Where To Sell Your Crafts Online
You have unleashed your creative potential and created a marvelous piece of work. You spent many painstaking hours paying attention to every minute detail and have finally achieved perfection.
So now, how can you sell your crafts online?
Many crafters spend an incredible amount of time and energy towards their work and never truly get a chance to benefit from their craft because they do not know how and where to sell it online.
This article helps to familiarize fellow crafters about how to sell crafts online. Below is a list of powerful venues to sell your brilliant pieces of work.
Craft Business Online – Learn From the Best
If you’re thinking of starting a craft business online – whether that’s a brand new stand-alone enterprise or a traditional craft business that hasn’t traded on the internet before – you can learn valuable lessons from those that have already done it.
I would never advocate copying. That’s no way to run your craft business and is reminiscent of cheap foreign imports and shoddy goods. But there’s nothing wrong with observing how others in your particular craft area do what they do, then learning valuable lessons from it. Continue reading
Ebay or Etsy?
I have been following crafters on Ebay and Etsy for quite awhile now. There is no doubt that Etsy is gaining serious ground in the “selling” game and there are a lot of reasons to pick them as a place to sell your crafts. However, it maybe profitable to sell on both Ebay and Etsy.
Ebay has the history and without a doubt more traffic. You can sell with a “buy it now” and not use the auction model which makes it more like a real online store. It should be said that several crafters have made more by using the auction method at Ebay. However, more and more I am leaning toward Etsy as the most profitable place to sell your handmade crafts and this is why. Continue reading
