GoImagine

[BadBob]

They messed up the import of my Etsy shop. They imported it multiple times, and there is no provision for multiple deletes. I tried the one-at-a-time thing, and it was far too slow so I submitted a request to delete all of my inactive listings.

 

I have posted a few listings now. For me, posting everything by hand is easier. I have to change every imported field, so there is no advantage. Manual importing lets me keep track of which ones are done.

There is no way to do bulk changes to listings.

[kmmcrafts]

I haven't had time to look anymore at my GoImagine account. Probably shouldn't have signed up really but it really looks like it could be a good place for handmade small businesses.. or hobby crafters.. Hopefully things settle down soon and i can get to putting some things on there.. 

Keeping us informed is appreciated 

[kmmcrafts]

On 7/17/2023 at 6:39 AM, BadBob said:

They messed up the import of my Etsy shop. They imported it multiple times, and there is no provision for multiple deletes. I tried the one-at-a-time thing, and it was far too slow so I submitted a request to delete all of my inactive listings.

 

I have posted a few listings now. For me, posting everything by hand is easier. I have to change every imported field, so there is no advantage. Manual importing lets me keep track of which ones are done.

There is no way to do bulk changes to listings.

I finally been working on setting up my page... have you seen any place where there are stats such as page views.. etc..? I did get one listing up this morning just testing to see how to do it but I have it offline until I finish setting up my policies etc. I currently don't think it'll be too bad to do manually instead of importing once I learn where things are.. It is a bit disorganized the way things are laid out but then every site is or was in the beginning for the most part. 

Anyway, just curious if you found any stats pages as I haven't ran across them yet if they have it.   

[BadBob]

16 minutes ago, kmmcrafts said:

just curious if you found any stats pages

No, I haven't seen any stats, but I'll ask.

[Wichman]

Try watching this:

 

[kmmcrafts]

@Wichman Thanks, that helped find some of the reports.. Still not finding anything about specific page views / clicks etc.. more about sales reporting but that was probably next question to ask anyway so now I'm ahead of the game on that part..

Being able to see page views on specific items is very helpful to know if a product isn't selling to see if it is even getting any views at all.. obviously if no views it's not going to sell.. it's nice to know if you need to change up a title or tag etc.. to try to get views on specific items.. 

[Wichman]

The video mentions that this is new; she hadn't seen the reports before, so they may be working on adding more stats. Make sure you give positive feedback to the site about what you like and what you would like to see added.

 

[kmmcrafts]

Yeah, she did say it was new, however the video is from a year ago too. 

I'm sure they have this on their long list of request.. Seems like a very good site to work with and they are trying to work with the sellers to bring them features they want. Unlike most sites that just put a platform out there to money grab.. Sure they gotta make money but some have taken that too far by allowing resellers etc.. 

[BadBob]

The reports only show sales. I haven't had any yet, so for me it is blank.

[BadBob]

I now have 61 listings in my GoImagine shop, with more coming. I'm adding a few every day. In no way are they an exact match for Etsy, and in some cases, the listings are very different. I have several Etsy listings that have options for different sizes. FoImaging options do not have a way to track inventory for each size that I have been able to discover, so I had to split the sizes into individual listings. This would not be an issue if these were made to order.

[kmmcrafts]

On 8/12/2023 at 6:29 AM, BadBob said:

I now have 61 listings in my GoImagine shop, with more coming. I'm adding a few every day. In no way are they an exact match for Etsy, and in some cases, the listings are very different. I have several Etsy listings that have options for different sizes. FoImaging options do not have a way to track inventory for each size that I have been able to discover, so I had to split the sizes into individual listings. This would not be an issue if these were made to order.

Does duplicate listings affect SEO between etsy and goimagine? Do you know how goimagines SEO works vrs. how it works on etsy? maybe the same or different? 

Not sure what plan you have on goimagine but just wanted to give a heads up that after August 18th whatever plan you're in you'll be locked into that price.. ie if you have the starter plan you're locked in to the price of the starter plan for life, BUT if you want / need to upgrade so you can have more listings then you lose out on the locked in price once you change in the future.. Being you have 61 listings I know you're not on the starter plan..I think the next level plan is 100 listings.. if you have that plan is it going to be enough to stay in the locked in price for life? 

 

Edited August 17, 2023 by kmmcrafts

[BadBob]

I have a plan that has 1000 listings.

