Hear Ye Hear Ye The New Halloween 2011 Dolls have arrived 4 sale

Pumpkin Gal with Crow 

$34.95 + shipping

email: spritetwig@msn.com

to purchase

Halloween Cheshire Cat

$34.95 + shipping

Email: spritetwig@msn.com

to purchase

Pumpkin Gus and Cat

$59.95 + shipping

Email: spritetwig@msn.com

to purchase

Banner Tips and Ideas

So I just read this post on Etsy success on how to create you banner and how the colors should go with the items for sale in your shoppe.  I also read about GIMP but I already have and use that now.  It is a cool easy way to make fun banners for your etsy shoppe.  Here is my latest banner I made'

Here is the article to read on:
http://www.etsy.com/storque/seller-handbook/seller-how-to-banner-tips-6265/?utm_source=bronto&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Banner+and+Avatar+Tips&utm_content=etsy_success_sm_011111&utm_campaign=etsy_success_sm_011111

Increased Item Views

How do you get your Etsy items found by many? Etsy seller shalanasuggests, "The more items in your shop, the more items that you have to be found on Etsy — that's my little theory!"  I have a few other little theories of my own.


Read on:
http://www.etsy.com/storque/seller-handbook/etsy-success-tips-increasing-your-item-views-6806/?utm_source=bronto&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Increasing+Your+Item+Views&utm_content=etsy_success_010610&utm_campaign=etsy_success_010610

how to be Successful in 2011

Here is some great sites to bookmark to read about being successful in 2011 with your websites and Etsy shoppes:
1. How to Promote Products via Social Media (in ways you haven't thought of already!)
http://www.clicknewz.com/2553/how-to-promote-products-via-social-media/

2. Start The New Year With a Marketing Calendar
http://smallerbox.net/blog/marketing-messages/start-the-new-year-with-a-marketing-calendar/

3. How To Get PR For Your Business
http://meylah.com/meylah/how-to-get-pr-for-your-online-business

4. Building and Marketing Your Facebook Page
http://meylah.com/meylah/building-and-marketing-your-facebook-page

5. 22 Etsy New Year’s Resolutions You’ll Want to Make
http://bottomline.outright.com/self-employment/22-new-years-resolutions-youll-want-to-make/

Have an idea or resource to share on this topic? Let us know in this Etsy Forum thread.

Is Busyness Your Mistress?

I read a great artcile about how habits and busyness can be a two-edged sword.  How it can control your life if you let it.  It made me really think about what I do and what I miss and I am going to rethink my priorities seriously.  To read this great article go here:
http://www.scoutiegirl.com/2011/01/seduction-of-busyness.html

2 More Valentine's Day Newbies on Etsy

http://www.rabbithollowprims.etsy.com

New Items Added to Etsy come and get em while they last!

Just added this bunch and have more to add later too :)

All of these are up for sale now ready to ship in my Etsy Shoppe http://www.rabbithollowprims.etsy.com

How to Make it through the slow Months

So I was thinking what can I do to make it though the slow months right after Christmas to my shoppes?  Should I build up stock? promote? Offer incentives and deals?  The answer is all of the above.  I read this great article on Handmade spark that really shows you how to improve your sales during the slow months.  You can view the article here
http://www.handmadeology.com/how-to-succeed-on-etsy-during-the-slow-months/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+handmadeologytoday+(Handmadeology)

or read the full forum thread here
http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=6727190

Quit You Day Job?

So you opened an online business and want to quit your day job?  Well is it right for you?  Do you have the tenacity it takes to make it work?
Here are 5 real dangers of having an online business:
1. Hours worked on a website are not relative to the amount of money earned, whatever kind of online business you are in. What that means is if you make $20 for doing nothing (you set up your website and are trying to decide what to do next), it does not mean that if you work 20 hours per week, you will earn 20 times the $20. Bottom line, you are not going to quit your day job, work twenty hours the next week on your website, and find $400 in your bank account. While it is true that the more you work on your website, the more potential you have, money and time are not direct correlations. You cannot guarantee earnings this way.


