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Vishruti will put a free handmade product review up on the blog http://promotingetsysellers.blogspot.com/ along with a link to your website. Contact – vishruti.dev@gmail.com and write FREE PRODUCT REVIEWS in the Share and Enjoy: If you have a craft business on Etsy and you are over 50, AARP magazine wants to know about you. for a possible story. Laura Daily is trying to track down craftsmen and craftswomen age 50 and older who use Etsy.com to market and sell their handmade wares. Email Laura query-2a9 (at) helpareporter.com with your [...]
Sell Crafts on Talk Market Sell crafts at Talkmarket.com , a television shopping channel hosted by artists, designers, inventors, and creative retailers where they personally introduce their creations through videos created with the site’s video making technology. Shoppers get to see the products demonstrated and meet the people behind the creations. Talk Market was [...]
Buy and Sell Crafts at Craftsu.com Craftsu.com is a new social platform for artists, craftspeople, and photographers to tell their stories and interact with shoppers looking to “buy handmade.” Craftsu was born from the marriage of two emerging trends: 1) Purchases of handmade crafts online grew almost every month for the last twelve months, despite the [...] As I wrote in a previous post, Craftsu.com is a new site to promote your craft from. If you already signed up, but have not yet created a profile or uploaded images of your work, you may want to do that now. The first of many news releases to come announced Craftsu to the media today [...] Publicity is free; ads cost money. People believe articles and reviews they read in publications; Paul is a publicity expert and former news editor. He’s helped my [...]
Tiger Lily Boutique Tiger and Lily Boutique is offering my readers $5.00 off their already discounted 6 month subscription to sell crafts through their site. The total for sign up and 6 months worth of vendor services is $35. Or $7 off of the 1 month signup fee and first month vendor services. See their [...]
LadybugMarkets.com Ladybug Markets, a hip and creative place to buy, sell and talk all things handmade. This, quoted from a new Brisbane based website, entices local crafters to gather round, to enjoy and take part in a new craft community. Visit Ladybug Markets for all your crafting needs at: www.ladybugmarkets.com Ladybug Markets offers an online, year [...] If you are using the web a lot, it makes sense to have a fast, stylish way to provide customers and contacts with your contact information. Here are two free services that do that: Card.ly is lets you publish your own social media business cards. It’s super easy to input your business information and your social [...] The other day, I posted about social shopping sites and why you should consider them when promoting your craft business (i.e. selling crafts online). Today, I got further confirmation of the importance of using social shopping and review sites from an article on eMarketer. The latest statistics are showing people are turning to social networks in [...] Perhaps like you, I spend a considerable amount of time online looking at web sites. Mostly I use search engines to find products and information I need. I often encounter web pages which are supposed to be selling something, but there’s very little contact information or their info@ email address is never answered. Perhaps also like you, I [...]
Follow Craftmarketer on Twitter A new Twitter feed has begun for Craftmarketer. If you would like to follow my craft business tweets, please see: http://twitter.com/craftmarketer/ Share and Enjoy: Have you been using the internet to sell your crafts online? If not, why not? What other tool can you use to reach millions of potential customers at a cost of a few dollars a month? One of the best arguments that I know for marketing and selling crafts online is that with traditional selling, you [...] Social shopping and review sites let consumers list and rate all kinds of products, including handmade items from craft business owners. Reviews and ratings from shopping sites add credibility to your reputation and help instill confidence in the minds of shoppers. In marketing, it’s not what you say about yourself, but what others say about [...] Wigix.com is an eBay alternative marketplace that doesn’t charge buyers or sellers for items listed under $25. Fees kick in above that, depending on the price of the item. You can create a storefront with your own customized online shop and branding. Here’s a video…. Share and Enjoy:
MountainMade.com While conventional industries struggle with shrinking credit markets and reduced consumer spending, cottage industries such as the artisans represented by West Virginia’s MountainMade, www.mountainmade.com, are reporting growing interest in their handmade goods. “As the global economy continues to recover from the worst economic crisis most retailers have ever seen, Americans will focus primarily on [...]
CraftRock.com Craftrock.com lets visitors vote for their favorite craft. Here is how it Works 1. Enter your post on the MixxMade’s Community Blog. For best results use links in your blog post [...]
Muncom.com Free Online Storefront Here is a craft business opportunity that is free. Muncom is a virtual shopping mall, offering free e-commerce solutions to anyone selling products and services online. A shopping cart links directly to your product list, allowing you to display prices and pictures within your own store domain: http://www.your_store.muncom.com When a buyer completes an [...]
ThisNext.com Thisnext.com is a “shopcasting” network where visitors discover products based on members’ recommendations. When visitors want more info about an item or they are ready to buy it, they can click to the retailer where users originally found it. Fashion appears to be a favorite here. But today I typed in ‘handmade’ in the [...]
TrendyIndie.com Trendy Indie is a new marketplace for buyers and sellers of indie crafts and handmade goods. The site was started by Texas native Whitney Huntzinger in June 2009. There are no seller or listing fees, only a monthly plan depending on how many listings. If someone wants to open up a shop on Trendy Indie, [...] Does paid advertising pay off for selling crafts? Some artisans say yes, many more have been disappointed in their results. Paid advertising takes multiple exposures before you can even judge the results. Your ad campaign must be aimed at an audience that is likely to buy. How do you know where they are online? One [...]
FoundHandmade.com Browsing my Twitter feeds, I came across a site I had not seen before called FoundHandmade.com. It’s a cool and original idea for buyers and sellers of handmade, vintage or craft supplies. Basically, you can link your store(s) to a block-ad on FoundHandmade.com. For buyers, the site makes for an easy way to shop for [...] Many eBay craft sellers have left the site to establish storefronts specifically for handmade items like Etsy, Dawanda, Artfire and many others. But eBay still continues to be a strong market for some types of craft products. I was recently interviewed for an article appearing at the Association of Artisan Businesses. Read the full article [...]
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 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 [...] |
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