Selling crafts online, like selling anything, is to some extent a numbers game.

If you can get your craft in front of more people you stand a better chance of making a sale, right? Stands to reason.

But testing the best method of doing that can be expensive online. Pay per click advertising can be very effective but there are dozens of books about the subject and, frankly, it’s not what most people making crafts want to be spending their time doing.

They’d rather be making crafts!

The other popular method with people new to selling crafts on the internet is paying someone to submit to lots of different sites or search engines. I’m sorry if you’ve gone down that route and I’m sure you now know what a waste of time that is. There are only three places that you really need to submit your site Google, Yahoo and MSN (maybe Bing now) and you can do that yourself for free.

To attract more people to your crafts I recommend two things. If you’ve been here a while you’ll know that blogging is one of them. There’s already lots of stuff here about blogs so I won’t go into that now (if you need one-to-one help check here)

The second is article marketing.

1. You’ll like it because it’s free,
2. It’s easy because you’re just telling people about the stuff you love,
3. It’s powerful because the search engines love the Article sites and as a consequence your articles will shoot up the ranking.
4. So more people see your crafts and you make more money!

Well that can’t be right, can it? I mean if that was true, everyone would be doing it wouldn’t they?

Well don’t ask me why they’re not, but they’re not! The upshot is that if you do it, you can expect to get great results.

In a nutshell, you write an article. A bit like a blog post. You then submit it to an article directory. They publish it and it appears in Google (or whoever), usually within a few days. At the bottom of the article is a link to your craft blog or website. Some of the people reading that article will click your link and visit you. Publish one article, a few people will visit. Publish twenty articles and it’s likely that hundreds of new potential customers will come to your site.

They will. Believe me, this works. I never, ever spend money on advertising. Every visitor to this blog has come either through a link from another blog or via article marketing. I have another blog that I’ve started recently that’s had 200-odd new visitors in the last couple of weeks from a few articles I wrote.

How would you like 200 new customers for no cost?

Anyone can - and should - do this to increase exposure for their crafts online. I mean why wouldn’t you? It’s free!

Well actually I’m going to suggest it’ll cost you a whole huge $7.00 - because that’s what I want for my ebook, The Art of Article Marketing which details exactly how I do it. Websites to use, screen shots so submission is a piece of cake, everything.

You don’t need to buy it, you can probably find everything you need to know by searching online. Or you could do it the easy way After all, isn’t it worth $7.oo to get hundreds of potential customers to look at your crafts? Order here now for immediate download. You could be using these great tactics in your craft business in five minutes!

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