Read them all here:


http://www.handmadeology.com/5-real-dangers-of-quitting-your-day-job/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+handmadeologytoday+(Handmadeology)

Antique Store Find!

Look at these old deer I got in an antique store for 50 cents each! Love them...She has more may go get them all. The santa is a funny story. My dad carved him out of wood and hated the way he came out and threw it away. I was like 15 at the time and I saw it in the trash took it out and painted it to look like it does now. I did pretty good I think LOL

New Years Sale Right Now

Good morning everyone.  I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas with your loved ones and got everything you wanted.  I know I enjoyed my family immensely and we have had fun playing the Wii, air hockey, and Legos.   I woke up this morning to SNOW.  Now down where I live it doesn't snow rarely ever and I have heard it hasn't snowed here for Christmas since 1947!  So with that said since I am snowed in, I decided to have a New Year Sale.  All items in my Etsy shoppe, Artfire, Website are 15% off starting 7AM EST .  If you buy anything from my website, I will have to invoice you before you pay to get discount or if paying with credit card I will adjust before I charge the card. I am working on loads of new items and I mean loads bunnies, Valentines, St. Patricks are all in the works and will be ready to go out the door soon so I will send out an email when they are ready to go. I have also switched over the website for Valentine's Day and Spring but still left the snow since it is winter and all LOL   Here is a link to all my shoppes and happy shopping.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/Rabbithollowprims

http://www.artfire.com/users/rabbithollowprims

http://www.rabbithollowprims.com/

How to Get Great Search Engine Rankings

1. Chose your Keywords Carefully

Once you've chosen your business and purchased a domain name the next step is to find useful and relevant keywords. Without this step your Web site will get lost among the many Web sites that compete for your business.
To begin keyword research you need to utilize some useful tools. The first Web site you should look at is Google Keywords which is a free tool that displays the amount of searches and competition for specific keywords. It also allows you to find more specific keywords that can better describe your site.
A better tool would be to purchase some type of software or service such as WordTracker which offers detailed information about keywords. Unfortunately it's not free, but there are other services that are.

2. Find a Niche Market

This cannot be stressed enough as it's much harder to receive top search engine rankings for a new site than an established site. A new site will have to compete with Web sites that have established high search engine rankings.
To compete with these Web sites is unwise. You first need to find a niche market, and then build up your Web site to a position as to where it can compete with these generic terms. For example let’s say you have a Web site geared towards weight loss. You would not use the keyword "weight loss" because there's too much competition. You can use one of the keyword tools to find suggestions of related keywords that you will be able to compete against. You may find the keyword “weight loss surgery” or “weight loss techniques.” These phrases are much better keywords than generic terms like “weight loss.”
Use the list of a few keywords, check out the competition that word/ phrase has on Google. Look at the number of competitors. If this exceeds a few million, then you need look for a more specific keyword. The next step is to observe the top listed pages and see how well they are optimized. You can download the Google Toolbar and add Page Rank to your browser for free.
A low Page Rank between 0 – 3 means that you can easily compete with these Web pages. A Web site with a Page Rank of 4 – 6 is a bit tougher to compete with, but is manageable using my guided steps and expertise. You don't want to compete with Web sites that have a Page Rank above 7. Check the domains homepage, not a sub-page to get an accurate Page Rank!

3. View Competitors Source Code

It's important to view potential competitor’s source code to see if they have efficiently performed on page search engine optimization. To do this on your Brower click “view” and then click on the “source” option as displayed.”
This will bring up a page with all the html code on it. You don't need to be an expert with html to understand what we're looking for. We need to see if our competitor’s Web site is properly optimized. We look to see if they are using their keywords in the header tags, the title tags, and the image alt tags. These should all be located near the top of the source code.
If you cannot find these then go to the toolbar and chose “edit” and select “find” and type in h1 or title, etc. to see if there are being used for the keywords. If these don't exist or aren't being used to hold keywords, you have found an easily beaten page. This means that with some proper optimization you will be able to outrank this page. The last thing you want to look at is the body content and to see if the keyword is used a few times in the body content. A site lacking in keywords in the body context is a poorly optimized page. You should always make sure your Web page is keyword rich with relevant content.

