The Crafts Blog

Right then, we’re off to a new home!
Not me personally, but this blog is on the move. From now on we’ll be at SellingCraftsOnline.com
Why?
Well there are a couple of reasons.
First, when I started this blog it was on this sub-domain - craftblog.sellingcraftsonline - because I always intended to do something else with the main name. [...]

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 [...]

A while ago I did an article about the different ways you could take people’s money when you’re selling crafts online. You can see that post here.
Then just the other day a friend pointed out to me that I wasn’t really giving the subject complete coverage. I was confused. I’m not the world’s greatest writer [...]

I thought it would be nice to have a chat with some craft blog owners and craft business people. Our first interview is with Sarah Moore who runs the very popular CraftCritique.com.
Hi Sarah, thanks for sparing us the time to do this interview. I know you’ve been pretty busy lately. When did Craft Critique [...]

I hope you’ve either got a craft blog, or you’re seriously thinking about it. They’re low cost, easy to use and the most powerful tool you can have for (a) getting your message across to your customers and (b) doing well in the search engines.
You almost can’t do anything wrong if you’ve got a blog. [...]

Visitors to this craft blog will by now have realised that I’m quite a fan of blogging.
Great for communicating with your prospects and customers, loved by search engines, a huge range of plug-ins are available to expand it’s capabilities… what’s not to like?
The only thing that’s been something of a stumbling block has been using [...]

Having just reviewed the new Zibbet site for selling crafts online (see Zibbet.com here) I need to thank them for bringing a scammer to my attention. If you’re running an online craft store you need to watch out for thieves like this guy.

If you’re selling crafts online then one way to increase your income and get more money out of your site visitors is to use affiliate programs.
Put simply, you recommend someone else’s product and, if a sale is made as a result, you get a commission. At it’s very basic level you need nothing more than [...]

If you’re selling crafts online you probably keep in touch with your customers via email, right? Somewhere on your computer you have a list of everyone who has bought from you, their name and their email address. If you’re not doing that, you’re letting money get away. Someone who has bought your crafts once could [...]

Happy New Year to you. I hope you had a good time over the holidays.
Over here in France where I live at the moment there’s a lot of concern about the economy and I know from speaking to friends and contacts around the world that those concerns are shared by pretty much everyone. I don’t [...]