As someone who is preparring to open up shop at Etsy soon, I was pleasantly surprised at all of the resources and articles available on the site to help newbies. The folks at Etsy know the importance of setting yourself apart from the crowd, and for anyone who's willing to do a little prepwork, they really have provided a fine buffet of articles for things like taking photos, creating great packaging, pricing your work, advertising your shop, adding videos to your site and more. There's also dowloads for buttons, banners and avatars. And check out this list of links for additional resources elsewhere.

And here I've been putting off opening a shop for so long because I didn't know where to start or what to do and I'm glad that all excuses have been nullified! See you at the market soon--what's your excuse?

(If you have any words of advice or tips to share from your own selling experience, please leave a comment here. I can use all of the help I can get!)