Touching the Past: real handmade marketplace

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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

A Vintage Christmas

If you love vintage and antiques as much as I do, you’re on the hunt year-round for vintage Christmas items. Lately, I’ve been finding more of those on Zibbet. If you haven’t had a chance to stop by Zibbet, I highly recommend that you do so. More and more items are being added daily, and the selection is getting better by the minute.

Here are some of my favorite vintage Christmas items currently for sale on Zibbet. Whether you are looking for an elf, a Santa, Christmas jewelry, or home décor, there’s something for you. Just click on the picture to go to the item.

I’d also like to encourage you to visit these Zibbet shops which sell lots more than just vintage Christmas:

Any Old Time

Heirloom Angel

Om Again Vintage

Wildlifegardener

Spanky Luvs Vintage

Sweetie2Sweetie

Selections by Susan

Dixie Dime Store

Cozy Attic

Touching the Past

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Cha-ching for Zibbet sales

The one thing I knew that I would miss when I moved from Etsy to Zibbet was the cha-ching from the app anytime I made a sale. So, I started searching for possible ways to achieve that on Zibbet and came across this video: http://media.macworld.com/media/vodcast/mwvodcast158-boxcar.m4v

In the video, the speaker shows the use of an app, Boxcar, to set up alerts on his iPhone or iPad, using a filter in gmail. He associates a sound with the alert he has created. There are many sounds to choose from including “cash” which gives the cha-ching sound I wanted.

I followed the instructions on the video and didn’t have any problems. In the beginning, I had the filter set in my gmail account to “zibbet.com.” So, I was hearing cha-ching anytime an email came in from zibbet.com. But last night at 3:20 a.m., the cha-ching coming from my iPhone woke me up - I had made my first sale! So, I was able to add to my filter the subject line from the email alerting me: A sale was made on your account.

Hope some other Zibbet sellers will find this information useful as they transition to Zibbet!

Sunday, October 6, 2013

Great Zibbet finds for holiday gifts

Zibbet is a real handmade marketplace which in addition to handmade, also offers vintage and supplies. I had opened my shop on Zibbet in 2012 but just recently started stocking it. I'm loving the many options which are available for customizing my shopfront including:

the ability to add widgets
different banner sizes
customized colors
as many sections as I could ever want or need and the ability to put my items in more than one section

I also love the options for offering coupons and gift certificates, sales, and vacation mode.

Zibbet has grown very quickly in the past two weeks. That means the selection of items available for gift-giving this holiday season is going to be outstanding. Here are some favorites I've already found: