Online marketplace Etsy announced on Tuesday it is providing sellers with tools and support to encourage them to offer free shipping on all orders of $35 or more, according to a company press release.

According to a report in Retail Dive this past week, Etsy – the online marketplace for the arts and crafts crowd – is gently, but firmly nudging its sellers to offer free shipping for their products.

Etsy, the online marketplace known for its handmade goods, wants to make up for the carbon spewed into the atmosphere when products bought and sold over the site are shipped around the globe. And to ...

Taking a deeper dive into why Etsy chose to raise fees, I learned that they plan to use a portion of the extra funds to build a more robust marketing program. The new program will allocate more funds ...