On goimagine, their search first looks for exact string matches and the search words. In the current dashboard, you separate these strings by commas in the search words field. After that, it looks for matching words, and whoever has the most gets ranked higher. Etsy uses your title, the first 150 words of the description (new), and the tags. I don't yet know how the GoImagine titles figure into this. However, I know that the required title shows up in Google searches. The custom H1 Title is what shows on the listing. I don't use the beta dashboard because it is missing some things, and I have never been able to create a listing with it.

I have things that have multiple options on Etsy. However, GoImagine does not currently have inventory tracking for options. I had to split these into multiple listings. I'm told inventory tracking for options is on the wish list.

I'm adding listings as fast as possible and pruning my Etsy tags to fit the word count in GoImagine. I'm not changing the search words until the new dashboard is in production because the new search word requirements differ. You can enter up to 20 keyword phrases, and there is no length limit that I can find. Of course, it is in beta test, so that could change. I'm using word salad in my Etsy tags and removing irrelevant words on GoImagine to get past the word count. Irrelevant words are anything related to handmade or made in the USA.

The current dashboard seems to take an unlimited number of photos. I have dropped 20 of them, and it took them all. However, the new dashboard limits you to 10, so I'm sticking with ten.

This is a lot of work. I expect to have somewhere near 600 listings on Go Imagine before Im finished.

[kmmcrafts]

1 hour ago, BadBob said:

I have a plan that has 1000 listings.

On goimagine, their search first looks for exact string matches and the search words. In the current dashboard, you separate these strings by commas in the search words field. After that, it looks for matching words, and whoever has the most gets ranked higher. Etsy uses your title, the first 150 words of the description (new), and the tags. I don't yet know how the GoImagine titles figure into this. However, I know that the required title shows up in Google searches. The custom H1 Title is what shows on the listing. I don't use the beta dashboard because it is missing some things, and I have never been able to create a listing with it.

I have things that have multiple options on Etsy. However, GoImagine does not currently have inventory tracking for options. I had to split these into multiple listings. I'm told inventory tracking for options is on the wish list.

I'm adding listings as fast as possible and pruning my Etsy tags to fit the word count in GoImagine. I'm not changing the search words until the new dashboard is in production because the new search word requirements differ. You can enter up to 20 keyword phrases, and there is no length limit that I can find. Of course, it is in beta test, so that could change. I'm using word salad in my Etsy tags and removing irrelevant words on GoImagine to get past the word count. Irrelevant words are anything related to handmade or made in the USA.

The current dashboard seems to take an unlimited number of photos. I have dropped 20 of them, and it took them all. However, the new dashboard limits you to 10, so I'm sticking with ten.

This is a lot of work. I expect to have somewhere near 600 listings on Go Imagine before Im finished.

I started putting some things on goimagine yesterday and a few this morning, I've done listings on both the normal and Beta set up and I do prefer the old right now anyway, I did see the tag words was limited to the 20 on there. I didn't bother with uploading my etsy listings. Though I have mostly just copied and pasted the description I just rewrite the titles and tag word fresh.. many of them from etsy would be irrelevant to goimagine anyway.

I have the 1000 listing plan as well.. with that one you have a mirror copy as a website that you can point your domain too. so from what I can tell much like Zibbet did and also similar to how etsy has the pattern site but pattern is separate because you can do separate listings.. I haven't looked into the mirrored website just yet to see how it works. 

 I've read there is supposed to be a way to load up your reviews from etsy so you can have reviews on goimagine.. I haven't figured out how... I also haven't found any forums to get help and suggestions from which I thought was a bit odd.  

 

[BadBob]

21 hours ago, kmmcrafts said:

 I've read there is supposed to be a way to load up your reviews from etsy so you can have reviews on goimagine

I saw some comments about this in the Official GoImagine Facebook Group. but the comments were about imported reviews being older than GoImagine.

 

BTW: This is the Official Facebook Group if you are interested.

[BadBob]

My Etsy shop grew slowly over several years, so I never experienced setting up a shop from scratch all at once. I've been working on my GoImagine store, and I'm 147 listings into the process. Adding all these listings is a lot of work is a lot of work. The process is pretty simple now that I have it all figured out. Well, most of it. The search keywords are still a mystery, but I'm making my Etsy tags fit. Counting the items I still need to list, I have about 400 more listings to go.

