping Weekend: A Practical Checklist
USPS Ground Advantage’s cutoff for guaranteed Christmas delivery in the contiguous U.S. lands December 17. This weekend is the last full, two-day stretch before that window starts closing for good. Table of Contents Introduction With standard shipping cutoffs approaching fast for much of the country, this weekend functions as one of the last full, normal-pace…
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Scam Alert: What’s Targeting Etsy Sellers This Week
This week’s pattern: fake “order confirmation” phishing emails referencing real-looking order numbers, timed to the season’s peak order volume, the same volume surge covered in prioritizing your production queue as Q4 volume peaks, when a seller is least likely to scrutinize each notification carefully. The setup Several sellers reported emails this week formatted to look…
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Etsy Names Patina Blue Its 2026 Color of the Year (Plus a First-Ever Texture of the Year)
Etsy announced its 2026 Color of the Year this week: Patina Blue, inspired by the natural aging process of copper, alongside a genuinely new addition to this annual tradition, a first-ever Texture of the Year: Washed Linen. What the color and texture actually represent Patina Blue is described as embodying “the quiet magic of change,”…
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Christmas and Hanukkah Shipping Crunch: Getting Your Core Deadline Messaging Right
Etsy’s own 2023 holiday analysis found shoppers using paid shipping upgrades to beat a cutoff jumped roughly 32% around Christmas (Etsy Seller Handbook, “Checklist: How to Ship Smoothly This Holiday Season”). The single line of text you write about your deadline is doing more selling than almost anything else on your listing page right now.…
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Gelato for Etsy Sellers: 3 Features Most Sellers Never Turn On
Gelato routes orders across a network of 130+ production partners in 32 countries, and says roughly 90% of orders print in the same country as the delivery address. Most sellers never check which specific partner is handling their order, or whether a faster production tier is even available for what they sell. Table of Contents…
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Small Business Saturday Broke Records — What Actually Sold
Data compiled over the weekend tells a more mixed story than some early seller chatter suggested. American Express’s annual Small Business Saturday survey put nationwide spending at an estimated $18 billion this year, down roughly 18% from $22 billion in 2024, even as some individual sellers reported a strong Thanksgiving Day’s calm before Small Business…
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Week in Review — November 30, 2025
Closing out the biggest weekend of the year, and November as a whole, with a genuinely eventful stretch behind us. The Cyber Five, overall: a strong weekend for most sellers Despite the search visibility concerns we tracked through the week, most sellers who reported in described Black Friday through Cyber Monday as a strong, sometimes…
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Small Business Saturday Is Today: Making the Most of a Different Kind of Shopping Day
Small Business Saturday was created by American Express in 2010, specifically to draw shoppers toward independent businesses in the week after Thanksgiving. That founding purpose still shapes who shows up today, and it’s a different buyer than the one who cleared your cart yesterday. Table of Contents Introduction If you’re still running the exact same…
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Seller Mailbag: Why Was My Listing Removed With No Clear Reason?
Even during the busiest week of the year, this question keeps coming in, arguably worse timed now than at any other point we’ve covered it this year, given what’s at stake this specific week. “A listing that’s been selling well all week just got removed, right in the middle of Black Friday weekend. I don’t…
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Thanksgiving Day and the Calm Before Small Business Saturday
The National Retail Federation forecast that 2025 holiday retail sales would top $1 trillion for the first time, growing 3.7% to 4.2% over 2024. That’s the volume sitting on the other side of today’s quiet, which is exactly why today is worth spending on purpose instead of just getting through. Table of Contents Introduction Thanksgiving…