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Week in Review — May 10, 2026
Mother’s Day itself falls today, and the week leading into it has been eventful on the platform-news front too. Q1 earnings: continued positive reception Following Wednesday’s coverage of Etsy’s Q1 results, seller reaction has remained largely positive, with the agentic AI mention generating curiosity more than concern at this early, undetailed stage. Mother’s Day execution:…
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Seller Mailbag: How Do I Actually Reach a Human at Etsy Support?
We’ve covered this question repeatedly throughout the year. With the new, faster Purchase Protection process now a few weeks old, and Mother’s Day, graduation, and wedding season all overlapping right now, worth checking whether anything’s genuinely different about getting help this time around. “With the new dispute process and everything else going on right now,…
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The Week-Of: Handling Mother’s Day’s Final Days
Etsy’s Star Seller standard asks for replies to 95% of first buyer messages within 24 hours. In the final week before Mother’s Day, that response window is the difference between capturing an anxious last-minute buyer and losing the sale to a competitor who answered first. Table of Contents Introduction With the holiday just days away,…
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DodgePrint for Etsy Sellers: 3 Features Most Sellers Never Turn On
Graduation season is now overlapping Mother’s Day’s final week, with wedding season still running underneath both. Sellers juggling all three at once are the ones with the most to gain from features they likely never opened. Table of Contents Introduction We’ve covered DodgePrint’s simplified print-on-demand positioning twice already this year: its curated, beginner-friendly catalog back…
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Mother’s Day’s Final Week: Executing While Two Other Seasons Continue
Three active, deadline-sensitive categories running at once is a heavier operational load than almost any other week of the year outside the December holiday crunch. Mother’s Day’s fixed date is the forcing function that decides what actually gets done first. Table of Contents Introduction With Mother’s Day roughly a week out, most shops treat this…
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Week in Review — May 3, 2026
May opens with Mother’s Day just about a week out, and the seasonal juggling act between it, wedding season, and graduation continuing. Star Seller phishing scam confirmed circulating Following Friday’s alert, several additional sellers reported similar fake “perks activation” messages this week, consistent with the pattern we anticipated given the genuine news coverage the previous…
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The Mother’s Day Final Push, With Wedding Season and Graduation Both in the Background
Star Seller requires replying to 95% of first messages within 24 hours over a rolling three-month window. That bar doesn’t pause for the one week a year three deadlines land on top of each other. Table of Contents Introduction With Mother’s Day now just days away, wedding season in full swing and graduation season closing…
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Graduation Season Is Next: Getting Ahead of It Before May Arrives
Class of 2026 ceremonies are already landing on school calendars for late May into early June, and national data shows the graduating class size itself has just crested: 2025 was the largest US high school graduating class on record, with the class of 2026 marking the start of a multi-year decline. The window is shorter…
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MyDesigns.io for Etsy Sellers: Is It Still Worth Paying For?
MyDesigns.io’s Pro Plus tier can turn 120 uploaded designs into up to 2,400 rendered mockups in a single batch run. A free general-purpose design tool has no equivalent bulk mode. You’re building those mockups one at a time, by hand, for every product type you sell. Table of Contents Introduction We’ve checked in on MyDesigns.io’s…
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Star Sellers Get New Perks — Full Breakdown
Following last October’s easing of Star Seller qualification requirements, Etsy has announced new benefits and tools specifically for sellers who hold the badge, continuing what’s becoming a clear pattern of program investment under the current leadership. What’s new for Star Sellers specifically Beyond the search visibility advantage we’ve discussed throughout the year, buyers filtering specifically…