[kmmcrafts]

7 hours ago, BadBob said:

My Etsy shop grew slowly over several years, so I never experienced setting up a shop from scratch all at once. I've been working on my GoImagine store, and I'm 147 listings into the process. Adding all these listings is a lot of work is a lot of work. The process is pretty simple now that I have it all figured out. Well, most of it. The search keywords are still a mystery, but I'm making my Etsy tags fit. Counting the items I still need to list, I have about 400 more listings to go.

Yeah, I agree.. and that is kind of how my etsy shop grew.. slowly over time.. and now I've added Amazon which in 4 years of being on there I still have not gotten "all" listings on there that I have on etsy.. however I see people going to amazon to "look for deals" and I've not sold a whole lot of higher priced things there. That is the same way for eBay.. lower priced items sell pretty good but maybe only 20 -30 clocks a year.. Ornaments sell great though, LOL. 

I'm really impressed with goimagine.. I've got all my shops closed currently because we are taking a small vacation for a few days.. won't actually leave until late this week but I didn't want to deal with a made to order sale coming in at the last minute so I shut things down early. Anyway, you can set up goimagines vacation mode settings to where you can continue to sell.. I see it puts a big banner across the top of all the pages to inform customers.. which you can create your own message.. Artfire used to do that, but on etsy they want to be Amazon and get stuff shipped before they even place the order LOL.. so there is no option to do such a thing.. and putting your shop in vacation mode bumps you way back on the searches too once you come back which sucks really.. 

Have you messed with the "mosaic" website through goimagine? I think I'm going to drop my website from shopify and just do the mosaic site through goimagine. Anyway, I really like how they have everything set up on their platform. Hopefully sales will be decent too. I've only got about maybe 40 ish items listed on their so far. 

[BadBob]

14 hours ago, kmmcrafts said:

Have you messed with the "mosaic" website through goimagine?

Not yet. I haven't had time.

 

[BadBob]

How are you keeping track of your inventory selling in multiple locations?

[kmmcrafts]

2 hours ago, BadBob said:

How are you keeping track of your inventory selling in multiple locations?

Some are made to order, some I put a longer processing time. Quite honestly for the things I sell the odds are also pretty slim to sell the same item on the same day on different sites.. Yeah it's possible but pretty doubtful and if it did happen, for the most part I can get most any item made and ready to ship out in a very short notice. The items that are harder / time consuming to make I do made to order for sure. Most others I just scramble to get done in just a couple days. 

I have had to rush orders before but in my many years I have not sold the same item on other platforms.. mostly I forget to mark made to order on a item when I relist it and then it sells again and I realize I don't have it in my inventory so I have to rush make it.. which really isn't rushing because I can make any one of my items within 1-2 hours work and all my items are 1-3 days processing at a minimum... so make it the first day and usually late the same day I can spray ( I usually use either Lacquer or water based Poly which are both fast drying ) the finish on that same day and will have a couple days dry times. Also if needed the order can ship out at the end of the 3rd day because the P/O that is closer to me is only open in the afternoons and is only a few miles away so it doesn't have to be picked up at my house early AM like normally happens. 

It can be a pain to do but I also will mark items on etsy made to order if I sell them on another site.. Etsy mostly is the main site that has my inventory and all others are longer processing times.. but if it sells on goimagine then I'll have to go to that listing on etsy and mark it as made to order and give it a longer processing time. I have different shipping profiles set up for the same items on etsy..  ie clocks has in stock profile and also made to order profiles so if a clock sells I go into that listing and change to made to order and then click the corresponding shipping profile which is set up with 1-2 weeks processing times.. so long as I remember to do it, I'm good.. 

 

[kmmcrafts]

On 9/6/2023 at 5:34 AM, BadBob said:

Not yet. I haven't had time.

 

I don't think there is anything you have to do to set up the mosaic site other than personalize it however you'd like it to be. I believe it's basically a carbon copy of your regular goimagine site that you can kind of personalize some. If you have a domain name that gets traffic then point it to the mosaic and get the traffic to there.. that will also bump up your listings that get views within goimagine and google as well. 

