1. Provide you with an online presence bigger than Etsy.com

Having a Maker Spot blog is an ideal solution for adding flavor and personality to your Etsy business through your own website. With dozens of themes to choose from, you can express yourself and your interests so that potential buyers can get to know you. It also provides one more avenue of visibility for your Etsy shop.

2. Save time

Running a business is hard and time is not something you have extra of.  With Maker Spot your blog is easily setup in minutes.  Also, when you update your Etsy store, your website is automatically updated soon after.  And if you have any trouble, simply email support@makerspot.com and we’ll help out.

3. Grow your online presence and brand

Your Maker Spot blog is automatically optimized for search engines so your links will start showing up in Google, Yahoo and other places people go to find stuff online.

We also help you integrate all of your other social media like Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, etc.

4. Unify your storefront

Our theme “A Lot like Etsy” feels like Etsy in a lot of ways, enabling your visitors to have a smooth transition from your Maker Spot blog to your Etsy store. Thus providing a unified storefront that looks and feels much the same.

5. Get detailed

If you put up a new item you’re particularly excited about, you can describe it in detail with a new post. You can also add pages that describes what services you can perform, or care instructions for your products. Whatever information you need to provide, you can easily do it with Maker Spot.

6. Make your Etsy items visible to any of your website’s visitors

With the Etsy items integration into your sidebar, your Etsy items, descriptions and prices are always available to your blog’s visitors. This way, potential buyers get an “at-a-glance” view of what your store offers.

7. Integrate Multimedia

Maybe you’d like to upload a video tutorial for a promotional purposes, we provide a plugin for that.

8. Create a community

With a Maker Spot blog, you can get feedback from users by using the comments feature. It’s fun to have visitors comment on your posts. People will return to your site when they feel that they can become involved in some way.

9. Post Customer-Specific content

With a Maker Spot blog, you can password protect a page or a post, so if you don’t want the public viewing something, and you only want your customers to view the page, simply password protect the page, and that’s that. It’s easy using our tutorials.

10. Have your own domain.

At Maker Spot, we provide you with the ability to have your blog appear as a .com, so you don’t have to use our subdomains if you don’t want. Our standard url theme is username.makerspot.com, but if you already own a .com, use that instead.