Be careful, don’t add more than 5 listings in a single day. You can even skip adding listing for some days. Have patience in this, your listing must not exceed more that 30 in last 12 days as you are acting as a new seller, not the one who knows everything about selling on Etsy.
Open a couple of accounts and split your listings and income between a few shops rather than depending on a single shop. This way if one were to go down you will have back ups already up and running.
HAHlala - Splitting listings up between shops means have different items for sale in the 2 shops, is this not correct ?
My aim is for 5-10 listings for first 6 months of shop open, then 20+ listings per month after this
Well, for me I have 2 particular stealth etsy shops that sell the same things but with slightly different images and means I can split listings between the 2 but still get the same amount (if not more) sales than with 1.
But 5-10 listings a day would be ok I think, but I think definitely in the first few weeks build up slowly though a few listings a day for the first week and get some positive feedback before you start adding more listings daily.
Umm my numbers are totally different. I list like 3 items when I open a store, 3 items the next day then 5, 8, 10, 15 and after a week 20 each day. No problems.