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eRank for Etsy Sellers: How It Stacks Up Against the Free Alternatives
After three separate reviews across a full year, eRank’s free tier, 5 keyword lookups and 5 listing audits a day, still covers everything a small, stable shop needs. The paid tiers only earned their cost during genuine seasonal peaks. Table of Contents Introduction Most Etsy sellers decide whether to pay for a keyword tool once,…
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Etsy Q1 2026 Earnings: GMS Growth, Agentic AI Tests & the Depop Sale Delay
Etsy reported first-quarter 2026 results this week, the first full quarter under Goyal’s leadership, alongside a few notable disclosures worth unpacking: continued marketplace growth, early tests of agentic AI features, and a delay in the Depop sale’s expected closing. Continued GMS growth, building on Q4’s positive trend Following Q4’s encouraging numbers, which we covered back…
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Scam Alert: What’s Targeting Etsy Sellers This Week
This week’s pattern: fake Easter bulk-order requests, following the same structure as the back-to-school and holiday-season bulk scam variants we’ve tracked earlier this year, this time targeting sellers in personalized Easter basket and gift categories. The setup Several sellers reported messages claiming to represent a school, church group, or community organization requesting a large bulk…
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Craftybase for Etsy Sellers: What Changed in Their Latest Update
Craftybase for Etsy Sellers: What Changed in Their Latest Update Craftybase’s plans run from $24 a month for a 25-order-a-month starter tier up to $349 a month for high-volume shops, and every tier includes the same multi-level Bill of Materials engine that lets you cost a five-piece custom wedding order as accurately as a single…
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Seller Mailbag: Is It Worth Appealing a Creativity Standards Strike?
We’ve covered versions of this question throughout the year, with the answer shifting somewhat as the appeals process matured. With nearly a full year of experience behind us now, worth a version reflecting where things genuinely stand today. “I got a Creativity Standards removal this week, on a wedding-season listing I’m counting on. A year…
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Seller Mailbag: How Do I Actually Reach a Human at Etsy Support?
We’ve covered this question at several points throughout the past year. With a new CEO now settling in and spring’s seasonal opportunities picking up, worth a version reflecting whether anything about the support experience has actually changed. “With everything going on, the new CEO, the Depop sale, does support work any differently now than it…
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Applying Goyal’s First Earnings Commentary to Your Own Shop Planning
Fifty days into her tenure as Etsy’s CEO, Kruti Patel Goyal used her first quarterly earnings call to confirm the $1.2 billion Depop sale to eBay and report marketplace GMS growth for the first time since 2023. None of that changes what you should list tomorrow. Table of Contents Introduction Every quarter, a handful of…
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eRank for Etsy Sellers: 3 Features Most Sellers Never Turn On
eRank’s Monthly Trends report covers 28 product categories with 15 months of search history each, enough to see exactly how far ahead of a holiday a category’s search volume actually starts climbing, yet most subscribers never open it outside of a quick keyword lookup. Table of Contents Introduction We’ve covered eRank twice already, its core…
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Etsy’s Q4 Numbers: Marketplace GMS Grows Even as Depop Exits
Etsy reported its fourth-quarter 2025 results this week, the first earnings report under new CEO Kruti Patel Goyal, alongside further detail on the Depop sale we covered last week. Worth unpacking what the actual numbers say about how the platform performed through the eventful season we spent months covering. The headline: marketplace growth despite a…
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The Week-Of: Handling Valentine’s Day’s Final Stretch
Star Seller status requires responding to at least 95% of initial buyer messages within 24 hours, according to Etsy’s own tracking criteria. In the final week before a hard-deadline holiday, that response window is also the difference between capturing a nervous last-minute buyer and losing them to a shop that answered first. Table of Contents…