http://cr8tivity.com is a website that offers essential features for Etsy Shop owners.
You can get useful statistics such as the number of views per item and see who hearts your shop just like with a few other tools that are available to you (Heartomatic and Etsy Shop Lovers). But what makes cr8tivity so very unique?
Well as I used pretty much all the stats tools available right now, I find them to be complementary but cr8tivity covers stats deeper by providing pie charts AND provide promotional tools.
Now let’s test it!
-First, you need to enter the name of your store. We will use my store for this tutorial. I will also analyze the datas to show you how you can take advantage of statistics and understand how important it is to pay close attention to them.
-A page with 5 different tabs will be displayed:
1. Shop hearts:
It gives you information on who hearts you, if they have a shop themselves, when they added you as a favorite and their location. I find important to know if they have a shop themselves as I make vendor aprons that can interest Etsy sellers participating in fairs.
2. Shop items hearts:
It gives you information on the numbers of views and hearts each items get, so you can see what are your key items, what sells, what brings you views.
What is unique to cr8tivity in this specific section is that you can facebook or twitter your item from this page. Etsy does offer you to share your recently uploaded item to facebook but it only does right after you saved your listing, so if you accidentally closed your browser you won’t be able to do it again. Well now you don’t have to pull your hair anymore!!!
Another plus is the possibility to share on facebook items you posted a long time ago possibly before Etsy offered a facebook share button or even before you joined facebook? Or what about sharing your items depending on seasons, holidays, event, you name it!
3.Shop statistics:
Listing and views distribution by section: I really like the pie chart display. It helped me visualize something I already knew but that became so obvious, it forced me to take action! I have too much jewelry!!! Going deeper in the analysis though, I could also see that I get a lot of views for the items in the “G e e k e r y” section meaning that it would be smart to have more choice there!
Shop hearts for the last month: Charts are a very quick way to see datas and having the possibility to see the hearts on an extended period of time is definitely something that I find useful. I know I get hearts from sellers after I posted on the Etsy forums, I usually make sure to spend time helping people that are trying to figure out how Etsy works or need advice on various issues and it pays off!
My shop is an ecclectic place, I sell jewelry, aprons, pillows, perler beads items and upcycled things. I create by waves of interest, I always end concentrating on one category at a time. Having the possibility to see the views for the last 30 days helps me see what works the best in terms of views but also understand the view/sale ratio.
I do not expect to sell everything, I think than more than a shop, my little Etsy corner of Heaven is a show case of all the things I like and how I like to express my love for them! Basically I am a girly girl (Jewelry) that plays and loves a lot of video games (Geekery), that has a sewing machine and loves prints and fabrics (Aprons & Pillow Covers), that occasionaly knits (Scarves) and like to experiment (Upcycled). Believe it or not this is the best description of myself. I love to make sales as much as I love to get hearts. Knowing that people love my work is a very satisfactory feeling and you know it!!! 
If not why would you want to study how many hearts you get a day? ^^
User as Buyer/Seller feedback: I already knew that I have 100% positive feedback so far! *Crossing fingers* Maybe this can help when shopping around on Etsy?
4.Shop helpers:
This is where cr8tivity is a unique tool! It offers you to create a flyer using one of your listing. You can make a single product flyer or a multi product flyer. You can use this for your website, print a portfolio or even a catalog!
Single product flyer: See the Etsy listing here: Link
Multi product flyer: Warning!!!! This tool makes a better flyer with square pictures. (1000 x 1000 pixels). It uses the first picture of your listing , the same one used on the main page of your shop. I tried with big rectangular pictures and it would only display 2 pictures per page that is a waste when printing and didn’t look neat at all since the pictures were not the same size.It matters if you are a neat freak like me otherwise it’s fine.
Inventory: Last but no least, the inventory tool! You can download a .csv (Microsoft Excel) document with all your listing. No need to waste time making one, it’s there for you to click and voila!!! Because it has a “Category” column, I found out that 2 of my items were not in a category and that I had duplicates!!! Good thing I do have 2 in stock, it could have been a problem if I didn’t see this mistake >.<
Coming Soon: Oh my an invoice maker!!! Even tho I use the #!etsyhacks greasemonkey plugin I can’t wait to see what they came up with!!!
Twitter: I strongly suggest you follow them on twitter so you can know when new features are available.
5.cr8twitty
From this page you can post on your twitter, it creates a tinyurl link to your shop too so you can also target your advertising in addition to the items you post on twitter.
i.e: “Back to school with cute magnets @ EstelleDeParis”
Well that’s it for cr8tivity. I hope this helped, please leave your feedback and questions in the comment section!
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