Just announced: Etsy Seller Advisory Board Includes… me!

From Etsy’s website Tuesday:

In October, we launched a variety of new community initiatives to build upon the existing channels that foster conversation between Etsy and our global community. At that time, we also began accepting applications for the Seller Advisory Board with the goal of bringing together a group of sellers to provide input about the challenges you face as small business owners and play a key role in shaping the way future decisions are made.

Since then, we received more than 600 thoughtful and inspiring applications, which a team of Etsy Admin reviewed over the course of several weeks. Now, we are excited to report that we have selected 15 sellers to be a part of the 2016 Seller Advisory Board. We selected these sellers based on their commitment to the Etsy community as a whole and the valuable perspectives they provide as small business owners. They will work closely with us throughout the year to gather feedback from the community and provide insight on how we can help sellers succeed. They will also work to gather feedback from more than 200 sellers who were invited to join subcommittees of the Seller Advisory Board.  Read more…

I am thrilled to pieces to be a part of this board and I am so excited that I will be traveling to NYC for a board meeting very soon.  I only know a tiny bit about the rest of the board members; we have been connecting with each other on Instagram and Twitter all day.  I am the “oldest” seller in the group, I think; not age-wise (although that is possible too) but in that I have had my shop since 2005.  I was really passionate in my application about the fact that I don’t want to be a wholesaler/manufacturer and “quit my day job” but that I consider my Etsy shop to be one of the components of my artistic livelihood and that I like having a small niche shop.