Well what can I say about September... It has just been absolute chaos.
Our handmade ring shop on Etsy ForthRings - Etsy UK, (website almost ready) seemed to just explode with orders after being unusually quiet for the past few months. We're now sitting with around 100+ hours of work outstanding this close to our busiest time of year. Our little digits have been under an unfamiliar amount of workload recently with all that sanding and polishing. But we'll be fine, the ring shop will be getting put on hold just shortly and all orders will be sent within the stated time.
We've just taken 100s of pictures of all our new for 2023 Xmas products and currently just trying to bribe the kids with helping us edit, list, add humpteen products to google merchant center, write product descriptions, SEO descriptions, Keyword research, testing ad copy and headlines for facebook, while trying to have a life, be parents, a married couple, and spend time with family as well as receiving a letter for bl@@dy jury duty in November of all months. ,YEAH!! all that happens behind the scenes.
I'm currently just searching through all the pictures, weeding out all the rubbish ones while touching up the decent pictures & using our new AI app that helps write epic product descriptions that we'd never be able to compose ourselves. Saving hours and hours of "what the @*#k can I say about a toilet sign"?!! It really cant be scoffed at. I do love this new AI tech, I just hope the terminator movies were fiction and not a glimpse into our future 👽👽😕😮😏
You've honestly no idea how much hair some of these product descriptions have cost me..
We're apprehensive but excited about this Xmas and even if it just goes half as well as last year we're expecting to be run off our feet. Tempers might flare..(pre warning)😗😏 but even though we're just a little husband and wife team, we're surprisingly efficient and absolutely love what we've managed to build since 2018. The 10-11pm finishes last year are but a distant memory and we're fully motivated to go through the same again this year.
Thank you all for being part of our story. 💖💖
We'll be offering huge early bird discounts to our past customers this coming October to help us lighten the workload this November & December. Once all the new products are listed, keep an eye out on your emails for that huge discount code.
Best wishes for the future
Jenny & Thomas XX