I know the page looks blank.. but if you click the icon with the lines at the top it opens your menu bar.. IF you add a few listings to your "Featured Products" then they show up on the page so your store doesn't look empty. I don't like how you have to click the lines icon thing in order to show your products.. There is ways to make several banners that can add links to store sections etc. that are clickable too. The link to your mosaic site is just your shop name followed by the goimagine.. ie shopname.goimagine. com.. https://odinstoyfactory.goimagine.com/ 

I wonder if this shows up in your analytics since I searched it just a few minutes ago, LOL. 

I haven't added my domain name yet as I'm torn on if I want to since I started a site on shopify which has a ton more options.. though it's double the cost on shopify, LOL.. I have another domain name that's not in use but it isn't really related to my KevsKrafts..

Check my mosaic site.. see how I have the featured products so it looks like I have a store.. Pretty simple to add the featured products and make it look like a store. I would at a minimum do that in case someone landed there at some point.. I believe the inventory is accounted for between the site and the marketplace so you sell on the site and it removes the listing from the marketplace etc.  https://kevskrafts.goimagine.com/

[BadBob]

That seems pretty simple.

I have a domain name that is currently pointed at my Etsy shop. It's never brought any traffic that I can see. I may use that or add a new hostname and redirect it to the goimagine page. My provider sold their domain name business, so I must dig into that to see what I can do. 

It looks to me that the GoImagine web page is just a slightly different face for your shop. I have always been able to point my domain name to any URL.

[kmmcrafts]

On 10/4/2023 at 10:41 AM, BadBob said:

That seems pretty simple.

I have a domain name that is currently pointed at my Etsy shop. It's never brought any traffic that I can see. I may use that or add a new hostname and redirect it to the goimagine page. My provider sold their domain name business, so I must dig into that to see what I can do. 

It looks to me that the GoImagine web page is just a slightly different face for your shop. I have always been able to point my domain name to any URL.

Yes you can point your domain to go to any site you want, however you may be giving a security message to whomever tries to visit the site and that scares people away. For instance I get that message when entering mine and yours mosaic site address because it isn't set up with the security certificate.. I'm not certain how all that works, you probably understand that part of things but at any rate.. it shows that message saying you may be entering a cloned site or something like that is what I get when clicking the links provided above. I've had issues in the past with pointing my domain and getting this message.. and it had to do with something in the settings on the domain. 

I toyed around with the mosaic site yesterday and figured out how to show the menu bar at the top of the page. I remade a different banner as well. Think I need to make a new logo icon.. I feel it clashes with the banner.. or maybe just resize the old banner to fit.. as it was way too small for the space given.  I'm glad I've been testing all the functions before getting all my listings up because I wanted to be able to put "All items" as a category since the mosaic site doesn't have that.. and since there is no bulk editing feature I've had to go back and redo the category of all my listings... and of coarse that made it have "all items" twice on the marketplace site.. That's okay though because I didn't join for the marketplace since I'm pretty doubtful there will be much foot traffic there for several more years.. I joined because it a cheaper option for a stand alone website than Shopify.. and I'm in the locked in price for life. 

I've been promoting and pushing the domain address for a lot of years and it is paying off.. I get about 15 - 20 page views to that domain address daily.. so it's in my best interest to point that to a website and not to etsy.. since etsy does show shoppers "similar items from other sellers" on my pages.. My hard work "might" go to some other seller.. It takes years to build up what little traffic I do get.. I don't want them to go to some other etsy shop..  

[BadBob]

What you are likely seeing is a certificate error. This is usually a name mismatch. Depending on your domain provider, there may be a fix for this. It should be a setting in the area where you are configuring the redirect.

I have already had to go back and correct a few things.

The beta dashboard concerns me a bit. They keep wanting people to use it, but not only are their pieces missing but some of the ones that are there are different. When this dashboard goes gold will I have to go back through everything and fix them?

 

[kmmcrafts]

I have not used the beta board but one time in the very beginning I used it to create a listing but have not used it since.. mainly because I ended up having to delete it as the photos wouldn't load correctly and then it wouldn't let me load or delete any more of them so I deleted the whole listing and started over on the old dashboard. This is the bad thing about a newer smaller site.. you'll spend the first several years having to work around all the bugs they create etc.. Been there done that on many sites over the years. I've learned over those years to experiment with all the options and learn the site so you know if you should add "all" of the listings or just a few to test the waters. LOL  

[BadBob]

The only thing I use the beta dashboard for is to access their analytics. I have tried it several times and have never successfully been able to post a listing.

I don't use the new Etsy dashboard either.