2 Quick Ways To Market Crafts
There are tons of places to market crafts online! But what are the quick, affordable and effective places you can market your handmade and get it noticed. Well here are two quick and simple places!
Place a free classified ad on Craigslist.com under the Arts & Crafts category under For Sale. You can make your ad for individual handmade items or give a summary about the handmade you sell in general. Make sure to include a link to your online shop or craft web site where they can complete their purchase. Please note there is a limit to the number of ads that you can place. You will need to place your ad each time it expires. Make sure to include pictures of your handmade. Ads with pictures get more notice.
I recommend having an online shop or web site if you are going to market crafts online. Nothing is worse then being swindled out of your valuable handmade because someone sent you a fake money order or gave you a promise to send you money if you send them a sample of your handmade first!
Don’t give your email address unless you want to be spammed! Now be careful, you may receive inquiries through Craigslist.com from pretend shoppers or swindlers! Don’t fall for anyone who does not want to place an order through your online shop.
Join a virtual like, like HandmadeCraftShow.com. This is perhaps the easiest and best way to market handmade crafts online. They take care of all the online marketing work for you. Advertising on HandmadeCraftShow.com automatically puts your handmade on Facebook.com, Twitter.com, Ning.com, Technorati.com and craft related blogs and websites! So you can get a wide range of online exposure without breaking your monthly marketing budget.
For a small very reasonable marketing fee, you can post pictures of your handmade, a description, your location, and even include your Etsy.com Mini or Artfire.com Rapid Cart. They have a companion Arts & Crafts Buzz blog, where they blog about the individual artists in their show. So you are not just placing a banner or pictures on their site and then that’s it. Nope! The folks at HandmadeCraftShow.com actively work to market the handmade artists who participate in their virtual craft show all over the web.
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HandmadeCraftShow.com is a fun way to buy handmade online. If you love handmade, then you should visit our virtual craft show. You will find new and popular handmade!
Are you a handmade artist? Do you you need help marketing your handmade online? We understand that marketing and selling crafts online can be a very daunting task. Which is why HandmadeCraftShow.com works very hard marketing our artists and increasing their online exposure.
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