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In September of 2008, when the stock market crashed and forecasts for most of the economy looked pretty bleak, Etsy.com the leader in crafts business sites selling handmade items reported a 5% increase over sales in August. Over 500,000 items sold in September bringing in almost $8 million.
In all, Etsy tripled its crafts sales in 2008 over 2007, racking in more than $90 million in revenue for its craft business that year. Remember, this growth in craft business volume is happening during and in spite of the worst economic downturn of our generation.
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In the 3 months after Christmas of this last year, 2008 to early March of this year, 2009, more than 150,000 items that included the word “handmade” have sold on eBay. That's 150,000 items selling in the months of January, February and March which are typically the slowest months of the year for crafts business sales even in a good economy.
Is Your Craft Business Getting It's Share of Online Craft Sales?
The good news is that those who sell handmade crafts are in one of those businesses that are prospering during this recession.
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The bad news is that there are lots of competing craft business owners selling online and your sales have not taken off yet. So how do you get your share of the growing "buy handmade" trend?
The trick to actually making a profit in a crafts business is taking the right efforts and not wasting time on what does not work. There are better ways (actually more than 500 ways) than most people know of to sell more of your crafts online.....ways that anyone can do.
Sell Crafts Online is a downloadable ebook that provides a roadmap to the best Internet places to sell, promote, and get reviewed from.
"For those that want to take a truly aggresive approach, a book which is named "Sell Your Craft Online" .... comes complete with over 500 different ideas, and if you still can not land sales after reading something like that you might as well call it a day and pack it in for good."
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Here is what you get in this new guide for net selling craft business:
- Discover over 500 craft business promotion ideas for those who make and sell handmade crafts
- Get 21 ways to inspire trust (more visitors will buy) on your site pages
- Boost your craft business site search engine traffic with 24 top SEO (Search Engine Optimization) tips
- 12 best practices for getting link love from other sites
- Unhappy with your Etsy or eBay sales or just need more outlets to sell crafts from? Find 85 more places to sell crafts from.
- Sell crafts to stores in the US and around the world from 10 wholesale craft business sites
- Promote your indie art and crafts on these 42 communities
- Get reviews on 51 shopping community and blog sites that seek unique products
- Get linked to from 33 art and craft search directories
- Grow your fan base from these 33 top social and bookmarking sites
- Syndicate your images, blogs, videos, and articles from 36 networks
- Discover 16 ideas for getting free publicity for your craft business in magazines and on TV
- Find 12 ad networks for paid advertising
- Design and sell crafts designs on 16 sites (like Cafepress) that let you sell your art and designs via on-demand products like t-shirts, mugs, caps and hundreds of other products
- Learn how to avoid the 10 most common pitfalls new online craft business sellers make
- Take advantage of 35 excuses for following up with past customers to turn them into lifetime buyers
- Sell handmade crafts through 20 affiliate programs
- Get a sample marketing calendar that shows how to organize and schedule the 500+ ideas
- And many more ways to sell crafts view Table of Contents
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this is my marketing plan for promoting my own handmades. I have either
used or plan to soon use many of the ideas in this guide.
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~ JAY CONRAD LEVINSON, author Guerrilla Marketing series, over 15 million copies sold in 38 languages“I had a sporadic retail craft business with which I was feeling burnt out. After reading James Dillehay’s books, my business took on a new life. I changed my product slightly and the response was remarkable! My first order was triple what I had planned for, and other orders are pouring in! Because of the techniques I learned from him, my business is thriving.”
~ CATHY MARBLE, Chamisa Hill Designs“After reading SELL YOUR CRAFTS ON EBAY, I added one word to a current auction title on eBay for my glass mosaic tiles and now I am getting DOUBLE the number of hits over my other postings that do not use that word. THANK YOU for that great tip!!”
~ NANCY COOKE, author The Art of the Tile, ww.ArtoftheTile.com“Should be viewed as the blueprint for success in the crafts industry.”
~ THE CRAFTS REPORT“Quite an expert….Very informative. I wish we could keep you for the next three days.”
~ CAROL DUVALL, HGTV“An astonishing amount of usable information, crammed into so few pages! James Dillehay has an amazing talent for getting right to the point, with a minimum of “geekese.” Of the entire list of computer instructional manuals I have read, this one would top the list. I would not hesitate to recommend it . . . even to my mom.”
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About Me
My name is James Dillehay and I started selling crafts as a business in 1984. Since 1991, I have been writing about how to grow a craft business and how to sell your crafts online. What I've learned over these years may help you if you sell handmade crafts as a work at home business.
Keep up to date with what's new in marketing handmades - I blog about how to sell crafts here. You won't want to miss the strategies for getting found by the search engines if you sell your crafts online.
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