Etsy Tuesdays

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I've just realized that my biggest days for sales on Etsy are Tuesdays. How interesting! According to my Google Analytics, a good 60% of my correspondence and sales from my shop all take place on the most random day of the week. I'm not really sure why this is - perhaps brides are likely to be bored at work and surfing Etsy by almost mid-week? :)

Vintage Stamps

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One of my newest obsessions :: Vintage Stamps. Yesterday, I got the greatest little package in the mail from a fantastic stamp retailer called Champion Stamp out of NYC. Oh how I wish I'd known about them when I was there in July! They have an online catalog in PDF format that you can look through, note item numbers and quantities you'd like (great photos of the stamps are included as well as [great] prices for each) and email them off an order. My stamps arrived about a week later.

Vintage stamps are a great way to give personality to invitations or even personal stationery. I've always collected the "cool" stamps the Post Office issues every year to use with the right letter or thank you note... but the vintage stamps are so pretty! You can mix and match to add up to the right postage needed.

The Goodpaper website will feature about 30 personalized stationery options. For the product photos, each will be paired with a kraft envelope (another new obsession... colored envelopes will be available also) adorned with different "Southern" vintage stamps(including the charming ones above!)

Photo from 100 Layer Cake

GOOD NEWS::Goodpaper on the ETSY HOMEPAGE!

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UPDATE: 486 on the Goodpaper Etsy Shop page today thanks to this publicity!

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Perhaps my proudest moment yet! One of my Goodpaper monograms from my Etsy Shop was featured on the FRONT PAGE of ETSY today (photo at bottom left)! Another shop owner sent me a convo to let me know. My husband took a screenshot and sent it to me because I was out and about! SO excited! What a great few days its been for Goodpaper.

GOOD NEWS::Goodpaper in Stationery Trends Mag!

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GOOD NEWS FOR GOODPAPER!

I was recently quoted in the Fall Edition of Stationery Trends Magazine (as the owner of Goodpaper) on the value of social networking for small businesses! Martha Stewart and Crane & Co are featured in the very same edition! My copy arrived today. In the quote, I mentioned two of my idols... Lara Casey of Southern Weddings Magazines, Bliss Event Group and Lara Casey Reps (LOVE her blog. Follow it.) and Abby Larson of Style Me Pretty. Check out what they're doing with social networking. Very forward thinking, I love it.

This is the first publicity Goodpaper has received - even before the big site launch! Hopefully a sign of things to come... I've been so swamped with wedding and Christmas orders that I haven't even been able to think about or work on the launch or the new website. This was exciting.

Thanks to Sara, their Editor, for contacting me!