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Closing Out Mother’s Day, Peaking Into Graduation Season
NRF’s 2026 graduation survey, fielded April 30 through May 6, found consumers plan to spend a record $7.2 billion on graduation gifts this year, up from $6.8 billion in 2025, with the average shopper spending $177 per graduate. Table of Contents Introduction Mother’s Day just closed, and if your shop still has Mother’s Day listings…
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Teacher Appreciation and Graduation: Two Categories With More Overlap Than You’d Think
Graduation gift spending is projected to hit a record $7.2 billion in 2026, with 39% of Americans planning to buy one, according to the National Retail Federation. A meaningful share of that same buyer pool bought a teacher appreciation gift just days earlier. Table of Contents Introduction With Mother’s Day now behind us, most Etsy…
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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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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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Mother’s Day Is Coming: Getting Ahead of It While Wedding Season Continues
The National Retail Federation projects Mother’s Day 2026 spending will hit a record $38 billion, with shoppers planning to spend a record average of $284.25 per person on gifts and celebrations. That’s real money moving through gift-oriented Etsy categories in the next three weeks, on top of wedding season’s own peak. Table of Contents Introduction…
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Outfy for Etsy Sellers: 3 Features Most Sellers Never Turn On
Wedding season runs longer than any other Etsy selling window we track, months rather than weeks, which means there’s actually time to test a deeper feature set instead of just keeping the lights on with default settings. Table of Contents Introduction We’ve covered Outfy’s social automation twice already this year: its core features back in…