Friday, February 15, 2013

A Simple How To Create an Etsy Treasury!





We’re Hunting Leprechauns…



“Now?” whined Giselle as she leaned back on the settee and pulled her ever-present beret down over her pretty face.

“Not yet,” stated Madame Le Tron.                     

“When then,” replied Giselle.

“I will be on this site for no more than another half hour Giselle,” said Madame. “Is it homework that you need to do?”

“No,” pouted Giselle getting to her feet and then immediately falling to the floor with a resounding, “Ouch!”

“Mon Cheri, are you all right,” cried Madame Le Tron rising from the computer screen to rush to her aid.

“Oui Madame, I tripped over this floor board.”  “Snap-Clap” went a trap! “OH NO RATS,” screeched Giselle as she jumped upon the settee from whence she came!

“Oh Mon Dieu, les rats,” shrieked Madame as she jumped upon the settee next to Giselle, the two holding one another tightly!

Giselle whispered to Madame holding a finger up to her lips, “Do you hear that Madame?”

“Qu’est-ce,” mouthed Madame Le Tron.

From a distance came the sound of a slot machine “Cha-Chinging,” with bells and whistles ringing and the whir of a recyle-ton’s wheel.

Giselle and Madame turned to one another and exclaimed, “It’s Jack-Pot-Johnny!”

No sooner had his name left their lips then Jack-Pot-Johnny, the robot, rolled into the room. He had a net on a stick in one wrenched hand and what looked to be a treasure map in the other.

Bending on jointed hips, he glared with his electric eye into the hole beneath the up- turned floorboard and pulled out an empty trap, which appeared to be bated with gold. Johnny sighed with a “PHOOEY!”

Madame regarded Giselle and said, “Did he just sigh and say, ‘PHOOEY’?”

“Qui Madame,” answered Giselle nodding her pretty blond head.

“Jack-Pot-Johnny explain yourself,” demanded Madame Le Tron.

The robot, quiet now and appearing a bit disheartened, thrust the paper in Madame’s direction. “C’est Vrai, it is a treasure map of sorts,” she said.

Giselle, looking over Madame’s shoulder and reading the words at the top of the map aloud, “Shhhhh, be very, very quiet I’m hunting LEPRECHAUNS!” Giselle began to giggle, “Really Jack?”

The robot blinked his lights twice.

“It will take the ‘Luck O’ the Irish’ to catch a Leprechaun, if it is anywhere near as hard as it is to make an Etsy Treasury about them,” proclaimed Madame Le Tron!

“Is that what you have been working on all morning Madame?” asked Giselle a slight smile upon her face.

“Oui, Mademoiselle,” sniffed Madame Letron as she pushed her dark glasses up on her narrow nose.

Giselle leaped from the settee and made for the computer, pushing her beret to the back of her head. With a click of the keys paper began to spew forth from the copier.

Jack-Pot-Johnny whirled on his wheel and pulled the paper from the machine.  No sooner has his electric eye scanned the page then he began to “Cha-Ching”!

Taking the paper from the robot, Madame read the title aloud, “Simple How To Build an Etsy Treasury  - by Giselle Montiner.”

“We are studying On-line Marketing and Sales in Economics. That’s my end-of-chapter homework and I’ve been trying all morning to get on the computer to find out what grade I got,” Giselle announced.

“A+,” beamed a proud Madame Le Tron as she waved the paper high!  “Merci Giselle! This will make my work so much easier!”

“We’re all in this together, right?  Now, let’s see if we can’t find a LEPRECHAUN Johnny,” a delighted Giselle rang out!

“Cha-Ching,” chimed Jack-Pot-Johnny as they exited the room.

“The ‘Luck O’ the Irish’ to you both,” mused Madame Le Tron as she returned to her computer screen.





                              A Simple Guide to Creating an Etsy Treasury!


1.              Log into your Etsy Shop.
2.              On you Shop’s Home Page click on the Etsy Logo in the dark orange at the top left side of 
          the page.
3.              Under Ways To Shop at the bottom of the column on the left side of this page click on 
          Treasury.
4.              On the Treasury page in the box on the right-hand-side of the page click on Create a List.
      

                                              You are now ready to create your Treasury!


1.             Enter the title of your Treasury (this is important because the title of your piece is how the 
          computer program will bring you back to this treasury!)

2.             To the right of the title box check - you only/draft while you are working on  your piece to 
          prevent it from being prematurely published.

Note: You can fill the “Description” out now or later. The same is true with “Tags.”  You will also want to review the “Do’ and Don’ts” in the grey box to your right!

3.             In the search bar at the top of this page enter the items that you are looking for.

4.             Click on the desired item which will bring you to that item’s Purchasing Page.
  
5.             In the column to the right, under “Add to Cart” you will see the title “Item” click on Add item 
          to treasury. You can add up to 16 items but you do not have to use all sixteen slots.

6.             If you want to edit or remove an item click on “Edit” under the “Curator Tool Box” in the 
         column to the right. Hover your cursor over the item and an edit/remove button will appear at 
         the top of the item.

7.             If you want to re-arrange your Treasury click on “Edit” and then click and drag on the item 
         you want to move as you would when you re-arrange your shop.

8.            Once you are satisfied with your Treasury you are ready to GO LIVE!  Don’t forget to go 
         back and fill in a description in the Description Box located above your Treasury and to ADD 
         TAGS!  Use all twelve tags! This is the best way to get found.

9.      Last, but not least, go back up to the title box and to the right, under  Privacy, click on   
         Everyone!  This does three things…

-       Lists you in the Etsy Treasury Master List
-       Informs the people in your Treasury that you have featured them.
-       Gives you the opportunity to be featured on Etsy’s main page if the moderators choose!

We hope you have found Giselle’s homework helpful!  Let us know by listing your Treasury’s URL in our comments section below!  Here is ours…



Bon chance and see you next Friday at 3pm on http://madameletron.blogspot.com

Au Revoir!

Madame








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