It’s pretty easy to see why you want lots of Twitter followers if you have analytics on your websites – you get TONS of traffic! As I’ve explained in my posts about WordPress plugins (category “Blogger“), I’ve set things up so that I automatically post a tweet promoting my latest blog posts as soon as I publish them which brings my Twitter followers over to my blog. There are other uses to Twitter too: If you’re... 

 And now for a little update on my Facebook and Etsy campaigns… The Facebook fan/like campaign is definitely working! Link Love is the hugest reason that I’ve managed to increase our fan base so much in such a short period of time. I’m definitely not sure if this is going to lead to sales, there is an argument that you are getting only other ‘sellers’ and no ‘buyers’ but I don’t see why a person... 

FACEBOOK STATS: http://www.Facebook.com/twocraftychicks Goal Start Date: April 19th, 2010 Total Fans: 93 Today’s Date: April 27th, 2010 Total Fans: 180 Increase: 87 fans  ETSY STATS: Date Joined: Jan 1st, 2010 Current Date: April 21st, 2010 Total Items in Shop: 33 (one item since last post) Total Sales: 9 (one sale since last post) Let me start this by saying that this is not my first attempt …pause…saving… at posting... 

The past couple days I’ve been really trying to spend about an hour promoting my Facebook Page and Etsy shop. Here’s how it’s going so far: FACEBOOK STATS: http://www.Facebook.com/twocraftchicks Goal Start Date: April 19th, 2010 Total Fans: 93 Today’s Date: April 21th, 2010 Total Fans: 103 Increase: 10 fans ETSY STATS: Date Joined: Jan 1st, 2010 Current Date: April 21st, 2010 Total Items in Shop: 32 (two items since... 

What? You think 1000 visitors is a crazy goal? Well, I didn’t say how long it would take… Beginning Stats: http://www.Facebook.com/twocraftchicks Goal Start Date: April 19th, 2010 Total Fans: 93 Today’s Date: April 20th, 2010 Total Fans: 99 Increase: 6 fans (and it’s only noon!) UPDATE! It’s July 4th and we have 324 fans. I’ve been working on some other things and haven’t been actively promoting the Facebook... 

BEGINNING STATS: Date Joined: Jan 1st, 2010 Current Date: April 14th, 2010 Total Items in Shop: 30 Total Sales: 8 Ok, here’s the deal… Val and I have a small handmade goods business we call TWO CRAFTY CHICKS. We’ve had some local success, we are in a few local stores, and we are signed up for a few awesome craft fairs… BUT our Etsy shop is a little slower than I’d like it to be. Ok Ok, a LOT slower. Since we joined...