4. Keyword Placement

After you've selected a few keywords to use we want to combine the ones that have like terms. For example, if you've selected three keywords such as: weight loss story; weight loss picture; safe weight loss, you see that all three keywords contain the words “weight loss.” We can combine the words to better optimize your page.
For the title tag the fewer the keywords used, the better the search engines will rank your page.
When we create the page it should NEVER have “Welcome to our Web site!” in the Title Tags.
It should NEVER have “weight loss story, weight loss picture, safe weight loss” in the Title Tags either.
The way the title tags should look is: “Weight Loss Story | Safe Weight Loss Picture” (Note: You can add this character | by holding the shift key on your keyboard and pressing the backslash key above the enter key.)
You should always remove prepositions such as “and” as this will only hurt your search engine optimization. The fewer, more relevant the words, the higher your search engine ranking will be.
Header 1 tags should be placed above your body content. This should contain your most relevant keyword in this tag. i.e. “Weight Loss Story” This main keyword placed in the H1 tag will substantially increase your page ranking! The Header 2 tag should contain your second most important keyword. The header 3 tag will have your least important keyword placed in it. These header tags are often overlooked, but make a significant difference in your on page search engine optimization.
The body content of your Web page should be rich with keywords and relevant content. You should have each keyword appear at least once for every 1-2 paragraphs. Do not stuff your body with keywords. You want to give your body a clean natural look, meaning do not over or under use keywords!
Image tags alt tags should also be keyword rich. Search engines often look at the alt tags of images on your Web site. If the alt tags don't make use of your keywords then you will be ranked lower than if you had keywords in your alt tags.

5. Homepage Organization

We want the search engines to notice your keywords and index you accordingly. In order to do this you should start and end your body tags with your keywords. This gives the search engine spider information that your page is highly relevant to your keywords.
When the spider looks through your Web site it reads through your content from top left to bottom right. Below is an example of how the search engine reads your page starting with 1 then 2 then 3.
Rather than creating a table that looks like this:
navigational links
Your body text...
You should create a table that looks like this:
Your body text...
navigational links
Now, search engines will view your body content before it views your navigational menu. The search engine will see the top of your page then see a blank area and skip to your body content then move onto your navigational menu

6. Search Engine Submission

The best way to achieve high search engine rankings for new Web sites may not be what you expected. You should not submit your site directly to the search engines as this process can take weeks or even months to get your site listed. Instead you need to get listed on top ranking pages that are relevant to your Web site's content. These high ranking pages are often optimized on a weekly or even daily basis. Every time the site is indexed your link will appear and the search engines will automatically list your site in its index.
To do this you need to search for Web sites indexed by search engines and get them to link to you. The incentive you need to give them is to write some sort of article relevant to your line of business. At the bottom of the article you include your web page URL to get picked up by the search engines. You submit the article to popular article directories on the Web and you will be indexed by the search engines in a matter of days.

To read more go here:
http://www.webreference.com/promotion/seo/

Vintage Valentine Swap Sign Up Here

Hear ye! Hear ye! A Rabbit Hollow Prims Vintage Valentine's Day Swap!!

Love Valentine's Day and Vintage items?  Well this swap is combining the 2 together. You come up with an extraordinary piece of art that displays both. Sign ups will be until midnight on January 5th.
Dolls to be mailed to partners on or before February 5th, so you will have plenty of time to get your dollies done. All packages must get a tracking number or delivery confirmation (if possible), this cuts down on lost packages or people saying they have not received them.
Size range for dolls: Anywhere between approximately 9"-25". You and your partner can decide or you can surprise each other.
Each person will have one swap partner for this swap. The dolls can be any style, and you can use any materials-cloth, clay-but it has to be a doll. You can use any pattern or design you want.
This is going to be so much fun!

