Dare to be YOU! Introduction to Brandlady.com Home Community Forum Wellbeing Blog Relationships Inspire Me! Spirit Home & Garden Arts, Crafts & Hobbies How To Professions & Careers Women in Business Women Past & Present Women in Controversy Columnists Your Story Travel Bug Women Informed Sign Brandlady's Guestbook Selling Crafts Online 11 Jun 2009 / Women in Business Contributor , S elling crafts online doesn't have to be hard. In order to sell crafts online you must first have a few things. An e-commerce website or online shop that has a shopping cart which allows you to sell crafts online. Our recommendations are to use sites such as Etsy.com, Artfire.com or Bonanzle.com. With these sites it is easy for your craft shoppers to buy crafts online. These sites do charge transaction fees which are relatively small compared to the cost of trying to setup a shopping cart on your own. Pictures are worth a thousand words. You must have good pictures of your crafts. If you are photographing your own crafts try to make the pictures look as professional as possible. One tip to remember is that the best lighting for photographs is natural light. Make sure there isn’t any glare or shadows to that will draw attention from your crafts. Oh and please use simple backgrounds that will not take away the focus from your craft! A marketing plan is a must complete with a monthly marketing budget! Just because you have built it doesn’t mean that shoppers will come. As a matter of fact if craft shoppers don’t know you are online they don’t know you exist. So it is important that you create a marketing plan that will drive shoppers directly to your crafts. There are tons and tons of online marketing techniques and if you don’t want to take the time to learn them then you should consider using a virtual craft show like HandmadeCraftShow.com. HandmadeCraftshow.com is an online virtual craft show that allows handmade artists to concentrate on creating and selling crafts online and not worry about trying to attract shoppers. HandmadeCraftShow.com drives craft shoppers to handmade artist’s web sites and online shops by providing artists with virtual craft show booths. Virtual craft show booths allow artists to display their crafts and when buyers are ready to view more or make a purchase they click a link that takes them directly to the handmade artist’s web site. This way, shoppers are able to purchase directly from the artists. There is no site wide shopping cart or registration platform. If you are a handmade artist, and you would like to concentrate on selling crafts online versus trying to drive shoppers to your online shop then you should definitely try HandmadeCraftShow.com. HandmadeCraftShow.com is an online virtual craft show that helps handmade artists promote their crafts online. We drive shoppers to online craft shop.    Your nickname    Verification code (bbbrand862)    Your comment   Add your comment Contributor More articles in Brand Lady, Women in Business How I Learned To Network by Taylor Vick I grew up in a suburban white community. It was all about the politics – think Real Wives of Dallas. The women who knew how to network the best were the ones who were always featured in the society section, their kids always got the lead roles in the musicals, and their husbands were always invited to the top men’s business associations in town. A powerful net-worker truly cannot be stopped. Read it Additional resources Handmade Craft Show Online craft show that will help promote your crafts.
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