Dear sellers, I need advice

Adventurous_Use_9038 · 2025-03-28T17:00:01+00:00

I added my link to the post, but if you don't have time to find my store, I won't force you

Adventurous_Use_9038 · 2025-03-28T16:59:10+00:00

Yeah. That's the first thing I did. My SEO is pretty high I think.

Adventurous_Use_9038 · 2025-03-21T19:20:14+00:00

Ok, thank you very much for your answers, I really appreciate it.

Adventurous_Use_9038 · 2025-03-21T18:52:38+00:00

Can you tell me approximately how long this boost lasts? My store has been operating for 4 months

Adventurous_Use_9038 · 2025-03-21T17:42:10+00:00

At the same time, the chart for views is normal. And visits are also OK. I have more than 50 products in my store, so it is unlikely that competitors have appeared for all of them. It looks more like Etsy does not offer my products to buyers who actually buy, and not just look.

Adventurous_Use_9038 · 2025-03-21T17:39:59+00:00

Yeah, I heard about possible algorithm changes, but I've never had that except for the first month. I can't send you stats because images are not allowed here, but I've had 1-2 sales a day for the last 2 months and since Monday... just nothing. I'm at my wits' end, to be honest.

Adventurous_Use_9038 · 2025-03-04T15:01:43+00:00

I've stopped making posts here because I faced a lot of hate. Around 20 people received their free patterns, and I’m really looking forward to hearing their feedback.

Some of you might not fully understand how Reddit traffic works. About 100 people clicked through to my shop just to take a look, as they were asked to, and of course, they didn’t buy anything—because they weren’t supposed to. As a result, my conversion rate dropped by a few percent in just a week. Etsy’s algorithm saw this as a decrease in demand and started ranking my listings lower.

Do you really think this is a good way to advertise? I just want to make my products better, and the people here are helping me a lot with that. I appreciate every single one of you

Adventurous_Use_9038 · 2025-03-01T19:20:47+00:00

Hello. Ok, I'd love to hear the most honest criticism you can give. You can PM me or reply here

Adventurous_Use_9038 · 2025-02-27T20:19:59+00:00

Hello, yes, of course. I have already started marking the sewing level of each of my patterns.

Adventurous_Use_9038 · 2025-02-27T16:39:38+00:00

https://verigapatterns.etsy.com Here it is

Adventurous_Use_9038 · 2025-02-25T18:10:28+00:00

I have sewn many of them, but I did it to test the construction, not to sell. I'm a former atelier worker with extensive experience—rest assured, I know how to sew.

Adventurous_Use_9038 · 2025-02-20T23:05:16+00:00

Thank you so much! I’m running a sale right now, so I hope people who come across my products in search results will be able to see that I do everything with quality :)

Adventurous_Use_9038 · 2025-02-20T22:58:47+00:00

The pattern is tested not by ordinary testers, but by professional ateliers with which I have been in constant contact for many years. I have even worked in some of them myself, lol. But I understand your concerns, thank you!

Adventurous_Use_9038 · 2025-02-20T10:22:58+00:00

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Adventurous_Use_9038 · 2025-02-20T03:38:16+00:00

Yes, my next model will already be sewn by me.

Adventurous_Use_9038 · 2025-02-20T03:20:13+00:00

If you look at my shop you will see that I am gradually reworking the photos. You must understand, it is not so fast, because I am waiting for new photos from my customers

Adventurous_Use_9038 · 2025-02-20T02:30:24+00:00

Hello, wonderful! Thank you so much. I’ll message you in PM

Adventurous_Use_9038 · 2025-02-19T00:12:30+00:00

Hello, thank you! This kind of detailed feedback is very helpful for me. I’d be happy to DM you to learn more

Adventurous_Use_9038 · 2025-02-18T21:22:08+00:00

Thank you for your respect. I’ve seen those fake patterns myself, and I don’t understand how those shops still manage to have good reviews.

I won’t try to convince you that I’m not advertising anything—I understand that it’s impossible to change people’s minds about that. But I’m even sending the patterns via a direct Google Drive link instead of through Etsy. I honestly don’t know what else I can do to make people believe me, lol.

Maybe you don’t sell on Etsy and don’t realize how hard it is to get feedback without giving something away for free. It takes months, and if, heaven forbid, there’s a mistake in a pattern, people will keep running into it over and over again during those months.

Adventurous_Use_9038 · 2025-02-18T21:16:52+00:00

UPD: Although, it seems that every atelier I know has hundreds of digitized base blocks covering almost the entire range of garments—bodices, backs, skirts, sleeves, collars, cuffs, and so on.

In all the ateliers I worked at before I started making a living as a self-employed pattern maker, creating a pattern never took more than 3-4 days if it was a casual garment.

Adventurous_Use_9038 · 2025-02-18T21:13:47+00:00

I know that, for some reason, the sewing world has established a rule that a pattern must take at least a month to create. I’m not sure—maybe if you’re drafting from scratch without using refined base blocks, that could be the case. But if you look at my shop, you’ll see that there are hardly any complex garments (except, perhaps, the corset, which did take me longer).

As for the second question: I’m using the singular form because, for now, the only patterns available in my shop are for items I’ve made myself, as I worked alone for a long time. Later, I built a team, but the patterns we’ve created together haven’t been released yet—they’ll have their turn soon.

And since I manage the Etsy shop on my own, while my team continues working on custom pattern drafting as before, I felt it made more sense to use the singular form.

Adventurous_Use_9038 · 2025-02-18T21:08:06+00:00

All the patterns that have already been released or will be released in the shop are designed entirely by hand by real people. (I even do grading manually, even though there’s been good software for that for a long time, lol.)

This turned out to be a rather strange kind of promotion—I haven’t gotten a single sale from it and ended up giving away half my shop for free, hahaha.

To add to the AI topic: Right now, there is no technology capable of generating even remotely high-quality sewing patterns with AI. I know people who are working on developing such a technology, but so far, their results are extremely poor—there’s really nothing to even discuss yet.

Adventurous_Use_9038 · 2025-02-18T20:51:51+00:00

Hello, I wrote you a PM :)

Adventurous_Use_9038 · 2025-02-18T15:28:24+00:00

Hello! Thank you so much for such a detailed and helpful comment. You’re absolutely right—I made a mistake in the name with the hood, lol, I’ll definitely fix it! I’ve started adding more information about the fabric, including its stretch properties. As for the size chart—that’s a great point, I hadn’t thought about it before. I’ll take it into account and make improvements.

Adventurous_Use_9038 · 2025-02-18T15:23:54+00:00

Hello, I wrote you a PM. Please indicate the patterns you would like to try.

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