Car Decals – Local Marketing While Driving Barbara, the seller behind Etsy’s AllAboutTheButtons, told HandmadeMarketing.org about what helps keep the Etsy business rolling. “As I got into the world of online selling, I discovered the “3 P’s” – patience, promotion...

HiP Blog Challenge – Between Posts Tara Gentile, from HandmadeInPA.net, recently announced her blog series on her website.  The series is called the HiP Blog Challenge – and Tara has shared some fabulous blogging tips thus far! Tara created the challenge for those “looking to make your...

Social Media Marketing – Improve SEO Would you believe much of what happens off your shop page is really what determines how many users end up looking at your handmade items?  Links from other sites are vital to the growth of your handmade shop, and this often times thought of as the hardest part...

Outside Etsy – Web Tools To Help Sell When looking for tools to help increase your Etsy sales, sometimes you have to look outside Etsy.com.  HandmadeMarketing.org did just that and found some great resources!        

IndieSmiles – Advertise Your Indie Shop Looking for a new avenue for advertising your handmade items?  Sue, from IndieSmiles, told HandmadeMarketing.org about how this website could be of benefit to handmade sellers. “IndieSmiles is a coupon portal for Indie shops,” Sue said.  “Don’t...

Anchor Text – Optimize Links to Your Site Although Internet users may not be able to define anchor text, they come across anchor text time and time again each day on the Internet.  “Anchor Text” is the visible hyperlinked text on a web page.  In plain English, in the sentence below,...

Twitter – When You Become Just Another Sales Tweet Have you been “tweeting” about your handmade shop all day, each day and seen a drop in followers?  Hate to break it to you sellers, but you may be overloading people with shop news and no “real” news. Twitter’s co-founder...

Face It – Use Facebook to Promote and Advertise Our team has discussed creating a Facebook page, but for those who have a Facebook page already – now what? It’s easy to join a social media site and forget it’s true purpose for your handmade item marketing plan.  How can you utilize...

1000 Markets – Potential for Handmade Sales HandmadeMarketing.org spoke with handmade artisan Karley Ziegler Mott about her feature in Martha Stewart’s October 2008 issue of “Body + Soul”.  Karley mentioned her KZM Facial Care Boutique products can be found on 1000 Markets. ...

New Shop On The Block – Tips for Starting an Etsy Shop Starting a new Etsy shop takes more than a simple registration process.  From browsing the wonderful site resources available to you on Etsy.com to figuring out how to create a brand that sells, starting an Etsy shop can be a bit overwhelming.