The key aspect to remember is: we are all going to have lots and lots of fun!
Communication is really important in swaps. Email back and forth with your partner and email me, Sue, when you can to let me know if you're going to be on time with your doll, etc.
Please make a wonderful vintage Valentine's Day doll creation for your partner, one you would love to own yourself. I'll try to match partners who work in certain styles, i.e. primitives with primitives, etc.
Before mailing your doll, please take a picture/pictures of it and forward them to me so I can post them on the Rabbit Hollow Prims blog once the swap has ended. All Participants must be willing to take a picture and post pics and a post on your blog once they receive their gift thanking and linking to their exchange partner.
If, at any time, you cannot hold up your end of the swap, PLEASE LET ME KNOW as soon as you know! I am going to need some elves as backup in case someone cannot complete a doll to make more than one. Please try not to let your partner down. I know I have been in many swaps where I sent and never received and it is a big bummer. Communication is key.
Swap Badge is at top of post. I would love it if everyone could put it on their blogs, too and make it clickable if you know how. Spread the word regardless, okay? This is going to be a fun swap and the more the merrier! Please email me ( it is going to say blogger not found but it does go through, don't know how to fix it lol) you can double check it by emailing me at spritetwig@msn.com and tell me the following:

Your actual name:


Your mailing address (including country):


Your preferred email address:



Your blog address/flickr address/ etsy shop, anything that shows what kinds of things you make:



Do you have a specific style, i.e. primitives, traditional, whimsical, etc.? Do you want me to try to match you with a partner who does the same style of dolls or it doesn't matter? (I can't guarantee I'll be able to match styles up, but I'll try).

Your favorite colors. Are there any colors you really dislike?


Do you mind swapping with an international partner or do you want to stay stateside?


Do you have any allergies: (smoke, pets, certain foods, perfumes, etc.)?

Please comment below if you want to participate and leave me you email addy. I will Post participants on the sidebar when we get some sign ups.....

8 Tips for Loads of Etsy Sales

I know you have probably heard a lot about how to sell on Etsy and what to do and what not to do and you probably are saying I have tried that or this, well I began reading up on some things I thought I was doing and realized I had more to learn, for instance did you know people like to know the story behind the product? They like to be able to say this was made by hand by so and so and they did it by fill in the blank.
So this morning I was reading Handmade Spark and found this wonderful article that you can read here:
http://www.handmadeology.com/8-tips-for-getting-loads-of-etsy-sales/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+handmadeologytoday+(Handmadeology)
and then also it linked to the original forum post here:
http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=6720319

You really need to check out this interesting read and tips.....

New Etsy Apps Live

Etsy has fnally went live with all its apps.  You can get amazing apps like Etsy catalog which allows you to create a pdf book of all the listings in your shoppe.
There is also apps for your mobile phone such as etsytext which I personally love.  It will text you every time you have a sale in your shoppe.
There is also Etsylovers a great app for iphone users.
Here is the link to check out all the wonderful apps
http://www.etsy.com/apps/

Etsy Success Reading List

daniellexo says:

This week's list of the best from the business blogosphere is for the zombie hunter in all of us!  1. 7 Naughty Creative Business Tips http://www.blacksburgbelle.com/2010/12/7-naughty-creative-business-tips/ 2. Accentuate the Negative http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog/2010/12/10/accentuate-the-negative/ 3. Guidelines for Pricing Your Art http://www.artbizblog.com/2010/12/pricing-your-art.html 4. A Manifesto for Women in Business http://www.womeninbusiness.com.au/_blog/Style_and_Substance/post/manifesto/ 5. Ode to the Entrepreneurial Spirit: An Apology to 9 to 5r’s Everywhere http://whitehottruth.com/business-wealth-articles/ode-to-the-entrepreneurial-spirit-an-apology-to-9-to-5rs-everywhere/

