Using Flickr

Using Flickr

We all take photos of our items.
Photos can be uploaded to Flickr. I know many of you have a Flickr stream.




A most important point is that Flickr are very touchy about using their site for selling. We can put our shop details in our profile on Flickr and we can use "etsy" as a tag. But we cannot write anything anywhere that might be considered "sales verbiage." (Their words.)

Don't use the words "sell" or label any of your sets in ways that would lead anyone to believe you sell stuff online.

Don't write anything saying "For further details please see my profile" because then you are in Flickr's eyes using their site to advertise sales.

I've been hauled over the coals twice for this. Yes, I learned! I even went round warning people against directing people to my shop. This time I was not linking to MY shop, but to other Etsy shops, where I had bought items from.

Once you have a Flickr stream, post all kinds of photos up; family, holidays, craft work, friends. Don't use your site just for your craft items.



There are multiple groups you can then pop your Etsy linked photos in.

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Hello, lindabutterfly!

This is an automatically generated copy of a warning we sent to your primary email address:

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Hi lindabutterfly,

In joining Flickr, you agreed to abide by the Terms of
Service and Community Guidelines. Flickr accounts are
intended for individual use, for our members to share
original content that they've created, not to sell stuff:

"Don't Use Flickr for Commercial Purposes Flickr is for
personal use only. If you sell products, services or
yourself through your photostream, we will terminate your
account. Any other commercial use of Flickr, Flickr
technologies (including APIs, Flickrmail, etc), or Flickr
accounts must be approved by Flickr."

http://www.flickr.com/guidelines.gne

Please remove the URLs that link to your store/auction(s)
from underneath your photos/video and/or any sales verbiage
or “for sale” sets at your earliest convenience so that
we don't have to take further action on your account.

Regards,
Flickr Staff
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I did as they asked but also sent this:

Hi,
You said:
Please remove the URLs that link to your store/auction(s)
from underneath your photos/video and/or any sales verbiage
or “for sale” sets at your earliest convenience so that
we don't have to take further action on your account.

None of the ULRs under my photos link to my store. Where there are URLs, they refer to places I have bought from.
Is that allowed or not?

I have no "for sale" sets.

There is no sales "verbiage" under any of my photos. All I have is my store link in my profile.

It may interest you to know I warn other Flickr people exactly as you have done and so I make 100% certain I keep within your rules.

You have misunderstood the links; again, I explain, they are NOT links to my shop.
Please clarify.

I am only too happy to remove links, but you explain links must not refer to my own store. And they do not.
Linda

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The one group you should join (well, if you want to!) is ....

This one! Collaborators in Cahoots

We have 12 members so far. This is an open group, not just for our team.
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This article was written by Linda of Linda Butterfly. Linda is a retired science teacher, using art to express herself, and enjoying creating the art for her two Etsy shops. She is married with one adult son.