Small Business Labs: Etsy Continues Rapid Growth

Welcome to Small Business Labs

Small Business Labs, from Emergent Research, covers the key social, technology and business trends impacting small business.
Follow us on Twitter

Reports and Resources

Emergent Research

EMERGENT RESEARCH is focused on better understanding the small business sector of the US and global economy.

Authors

The authors are Steve King and Carolyn Ockels. Steve and Carolyn are partners at Emergent Research and Senior Fellows at the Society for New Communications Research. Carolyn is leading the coworking study and Steve is a member of the project team.

Videos

Disclosure Policy

Emergent Research works with corporate, government and non-profit clients. When we reference organizations that have provided us funding in the last year we will note it. If we mention a product or service that we received for free or other considerations, we will note it.

Small Business Blogs

Assistant Edge

Article Report Industry Survey Analysis More >>

« Local Web Continues to Grow - Twitter Adding Location Data | Main | Signs Point to a Better 2010 Tech IPO Market »

November 23, 2009

Etsy Continues Rapid Growth

The Compete blog has an excellent analysis of Etsy's traffic growth. For those not familiar with Etsy, it is an online marketplace for handmade or craft items. Think of Etsy as the eBay of crafts.

The chart below is taken from the Compete post and shows that Etsy's monthly traffic has more than doubled over the last year.

Several interesting data points in Compete's analysis:

Facebook refers 23% of Etsy's traffic and is the top referring site
Google refers 12% of Etsy's traffic and is the 2nd largest referring site
98% of Etsy's search engine traffic comes from organic search

See the Compete blog for more details.

Posted by Steve on November 23, 2009 at 01:00 AM | Permalink

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d8345675df69e2012875c07c9c970c

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Etsy Continues Rapid Growth:

Comments

You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post.

Entrepreneurs face multiple hurdles new and old, from raising capital and managing employees to keeping up with technology and competing in a global marketplace.

Posted by: proteinpulver | December 11, 2009 at 10:50 PM

Verify your Comment

Previewing your Comment

Posted by: |

This is only a preview. Your comment has not yet been posted.

Your comment could not be posted. Error type:

Your comment has been saved. Comments are moderated and will not appear until approved by the author. Post another comment

The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image. Please try again.

As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. This prevents automated programs from posting comments.

Having trouble reading this image? View an alternate.

Small Business Labs

Tracking and Forecasting the Trends Impacting the Future of Small Business