Advertising Exec

Today somebody adds me to their "treasury" on Etsy.

Accompanying this add is a snotty-sounding message instructing me to "pay it forward", go to this link and do xxx ooo.

Pay what forward, pray tell?  People who saw my shit on your treasury will add it to favorites and still not buy it, and you want me to blow a half hour I could be using to make money for real setting up a fuckin' treasury to pay some unsolicited favoriting forward?

No.

Then someone shares an OLA related blog on the board. This blog kind of cracked me up. OLA is great, rah rah sis boom bah...but this quote is especially funny:

I have been setting up and selling here for just over a month. The only con I have found as of yet is buyer traffic

That's the biggest con of all! You need traffic to make sales.

Then they go on with this drivel:

 Also, much depends upon you to advertise yourself. Social media and correctly done SEO play a vital part in this. If you're not willing to put forth time and effort into doing that, then you will never succeed in selling here, nor on any other small ecommerce platform, not even on your own website. Only the top dog will do it for you and it comes with a hefty price.

So why not try selling here? Seriously? What do you have to lose? $8 a month. You're likely paying more than that for a single space any day at a flea market, antique booth, craft show, etc.

Yes. I pay $30 for a space at a fleamarket, however, I actually sell shit there because there's traffic. $8 a month is 16 Cumby's Chug Jug refills. What do I have to lose? $8 more a month, that's what. Plus I don't like the "advertise yourself" BS, as I've previously stated in other blog posts.

If I am paying your ass to be on your site, you do the advertising, not me. I spend enough time hunting down the merchandise, cleaning it, repairing it, photographing it, and writing up descriptions. Then I spend more time gathering packing materials and then packing the shit for shipment afterward. I also have a part-time job and a young child. I don't have time to be "advertising myself".