Thank You, Thank You, Thank You

Hey everyone! In the spirit of the Academy Awards we'd like to break from talking exclusively about us and send out a few thank yous.

First of all (and this has been a long time coming, sorry we've been so behind), thanks to You've Got Maille over at the Chainmailler's Guild for featuring our Freeform 4 in 1 Necklace. We were so psyched when she asked and even more so when we read her editorial on the piece. For us, it was just another adventure in chainmaille and metalsmithing...we never really looked at it outside our little box.

Our next thank you goes out to Erika over at IndieSpotting for featuring our HooDoo Galaxy Necklace on her Gallery Blog. For those of you who have never been, it's chock full of unique goodies made by independant artisans from all corners of the web. She even accepts your indie finds! Check it out. We found it hard not to spend our PayPal account :)

And of course, we'd like to thank our customers (past, present, and future). Without you all we would not have a reason to sit here and make more jewelry. For us, it's more than just a side venture from our real life jobs, it's a passion. We look forward to creating more jewelry and watching it go to loving homes.

Pete and Leane
Skelly Designs

Google Analytics - Fun in Geekdom

So Etsy has finally given us sellers what we've been asking for: Web Analytics (if you haven't heard about it, read The Storque article here). So while perusing our statistics from the past few days we found out a few interesting things.

In 23 visits, we have had 91 page views. This means that the average person looked at about 4 pages of our shop before leaving.

1. Our top landing page is (not surprisingly) our storefront
2. From there, most people go to page 2 (again, not too surprising, but we'd like people to look at some of the stuff on the first page)
3. Most of those who don't go directly to page 2 click on our Ooops Ring (see #5 for more details)
4. I could go on with the whole path thing, but that'll get boring. Our most popular Exit page, however, is also our storefront.
5. Interestingly enough, people who used search engines were brought to our page via the following: "pmc silver ring" (normal), "persian bracelet instructions" (fairly normal), and "how to decoupage light switch cover" (really strange).
6. To the three readers out there that found us through blogger - Thanks! Glad to see that someone is reading this :)
7. Twitter also sent a couple referrals as well. Thanks to you guys too!

Now, we've only been messing around with this for a day or two, so I'm sure there's tons more that we haven't figured out yet. But this certainly will prove to be an extremely valuable tool to us. Any of you Etsians out there reading this, we urge you to sign up for this service. It's free, it's through Google, it's easy to set up, and hey, now you know who's visiting and why they're there.

So, I guess we'll go write up those instructions on decoupaging lightswitch covers and list them in our shop :)

Peace,

Pete and Leane

www.skellydesigns.etsy.com

Happy Thanksgiving

The holiday season is upon us! In celebration of the most infamous shopping weekend of the year, we are offering a special sale in our Etsy shop (www.skellydesigns.etsy.com). From Black Friday thru Cyber-Monday we will be offering free standard shipping on all purchases and 15% off all items priced over $20! To get the discount, purchase the item you want but don't pay at checkout. We will send you a revised invoice via PayPal. If you jump the gun and do pay, we will happily return the difference to your account. Happy shopping!

Our first blog

Welp I did it. I finally pried Leane's hands off Princess of the Damned and got it listed on ETSY. Even more good news, we joined an Etsy team to further our name in the Etsy community. They are called The Chainmaillers Guild. From looking thru alot of the artisits, I am impressed with what beautiful items they have created. You can find their blog at http://chainmaillersguild.blogspot.com/ .

If you would like to check out our etsy shop goto http://www.skellydesigns.etsy.com/

Till our next post..

Happy weaving

Pete

Skelly Designs