Should I use Twitter and Facebook to Market My Business

I just read an awesome article over on handmade spark about how Twitter leads Facebook when marketing your business.  They found that Twitter is better for getting more clicks or traffic to your products to sell them.  It updates quicker but you have to remember the 80-20 rule retweet 80% promote 20% of the time.
To read more check it out here:
http://www.handmadespark.com/blog/should-i-use-twitter-or-facebook-for-marketing-my-handmade-business/

New Santas, Angels and Advent Calendar Up for Grabs

Find these in my Etsy , Artfire and Website Shoppes 

http://www.rabbithollowprims.com

http://www.rabbithollowprims.etsy.com

http://www.artfire.com/users/rabbithollowprims

How to Make A Gift Certificate for Your Shoppe

Story by daniellexo, julieincharge, SarahSays, stellaloella  Published on December 9, 2010 in Seller Handbook	Photo by  paperfinger

As we quickly approach shipping cut-offs to deliver gifts in time for the holidays, some last minute shoppers may appreciate the convenience of a gift certificate from your Etsy shop. We have some guidelines and tips for sellers who wish to offer gift certificates.

How to Set Up Your Listing

Be sure to include pertinent information in your item listing, even if it seems obvious to you:

• When you list your gift certificate, make sure to follow Etsy's rules for item listings.
• Be sure to use the words "Gift Certificate" in your item listing's title and as a tag.
• Your listing must be for a set price; this should be the full value of the gift certificate.
• Be clear in your description that this gift certificate is only redeemable in your Etsy shop.
• Let your buyers know how you will handle an order redemption that has a balance. For instance, will you send the gift certificate redeemer a revised PayPal invoice?
• Your listing must be an actual, tangible item for purchase. This could be a traditional, formal paper certificate, notecard, MOO card or something the recipient might want to hang on to a little longer, like a sticker, coaster, patch or badge. A digital file, like a .pdf, is also acceptable.
• Let your buyers know how long it will take you to ship the gift certificate (or email the digital file).
• Please change your Etsy settings to allow "other" as a checkout option if it is not already enabled. This will allow the gift recipient to redeem the gift certificate in your shop.

What to Include With Your Gift Certificate

Read more here:

http://www.etsy.com/storque/seller-handbook/how-to-offer-gift-certificates-in-your-etsy-shop-11340/?utm_source=bronto&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Offering+Gift+Certificates&utm_content=etsy_success_120910&utm_campaign=etsy_success_120910

Last Minute Gifts from Team OFG

'Last Minute Gift Ideas' by Rabbithollowprims

OFG Team Christmas Gift Ideas

3pk 16oz Double Wicked Apoth... redneckcandles $40.00	Traditioanal Mini Trees--An... thecottagecupb... $75.00
Christmas Peace Angel and Ba... Rabbithollowpr... $48.95	Glitter Snowflake Joy Orname... misseskwittys $12.00
Cardinal Soap - HandPainted paintedkreatio... $4.00	Felt Stocking Gift Card Hold... primitiveseaso... $3.00
Primitive Candy Canes with V... happyvalleypri... $5.95	Set of 3 Starry Starry Night... ChristmasGal $3.49
Primitive Santa - Decorative... tinsandtreasur... $6.50	Set of 3 Winter Cranberry Po... ChristmasGal $5.99
Baby's First Christmas O... Pipberrytree $3.00	Candy Cane Santa Chef Plaque pumpkinpatch5 $30.00
Santa's Toy Shop holiday... signsofpatriot... $15.95	Cat ornaments-set of 2 WhiskersNWhims... $6.25
Shabby Cottage diamond patch... MarionberryCot... $39.95	Winter Wonderland Candle Hat... SnowmanCollect... $13.25

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