Aug 18, 2011

The Scrapbook Ninjas First Etsy Team Grant

by I am Ninja News, Team Announcements 18 Comments

I was beginning to write this post, and in my excitement I had the brilliant idea to have everyone playing a suspenseful guessing game — until I realized that the title of this post is a tiny bit of a spoiler. I know I could just change it, but gosh, that means clicking up there again, deleting everything…

We were approved for an Etsy Team Grant!

Apparently they believe in the plans for our future growth here at Scrapbook Ninjas as much as we do, and our ideas were good enough to warrant some bolstering from the mothership.

We were a little timid on the asking amount as we have never requested a grant for anything before, so we didn’t quite get enough to open that new headquarters in downtown San Francisco, but we will be using it for at least one purpose that I think everybody here can get a little excited about; giveaway products! Our giveaways are probably always going to be smaller affairs, but the more often we can run them is beneficial to the team itself, and especially those team members who win!

Thank you, Etsy!

We can’t thank Etsy enough. The rest of the grant will be going directly to building our team through the avenues we outlined to them in our proposal. In the interest of transparency, those include advertising on some major scrapbooking sites to continue building the talent (already amazing) here on the team, and the ability to run our own advertising. The purpose of running our own advertising on the web site is not for profit, but to return the proceeds directly to our team members through giveaways and other team events.

Look for exciting events to come in our teams future! It’s coming together, and we owe it all to our members and to Etsy for giving us these opportunities!

Written by I am Ninja

Mark is responsible for tactical operations and other technical geekiness around the Scrapbook Ninjas web site. If he's found writing articles, you might want to warn his wife as soon as possible.