Blog Challenge – Learn Blogging Techniques HandmadeMarketing.org reader Tara Gentile, from HandmadeInPA.net, is announcing the HiP blog challenge.  Tara says the challenge is for those “looking to make your blog a little HiPper, or at least make it reflect your business and gain readership.” Tara...

Etsy Team Blogs – Make Blogs Work For Your Team Krystal, the Team Leader for the Etsy Team “Carried Away,” shared wonderful ideas to make individual Etsy seller blogs work for the whole Team. “Over here at Carried Away (the Etsy Bag Makers Team), we’ve tried a few thing...

Vlogging – Craft Tutorials Some online handmade sellers are nervous to make the jump to utilizing video in their shop’s marketing scheme.  Here’s an idea:  Sharing your craft with others via video! We received a tip from Etsy seller Patricia Barrett about how to utilize video to connect...

Blogging for Beginners – Step by Step Nervous to start a blog?  Most people are!  But, as Etsy seller Tara Shenson from kMT Graphic Design recently told HandmadeMarketing.org, “Fear not, Etsians you can start your own blog!” We were excited to receive this awesome set of step by step...

Blog Post Ideas – Keep Your Etsy Blog Fresh Not too soon after starting a blog, many bloggers feel a bit bound by the task of posting. If your Etsy shop blog starts looking a little bare, try out a post topic courtesy of our HandmadeMarketing.org team:        

Blogs vs. Websites – The Basics There’s the link, here’s the site.  Now… what do I call it? Our team hears handmade sellers time and time again confused on what to call what they see in front of them on their screen. Hopefully this helps: A “blog” is set up like an...

Step Up Blogs – Use Video to Reach Buyers Vlogs are similar to blogs, but the medium utilized is video rather than text. Vlogs can create an interested perspective to viewers – especially in the growing handmade community. Check out this great Vlog our team found below.  At the time of...

Vlogging – Trend For Blogs If you are not sure what we are going to talk about by looking at the title of this post, you aren’t alone!  “Vlogging” is short for “video blogging”.  It is similar to the normal blogging we are used to seeing, but with a twist…...