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Tiger and Lilly Boutique Here is a site you may want to know about. Tiger and Lily Boutique focuses on three aspects of a crafter’s ultimate goal; Make it!, Buy it!, Sell it!, all from one place. Their Make it! section offers craft tips and ideas with new projects added each week. The Buy [...] I have been getting Joan Stewart’s Publicity Hound newsletter for a long time and following her on Facebook. She mentions an article you should read if you want the insider’s view on getting publicity for your crafts. The article explores four areas you need to know about: I came across a site that provides bloggers a way to find guests with creative talents to feature in their blog posts. Although the site is geared toward bloggers, you can easily use it to find bloggers looking for crafts like yours. The site is called FindaFeature.blogspot.com. Unfortunately, the owner chose a theme with a [...] Do you use videos to sell your crafts? YouTube and other sites provide easy uploading, but it is much easier for you to upload a single video to multiple video-sharing sites through the free service at TubeMogul.com. Share and Enjoy: I was twittering the other day and happened to follow and be followed by Vangie Beal, a feature writer for E-commerceguide.com. She writes about how businesses market themselves online and other topics related to e-commerce. Vangie was kind enough to interview me for her column this week. We spoke about some of the basic steps [...]
Artfire.com Dee Hausker and I started a Twitter conversation (not easy to do in 140 characters or less) about Artfire.com and she graciously agreed to write about the site and why she likes it. Thank you, Dee. Dee has two studios on Art Fire at: AllWireUpTOO.artfire.com and AllWiredUp.artfire.com Here is Dee’s review: Art Fire is uniquely different [...] In other posts, I have recommended that you use a blog to promote your craft items. I am a fan of having your own domain so you can control as much of your marketing as possible, but there are plenty of free blog hosting sites available, like Blogger.com, Vox.com, WordPress.com. Xanga.com and Clearblogs.com. My biggest concern [...] Getting one-way, incoming links is good. Exchanging links brings you almost zero advantage. But, before you start on a link-getting campaign, get your own domain name site and point all your links to your site (spread the incoming links among many pages, not just your home page.) Getting links to your Etsy, Artfire, or Dawanda [...]
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CraftCritique.com As I was going through member posts today, someone mentioned CraftCritique.com so I bopped over to check them out. They have a great [...] I found this post on Arts and Craft Show Extravaganza today that contains some really good information on how to make your business card most effective. You can see the post at Shasta’s blog also contains information on why attending craft shows isn’t just about selling arts and crafts, booth etiquette, things to take to art and [...] We tend to think that getting coverage by a newspaper, magazine or TV show is out of our reach. It seems like most of the news that grabs our attention is some kind of crisis or the latest celebrity couple breaking up. However, there is a whole other area of publicity appearing in the feature [...] The new issue of the Craftmarketer newsletter just went out today. I wrote about how to use a marketing calendar to schedule all your craft business promotions. Using a calendar for marketing makes sure you do not leave out something important and it gives you a way to assess the results of your promotions so [...] I am getting quite a few questions about marketing designs on t-shirts, so here are 5 sites that let you upload your designs and artwork to be printed on shirts (and other products) on demand. These are 5 of the 16 such sites described in Sell Your Crafts Online which just became available today and [...] Etsy still rules as the biggest site for buying and selling crafts but as they grow, they run into a similar situation as eBay did. The larger a company becomes, the harder it is to satisfy hundreds of thousands of users. No matter what they do, they are going to have lots of unhappy members. During [...] I came across a great tool for helping you promote your blog at Blog Flux. They offer a variety of services including a blog directory, help with pinging, comments and more. Share and Enjoy: Awhile back I put up a video on how to buy wholesale craft supplies. Someone just left a comment about a source for cheap supplies called Factory Direct Craft. Has anyone had experience with this company and would care to comment? Or any other craft suppliers? Please comment below. Share and Enjoy: |
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