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Just came across a relatively new site for selling handmade crafts from: Zibbet.com Zibbet brings together buyers and sellers of handmade goods, fine art, vintage items and crafting supplies. There are no upfront costs. Set up a store free and list as many items as you want. When you make a sale, they take a 7.5 [...] If you create your craft site in Flash, make an HTML version available, too, for the search engines. Search engines can’t read or index Flash pages. Share and Enjoy: I just put up a new page listing some of the top places to sell handmade crafts from. Here’s a brief excerpt: eBay.com Offers community forums and advice for selling crafts on eBay. Etsy.com Etsy is the most popular site to sell handmade crafts. Also provides great community [...] Bust Magazine Mentions Handmade Craft Products On a recent previous post, I mentioned getting publicity as a way to sell handmade crafts. One of the ways to get them to contact you is to send samples to editors. Two sites I’ve come across will include your samples in their mailings to editors: Homeofthesampler.com and Thelittleblackboxes.com. Share [...] For many years, the craft fair at War Eagle Mill in Arkansas has been a top travel destination for folks in the South. This year the May event was canceled because of flooding. However, visitors are not pouring back to the famous landmark after flood waters have receded. If you are in the Arkansas area, [...] Maker Faire 2009 will be held in the San Francisco Bay Area at the San Mateo County Expo Center on May 30-31, 2009. The fourth annual Maker Faire will display crafts from independent artists and the DIY culture. Although it’s too late to exhibit, you may want to check out this hugely fun craft show [...] We seem to think it’s a monumental task to get mentioned in the news, what with all the celebrity focus and economic crisis. But having published a magazine and written several books that I publicized extensively, I learned some important lessons about publicity and the media. There are two main types of news: hard news – [...] Yesterday, I was reviewing tools to include in the new book on how to sell crafts online and came across Google Webmaster Tools I learned some amazing things about my sites as I used the Google tools to diagnose all my pages in a very short time. If you aren’t already using these free tools, [...] Here are 3 tips from the new book on how to sell crafts online: • Place your important keywords near the top of a web page in the first few paragraphs of text. Keywords that appear near the beginning of a paragraph and near the end of a paragraph result in “keyword prominence” which helps your [...] I’ve taken a break from posting in order to get some other projects completed. Last Saturday, I was a guest presenter for a series of webinars on how start an online business. My segment was about how to sell crafts online. I don’t do many presentations these days, because I’m moving back to weaving more, but [...] |
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