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Florida Esty Street Team Manifesto!!!

07/10/07 Chat Notes

Hello all :)
Thanks for the great chat!!

So here is what we accomplished tonight:
1. Creation of a Florida Etsy Street Team blog - etsy does have north, south, and central, but this will be all-inclusive.
2. Creation of a Florida Etsy Street Team myspace.
3. Creation of a Florida Etsy Street Team yahoo group.
4. Things that are on hold are a Flickr group and a Livejournal.
5. We will take submissions for a Blog, Myspace, and Yahoo Group, as they need to be consistent and will vote on it.
6. We will take volunteers for Blogger, Myspace and Yahoo admins.
7. Once a Team Name has been created and admins have been chosen, we will accept submissions for a graphics admin (1 position)
8. Other positions will be created as required :)
9. I will organize, but not admin *yay*
10. Opportunities for 'offline' marketing and advertising will be available also
11.We will have weekly chats every Tuesday @ 830pm and then a post recap at our yahoo group or the street team forum if yahoo group has not been created yet.
12. NO FEES or DUES

A. Purpose
1. The purpose of the Florida Etsy Street Team Blog;
a. To create a haven for all etsiers in FL to have a place to post shows, items, links, etc.
b. Organization will be in the following:
i. Labels - all posts will be labeled by the city of the person posting OR by the city of the potential craft fair and show. All city names shall be consistent with their actual names. ie, no O-Town for Orlando and no St. Pete for St. Petersburg.
ii. Objects and wares should be labeled for consistency as well, i.e. apparel not clothes or pants and greeting cards not holiday cards, birthday cards
iii. all posts shall be labeled with posters Etsy shop name, i.e. not Justiss but PaperScissorsArt.
iv. More organization to follow once site has been up and running
v. This shall be consistent in all areas of communication on the blog.
c. Everyone in the Florida Etsy Street Team will be able to post to the blog but there will only be one admin.

2. The purpose of the Florida Etsy Street Team Myspace;
a. To create a haven for all Etsiers in FL to have a place to post shows, items, links, etc.
b. Organization to be determined once Myspace has been created.

3. The purpose of the Florida Etsy Street Team Yahoo Group;
a. To create a method of communication that is consistent as Etsy forums can sometimes be hard to manage.
b. Organization to be determined once Yahoo Group has been created.


B. Site Admins
1. The Florida Etsy Street Team Blogger, Myspace, and Yahoo Group accounts will all have separate admins so as not to burden someone will all the responsibility.
a. Responsibilities
i. Create your respective site.
ii. Maintain your respective site; the layout, colors, implementing and importing of graphics.
iii. More to be determined.
iv. Admins must coordinate changes and maintenance
v. A schedule of changes must be created and followed.
vi. More to be added later.

C. Site Graphics
1. All sites must be consistent with graphics.
2. There will be only one admin.
3. Responsibilities:
i. Create graphics that signify the essence of The Florida Etsy Street Team.
ii. All graphics must be voted on by The Florida Etsy Street Team members.
iii. Coordinate with site admins to implement the graphics to the sites.
iv. Schedule with Site Admins any changes graphically to the sites.
v. More responsibilities to be added later.

D. Other Positions
1. PaperScissorsArt or Justiss will organize, but will not admin.
2. Other positions to be added at a later time.

E. Communication
1. We shall communicate through:
a. Yahoo Group
b. Etsy Chats;
i. Chats are held every Tuesday @ 830pm
ii. There will be a password for every chat and the password will be posted on the Yahoo Group. The password will change weekly(this may change)
iii. If you miss the chat, check the Yahoo Group for synopsis of the chat.
c. Email
d. Blog
e. Myspace
f. Other forms of communication to be added.

F. NO DUES or FEES
1. The intention of this group is to keep everything 100% free.
2. If at any time this group needs to collect dues or fees, then group may need to re-evaluate the direction of the Florida Etsy Street Team.
3. If anyone who claims to be a member of The Florida Etsy Street Team asks or solicits for dues, fees, or any other money and is not for a purchase of merchandise, notify PaperScissorsArt aka Justiss immediately.

G. Opportunities for Outside and Offline Marketing/Advertising
1. Group will be formed on creating avenues for other forms of advertising and marketing.
2. Everyone should have business cards!!!
3. It is the responsibility of all members of The Florida Etsy Street Team to proactively invest in their own marketing and advertising strategy and campaign. Please do not put all your eggs in The Florida Etsy Street Team basket!! But share your successes and failures with us so that we can learn and cheer you on and let you lean on us too!
4. Make every moment count!


