Archive for the ‘Blogging For Crafters’ Category
Blog Income Boosters For Crafters
Selling crafts online is getting easier all the time. The latest developments in blogging mean you can have both an ideal communication method and a super-efficient shop set up in the same package. Except for a few dollars a month for hosting, you can get it all going for nothing.
Even if you can’t do it yourself – or don’t want to – there are extremely cost-effective services that will do it all for you for less than a couple of hundred dollars. You’ll have to manage your craft blog yourself, of course, but that really is easy. If you can operate a digital camera and click a mouse, you can run a blog selling your crafts on the internet. No problem.
Craft Marketing – Get Your RSS in Gear!
Good craft marketing can make an enormous difference to your business. To separate “marketing” from “selling”, lets call marketing the stuff you do to communicate with your potential customers. It’s not a precise description for those who are picky about these things, but it’ll do for us I think.
With the internet you have opportunity to market to a global audience, but how exactly are you going to do that? How are you going to benefit from the massive potential?
Using a Blog to Sell Crafts Online
There are lots and lots of sites like Etsy, Handmadecatalog and so on where you can market your crafts on the internet. Then of course you could set up your own craft website. So why would I suggest that using a blog to sell your crafts online is the best avenue? In fact I’ll go further than that. If you’re not using a blog in your craft selling you are missing a huge opportunity!
I’m not going to get all marketing-speak on you (tempted though I am). This is about cold, hard facts.
