How to Beat Your Competition When Selling Your Crafts
As a crafter and a small businessperson, you can do your own craft
marketing or pay someone to do it for you. It’s a balancing act. If you do it yourself, you must go to shows or run your own store or website. The more time you spend doing that the less time you can spend crafting.
Giving up some of the retail price of your craft items, gives you more time to devote to your art and generally a broader market reach for your wares. Gallery and shop owners advertise, promote your work and provide a place with regular hours where your work can be viewed by many more people than you can reach on your own.
Success at Selling Crafts Online
So you’ve made this great website, your getting a lot of visitors but no sales and your wondering what gives?
First you need to make sure your website shopping cart is working properly so test it thoroughly!If your not using a shopping cart and are only accepting orders offline you have no business selling online at all!You must have a shopping cart so people can buy from you online.
It is also important to have a professional looking website, if you are using a free web host>>leave now! and go get yourself a professional website. http://www.lillyscraftmall.com
Offers very affordable hosting , they have a storebuilder system you can use and when your store is done you get free advertising in their craft mall all for less than $10 bucks a month!They have some very talented ladies, I buy from there a lot. Continue reading
Craft Selling Tips – Want to Sell More? Talk to Your Customers
If you’re selling crafts online, just how much do you talk to your customers? I don’t mean phoning them up, that’s not really practical for most people, but what about keeping in touch electronically?
Or are you one of the crafts people who just doesn’t do it? Do you realize how much money that’s costing you?
Put it another way. Who’s easiest to sell to, someone who has bought one of your craft items or someone who has never heard of you? Continue reading
