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6 days ago by James Dillehay

Tiger and Lilly Boutique Here is a site you may want to know about. Tiger and Lily Boutique focuses on three aspects of a crafter’s ultimate goal; Make it!, Buy it!, Sell it!, all from one place. Their Make it! section offers craft tips and ideas with new projects added each week. The Buy it! sectio ...

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11 days ago by James Dillehay

I was twittering the other day and happened to follow and be followed by Vangie Beal, a feature writer for E-commerceguide.com. She writes about how businesses market themselves online and other topics related to e-commerce. Vangie was kind enough to interview me for her column this week. We spoke a ...

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11 days ago by James Dillehay

Artfire.com Dee Hausker and I started a Twitter conversation (not easy to do in 140 characters or less) about Artfire.com and she graciously agreed to write about the site and why she likes it. Thank you, Dee. Dee has two studios on Art Fire at: AllWireUpTOO.artfire.com and AllWiredUp.artfire.com He ...

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12 days ago by James Dillehay

In other posts, I have recommended that you use a blog to promote your craft items. I am a fan of having your own domain so you can control as much of your marketing as possible, but there are plenty of free blog hosting sites available, like Blogger.com, Vox.com, Wordpress.com. Xanga.com and Clearb ...

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13 days ago by James Dillehay

Getting one-way, incoming links is good. Exchanging links brings you almost zero advantage. But, before you start on a link-getting campaign, get your own domain name site and point all your links to your site (spread the incoming links among many pages, not just your home page.) Getting links to yo ...

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13 days ago by James Dillehay

Silkfair.com has agreed to extend a special offer on their Silkfair Custom Shops to my readers. This is a risk-free first 2 months free introductory special. Here is the coupon code: Coupon code: launch09pub Details of plan : First 2 months of Silkfair Custom Shop free, thereafter at regular price $ ...

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17 days ago by James Dillehay

Silkfair Offers New Platform for Selling Crafts I just learned today that Silkfair ( www.silkfair.com) has come out with a new platform called Custom Shops. Basically, it’s a platform that allows Silkfair shopkeepers to setup an online store that is entirely their own. Shopkeepers get a personalized ...

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18 days ago by James Dillehay

The new issue of the Craftmarketer newsletter just went out today. I wrote about how to use a marketing calendar to schedule all your craft business promotions. Using a calendar for marketing makes sure you do not leave out something important and it gives you a way to assess the results of your pro ...

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20 days ago by James Dillehay

I am getting quite a few questions about marketing designs on t-shirts, so here are 5 sites that let you upload your designs and artwork to be printed on shirts (and other products) on demand. These are 5 of the 16 such sites described in Sell Your Crafts Online which just became available today and ...

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21 days ago by James Dillehay

Etsy still rules as the biggest site for buying and selling crafts but as they grow, they run into a similar situation as eBay did. The larger a company becomes, the harder it is to satisfy hundreds of thousands of users. No matter what they do, they are going to have lots of unhappy members. During ...

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