If I missed anything, please let me know!! It is almost 1030 (edited, 1130pm) and I have to get up early ☺

PS Craftyhag is hosting a craftshow on July the 27th.
There is a craft show in Miami on the 21st - don't remember the name but I am sure someone will post - Thus why we need the blog :)

I will post in the street team forums an email for everyone to send me their personal/business email addresses so that I know who's doing what and we can communicate a little easier.

I know this is a lot but not much info. Look forward to having you :)

I have a fascniation

With creations.

I like to get an idea and run with it!

So, two NEW things coming to the shoppe VERY VERY SOON!

Hints!
1. Starfish
2. Drink Stirrers!

PS
Thanks for looking!!

B is for

is for Birds.

First Installment

So, hello :)

I hope to say much much more. But until then I thought I would give away some freebies.

1. Martha Stewart
I'm not all that keen on her, personally - but I love the things on her website. And since I am sure she is not too far off what other designers do, hire fresh meat to design for them and then paste their name all over it, I will look at her site with a discerning eye.
Baby Kimonos
I have been spending a good hour already today cutting and pasting. I have my pattern on my test fabric right now and will update how mine comes out, might even take a pic or two.

2. Cute Paintings turned Graphics



Enjoy!!

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Florida Esty Street Team Events

Melanie Fonesca of melaniesOriginals is facilitating a beading craft class.

All on the Florida Etsy Street Team have been invited to send items to put into thank you bags that Melanie will hand out at the end of the class. The bags could contain business cards and promos/samples. She did a class on the 5th and the ladies loved there gifts. This is short notice but the team just got put together this week so......but there is still time since we are all in the same state.

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Where is it?
Osceola library
If anyone lives in the area of Poinciana they can go to the website event calender and sign up for the class, it's free. Class is July 28th and starts at 2pm.
They have asked me to return for the Oct/Nov/Dec crafting corner and I'm waiting on a response to my reply about maybe teaching simple polymer clay work.
Anyone can contact there library and ask if they have crafting class and if they can teach one (yes they pay) usually they ask you what you charge depending on the class you teach and the supplies you need to supply for it.

How many people are you expecting?
I requested only 10 sign ups for my classes, so only expecting 10 people

What would you live to be able to hand out to them?
When it comes to what I would like to hand out to them I thought it best whatever best represent the sellers shop/crafts along with there business card attached so they know how to get in touch with them and what website/shop to go to if they should want to see more and purchase. The baggies I've been putting together are thank you to the "customers" (as the library calls them) for signing up and participating in my class and I want to try to make Etsy a household name so we can get more traffic (buyers) to our shops since I know a lot have a hard time getting sales I thought maybe this is a way to help.

How do you want us to get it to you?
Here is my snail mail addy where they can ship/send to:
Melanie Fonseca
1904 Destiny Blvd Apt 104
Kissimmee, FL 34741
DEADLINE:
Any thing you would like to send should be sent out no later than July 23 I would say just to be safe with it getting here before July 28th

What are you going to be teaching? Is it a theme? Maybe we can offer a discount off in name of the theme or event?
I will be teaching them how to make "book jewelry" which is a beaded bookmark (you can see some of these in my sold items in my shop) I guess the theme is beading.

How long is the class for?
The class is scheduled for 1hr but my last class went for like a 1/2 more than that since some had a hard time with the seedbeads it took a little longer and others did there beading in a color pattern which also took longer since the seed beads are a mix of colors not seperated.
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Please email Melanie (and me, so I can keep a tally of who said yes and we can monitor successes) directly to let her know if you will be participating.

Some notes:
When you hand out your business cards or marketing material, make sure to put a CODE somewhere on it. So if you can speak to them directly you can ask if they have a biz card. If they do have it, ask for the code on the back/bottom/etc and then keep a record of where you used that code. Code SHOW could have been at a craft show, CODE ORLSHOW could have been a show in Orlando. For instance, this could be CODE LIBGFTBG. OR Even better, just put the date 072807. Of course I would highly recommend that you keep the word CODE off :) They might think it is a discount code. You need something to signify where and when and then you can see where you got the better response at and what they are buying.

In the future I would like to create a brochure or zine of sorts that displays "ads" so that we can have something on file and it can be easily printed. Samples can always be sent, but for instances like this it is always good to have something on hand to GRAB-AND-GO.

Thanks guys!!