EBay, Collectors, Flea Market & Antiques

it takes a whole lot of knowledge and work, more than anyone just jumping into it can even begin to imagine.

Need to learn SEO (search engine optimization), which is how to properly list your items to appease the search algorithms of both Etsy and Google in order to be found. Even with all the internal traffic at a destination site like Etsy, this is not an option if you wish for buyers to find you at all. Also a lot of promotion on social media. With the number of sellers on most venues, especially one as large as Etsy, you have to work at marketing and promoting to build a following and drive as much of your own traffic and target market to your shop.

There are a lot of tools out there to learn how to do all of this, both on the site and off. No way anymore that folks can just list items and wait for sales to roll in, and really hasn't been that way for quite some time.

The two venues to avoid are Artfire and Zibbet. They look good but no traffic at all, glitchy sites, no to low staff, not much money and it shows in the terrible programming and operations. can't even be trusted.

The trend these days is getting your own domain and building a stand alone site with providers such as Shopify, Weebly, SupaDupa, Indiemade, etc.

There are some of those to avoid to for various reasons, such as Volusion.